Yukio Yoshioka

**Yukio Yoshioka** is the 99th and current elemental Master of Ice. They are also an Orphan.

## Personality

Independent, reflective and thoughtful. Yukio is a lighthearted soul that reflects a lot on her past mistakes and issues she has done. Sheltered by the outside world for most of her life, she has problems communicating and to get along with others peers among her age. Yukio has felt distant towards other people, but her true kindness shows through her soft care for animals and wildlife.

Growing up in the cold of the northern mountains, she has grown a resistance against the freezing blizzards and snowstorms. Instead of covering herself up with a jacket or dozens of sweaters, she embraces the thick and cold snow just as if she was stepping in the fresh flowers of spring. Though the cold can make it hard to care for the flowers or harvest some crops from a nearby farm, Yukio has spent months trying to perfect and understand weather conditions and the true meaning of the cold ice that harbors in the mountains.

Yukio, though not being familiar with emotions and feelings that peers her age go through each and every day, she tries her best to stay confident and to help out others whenever she can. Sometimes people would be confused, even scared by her unnatural appearance, but Yukio learned to accept that she was different from most people.

Her fathers death strengthened her motivation and made her a more hardworking person than the soft cold one she used to be. Yukio is a young woman who is fairly above intelligence than other people her age. His intelligence mostly comes from her endless days of reading through books and studying through hell, as her father pushed her among her limits dozens of times.

Upon a fatal mistake of harming her village in freezing it in eternal ice, her demeanor has turned cold and emotionless. She is a sensitive pearl in the dark shade of the moon, and often gets too overwhelmed and scared whenever she would have to use her powers. Whenever she would get into a panic attack upon remembering her mistakes, she would give herself a brain freeze as a punishment.

## History

Whilst the cold freeze caressed the mountains, not only soft spots remained for the world around. Snowflakes fell from the sky, decorating the world into frozen wastelands of nothing but snow and ice. Ninjago’s realm faced one of its coldest nights, the shining wide lands covered by the cold coming from the north of the blizzard mountains. Winter was one of the realm’s most hated seasons, but during this time it was one of the hardest to go through.

The cold breeze of the wind made the people shutter and shake in their coats and furs, not knowing if this was the cause of a natural mistake or if the elemental masters happened to be stuck in another war of theirs again. None of the rumors were true, as the cold prepared for the birth of its new bearer. Only a few hours later, in the middle of the night, in the cold mountains near the Glacier Barrens in a modest house, the elemental master of Ice witnessed his wife giving birth to his small daughter, whom they named after the freezing howling winds of the night.

Yukio.

Joy and laughter did not remain for long, as his wife died only a few minutes later, holding her daughter tightly in her arms before letting go. The signs had shown over the course of the pregnancy, yet he hadn’t expected his wife to die by giving birth to their daughter. This didn’t mean that he hated his small darling, no, instead he loved her even more. She was the only thing he had left from his lost love, and he would cherish and protect her with everything he had.

Due to her father’s fear of Yukio being hurt or damaged caused him to shelter her in their home, not allowing her once to visit the village nearby or go beyond their houses walls. She grew up sheltered, and all alone. Yukio was always annoyed whenever her father caught her trying to climb over the walls in their gardens, and often scolded her by saying the outside world is scary and dark. Yukio never understood why her father was against the idea of her exploring the world, but growing up she realized that the warmth of her home was the only place she’d want to stay.

She was homeschooled by him and taught many various things about the outside world, even though he did not let her venture there. He always brought books with him whenever he went away, which Yukio treasured dearly. She would often read them outside by their pond to the animals or just herself. The girl felt lonely, that was for sure, but she felt comfort around her little animal friends.

The snow and cold was the one who protected her from various things, such as thunderstorms or even the fear she would get when her father scolded him. Though snowflakes only fell, she felt as if they talked to her and comforted her. Yukio’s father wasn’t always able to shelter her in their home, however, so one day she was finally allowed to join him on his visits to their small village.

Yukio was surprised to find out that more humans like them existed, that small ones her age lived close by! By pushing her father a few times, he even allowed her to play with the other peers. Sometimes it was hard for her to adjust and understand what they were saying, which in return made them scared and confused. She still shrugged it off and continued to finally live a normal life.

She often borrowed books from the library, visited her friends, took trips to the forest to visit some of her animal friends and started to take care of the many flowers in her gardens. Yukio was not homeschooled anymore, and quickly reached the top of her entire school in just by a few weeks. Her teachers considered a born genius, but she’d shrug it off by saying she was just a normal teenager that thinks a bit too much sometimes.

Yukio still struggled to communicate with other people, which is why she’d drown herself into her books to appreciate the effort strangers made to explain every bit of them. In total, she dropped the research within a few days as emotions were confusing to her. She knew she experienced some, but being able to directly tell and to watch out what to do in order to avoid triggering some made her head almost burn and tik like popcorn in the oven.

Yukio loved her father without bounds, he was the closest person in her life that she’d never give up on. As she grew older, he told her more stories about his past life, even mentioning the wars he participated in and the life of a warrior he lived in. This marked their beginning of starting to spar with each other, first starting off with normal prop weapons before processing to actual dangerous ones. Yukio quickly showed strength in harnessing and guiding to use an old katana and some cranky old shurikens that her father used. She never won against her father, not a single time, but she appreciated everything he’d do for her with a bright smile.

Unfortunately, happiness didn’t last forever. It was a week before her birthday, her father made lots of preparations around the house and even a few of Yukio’s friends came over to help. Her father caught a sickness not only a few hours after for some unknown reasons, and the sickness grew worse with every single day. Yukio rushed through her books to figure out if there were any herbs far and wide that could help, but there were none. Their local doctor had arrived at their house and spread the dark news to Yukio.

She was hanging on the side of her father’s bed, caressing his hand softly as she sobbed into the mattress as she watched her father’s breathing slow. Snowflakes somehow managed to sneak through their roof and began to fall all around her fathers room. Yukio tried to shelter her father with her arms, but the weak man only shook his head and caressed her wet cheeks that were messed with tears all over. Then he stopped breathing, and Yukio was frozen in place.

The next day, her birthday arrived, but she couldn’t celebrate. She was mourning, weeks even. Her father passed away, the only man who ever truly made her happy. Her only parent. Yukio had never cried before, but the moment she realized she was all alone froze her heart into dozens of little pieces. Even though her heart was ice cold, she eventually got to learn to live with his death and appreciated to learn his legacy.

One faithful day, Yukio wandered through the village to drop off some books she had borrowed from a few people. Then suddenly, she was pushed down into the snow by someone. A group of men stood before her, their ugly faces laughing down as their leader stepped forward. Her eyes widened as she noticed the knife in his hand as he stepped towards her. They mentioned something about them knowing about how special she was, and how she should pay for the mistakes and damage her father had caused for their village. She trained enough with her father to know how to defend herself, but coming into this situation for the first time in her life frightened the small girl.

Yukio jumped up and stepped backwards to create a distance between herself and the man with the knife. Then he launched towards her, attempting to stab her right into her left eye. She jumped to her side and managed to grab his leg while she did so, causing the man to fall down. However, he quickly got up again and grunted before rushing back to her. She got up to try and run away from him, but that’s when she forgot that he still had his gang around.

Her heart was infected with fear as they held her by her wrists, making her unable to run away. Yukio’s breathing increased, tears rolled down her cheeks in fear. This could be her death, she could die soon. Her body went numb, she couldn’t feel anything as everything was cold. Snowflakes began to fall again, flowing past the group. Suddenly the blizzard increased, and Yukio’s body began to freeze. The men dropped her in fear, scared of the girl freezing to death in front of them. Yukio couldn’t explain it either, she was close to passing out as her body began to freeze. But she found a lot of power, and hatred. She wiped her tears away as she gritted her teeth, she wanted to make them pay so badly. Yukio ran back and attempted to launch a hit to the leader, but what followed after shocked her. A giant wave of ice crystals emitted from her hands and began to freeze everything around her. Only in a matter of seconds the whole village around her was frozen to ice.

There was no more sign of life, she freezed them all.

Yukio couldn’t believe it, she had just freezed her whole village. She killed them.
She was a monster.

She was scared of her own powers, and what she even truly was. Yukio couldn’t look back to the village anymore, there was nothing left for her to stay. She ran away, far away to never encounter anyone she knew again. Nightmares and tears followed her, as for the first time she had harmed people against her will even though she only wanted to protect herself.

Months had passed where Yukio traveled far away, trying to distance herself from the northern mountains. She wanted to figure out who she truly was, what her destiny was, how she was even able to manipulate ice and do what she had done in that moment. She carried the cold and ice within her, sometimes she even used it without knowing she could.

She journeyed to small countrylands, gaining knowledge from small farmers or even owners of shops and restaurants. Their answers? None, because elemental masters haven’t been seen for years. Yukio felt terrible, like a sore thumb sticking out not sure where she would ever belong.

One thing was for sure, if there was something she would promise to her father, then it was to control these powers and to make sure to protect the people she loved, even if it means to sacrifice herself in the end.