<div class="floatright">(https://www.dropbox.com/s/8uhwgxjacupikue/Ikuko.jpg?raw=1)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Ikuko Otono<br/><strong>Age:</strong>26<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'4"<br/><strong>Physical Description:</strong>(Please include at least a physical description or a picture.)<br/><strong>Personality Description:</strong>Ikuko is a gentle, soft-spoken and nurturing presence, the ideal Kurita samurai wife... but she is a deadly warrior despite her smiles and kind words and has dispatched several bounty hunters who have tried to collect the price on her head.  A woman without a family or country now, she assumes a maternal role in the units she's with.<br/><br/>She is not the same perfect woman she was back home... or maybe it is coming out more.  Being away from the stifling conformity of the Combine has let her express her sexual desires more and more.  People outside of the combine have a lot more body modesty and it is more than a little exciting to see their reactions to when she strips off her kimono to reveal nothing but mech warrior shorts in the mech hanger.<br/><br/>For now, she is content to lead the relatively peaceful life of a  mercenary warrior.  While her honor as a samurai is gone in that society, she still carries it inside her and does not take jobs involving wanton carnage or atrocity.  Or even teammates who would attempt such a thing.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Eldest daughter of a long but undistinguished samurai line on Benjamin III, one that had more money than reputation.  Ikuko was groomed to be a samurai mech warrior for the DCMS for her whole life, a burden she looked forward to.  She attended Dover Institute for Higher Learning, joined a line unit as a lance commander and was training for elite special forces when another duty called.  A wedding match with a much more prestigious family had been arranged, with one Jiro Takayama, a mech warrior of a much more storied family that was in need of more money.  She put aside her career and became Jiro's wife, out of duty at first, but love blossomed and they were on their way to having a family.<br/><br/>But a prestigious family has a lot of twisted branches and Jiro's brother Michael wanted his cousin's currently-secure position as head of the household and his wife.  Not a warrior, but a cunning social operator, he took an inconclusive incident with Davion mercenaries Jiro's unit was involved in and twisted it into salacious treason and betrayal, forcing him to commit seppuku.  He was maneuvering Ikuko to be his wife when she went to him willingly... and left him with his throat slit from ear to ear.  For a moment, she considered taking her own life, ending further scandal.  But her own life had value and only she could keep her late husband's memory alive.<br/><br/>She fled the Combine (perhaps a bit too easily... the ISF may have known more than it let on), but Michael's father, the Takayama patriarch and of a kind with his son soiled her name quite thoroughly in the Combine and put a considerable price on her head.  She was working as a mercenary in Lyran space but has moved further and further away from her former home realm.  Perhaps this Deep Periphery job will be far enough.<br/><br/><strong>Modules:</strong><br/>Draconis Combine – Benjamin District<br/>Early Childhood – Nobility<br/>Military School<br/>Military Academy Basic, Mechwarrior<br/>Tour of Duty<br/><br/><strong>Sexual Tendencies and Preferences:</strong>Ikuko is bisexual.  Many Draconis Combine samurai of the same gender become lovers on campaign, as who else could understand them so well as a brother or sister in arms?  She had more than one relationship like that while deployed, but they ended when she was wed.  Now, she's exploring again, and in new ways.<br/><strong>Player Ons and Offs:</strong>Torture, scat.<br/><hr/><strong>Attributes:</strong><br/>STR: 4 (0)<br/>DEX: 7 (+1)<br/>BOD: 4 (0)<br/>RFL: 5 (0)<br/>INT: 4 (0)<br/>WIL: 4 (0)<br/>CHA: 4 (0)<br/>EDG: 3 (-1)<br/><br/><strong>Traits:</strong><br/>Blood Mark 2<br/>Compulsion/Sex  1<br/>Compulsion/ Xenophobia 1<br/>Equipped 3<br/>Enemy 3 (Merchant lord, father of the lordling she killed in revenge)<br/>Fast Learner 3<br/>Reputation (negative) 2 Across Draconis Combine<br/>Wealth 2<br/><br/><strong>Skills:</strong><br/>Skill - XP - Level<br/>Acting 24 (1)<br/>Arts/Oral Tradition 24 (1)<br/>Art/Ink Painting 16 (0)<br/>Career/Soldier 96  (4)<br/>Computers 40 (2)<br/>Gunnery/’Mech 136 (5)<br/>Interest/Erotic Literature 16 (0)<br/>Interest/Military History 40 (2)<br/>Interest/Battlemechs 40 (2)<br/>Language/Japanese  64 (3)<br/>Language/English  40 (2)<br/>Leadership  40 (2)<br/>Martial Arts 40 (2)<br/>Melee Weapons - Blades Specialty 136 +(20) (5)<br/>MedTech  40 (2)<br/>Navigation/Ground  64 (3)<br/>Piloting/’Mech 136 (5)<br/>Protocol/Draconic Combine 96 (4)<br/>Perception 96 (4)<br/>Prestidigitation/quick draw 16 (0)<br/>Running  24 (1)<br/>Sensor Operations 40 (2)<br/>Small Arms 96 (4)<br/>Stealth 40 (2)<br/>Strategy 24 (1)<br/>Swimming 40 (2)<br/>Tactics/Land 40 (2)<br/>Technician/Weapons 40 (2)<br/><br/>1 XP unspent<br/><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong><br/>COST - ITEM - MASS -<br/>-Weapons<br/>250 Katana 2.5 kg<br/>150 Wakazashi 1kg<br/>40 Knife x5 250g ea<br/>750 laser pistol 1 kg<br/>20 Holster 150g<br/>100 sonic stunner 600g<br/>75 High cap. power pack x5 300 g each<br/>(Auto pistol + 5 reloads ) 500g, 140g ea<br/>130 Imperator 2894A1 SMG with Recoil Comp + 4 reloads 4 kg. 380 g ea<br/>25 Laser sight 100 g<br/>25 Silencer 100g<br/>350 Sniper Rifle 10 kg<br/>40 10 reloads 60 g ea<br/>125 Night Vision Scope 450 g<br/>100 Sound & Flash suppressor 300 g<br/>220 night vision goggles 600 g<br/>30 Micro Power Pack x3 15 g ea<br/><br/>-Armor<br/>20 Vest 400g<br/>225 Concealed flak suit 6.45 kg<br/>200 Advanced Combat Helmet 2 kg<br/>600 Ballistic Plate vest 8.8 kg<br/>300 Ablative/Flak sleeves (arms) 2 kg<br/>400 Ablative/Flak pants 6.3 kg<br/>48 Combat Boots 2 kg<br/>-Neurohelmet 6 kg<br/>-Cooling vest,  4 kg<br/><br/>-Clothing<br/>100 Kimono dress x5 .7 kg ea<br/>90 formal dress kimono 2 kg<br/>36 2 pair sandals .8 kg<br/>8 Sweater 1 kg<br/>22 Skirt 90 g<br/>12 Swimsuit (bikini) .50 g<br/>60 5x Underwear (female) 11 g ea<br/>25 5x tabi socks 12 g ea<br/>4 Apron 500 g<br/>120 5 x Jumpsuit, 1 black, 4 uniform 500 g ea<br/><br/>-Gear<br/>10 Basic field kit 5 kg<br/>10 compass 100 g<br/>50 5 med patch 10 g ea<br/>-First aid kit, 250 g<br/>-communication gear,<br/>-power packs (3 std, 3 micro)<br/>-a recharger (manual) 2 kg<br/>-a basic tool kit 10kg<br/>-survival gear<br/><br/><br/><strong>C-Bills:</strong>90<br/>