Hoshigiri - Katana - Wielded By: Atma Weapon (22nd Gen Eishin-Ryu/Katori-Ryu Samurai - Clan Saito/Oda) "Hoshigiri - Starcutter, or more poetically, Starslayer. The sword that reaches for the stars, so that she may cut even them down." Hoshigiri is a woman of tall stature, with tanned skin and of strong, solid, lean musculature, save for her arms and back muscles, which are meatier. Her hair is long and black with flecks of golds and reds shining in it in the sun. Her eyes are normally blue, but can glow a faint red when enraged. Her body is covered in marks suggesting she has been cut all over, the most prominent ones on her arms, abs, and one across her right cheek. She wears an armless red vest lined in furs, with black gloves going down to her elbows. A simple sarashi covers her rather large chest. She has on an indigo hakama and black obi, with a buckle of the Saito clan emblem helping keep her hakama knot tied together. Instead of geta, she has on blue and gold greaves. A hachimaki is wrapped around her forehead with the kanji for "assured victory" written on it. A fully functional weapon/sword version of herself is always resting on her left hip, in a simple black scabbard. Despite her frightening appearance, she has a rather polite, almost submissive demeanor around her wielder, using the archaic pronoun "sessha", suggesting humility. She can be fiercely protective, but in battle, she has proven unstoppable, and there's a reason why she's named as she is. She is able to conform to the aesthetic and skillset of any weapon Atma may be using or wielding at the time, but she feels most at home when she's being used as a sword, particularly a katana. Samurai Art Styles: Muso Jikiden Eishin-Ryu (Harusuke-Ha branch, whom specialized in cutting) Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-Ryu Saito Clan Info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_clan Emblem - http://www2.harimaya.com/sengoku/html/saito_k.html PHOTOS https://bushi.neocities.org/hoshi1.jpg https://bushi.neocities.org/hoshi2.jpg https://bushi.neocities.org/hoshi3.jpg https://bushi.neocities.org/hoshicert1.jpg https://bushi.neocities.org/hoshicert2.jpg COMMISSIONS https://bushi.neocities.org/hoshigiri%20-%20dailyarturia.png - by @dailyarturia on twitter NOTE: Hoshigiri is a transwoman sword. Historically, katana started gaining fuller to lessen weight when more women became samurai/onnabugeisha and it wound up reinforcing the blade geometrically and through physics which meant the cuts and blocks off it were reinforced highly, making it a superior weapon for combat. Men immediately started demanding their swords get fuller too or get ones with such, thereby getting "women's" katana or such. Hoshigiri is a girl sword but has no fuller. When this was noted to a translady GF of mine, she went "Oh, so she's trans, cool!" and you know what? Yeah. She is.