Contents 1 General Information 2 Personality 3 Fighting Style 4 Relationships

General Information Edit

Name: Shinobu Jacobs
(headcanoned) Birthday: September 14
Age: (NMH1) 18 (NMH2) 21
Fandom: No More Heroes
Canon Timeline: As of 07-08-2009, post-game

Cause: On the day of the Tanabata wish plot when Shinobu mistook six people as her father's murderer, Travis Touchdown knocked her unconscious via anticlimactic headbutt during their fight. She woke up the next day, after saving him from Jeane.

Loss: Ability to hold any bladed object that can be used like a sword. If she tries to hold one, it'll fly out of her hands. She discovered her loss is still in full effect even if she wears gloves.

Note on her loss: She still carries her sword Three Girl Rhumba's around, but it's sheathed at all times. She uses it more as a blunt force weapon if anything because there's no way she'd ever go without it, loss be damned.

Room: 1404
Character Journal: seasonofsamurai

Concrit Post: How's my driving?

Theme Song: "Season of the Samurai"

Background The bullet point version, because I can't synthesize her backstory in proper paragraphs. Note this is a crapload of headcanon because the game doesn't expand on her character history.  Hopefully Desperate Struggle doesn't screw me over too much when it comes out.  orz

• Born, raised, lived in Santa Destroy, California, USA all her life.
• Only child to "Master" and Wanda Jacobs.
• Father inherited a small, struggling dojo from his father and financed it through his day job as a businessman.
• He shot some low-budget kendou (Japanese sword fighting) instructional videos (think camcorder on a tripod), then rented and sold them out through Beef Head Videos and other nearby video stores, provided the Jacobs got part of the earnings.
• Videos were a hit. They eventually attracted the attention of a production company, and they struck a deal to remake the originals and produce more tapes. Master Jacobs' success only skyrocketed. Eventually, he didn't need to work his day job and concentrated on teaching at the dojo, which enjoyed increased membership, and putting out more videos on a wider market scale.
• Somewhere down the line, one Travis Touchdown started collecting and practicing off these videos.
• The Jacobs family became very popular with the patriarch's rising fame. Who's to say how many of those people could honestly be called friends? Money and glory have a lot of influence. But Scarlet didn't realize this right away. All the kids in school and the neighborhood liked her, and playing with them was fun. As far as she knew, they were nice people.
• She trained with her father since about preschool. She didn't use a live steel blade until she was about ten, however.
• She was clearly a Daddy's Girl. Not that she didn't care for her mother, but she spent so much time with her father it was hard not to develop that special father/daughter relationship. She looked up to him, learned everything she knows and values even now. Basically: Honor is everything.
• Her father gave her the moniker "Shinobu," which they only used in training. It means either "to recall" or "to endure."
• Three Girl Rhumba's Sword was Master Jacobs' blade. He hoped to pass it down to Scarlet on her eighteenth birthday. She would receive it five years too soon.
• She found him after school one day in two pieces at the hands of a shadowed man with a beam katana. Her father's blood and entrails stained the living room.
• She didn't get a good look at the killer. She was too horrified by her father's mutilated corpse, and the sneaky bastard got away before she could see him properly. She still doesn't know who the killer is to this day.
• Wanda was at work when she got the police call. She immediately took the day off to be with her daughter and mourn her husband's death.
• Investigations revealed nothing about the killer's identity or motivation. But this was Santa Destroy, the murder capital of the world. Unless you were immediately related to a death, no one really cared to look into murder cases anymore.
• The Jacobs fortune was enough to support Wanda and Scarlet, but the matriarch was tasked with managing his properties and assets. Between her job and minding business, mother and daughter spent increasingly less time together.
• Or maybe it was conscious decision on both ends. Scarlet reminded Wanda too much of her husband, and the young teenager was losing trust in people and becoming wary of getting too close anymore.
• For the most part Scarlet kept to herself since then. Any of her "friends" could turn around and stab her in the back. The only person she could completely trust was herself. Her one constant companion? Three Girl Rhumba's Sword.
• When she was about sixteen, though, she begrudgingly let one boy through her defenses. His name isn't important anymore. He was an annoying bugger, really. But something about his persistence endeared her, and they got close.
• Until her tried to kill her, that is. Something about her supposedly being in some UAA thing, and his drive to rank Number One. In defending herself, she ended up offing him. As panicked and shocked she was by the incident, something felt right about playing God with her sword.
• That's when Sylvia Christel came into the scene. She explained to Scarlet that the United Assassins Association was an organization of sorts of killers aiming to be the Number One ranked assassin. Why the boy thought Scarlet was in the UAA, who knew? Maybe he was just an idiot.
• Scarlet didn't see what else this UAA shit had to do with her. Sylvia offered membership as a way to possibly find her father's murderer. "I can help you get even."
• So she took the opportunity. With the boy's death, she assumed his Number Nineteen rank and officially became the assassin Shinobu.
• Hiding her double life was difficult. The UAA wasn't cheap, and Shinobu wasn't going to dip into her savings account to pay entrance fees and tip off her mother. Instead, she took on several odd jobs to earn the money, and it took time to get it between school, home, and work. She also had to make sure anyone privy to her profession stayed silent -- permanently.
• By eighteen, she made Number Eight, and some guy named Travis Touchdown wanted her spot. Everything was fine, until he whipped out the beam katana. At last, she could finally exact her revenge on the bastard that killed her father.
• Too bad he beat her. Oh, and wasn't actually Master Jacobs' killer. Remember how he collected all of the master's tapes? He idolized the man and saw him as a mentor. Like hell he'd ever want to kill him. Or Shinobu, as much as she begged him to kill her honorably. He did offer her a rematch, though. "I'll fight you anytime, anywhere. Until then, I'll be waiting."
• Just after that, Shinobu found herself in Paradisa castle, room 1404. Somehow.

Personality Edit

Probably Shinobu’s most marked characteristic is her suspecting calm. Much of her life is cloaked in secrecy, only showing people what’s on the surface until she’s about to kill them. She lets few people know she’s an assassin and will go to whatever lengths necessary to keep that under wraps, even killing some classmates who overheard her and Travis Touchdown’s discussion about a rankings fight.

While she maintains an air of poise around people she’s wary of, Shinobu appears somewhat distrusting of people. She keeps a steady guard up in case someone might try to uncover her secrets or attack her. She also seems suspicious of people’s motives, especially when they don’t act the way she expects them. She prefers to be in control of given situations, and the moment she loses it her composure thoroughly shatters. She’ll shout protests and orders with a childlike derision or panic revealing her to be a young woman likely forced to grow up faster than her years to assume an adult’s morally gray mission.

The death of her father Master Jacobs undoubtedly caused Shinobu to develop into the guarded, honor-bound individual she is. Travis teases her throughout their rendezvous for her insistence in samurai bushido code, namely fighting for vengeance and demanding he preserve what honor she has left from losing by killing her, which he doesn’t actually do. Despite this dishonor, she later saves him in his battle against Jeane. This action further suggests Shinobu’s belief in paying back what is deserved.

Yet Shinobu is not without her small share of snark. Though she’s usually straightforward in conversation, her signature taunt asks, “What’s that in your hand, a toy?” She’s not the sarcastic type, so more than anything she probably uses such snide remarks to demonstrate having or at least thinking she has the upper hand and control of the game.

Overall, Shinobu is a solemn teenaged girl with a strict code of conduct. Though she’s not without her suspicions and occasional sensitivity, her eighteen years and schoolgirl appearance betray her true strength, agility, and composure. Both the Santa Destroy student and the bloodthirsty ranked assassin, Shinobu carries out a controlled balancing act of a life she wears with collected cool. The moment you get on her bad side, though, be prepared to eat steel.

When In Paradisa

It's been about a year since she first arrived in Paradisa.  She'll never be fond of the place, despite some of its perks -- thinking of things and getting them from the castle ghosts, the Four Seasons Room, to name a couple.  She likes to believe she can deal with whatever the castle throws at them well enough, but it can still surprise her, and she hates that.  She'd be damned before admitting her stay has changed her in some ways, though.  While she prefers to keep her guard up around people, she's not as closed off as she used to be.  She enjoys certain people's company at arm's length, treating them to her brand of teasing and snark and coming to their aid if they so need.  No one but Travis and Bad Girl know about her being an assassin, and she plans to keep it that way even if the castle has seen much worse sorts of people come through its doors.  That bit of secrecy is hard to let go of when she's maintained it for the past few years.  She hasn't really told anyone about her loss either, considering it a point of weakness someone could exploit.  She doesn't like anyone seeing weakness in her.  Anyone who has fought alongside or against her has probably noticed she never draws her blade, which is strange for someone who prides herself a swordswoman.  Should the question arise, she'll give them an excuse like how she wants to see how well she can fight before she needs to draw her sword.

Shinobu has made a decent amount of friends acquaintances, but given the possibility of leaving Paradisa, she'd likely take it.  She still has to find her father's killer, and she can't do that while she's here.

Fighting Style Edit

...is slightly a moot point considering her loss, but is still informative all the same. Basics until I bother to take the time to think this through are that she's mainly a mid-range fighter, she can shoot slices of sonic energy from her sword Three Girls Rhumba, she's fairly gymnastic, and she evades pretty well by dashing around her opponent and flipping off of walls and pillars. Have yourself a YouTube demonstration on her combat style.

Relationships Edit

Canon

• Master Jacobs: Both her father and her teacher. He was an elite swordsman, put out instructional videos, and taught her about the art of the sword and the meaning of honor. Until some sick bastard with a beam katana sliced him in two. Since then, Shinobu made it her mission to avenge him and hunt down his killer.
  
• Travis Touchdown: Defeated her in their rankings fight and opted to spare her, despite her demands he kill her. Shinobu saw his beam katana and assumed he murdered her father. He actually never met Master Jacobs and looked up to him so much he wore out his tapes. Since her canon bump had her pay off her debt to Travis, she's not really angry at him anymore. She's not above snarking with him, but it's out of mutual respect for a former opponent and kind of sort of friend.
  
• Jeane: That crazy bitch that would've offed Travis if Shinobu hadn't been a Big Damn Hero. Oh yeah, she knows who you are now.
  
• Henry: Okay, so even with the canon bump she doesn't know about this dude having a beam katana like Travis's and being a general bastard. Come to think of it, though, he kind of fits the description of her father's killer pretty well. Shinobu might want to have a few words with the sick fucker.
  
• Bad Girl: They never met before Paradisa, but they figured out quickly the other woman was also a UAA-ranked assassin. Shinobu thinks Bad Girl's pretty whack, indelicate, and kind of uncouth, but at least she doesn't have to hide as much from the batshit sweet lolita cosplayer. That'd probably make them acquaintances of some sort.
  
• Holly Summers: Shinobu never met her before Paradisa either, but for the short time Holly was around they connected over Travis not being able to off either of them. She seemed collected and calculating, kind of cold, but it takes a degree of emotional distance to be in their line of work.
  
  

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