Tora
Nov 29, 2016 14:10:28 GMT -5
Post by The Architect on Nov 29, 2016 14:10:28 GMT -5
Tora
AKA: Nagatobimaru
Height: 8 feet
Mass: Not Available
Flight Speed: Fast
Running Speed: Fast
Powers:
- Lightning: Tora can launch numerous bolts of electricity from his body.
- Claws: Tora’s claws are razor sharp, capable of slicing through nearly anything with ease.
- Strength: Tora has immense physical strength, being able to lift massive objects and send people flying backwards hard enough to crater solid rock walls.
- Hair Grapple: Tora can extend his hair to great lengths to grapple with opponents or even to act as a sort of anchor to keep himself in place.
- Invisibility: Tora can make himself invisible to all people not possessing a heightened spiritual awareness.
- Limb Life: If one of Tora’s appendages is severed, he can still move it as if it were still attached to his body. He can also reattach the limbs at will, though they’re prone to coming off again for a while until they properly heal.
Weaknesses: None
First Appearance: Ushio and Tora (Entire Series, 1992)
Human Kills: Not Available
Fight Record: Wins: 6, Losses: 2, Ties: 0
Home World: Earth
Origin: China
Type: Supernatural
History: Long ago, a terrible demon traveled from China and ravaged the Japanese countryside, killing and devouring anyone in its path. One day, a mysterious traveler appeared wielding a huge spear endowed with mystical power and challenged the demon. The two fought fiercely for four days and four nights, with neither able to gain the upper hand. Finally, on the fifth day, the man managed to impale the monster with his spear, pinning it to a rock. His energy completely spent, the man collapsed on the spot, but the demon was trapped, sealed against the rock by the Beast Spear’s power. A temple was built on top of the rock in order to keep an eye on the monster. The man who defeated the beast became a monk, and his family tended to the temple from that point on.
Five hundred years later, Ushio Aotsuki, a descendant of the man who defeated the monster, didn’t believe his father’s stories about his ancestry and the temple. That is until one day when he stumbled down a trapdoor in a storage shed at the temple. In the darkness, the demon sat, still alive and pinned to the stone. The monster tried to convince Ushio to remove the spear, but the young man refused and climbed back up into the shed, placing boards back over the hole.
Unfortunately for Ushio, all of the demon’s hatred and negative energy which had been sealed up in the room for 500 years was now free to disperse on the wind. It didn’t take long for the energy to start attracting small, weak monsters. At first, only Ushio could see these fish monsters because he’d come in contact with Tora, but shortly after the creatures began to take physical form and become visible. With Ushio’s friends Asako and Mayuko in danger, he had no other choice but to pull the Beast Spear out and free the demon. Of course, the demon immediately attacked him, only to be put in his place when the spear’s powers activated.
In a desperate bid to not be sealed away again, the demon offered to destroy the fish monsters. Striking out with his lightning, he killed the small monsters by the dozens before they started to assemble into a single massive, snake-like creature. With Ushio and the demon working together, the huge fish monster was no match and was defeated in mere seconds.
With the fish monsters destroyed, the demon began to leave. Ushio refused to let him, though, because the evil energy left in the room he was sealed in would inevitably draw in other monsters. While he vowed to devour Ushio at the first chance he got, there was little the demon could do with the Beast Spear in the young man’s possession. Realizing they’d be stuck with one another for a while, Ushio decided to name the beast Tora for his resemblance to a tiger, much to the demon’s displeasure.
When an old stone samurai statue was donated to the school Ushio attended, Tora immediately sensed a demon within it. His hunch was quickly proven correct as Ishikui captured several students, including Asako and Mayuko, slowly turning them to stone as he fed on their fear.
Ishikui proved a formidable opponent and quickly overwhelmed Ushio. As Tora watched on, Ushio begged him to rescue his friends. The tiger-like monster did so, but then returned for Ushio. With a blast of his lightning, Tora destroyed the statue Ishikui was inhabiting and revealed the beast’s true form: that of a massive, double-headed centipede.
Ushio and Tora both attacked the monstrosity, but neither could inflict any significant damage. Finally Tora was forced to reveal Ishikui’s weakness: human saliva. Spitting on the tip of the Beast Spear, Ushio stabbed the demon in the eye on one head, then again on the other head. Rearing back in pain, blood spewing from its wounded eyes, Ishikui disintegrated in a spectacular flash of light.
When a man named Hyou found out that a monster matching the one that had killed his family 15 years earlier had been seen in Japan, he immediately went there to take his revenge. Once he found Tora, the human and the demon clashed. The battle was fierce, but Hyou’s spells and demon-slaying techniques soon put Tora on the ropes. Just as Hyou was about to finish Tora off, Ushio intervened and told him it was impossible for Tora to be the culprit since he’d been sealed away for the past 500 years. Not believing the boy, Hyou attacked again, hurling numerous throwing knives at Tora, only to have Ushio block them with his own body. Moved by the boy’s sacrifice, Hyou gave up his attack and left.
When Asako was taken away by the demon Tsubura, Ushio and Tora chased after them. After Ushio and Tsubura battled to a standstill, Tora tried to get involved. Ushio to stopped him, though, saying that killing Tsubura would make Asako sad. Realizing that Asako was already taken by Ushio, Tsubura agreed to leave and return to the old water wheel.
After hearing a report on the news about a group of construction workers being brutally killed and partially devoured, Ushio falsely accused Tora of doing it. In response, Tora flew to the city with the intent to eat some people out of spite. His attempts were repeatedly thwarted, as modern humans wore perfumes and jewelry that made them utterly unpalatable to him. Just as he was about to give up, Tora found Ushio’s friend Mayuko. The girl wore no perfume or jewelry, making her a perfect meal for the demon. Coincidentally, the Gamin, the real culprits in the killings the previous night, were targeting Mayuko as well.
Fortunately for the girl, Ushio learned about the Gamin from an old man and figured out they’d be looking for Mayuko. Tora merely sat back and watched as the five demons overwhelmed Ushio, knocking him out before renewing their search for Mayuko.
They chased Mayuko into a nearby department store, wrecking havoc inside. They eventually cornered her inside a walkway between the upper floors of two buildings, leaving her dangling helplessly from a piece of metal as they tore the structure apart. Luckily, Tora wasn’t one to sit by and watch his meal be taken by someone else. He caught her and carried her up to the roof of the building. The Gamin attacked Tora, but the orange demon effortlessly killed one of them. The eldest Gamin then stayed back to fight Tora, leaving the remaining three to chase Mayuko once again.
Just as the trio were about to finish Mayuko off, Tora appeared once again, this time holding the half-eaten head of the elder Gamin. The remaining three attacked Tora in a rage, only for two of them to be quickly vaporized by his lightning. Realizing he couldn’t defeat Tora, the final Gamin tried to kill Mayuko one final time, only to run into Ushio and the Beast Spear. When it was all over, Mayuko offered Tora a hamburger she’d bought earlier as thanks. Finding the new food item quite delicious, he decided to not eat her or any other humans from then on.
While Ushio and several of his classmates were visiting the beach, Tora tagged along. While Tora was out for a run over the ocean, a peaceful demon named Umizato who guarded the waters called for his help in defeating Ayakashi, a massive sea serpent made from the souls of humans that died at sea that had snuck into the area and claimed it as his own. Tora eagerly accepted and they went to the area Ayakashi had sealed off. The sea serpent emerged from the churning waters, roaring its challenge to the darkened sky. Tora attacked repeatedly with his claws and lightning, but neither had any effect. The monstrosity dove beneath the waves, only to erupt from underneath Tora with its massive jaws agape. Unable to escape from Ayakasi’s gullet, Tora called out to Umizato, telling him to find Ushio and bring him to help defeat the monster.
While Umizato was searching for Ushio, Ayakashi swallowed Asako and a young boy named Tatsuya as well. It took everything Tora could muster to keep himself and the two humans from being drawn into Ayakashi’s core and being devoured. It was then that Ushio finally arrived, but even he could barely keep everyone from being drawn in. Just as all seemed lost, the Beast Spear glowed with a power not even Tora had ever seen before and launched itself at Ayakashi’s core, stabbing itself into the massive eye in the center. As Ayakashi howled in sheer agony, Ushio and Tora carved all the way up from the demon’s stomach to its mouth, ripping the beast open and killing it for good. As the sea serpent’s body exploded into brilliant light, the thousands of souls which had been trapped inside were freed and flew into the sky.
When the Kamaitachi siblings asked Ushio to kill their rampaging brother, Tora came with him as well. Upon seeing Ushio, Juro attacked the human. Ushio was quickly overwhelmed by Juro’s speed and ferocity, and was seemingly killed. Tora intervened, though, and attacked the weasel demon, driving him off temporarily.
Later that night, Juro waited for the humans working on a nearby highway to arrive. Ushio, having been healed by Kagari after their initial fight, soon found him. The two battled again, this time with help from Tora. Once the battle was over and Juro was dead, Ushio and Tora left the forest, presumably fighting off any more demons that eventually rose up.
AKA: Nagatobimaru
Height: 8 feet
Mass: Not Available
Flight Speed: Fast
Running Speed: Fast
Powers:
- Lightning: Tora can launch numerous bolts of electricity from his body.
- Claws: Tora’s claws are razor sharp, capable of slicing through nearly anything with ease.
- Strength: Tora has immense physical strength, being able to lift massive objects and send people flying backwards hard enough to crater solid rock walls.
- Hair Grapple: Tora can extend his hair to great lengths to grapple with opponents or even to act as a sort of anchor to keep himself in place.
- Invisibility: Tora can make himself invisible to all people not possessing a heightened spiritual awareness.
- Limb Life: If one of Tora’s appendages is severed, he can still move it as if it were still attached to his body. He can also reattach the limbs at will, though they’re prone to coming off again for a while until they properly heal.
Weaknesses: None
First Appearance: Ushio and Tora (Entire Series, 1992)
Human Kills: Not Available
Fight Record: Wins: 6, Losses: 2, Ties: 0
Home World: Earth
Origin: China
Type: Supernatural
History: Long ago, a terrible demon traveled from China and ravaged the Japanese countryside, killing and devouring anyone in its path. One day, a mysterious traveler appeared wielding a huge spear endowed with mystical power and challenged the demon. The two fought fiercely for four days and four nights, with neither able to gain the upper hand. Finally, on the fifth day, the man managed to impale the monster with his spear, pinning it to a rock. His energy completely spent, the man collapsed on the spot, but the demon was trapped, sealed against the rock by the Beast Spear’s power. A temple was built on top of the rock in order to keep an eye on the monster. The man who defeated the beast became a monk, and his family tended to the temple from that point on.
Five hundred years later, Ushio Aotsuki, a descendant of the man who defeated the monster, didn’t believe his father’s stories about his ancestry and the temple. That is until one day when he stumbled down a trapdoor in a storage shed at the temple. In the darkness, the demon sat, still alive and pinned to the stone. The monster tried to convince Ushio to remove the spear, but the young man refused and climbed back up into the shed, placing boards back over the hole.
Unfortunately for Ushio, all of the demon’s hatred and negative energy which had been sealed up in the room for 500 years was now free to disperse on the wind. It didn’t take long for the energy to start attracting small, weak monsters. At first, only Ushio could see these fish monsters because he’d come in contact with Tora, but shortly after the creatures began to take physical form and become visible. With Ushio’s friends Asako and Mayuko in danger, he had no other choice but to pull the Beast Spear out and free the demon. Of course, the demon immediately attacked him, only to be put in his place when the spear’s powers activated.
In a desperate bid to not be sealed away again, the demon offered to destroy the fish monsters. Striking out with his lightning, he killed the small monsters by the dozens before they started to assemble into a single massive, snake-like creature. With Ushio and the demon working together, the huge fish monster was no match and was defeated in mere seconds.
With the fish monsters destroyed, the demon began to leave. Ushio refused to let him, though, because the evil energy left in the room he was sealed in would inevitably draw in other monsters. While he vowed to devour Ushio at the first chance he got, there was little the demon could do with the Beast Spear in the young man’s possession. Realizing they’d be stuck with one another for a while, Ushio decided to name the beast Tora for his resemblance to a tiger, much to the demon’s displeasure.
When an old stone samurai statue was donated to the school Ushio attended, Tora immediately sensed a demon within it. His hunch was quickly proven correct as Ishikui captured several students, including Asako and Mayuko, slowly turning them to stone as he fed on their fear.
Ishikui proved a formidable opponent and quickly overwhelmed Ushio. As Tora watched on, Ushio begged him to rescue his friends. The tiger-like monster did so, but then returned for Ushio. With a blast of his lightning, Tora destroyed the statue Ishikui was inhabiting and revealed the beast’s true form: that of a massive, double-headed centipede.
Ushio and Tora both attacked the monstrosity, but neither could inflict any significant damage. Finally Tora was forced to reveal Ishikui’s weakness: human saliva. Spitting on the tip of the Beast Spear, Ushio stabbed the demon in the eye on one head, then again on the other head. Rearing back in pain, blood spewing from its wounded eyes, Ishikui disintegrated in a spectacular flash of light.
When a man named Hyou found out that a monster matching the one that had killed his family 15 years earlier had been seen in Japan, he immediately went there to take his revenge. Once he found Tora, the human and the demon clashed. The battle was fierce, but Hyou’s spells and demon-slaying techniques soon put Tora on the ropes. Just as Hyou was about to finish Tora off, Ushio intervened and told him it was impossible for Tora to be the culprit since he’d been sealed away for the past 500 years. Not believing the boy, Hyou attacked again, hurling numerous throwing knives at Tora, only to have Ushio block them with his own body. Moved by the boy’s sacrifice, Hyou gave up his attack and left.
When Asako was taken away by the demon Tsubura, Ushio and Tora chased after them. After Ushio and Tsubura battled to a standstill, Tora tried to get involved. Ushio to stopped him, though, saying that killing Tsubura would make Asako sad. Realizing that Asako was already taken by Ushio, Tsubura agreed to leave and return to the old water wheel.
After hearing a report on the news about a group of construction workers being brutally killed and partially devoured, Ushio falsely accused Tora of doing it. In response, Tora flew to the city with the intent to eat some people out of spite. His attempts were repeatedly thwarted, as modern humans wore perfumes and jewelry that made them utterly unpalatable to him. Just as he was about to give up, Tora found Ushio’s friend Mayuko. The girl wore no perfume or jewelry, making her a perfect meal for the demon. Coincidentally, the Gamin, the real culprits in the killings the previous night, were targeting Mayuko as well.
Fortunately for the girl, Ushio learned about the Gamin from an old man and figured out they’d be looking for Mayuko. Tora merely sat back and watched as the five demons overwhelmed Ushio, knocking him out before renewing their search for Mayuko.
They chased Mayuko into a nearby department store, wrecking havoc inside. They eventually cornered her inside a walkway between the upper floors of two buildings, leaving her dangling helplessly from a piece of metal as they tore the structure apart. Luckily, Tora wasn’t one to sit by and watch his meal be taken by someone else. He caught her and carried her up to the roof of the building. The Gamin attacked Tora, but the orange demon effortlessly killed one of them. The eldest Gamin then stayed back to fight Tora, leaving the remaining three to chase Mayuko once again.
Just as the trio were about to finish Mayuko off, Tora appeared once again, this time holding the half-eaten head of the elder Gamin. The remaining three attacked Tora in a rage, only for two of them to be quickly vaporized by his lightning. Realizing he couldn’t defeat Tora, the final Gamin tried to kill Mayuko one final time, only to run into Ushio and the Beast Spear. When it was all over, Mayuko offered Tora a hamburger she’d bought earlier as thanks. Finding the new food item quite delicious, he decided to not eat her or any other humans from then on.
While Ushio and several of his classmates were visiting the beach, Tora tagged along. While Tora was out for a run over the ocean, a peaceful demon named Umizato who guarded the waters called for his help in defeating Ayakashi, a massive sea serpent made from the souls of humans that died at sea that had snuck into the area and claimed it as his own. Tora eagerly accepted and they went to the area Ayakashi had sealed off. The sea serpent emerged from the churning waters, roaring its challenge to the darkened sky. Tora attacked repeatedly with his claws and lightning, but neither had any effect. The monstrosity dove beneath the waves, only to erupt from underneath Tora with its massive jaws agape. Unable to escape from Ayakasi’s gullet, Tora called out to Umizato, telling him to find Ushio and bring him to help defeat the monster.
While Umizato was searching for Ushio, Ayakashi swallowed Asako and a young boy named Tatsuya as well. It took everything Tora could muster to keep himself and the two humans from being drawn into Ayakashi’s core and being devoured. It was then that Ushio finally arrived, but even he could barely keep everyone from being drawn in. Just as all seemed lost, the Beast Spear glowed with a power not even Tora had ever seen before and launched itself at Ayakashi’s core, stabbing itself into the massive eye in the center. As Ayakashi howled in sheer agony, Ushio and Tora carved all the way up from the demon’s stomach to its mouth, ripping the beast open and killing it for good. As the sea serpent’s body exploded into brilliant light, the thousands of souls which had been trapped inside were freed and flew into the sky.
When the Kamaitachi siblings asked Ushio to kill their rampaging brother, Tora came with him as well. Upon seeing Ushio, Juro attacked the human. Ushio was quickly overwhelmed by Juro’s speed and ferocity, and was seemingly killed. Tora intervened, though, and attacked the weasel demon, driving him off temporarily.
Later that night, Juro waited for the humans working on a nearby highway to arrive. Ushio, having been healed by Kagari after their initial fight, soon found him. The two battled again, this time with help from Tora. Once the battle was over and Juro was dead, Ushio and Tora left the forest, presumably fighting off any more demons that eventually rose up.