#m.hanzo

Light a match and let it burn. Incense burns in the the shrine. You kneel staring at it. It has been years since the moment that so much had meant to happen. Things that had been meant to happen. You were meant to slaughter your brother, but the blade fell from your fingers. You and Genji were not meant to be one another's end. You knew how much blood would have existed had you slaughtered him. Times have changed. You rule the clan. You had removed the elders, you knew the cost of them. You knew the way that they had fallen. A blade was a simple means, your brother had no issues riding what had been corrupt. You preferred a bow over that of a blade. You kneel in the shrine. Gods were not something you believed in but the temples gave you some kind of peace. You do not look upwards when another comes into the temple. You don't have to look up to know it's not Genji, the footsteps are too heavy. Genji is as quiet as you, and if you remembered right he was traveling, dealing with business if you remembered correctly. Instead when your words come out they are soft in the quiet room. "You are bothered. What is eating at you? You never enter the temple, or has something rotted at you Riko?" @obscura-mp3

His legs were built with the help of the clan. It should be noted, while he can feel touch and sensations, it is nothing like having real legs. It is not the same with skin on skin contact and he feels differences in temperature and such, but it’s not deep level contact. His being said, it is completely posiable for him to remove his legs if needed, but he prefers not to do it. it’s mostly there for the purpose of changing things or fixing them. it should be noted they make no sound when he moves, and there is no clicking from them.  these happen when he is twenty-eight.

Scatter arrows being the first one that I mention, because while this is a retired thing he could do in game, my Hanzo still is able to shoot like that if need be. The scatter arrow was a shot you made from his bow that split the arrow into numerous arrows from that shot. It is extremely lethal and without proper training nearly impossible to dodge without being hit by it. Genji is able to deflect it because of his training not to mention, having an understanding to how Hanzo’s scatter arrow works.    6 fragments per shot. / 26 - 87 m/s projectile speed Storm Arrows are a series of shots that Hanzo makes with five arrows. They are made to be strung up in rapid succession, in pair with how fast Mccree can shoot a a six chamber gun. Which says enough about how fast Hanzo strings his bow up, this is not counting for the fact that he needs to account for target movement and his body placement when he takes shots.  It should be noted, part of me writes this possible by his sheer skill, but also the dragon nature that resides in part of him. The dragon sprits I believe help him with this given moment because it is no way possible to string an arrow as fast he does, it’s just unreal how fast the time takes. The dragon more or less lend to him, it does not drain him like their power does when he calls upon them. Projectile speed:110 meters per second Rate of fire:1 shot per 0.3 seconds (3.33 shots per second) Ammo:5 Sonic Arrow: Hanzo launches an arrow that contains a sonar tracking device. Any enemy within its detection radius is visibly marked, making them easier for Hanzo and his allies to hunt down, it also makes them more likely to be marked by a dragonstrike which we’ll talk about in a moment.  Area of effect:9 meter radius Dragon-strike: Hanzo will, after a short cast time, fire a special arrow that creates a pair of spiraling twin dragons that will fly straight forwards in the direction of his crosshairs. These dragons will pass through all solid surfaces or barriers, dealing damage over time to any enemies that come in contact with them. The closer an enemy is to the center of the twin dragons, the more damage they will take.   This being said, this attack is drawn from the spirit dragons that take host also in his body. This fact being said, this attack is not used often. It is costly to my muse, and it has unwanted effects such as being completely drained, and it knock him out if he’s injured if he uses it. It is an extremely lethal attack, that if you see it chances are you are not going to survive it if you are on the other side of it. The only one that can deflect this attack is Genji because he possesses something that is like it.  It is lethal, Hanzo can kill you, don’t test him to this point, if you’ve made it to the point where he attacks you like this, he really really hates you. This attack tends to be a last resort if he’s in danger of dying most of the time or there is no other option for an escape. 

There's a wound that seeps into you. There's one that runs deeper than any blade that you've picked up. The fights that you have with your brother leave wounds that no one can patch. Every word from him is another scar and you know it. Bitter are the wars between brothers. Even if you had taken your own blade to some of the elders it does not stop the wound that Genji had caused. The elders had so little faith in him existing or doing anything that mattered. Your lips are in a thin line. You are sitting within a teahouse and Riko is someone with more bite than you remembered. You had known his brother but when circumstances had risen, things had become complicated. You look him in the eyes. "Death before dishonor." it's a bitter statement from your tongue. You would chose death rather than lose the honor you have. You would never bury that fact. But you let your fingers curl around the tea glass. "Learning to live when you thought you were going to die is hard isn't it?" it's a question that strikes a nerve. Hanzo knows. You know how things operate. You don't just walk away from yakuza, you can try but it ends in death or worse. "Did your brother leave a gaping wound when you fell into pieces or was him throwing you to us a way of condemning your worth?" Hanzo knows how he can be. Words cut deeper than knives. "Was it pride that burned you? You strived for worth and it nearly got you a bullet didn't it?" You take a sip of a tea. Even if he made a threat of violence he would be under you in seconds. You know how to fight better than he does. You have more experience with that. Petty bawls were not the same as murder. "When are you going to let go of your pride and arrogance?"

Cracks knuckles. So I’ve had some conversations about the Shimada brothers and let me tell you, their relationship is not a happy one.  There’s a lot I’ve talked about on the end of things, that when it stems down to it, from the moment Hanzo was born he was being raised to become who his father was.    And it’s important to bare this in mind because of how the layouts of the yakuza are as a whole. Hanzo has a very fractured relationship with Genji, when they were kids things were less strained up until the point Hanzo started to be around his father a lot more. I headcanon as it is that neither of their boys really saw their mother after they began to walk and speak, but that’s important to note, because it sets the basis to how they were raised. Yes they were brothers, yes Genji is Hanzo’s younger sibling, but the time he spent with him was not a lot. He was raised to serve the clan, the purpose, and mostly, Hanzo was buried in the studies of the clan, and following his father and his footsteps. Which leads to a lot of nasty strains in he and Genji’s relationship, because of favoritism towards Hanzo not to mention the breakdown of how Genji is compared to Hanzo as a whole. If you think of the brothers as the ying and yang or even two sides of the same coin, you realize Hanzo is the caged bird, and not the free spirit. He’s trapped, told what to do at a very young age and doesn’t go against it and I like to believe it’s also because he likes to have that pride on pleasing his father other than it being a matter of honor.    I can promise you that Genji and Hanzo’s sparring and fighting, it was an outlet for spiked tensions between the brothers before it got really bad. I say this because the time spent between the two of them was not a lot as Hanzo grew older. As he got older, the hold on him got stronger, given worse when his father’s health declined and the elders made him pretty much draw away from his brother completely because Genji was more outspoken and out there than Hanzo was. They did not like Genji.    And the thing with that is, when Hanzo has to kill his brother, the moment he does that, he loses whatever was guiding him, because the purpose to the clan has been made. Because they were raising to do this all along, and what’s shattering about this, is the fact once Genji ends up gone, Hanzo loses a vital part of himself because nothing is the same after his death, it shatters a part of him that was in chains.    And it’s extremely important that even though the brothers have a violent cycle, the pair of them eventually still know they’re family. It’s a huge thing to note that in the dragon short, that Hanzo was ready to die by his brothers hand, he has lost sight of why he is living after Genji’s death because the clan’s ideals changed for him after he was asked to murder his brother.    You are completely wrong to thing that it didn’t affect Hanzo It affected him in a way that was not outright said, it took time for it to effect him and at the end of everything, he slaughtered the ones that had caused him to do it. His grief was anger at the elders that caused him to do this, and it left a bitter taste in his mouth afterwards because Hanzo doesn’t know how to forgive himself for what he’s done.   If they had been closer he often thinks, maybe that wouldn’t have happened, they both would have escaped without the bloodshed, but Hanzo was to far in chains, too far gone in the clan’s purpose to be saved, and did Genji try to reason with him, perhpa.   But he was already gone and just a shell when it was tried. 

  I think it’s really important to note, that Hanzo hit his breaking point after the death of Genji. It stems from the focus point of being raised into an environment that you are trained to kill at a young age, taught ideals and a certain way of life. You are groomed to become the head of a purpose that should have never been placed onto a child but it was. The understanding of this is important because, Hanzo had a huge lack of freedom, even if it seemed like he did growing up.   you have to keep in mind that the way he was raised was controlled from the moment he could walk and talk, yes he was a prodigy but the they used that for the purposes of the clan.  he was given freedom in controlled settings, and it was always made to be that he didn’t stray off the purposes that his father gave him and the elders had given him ( after the death of his father)/  Post his fight with Genji, you lose that purpose. you lose that drive. there’s nothing left that they want because he’s become what they want. the problem with this is, it also snaps the chains that held onto hanzo. i say this because with the death pf genji, he is no longer striving to meet their demands or meet a task they want. there is nothing left, which leads to a huge breakdown of hanzo.    Because he begins to realize this was not what he wanted. That there is a huge amount of guilt that follows in the wake of Genji’s death, and a taste in his mouth that leaves him struggling with the objective of living. Hanzo a month after his brother’s death, becomes desensitized. He loses the purpose of living, and those bitter emotions, those nasty emotions begin to surface.     It would be a bullshitted lie, if someone said Hanzo wasn’t struggling with a heavy-set depression after the death of Genji. And I’m saying this, but at the same time, despite being numb to the core, he forces himself to do things, while realizing at the same time, the ideals that the elders have, are no longer the ones he is holding with his hands. that over time, he is less and less inclined to agree with what they want, and the tips of freedom he should have had as a child emerge because they are no longer breathing down his back when he is working.    which leads me to say, hanzo murders some of them in the wake of him leaving the shimada clan as a whole, and it’s not a pretty thing either. it’s one of those things that is a slow burnt rage that isn’t quite placed, combined with a grief that could have been avoided. hanzo struggles a lot mentally with surviving after genji’s death. he is not the best person, and his conversations often are to the point and not long.   on the topic of the dragons short, which takes place years later.  hanzo still is a mess. he goes back to that place to try to make amends with himself, to try to kill to guilt, to try to kill the feelings that he has. it should be said, he hasn’t done a lot of right in his life, but when we see him there, we see someone that is haunted by his past, that has not learned to let go. and the fact of the matter is, he was ready to die, he was ready for it. but the moment, genji chooses not to and calls him brother, and how he reacts, says a lot. there is also something deep lasting in this short because of the fact, he finds out genji is alive, and while it doesn’t change what he’s done, genji has forgiven him which is a start of a healing process for hanzo as a whole. but let me tell you, it takes a long time for him to figure out what makes him happy, and a purpose to why he wants to live, and not just survive

Do you ever just get sad knowing the fact there is so much wrong with this given statement, not to mention, it shows how hard that Hanzo tried to meet a level of expectations that was never really going to ever end, I don’t think for a second that Hanzo’s father was ever really proud of him, even with his passing and dying, I don’t think he was ever truly happy with Hanzo. And this conversation just makes things worse, because you have to wonder if he and Genji had a bad fight with words, even when killing one another, I think the weight that Hanzo carries is massive, and we only see bits of it, and it’s masked by him wanting to reclaim honor, and it’s just really heartbreaking at the end of the day frankly

After they have their sake, the group moves to a bathhouse where they show off their elaborate tattoos, usually freaking out any normal people who are also there. Then they finally let loose, celebrating the new family bond with an outrageous feast.