Sun Jun

## Julia Kouen

* **WARNING: Contains blood. Read at your own risk**

**Julia Kouen** (219 - 262) is an alternate version of **Sun Jun.** Hailing from the Re-Do timeline, she is known for her spear skills, comforting personality, and her rather overprotecting dedication of taking care of her mother. Due to her role, her personality, and her importance, she is considered as one of the two main antagonists of *Dynasty Warriors Bloodlines,* especially since she serves as the other half of Marie's problems dealing with the succession wars. She would later become the culprit responsible for the Shouchun Incident (Zhuge Dan's Rebellion) in *The Aftermath*.

Like her mother, she makes an appearance in Warriors Orochi 5 as one of the people seen during the Convergence.

## Biography

* "An officer of Wu, and one of the major regents during the Sun succession wars. Great-granddaughter of Sun Jing, who is the brother of the Tiger of Jiang Dong: Sun Jian. As she loves her mother: Marie Shintani, she vowed to get revenge on those that wronged her, especially the likes of Zhuge Ke and Zhang Yue. In fact, when Zhang Yue stole her former position in favor of Zhuge Ke, and when the latter insulted her mother one too many times, she invited Zhuge Ke and Zhang Yue during a banquet, and killed them both, which resulted into losing her right hand. Due to her actions, she was exiled from the Wu Kingdom, at the behest of her cousin, who was not happy over the extent of her actions."

## Appearance

Because of her being from a different reality like Marie, she also has a brand new appearance. While she has short brown hair, like her mother, which is the same as her other counterpart, she has similar facial features as her mother.

### Older (The Aftermath)

A few years have past, and Julia's appearance have changed. With her hair being grown slightly into, Julia has now undergone a

## Personality

While she does act similar to her previous counterpart, Julia is normally a young woman who has a sense of what's right and what's wrong, but deep down that shell lies her true nature: A psychopathic child who is obsessed with her mother.

### Caring her own Mother's Wellbeing

Julia knows of her mother's worries as she tries to find a way to fix it. However, the extend as to how she would try is unknown, since she rarely gets noticed for her work

Sometimes, she would get a bit too overprotective, as such when Liu Shan wanted to see , she would . This was pretty much her goal to kill both Zhuge Ke and Zhang Yue, the former for going too far in his insults

### Issues with her mother

That being said, she didn't take it well upon seeing her mother's decaying corpse in front of her.

### Warriors Orochi 5

#### Interactions

In Warriors Orochi 5, she has interactions with Sima Zhao, Huang Zhong, Lu Xun, Li Dian, Kaguya, Keiji Maeda, Ginchiyo Tachibana and Aya.

#### Sima Zhao

It's implied that she has a slight crush

However, Zhao considers

#### Huang Zhong

She's surprised of a man that old being agile as a feather, . While Zhong himself complimented her on her skills,

In the second interaction, Jun wonders what she would do

#### Li Dian

Jun's amazed at Li Dian's halberd. When she shows him her spear, Li Dian wonders how exactly Jun was able to lift a weapon like that despite her size.

#### Kaguya

Having been well informed in the art of time travel, she asks Kaguya on how to save her mother from her impeding doom. To her shock, however, Kaguya sadly tells her that she's unable to figure out the cause of her mother's instability, as she has no knowledge of where exactly both of them had hailed from.

Her second conversation with Kaguya reveals that Jun was almost on the verge of being desperate to save her mother

#### Aya

Well. Jun is rather disturbed at how strict Aya is, as shown in her first conversation, where the latter insists on giving her food to eat. The reason why Jun ate it was because Kenshin Uesugi convinced her to eat a random Meat Bun for her sake.

Her second conversation implies that Jun almost got in trouble by Aya when she tried to steal one of her

## Story

### The Tragedy

Due to her role as one of the two villains, she plays a vital role in the downfall of the Sun Family.

### Warriors Orochi

Due to the Convergence, Julia, along with the rest of the Bloodlines newcomers, were separated through various locations.

## Move-Set

While her move-set has some unique charge attacks, some of her attacks are similar to both Ma Chao and Jiang Wei's spear move-sets prior. Like Marie, Julia's style plays similar to the State system in Dynasty Warriors 9 though the differences is that she has different charge attacks that come along with it.

### Original Game (Spear)

* Triangle: Stabs forward
* Square, Triangle: Uses the wooden handle to lift up the target, sending the enemy flying.
* Square, Square, Triangle: Stabs quickly three times before she charges forward with a spinning diving kick, serving as a crowd clearer. Pressing Triangle again will cause the user to add more stabs to the attack, with the same ending response. This is a variation of Ma Chao's EX attack.
* Square, Square, Square, Triangle: Does a spinning spear strike
* Square, Square, Square, Square, Triangle: With spear in hand, she creates a rose infused red whirlwind, sending the enemy, as well as Jun, in the air
* Square, Square, Square, Square, Square, Triangle: Spins the spear around, creating a rose infused red typhoon. Works as a crowd clearer
* Flow Attack - Square (X6): Strikes to the left while simultaneously crossing the right foot between the left. The user crosses their legs back to normal while striking to the right, then swings directly from left to right before launching a frontal hit.
* Trigger Stun - R1 + Square: Flicks the spear around, like a staff, which blinds the enemy. Follow up is the same as before, like Ma Chao, Zhao Yun and Wen Yang
* Trigger Launch - R1 + Triangle: Follow Up is the same, only the end has her descend downward, like a javelin.
* Trigger Knockdown - R1 + X: Does a kick sweep, which follows up into the same. However, the end of the Follow Up is different as she instead pole-vaults ahead, knocking enemies down
* Special Technique - R1 + Circle: Slams her spear down into the ground, continuing with her Knockdown.
* Musou Sequence - Does a set of swipes. it continues until she engages on her musou attack
* Musou Attack - The One with the Bravado:
* Aerial Musou Attack - Javelin Toss: Similar to Zhao Yun's aerial musou
* Dashing - Run, Square: Dashes forward and strikes to the right.
* Aerial Attack - X, Square: Jumps and sweeps from right to left in the air, just like Ma Chao and Wen Yang

### Warriors Orochi

Move-set remains the same, along with additional features.

* EX1 -

## Weapons

### Dynasty Warriors Bloodlines

1. Iron Spear
2. Battle Spear
3. Prodigy Void
4. Burgundy Dragon
5. Codebreaker (RARE)
6. Sports Javelin (Joke)
7. Crimson Tears (DLC)

### Warriors Orochi

1. Iron Spear
4. Steel Stallion
5. Defensive Tempest
7. Prodigy Void
8. Prodigy Void X
9. Dreamcatcher

## Tropes

* Adaptational Heroism: Subverted. Despite being shown as , Julia is anything but a hero the game claims to represent.
* Adaptational Villainy: This is a stretch, but Julia acts a lot worse in here compared to her original counterpart.
* Artificial Limbs: Because her right hand was cut off by Zhuge Ke, she wrapped her hand around with a mysterious bandage that shapes her missing hand to it's original model.
* An Arm and a Leg: She loses her right hand when she tried to kill Zhuge Ke during the latter's planned assassination. Luckily, she succeeds in killing him when he trips on her
* And I Must Scream: She does one that can make even Rukia cringe in comparison, as she visibly sobs upon seeing Marie's corpse.
* Asshole Victim: Considering how much of a horrible person she is, it's really not hard not to feel bad for her when she ends up getting exiled due to her actions as the Wu Regent.
* Ax-Crazy: She's already unstable to begin with, but the death of her mother immediately pushes her to becoming a notorious murderer who is in denial over . Xander was horrified to discover the extent of his cousin's descent into madness.
* Became Their Own Antithesis: . In the end, Julia became the exact thing she was avoiding due to her grief and refusal to find closure over her mother's death.
* Berserk Button: Whatever you do, **don't** hurt Marie Shintani.
* Big Bad Ensemble: She shares the role with Sun Luban in the main story, serving as the other obstacle Marie has to deal with in order to stop the succession wars.
* Big Bad: On another note, she's actually the one responsible for the Shouchun Incident, with her grief being a major factor into the revival of Marie Shintani, who was not supposed to come back due to cutting off her head.
* Blood is the New Black: It makes her eventual murder of
* Blood Splattered Warrior: The Aftermath implies that the blood covering her is her mother's blood, indicating that she, though merciful, killed her to ease her pain.
* Boyish Short Hair: Since she's almost an Expy of Lin from Fist of the North Star, she has short hair, modeled in her likeness. She somewhat grows out of it by the time of the Shouchun Incident occurs.
* Break the Cutie: If you think that she was broken before the succession wars, then her experiencing first hand of Marie's passing did the trick. The incident alone managed to break her mentally, to the point she absolutely refused to believe she had died, which explains why Marie's severed head was shown in front of her and Sima Zhao.
* Broken Bird: Her obsession with her mother damaged her mind completely, to the point that she starts crying when she starts seeing images of her mother's severed head on display every time she murders
* Catchphrase: Has a couple that proves how much of a psychopath she truly is.
* Cleavage Window - Has one in her first outfit. Averted in her older appearance.
* Clingy Jealous Girl: The sight of Xingcai being with Marie truly angered her to no end.
* Contralto of Danger: As soon as her mother had passed away, her voice drops a few octaves.
* Cynical Catalyst - The death of her own mother managed to break her mentally.
* Dark Action Girl: Full Stop, though it's taken up to Eleven in The Aftermath.
* Dark is Evil: The Aftermath plays this straight as Julia ditches her previous outfit in favor of a mix of black and red, a similar approach like Vexille.
* Despair Event Horizon: She audibly snaps after seeing her mother die in front of her, likely because she had snapped out of her . The Aftermath makes it worse by revealing that Julia was completely affected by the death of Marie to the point that she became the sociopathic murderer responsible for the Shouchun outbreak, which also meant that she was completely responsible for ruining Zhuge Dan's grand scheme of rebellion.
* Disproportionate Retribution: In general, when her mother is involved, Julia would do things that would make you feel disturbed over how casual . One example is when asked about the reason why Julia is constantly with her at all times, Marie confirms, to Xander's horror, that when Julia was young, she had snapped a girl's arm because she *dared* to talk to her in a casual way.
* Driven to Suicide: In one of the endings of The Aftermath, Julia, having been consumed by her own grief at that point, kills herself in front of
* Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: After her mother had passed away, she starts to show this because her life came crashing down.
* Et tu, Brute?: Even after murdering Zhuge Ke and Zhang Yue, Julia still wants to protect her mother from all evils. So when she does pass away, Julia didn't take it well. It's what makes her mother's intentions of quite depressing since she had ruined that opportunity because of it.
* Everyone Has Standards: She may have been a murderous daughter with her obsession towards her mother, but even she is disgusted over Dong Zhuo's way of paradise, which actually is hypocritical since she, too, would later go on a murder spree after Xander came into power.
* Evil Sound Deep: Downplayed.
* Expy: Think of her as Art the Clown and Victor Crowley if both with girls.
* Face-Heel Turn: Ok, being on the side of good is a stretch, but it's clear that Julia is on the heroes side despite doing worse actions compared to her cousin. However, ever since her mother's death, she would
* Fallen Hero: Mostly combined with her flaws below, but after being ousted by Sima Zhao and Xander Davi due to her actions as the Wu Regent, she is now trapped in her own grief-filled misery, even though it was entirely her own fault for causing so much destruction due to her obsession.
* Fatal Flaw: Love (Depending on her context). Her overprotectiveness of her mother, and her unhealthy obsession, is pretty much the entire reason why she ended up causing a lot more harm than what Marie had thought, additionally making Luban succeed in her goals, and why the Wu faction ended up suffering from years of bloodshed with the succession crisis, which didn't end until Xander Davi (Sun Xiu) took the throne (And even Xander was not that good as a Ruler). It was likely the entire reason why she was cursed of seeing her mother's severed head on display during her story, because she was refusing to accept the harsh reality of her mother being gone, likely because she is too stricken with combined grief and love. Sima Zhao definitely had a reason to call her out on that.
* Gender Flip - The second character in Bloodlines to have received a gender switch, as the actual Sun Jun is a guy, where as Julia Kouen, the identity of Sun Jun is a girl all throughout this reality.
* Hated by All: Even if she had a change of heart, a lot of the Late Wu members don't get along with her because of her obsession. Even Marie is hesitant to fully work with her daughter again because she had just experienced first-hand of why she's not to be trusted.
* Hate Sink: At her worst, she's nothing more but a remorseless Yandere who doesn't even care about anyone but herself.
* Hidden Buxom - If what her hot-springs model reveals, then yeah. She is fully developed, which is hilarious on all accounts.
* I Want My Beloved To Be Happy: After some encouragement from her mother Marie, who had to, Julia finally lets go of all her pent-up frustration and grief by doing the one thing she should've done in the first place: Letting go of her mother, which was a major catalyst for her descent to madness.
* Identical Stranger - In Warriors Orochi 5, Kenshiro mentions she almost looks identical to Lin in his own world.
* In the Hood: her older appearance has her wear a hoodie that covers her entire head.
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At her worst, she's a complete jerk who gets too, but as long as the person doesn't do anything to harm her mother, then she's normally a softie.
* Karma Houdini: Because of her actions and her murderous behavior out of her sick desire to be with her mother, she manages to avoid any consequences due to hiding the evidence that proves her involvement in the succession wars. Of course, it didn't last long when Sima Zhao came into the picture.
* Karma Houdini Warranty: Mostly explained above, but her luck ran out with Sima Zhao forcing her to tell the truth about the Succession wars.
* Laughing Mad: She audibly does one after killing Xander in her bad ending
* Manipulative Bitch: Not to an extent, but she has shown time and time again that she would do anything to get what she truly wants.
* Matricide: She ends up murdering Marie in the Acceptance ending due to her delusion and denial over .
* Mask of Sanity: She does an exceptionally great job hiding her real emotions well, to the point that Xander starts questioning her calm and casual behavior when he asked her about what happened to Luyu.
* Momma's Boy - A Rare Female example. Because of her mother's gentle approach and her own battle with her dark self, Julia is largely devoted to her own mother in an effort to help her overcome her past issues. This immediately became a major problem for the Wu forces during the succession wars, when she was given a lot of power at the orders of her mother, of which she instead uses it to deliver harsh and severe punishments for those that hurt her mother, that being against of what Marie was talking about. Because of this, it gave Luban an opportunity to bring her plan into action. One of Xander's quotes confirm that Julia would always listen to what her mother says, no matter how ridiculous her ideas are.
* Mommy Issues: While it doesn't show mostly, it was revealed, according to Xander Davi, that Julia is extremely protective of her mother, even refusing to let anyone near her. This even extends to her murder of both Zhuge Ke and Zhang Yue because she got upset with the former's tasteless insults.
* Muscles are Meaningless - Despite looking curvy and without any signs of muscle, unlike her mother, she is capable of lifting heavy items, including her mother on some occasions. This would be a little averted in The Aftermath, where she's strong enough to cause
* Ms. Fanservice: Even more so than her mother, which explains a lot.
* My God, what have I done?: It only took until Marie's interference as a Necromorph for this to count, as upon realizing she had allowed her selfish desires overwhelm her common sense, which caused the succession wars in the first place, she grew guilty over her lack of attention of the bigger picture.
* Never My Fault: Julia refuses to take any responsibility for her actions, especially since she caused the general decline of the Wu kingdom because of her unhealthy obsession with her own mother, even blaming Xander and Luban for putting her into such a position.
* Nice Girl: She is **certainly not**. She does a good job hiding her true intentions
* Nice Job Breaking it, Hero!: Because of her overprotection of her mother, she ends up causing a lot more harm than good while being the regent, which explains why Wu ended up suffering from years of political and provisional decline. The notable examples include her ignoring the aid of civilians to provide shelter and food during the rainfall, making unreasonable demands (Such as forcing farmers to stock up what they had, not even realizing they had suffered from drought at that time. forcing a group of women to apologize for their insensitive comments against her mother, ) that angered the majority of the people, which was against Marie's advice, and worst of all, killing both Zhuge Ke and Zhang Yue in a fit of rage, even though the former started the entire fight because he had the bright idea to test her patience by insulting her mother one too many times. Because of this, her seeing Marie's head was due to this trope, as her actions had caused a lot more harm than good, along with going against what her mother had told her.
* Odd Friendship: She has one with Dong Zhuo, of all freaking people. Even Marie is not happy over her willingness to work together with the latter.
* Older Than She Looks: She's in her early forties when The Aftermath comes into picture yet she has barely aged since her first appearance.
* Palette Swap: The Aftermath has her undergo a black and red approach in her older appearance, similar to Vexille.
* Properly Paranoid: Because of her Mommy Issues, you would think that she's either insane or too much of a child to let anyone near her mother, including her own cousin Luban. However, she was proven right when Sun Luban orchestrated the execution of Sun Luyu to force Marie to retire from her position.
* Psychopathic Womanchild: Julia herself. She may be entirely composed and serious, but deep down that demeanor lies her true nature: an immature and deranged woman who is too obsessed with her own mother. Some of her quotes imply that she's entirely troubled for a woman her age.
* The Reason You Suck Speech:
* She was given one by Sima Zhao after he found out she had squandered Wu's resources to help her mother (Though considering that he's friends with Marie, he's just disappointed she allowed her personal affairs get the best to her).
* On another note, she harshly calls Xander out for deliberately keeping . This was before she bludgeons the poor guy to near death, where Marie is forced to protect her brother from her own daughter.
* Related in the Adaption - Bloodlines, however, has her act as Marie's daughter instead. The cousin part is still there for Chen though.
* The Rival - To Wen Yang. And while Wen Yang lived to the end, Julia instead ends up dying not long after Shu had surrendered.
* Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Arguably her entire motivation in The Aftermath, as she was frustrated at
* Sanity Slippage: Her obsession with her mother was bad enough, but what transpired after said person's death did absolute wonders to her mental state.
* Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Despite Xander's protests, she actually instigates the outbreak in Shouchun out of rage for Zhuge Dan mocking , something that even Sima Zhao and Wen Qin had called him out on.
* Serial Killer: The Aftermath confirms that Julia had murdered a couple of people in her crusade to bring back her mother.
* Shirking Violet: Believe it or not, she can
* Slasher Smile: Pulls off one hell of a deranged smile when Xander confronts her over the murders around Jianye. Tanya should be proud...
* Smarter than she Looks - Despite looking like a tomboy, she is actually somewhat well informed in the art of time travel, different timelines and calligraphy.
* Spared by the Adaption: She ends up outliving everyone else from the succession wars, dying at 264.
* Strong Family Resemblance: She's almost a complete identical copy of her mother, with the only difference being she had shorter hair and slightly different facial features.
* Super Strength: It seems that she might've taken quotes from Guan Yinping, since she not only was able to lift up her mother, who is a bit bigger, but can lift up her weapon with ease
* The Reason You Suck speech: Gives one to Xander after finding out he deliberately hid . She would've killed him if it wasn't for Marie protecting
* Tender Tears: She more or less gets a bit rough from her emotions, likely because of how much she truly loves her mother Marie. Otherwise, this happens if her mother either gets upset or something horrible happens to her. This takes a darker turn when she kills Zhuge Ke because he had upset her greatly with his scathing insults about her mother.
* Took a Level in Badass: If you think she was an action girl before, then she had already stepped up to the plate ever since .
* Took a Level in Jerkass: while the actual Sun Jun is, Julia went overboard over her obsession
* Took a Level in Kindness: . That being said, neither Xander, Vexille or Marie actually believe she had a change of heart considering they still haven't forgotten about what she did in
* Tomboy and Girly Girl - the Tomboy to her mother's Girly Girl side (Though her mother is more into the Gentle approach)
* Tomboy: Unlike her original counterpart, she definitely takes it from Shangxiang in terms of traits.
* Tragic Keepsake: She keeps Marie's necklace as a memory of her times of helping her cope.
* Unkempt Beauty: The Aftermath plays this to a tee where, despite having to, she still looks
* Villain Protagonist: And **How**! Despite being on the side of the heroes, her behavior and emotional instability truly makes you wonder why she's even a hero in the first place considering that she's the exact opposite of . It turns out that she is the other problem Marie has to deal with in the succession wars.
* Yandere: *Holy crap*, Julia definitely freaks everyone out with her obsession, because that's her at her very worst! This even extends to her furious response to Zhuge Ke's constant insults, which led to her killing both him and Zhang Yue out of wrath.

## Trivia

* According to the producer, Julia's design was inspired by the Fist of the North Star series. It's probably the reason why Julia looks almost identical to Lin.