Knight Titan belongs to Sailor_Mimas
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Botan Uehara / Knight Titan
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:Mission:
Many generations ago the Sol System looked very different, including two other giant planets lurking amongst what would become the Asteroid Belt. These were Echidna and Typhon and its senshi were corrupted by Chaos. The ancient Sol Senshi, led by their ancestors, Sailor Blue Moon and Sailor Gaia Earth, could neither heal nor destroy them. All they could do was seal their corrupted starseeds deep in the Earth. Although their spirits slumbered through the ages, their restless souls caused the world to tremble, throwing off the balance of Earth’s Energy Lines.
Sailor Moon is almost twenty one and she knows this is her final challenge before she ascends the throne of Crystal Tokyo. She, Mamoru and the senshi must remain in Tokyo, maintaining what will be the Tokyo Crystal Points fighting to keep Earth’s Energy Lines from breaking free.
But someone must travel deep into the unearthly realm of Tartarus to quell Echidna and Typhon.
Luckily the Satellite Senshi have awakened in their time of need! Sailor Saturn, now sixteen, must lead these rookies and leave the sunlight behind. Together they will arise as Guardians of the Solar System!
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Civilian Form
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:Name & Meaning:
The name Botan means Peony, a nickname Daichi uses to tease him, but it uses the kanji 牡丹 that mean ‘bull’ and ‘red clay’. Uehara means 'divine plan'.
:Age & Birthday:
His birthday is May 28th, making him a Gemini. He’s 14 and is in the same eighth grade class at Mugan Academy with Hotaru and Sora.
:Appearance:
Although they are almost twins in appearance, you’d never know it standing side by side. Botan’s chestnut hair can go days without brushing or even being washed if he’s not reminded by Daichi. He certainly doesn’t adhere to Daichi’s strictly scheduled hair cuts and is more than likely to take the closest pair of scissors to it.
His clothes are dishevelled but thanks to Mugan Academy’s laundry service they don’t smell like gym shorts. He’s the guy who sits around in his pjs until the last minute and in his freetime lives in sweatpants, sports jerseys and graphic t-shirts to the displeasure of his brother.
:Personality:
Beneath a lazy grin and sloppy personality beats a fiery heart of passion. Mugan Academy constantly expects perfection and he rebels against it by not caring about society's expectations. Unfortunately while he doesn’t care about others, he does care about his brother so will do enough just to keep him happy.
Secretly, Botan never wanted to leave Wakayama. He liked the slow, quiet life with nothing but him and his brother’s imagination. The city is cramped, loud and way too dull. He hates people telling him what to do and schedules are like prison time. He mutinies in small ways; barely being on time, wearing his uniform in rumpled disregard, making goofy jokes and puns and smirking when he can’t answer a teacher’s question. He’s always on the cusp of being kicked out of school but Principal Igarashi knows to lose one brother is to lose the other.
But when they venture into Tartarus all that pent up boredom is unleashed! He gets to be the champion he always daydreamed he could be! He’s the team’s muscle, imbued with uncanny strength and can do a lot of damage when he swings wild with reckless abandon! He will Leroy-Jenkins himself into any battle and is constantly needing to be saved by the rest of the team. He plays it off as being the comic relief of but beats himself up when no one is looking.
More than anything he wants to be someone’s hero. He wants someone to look at him with adoration and admiration, to love him for who he is.
:Likes:
Botan wears his heart on his sleeve, loudly obsessing like the fanboy he is. He’s obsessed with J-Pop, and a new waifu each week, learning the dances, gushing over costumes and memorising their bright cheerful songs.
One of the hardest things to adapt to Mugan Academy’s bland, healthy cafeteria food. Even their Aunt’s food had more flavour and variety. At every opportunity he spends his pocket money on sugary candy, sodapop and potato chips in the weirdest flavours imaginable.
He also looks forward to eating noodles with Daichi at Tengoku Noodles, but while his brother has the same thing every time, Botan challenges Chef Yudai to surprise him. Variety is the spice of life!
:Dislikes:
Studying anything is the world’s biggest drag and it's no secret that Daichi drags across the finish line for every passing grade. Anything that requires studying dates, times or maths, Botan will immediately be shoved to the side for the closest distraction.
He also hates when Daichi calls him Peony to get a rise out of him. Nothing will make him lash out like his brother’s condescending use of his mother’s pet name for him.
:Hobbies:
In order to follow his brother to Mugan Academy he had to earn a scholarship. Fortunately he’s the endurance of an albatross, able to lazily coast at a jogging pace for hours. Most afternoons he plugs in his favourite JPop band and will circle the school’s 800m track until light leaves the sky. It's as Zen as his excited brain gets.
His favourite pastime is hunting down weird flavours of candy and potato chips to share with his friends. He is obsessed with special release flavours and keeps a photo album filled with his favourite snackwrappers. It's the one thing the city can offer him that his isolated hometown can’t. On the weekend he pairs his hobby of stuffing face with hero movies. Action, fantasy, scifi, but his favourites are Shaw Brothers martial arts films and Marvel movies!
:Sexual Orientation:
Despite his breezy exterior Botan is a hopeless romantic. He spent his childhood watching brave and daring heroes save the girl, rescue the damsel and be rewarded with their red string soulmate, so when he actually becomes a knight in white shining armour why shouldn’t the girls fall at his feet? He’s not even picky! Guys, girls, just someone to love!
He was initially besotted by Sora, he realised she didn’t see him the same way. Vowing only to give his heart to his J-Pop waifus, could he ever give his heart again?
:Background:
The brothers were not born in Tokyo, raised in the tiny rural village of Koyagawa of the Wakayama Prefecture. They lived in a state of genkai shuraku, a once vivid life atrophied after the coal mines closed. It saw no modernisation, no utilities, no internet. It was merely a dot on the mountain highlands on the way to somewhere else.
They lived with their grandparents, mother and father who ran the convenience store by the turnpike, and their mother helped out at the school where a handful of children played. They loved it. They spent their childhood playing in mountain streams, hunting for mushrooms and wandering freely. Occasionally their parents would take them camping high into the mountains and teach them how to live self-sufficiently.
However one day, when he was nine and Daichi eleven, heavy rains stranded them at a friend's house and everything changed in a mudslide. They were rescued, but much of their village gone and their family’s convenience store buried beneath the sludge and stone.
Their family’s lone survivors, they moved in with their mother’s brother who lived on the other side of the mountain in another genkai shuraku. They weren’t neglected, they were two more mouths to feed in a family of four with another set of twins to be born soon. The boys lived their lives when they were thirteen a strange tutor from Tokyo’s Mugan Academy visited their school. They complimented the boys' rugged, growing bodies and assured them that a sports scholarship was waiting for the purehearted.
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Relationships
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:Family:
His mother is Wakumi (spring of water) and his father Rikuto (land, heavy). They also lived with their grandparents who spoiled the boys. They died when the boys were nine and eleven, leaving them with many happy memories but also a heavy hearted awareness for what they were missing.
Although he was only nine when they were orphaned, Botan clings to his memories much more tightly. Daichi strides forward to a better future, but Botan looks back to the good times of his past.
:Friends:
Botan’s best friend is always going to be his brother, the guy who always looks after him and keeps him out of trouble. But he’s well known as an affable guy, class clown and on good terms with everyone. He’s well known within the grade to hang around the cafeteria hoping to beg for snacks and treats.
Once he was revealed as a Guardian, it gave him the perfect opportunity to woo his dream girl Sora. It made for a strange triangle with Sora’s devotion to Hotaru making her oblivious to his flirtation, and Hotaru’s determined to be as kind and loving a leader as Sailor Moon.
:Rivals:
Botan is too carefree to have a rival. He too, is his own worst enemy with his slacker attitude.
:Love Interests:
Sora and Botan bonded over myths and heroes and he thought she was his perfect princess to his knight in shining armour. But then he realised she didn’t want to be a rescued damsel, but a knight to protect her princess and reluctantly gave up the dream.
It was then on a mission on Tatarus they stumbled on a prison where many who betrayed the Golden Kingdom were trapped. One of these was Arke, sister of the Sailor Iris. Manipulating her jealousy, she was tricked into being a double agent and as punishment the Golden Kingdom tore away her wings, caging her so she could not fly again.
Arke was not grateful to the Saturn Senshi for releasing her. In fact once she saw they possessed the Gilt Key which would return them to the Golden Kingdom, she saw her freedom. Despite her constant lies, tricks and sabotage to get the key, Botan sees beneath the hurt and betrayal to the soft and vulnerable heart beneath.
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Guardian Form
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:Name:
Knight Titan, Guardian of Molten Earth and Magma
:Guardian Starseed:
Botan is the incarnation of Saturn's moon, Titan. Long ago it was barely civilised because of its seismic instability. Its surface is constantly rocked by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Its few stable land masses are crowded with citizens proud of their ability to survive harsh conditions.
:Realm of Influence:
Titan draws his powers for the incredible power that drives tectonic plates; the quaking earth, the boiling magma and pressures that build and build and unleash without warning.
:Awakening:
Botan finally nagged his brother into upholding his promise of celebration ramen at Tengoku when he did well on a popquiz. As they strolled through the twilight evening, they passed Hotaru and Sora peering into a tourist window filled with charms and statues carved in jade. As they drew closer they hear Sora explaining the story of the giant marble minotaur statue outside the door, a half bull half human monstrosity born from the greed of King Minos.
Botan listened eagerly before reluctantly following his brother but almost immediately they rushed towards the screams. The statue grows, glowing with fiery molten cracks smashing its way through the stalls. Botan sees it on a warpath and roars. “No way! I’m getting my noodles! I studied! I worked hard! You won’t stop me!” He welled with energy, transforming into Knight Titan and attacked. He forced the minotaur to his knees but took a crushing blow.
To protect his brother, Daichi followed suit and transformed into Knight Tethys. Together they tagteam the Minotaur, exploding it into flaming shrapnel. As they look up, they see the silhouettes of Sailor Saturn and Sailor Mimas on a rooftop giving quiet applause. Sailor Saturn used her resurrection powers to restore the street and offered them dinner to explain their destinies.
:Past Life:
Not one but two starseeds were born to a noble Saturn family. His surprise legacy meant he was always standing in his mature brother’s shadow. While his brother dedicated himself to his duty, Titan was more interested in making a name for himself and catching the eye of Queen Serenity. He was well known for diving into trouble only for Saturn’s other Guardians to save him.
He always thought his duty of respecting the sleeping Princess Saturn was a dull time waster. When he heard of Princess Serenity’s Cotillion Ball it seemed like the perfect chance to present himself at Court. If he could prove himself to Queen Serenity they would make him one of the Inner protectors and could win prestige and renown he deserved rather than sit around doing nothing.
When the Dark Kingdom attacked Knight Titan fought until his last breath but it wasn’t enough. In the wake of the Silver Millenium’s destruction awoke the one he was sworn to protect, the Messiah of Death and Rebirth, Sailor Saturn’s Glaive fell and all he knew perished in the blink of an eye.
:Guardian Animal:
The team is led by the psychopomp sparrow, Athana, through the dying lands of Tartarus. However in their travels they are met by a two headed dog guarding giant golden cattle and responding to the names Orthus and Amydros, names meaning shade and gloom. It followed them deeper into the depths, helping Athana with their keen sense of smell.
The dogs resemble shoulder high black shepherds with orange eyebrows, chest and thick fluffy tail tip that looks like a flaming torch. Orthus seems silly, constantly grinning and panting and always has something in his mouth ready to play, and Amydros seems serious, his nose down and pushing the group forward towards their goal. The similarities of the pups and brothers are not lost on the team.
:Allies/Team Mates:
Hotaru Tomoe aka Sailor Saturn
Titan doesn’t remember his past, hasn’t remembered his betrayal and Hotaru won’t tell him as she knows how much he values being a hero. He’s constantly trying to impress her with feats of strength and bravery. Even when Sora’s feelings for Hotaru were made known, he didn’t hold it against her. Even when the whole team is angry at him for trusting Arke, Hotaru who understands the seed of corruption better than anyone encourages him to help her find redemption.
Daichi Uehara aka Knight Tethys
Daichi is his older, nagging brother who constantly gets him out of scrapes even though Botan never asked for help! He loves his brother, but he wishes Daichi would just relax, give him a chance to fail- and succeed- on his own merit.
Sora Yoru aka Sailor Mimas
Sora was supposed to be his perfect princess. She’s quiet spoken, elegant, demure and loves reading stories. As much as he tried to impress her, make her laugh and win her love it was never meant to be. While he hides his feelings of rejections, he does realise how lucky he is to have a friend as loyal as Sora. They still share movie-night and cheer on their favourite stars.
Machiko Goto aka Sailor Dione
It is so much fun to tease Machiko! She’s stuffy and prissy and her condescending tone, alongside Tethys drives him crazy so it's only right he returns the favour. These two at each other's throats constantly slow down the mission.
:Henshin Token:
Botan’s token is a golden circular locket, a medallion kept on a bracelet, glossed with a dark maroon plate and embedded with the symbol of Titan. He’s proud of his so he will wear it like a necklace, flash it nonchalantly, heeeaayy, how about that Knight Titan, he’s so cool! What do you think? Everyone tells him he’s going to lose it if he’s not careful.
:Henshin Phrase:
Titan Saturn Power!
:Henshin Sequence:
Botan tosses the medallion into the air and shouts “Titan Saturn Power!” From the locket pours a glowing molten lava, bright orange and maroon lines gleaming through a cracked, black shell. It flows across his arms and legs forming into black sleeves and pants. The lava around his waist glows white hot, forging his hip guards. It cools and darkens around his chest, cracking open to reveal his pearl white armour, shoulderguards and rust coloured jewel. As he spins around the candescent lava spills down his shoulders forming his cape, with his poleaxe, Aitnaîos Axe ready to fight.
:Symbol:
:Guardian Challenge:
Protector of Saturn, I am the herculean/hunky/manly/stalwart Guardian of Titan! I will crush you into the dust!
He likes to change it up!
:Guardian Fuku:
The male guardian fuku is much akin to Mamoru’s armour. Titan bears a pearly white chest plate, trimmed in silver with angular shoulder guards. At the centre of his chest is a polished oval jewel of deep ruby that pulses like lava. His body suit is jet with maroon cuffs and shin guards also adorned in silver. Billowing behind him his cape of silky scarlet and an inky black inner lining. Hiding his face is a maroon mask, white eyes and rust red metal wings sweep behind his ears and along his cheekbones.
:Starseed Talisman:
Titan swings the mighty poleaxe Aitnaîos Axe, named after Hephaestos’s forge. While a bladed weapon, his earth shattering blows have as much grace and poise as a club.
:Attacks:
Titan Scorching Slag
Grabbing at the earth, he holds massive chunks and turns them into dripping, burning slags of magma. He winds up like a baseball pitch and hurls it at the enemy.
Titan Obsidian Obelisk
Titan crosses his arms and jumps, flinging his arms out and landing heavily with both feet, causing the earth to crack open beneath the enemy. Lava leaps up and hardens into bladelike black spires that trap the enemy.
Titan Volcanic Cascade
Titan stabs the haft of the Aitnaîos Axe into the earth. Spreading from the hilt is an earth mound like a tunnelling mole. It grows and grows until it looks like a mountain range. Like a chain reaction several peaks erupt like volcanic geysers spewing noxious fumes and molten lava.
Titan Seismic Fissure
His ultimate attack, he swings his axe hard and heavy, plunging the mighty blade into the earth which splits and cracks, opening vast, black chasms beneath the enemy and when they fall in he yanks the axe free. The earth closes as if the cracks never were. It is an attack just as likely to affect his allies as his enemy.
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Miscellaneous
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:Inspirations:
:Soundtrack:
When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars
Out of Reach by Gabrielle
:Fanfiction:
:Website:
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