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Topic: Zenko Sightings

In: Boards ► Brockton Bay ► New Capes ► Zenko

►DiscoDock (Original Poster)(Not A Duck)
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

Okay, our little foxgirl has been running around the city lately doing all sorts of things, so I wanted to do a collection of sightings and activities.

On the ninth she stopped a mugging from a bunch of drug addicts and had a whole bunch of little white foxes running around the Boardwalk with many many photo-ops from various people there. (Image)(Image)(Image)(Image)

On the tenth she was again at the Boardwalk, running around and doing acrobatics. Then she ran across the water in the fountain. Across the top of the water. (Image)

Got some pics from when she was helping to put out fires earlier in the week (Image) and when she was helping last night (Sep 11) on that firefight between E88 and ABB gang members on Miller Street. (Video)

►BoyzInnaHoodie (Unverified Cape)
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

Case 53 Cape? Those ears and tails are real? Got to say the swarm of white fluffiness attack is both adorable and apparently effective.

►PenDant
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

Ugh. What's with the tail and ears? They are completely not needed for her costume, she's actually worse than Mouse Protector. Is she a furry or something?

►Tin Mother (Moderator)
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

Just a reminder that the cape in question is underage before the thread derails into THAT territory.

No, it hadn't gone there yet but I've seen the way these things start.

►PenDant
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

I wasn't going there!

Seriously though is there another reason for the tails and ears than some furry 'omg cute' crap?

►Zenko (Verified Cape)
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

Two of my sensei in the ninja arts tell me it was an unplanned consequence of my training and awakening of my chakra coils in the soulscape between the Pure World and Impure World.

►PenDant
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

The individual words make sense but the way they are put together does not.
That there is an explanation is nice, I suppose. I just want one that makes sense.

►SubtleKnife
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:
PenDant: If she's something like a Case 53, she may not know a sensible explanation.

Since you're online, Zenko, something I've been wondering.

Why aren't you wearing a more typical ninja suit if you're a ninja?

►Zenko (Verified Cape)
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

The 'ninja costume' in the movies is for cinematic ninja.

The ninja costume for historically accurate ninja was normal everyday clothing for the time period because they were primarily spies.

The ninja costume for my kind of ninja is mostly durable clothing though if I made full chunin I'd get a flak vest with the village symbols. Except Brockton Bay doesn't have a hidden village yet.

I've mainly been training with ninja from Konohagakure so the symbol on my hitai-ate is the Konoha symbol to honor my teachers. I'll switch to the kanji for shinobi if I get teachers from outside Konoha.

►DiscoDock (Original Poster)
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

"Yet"?

►Zenko (Verified Cape)
Posted on Sep 12, 2009:

Work in progress. Some people have expressed the interest in seeing if I can open their chakra coils and I'm trying to work out how to do that.

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►XxVoid_CowboyxX
Replied on Sep 15th, 2009:

No, she doesn't look like Ahri from League Of Legendaries. Have you even seen the game?

Ahri has multiple looks depending on the skin you're using but no red hair ones. Black, pink, blonde, sort of purplish, and I think there's a "dirty-blonde" but no copper-haired Ahri.

Zenko has two tails. Ahri has either one or nine depending on various factors in the game. Including skins.

The clothing is different. After that incident where Zenko tried to paint a house using hydrokinesis, she had to replace her old gym clothes costume for the new set. Zenko doesn't have any outfits like Ahri.

►Zenko (Verified Cape)
Replied on Sep 15th, 2009:

Gee. Thanks. I wanted to forget that. I especially wanted everyone else to forget that.

►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied on Sep 15th, 2009:

Don't forget to swing by the PRT and fill out form 2097104-E (Affiliated Hero Encountering Unknown Parahuman) or at least DM me on the details of the 'Emo Sniper Girl' for our records at your earliest convenience.

►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Sep 15th, 2009:

The lifeblood of any government agency is the papertrail.

►Zenko (Verified Cape)
Replied on Sep 15th, 2009:

Just sent it, and it's getting late. Good night everyone!

►Mojiizen
Replied on Sep 15th, 2009:

That she might be able to teach others to use her powerset is kind of intriguing.

I too would like to be able to do that weird ninja run. Think of all the gas I could be not paying for with my morning commute.

►Loki_Thorson
Replied on Sep 15th, 2009:

I have to admit the idea of people being able to train to use superpowers is both intriguing and frightening.

Me be able to escape a cape fight or not rely on public transport - awesome.

Empire or ABB gang members with weird ninja powers? Frightening.

►Sgt_Murphy (Verified BBPD)
Replied on Sep 15th, 2009:

Zenko is friendly, polite, tends to go off on tangents in conversations and has to be steered back to pertinent information, and from conversations I've had with her twice - is pretty far from being the popular image of a stoic silent assassin ninja.

Though I also am very intrigued with the idea of learning to move very quickly without a squad car.

Bladeworksfan (Kyushu Survivor)
Posted on Sep 15th, 2009:

So, I've seen the videos and I have to ask - what exactly of her abilities is teachable?

►SittingByTheDockofBrocktonBay
Posted on Sep 16th, 2009:

First lesson we had she was putting her hand on her chest and sending "unaspected chakra" into a few of the Dockworkers who'd volunteered for this little experiment. She was telling us to concentrate on what she was doing and what it felt like.

Two of us reacted immediately, stating it was weird. Old Erwin had somehow invited himself to this little meeting and he was one of the two. Two more got it on the second go, and I was in the third batch. Apparently she was sending more of this chakra stuff in with each attempt.

It felt weird. Only way I can describe it. Like someone taking a feather and somehow brushing it up against your internal organs or something.

Then came explanations about how chakra was a combination of physical energy and spiritual energy. Which didn't make much sense to me, but whatevers. I *had* felt something going through me so I was just filing it away as weird stuff I might understand later.

She doesn't think anyone's going to learn the 'ninjutsu' stuff, but that we might be able to train up our own chakra to do things like run faster, lift heavier weights, heal faster. Kind of like an adrenalin response but something you can switch on when you think you need it.

►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Posted on Sep 16th, 2009:

After midnight, so it's time for me to logoff, but I am sending a message to Zenko that she really needs to meet with us to discuss this whole training people to have parahuman abilities thing.

For what might be obvious reasons, we have questions. So many questions.

Topic: What does the fox say?
In: Boards ► Places ► America ► Brockton Bay

Mod_Hatter (Original Poster)
Posted on Sep 16th, 2009:

Okay, assuming that Zenko's set of grab bag powers is actually a single power - Ninja Emulation as was speculated on one of the boards. Which still sounds weird but it kind of fits what we've seen.

Running across water, vanishing in a little poof of smoke, running up the sides of buildings, forty+ foot leaps, stealthy as a fox, etcetera? Those I can see as fitting with what we see of ninja.

Making little armies of foxes? Water-bending? What powerset is Zenko going to pull out next?

►The_Leet_Deal
Posted on Sep 16th, 2009:

Well, the typical ninja game comes out of Japan which also gave us the ninja, so you can look at those to see what the local kitsune might be able to do if she actually was a ninja.

Throwing stars, daggers, and other ninja weapons. These are in a lot of games about ninja. Little caltrops or ball bearings to toss under an enemy's feet. Grenades, though hopefully Oni Lee won't take offense about someone using his modus operandi. Swords of course. The only weapon we've seen Zenko use so far has been that quarterstaff that she makes appear and disappear.

Then there's the sort of heroic ninja in the old game "Sasuga No Sarutobi" where ninjutsu means "ninja magic" with Nikumaru using various wind-based spells. Some of his opponents do fire, one does water similar to Zenko, and another does lightning.

Mod_Hatter (Original Poster)
Posted on Sep 17th, 2009:

If it turns out Void Cowboy is right and her power is literally being a ninja, I'm going to get very drunk just to cope with the idea that Void is right about something.

►The_Leet_Deal
Posted on Sep 17th, 2009:

Honestly, misdirection is a ninja thing. So I'm thinking she's a small scale hydrokinetic. Keeping small amounts of water on her person to control.

Her speed and leaps and such are because she's manipulating those little water packets in her costume.

The little foxes though, that doesn't fit so I'm still trying to come up with a better theory.

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Private Communique: Level 8 Security - Eyes Only

From: Contessa
To: Alexandria
Re: Brockton Bay

Why is it that whenever I path something in Brockton Bay I get a "Step 42: Pet any cute foxes you see."

Is something going on in Brockton Bay that was not mentioned in our last meeting?

Private Communique: Level 8 Security - Eyes Only

From: Alexandria
To: Contessa
Re: Brockton Bay

Not that I know of. Only development there involving foxes is a new fox-themed parahuman who uses projections. My initial thought was that it was a grab bag cape who pinged off of Crusader.

I'll keep an eye out and a hand off until we know more.