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Revision as of 23:47, 23 October 2006
Former Xavier’s student and current X-Man/art student, Shiro Yoshida is certainly not the friendliest or most agreeable person this side of the Pacific. Though his intense nationalistic pride has been tempered during his time in the States, Shiro remains a volatile, independent, yet sometimes vulnerable young man.
Contents
Details
Character Journal: x_sanfuaiyaa
Real Name: Shiro Yoshida
Codename: Sunfire
Aliases: Kamikaze
First Appearance: November 10, 2003
Date of Birth: March 15, 1987
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Citizenship: Japanese
Relatives: Yashida Clan: Saburo Yoshida (father - deceased), Shinobu Yoshida (mother - deceased), Leyu Yoshida (sister), Shingen Yashida (great uncle - deceased), Keniuchio Harada (first cousin once removed), Mariko Yashida (first cousin once removed - deceased). Tomo Hino (maternal uncle - deceased).
Education: High school diploma, currently working for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Cartooning at the School of Visual Arts.
Relationship Status: single
Occupation: student/superhero
Team Affiliation: X-Men (currently on medical leave)
Biography
Childhood
The Yashida Clan is one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Japan, claiming to be able to track their heritage back to well before the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though they hold exclusive ties to the Yakuza, Shiro’s father Saburo was a diplomat, committed to strengthening post-war Japanese-American relations.
Shiro’s mother’s family hails from Hiroshima, and his maternal grandparents were victims of the atomic bomb dropping in 1945. Though they were lucky enough to survive without significant personal damage, they and their children were all very sickly. When Shinobu and Saburo married, they agreed to take in and care for Shinobu’s older brother Tomo. With Saburo away often and Shinobu growing weaker after giving birth, child rearing duties fell to Tomo. He blamed America for his family’s condition, and raised Shiro to share these anti-American sentiments. By the time Shinobu died after giving birth to Leyu, the damage was done and Shiro accepted Tomo’s hatred as Gospel truth.
When Shiro was 11, Tomo took him to Hiroshima so he could see first-hand the destruction wrought. When he touched the still-radioactive soil, his powers manifested, and Tomo decided that he could use his nephew as a weapon against the Americans. He trained Shiro to use his powers for destructive purposes. When Saburo discovered what his brother-in-law was doing, he confronted Tomo, who shot him. Shiro witnessed this, and in a fit of rage lost control of his powers for the first time, utterly annihilating his house and everything in it. Thankfully, Leyu was out at the time.
Now orphans, the Yoshida children were adopted by their father’s cousins, Keniuchio Harada and Mariko Yashida. Shiro and his sister lived with Harada for the next four years. Despite Harada’s numerous business ventures with the United States and Mariko’s insistence of the maintenance of cordial international relations, Shiro stayed true to Tomo’s lessons. It was to his great dismay that his guardians decided to send him to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in 2003 to further develop his mutation, which both Harada and Mariko agreed was a mission of the utmost importance.
Living At The X-Mansion
Blaze of Glory
Proteus, Reavers, and the X-Men
Full Metal Mutants and Shiro’s Fall
Physical Characteristics
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 130 lbs.
Eyes: brown
Hair: black
Other Features: Shiro’s skin turns pitch black when he overexerts his powers, due to an increase in pigment production in order to increase sunlight absorption.
Powers
Shiro possesses the mutant ability to absorb sunlight and use the stored chemical energy to ionize air into plasma. With little effort, he can release an omnidirectional wave of plasma, and with some concentration, he can control and direct its path. He can also fly by riding on a hot cloud of monoatomic hydrogen atoms. Mental stimulation of this hot cloud can propel him through the air at a maximum speed of 400 miles per hour. His lungs are developed to extract oxygen from altitudes of up to 30,000 feet above sea level, and the heat from the plasma equalizes the pressure. He’s also learned how to shape plasma into small exploding fireballs, and to extend his vision into the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Despite the intense heat, light, and radiation released by use of his powers, Shiro is immune to their effects. Whenever he uses his powers, he automatically conjures a personal force field that protects him. The force field is visible, ranging from a faint golden glow to bright flames that cover his entire body and extend up to five inches outward (like the Human Torch) depending on the intensity to which he accesses his powers. He cannot extend this force field to offer anyone else protection; it affects his body, his clothes, and small objects on his person.
It is possible for him to exhaust himself if he uses more energy than he can bring in. When this happens, melanocytes and similar cells go into overtime pigment production so he can quickly absorb light and regain his energy. He absorbs a lot of light during this period, so his skin doesn't reflect any, turning it black. This will last until he's back to normal levels.
The most dangerous application of his powers was demonstrated in the summer of 2004; he can release so much energy that he acts as a thermonuclear bomb. At full strength, he could annihilate a small island. The strain of such an act would likely tear his force field apart, and if he didn't die immediately, then he would be poisoned by the intense radiation and die within the week.
Equipment
Shiro owns a katana given to him as a gift by Betsy a couple of years ago. He used to own a custom-made sword that Harada had commissioned for him, but it was destroyed when Shiro was cast out.
When he was addicted to Kick, he’d carry around what looked like an asthma inhaler loaded with a cartridge of the drug. He’s long since discarded it.
Trivia
Shiro never learned how to drive, but out of his own volition. Who needs to drive when they can fly?
Plots
X-Men Mission: The Perfect Nanny
Meta
Player: Ben
E-mail: thatwasnifty @ gmail . com
AIM: taiyoonohi
Player Icon Base: Takeshi Kaneshiro
Meta Trivia
Shiro’s theme song is “Wish” by Hitomi, because his player listened to it often when the character was first introduced.
