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Kenshin Himura
Nicknames: Samurai-Boy, Sir Ken, Uncle Kenny, Himura the Battousai (And variations thereof)
Birthday: June 20, 1849
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Age: 28
Blood Type: AB
Height: 158 cm (5'2")
Weight: 48 kg (114 lbs)
Hobbies: Cooking, doing the laundry, babysitting, running errands, protecting the innocent (namely Kaoru)
Appearance: Red hair and violet eyes with a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek. His eyes turn amber, however, when he goes into what I fondly call "Battousai Mode." As a wanderer he wears a pink and white kimono, but when he was a hitokiri, he wore a navy blue and gray kimono.
Weapon of choice: Reverse-blade sword (Sakabatou)
Fighting Style: Hiten Mitsurugi
Occupation: A former assassin for the Imperialists, Kenshin is now a rurouni (wandering swordsman) who protects the innocent
Motto: "ORO!"
Seiyuu: Suzukaze Mayo (Kenshin), Masami Suzuki (Shinta)
History: At a very young age, Shinta was sold into slavery because both his parents died due to a Cholera outbreak in his village. Three women, Akane, Kasumi, and Sakura looked after him as if he were their own, but they and all the others traveling with Shinta, slave-traders and all were killed by bandits. Shinta also would’ve died if it had not been for Seijuro Hiko. Hiko decided to take the boy on as a pupil and teach him the secret of the Hiten Mitsurugi style of swordsmanship, but not before renaming the boy. Thinking the name Shinta (Translation: Big Heart) too soft for a swordsman, Hiko renamed the boy Kenshin (Translation: Heart of Sword). Years of training ensued, but around the age of 14, Kenshin left Hiko to fight in the rebellion against the Tokugawa Shoganate. Kogoro Katsura found Kenshin and brought him to work as his assassin in Kyoto, and from then on, Kenshin was known as Hitokiri Battousai, the most lethal and ruthless killer in all of Japan. In one battle, Kenshin kills a man named Kiyosato Akira, and not too much longer after he meets a woman named Yukishiro Tomoe and falls in love with her. Tomoe, who, unbeknownst of Kenshin, was Kiyosato’s finacee was originally planning to exact revenge on Kenshin, but changed her mind after falling in love with him. After Kyoto is over-run by the bakufu, Katsura sends Tomoe and Kenshin away to live as man and wife. For a long time they live peacefully, but after the night Kenshin truly proposes to Tomoe, he ends up mistakenly kills Tomoe during a battle with on of her past accomplices to kill Kenshin. Kenshin was partially blind at the time, and thinking he would not stand a chance, Tomoe jumps in the way at the last moment to steal away Kenshin’s opponent’s weapon. He delivers her the fatal blow instead, and as she lies dying on the ground, she completes Kenshin’s cross-shaped scar that Kiyosato began during his battle with Kenshin. Devastated, Kenshin returns Tomoe's body to the house they both lived in peacefully and burned them down. He does return to Kyoto to finish the war, but he tells Katsura that the moment the battles are won, he will never again kill another person. And so, with the end of the Revolution, Kenshin leaves Kyoto never to return (or so he thought) and wanders all of Japan for 10 years. But then one day, while he is passing through Tokyo, a mysterious girl by the name of Kaoru, challenges him and his days of wandering are thrown to the wind...
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