Tetsuo Sakizaki
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"I never learned... anything. Then, I was consumed..."
| Tetsuo Sakizaki | |
| [[Image:|200px|Tetsuo Sakizaki]] | |
| Code Name | The Shadow in the Alley, Onizaki |
| Real Name | Tetsuo Sakizaki |
| Creator(s) | Parents: Hoshizou Sakizaki, Tomoe Hiraki. Cybernetics: Various, primarily self-installed. |
| Serial Number | CLASSIFIED |
| Faction | Civilians |
| Function | Resurfaced Strider |
| Primary Specialty | Assassination, Assault |
| Secondary Specialty | Infiltration |
| IC E-Mail | 7205943@under.org |
| Divisions | Yakuza |
| Weapon | Chaos Cipher |
| Weapon Type | BLADE ENERGY |
| Buster | Black and Green |
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Character Data
Profile
Tetsuo Sakizaki was a tormented man. He was recruited from the life of a street thief into the Striders at a very young age, living to support his poor parents, and became known for his propensity to take ridiculous risks, taking the jobs that nobody would take. He worked closely with Shaun Gilmour, the two being fast friends despite their dissimilarities. It all changed August 23rd, 2209, when a simple mission of information retrieval turned out to be either a trap or was botched - a mystery which remains today. The explosion ruined his body, but Matic retrieved him, rebuilding him into a twisted cyborg, essentially blackmailing him into joining with the Red Dragons. From then on, he despised Shaun Gilmour, until mysteriously vanishing for over a year after the Red and Blue Dragons tore themselves apart. When he reappeared, he seemed to lack direction, searching for a meaning in his life by living as a mercenary, joining with the Black Dragons, and eventually settling into the Yakuza, but nothing made him happy, his life empty up until his death. He sacrificed himself against William Wiggin to save Linnea Blossom, catching his final attack with his own body and detonating the Chaos Cipher to end the monster's life.
Background
Tetsuo's background was kept a close secret, and few outside of the early Striders - and few within, for that matter - know the full story.
Tetsuo was born in 2186 in Japan, into poverty. In order to try and support his life and his family, he turned to light crime at a very young age, pickpocketing and stealing what he could to make life easier for himself and his parents. He grew up streetwise, and had a natural prediliction toward agility. His life changed for the first time in 2198, when approached by the Striders and asked if he wanted to join. Eager to find a better way to help his parents, he accepted. Tetsuo excelled, especially since was willing to take the less honorable, more high-paying jobs.
Soon after joining the Striders, Tetsuo met Shaun Gilmour, and the two became fast friends despite their differences. In 2208, Tetsuo's parents died, and this is considered the incident that set him down his current path. Tetsuo threw himself into his work with abandon, taking on missions considered to dangerous, acting almost suicidally. Gilmour tried to keep him from being stupid, but Tetsuo only saw his attempts as those of a man worried about being made to look inferior.
In the middle of 2209 was the event that completely destroyed Tetsuo's life - himself and Gilmour went on a routine mission the latter man had arranged, a simple case of information retrieval. Gilmour had no way to know that the mission was a trap until it was sprung, but he was able to get clear of the warehouse's explosion. Tetsuo, however, was too busy being angry about the lame mission to get clear, and as a result exploded.
Matic retrieved Tetsuo Sakizaki, and over his four-month coma, cybernetically rebuilt most of his body. Tetsuo woke up and was horrified by his changes - he also became solidly convinced that his life had been ruined because of Shaun Gilmour.
IC History
Tetsuo had survived since his 'upgrading' by keeping a low profile and not doing anything too incredible - as such, he remained out of the public eye for some time, and was only confirmed as still alive due to being sighted fighting Pharaoh Man when he was outed as the disguised mayor of Detroit. He has survived every major Strider conflict - siding with Matic's Red Dragon Striders out of obligation, opposing Sheena's reunification (and disappearing for over a year afterwards), and signing along with Yosho Roshi's Black Dragons upon his return.
Tetsuo left the Striders entirely, upon coming to a certain epiphany when Isamu attempted to bring him to the side of Ra Moon. Realizing that every truly bad thing that has happened to him has been because of the interference of Striders, he grew to hate the organization itself, focusing primarily on William Wiggin, the surviving protege of Matic, beginning to doubt that Gilmour was the one to cause his 'accident'. His deep-seated anger and resentment mostly turned inward, and he accepted an offer to join the Yakuza due to having "nothing better to do." He lingered with them briefly, but as Sera slipped further and further behind the scenes, he began to feel abandoned and sank once more into idle depression.
He came out of his shell once more when Jack Krauser invited Tetsuo to work directly for him, in a sort of ally position with Dr. Weil's new Neo Arcadia. Once again, he accepted, purely out of a lack of having anything else in his semblance of a life. He also returned to activity within the Yakuza, corellating directly with the re-emergence of Sera. He was never as close to her as he once was, perhaps realizing he truly meant nothing to her.
Even with his life of crime and pain, Tetsuo found some redemption in his death. On November 4th, 2220, he invaded William Wiggin's Antarctica stronghold, coincidentally along with Belenus Molony and Linnea Blossom. He and Linnea fought the twisted, T-Virus mutated Wiggin, while Belenus and Grisha had their own fight nearby. Tetsuo largely harried Wiggin until the very end, where he created an opening for Linnea with an all-or-nothing charge, voluntarily catching the monster's final attack with his body, detonating the Chaos Cipher inside Wiggin's chest.
Cybernetic Details
Head
The left side of Tetsuo's face is obviously metallic, with his right side starting past his nose appearing human down to the slightly oversized jaw. His left eye glows with a steady dull red light, while his right glows green when shadowed. He is capable of multiple modes of vision and scanning, though not to an E-Senses-class level. His left eye can be removed and viewed through remotely, and both eyes are capable of firing short energy beams.
Torso/Abdomen
Tetsuo's body is relatively empty of tricks, and appears to be a dated-looking patchwork shell with little anatomical detail, heavily scratched and scarred up. His back has thorn-like spikes along his spinal column, and apertures on the back of each shoulder blade where something appears to have been torn. Despite the old and battered looks, the shell is very sturdy.
Left Arm
Tetsuo's left arm is exoskeletal in design, with much of its machinery visible. Spiked plates start across the back of the hand and continue upward, made to catch melee weaponry. Wire launchers are contained in the knuckles, with a number of needles concealed within the fingers. The hand is covered in retractable spikes and thorns, wicked claws tipping each finger. The two most significant cybernetics in the left arm are as follows: the Snake System, which allows the arm to whip out on thin chains and extend to ten times its reach; and a heavy plasma cannon, the emitter set in the palm.
Right Arm
Tetsuo's right arm appears to be human at first glance, but it is artificial like most of his body. The arm only has two major cybernetic setups, the first of which being a sheath for the Chaos Cipher, the second being the Onigishu (False Hand of the Demon) system that allows him to generate bursts of electricity.
Right Leg
Tetsuo's right leg is the most efficient and least interesting of his cybernetic limbs, simply a functional leg, powerful enough to compensate for his weakened left leg. It can disengage from his body on a rotating joint, enabling him to suddenly spin around for unexpected Cipher strikes.
Chaos Cipher
Tetsuo's cipher was one of the most sophisticated of the blades, technologically. The blade was kept completely hidden inside a compartment on his right arm - with a single thought, the arm opened (gruesomely) and the cipher was levered into his hand. The blade telescopes out to its full length, the 'sections' expertly crafted to present what would be a seamless edge if it were not jagged on one side. A neural link between Tetsuo and the Cipher, anchored in the palm, allowed him to control the weapon's cybernetic functions perfectly and effortlessly.
The center of the Chaos Cipher was an obvious energy resevoir, the red energy within appearing to boil and seethe. Previously, the energy was primarily released in concussive explosions that could harm Tetsuo - upgrades greatly improved the cipher, but removed this functionality, for the most part. Tetsuo primarily grips the sword by the side hilt, which can move freely around the primary hilt and disconnect on a chain, giving him an extremely unpredictable style.
As revealed in his final moments, the Chaos Cipher had not completely lost its ability to explode violently, it was simply no longer finely controlled. All Ciphers seem to be capable of exploding when enough energy is charged up within them, but the Chaos Cipher has the most self-destructive payload of all of them - the final trump card for Tetsuo Sakizaki. It was this final explosion that ensured the death of William Wiggin.
Trivia/Facts
- Tetsuo was the sole witness of Matic's death at the hands of Dynamo.
- Tetsuo had an estranged son, Tatsuya Sakizaki, who served with the White Dragon Striders for a time. His current whereabouts are unknown, though he is confirmed to be alive. Tetsuo did not consider Tatsuya to be his son only because he felt he was not worthy to be a father.
- For a long time, Tetsuo refused to replace his jaw, speaking through an old, damaged voicebox and covering the ruin of his lower face and throat with his scarf. Sera forced him to upgrade to something more aesthetically pleasing, and he settled on a jaw with a few interesting weapons designed by Dr. Takeshi Shinichiro.
- The only parts of Tetsuo's body that remain organic are his left leg, brain, and parts of his internal organs.
- Tetsuo was sighted refereeing an X-Treme Pong match in the 2220 Battle and Chase games. He was highly unprofessional.
- Tetsuo never learned who was truly responsible for the explosion that ruined his body, only that Shaun Gilmour was not responsible.
Categories: Civilians | Striders | Yakuza | Asians | Dead People
