Mikako Kurokawa

Mikako is usually a quiet and reserved person, speaking only when she needs to. In most cases, she's socially awkward and has trouble keeping up a conversation, except for when she talks about more serious matters. Due to her troubled past, she has complete resentment towards those that put down others solely for the sake of their own amusement or benefit, her brother being the brightest example of that to her.

## Power, Abilities, Stats, Inventory

* Fist of Flowing Water Crushing Rock
* Fire Affinity

### Stats:

* +3 to CQC, offensive knife use
* +4 to defense, general knife use
* +1 to damage given
* +1 to damage taken
* -2 to perception
* -4 to charisma

### Inventory:

* Shuriken and her trusty knives
* Jutsu scrolls
* **Kucheat (her new friend she was gifted)**

## Character Backstory

Mikako was born in Japan in the year 2001 as a Hanshin. Not much else is known about her past except for the fact that when she was living her "first life", her body was a vessel for the spirit of a brutal serial killer that both protected her (because they had no choice) and made her do many things she came to regret. Further events are explained below.

## Storyline:

### Season 1:

Mikako was a withdrawn girl during her time in Japan, doing her best to avoid the general public because of her possession problem. One day, she reached out to a religious group known as Iscariot in hopes that they would help her exorcise the spirit from within her. Instead, they've taken her as one of their allies, using the strength and skill set of the serial killer's spirit to do their dirty work. She was then both a prisoner of Iscariot and her very own body as the evil spirit loved this arrangement. Many were killed by her hand against her own free will and all she could do was comply.

### The Contractor:

Since the beginning of Season 1 until the near-end of it, there was a Contractor who granted anything someone desired in exchange for an equivalent price they had to pay. Mikako, finding out about this option, went to him, asking him about the chance for a fresh new start without a monster living inside of her. He agreed to grant her this request, but in exchange for her having to deal with a monster on the outside. This of course, came back to haunt her.

### Season 2:

She was "reborn" in the Warlord nations as a 4 year old girl, part of the Kurokawa clan. It wasn't long before she and her brother Garou were the only ones remaining, being dubbed "war brats". She's led a peaceful enough life until she started noticing the changes in her brother, him becoming what she feared the most. No matter what she did, she couldn't stop him from becoming what he is now and certainly couldn't stop him from leaving the village to go on whatever rampage he had planned.

After her hospital recovery, she opted to join the Shinobi school to sharpen her skills in order to stand up to any future "monsters" that come across her. Since that time, her experiences have had a pleasant effect on her in general. She felt better about herself when she helped Tenko gather pumpkins for her brewing recipe and coming to a peaceful agreement with animal hanshin in the process. Later, she became a training partner of a fellow student Son Wukong, whose positive outlook on life was a welcome contrast. And now that she's met her team of ninjas she'll be working with for a while, she will work hard to become a better fighter and a better person in general.

## Fun facts/Trivia

* Mikako Kurokawa is officially from the fangame Super Danganronpa Another
* Mikako was played by the user Mizu during the start of Season 1 and was given up for adoption until StrengthPolicy took her as a Jade Empire character for Season 2.
* The idea of her being a Jade Empire character and Garou's sister stemmed from an idea that wasn't able to be carried out in a previous RP. Thanks to a suggestion from the player DeeDee, another version of the idea was able to be put to use in BW.