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Basic bio:

Ichiro was actually a student to Sooga's perilous and almost impossible training for a long time before the events of the Calamity had struck; He, not only being the complete opposite to Sooga personality-wise, Ichiro kept up with his training very well despite it and was one of the only few who had the mental capacity and "leadership" like front to command and plan their missions and such. Sooga, despite being such the stoic one, was very impressed and some time after, decided it was deserving of new personal equipment for the next "era" of Yiga clan's second in command. Sooga had designed the twin blades himself for Ichiro and had planned for ages to eventually get them custom-forged and perfected for him so they could train and dual as practise.

Unfortunately that time were to never come when Astor one day, betraying the Yiga clan and sacrificing them to Calamity Ganon (via the Blights I guess that was), and Sooga very soon falling to the Blights later on when he held them off enough for Kohga to escape in time. In the work up to gaining the trust of Zelda and the Champions while also Kohga gaining their trust, the majority of Blademasters and other high ranking members took turns helping Kohga plan and prepare in Sooga's place, Ichiro had done so a few times during that time of finally defeating Calamity Ganon and other peers had seen the potential he had to taking such a position by Kohga's side... Kohga, dealing with the grief of the loss of not only his very loyal subordinate, but also his one and only lover, so it took him such a long time to finally "accept and move on" from Sooga's death years ago to finally promote another loyal and strong-willed member to take up the mantle as his Right-Hand man (to which 7 years had passed since they ever had a second person in charge of the Yiga clan in Kohga's stead); So then, after some time of trying to not only gain Kohga's approval and training immensely that in some ways has somewhat surpassed Sooga's skill and technique (To which Sooga had not doubt was possible as he had a lot of high praise for those who managed to hold out on their own, of course in this case, Ichiro did in many ways), his Master begrudgingly accepts and appoints Ichiro the position to be by his side...

Not without a few complications however, since Ichiro is not like Sooga in ways when it comes to personality and rational thinking, he and Kohga have indeed butt heads with each other when it comes to said plans and missions, they have indeed argued with Kohga also unintentionally constantly comparing Ichiro to Sooga a lot; Expecting him to respond the exact same way as the loyal former subordinate did, while Ichiro either letting the emotions of his getting the better of him as he also falls for their still very distraught leader while informing how some ways Kohga is to react or behave in certain situations is sometimes not dignified- They seem like polar opposites with their leader and follower dynamic that Ichiro feels they'll never come to steady ground like Sooga and Kohga always did, still though, he persists; To not only get Kohga's approval and validation, but also to prove he has what it takes to be the almost perfect Right-Hand man of the Yiga clan and will push through no matter how impossible or abysmal it feels in the moment..

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Ichiro's personally crafted twin blades designed by his former teacher, Sooga; Originally just designed for any upcoming Blademaster who took the mantle as Right-Hand of the Yiga clan and proved their worthiness of such swords, Sooga had actually started gradually touching up the concept for Ichiro during little small talk and snippets that piqued his students interests during their training; Ichiro always mentioning how he would love to incorporate the element of fire to his fighting style to give him a better advantage in a fight, especially against strong enemies, how he'd love to try dual-wield, even triple-wield to improve his already promising skills, and so forth.

Alas, Sooga was actually getting on with the concept of a third blade for Ichiro before his untimely demise, so instead, now with the blades having a title of Ichiro keeping his promise to Sooga to keep the clan safe and protect Kohga with his life; He now wields the Blades of Promise, and a single Sword of Ferocity, which Sooga upgraded him to from a Windcleaver during their first few years of training. Ichiro made a promise to Sooga, and sometimes it feels like he's always watching over him, making sure the new Right-Hand is getting on well with keeping up to such a promise...

Until at some point it turns out that yes, Sooga in fact, in spirit form, has possessed his dual-blades! Which gives Ichiro one heck of a heart attack one time during training because the new Luitenant was having doubts in the back of his mind about whether he's actually good enough at all for the task... So there's that going for him, nobody else can see the spirit of the badass Sooga, only he can and it makes him look crazy every single time without fail.. And Kohga is not and never amused-

Other details:

Luitenant uniform - Without Ichiro's Blademaster hood and cloak, he almost resembles Sooga in some ways, especially with the hair and the collars; Minor exceptions are his belt design is slightly different with a more refined Footsoldier style, and the "double collar" whereas the former Right-Hand, Sooga, just merely having one collar "flair". When he wears his hooded uniform, he usually adjusts the buckles over his shoulders to tucking above his collars, as he tucks then underneath his hood. Without the hood and cloak, to which he wears to Yiga ceremonies or meetings with the other leaders of Hyrule, important things, whereas his hooded he wears casually or in battle, and when venturing into colder environments as he does not have much of a tolerance to the cold.. Kohga doesn't like it when Ichiro wears his Blademaster attire under his Luitenant attire, as "Sooga wouldn't be so lousy like that" ...

Mask - His mask has two sets of horns, and is seen with a couple scars, from where after Sooga's death, he started training all by himself to try improving his capabilities, almost pushing himself too far to the point he almost injured him in the face and a few other places on his body- Luckily enough, the mask being there to protect him... Like it does for a lot of them.. He heavily inspired his own mask to Sooga's as he was obviously not just a mentor, but also an inspiration for him to keep pushing forward no matter the situation- Hence why Ichiro was eventually appointed as Kohga's new Right-Hand man, even if Kohga refuses to see it because he doesn't want anybody else to "replace" his beloved.

Cold-Resistant Cloak - As stated, he crafted the ruby infused cloak when during intense training in the bone-chilling peaks of Hebra and almost succumbed to the cold.. With his fast thinking even almost at the brink of death, he put together what he had found around him, a lone ruby ore was just sitting there in the snow and some tattered cloths at a nearby long abandoned campsite- Although Ichiro himself never questioned how convenient this felt, he just thought he was lucky...

Ichiro always has his cloak on the ready due to most missions or where aid is needed tends to be round about areas and regions of Hyrule that are cold - A good thing as most missions that requires him and his team to either be or to aid, he without doubt always ends up somewhere very cold.

He does NOT handle freezing weather very well and even during Sooga's personal training for him he just never got the hang of dealing with the minus temperatures and regulating his own temperature, despite the fact his mentor did so almost without problems. Although now with the cloak he's even able to walk around the Gerudo Highlands as so without needing a shirt to protect him.

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A little after Ichiro was promoted to be Master Kohga's Right-Hand man for the Yiga clan, Kohga kept Ichiro aside and it was pretty much just him looking down at Ichiro all disgruntled because he doesn't really want anybody to take his side other than Sooga...

There... Wasn't really much Ichiro could do other than just stare as Kohga kind of makes snide remarks in his face..... Ichiro knows he must be patient despite it being years since the former took the position, so he excuses Kohga's actions and behaviour and just keeps up to task, never always taking the insults personally.... Although sometimes it can be hard.

Another training session between teacher and student - Takes place briefly a day or so before Ichiro almost dies of shock after finding out his gifted blades were in fact, possessed by the very person who designed them for him. Sooga refuses to rest until he knows full well that both the Yiga clan and their lovely Master Kohga are safe, somewhat doubts Ichiro's potential since the new Right-Hand has loads of doubts about himself as well.

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.... Ok I think that's it now, this took me like 2 or 3 days to make this whole stupid ass post cuz I kept making fcking refs, doodles and shit for this fucking guy and I honestly can't fcking believe this is the most info I did on a single character like EVER on a god damn post!!

Why did I make this?!?

I don't fucking know I just thought of like a Yiga who's like a successor to Sooga after his passing and wanted to draw him, and then lo and behold I ended up drawing all this shit and getting into detail about him and all that shit.... Like wf am I gonna do now I paused OC refs and shit just to do this and now Idk if I'm gonna do anything else for him after this hhhhh...........

So anyways, this is Ichiro, aaaaand he's the next Luitenant of the Yiga clan, aaaaand his swords are possessed by the spirit of Sooga

.... Please like this this took me so long to make..