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Indie Date Masamune from Nioh |Historical based|

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Kyoto by echoftourthree

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by AJ Brustein

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Kamakura, Japan.

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.Mun is sick. Will try to get to things in a timely manner over the next few days.

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lordazure:

The Devil said the man’s name out loud. “Date Masamune? Going base on your name. I must be in Japan?” He was looking very confused with this new information. “A clan? Oshu? Okay, I’m not in America anymore. Well, I don’t really think you will believe me, but I’m the Devil. But I do know people are much more open minded since its 20XX. Wait, I speak of a mad man? But, I’m not mad!?”

Once he was grab by the two men. “Oh! You guys are pretty warm!” He let out a happy squeak, and well started to rub his face against one of Date’s men. “Please keep me warm okay?~” He let out a laugh.

He didn’t seem to fight or struggle and allow himself to be carried to what ever location Masamune had in mine. Azure was a talker since he realized he had to be in Japan. “Oh! Can we have some Japanese Curry? Oh! Oh! A Mochi!? We can’t get Mochi in America crazy right? Oh! Oh!”

Masamune looked at him, clearly no amusement was written on his face. Clearly annoyed and not knowing remotely what this person was talking about. 『 The year is 1610, and no your not in whatever this America is. I do not understand half the things your talking about. For now be quiet till your asked to speak 』A huff followed after he finished his statement.

Dragging Azure back to the castle and putting him in a cell. It was made of wood and he hopped it would hold the stranger. His arms crossed as he looked down to the other. He did nothing but ramble and ramble. 『 State your name and why you are here. Who sent you? If your good maybe I will give you some mochi. 』For now Masamune would take his word on being the Devil. He had a lot of power to do what he did in the woods and live through it. But if he had too, Masamune would use force from his dragon to make him talk and force the truth.

Unfortunately for Azure, the cell was all most just as cold as out side. Though now it was dark, Masamune and the same few men held lanterns to keep the place lit to have a watchful eye. It would be a long night of explaining and understanding from both parties.

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wxiren:

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     ◤🌸◢ ┊ ┋   外人

                    She’s been having thatdream over and over lately. She can’t ignore it anymore as it’s been on her mind most of the time now. All she’s been seeing is a man. She can’t see his face, but she can tell he’s wearing an eye patch over his right eye, and there is this unique helmet he is wearing; It has a golden crescent on top. Ah! There is also his swords! She can remember them, too.

     It is a time of war now, and she can’t worry herself much with dreams she has whenever she manages to fall asleep. It’s probably better to convince herself that it’s just a dream, nothing else—– Wait !! Is that who she thinks he is? Does her dream really carry a more important meaning than she thinks? ❛ Hey! ❜ She calls, loud enough for him to hear her, but low enough to avoid non-required attention. The country is a mess lately after all. ❛ Don’t just stand there. It’s not safe. Follow me. ❜ She can’t just throw questions at him right away. Patience is needed now.

Blood coated his armor and coat as it carefully dripped from his blades. A wave of confusion washed over him as he lowered his blades to look around. Mid battle and now the lord had no idea were he was. Buildings that towered over him and the city was bright. Few people looked at him but mostly avoided him. No one was fighting, no sounds of the metal swords, guns, war cries or dieing... All replaced with that of a busy street.

Masamune turned to look at the girl calling out for him. Unsafe? Like he held any fear no matter the situation. Still he would like to know were he was. A flick of his blades to remove most of the blood before putting them away. His crescent helm reflected all light that hit it, and he could feel a sense of being displaced so suddenly. 『 Were did my men go? 』As if she had the answers to this, he figured if she was calling out to him. Having little to know idea that it was time travel that brought him here. Masamune knew he needed to get back to the battle, little did he know that by being here they were all long gone.

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"You have a large amount of unusual visitors recently. Is it your charm?"

『 People know I am great, and know the city I built is just as great as me. 』

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lordazure:

He did hear the snow crunching all around him, but he wasn’t to concerned about the sounds. Azure’s shivering took top priority until a man’s voice started him, which he turn to meet a blade. “!?” He let out a unhuman noise, which sounded something a bat would had made. -SQUEAK!?-

He watched the blade as he stumbled on his words, “Well, you see Cluade hit me… Wait. Let me word it better.” Azure had to think fast! THIS man didn’t know who he was, nor did Azure know where he had landed.

“I was play fighting over some Mario Kart… And..” Azure slowly looked up to this powerful overlord. “WOW! You look like one those bad ass Protagonist! ” His face lighting up a bit, still shivering from the cold. “But, um. Yeah. Things got out of hand and I got super mega ultra punched here! I don’t know where I am, and my Hell-phone seems to be messed up. I’m gonna reset it.” He pressed a combination of buttons and the Strange device made a sound. -Zoom!-

“I didn’t mean to destroy your forest. I had no clue where I was going to get punch into. Ya know normal demon things. ” Azure hope that this man was a demon like himself. He was thinking about retreating if it got ugly, but with the cold weather his speed was reduced greatly.

Masamune’s intense glare looked down onto the stranger. What was he blabbering on about? Did he find this as some game? Though he did mention him self to be a demon. The comments on him looking like a protagonist and being bad ass about it, Lord Masamune was aware of how amazing he was.

『 I am Date Masamune, leader of the Date clan and ruler of Oshu. You speak of a mad man but I expect nothing more from a demon. Quit your lieing and tell me why you are really here! 』Gesturing to point his sword more against the stranger. Hell-phone? Mario Kart? What even are thoughs things anyway? No matter that was the least of his worries. Now he was to figure out who he was.

With the sun setting it turned the sky red, it would be dark within the hour and Masamune sheathed his sword. 『 We will take him for questioning. 』 With orders from their lord, two of the men walked up. Each grabbing Azure by one of his arms. Hopefully he wouldn’t struggle or try to put up a fight. He lived his landing and seemed rather unscathed, Masamune wasn’t sure how strong this demon was yet. He didn’t know him or know of any other like him. Knowing this it didn’t keep Masamune from looking down on him with his glare along with showing no fear for the situation.

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perfumednightingale:

A small smile made her way on her lips. It was the first genuine smile that she’s shown ever since she stepped on Japan. “You sound like you’re showing off your child. I still don’t trust you completely yet but I’m slowly starting to believe you. As long as you don’t lie to me, I’ll keep believing in you until I entrust you with my life.”

Letting out a sigh, she shook her head a bit. “It looks like I’ll be staying here until I can find my way back to China alone. While I’m here, might as well learn something new so that I can show them off when I go back home. First, I’ll regain my strength first then look for something new to learn. Since you’re my host, Lord Masamune, can you please recommend me on what dances and songs are mostly performed here? I’d like to watch them and see if I can add them to my repertoire.”

She laid back down on the bed, feeling weak. If she would continue to eat regularly and drink the medicine that the doctor has provided for her then she will regain back her usual self in no time at all. 

“I…don’t think I’m ready yet to know what my father was like so until I say so, can we please not talk about him? I’ve lived my life without them and I’m scared that I’ll long for them once I know more about what kind of people they are.“

Yueliang was right, in a way Masamune was showing off his child.  Opening up about Sendai seemed to do the trick. 『 I’ll honor your wish to not bring him up again till you are ready. 』A pause as he continued to listen to what she had to say and ask. Again glad that she would bring it up.  『 We have Noh theater, often played by both men and women. Noh is a musical drama that has dances called Noh Mai, women who dance where masks based on their rolls in the story. 』 Masamune him self did Taiko drumming, surely he could find songs and dances she could learn.

『 You are all the more welcome to keep up in your Chinese dances. But don’t worry about such a thing now, you should rest. I will check up on you tomorrow. 』Besides he needed to get out of his armor and take a bath. Getting up slowly he walked to the door but turned to Yueliang one last time to wish her a good night.

After changing and bathing, Masamune returned to his room. Sitting down to think on poetry to write. A wish for Sendai to prosper was what he penned on the paper before thinking about turning in for the night. It was peaceful and the warlord rested well knowing Yueliang was getting better and changing her mind about the situation.

The next morning the castle was busy and among them was Masamune. Having his meeting with his men in the hall first about up coming situations with Tokugawa and sending his ninja to check up on the rumors of demons around in Oshu. Though right now it was only and idea floating around that Hattori Hanzo would be a guest. It was odd news for the Date and the plans he had set up. 

The servant who waited on Yueliang informed Masamune after the meeting that if he wished he could check up on her. Figuring he would give her a moment he went up to see her, though his mind was else were.

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I will be gone the 12-15 so no replies.

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lordazure:

The Devil and The Dragon!!

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[ present day ] [Earth]

Two gods fighting in the sky, zooming and clashing into each other like atomic bombs. To a normal person this would be to fast to see these two powerful beings head to head. Azure had a hold of his rival, Claude and ram him into the ground destroy the concrete roads.

The innocent bystanders screaming and running in all sorts of directions. “Earthquake!!” A lady scream.

Azure growl, “It was my turn to play Mario Kart, and you went and turn it off!! I even bought us Pizza!!”

Cluade grab hold of the Devil’s arm and flip him over punching him to send Azure flying into a skyscraper. “Dork! I said you can play after we watch The Price Is Right!! It is MY Wii U after all!!”

This fight lasted around 5 minutes before Claude had enough of such a childish fight. “Azure, you like to play games so much, let me see how good you are with this one!” That being said, the god used his powers to rip space and time and throws Azure into it.

[Past]

The sky was dull from the snow falling, but a bright light flash across the sky like a falling star. It was the Devil himself! He smash into the cold hard ground, skidding breaking trees anything that was his way.

Finally enough things had stopped his movement and there he lay in the snow. “What… The… Hell…” He said weakly, and sat up as if nothing too serious had happened. “Great. It is FREEZING!!” He didn’t notice if anyone saw him or anything because he pulled out his phone. “Huh? What is wrong with my Hell-phone?” The time and location was ’???’

Daily training seemed to be going fine yet it was halted at the light and sound that shot through the sky. The impact shook the ground as he saw rows of trees being crushed in the forest. A thin layer of white snow covered the ground as snowflakes slowly trickled down from the sky and onto the earth. Only distracted for a moment before feeling the presents of a lesser Yokai try to attack but was quickly put to the ground with Masamune’s swift swords.

With his breath being scene in front him he looked to his castle as he saw a few of his men call out to him about something landing in the forest. A forest that Masamune had heavily guarded. 『 Meet me at the start of the tree line! 』He called out, flicking the blood from his blades as he sheathed them and quickly sprinted over. Rendezvousing with a few of his men as he gazed at the start of the impact. What could have done this?

『 Lord Masamune, look! 』One of the troops pointed to a human figure who was sitting up in the snow. Masamune’s eyes looked over the situation and pressed foreword. Though his men were reluctant they followed suit, in contrast to their Lord who held no fear most of them tried not to shake. 

The sound of foot steps on snow as the One-eyed Dragon of Oshu reached the side of the figure who was checking his strange device. Blades drawn with one pointed to the neck of the stranger. 『 What makes you think you can denigrate my forest? 』

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Back Home at The Rising Sun

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leaveyourhead:

They’re back. Despite having losses back at Chosen, they were back home finally. But inside resting at their home, Satsuma. The Shimazu have to attend the funeral of Hideyoshi, the shogun who died of illness. The same Shogun who have the Shimazu surrounded and surrendered then integrated into his army for the battle against the Hojo. Instead of peace, the man decided that his country under his rule wasn’t enough. He wanted world domination starting with Choguko. But that failed since they didn’t get across Chosen because of a certain Admiral from there. He fought honorably till his death.

Right now, Shimazu Toyohisa attended with his uncle, the head of his clan, Shimazu Yoshihiro along with prominent members of his clan. They were dressed in their noble attire instead of one for war. They wear their clan crest that announced their presence. Now…people are just discussing for what’s about to come in the future leaving the young pup by himself. Good. Since the time of mourning is over, he needs to get breather away from politics, diplomacy and such.

Toyohisa became dread ever since he came back. He has been let down so many times ever since the disappearance of his father, Ieshia.  While thinking of his thoughts, he bumps into someone. Immediately he apologizes,

 “Forgive me. I didn’t see you.” The young pup stated but a bit took aback when he saw the eyepatch. He didn’t know many samurai or daimyo who dons an eyepatch. But one came to mind when he heard stories about a certain warlord from the north. “Sorry if I came across rude, but I believe that you must be the famed Date Masamune.”

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The war in Korea had ended and Hideyoshi had passed, and Masamune made an effort to be there. Despite the the Lord didn’t trust Masamune and thought to even accuse him of a crime that would make him move locations. ‘Keep your friends close and enemies closer’. A saying Hideyoshi lived by as he kept Masamune on a leash at his headquarters.

Much like the others he was dressed in his formal clothes with the Date mon on his back. While lord Hideyoshi’s death was recent there was talk in what to do. His son was still to young and retainers Ishida and Tokugawa seemed to be taking actions. He couldn’t focus on the death of his Lord but rather what was to come after and that he was all ready on the loyal side to Tokugawa.

His thought’s had been interrupted when he was bumped into. His gaze looked to see Toyohisa. He had heard the Shimazu had come home and the war with Korean didn’t go over well. A short motion of his hand as if he was waving it off, 『 That I am, you must be Toyohisa of Shimazu. I heard about your clan’s efforts in Korea. 』It was a shame that the two had to meet each other under these circumstances. Masamune’s intense gaze faded as he fiddled with the paper in his kimono sleeve. It was a poem he planned on reading, though wasn’t sure sense he knew Hideyoshi didn’t like him very much. Though Masamune might say the feeling was mutual. As he tried to build Sendai to rival Kyoto, but as Hideyoshi came to rule Masamune had to let his dreams of ruling Japan slip out from his fingers. 『 Welcome home. 』

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When you get something historically inaccurate.

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.I am home and pretty damn tired. And Overwa/tch leauge starts soon and i wanna sleep so don’t expect many replies today. Hopefully tomorrow.

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Sarugakyo Gunma Japan by ogino.taro on Flickr.

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perfumednightingale:

Yueliang drank the water slowly and she was able to finish the entire cup. If she keeps up this rate of eating, she’ll be back to her normal state. Still, she has some doubts about this man. Why is he so persistent in keeping her under his wing? She doesn’t need to be protected, at least not now. Of course, she’s not a child either so she’s left puzzled why he’s insisting on making her stay in Japan.

“I’d like to know why you’d like to keep me here in Japan. Aside from keeping a promise with my father, is there any other reason? As you can see, I am not a child anymore and I have grown up in China. It’s like uprooting a flower that blooms during the winter and planting it under a sunny spot.“

Her eyes wandered to the other two remaining rice balls but she held back on wanting to eat it. 

“Lord Masamune, if I’ll stay here in Japan, what are the things that I can do here that I won’t be able to do in China?“

Masamune listened to her and honestly he could understand were she was coming from. Shifting his weight as he was sitting into a more comfortable position. 『 I have no other reason then that. Though I must admit I was expecting a young child. One maybe not younger then eight years old but no older then thirteen. It took me three years to find you as when I got the will I figured your father had just died or died a few years before. Its about four years round trip from here to Spain. You could imagine my surprise when a fully grown young woman stepped into my castle. It left me thinking with what to do. I figured I would keep you here so you wouldn’t be lost away from any sort of family. 』

That was the truth, he was expecting a child. Not an adult. Leaving Masamune well aware he couldn’t enforce a father role onto her and he wasn’t going to try.  Then she brought up another question and Masamune was excited to tell her all about his region of Japan.

A smirk on his face as he seemed rather pleased with even being asked such a thing. 『 Well I am in control of all of Oshu. I have made an effort to build many temples in the area and have made Sendai my home. Anything you want to do here in Oshu you can. Rather it be you want to enjoy walks in the forest, visit the town or anything else. I tend to focus on bringing out the beauty here. 』Culture was important to Masamune. The amount of shrines and temples and even letting Christians stay in Oshu in peace, the trades with Spain... All important to him when he wasn’t cooking or writing poetry in his spare time from war. Being full offensive in battle it was nice to be able to focus on fine arts and culture.

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.Do I dare try to watch the 1987′s TV show of Ken Watanabe as Date Masamune for icons? A lot of Koei’s art for Masamune seems to be based of that show. Though Nioh’s is a bit different. Would it stray to far off from Nioh’s version?