Mitsurugi Heishiro
Birthplace: Bizen, Japan
Birthdate: June 8
Age:22 (Soul Edge)
25 (Soulcalibur)
29 (Soulcalibur II - Soulcalibur IV)
46 (Soulcalibur V)
Alignment: Good (SE, SC, SCII, SCIII)
Neutral (SCIV, SCV, SCVI)
Physical Description
Gender: Male
Height: 173 cm (5'8")
Weight:71 kg(157lbs)
Blood type: AB
Weapon Information
Weapon: Katana
Weapon name: Korefuji (Soul Edge)
Shishi-Oh (Soulcalibur-Soulcalibur IV&VI)
Muichimonji (Soulcalibur V)
Fighting style: Shin Tenpu-Kosai-Ryu Kai
Relationships
Family: Parents and brothers, all taken by sickness.
Martial artist younger than him is claiming to be his eighth brother. (Soulcalibur V)
(Disclaimer since they rebooted his information this is all relatively the same so I'm going with kinda original timeline of course if I'm doing other genres it mostly changes
Biography
Heishiro was born the fourth son of a farmer in Bizen, Japan; but after many years of seeing his homeland ravaged by war, he decided to become a samurai. After his parents' death in his 14th year, he took a sword and the last name Mitsurugi. He went to train under the powerful warlord of the Murakami clan. At this time, Japan was in the middle of the Sengoku Jidai or "the age of the country at war" in which the feudal lords or "daimyos" attempted to claim the title of Shogun.
Mitsurugi was a powerful force on the battlefield, and rumors of him spread like wildfire, heralding him as the warrior that could mow down foes like fields of wheat, and he was noted by Uesugi Kenshin and Oda Nobunaga as a great warrior. He received numerous military commendations and eventually reached the rank of commissioned officer in the Japanese armed forces. But all along, his only true desire was a worthy opponent.
After leaving the Murakami clan, Mitsurugi continued to fight in every war in Japan as a hired mercenary. It was during this time that he had learned of a new weapon that was said to be changing the way wars would be fought: the rifle. He originally dismissed this weapon as a novelty, but he soon learned that it was capable of obliterating the Takeda cavalry at the Battle of Nagashino. He sensed that the arrival of the rifle in common warfare would put him out of business. He decided that the only way to combat with this was to find a stronger weapon: the enchanted sword of legend, Soul Edge.
Unfortunately, Mitsurugi was unable to find any trace of the legendary "Hero's Sword" on his quest and began taking tasks that were largely meaningless to him in order to pass the time. One of these involved guarding a nearby castle for the night; and another of which involved aiding the Spanish Marquis Andre's force in laying siege on Sir Stefan's Ostrheinsburg Castle. In his frustration of finding no signs of Soul Edge, he returned home and challenged a man wielding the rifle Tanegashima to a duel, trying to prove that he didn't need Soul Edge to beat the rifle. However, he suffered an embarrassing defeat in front of his lord, leaving him with a scar of a gunshot wound and forcing him to depart in shame on a second quest to perfect his swordsmanship so that he might eventually defeat the rifle. It was during this quest that he learned of the Azure Knight, Nightmare, who terrorized Europe with a sword deemed invincible. Nightmare's trail eventually disappeared, but Mitsurugi was unwilling to give up, after returning from his quest Mitsurugi challenged Teppou Hei again, but this time Mitsurugi managed to kill the man with a single strike with his katana.
Physical Appearance
Mitsurugi appears as a well-built Japanese man with slightly long black hair and black eyes.
Personality
Mitsurugi has only one goal in mind: To seek out the strongest warrior and challenge them to a duel then become the strongest warrior in history. He is never satisfied at the opponents he defeated in battle. Aside from being cocky, Mitsurugi is the kind of a person who sticks to his words; he's not all show. Being a ronin, he fights with honor and kills his opponents in an honorable fashion, and several of his endings reveal that he has a moral side. As shown in one such ending, he is shown to believe that true strength lies within a person and not from the weapon. He is considered a neutral character.
(Mitsurugi Heishiro from Soul Calibur, but almost an OC or non-canon as well as Canon but I am willing to flex Mitsurugi to just about any Genre. Either same cocky young man or old grumpy warrior.)
