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Revision as of 00:02, 24 July 2020
Ryōki (両姫, "Both are Princesses", sometimes spelled "Ryouki") is a character that is first mentioned in Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus but later makes her first appearance and becomes playable in Senran Kagura: Estival Versus [1]. She is the deceased elder sister of Ryōbi and Ryōna but, during the Kagura Millenium Festival, in Estival Versus, she was revived by Sayuri and the three Mikagura sisters, becoming a member of the Overseers of the Festival.
Profile
Appearance
Ryōki is a tall woman with a fair body for the series' standards. She has a clear white skin, straight warm black hair and sapphire blue eyes, and she is often seen with a kind and calm expression on her face, and even is the second tallest female character in the series with a height of 1m71.
Her front hair frames her face with two tails reaching her chest, while her back hair reaches her boots with an overall bell shape, large at its end. A golden halo floats above her head, and turns red when in her Happy Turn mode. Her hair is also decorated with a blue ribbon tied by a golden button.
About her dress, Ryōki wears a 3-parts dress which comes in 4 colors, Blue, White, Black, Yellow, which are also present on her weapons. It consists of a double-layered skirt, the second longer than the first, for the bottom, with a black vest, a blue jacket to which a fringed poncho is tied to, above a white bloAuse with a frilled collar.
Personality
"Hi, I am Big Sis Ryōki."
Ryōki is a caring and kind girl who cares mostly for her own sisters, who she loves and took care of during her life, and still cares for after her death. She acts politely, while showing a kind and warm smile, she is even able to forgive anyone who caused her wrong, like Miyabi, but she can be sometimes sleepy, considering her Ninja Transformation in BR:N and her victory animations, involving her being woken up or sleeping.
She may even be slightly humble, as she doesn't recognize herself being feminine when Jasmine mentions it. She loves to hear Buddhist sutras, which are calming to her, even to the point of having nearly disabled her Happy Turn brawl in her SGH, a love which is the result of her incomplete resurrection.
She also proved to be a reliable powerful member for Neutral teams like the Overseers, due to her assisting Sayuri as her second in EV, and controlling Meiun Heaven's Casket in PBS.
She is also known, mostly by her own sisters, for her unshakable calm, being hard to anger or truly destabilize, if not considering her second personality.
"Time to spill those intestines!"
Her second personality constitutes the exact polar opposite of her normal personality, her being bipolar already during her life, through her death separated these two personalities which can be switched thanks to her halo. Her second personality is ruder, more violent and delinquent-like, and can be called her "Happy Turn" side, referring to her Ultimate Ninja Art consisting of enabling it. Under that side of her personality, she insults and attacks every single person that finds itself being in her surroundings, and the thirst for violence and destruction that comes with it can be somewhat overwhelming for her, being able to prevent her from manually disabling it. She is capable through to disable or enable it at will thanks to her halo, and even Ryōna, who loves to cause trouble by touching it.
Background
When [[]] and [[]] were younger, Ryōki would take care of them, as a surrogate mother, play with them, and this is all that she would do until she was enrolled into [[]]'s Elites. Afterwards, she was selected to be part of a team for a mission. To announce her enrollment, and that she won't be back home in a while, she prepared some BBQ for her sisters. While Ryōna was KO by a food coma, a kind of argument started with Ryōbi: Ryōbi was jealous of her and after having told many reproaches, finally told the "I hope you die." that she will later regret in EV.
Afterwards, Ryōki was sent on a mission to take on a Yōma with a team led by one Kagura, but got ambushed by Hebijo's team. She died fatally during that mission by the hand of the targeted Yōma which killed her whole team and almost all of Hebijo's one, Miyabi, one of Hebijo team's members, being with Imu one of the few survivors, was thought by most and accused by Ryōki's sisters to have killed everyone in a rampage, using the Forbidden Ninja Art Blood Riot. However, the only one killed by Blood Riot was the Yōma, which killed everyone it could before the activation of the forbidden technique.
The confusion of the event, until Rin clears it up, leaded to Ryōna and Ryōbi picking Miyabi as culprit, as they heard that she went berserk and thus killed Ryōki along her team. Ryōki, knowing the truth, but powerless in the afterlife, could only assist to what her sisters do, prepare an assassination, a revenge for her, against the wrong culprit and felt sorry that Miyabi has to be target of them, and the trouble they indeed caused. She is happy to see that after the case was made clear Miyabi saw her sisters as reliable allies, as evidenced 3 years later in EV.
Story
Estival Versus
In Estival Versus, she was revived for the Kagura Millenium Festival (Or Kagura 1000 year Festival) that would take place in the story mode where she reunited with her sisters. She passes most of her time with them and Hebijo Team, through sometimes she helps Sayuri in some "internal affairs" in the Festival Executives, like the Mikagura's secret. Her revival is, like Kurokage for Gessen, a great source of joy, and a reason of staying in the realm, with her; for her sisters. Though, she will leaves once all her regrets go away, and the only regrets she had is to have not passed enough time with her sisters, time she catches up during all the Festival.
At the end of the main story mode, she returns to the afterlife after reconciling with Ryōbi and saying goodbye to both her younger sisters. At the dance of the Mikagura, she disintegrates in the sky, at the still great sorrow of her sisters.
Peach Beach Splash
In Peach Beach Splash, Meiun seals the PBS archipelago with the energy gathered thanks to the tournament, trying to save chosen individuals from Shin. In an attempt to flee of that seal, the four originally present teams attempt to use ships, that blow up, and the rainbow bridge, specifically the Gessen team. However, the rainbow bridge is shattering from the seal's pressure, and when Yumi and her friends attempt to run on it before it breaks, that Ryōki finds the bridge after wandering from the afterlife due to a dimensional rift and decides to walk across it, wondering how it is to walk on one in effect. Through the bridge collapses, while she nearly reaches its end, under her and Gessen' feet, making her fall in water screaming and getting a pseudo-reincarnation.
After she found a water gun upon getting up, she plays her first PBS game, through she remarked about how strange would be to meet Ryōbi and Ryōna after what's supposed to be her departure. In effect, both of her sisters are surprised to see her again, but become initially happy with it. Ryōki insists on a water gun fight against Hebijo, in which she is found to be a strong opponent. However, Ryōki disappears shortly afterwards, and warns the team about the arrival of the Mikagura Sisters, promising to her sisters that they'll see her again.
In Peach Beach Splash's final act, Meiun states that he's still unsatisfied with the girls' performance and refuses to let them leave, announcing that he will destroys the rainbow bridge each time it do appear again, telling that they're not ready to face Shin, which he failed to do himself. Through, moved by the girls' enthusiasm and determination, he orders Kiriya and Rin to fly them to a nearby island to face one final test, his last machine. When they arrive dropped from the sky by Kiriya, Rin' and the Lickety Lick Machines, they find a battle machine called "Heaven's Casket" piloted by Ryōki acting as a DJ, a machine that is some representation of herself, bearing similar patterns as her and her weaponry. Working together, Asuka, Homura, Yumi and Miyabi are able to defeat her and Meiun finally allows them to leave. Although Ryōki tells her sisters that it's time to leave, but promises that they will see her again, and possibly disappears like at the end of her second PBS game.
Fighting Style and Gameplay
Main page(s) : Ryōki/Estival Versus
Ryōki is a rather hybrid shinobi, as armed with a dual-barrel shotgun and a rocket launcher shield, she is both strong and fast. Her main play cards are suppressive fire techniques, from the flashball-like missile pummeling to the Minigun suppressive fire in Happy Turn, including the Shield being thrown around to knock down several foes. She couple all of those lethal enough weaponry with a dual-barreled shotgun, with which she fires many buckshot pellets at her foes at close range or point-blank at a fast rate.
While her techniques are mostly efficient against groups, her point-blank shots prove themselves to be very radical against lone enemies. Like most medium range fighters, she is annoyed by long range characters. In term of power, she is able to defeat Daidoji with some ease, through Rin and Sayuri (Especially Rin) both pose huge difficulties.
Her thematics can be associated with Gendarme/Grenadier / Princess.
Ninja Arts:
- Light Ninja Art: Happy Missile
- Heavy Ninja Art: Happy Rain
- Ultimate Ninja Art (Secondary Mode): Happy Turn
Trivia
- Ryōki's name means "Squirm", however the kanji of her name (両姫) can be translated as "Both Are Princesses" which may refer to her sisters Ryōbi and Ryōna.
- She appears to possess the "Yin Yang" Tao symbol on her shield which seems to represent her "bipolar" persona depending on the condition of her halo.
- Ryōki is unlocked as a playable character outside Story Mode only after completing the final chapter (Day 8) of Estival Versus.
- Gameplay-wise, Ryōki is able to switch to her rude personality as her Ultimate Shinobi Art, in which for a short time she uses her Gatling/missile-launcher coffin as a weapon and can move faster.
- Ryoki appears to be a reference to Gungrave. In this work, the protagonist has returned from the dead on borrowed time, and, like Ryoki, fights using firearms and a coffin filled with heavy weaponry (a machine gun and a missile launcher).
- In Burst Re:Newal in her character intro sometimes Ryōki will say "I will dance in the festival of midsummer!" Despite the fact that the festival doesn't start for years and isn't around at that point in the story yet.
External links
- Senran Kagura Fanon Wiki
- Ryōki on the Heroes wiki.
References
2. https://gematsu.com/2014/11/senran-kagura-estival-versus-five-new-characters-detailed