Heihachi is a free roaming samurai who, prior to his current employment, was trading in on his skills and using his sword to cut wood in exchange for food. He has a particular fondness for rice, and was previously recruited to save the small farming village of Kanna with six other samurai lead by the former Ivonian General, Kambei Shimada. __TOC__
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| - Heihachi is a free roaming samurai who, prior to his current employment, was trading in on his skills and using his sword to cut wood in exchange for food. He has a particular fondness for rice, and was previously recruited to save the small farming village of Kanna with six other samurai lead by the former Ivonian General, Kambei Shimada. __TOC__
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| - * Family: Heihachi is the oldest of five siblings, with a younger brother and three younger sisters. The closest in age is his sister Himiko - born three years after he was - who possessed a fiercer disposition and was also set to become a samurai and join the military when she was old enough. He doesn't actually know if she managed this since by the time she reached the right age he'd already been assigned and found it difficult to stay in touch, and since leaving Ivona he hasn't tried to contact his family at all. He assumes that they're all still alive and doing well, and they don't actually believe that he's dead despite him having disappeared some years back.
* Sword: Unlike most samurai families, Heihachi's sword is not any kind of family heirloom. In fact he forged it himself, and it's the only piece of metalwork with any real artistry that he's ever done. It's a little heavier than a standard sword, and while it's not a masterpiece or particularly valuable, it is perfectly suited to his style and very well cared for. The only times he doesn't have it on his person are when he's sleeping and when he's eating in a semi-formal setting .
* Teru teru bozu: This is the official name for the little cloth doll that hangs off the end of his sword. It's a charm that you're supposed to hang from windows to encourage good weather, and if it happens to rain then it means that the doll has betrayed you and you're permitted to cut off its head. Heihachi originally picked up the habit of making them back in his hometown, Solare, which was notoriously plagued by bad weather, but since coming to Vohemar he's a little more vindictive about enforcing the tradition given his new stance on 'traitors'. If he doesn't have one on his sword, that's likely because it's just rained and he hasn't made a new one yet. The weather dolls are typically made out of a white square of cloth with a ball of stuffing to make the head and a loop of string around the neck to hold it in place. Heihachi also draws little faces on them - a different one each time to give them a little personality. A careful observer, however, would notice that the faces don't actually stay consistent, and are prone to changing expression a lot more often than Heihachi changes the dolls. The most feasible explanation for this is because they're connected to his sword which is where the soul of a samurai resides, and are thus a reflection of his inner self...although for this to be true one would have to believe that Heihachi's soul is prone to a lot of wicked smirking. Alternatively, the observer can assume that they're just going crazy.
* Mechanical Aptitude: Though Heihachi did sign on as a mechanic and this position typically means a lot of maintenance work, Heihachi's real passion as an engineer is building things. His particular specialty is actually weapons, which is an odd contrast with his general avoidance of fighting. He doesn't know much about Magitech, but it attempting to learn more with Winry's help.
* Prejudices: On a whole, Heihachi is extremely easy going when it comes to class and race. He's never had a problem with demi-humans, magic users, people with strange physical afflictions, and he gets on bizarrely well with beggars, whores and other undesirables. The only kind of people he doesn't like are bandits and merchants, both of which technically fall into the same category of people who exploit others for the sake of their own greed. And of course there's traitors, but that deserves its own novel of explanation.
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| - PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: Heihachi is a samurai and a mechanic who's spent the last three years wandering around Vohemar, chopping firewood in exchange for food and board. Because he's essentially penniless he's generally more familiar with the less savoury areas of towns and isn't afraid to mention this.
SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE: He doesn't advertise that he's actually from Ivona, nor that he was ever in the military unless he's speaking to someone he trusts. If one dug into his past they could find records that he was the only survivor of a unit performing a classified mission on the border of the badlands, though he's the only one who knows what actually happened there and he's never talked about it.
He also sometimes speaks of Kanna, and if you listened to the rumors you'd hear that it was a small farming village in Vohemar that's become much more properous in the last year since hiring samurai in exchange for rice to defend themselves from the bandits who annually stole most of their crop.
POP CULTURE PHENOMENON?: The story of Kanna is something of a folktale, though most people assume it's exaggeration since there aren't too many people who'd risk their lives for rice.
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| - Heihachi almost always smiles and he almost always means it. He’s a generally cheerful individual who earns his way through life by trading hard work and his samurai skills for anything he might want. He’s a generous person who tends to keep only what he needs and gives anything else to those who need it, and in any trade he makes he’ll usually give up more than the other person to earn himself a little extra good karma.
He does, in fact, believe in karma, and that he still has a lot of good deeds to go towards making up for his own past mistakes. He believes that people meet for a reason and this means he adapts fairly easy to any situation. He prefers to make friends rather than enemies, and will go out of his way to be respectful even when people are hostile to him. The only thing he absolutely cannot stand is a traitor, and when confronting one he’ll be quick to judge and quicker to draw his sword.
In spite of being a samurai, Heihachi found that his cheery demeanour and laid back nature wasn’t best suited to the front lines. He’s a competent fighter, but a much better engineer, and his skills with machines are usually in higher demand than his skills with a sword. He’s comfortable in giving orders to people, and a quick thinker when required to use whatever tools he has on hand to resolve a conflict, but he regards his own work as ‘sloppy’ and would gladly give the job of strategising to someone else.
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| - Heihachi was born to a samurai family on the outskirts of Solare, and has always been well acquainted with hard times and the art of getting his hands dirty even though his family was better off than most. He was raised knowing his duty was to help protect those less fortunate than himself, though in Solare the worst enemy for most was simply bad circumstance. He learned a great deal about how to rebuild and repair along with learning the art of the sword from his parents.
Even so, they were quite poor, and as soon as conceivably possible he was sent to the capital to serve in the military. He was quickly promoted due to his hard-working nature and ability to make friends with anyone, but despite the intentions of his parents to uphold the family honour on the battlefield, he found his own niche amongst the engineers instead. He didn’t have the disposition of a real fighter, preferred to think that he was much more useful keeping his unit’s airship running and their weapons in working order.
Though involved in a number of skirmishes with opposing airships from Vohemar, Heihachi never really bore any malice towards his country’s enemies, and this proved to be his undoing when he inadvertantly gave sensitive information to an enemy spy and then allowed them to escape instead of executing them as ordered. This action lead to his entire unit being wiped out and Heihachi himself being badly injured, but though he was rescued and his betrayal remained undiscovered as no one else had lived to tell of it, Heihachi could not endure his own guilt. He left the military without explanation before he’d even fully healed, self-exiling himself to Vohemar.
He half expected to be killed on the journey through the Badlands, but through sheer luck he did not, and began to think that perhaps his survival was both his punishment, and his chance for atonement. Likewise, he arrived in Vohemar with the intent of taking reckless vengeance on anyone who crossed his path, but as he dragged himself into Trewe, exhausted and hungry, a stranger took pity on him and generously gave him a bowl of rice and a place to rest. He was forced to admit that he couldn’t hold a whole country responsible for his own bad decision, and through the kindness he was shown he came to accept his mistake even though he could still not forgive it.
To repay the stranger, he chopped her firewood for a month while the last of his injuries healed, and then moved on to find other ways of atoning for the deaths of his comrades. He typically wanders from place to place with no real direction, trading his skills for food and board and doing good where people have started to lose hope. He’s found that he generally likes Vohemar though he does miss the commonplaceness of technology.
During his travels, as one of his many attempts to make right by past wrongs, he allowed himself to be recruited for a rather insane mission to defend a small farming village from a hoard of bandits. The only reward the village could offer was rice, and as such they only managed to attract a seven samurai willing to accept the job. Still, despite the overwhelming odds in the bandit's favour, the samurai and the farmers prevailed, and the story of their victory became something of a ledged in the area.
Heihachi doesn't go out of his way to mention his involvement, though the tale isn't widely known, and while he enjoyed the company of the other samurai and the open offer of the village to stay and eat their rice indefinitely, he chose to move on to find other ways of working off the debt of his sins.
A chance encounter and a stray remark got him thinking about airships again, although his common sense tried to tell him that it would only bring back too many bad memories. He lasted a couple of months trying to keep the idea out of his head, even going so far as to travel outside of Vohemar and explore the islands of Kropmork-Nahk to distract himself, but by bizarre coincidence or perhaps fate he arrived at the same time as the peace talks. This meant that the port was filled to the brim with dozens of airships baring peace delegates, military personnel, or just curious sightseers.
Being aware enough to take a hint when the universe was obviously trying to tell him something, Heihachi gave in and signed on with the 4423 - a Vohemar vessel, since he isn't sure what his standing might be with the Ivonian military. He hasn't regretted it yet although sometimes he thinks he should.
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| - Heihachi is a free roaming samurai who, prior to his current employment, was trading in on his skills and using his sword to cut wood in exchange for food. He has a particular fondness for rice, and was previously recruited to save the small farming village of Kanna with six other samurai lead by the former Ivonian General, Kambei Shimada.
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| - Heihachi is a free roaming samurai who, prior to his current employment, was trading in on his skills and using his sword to cut wood in exchange for food. He has a particular fondness for rice, and was previously recruited to save the small farming village of Kanna with six other samurai lead by the former Ivonian General, Kambei Shimada. __TOC__
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