Aiko Sawada and Ryoko Furuhara

[Aiko and Ryoko]

The Basics
Name: Aiko Sawada
Age: 27
Sex: Female
Species: Human
Date Of Birth: September 8
Nationality: Japanese
Hometown: Zawame, Japan
Occupation: Investigative reporter
Alignment: Good
Theme Song:

Outer Stuff
Face Claim: Shizuka Nakamura
Height: 5’ 6”
Weight: I’m not telling you!
Hair color: Black
Hair style: About chest length, usually loosely pulled back in a low ponytail
Eye color: Brown
Skin color: Asian
Posture: Straight, leans back a little bit
Scars/ Tattoo’s/ Other markings: N/A
Accessories: She wears a belt that’s a thin steel chain wrapped around her waist several times with a buckle that looks like a metal spike through a loop, as well as a messenger bag where she keeps all her things
Clothes: She often wears loose, comfortable clothing, generally a blouse with her belt, jeans and comfortable shoes, usually flats.
Anything Else? She’s, ahem, quite well-endowed.

Inner Stuff
Likes:

• Zawame
  
• Reporting and writing
  
• Fighting
  
• Getting things due to her “gifts”
  

Dislikes:

• People being jealous of her
  
• People interfering in her work
  
• Losing
  

Strengths:

• Accomplished writer and reporter
  
• Rather skilled fighter, uses an old family style that’s a mix of hojojutsu, judo and jeet kune do.
  
• Determined
  

Weaknesses:

• She’s not too strong, which is why her style focuses more on incapacitation than legit takedown
  
• She might get sort of a “tunnel vision” when pursuing a story
  
• She gets REALLY angry when people make inappropriate jokes
  

Goal(s):

• Protect Zawame by exposing its flaws
  

Habits/ Quirks:

• She fiddles and plays with her “belt”
  

Relationships:

• Andrea, Mai, Ryoko - Friends
  
• 
  
• 
  

Overview: Aiko’s a very nice, happy girl. She does have the potential to be very devious, though. Despite her nice exterior, she is not above using her body or other underhanded techniques to get information or access to places. She’s not afraid to get into a scrap. Hell, she wears a potentially lethal weapon as a belt. She also gets REALLY into her work; she can’t focus on much of anything else when pursuing a story, save in case of emergency, and she will beat the hell out of anyone who gets in her way and refuses to budge.
Despite this, she’s a very nice person. She hates it when people are jealous of her for her body, but she’s not willing to give up her greatest reporting asset, so she’ll try to equalize; if someone is jealous of her, she’ll try to find something in them for her to be jealous of.

Hero Stuff
Name: Kamen Rider Gridon
Type Of Hero: Kamen Rider
Henshin Device: Sengoku Driver and the Acorn Lockseed
Henshin Sequence: She puts the Driver on and clicks the Acorn Lockseed open. It announces, “DONGURI!” and a circular zipper portal opens above her head, a huge acorn floating down. She announces, “Henshin!” and puts the Lockseed on the Driver, closing it on. The Driver announces “LOCK ON!” and she moves the knife so it “cuts” the Lockseed open, causing the acorn to drop onto her head and create her Pre-Arms form. It announces “Donguri Arms! Never Give Up!”, then it unfolds down and forms her Acorn Arms.
Forms:

• Form Name: Donguri Arms
  Image/ Description: Here
  Motif: Acorn, Viking
  Color Scheme: Brown, Silver, Black
  Transformation: See above
  Fighting Style: She uses a very power-oriented style, focusing on strong blows with the Donkachi, since she can handle attacks
  Weapons: The Donkachi, a one-handed hammer.
  Abilities: She has minor electrical abilities, allowing her to use her hands like a Taser of sorts and shock people and objects through contact. She can also throw the Donkachi, using a magnetic effect to call it back to her hand.
  Finisher(s): Spin Striker- She triggers the knife, and the belt announces “DONGURI SQUASH!” She holds the Donkachi out, and begins spinning wildly, bouncing around the immediate area before smashing into her opponent and destroying them.
  

Other Equipment:

• Her belt is actually a surujin, which she uses for self-defensive purposes
  
• Her notebook and camera, which she keeps in her messenger bag
  
• 
  

History

Aiko was very young when Yggdrasil moved into Zawame. Her mother, one of the foremost investigative reporters in the city, was instantly curious about some of the things that happened behind the scenes at Yggdrasil and began looking into it. Watching her mother slave over it made Aiko want to be like her mother, but her father was having none of it. He’d rather obviously wanted a son, a male heir to pass on his family martial art to. So, as opposed to actually having one, he made one. He trained Aiko in her ancestral family style, Aiko learning rather quickly due to her young age.
Things further complicated when Aiko bloomed a bit early, and became rather well-endowed. Her father made her bind them down, but as she grew, so did they. Her father eventually realized the futility of it and stopped making her do it. Aiko learned just as quickly, taking up writing for the school newspaper as her extracurricular. She worked long and hard, graduating high school third in her class by a hairsbreadth and going on to university, where she got a job with the Zawame local newspaper. She graduated with an English degree and went to work full-time for them, becoming a investigative reporter just like her mother.
She used both her body and her combat skill to use, becoming a legend in the newsmedia community of Zawame in no time at all. Her ability to obtain information rivaled some of the most legendary hackers of the time, but she didn’t use a computer. She was eventually promoted to as much of a team lead as the investigative reporting division had available to them, and she began investigating Yggdrasil and the Lockseeds. Her reporting also led her to make friends with Furuhara. She later stumbled upon the Donguri Lockseed by accident, and Furuhara gave her a Driver to use it with. She doesn't know how Furuhara got a Driver, but she's not certain she wants to.

OOC Stuff
Anything Else:
OOC Name: Skye
Name Color: 7a3d00

[Aiko and Ryoko]

The Basics
Name: Ryoko Furuhara
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Species: Human
Date Of Birth: January 21
Nationality: Japanese
Hometown: Zawame City
Occupation: Owner of a series of adult clubs across Japan
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Theme Song:

Outer Stuff
Face Claim: Asuka Kuramochi
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: "A lady never tells."
Hair color: Black
Hair style: Usually pulled back into a ponytail
Eye color: Brown
Skin color: Tan Asian
Posture: Straight, dignified. The posture of a lady.
Scars/ Tattoo’s/ Other markings: N/A
Accessories: She usually has a watch of some sort.
Clothes: She usually dresses very casually, just sneakers, jeans and a tank top. However, when presiding in any sort of formal occasion, she wears a dark business suit, and when at a different sort of formal event, she wears a dark ballgown.
Anything Else?

Inner Stuff
Likes:

• Dressing nice
  
• Her job
  
• Her friends
  

Dislikes:

• Most religious people, with the exception of the ones who at least try not to unfairly judge other people.
  
• Combat when untransformed
  
• Synthetic fabrics
  

Strengths:

• She's a veritable goddess of combat. She's been taught from the moment she could stand in several forms of combat, both with and without weapons.
  
• She's a very imposing presence, able to be very scary when she chooses
  
• She's fabulously wealthy.
  

Weaknesses:

• She can't get into the proper mindset to fight unless transformed.
  
• She's usually a bit preoccupied with trying to get her friends to "expand their experiences"
  
• Sometimes forgets others aren't quite as wealthy as she is
  

Goal(s):

• Maintain her business
  
• Continue to be with her friends
  

Habits/ Quirks:

• Often daydreams about a variety of things. If nothing important is happening, it's entirely likely to find her lost in her own thoughts
  

Relationships:

• Aiko, Andrea, Mai - Friends
  
• 
  
• 
  

Overview: Ryoko is a very pleasant person. She loves her friends and she's very personable. She can be a tad excitable at times, by which I mean all the time, but beyond that she's a very nice person to simply sit down and have a conversation with. Ryoko makes concerted efforts not to flaunt her wealth, as she's convinced that money attracts the wrong kind of people, the people she doesn't want to associate with. If she makes friends, she makes friends with her personality, not her money. She's also rather persistent, and a staunch pacifist in most cases, unless it's particularly egregious.
Because of the business she runs, she's rather fond of trying to convince her friends to "expand their worldview". So far, she's had no takers, but she's not letting that discourage her in any way.
Behind a mask, however, is like night and day. When she transforms, she becomes a coldly efficient fighting machine. She sees nothing more than a destination, and what she will have to do exactly to get there, down to the T. She can visualize the moves she needs to use to win a fight, and then carry out that exact sequence. She has no care as to consequences or the means, just the end. Behind a mask, she is a legitimately horrifying presence, and the last individual one wants to piss off in a dark alley at night.

Hero Stuff
Name: Kamen Rider Bravo
Type Of Hero: Kamen Rider
Henshin Device: Sengoku Driver and Durian Lockseed
Henshin Sequence: She simply places the Driver about her waist, opens the fruit, puts it on and slices it. A mechanical durian appears above her head and drops down, forming her armor.
Forms:

• Form Name: Durian Arms
  Image/ Description: Here
  Motif: Durian, gladiator
  Color Scheme: Green, silver, purple, yellow
  Transformation: See above.
  Fighting Style: She's absolutely brutal. No mercy and no relief, just pure offense.
  Weapons: The Duri Noko, a pair of serrated shortswords
  Abilities: The form greatly increases her statistics, as one of the strongest Sengoku rider forms available.
  Finisher(s): Durian Danger - Activating the Squash function, she emits a large comb of energy from her helmet. She then swings her body around and hits her target with the comb to destroy them.
  Duriasshe - She activates the Au Lait function, and proceeds to launch a series of energy slashes at her opponent.
  

Other Equipment:

• She has a boat, which she named White Queen for official purposes. It's a large houseboat, more like an actual house on the water as opposed to a tiny apartment, which she lives in.
  
• She usually has a bag she keeps her Driver and Seed in, along with some other miscellaneous things.
  
• She drives a Lamborghini convertible.
  

History

Ryoko was born to a pair of martial arts masters who lived in a convent of sorts with a group of four other martial arts masters. From the moment she was old enough to do so, she became the first disciple, learning from all six masters at once. It was brutal at first, but since she was so young, it was a bit easier. As she grew, she got better and better. However, she was a bit sheltered, with her parents choosing to homeschool her so she could focus on her martial arts training. She didn't go to an actual school until her first year of high-school, so for her first year she was painfully shy. People began making fun and calling her names, but her father always managed to keep her from busting out her martial arts skills on them.
In her second year, she made a friend with another girl in her class. That girl brought out the social side of her, and once that had happened, Ryoko was one of the most popular girls in the class. She graduated fifth overall in the class and entered university, graduating again with high position with a degree in business. Her experiences in university, however, influenced what happened next. She'd had a few eye-opening experiences, and thus when she moved to Zawame City and opened an adult club, her parents were somewhat dumbfounded. She promptly shut them up by becoming fabulously rich off of it and a number of completely legal side ventures, opening other clubs in other parts of Japan and only becoming more successful. She abandoned the side ventures and simply enjoyed the money, buying the White Queen to live in as opposed to a house. She also began making friends, most notably and strongly with one Aiko Sawada.
She never failed to return home every weekend to keep her skills sharp. Especially with monsters beginning to appear in Zawame, she needed her skills. While returning home once, she noticed a group of Yggdrasil employees being killed by a group of Inves. She drove the Inves off, but it was too late. The employees were dead. She simply took what they'd been transporting. Upon returning home, she found it was a pair of Sengoku Drivers, and two Lockseeds. She gave one of the Drivers and Seeds to Aiko, and began using the other herself, both as a way to combat the Inves and to keep her own skills sharp without having to return home as often.

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