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KAMUI AGE 18 HOMETOWN Planet Rakuyou SPECIES Yato FAMILY Umibouzu, Kagura, Kouka (deceased) LANGUAGE Japanese, Space Language OCCUPATION Leader of the Harusame Space Pirates Seventh Division OTHERS RELATIONSHIPS NAME Description. INVENTORY THEIA MAP okay, but where are all the exits? [ ✖ ] ROOM KEY only way to access kamui's secret food stash [ ✖ ] HANDHELD MIRROR unnecessarily decorative network tech [ ✖ ] CHINESE PARASOL reinforced for combat just because [ ✖ ]

Kamui is by his own admission "empty," a snapped soul with nothing left but to move forward on his eternal hunt for strength. As a child, his family meant everything to him. They were the reason he first sought strength. His father was one of the strongest Yato out there, and that all powerful man had asked him to protect his mother and little sister in his stead. When his mother fell ill, Kamui poured his heart and soul into being everything she needed him to be. Until he learned the harsh truth his father had been hiding from him. His mother was a mutant, born on the Yato's now uninhabitable home planet. That planet was the only place she could live, yet her husband and children would die under such harsh conditions. She chose her family over her health. Now she was dying. Kamui's very existence was killing the one person he wanted to protect most. The day he learned this was the day he shattered. He took his family down with him when he tried to kidnap his mother and force her to return to her home planet. He attacked his father, and his father nearly killed him, all while his mother watched weakly from the sidelines and his little sister begged them to stop. His young mind warped, desperate for a way out, but all he could do was run away. He'd destroyed everything he cared about, his one place in the universe, and he'd done it more thoroughly than even he'd thought possible. He could never go back again. It's from this mentality that the Kamui of the present was born. He is a man who only looks forward, disregarding the past as nothing more than a crutch. He shuns worldly or emotional attachments to anything, even his own life, and openly despises the weak. His only goal is to become "the strongest," and he will do anything, kill anyone, to get there. Kamui's obsession with strength is a lifelong one. He has always had difficulty defining it, and thus, he's looked to others as examples. When his father's strength couldn't save his mother, he began looking to a man named Housen, the then leader of the Harusame Space Pirates Seventh Division. Housen's strength was easy to understand because it wasn't meant to protect, only to destroy. It makes sense, after all. The strength Kamui had gained in his desperate attempts to save his family only netted him tragedy. This must be because strength isn't meant to protect others in the first place. No, strength is not a means to an end; strength is the only end for which one should strive. He is very closed minded in that sense, choosing to see the world in black and white. Anything that doesn't fit into his definition of strength must therefore be weakness. Umibouzu, one of the strongest men in the galaxy, is weak in Kamui's eyes because he wasn't willing to kill Kamui, his first and only son. Housen, the King of the Yato and the man who taught Kamui how to fight, is also weak because he fell in love with a woman and was desperate enough to cage her. These two former idols of Kamui's fell prey to such weakness as love, guilt, lust, and possessiveness. According to Kamui, that is their downfall, and he's not wrong. Housen dies to an uprising of those women he's subjugated, and Umibouzu loses both his arms because of Kamui. The very concept of honing one's strength to protect something is now outright insulting to his ideology because it betrays one's weakness, and more than anything else, Kamui detests his own weakness. This is why he has so much trouble with protagonist Gintoki and his little sister Kagura. They wear their weaknesses like a badge of honor and yet Kamui cannot beat them into submission. Through their persistence, they lay his weakness bare: the fact that he still loves and wants to be acknowledged by the family he destroyed. Kamui does eventually accept this weakness as a part of his identity and is forced to eat a piece of humble pie, but this doesn't make him a better person by any means. If anything, it gives him the opportunity to be even more intolerable. He sees no reason to reform (once a pirate, always a pirate) and decides that because the reason he couldn't defeat Kagura was that she refused to stay down, he'll just have to refuse to accept defeat himself. His decision making has always been guided by his momentary whims in this way. While his well-honed battle sense and pure, unadulterated power are what he's known for among his enemies, his followers see a different side to him daily. Kamui is brutal, yes, but he's also selfish, sacrilegious, and single-minded to the core. He will ditch anyone and anything the moment they no longer interest him, and he'll leave plenty of bloodshed in his wake. These traits are actually what make him so charismatic among his fellow outlaws. What Kamui desires isn't the perks of a higher status or a better world to live in but rather to topple the entire hierarchy just to prove he can. He says as much when his second in command Abuto points out that his actions will get the entire Seventh Division in trouble with Harusame's higher ups. If his superiors don't approve of his actions, Kamui chimes cheerily, he'll kill them. He'll have to kill them sooner or later anyway if he wants to become the strongest; angering them enough to come after him only makes his job easier. Honestly, this entire personality section could be summed up with a concise, "He does what he wants when he wants, and screw everyone else." Not only is he a selfish asshole, he is a self-aware selfish asshole. This makes his character that much more intolerable because he can't be reasoned with. Telling him he's being impulsive or stupid, even killing himself, only nets a happy insult. He already knows he's an idiot with no desire but to fight on the battlefield until he dies, so anyone with the balls to tell him what he is as if he doesn't know is clearly just asking to be shat on. What makes this unabashedly obnoxious personality so fascinating though, are the rare moments when Kamui contradicts himself. During his introduction arc, he spends a great deal of his time reuniting a young boy with his prostitute mother. He accomplishes his task through mass murder, sure, but Housen chides him over how transparent this act of vicarious redemption is. Though he will take the lives of his own men if they don't heed his warnings and certainly won't mourn them, he is loyal to them as long as they're alive. He goes as far as sparing Abuto after the man loses a major fight, and he always leads his men into battle from the front lines. He knows what kinds of outlaws he commands, and he respects their strength rather than appeal to their love of life. It's true that he goes about his "good deeds" in the worst way possible, but even Kamui has a code of conduct that keeps him from murdering everyone he meets. He also states that everyone, no matter the life they've led, deserves to be sent off with a smile when they die. Supposedly this (not just bloodlust!) is the reason he smiles while killing. In a way, it's how he atones for not being by his mother's side when she died. Amusingly enough, Kamui's smile always wavers when fighting Kagura, the one person he can't bring himself to kill. This is the simplest way to decipher his true motives behind a duel. After all, if Kamui has one virtue, it's that he's hideously honest. ABILITIES Inhuman physical strength and endurance. All Yato are significantly stronger than humans, and their bodies are capable of taking damage that would kill anyone else. For example, Kamui's subordinate catches a bullet in his teeth, his father is able to withstand a blast from a battleship with only an umbrella, and Kamui himself keeps fighting long enough to kill twenty men after being pumped with enough poison to kill an elephant. Not only can they survive the vacuum of space, Kamui even manages to break into the control center of a spaceship from outside. He frequently murders opponents just by thrusting his palm straight through their chests. Extensive hand-to-hand fighting experience. Kamui is not only powerful, he is also disciplined, accompanying his punches and kicks with seemingly weightless acrobatics. He learned how to fight from the King of the Yato and has since usurped his title as leader of Harusame's Seventh Division. Yato blood. Their blood is described by Kamui as a sort of collective intuition made up of the memory of their entire species. Throughout most of the series, this is seen as a negative trait because Yato instincts always tend toward violence. The Yato have to overcome their base instincts or else lose their identities to a sea of mindless bloodlust. Kamui, Kagura, and Umibouzu all fall prey to their blood at one point in their lives - during which time they attack everyone indiscriminately without care for their opponents or themselves. Although Kagura is originally afraid of this blood, Kamui teaches her that there's more to it as long as the Yato in question is disciplined. This well of instinct can be utilized through the senses and allow one to measure his/her opponent, comparing said opponent to the thousands of battles stored within their blood's collective memory. Kamui can sense the presence of other Yato with it, distinguish the truly powerful from the braggadocious, and analyze the enemy's battle strategy. WEAKNESSES Sunlight sensitivity. Though the Yato are infamously powerful, they do have one prominent weakness. Their bodies cannot handle direct sunlight. Prolonged exposure to the sun's rays dries them out until they literally crumble to death. Because of this, Yato are known throughout the galaxy for their pale, flawless skin and the parasols they carry. They reinforce and weaponize these parasols, using them as clubs or even guns. Kamui is no exception.

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