Sting Samuray

* Artwork
* Young

## Physical information

* 44

* Serenity
* Metal music
* Pitayas (allergy)

* The rays
* Lancerrow
* Earthstar
* Lavoamy
* Ka
* Sir Intercia
* Cryonema
* Earthstar (formerly)
* Lavoamy (formerly)
* Ka (formerly)
* Obsoloak (formerly)
* Ikaware
* Shadow Wisps

**Sasuke Hashimoto**, best known by their alias **Sting Samuray**, is a character in the *Reckon Crystal* series*.* They are a boss character in *Reckon Crystal* who becomes a tertiary character during the story's third part. They were designed by PoofyDragon.

Sasuke is an unknown-species humanoid born and raised in Ryonsen Village. While following traditional ethics, their interest in rock music sparked when they saved and bought an electric guitar at Structral City; their first song was dedicated to their guardian, who passed away the consequent month. At school, Sasuke, and a few of their classmates formed a band and became known across some parts of Shiftunia.

However, the band got separated and Sasuke returned to Ryonsen Village. They knew one of the previous superiors got killed and took part of the run for a replacement, becoming the youngest Streamispian in Ryonsen's history to be assigned as a superior, and acquiring the alias Sting Samuray.

During the Energy Crystals' separation across Shiftunia, Sting Samuray gets possessed by the Blue Crystal. To retrieve it, they challenge Lancerrow to a fight in which they cannot use their Wisp energy as they know it. While taming possession at first, they lose control of it once they go to their shrine, where Earthstar and Lavoamy join the fight and the latter frees them from it.

While Earthstar is at Mysteria Jungle, Sting Samuray understands Lancerrow's concern regarding their well-being and joins them to aid Earthstar on their fight against Obsoloak, later helping both to fight Ikaware with Lavoamy and Cryonema by their side. At Shiftunia's Volcanic Belt, Sting Samuray gets captured by the Shadow Monster, which makes a Replicant out of themself. They are the third Streamispian to be freed by Earthstar and Lancerrow while using the power of the Energy Crystals.

Some weeks after the events of *Reckon Crystal*, Sting Samuray fixes and plays their guitar, recovering their past as a rockstar. With no battle on the horizon, they have plenty of time to practice.

## Description

*"From Ryonsen Village, Sasuke Hashimoto (AKA Sting Samuray) might be youthful for a superior, but they are a valiant and agile warrior. It's unclear what they are species-wise, yet it doesn't come to play to say that they're admirable and wield both a blade and a bow to perfection. But... who were they before the samurai they currently are, that explains their spontaneous informal attitude?"*

## Character

### Physical appearance

Sasuke's skin is principally blackish pink. They have blossom pink irises with eyelids of the same color and markings beneath them, large, white-ish pink double sickle-shaped eyebrows, a white-ish pink insectoid mouth -though it is sometimes seen as a beard- and long, white hair. *To be continued.*

#### Default outfit

They wear a blackish pink diamond-shaped mask with white-ish pink, triangular -sometimes glowing- eyes, a white-ish pink collar with hanging droplets. *To be continued*.

#### Known alternate outfits

* **Hakama:** They wear a blossom pink and dusk pink hakama.
* **Yukata:** They wear an aquamarine yukata with pastel cyan edges -with an added ocean blue segment on the sleeves and at the bottom, a seafoam green waist wrap, and a seafoam green undergarment. This outfit is worn outside of Ryonsen Village.

### Personality

Sasuke is humble, honored, and tranquil. They often speak with a formal and appropriate language, though their instances of informality include when they talk about themself before becoming a samurai and infrequent swearing. Their voice is low-pitched and androgynous, lightly inclining to a feminine sound.

In battle, Sasuke is a formidable and agile warrior, and while they can use Wisp energy to power up their blade and the arrows shot with their bow, they're weak to untamed quantities of such, including its use by Evo-Wisps.

### Powers, abilities, and weaponry

* **Guitar-playing skills:** Sting Samuray taught themself how to play the guitar and sharpened their skills enough to play full melodies in any type of it.
* **Potent vocal cords:** Focusing on metal music during their time as a rockstar has given Sting Samuray strong and honed vocal cords.

### Housing

Sting Samuray's house is above a lake near their temple. It is a small, dusky pink, Japanese-style house. Inside, the house's main color is pastel pink due to it being decorated with cherry blossom-themed items. It has a brick smoker, a display holding Sting Samuray's armor while not in battle, a long futon, and, on a corner, an electric guitar.

## Relationships

### In *Reckon Crystal*

* **Zuyara** - *"Never forget your ninja duty until the day your spirit departs the world of the living."*
* **Lancerrow** -  *"You are precisely what Zuyara wanted you to be: a valiant Streamispian. In fact, you are more than that now that you saved Streamisp!"*
* **Earthstar** - *"You've chosen wisely on following Lancerrow's steps. Wait, you were allies since before? I see."*
* **Lavoamy** -  *"Well, you WERE the one who got the Blue Crystal out of my grasp."*
* **Sir Intercia** - *"Comradery between monarchs? I mean, why not? (I'm not really a monarch, but I am seen as one)"*

### Beyond *Reckon Crystal*

* **Justin Robinson** -  *"Sustained by the ocean? Hmm..."*
* **Tropical Cream Cookie** -  *"You have the talent to grow into a successful sculptor, young one"*

## Development

    Sting Samuray was created in Late 2021 as *Reckon Crystal* got written, making them the last boss character conceptualized for the story.

### Design

The idea of Sting Samuray's design was produced with the help of a moodboard; the images of inspiration included a samurai, a stingray, cherry blossoms, and Thunder Storm from the defunct mobile game *Big Hero 6: Bot Fight*. The moodboard was submitted to the Art Fight Discord server, as part of its "Design for the Person Above You" server minigame.

While LastyGhost designed for someone else, their prompt was claimed by PoofyDragon. It consisted of a humanoid design -but not truly human- with blackish pink as the primary color, robot-like limbs, avian claws, and a diamond-shaped mask. While LastyGhost did not expect such a detailed design, they loved it and incorporated it as Sting Samuray's official design, giving PoofyDragon the desired credit for such.

### Name

"Sting Samuray" is a play on *Stingray* and *Samurai*. Their real name, Sasuke Hashimoto, was fully made up by LastyGhost.

## Trivia

* They, Rollathorn, and Sir Intercia are the only *Reckon Crystal* boss characters that are adopted designs.
* Even though they have no aspects of sea creatures, they still show relation with them.
* in *Reckon Crystal*'s post-Epilogue chapter (labeled "???*"* in Quotev), it is revealed that Sting Samuray has a sibling that has watched Earthstar and Lancerrow's adventure all along. This sibling is later revealed to be Frost Stalk in the prologue of *Reckon Crystal 2: Mountain Whisper*. It's currently unclear what happened between them.