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The Yokai of Sol City
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Bio is a work in progress, but the Yokai are a vigilante superhero group operating within Sol City. Its leader is Akira Arasaka, AKA Jorogumo.

Sol City, Texas (Earth 19211315)
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Sol City Citizen · 10mo

How did the Yokai team come to be?

Akira: "Initially, Jorogumo and I worked alone, relatively speaking. But after a run-in with a villain wielding a flamethrower that we BARELY escaped from, we needed help, badly. It would be suicide to go after him again without help. Thankfully, Osaka came through and helped us deal with him, sending that hothead to jail. The press congratulated us, Osaka coined his alter-ego, Daiouika, and the rest is history."

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

So why the name “Yokai?”

Akira: "I can answer that one! In Japanese folklore, Yokai are supernatural entities or monsters. Jorogumo, the symbiote, is of alien origin, and could be considered a supernatural entity... We name ourselves after Yokai or other Cryptids. For example, Osaka's hero identity, Daiouika, is Japanese for Giant Squid, or Kraken. The only exception is Ultron, as he doesn't have a civilian identity... yet. We're still working on that.
"Regardless, we serve as Sol City's hidden protectors, so we call ourselves the Yokai to show that."

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

What are some of your big name villains you’ve had to face?

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

Osaka, can we get more insight into who they are?

“Osaka here. I’m one of Arasaka’s top engineers. I created a device that grants me six additional limbs to help me with my research. However, as I’ve discovered, in layman’s terms, they need to be connected to my brain to function. Fortunately, I can sever the connection at any time. However, I’ve grown so used to them that I don’t even consider that unless I need to hide my hero identity. Akira and I created the Ultron by complete accident, but we’re damn fortunate that it turned out to be a good AI instead of an evil one, albeit not without flaws.”

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

Vehicles? I could’ve sworn people like you Joro just swung everywhere, right?

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

Can you tell us more about this Green Oni character?

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

Joro, this is meant with I intention of being rude but…why are you so fat?

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

So who controls what when Jorogumo bonds?

Akira:“Outside of the suit, I’m in control.”
Jorogumo:“But when Akira suits up, I take over. That said, he acts as my conscious to make sure I don’t hurt innocent people, so he’s not powerless.”

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

So just how does Akira and Jorogumo’s symbiosis work?

Akira:“Honestly, I’m not entirely sure, but it seems that she covers my body in a… I wanna call it biomechanical armor, but the suit is purely biological in nature. I’ve noticed that, while I’m ‘suited up’, I have the strength and size of a sumo wrestler weighing about 1,000 lbs…”

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

So where did Jorogumo even come from? Space? Science lab? Something or somewhere else?

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

So how did Akira and Jorogumo get together?

Jorogumo:“Easy! I broke out of his Texas lab! Just kidding. He used himself as a guinea pig, we bonded, end of story.”

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

So, might be jumping ahead, but just who and what are the Yokai beyond hero group?

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

And then what’s Akira’s deal? How’d you end up with him?

Jorogumo:“It’s a long story, but long story short, I met this skinny dork in his Texas lab. More accurately, the Arasaka Biotechnical Laboratory in the Republic of Texas. Akira set me loose, we merged, became a superhero duo, and the rest is history!”

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

So what’s this Sol City like then? Sounds fancy for Texas.

“Sol City, formerly known as San Antonio, is a megalopolis in the state of Texas. It’s basically… the good Night City.”

OOC: Sol City is basically my original city… I think. It’s meant to be the good counterpart of Night City from Cyberpunk 2077.

Sol City Citizen · 10mo

I see…so is Akira just a host? Does he provide nothing power wise outside of that?

Akira:“No super powers, but I do have a genius level intellect, a lot of resources thanks to my family’s corporation. Having no super powers does help with providing plausible deniability… kind of…”

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