Haunted her family dojo for a long time in isolation, now abandoned by the living and left to overgrown ruin. She normally protects it from trespassers, but when Aoi shows up one day she let’s her hang around for the company. She still does her usual training, tho it’s more for the comforting routine than anything else. Over time, she starts finding the motivation to fix the grounds up a bit, finding that she still wants to use her knowledge to teach and help others become strong. Her dream is to help someone take her old title as strongest person alive.
She’s a bit standoffish and intimidating to newly met people, more out of awkwardness than malice due to her years of self isolated training. But after so much time spent with a hypersocial fish wife, she’s mostly gotten over that and has a much warmer, comforting social presence (except for with Hiro, but she’s mostly just playing it up bc she likes how easy he is to scare)
While on the search for a young Maki, Aoi came back with a lost kid that she thought was her, but sadly was not. This kid had no other family, so Aoi and Sakura took her in as their own, naming her Tenko.
Sakura became her daughter’s mentor, and ended up being the one to keep her out of trouble and channel her chaotic energy with martial arts while Aoi worked on her new bakery business.
AOI
Friendly water elemental that wound up in Sakura’s dojo pond on her travels, and liked it so much she never really went away.
Very social, if she sees folks she’ll come right up and say hello, decide they’re friends and they have very little say in it.
Maintains the large pond on the dojo grounds, filling it with all sorts of fish and aquatic life she finds or rescues, mostly different breeds of carp and amphibians.
Never put much focus on keeping a humanoid form, relying on her loose jacket to do most of the work when that’s necessary. Sakura just carries her in a bucket most of the time anyway, so she never felt the need. However, when Tenko came to them she found herself wanting to do things for her that were difficult with fins, and so she started working on it, eventually doing a pretty passable job..
Realizes hands can also make donuts!! Woah!! So she goes and opens her own bakery, a family business in a quaint village not far from the dojo. It often serves as a hub for their various friends to come pay visits, and they host an occasional holiday there.
Baby Tenko’s! She had alotta tantrums as a kid (some devolving into her going a bit demon mode) but watching her mom’s carp always calmed her down :’^)
Found abandoned in woods by parents that couldn’t handle her and grew to even fear her due to her temper tantrums and the demonic appearance she would take on during them. Was initially mistaken for the currently missing Maki by Aoi due to their similar looks, but after realising it wasn’t her, Aoi and Sakura decided to take her in until they could find her real parents, which they never did, sooo they have baby now.
Had alot of chaotic destructive energy as a kid that Sakura manages to help her deal with through training, and Aoi helps by letting her raise her own goldfish in the pond. Having to care for it helped her focus herself and calm down when upset.
Spent her childhood training hard with Sakura, and helping Aoi run delivery orders of donuts. Had alot of fun times with her friends, mostly her mom’s friends kids: Himiko, Kaito, along with Hiyoko, Ibuki, and later Chiaki who would babysit.
Goes through the game, Himiko and her have an argument, and Himiko turns her into a frog somehow,, Wakes up from dream realm… still a frog, how sad and incredibly confusing. Becomes UnFrogged some time later, Himiko rushing her home to see if her dad can help, but it’s more of a frog prince situation smiles :^)
Afterwards her and Himiko start getting into the weapons dealing business, seeking out artifacts of significant power and stealing them to sell.
Aoi and Sakura are be a bit concerned with her lifestyle, mostly with whether it’s something she wants or something she’s allowed herself to be dragged into. And it may be a bit of a rift between them for awhile. They do make up eventually, with them supporting her dedication to keeping a loved one safe no matter what.
Saw someone do this with their seiyu and so I was compelled to do the same for the dub. Not 100% sure on one or two VA’s but whatevs. I’ll fix it later if I’m wrong about anyone.
