Post by Sesshomaru on Dec 19, 2009 18:32:01 GMT -5
Name: Sesshomaru
Age: over 300
Eyes: in human form, gold, in demon form, red.
Hair: White
Persuasion: it was assumed evil, but might lean more towards neutral.
Powers/Weapons:"Dokkasou!"
Sesshomaru's claws release deadly acidic poison which can melt flesh.
Mokomoko-sama
The fur on Sesshomaru's shoulder can extend it to great lengths, and use it to whip or constrict people.
Kenatsu
Translated as Sword Pressure, it is Tôkijin's ability to cut and harm enemies without physical contact. In the beginning, it takes the form of a rain of needle-like energy which deals moderate damage to foes. Later, as Sesshomaru fully masters the sword it is released as a blue wave of energy that completely disintegrates the adversary. The strength of this attack depends on how it is unleashed by Sesshomaru. Shortly before the Tôkijin broke he managed to shatter the Kongousouha spears that Môryômaru launched at him. Also he managed to break off part of Môryômaru's armored shell using Kenatsu. This is especially noteworthy since he was angry at the time, and is the only character in the series to break the shell using sheer force. InuYasha managed to break it with the Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga, but that is different since it absorbs yôki. In Sesshomaru's first battle with Môryômaru, it is implied that Tôkijin's kenatsu ability is not just based off of Tôkijin's base power. It is implied that Sesshomaru can mix in some of his youki in the kenatsu blasts
Meidou Zangetsuha
With the reforged Tenseiga, Sesshomaru slashes at an enemy and creates an opening to the world of the dead. While at the beginning the wave takes the shape of a crescent resembling a crescent moon, Tôtôsai claimed that eventually through training, Sesshomaru would be able to make the opening a complete circle resembling the full moon. Sesshomaru's Meidou Zangetsuha was mastered with the presence of InuYasha's Tessaiga
Flight
Sesshomaru's legs and the bottoms of his hakama become furry tails that propel him through the air.
Super speed
The ability to move faster than the eye can see, both on land and through the air. When he does this he leaves behind shadow-like images
Daiyôkai
As the son of a daiyôkai, Sesshomaru has inherited similar levels of power and thus is a daiyôkai in his own right; endowed with heightened senses, intelligence, strength, and a myriad of yôkai powers. While he usually appears to be a very handsome human bearing splendid clothing and armour, he can transform into his true form at will.
Longevity
Being a yôkai, Sesshomaru does not age the way humans do. He has been around for at least a few hundred years. At the time of InuYasha's birth to present day (feudal era), his appearance changed very little in (estimated) 200 years.
Immunity
Sesshomaru is immune to diseases, poisons, and gases that can paralyze or kill both humans and weaker yôkai. His greatest resistance seems to be towards holy and divine powers; his resistance to purification powers was so strong that he was able to enter Mt. Hakurei, despite its purification barrier, without being purified and was only slightly weakened to the degree he was unable to perform his signature kenatsu attack in his battles against Jakotsu and Suikotsu. When Kagome shot Sesshomaru using one of her Hama no Ya, Sesshomaru caught it using his right hand’s forefingers. Most yôkai would have been purified, but Sesshomaru remained unharmed with not even a scar on either of his fingers. It seems that the only mystical powers that Sesshomaru isn’t resistant to is youki such as those of InuYasha’s Kaze no Kizu. Another example of his strong body seems to come from Naraku’s inability to absorb him. As Sesshomaru blasted pieces of Naraku’s flesh, those same pieces wrapped themselves around him. Then Naraku reconnected himself with the pieces of his flesh that covered Sesshomaru and attempted to absorb him to no avail; as when Sesshomaru broke out unmarked from the absorbing process. Most of this happens because Sesshomaru's aura emanates around his body in perfect "completion", due to his demonic purity. InuYasha possesses a far weaker version of such an aura, therefore it cannot repel energy or poisons like Sesshomaru's can, although it does help with his healing abilities.
History: Sesshomaru is the yôkai son of the powerful Inu no Taishou. Since Inu no Taishou is considered to be a daiyôkai (great yôkai), Sesshomaru is a daiyôkai himself. He is stoic and hard to read. He rarely smiles, and when he does, it's usually not a good thing; as once Jaken begged Sesshomaru to beat him rather than to smile because it was Sesshomaru’s smile that he feared most. Sesshomaru believes that struggle is the only way for survival and mostly throughout the series shows his contempt for InuYasha, his half brother.
Sesshomaru's mother has been introduced in chapter #466 of the manga. She knows how to increase the power of the Tenseiga. She wears around her neck the Meidou-Seki that was given to her by Inu no Taishou. She uses it to summon a Hellhound that grabs Rin and Kohaku and jumps in the Meidou crescent that Sesshomaru created with Tenseiga. He follows after and kills it, freeing Rin and Kohaku. The three of them continue into Hell, however, soon Kohaku and Sesshomaru realize Rin is dead and cannot be revived. Her body is stolen by the Master of Hell, whom Sesshomaru later defeats along with purifying the dead in Hell. Back in his mother's palace, Sesshomaru is lectured by his mother for the need to have a compassionate heart. She revives Rin with the Meidou-Seki but warns Rin can never be revived again with the Tenseiga since it can only revive a person once. She warns Kohaku he too cannot be revived by the Tenseiga.
Though it cannot be noticed in English, the Japanese Manga clearly shows that Sesshomaru uses rude, loose language to his mother as if she were someone less than him
Sesshomaru originally coveted InuYasha's sword, the powerful Tessaiga. Tessaiga is a powerful sword made from one of his father's fangs. A barrier was cast around the sword so that most yôkai cannot hold or wield it as it burns their flesh.
Even knowing that he cannot touch the sword, Sesshomaru still desired to take it from InuYasha. While his initial motivation appears to be pride and greed, Sesshomaru later claims the sword should rightfully be held by one able to fully wield its power. For this reason, he fought with InuYasha in their father Inu no Taishou's grave and by chance, InuYasha transformed the blade for the first time and hacked off Sesshomaru's left arm (In the American release of the manga, images were flipped so that the manga could be read from left to right, resulting in Sesshomaru's right arm being severed from his shoulder). After that, Sesshomaru began using the arms of other yôkai, but they rotted and became useless after a while since his youki overpowered theirs. Later he made a deal with Naraku, that he would kill InuYasha in exchange for a human arm with a shard of the Jewel of Four Souls, that way he could wield Tessaiga. However, he later lost this replacement arm and the ability to wield the Tessaiga with it. Now though, he has stopped trying to steal the sword as he now knows it is the only thing keeping InuYasha under control. After episode 35, he stopped searching for yôkai arms and decided to live with only one arm.
Sesshomaru inherited the Tenseiga, the companion blade of the Tessaiga, another sword made from his father's fang. However, the Tenseiga, which can bring 100 people back to life with a single swing, was originally incapable of harming an opponent, so it was useless in a battle. This is why he desired the Tessaiga instead. He eventually used the power of Tenseiga to resurrect the head of Goshinki so that Kaijinbô could forge the Tôkijin from his fangs. Although the Tôkijin was a formidable weapon, it was later broken in a fight with Môryômaru. However, the swordsmith Tôtôsai reforged Tenseiga to be usable as a weapon, enabling Sesshomaru to perform the Meidou Zangetsuha technique, which opens a path to Hell. It was recently revealed that Tenseiga was originally a part of Tessaiga, meant to contain the Meidou Zangetsuha, which Tessaiga had obtained by defeating another yôkai named Shishinki. In Chapter 493, Sesshomaru is able to unleash a complete Meidou Zengetsuha, but only because it was near Tessaiga. This is important in many ways: It is revealed that Tenseiga is a cast off of Tessaiga, and finally it foreshadows that Sesshomaru and InuYasha may have to work together to destroy Naraku. In Chapter 495, it is revealed by Tôtôsai that Sesshomaru and InuYasha's father, the Inu no Taishou, had always intended for Sesshomaru to perfect the Meidou Zangetsuha, then return Tenseiga to Tessaiga and, consequently, InuYasha. This, of course, troubles Sesshomaru greatly. During his meeting with Tôtôsai at the swordsmith's house, however, he fired a perfectly formed Meidou Zangetsuha without the presence of the Tessaiga.
This sets the stage for a winner-take-all battle for both swords currently being fought between the two brothers. A sinister element is further added to the conflict in the form of Naraku and Byakuya, who previously provided Sesshomaru with a fragment of Kanna's mirror monster, which allowed Tenseiga to steal Tessaiga's abilities, while also morphing into a replica of the latter sword that can use said abilities. Sesshomaru did this to test Inuyasha's worth. If he was able to win the duel without the powers of his sword then Sesshomaru would give up his claim to either sword. However, if Inuyasha lost the duel then both swords would be destroyed by Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru seemingly wins after a Meidou he created sucks Inuyasha into Hell, and having lost his feeling for Tenseiga, also discards it into the void. However, the sword resonates with Tessaiga, transforming it into it's Dragon-Scaled form. Tessaiga then instructs Inuyasha to cut his own youketsu, which doesn't kill him, instead causing a massive burst of youki that erodes the Meidou. Sesshomaru surmises that it's proof of Inuyasha's worth as the successor to both swords. After Naraku seizes control of Tenseiga (through the mirror shards) and injures InuYasha with shouki-infused diamond spears, Sesshomaru enters the Meidou and retakes Tenseiga, making Naraku believe that the yôkai is out to finish off InuYasha himself. However, Sesshomaru instead swings Tenseiga at Tessaiga, causing the mirror shards to be swept away and the former sword itself to be broken. Tessaiga then transforms into a black blade that resembles a Meidou, apparently with the power of Meidou Zangetsuha. The brothers are then guided out of the Meidou by Tenseiga, which had fallen out of the Meidou and was giving off a bright light that served as a "beacon" for the Black Tessaiga out of the darkness of the Meidou. Sesshomaru departs without Tenseiga, but Rin takes it herself before she and the rest of her party followed the youkai. Totosai surmises that although Sesshomaru doesn't realize it himself, he's one step away from possessing not simply a momento from his father, but his own weapon
Many yôkai are said to be particularly malevolent, and would prey on young, weak or elderly villagers as food; furthermore, yôkai were said to hang about battlefields to feed on the dead and wounded. Historically these Japanese legends were told to children as warnings to obey their parents, stay together, and not stray, much like the European "Little Red Riding Hood" story. In canon, we have seen Carrion Crows, Abi-hime (blood sucking birds), the Hyakki Kômori (Bat Demons), Birds of Paradise, The Thunder Brothers, and even Koga's yôkai-wolf tribe devouring villagers, and threatening to eat Kagome.
The subject of "yôkai food" is depicted almost explicitly and graphically in the manga - it is touched upon and alluded to in the anime, but out of sensitivity to the viewers/readers, it is treated with more circumspection.
With this in mind, we find Sesshomaru recovering in a forest, after he is almost killed by InuYasha's successful use of the Kaze no Kizu attack. Rin, having been beaten by villagers and hiding in the forest, finds Sesshomaru bleeding. Seeing him suffering, she offers him fish to which he replies, "I don't eat human food." In this context, we can clearly see Sesshomaru's difference in attitude towards humans as opposed to that shown by his fellow yôkai. Later in the manga, Sesshomaru's mother puts in an appearance, and upon seeing Rin and Kohaku, she jokingly asks Sesshomaru if he intends to eat them.
Companions
He is followed by his retainer, a frog-like yôkai or tengu with a small beak named Jaken, and later by a human orphan named Rin, whom Sesshomaru brought back to life using Tenseiga. Though he told Jaken that he was merely testing his sword .He is also followed by a two-headed dragon that Rin named Ah-Un. Ah-un is Rin and Jaken's main form of transportation when Sesshomaru takes flight or when they need to cover long distances quickly, as only Sesshomaru and Ah-Un are capable of flight. Most recently, Sesshomaru saved Kohaku's life from Byakuya. Kohaku decided to join his retinue as he's leaving Sesshomaru's mother's palace. It is also revealed that none of his companions (excluding Ah-Un) can be revived by the Tenseiga since they all have died before and were either already revived by Tenseiga or are being kept alive by a Shikon jewel shard.
Comic character is from: Manga, Inuyasha
Age: over 300
Eyes: in human form, gold, in demon form, red.
Hair: White
Persuasion: it was assumed evil, but might lean more towards neutral.
Powers/Weapons:"Dokkasou!"
Sesshomaru's claws release deadly acidic poison which can melt flesh.
Mokomoko-sama
The fur on Sesshomaru's shoulder can extend it to great lengths, and use it to whip or constrict people.
Kenatsu
Translated as Sword Pressure, it is Tôkijin's ability to cut and harm enemies without physical contact. In the beginning, it takes the form of a rain of needle-like energy which deals moderate damage to foes. Later, as Sesshomaru fully masters the sword it is released as a blue wave of energy that completely disintegrates the adversary. The strength of this attack depends on how it is unleashed by Sesshomaru. Shortly before the Tôkijin broke he managed to shatter the Kongousouha spears that Môryômaru launched at him. Also he managed to break off part of Môryômaru's armored shell using Kenatsu. This is especially noteworthy since he was angry at the time, and is the only character in the series to break the shell using sheer force. InuYasha managed to break it with the Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga, but that is different since it absorbs yôki. In Sesshomaru's first battle with Môryômaru, it is implied that Tôkijin's kenatsu ability is not just based off of Tôkijin's base power. It is implied that Sesshomaru can mix in some of his youki in the kenatsu blasts
Meidou Zangetsuha
With the reforged Tenseiga, Sesshomaru slashes at an enemy and creates an opening to the world of the dead. While at the beginning the wave takes the shape of a crescent resembling a crescent moon, Tôtôsai claimed that eventually through training, Sesshomaru would be able to make the opening a complete circle resembling the full moon. Sesshomaru's Meidou Zangetsuha was mastered with the presence of InuYasha's Tessaiga
Flight
Sesshomaru's legs and the bottoms of his hakama become furry tails that propel him through the air.
Super speed
The ability to move faster than the eye can see, both on land and through the air. When he does this he leaves behind shadow-like images
Daiyôkai
As the son of a daiyôkai, Sesshomaru has inherited similar levels of power and thus is a daiyôkai in his own right; endowed with heightened senses, intelligence, strength, and a myriad of yôkai powers. While he usually appears to be a very handsome human bearing splendid clothing and armour, he can transform into his true form at will.
Longevity
Being a yôkai, Sesshomaru does not age the way humans do. He has been around for at least a few hundred years. At the time of InuYasha's birth to present day (feudal era), his appearance changed very little in (estimated) 200 years.
Immunity
Sesshomaru is immune to diseases, poisons, and gases that can paralyze or kill both humans and weaker yôkai. His greatest resistance seems to be towards holy and divine powers; his resistance to purification powers was so strong that he was able to enter Mt. Hakurei, despite its purification barrier, without being purified and was only slightly weakened to the degree he was unable to perform his signature kenatsu attack in his battles against Jakotsu and Suikotsu. When Kagome shot Sesshomaru using one of her Hama no Ya, Sesshomaru caught it using his right hand’s forefingers. Most yôkai would have been purified, but Sesshomaru remained unharmed with not even a scar on either of his fingers. It seems that the only mystical powers that Sesshomaru isn’t resistant to is youki such as those of InuYasha’s Kaze no Kizu. Another example of his strong body seems to come from Naraku’s inability to absorb him. As Sesshomaru blasted pieces of Naraku’s flesh, those same pieces wrapped themselves around him. Then Naraku reconnected himself with the pieces of his flesh that covered Sesshomaru and attempted to absorb him to no avail; as when Sesshomaru broke out unmarked from the absorbing process. Most of this happens because Sesshomaru's aura emanates around his body in perfect "completion", due to his demonic purity. InuYasha possesses a far weaker version of such an aura, therefore it cannot repel energy or poisons like Sesshomaru's can, although it does help with his healing abilities.
History: Sesshomaru is the yôkai son of the powerful Inu no Taishou. Since Inu no Taishou is considered to be a daiyôkai (great yôkai), Sesshomaru is a daiyôkai himself. He is stoic and hard to read. He rarely smiles, and when he does, it's usually not a good thing; as once Jaken begged Sesshomaru to beat him rather than to smile because it was Sesshomaru’s smile that he feared most. Sesshomaru believes that struggle is the only way for survival and mostly throughout the series shows his contempt for InuYasha, his half brother.
Sesshomaru's mother has been introduced in chapter #466 of the manga. She knows how to increase the power of the Tenseiga. She wears around her neck the Meidou-Seki that was given to her by Inu no Taishou. She uses it to summon a Hellhound that grabs Rin and Kohaku and jumps in the Meidou crescent that Sesshomaru created with Tenseiga. He follows after and kills it, freeing Rin and Kohaku. The three of them continue into Hell, however, soon Kohaku and Sesshomaru realize Rin is dead and cannot be revived. Her body is stolen by the Master of Hell, whom Sesshomaru later defeats along with purifying the dead in Hell. Back in his mother's palace, Sesshomaru is lectured by his mother for the need to have a compassionate heart. She revives Rin with the Meidou-Seki but warns Rin can never be revived again with the Tenseiga since it can only revive a person once. She warns Kohaku he too cannot be revived by the Tenseiga.
Though it cannot be noticed in English, the Japanese Manga clearly shows that Sesshomaru uses rude, loose language to his mother as if she were someone less than him
Sesshomaru originally coveted InuYasha's sword, the powerful Tessaiga. Tessaiga is a powerful sword made from one of his father's fangs. A barrier was cast around the sword so that most yôkai cannot hold or wield it as it burns their flesh.
Even knowing that he cannot touch the sword, Sesshomaru still desired to take it from InuYasha. While his initial motivation appears to be pride and greed, Sesshomaru later claims the sword should rightfully be held by one able to fully wield its power. For this reason, he fought with InuYasha in their father Inu no Taishou's grave and by chance, InuYasha transformed the blade for the first time and hacked off Sesshomaru's left arm (In the American release of the manga, images were flipped so that the manga could be read from left to right, resulting in Sesshomaru's right arm being severed from his shoulder). After that, Sesshomaru began using the arms of other yôkai, but they rotted and became useless after a while since his youki overpowered theirs. Later he made a deal with Naraku, that he would kill InuYasha in exchange for a human arm with a shard of the Jewel of Four Souls, that way he could wield Tessaiga. However, he later lost this replacement arm and the ability to wield the Tessaiga with it. Now though, he has stopped trying to steal the sword as he now knows it is the only thing keeping InuYasha under control. After episode 35, he stopped searching for yôkai arms and decided to live with only one arm.
Sesshomaru inherited the Tenseiga, the companion blade of the Tessaiga, another sword made from his father's fang. However, the Tenseiga, which can bring 100 people back to life with a single swing, was originally incapable of harming an opponent, so it was useless in a battle. This is why he desired the Tessaiga instead. He eventually used the power of Tenseiga to resurrect the head of Goshinki so that Kaijinbô could forge the Tôkijin from his fangs. Although the Tôkijin was a formidable weapon, it was later broken in a fight with Môryômaru. However, the swordsmith Tôtôsai reforged Tenseiga to be usable as a weapon, enabling Sesshomaru to perform the Meidou Zangetsuha technique, which opens a path to Hell. It was recently revealed that Tenseiga was originally a part of Tessaiga, meant to contain the Meidou Zangetsuha, which Tessaiga had obtained by defeating another yôkai named Shishinki. In Chapter 493, Sesshomaru is able to unleash a complete Meidou Zengetsuha, but only because it was near Tessaiga. This is important in many ways: It is revealed that Tenseiga is a cast off of Tessaiga, and finally it foreshadows that Sesshomaru and InuYasha may have to work together to destroy Naraku. In Chapter 495, it is revealed by Tôtôsai that Sesshomaru and InuYasha's father, the Inu no Taishou, had always intended for Sesshomaru to perfect the Meidou Zangetsuha, then return Tenseiga to Tessaiga and, consequently, InuYasha. This, of course, troubles Sesshomaru greatly. During his meeting with Tôtôsai at the swordsmith's house, however, he fired a perfectly formed Meidou Zangetsuha without the presence of the Tessaiga.
This sets the stage for a winner-take-all battle for both swords currently being fought between the two brothers. A sinister element is further added to the conflict in the form of Naraku and Byakuya, who previously provided Sesshomaru with a fragment of Kanna's mirror monster, which allowed Tenseiga to steal Tessaiga's abilities, while also morphing into a replica of the latter sword that can use said abilities. Sesshomaru did this to test Inuyasha's worth. If he was able to win the duel without the powers of his sword then Sesshomaru would give up his claim to either sword. However, if Inuyasha lost the duel then both swords would be destroyed by Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru seemingly wins after a Meidou he created sucks Inuyasha into Hell, and having lost his feeling for Tenseiga, also discards it into the void. However, the sword resonates with Tessaiga, transforming it into it's Dragon-Scaled form. Tessaiga then instructs Inuyasha to cut his own youketsu, which doesn't kill him, instead causing a massive burst of youki that erodes the Meidou. Sesshomaru surmises that it's proof of Inuyasha's worth as the successor to both swords. After Naraku seizes control of Tenseiga (through the mirror shards) and injures InuYasha with shouki-infused diamond spears, Sesshomaru enters the Meidou and retakes Tenseiga, making Naraku believe that the yôkai is out to finish off InuYasha himself. However, Sesshomaru instead swings Tenseiga at Tessaiga, causing the mirror shards to be swept away and the former sword itself to be broken. Tessaiga then transforms into a black blade that resembles a Meidou, apparently with the power of Meidou Zangetsuha. The brothers are then guided out of the Meidou by Tenseiga, which had fallen out of the Meidou and was giving off a bright light that served as a "beacon" for the Black Tessaiga out of the darkness of the Meidou. Sesshomaru departs without Tenseiga, but Rin takes it herself before she and the rest of her party followed the youkai. Totosai surmises that although Sesshomaru doesn't realize it himself, he's one step away from possessing not simply a momento from his father, but his own weapon
Many yôkai are said to be particularly malevolent, and would prey on young, weak or elderly villagers as food; furthermore, yôkai were said to hang about battlefields to feed on the dead and wounded. Historically these Japanese legends were told to children as warnings to obey their parents, stay together, and not stray, much like the European "Little Red Riding Hood" story. In canon, we have seen Carrion Crows, Abi-hime (blood sucking birds), the Hyakki Kômori (Bat Demons), Birds of Paradise, The Thunder Brothers, and even Koga's yôkai-wolf tribe devouring villagers, and threatening to eat Kagome.
The subject of "yôkai food" is depicted almost explicitly and graphically in the manga - it is touched upon and alluded to in the anime, but out of sensitivity to the viewers/readers, it is treated with more circumspection.
With this in mind, we find Sesshomaru recovering in a forest, after he is almost killed by InuYasha's successful use of the Kaze no Kizu attack. Rin, having been beaten by villagers and hiding in the forest, finds Sesshomaru bleeding. Seeing him suffering, she offers him fish to which he replies, "I don't eat human food." In this context, we can clearly see Sesshomaru's difference in attitude towards humans as opposed to that shown by his fellow yôkai. Later in the manga, Sesshomaru's mother puts in an appearance, and upon seeing Rin and Kohaku, she jokingly asks Sesshomaru if he intends to eat them.
Companions
He is followed by his retainer, a frog-like yôkai or tengu with a small beak named Jaken, and later by a human orphan named Rin, whom Sesshomaru brought back to life using Tenseiga. Though he told Jaken that he was merely testing his sword .He is also followed by a two-headed dragon that Rin named Ah-Un. Ah-un is Rin and Jaken's main form of transportation when Sesshomaru takes flight or when they need to cover long distances quickly, as only Sesshomaru and Ah-Un are capable of flight. Most recently, Sesshomaru saved Kohaku's life from Byakuya. Kohaku decided to join his retinue as he's leaving Sesshomaru's mother's palace. It is also revealed that none of his companions (excluding Ah-Un) can be revived by the Tenseiga since they all have died before and were either already revived by Tenseiga or are being kept alive by a Shikon jewel shard.
Comic character is from: Manga, Inuyasha
