BONUS Injustice DLC Character

Alias: Dragon Kensei

Real Name: Anenokoji

Age: Possibly in his late 30's or early 40's

Race: Human (formerly)/Dragonoid (currently)

Faction: Samurai

Gender: Male

Universe: For Honor franchise

Voice: Takaya Kuroda (Japanese)/Charlie Adler (English)

Appearance: Over the hakama, the cloth clothing they wear under all their armor, the Kensei wears a lacquered wooden cuirass and a gray sleeveless coat on top of this. A katana and wakizashi can be seen sheathed at his waist under his obi sash, although they are not used in combat in-game.

The Kensei can always be easily identified thanks to their massive sode that hang off their shoulders. Their kabuto has a crescent crest at its forehead. Their face mask is known as Mempo. It is constructed from iron and/or leather and covers the face from the nose to the chin. The Kensei's Mempo, in particular, is red with a lacquered finish, featuring a mustache, a soul patch and fierce teeth, meant to serve as both protection and an effective method of intimidation against foes.

Anenokoji's armor is more distinctive and customized with indigo armor plates with golden yellow patches of impressions resembling scales on the shoulder pads, chest plate, and waist plates. All of the plates are outfitted with fang-like spikes. The Japanese character of the dragon, inscribed in black ink, is etched into the middle of the chestplate. His face mask is not the typical Mempo found on most Kensei warriors. Instead, his resembles more of a red skull with the mouthguard looking more like dragon teeth. The biggest eye-catching feature is his kabuto that has the ornamentally-decorated head crest of the eight-headed, green dragon complete with eight finned tails at the back of his helmet. His armor set is partially inspired by the Orochi class warriors with his facemask bearing similarities to theirs for example. His nodachi is named "Hebi no Kiba" with the inspiration being that of the violet eight-headed, winged serpent dragon of Japanese mythology. It was said the blade was forged from the fang of the very beast's middle head that has the potent magical venom to kill a god. Those who wielded the "Hebi no Kiba" katana are often enveloped in an intimidating, vengeful aura that would stricken their enemies' souls with unimaginable fear like that of the eight-headed, winged hydra slain long ago.

After his transformation, his armor is more organic with the plates replaced by actual serpent scales and the fang-like spikes grew sharper and longer. The coloration of the armor is dark violet with streaks of crimson. The eight-headed dragon head crest becomes alive as actual writhing serpentine beasts. His eyes have become slit and sallow not unlike that of a snake. His facemask permanently became his movable snout and jaws. Yellow scales and sharp eagle-like talons formed on his hands and fingers and his feet had become beast-like. Most notably are the enormous, cobalt bat-like wings supported by yellow-scaled limbs that have sprouted from his back. He also has long scaly, lizard-like indigo tail formed behind him.

Bio: The living incarnations of Bushidō, the samurai way of the warrior, or as close as one can get. Masters of multiple martial arts, they are trained from infancy to fight and die for their emperor or their fellow samurai without asking why. Kensei wear heavy armor and fight with the nodachi, a longer version of the katana that cleaves enemies in a few elegant and powerful strikes. Kensei spend their lives fighting and training as they strive to attain a level of perfection few other warriors can ever hope to achieve.

Anenokoji was a Kensei, and Daimyo allied with Ayu, and with an unusual fondness in snakes and how they're reborn after shedding their skin. He was the commander previously in charge of defending Fort Hikomaru from the Warborn that invaded his shores. Using unorthodox methods such as using elephants to trample the Vikings to death or having his Orochi drop boxes of deadly vipers onto the unsuspected Vikings within castles, Anenokoji not only successfully drove the invaders out from his fortress, but also displayed an unusual streak of sadism when he stabbed into the Viking Warlord eight times with the sword's poison killing him slowly right in front of the Vikings' eyes. This earned him the nickname "The Eight Serpent Demon" from both enemies and allies alike. However, he was blindsided by the news of the Emperor's death. Like all Daimyo that Apollyon had captured, he rejected Apollyon's invitation and a Lawbringer was about to execute him until Apollyon intervened. After Seijuro and four more Daimyo were spared and taken away, Apollyon examined the lone captured Daimyo and tried to pry out his reasons for fighting. His only words he said were,

"I am death."

The tone was cold and emotionless. They eerily resembled the earlier words muttered by Apollyon to Ayu, which made Apollyon take pause. She felt something about this man that was very unsettling even to her when she looked into his yellowish eyes. She saw no emotion in them, which she swore bear resemblance to that of a hungry snake staring at her. Afterwards, Apollyon recognized Anenokoji as a viper, whose true intent was concealed within his hidden fangs, and ordered him to be dropped into The Myre. After Ayu killed the other three rogue Daimyo, only he and his men remained. Ayu, Momiji, Okuma, and The Orochi, Nagamasa were expecting much resistance from Anenokoji, but, however, they were astonished to find none from his camp as his soldiers allowed them in without a fight. An even greater surprise awaited in the entrance of the former Kaiyo Kabe as Anenokoji bowed and submitted, acknowledging Ayu to be the true heiress to the throne rather than challenging her.

The four were suspicious of his willingness to ally with them as they couldn't read his intentions. They intended to question him of his reasons, but the newfound threat of Apollyon and the mounting instability of the Dawn Empire under Seijuro's reign gained top precedence, forcing them to rely on Anenokoji and his forces in order to mount a viable coup against Seijuro. Only Nagamasa remained wary of Anenokoji.

After Seijuro was bested by The Orochi, Ayu appointed Seijuro and Anenokoji as two of her commanders. Anenokoji helped the other disgruntled warriors lead the charge against Apollyon and the Blackstone Legion. It was there that The Orochi learned of a disturbing prophecy from the dying Apollyon that he had defeated in the fierce duel.

Apollyon muttered, "The yellow serpent will reemerge from the inferno as the eight-headed dragon…Orochi."

When Nagamasa relayed the dark revelation to his cohorts, their suspicions of Anenokoji grew further, though they decided to keep it to themselves not wishing to sow further distrust among the ranks of the recovering Dawn Empire. Anenokoji, on the other hand, remained difficult to read out for a long time.

It wasn't until the appearance of the Wu Lin from ancient China two years later that his true colors have been revealed after the scales of his façade have shed away.

With the recovering world of the West now thrown into utter chaos by the invading Wu Lin from the East, the Dawn Empire was stretched thin and wide in terms of resources and manpower with the Samurai having to fight off large hordes of Chinese armies. The newly reformed Iron Legion and the Warborn had their own issues securing their borders with the Wu Lin right at their doorsteps. During this time, Okuma was murdered by mysterious assailants and weeks later, Momiji was found dead in her home with her throat slashed open.

Confused and infuriated by the murder of their closest friends and confidantes, Empress Ayu and Nagamasa thought that the Wu Lin had the gall to resort to underhanded, cowardly tactics. This was further complicated by the fact that the Samurai had found evidence seemingly pointing to the Vikings being in alignment with the Wu Lin. They were not alone as the Iron Legion also accused the Warborn of going back on their alliance by clandestinely murdering their best warriors and tacticians to weaken them out of political gain. Both also accused the Wu Lin for being the main perpetrator of the chaos. The Warborn and the Wu Lin didn't take the accusations from them well either. The Warborn and the Wu Lin agreed to a temporary alliance, but even that proved to be demolished when Huang the Jiang Jun was found dead with the knife belonging to the Vikings struck into his neck.

The Warborn were soon besieged on two fronts; by the alliance of the Dawn Empire and the Iron Legion on one side, and the Wu Lin on the other.

Anenokoji was strangely absent from the conflict for a long period of time, but everyone was too busy fighting the Warborn and the Wu Lin to really take notice. All, except for Seijuro, Nagamasa, Helvar, and Stone.

They had long suspected Anenokoji having something to do with the entire conflict when they saw that his army was rather…lackluster or half-hearted in their efforts to support the Dawn Empire or their allies. Not to mention, that Anenokoji hadn't ordered his forces to confront the invading Wu Lin, at least, in terms of being on the offensive, despite doing well on the defensive.

Maybe too well with the majority of his forces concentrated at Fort Hikomori. Anenokoji was hiding something from them, and only Seijuro had any inkling what it was, but he needed evidence to support his theory. Thus, the four misfits snuck into his fortress and broke open into Anenokoji's vault. It was probing through the contents of the letters that they discovered the horrific truth.

Anenokoji had sold the entire West continent out to the desperate Wu Lin, who were reeling from centuries of civil war that had decimated China by telling them the location of the Warborn's, Iron Legion's and the Dawn Empire's territories and its resources. He falsely promised them that they would be prosperous as long as they submit the conquered territories to him. In reality, he has no plans of sharing his envisioned rule with them as they noted his clandestine orders for his armies to subjugate the Wu Lin after their usefulness to him was voided. Nagamasa, Seijuro, Helvar, and Stone grew more and more horrified with dread building in their souls when they saw multitude of letters of issued orders, which put Anenokoji responsible for the murders of Okuma, Momiji, Mercy, Daubeny, Huang, and many others, and for instigating the war through his sleeper agents. Others include his diary that described his psychological delusions of grandeur, one of which he viewed himself like a snake shedding his skin and emerging out as the three-headed serpent dragon.

Nagamasa's fears of Anenokoji's role were realized with Apollyon's prophecy coming to pass.

Anenokoji's goal was to become the ultimate emperor of the world by having his rivals and unwitting pawns, which were the Wu Lin, eliminated so that no one could challenge him when he would acquire the legitimacy to rule on the throne.

Seijuro, on the other hand, was vindicated in his suspicions towards his former friend/rival's descent into madness; furious that Anenokoji deceived them all into a world war fought so hard to avoid and stained the honor of the Samurai in the process.

Helvar and Stone lost color on their faces from hearing the truth that their own factions have been duped by a power-hungry madman.

However, before they could escape, they were captured by Anenokoji's ninjas that ambushed them from the shadows of his fortress. The four awakened from their unconsciousness to find themselves confined to jail cells within Fort Kaiyo Kabe. It was when Anenokoji came to visit them that they noticed his eyes had changed. They were no longer human with their pupils slit like that of a reptile with the cause of the transformation being his Hebi no Kiba nodachi and its aura looking darker than before.

The dragon-eyed Daimyo announced to the misfits that they would be executed for their crimes of infiltrating his domain and stealing his secrets, but not before they would witness his rise to power and being helpless to stop him. Nagamasa questioned Anenokoji as to why he truly sided with Ayu and his group at The Myre when he could have joined Apollyon. The Daimyo answered that it was out of pure pragmatism that if he had sided with Apollyon, everyone not in his camp would definitely catch onto his true intentions too soon, including Apollyon sooner or later, and he would have been killed before he had the chance to implement his grand master plan for world domination. When asked about his close friendship with Seijuro, Anenokoji said offhandedly that Seijuro had turned into an obstacle that needed to be removed or neutralized with his thanks all going to Nagamasa and his friends being the most useful pawns for accomplishing that. The comment riled up Seijuro with him punching the bars to try rush up to strangle his friend-turned-enemy. Ignoring his outburst, Anenokoji turned to the equally angry Helvar and Stone with the latter swearing that when Warden Elizabeth hears of Anenokoji's treachery and his hand in the murders of her trusted confidantes and beloved husband, she would give him a fate worse than death. Anenokoji brushed his threat off as well stating that by the time she's aware of what happened, it would be far too late. As for the Vikings, they have served their usefulness and they would only be remembered for their barbarism and that they were the ones that brought the world into war. That he, Anenokoji, would be the one to save it from extinction and that he would bring the rebirth the world desperately needed to shed off its violent past after half of the world's population was killed off.

Before Anenokoji would depart, Nagamasa asked him then what he would do with the Wu Lin once their usefulness for him has ended with the world's so-called rebirth brought to fruition. The psychologically unstable Daimyo replied that they and everyone else would forever be grateful to him for bringing back the balance of harmony to a dying world in need of salvation.

Thankfully, a female Shinobi from Empress Ayu's forces managed to rescue the four from their jail cells and also heard Anenokoji's insane game plan that needed to be addressed to Empress Ayu. Seijuro, Nagamasa, Stone, Helvar, and the Shinobi, Hirasaka, snuck their way out from the prison ward and traveled through a secluded road that snaked through the Myre and out. Once they reached the battlefield that was bordering between the Warborn country and the Iron Legion's territories, each went back to their respective factions to try warn their monarchs of the impending threat of Anenokoji with his megalomaniacal plans of world domination and how he had murdered and manipulated everyone, even the Wu Lin, to instigate a world war intended to wipe out half of the world's population. Out of all of the monarchs, Ayu was the most shocked and devastated upon hearing that their true enemy was from within the Samurai ranks. By then, it was too late when the Dawn Empire, The Iron Legion, and The Warborn were suddenly attacked from behind by Anenokoji and his considerably sized army, consisting of his generals and soldiers, former ronin, and ex-Blackstone Legion Knights, which gave the Wu Lin army the signal to attack the front.

It was a very messy, chaotic battle with all three factions fighting against the Wu Lin and the rogue Samurai faction led by Anenokoji. It was the longest battle of attrition with everyone being killed and destroyed by the relentless violence that was reaching to nearby villages. Realizing the only way to put an end to the war was a desperate all-out attack on the megalomaniacal Daimyo, Nagamasa, Seijuro, Stone, Hirasaka, Helvar, Ayu, Warden Elizabeth, and Fredrickson the Raider charged at Anenokoji's camp situated on top of a snowy hill, hacking and slashing at the Wu Lin and Anenokoji's samurai that were in their way. After overcoming the Oni-like Shugoki that was Anenokoji's right-hand man, they managed to corner him, but not before he taps into the dark demonic energies coming out from his nodachi. He transformed into a draconian demon-like Kensei with his armor now dark violet and red with his eight-headed dragon headcrest more prominent and alive with the heads wriggling about, flashing their jaws. His toothy mouthpiece permanently became a reptilian maw with scales formed around his eyes, and huge, dark blue sail-like wings sprouted from his back while a scaly indigo tail formed behind him. After an intense battle involving the clash of blades and magic between the desperate heroes and the Dragon Kensei, Nagamasa and his peers managed to defeat Anenokoji with unexpected help from the Wu Lin Tiandi, Cao Xuang, who had finally managed to see through the Dragon Kensei's deception to come to his senses. Anenokoji was in utter disbelief that his plan, almost coming to fruition, was stopped at the last minute with all of his years of planning gone down the drain. In his last moments with the battle over, he asked the heroes why they stopped him from doing what he needed to do to restore balance of nature to the world. Nagamasa answered that humanity and even a creature like Anenokoji are part of nature's balance. Destroying humanity, even if half of the population, would make him a hypocrite because he would be responsible for making the world suffer greatly much like the humans he had come to despise.

Anenokoji lamented that he knew that to be true all along. He instigated the war because he was tired of the suffering he had to endure ever since his wife and child died. The ugly hatred displayed towards brothers and sisters no matter how much good was done. He wanted to end it all, even if it meant destroying himself. As his last breath exited him, he died, and his body dissolved into dust. With his defeat, the war was finally over.

The twisted reincarnation of Orochi was vanquished.

Intro Motions

First: Anenokoji was letting a Golden Eyelash viper snake around his armored, scaly arm while admiring its beautiful coat of golden scales. He could already sense his opponent confronting him. After they finished their verbal threat, Anenokoji snarls back with a taunt of his own with the viper hissing at them.

Second: Anenokoji was shedding his human shell within a leathery cocoon until he emerges from it in his dragonoid form. He hisses, speaking out his threat in a deep, distorted voice, which unnerves his opponent briefly. They threaten him back after they regained their composure. Anenokoji unsheathes his Hebi no Kiba nodachi sword and points it at his opponent with one last taunt.

Intro

Superman

1st

Superman: Your philosophy is quite disturbing to say the least.

Anenokoji: Because you're still clinging onto your frail human shell, Kryptonian.

Superman: Mocking me is the last thing you'll ever do.

2nd

Anenokoji: This world…this corrupted system…needs to be shed off in order for its rebirth to start.

Superman: I saw the problem with this world and fixed it!

Anenokoji: Fixing the symptoms is not enough.

Darkseid

1st

Darkseid: You will eat the dust before me, serpent.

Anenokoji: Your threats don't intimidate me.

Darkseid: Then I will tear your scales off!

2nd

Anenokoji: Eight stabs and you will be envenomated.

Darkseid: Your fangs will shatter against my power.

Anenokoji: My fangs are meant to kill gods.

Brainiac

1st

Brainiac: What species are you?

Anenokoji: I am the Orochi reborn.

Brainiac: Noted for classification.

2nd

Anenokoji: Nothing lasts forever, not even you.

Brainiac: That is why my purpose is to preserve the knowledge of all things.

Anenokoji: Mine is to bring death to all the living so the earth can restart once more.

Batman

1st

Batman: You should have stayed dead, demon.

Anenokoji: I agree, but not before I kill off half the world.

Batman: There's already been enough death.

2nd

Anenokoji: We are kindred spirits, you and I, Batman.

Batman: You submitted to evil. I bring it to justice!

Anenokoji: Yet you let the Joker live, which is hypocritical of you.

Finishing Move

Eight-Stabbed Overkill – Anenokoji readies his sword to stab. If his Hebi no Kiba nodachi hits, then he would stab his opponent eight times onto the chest. The opponent would reel from the excessive amount of venom poisoning their body from within and without with sickly, discolored veins showing all over the skin. Their opponent suddenly has the demonic nodachi puncturing through their stomach, prompting them to unwisely punch Anenokoji in the face. Unfazed, the eight serpentine heads of the mutated headcrest will bite the opponent's head making them blind and more disfigured. Then Anenokoji concludes the fight with a grisly finish by cutting though the opponent's ribs, chest, and neck collar in an upward slash. The opponent drops dead with a pool of tainted, poisoned blood forming underneath.

A/N: I decided to post Bonus DLC Injustice 2 Guest Characters randomly as to spice things up. More often than not, they'd be typecast player/grunt characters from various movie/video game franchises or OCs based on them. So just to give you readers a heads up on that.