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Oct. 30th, 2024 10:47 pmCharacter Info:
Kazuya Mishima:
Character Age: 50
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Alive
Outfit: Pinstripe business suit (pants, vest, shirt, tie), purple alligator skin duster, red fingerless fighter gloes
Character Canon: Tekken
Link to History: https://tekken.fandom.com/wiki/Kazuya_Mishima (Only the numbered entries are considered canon, but the Tag games do have character insights I incorporate)
Canon Point: Just before Tekken 8 starts
Canon Iteration: Canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A
Folkmore Roles and Abilities:
Skills:
-Survival
-Street wise
-Martial arts master
Canon Abilities:
-Superhuman durability
-Transformation into a demon form that grants him flight, superhuman strength, and limited energy projection
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes:
Qualities: Fangs, devil tail
Attributes: Poison resist, enhanced reflexes
Role Reasoning: Kazuya is motivated primarily out of self interest. He seeks power as a defense mechanism from the trauma he endured at a young age, was driven solely by a need for revenge. Even after achieving his vengeance, his primary driving motivation is a need for more power, and he even attempts to impose that drive on the rest of the world as he sets up a tournament where nations are rewarded for the success of their chosen fighters, and losers have their nations punished. Of course that was more of a ploy to stoke the negative emotions of those buying into the promises of power as well as the despair of the losers to help unseal an ancient demon so that Kazuya could take that power. As such, myth seems the best fit.
As for future plans, he intends to continue his quest for power, believing that to be his primary way of fulfilling his potential, but also this would manifest in attempting to draw out power in others with an "iron sharpens iron" sort of mentality. The stronger he can make those around him, the stronger potential sparring partners/opponents would be, and the stronger he could become.
Personality
-What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?
At the age of 8, Kazuya discovered that his father, Heihachi, had murdered his mother. Heihachi confessed to Kazuya after bringing him to a cliff to "spar." Despite Kazuya's best attempts - for an 8 year old - to take revenge for his mother, Kazuya was easily overpowered by his father and then thrown off the cliff into the rocky depths below with the intent of the sea killing him and washing the body away. However, before hitting the water, he was impaled on a rock, and as he bled out, he "made a deal with the devil." This activated his latent abilities and strength, allowing him to survive the fall. The next twenty years, he spent living on the streets, motivated by one goal: to kill his father and take revenge for both himself and his mother. Power was all that kept him alive and in his mind, that was all he needed. His personality shifted from a fairly typical child to the cold and ruthless driven personality he would keep through most of his adult life.
-What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?
Jun Kazama. After he defeated his father in Tekken 1, and assumed control of the Mishima Zaibatsu in 2, he was approached by Jun Kazama, who showed no fear for who or what he was, and additionally could hold her own with him in the ring. It is unclear about the specifics of the relationship, but for the first time in his adult life, Kazuya let his guard down and let Jun in. Ultimately this would end in tragedy, as shortly after Kazuya began softening for Jun, Heihachi reappeared once again, took advantage of Kazuya's distraction, and defeated him. This time, Heihachi would attempt to finish Kazuya for good by throwing him into an active volcano crater. However Kazuya managed to survive only to wake up roughly two decades later to the news that he had a son that also had the same demonic power he did, and that Jun was presumed dead. This had the effect of reinforcing Kazuya's trauma response of closing himself off and obsessing over power as he came to terms with both the fact that his father was more durable than he really should be, and that letting his guard down was a mistake that only caused more suffering for the one person he truly cared about.
-What is a headcanon (or two) you feel strongly about and that you prefer playing your character with? How is this supported in canon and why do you think it benefits the character's story?
I firmly believe that Kazuya does care for people close to him - Jun and Jin Kazama, and his grandfather Jinpachi - but because of the continued trauma he has suffered at the hands of Heihachi, he simply refuses to let himself be hurt again, and thus closes himself off. Though considered non-canon, Kazuya's arcade mode endings in the Tekken Tag Tournament games seem to support this notion. The first game has Kazuya finding out that Jin has the same demonic power he does after a fight, and the look on Kazuya's face - admittedly hampered by the limitations of the technology at the time - I have always interpreted as resolve and heartbreak that his son has been roped into the same nonsense. Likewise, in Tag 2, his ending sees him coming face to face with a possessed Jun and after defeating her, he absorbs the power that was possessing Jun and flies off, leaving Jun alive. Even his ending in Tekken 5 sees him showing a moment of tenderness with his grandfather - who had orchestrated the entire tournament to find someone capable of killing him so that he would no longer be a threat to the world around him - before Kazuya kills him. The dialogue that Jun has in Tekken 8 also indicates that there is more to Kazuya than the overt villain facade he presents, as she is determined to save him, despite all the horrible things he's done.
-Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?
Kazuya will absolutely hold grudges forever if they are severe enough. He has held a grudge against his father for his entire life, however it is difficult to escalate something to that level that it becomes a grudge in the first place. Kazuya approaches life with the mentality that everything goes, and nothing is illegal when pursuing one's self interest. He has had friends become enemies and enemies become allies multiple times and has never once held that against anyone. Nina Williams, for example, enters most of the tournaments with the express intent of assassinating either Kazuya or Heihachi, but because of her mercenary nature, he has no qualms about hiring and working with her, and never questions her loyalty because of that mercenary nature. Admittedly, he does seem to value loyalty - Anna Williams and Bruce Irving being among the few that has never actively worked against him being among the few people Kazuya would consider friends - but the shifting alliances and motivations of people in his life is simply thought of as a fact of life rather than some personal slight.
Kazuya Mishima:
Character Age: 50
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Alive
Outfit: Pinstripe business suit (pants, vest, shirt, tie), purple alligator skin duster, red fingerless fighter gloes
Character Canon: Tekken
Link to History: https://tekken.fandom.com/wiki/Kazuya_Mishima (Only the numbered entries are considered canon, but the Tag games do have character insights I incorporate)
Canon Point: Just before Tekken 8 starts
Canon Iteration: Canon
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A
Folkmore Roles and Abilities:
Skills:
-Survival
-Street wise
-Martial arts master
Canon Abilities:
-Superhuman durability
-Transformation into a demon form that grants him flight, superhuman strength, and limited energy projection
Role: Myth
Role Qualities/Attributes:
Qualities: Fangs, devil tail
Attributes: Poison resist, enhanced reflexes
Role Reasoning: Kazuya is motivated primarily out of self interest. He seeks power as a defense mechanism from the trauma he endured at a young age, was driven solely by a need for revenge. Even after achieving his vengeance, his primary driving motivation is a need for more power, and he even attempts to impose that drive on the rest of the world as he sets up a tournament where nations are rewarded for the success of their chosen fighters, and losers have their nations punished. Of course that was more of a ploy to stoke the negative emotions of those buying into the promises of power as well as the despair of the losers to help unseal an ancient demon so that Kazuya could take that power. As such, myth seems the best fit.
As for future plans, he intends to continue his quest for power, believing that to be his primary way of fulfilling his potential, but also this would manifest in attempting to draw out power in others with an "iron sharpens iron" sort of mentality. The stronger he can make those around him, the stronger potential sparring partners/opponents would be, and the stronger he could become.
Personality
-What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?
At the age of 8, Kazuya discovered that his father, Heihachi, had murdered his mother. Heihachi confessed to Kazuya after bringing him to a cliff to "spar." Despite Kazuya's best attempts - for an 8 year old - to take revenge for his mother, Kazuya was easily overpowered by his father and then thrown off the cliff into the rocky depths below with the intent of the sea killing him and washing the body away. However, before hitting the water, he was impaled on a rock, and as he bled out, he "made a deal with the devil." This activated his latent abilities and strength, allowing him to survive the fall. The next twenty years, he spent living on the streets, motivated by one goal: to kill his father and take revenge for both himself and his mother. Power was all that kept him alive and in his mind, that was all he needed. His personality shifted from a fairly typical child to the cold and ruthless driven personality he would keep through most of his adult life.
-What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?
Jun Kazama. After he defeated his father in Tekken 1, and assumed control of the Mishima Zaibatsu in 2, he was approached by Jun Kazama, who showed no fear for who or what he was, and additionally could hold her own with him in the ring. It is unclear about the specifics of the relationship, but for the first time in his adult life, Kazuya let his guard down and let Jun in. Ultimately this would end in tragedy, as shortly after Kazuya began softening for Jun, Heihachi reappeared once again, took advantage of Kazuya's distraction, and defeated him. This time, Heihachi would attempt to finish Kazuya for good by throwing him into an active volcano crater. However Kazuya managed to survive only to wake up roughly two decades later to the news that he had a son that also had the same demonic power he did, and that Jun was presumed dead. This had the effect of reinforcing Kazuya's trauma response of closing himself off and obsessing over power as he came to terms with both the fact that his father was more durable than he really should be, and that letting his guard down was a mistake that only caused more suffering for the one person he truly cared about.
-What is a headcanon (or two) you feel strongly about and that you prefer playing your character with? How is this supported in canon and why do you think it benefits the character's story?
I firmly believe that Kazuya does care for people close to him - Jun and Jin Kazama, and his grandfather Jinpachi - but because of the continued trauma he has suffered at the hands of Heihachi, he simply refuses to let himself be hurt again, and thus closes himself off. Though considered non-canon, Kazuya's arcade mode endings in the Tekken Tag Tournament games seem to support this notion. The first game has Kazuya finding out that Jin has the same demonic power he does after a fight, and the look on Kazuya's face - admittedly hampered by the limitations of the technology at the time - I have always interpreted as resolve and heartbreak that his son has been roped into the same nonsense. Likewise, in Tag 2, his ending sees him coming face to face with a possessed Jun and after defeating her, he absorbs the power that was possessing Jun and flies off, leaving Jun alive. Even his ending in Tekken 5 sees him showing a moment of tenderness with his grandfather - who had orchestrated the entire tournament to find someone capable of killing him so that he would no longer be a threat to the world around him - before Kazuya kills him. The dialogue that Jun has in Tekken 8 also indicates that there is more to Kazuya than the overt villain facade he presents, as she is determined to save him, despite all the horrible things he's done.
-Is your character capable of forgiveness or will they hold a grudge until they die? Would anything ever make them change their mind?
Kazuya will absolutely hold grudges forever if they are severe enough. He has held a grudge against his father for his entire life, however it is difficult to escalate something to that level that it becomes a grudge in the first place. Kazuya approaches life with the mentality that everything goes, and nothing is illegal when pursuing one's self interest. He has had friends become enemies and enemies become allies multiple times and has never once held that against anyone. Nina Williams, for example, enters most of the tournaments with the express intent of assassinating either Kazuya or Heihachi, but because of her mercenary nature, he has no qualms about hiring and working with her, and never questions her loyalty because of that mercenary nature. Admittedly, he does seem to value loyalty - Anna Williams and Bruce Irving being among the few that has never actively worked against him being among the few people Kazuya would consider friends - but the shifting alliances and motivations of people in his life is simply thought of as a fact of life rather than some personal slight.
