Battle Angel Yoshida Bio (short story)

Battle Angel Yoshida Bio
Contents
Hero(es)	Takako “Battle Angel” Yoshida
Featuring	Takako Yoshida's father Takako Yoshida's mother Yoshihiro Yoshida Shoichi Yoshida Kenta Yoshida Sir James Carey Sin.Drella Kate Five
Setting	Japan, London Reality Z-25 31-H
Technical Specs
Length	836 words
Crew
Writer(s)	James Bridger
Background
Dates	August 25th, 2014
Original link	[1]
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Battle Angel Yoshida Bio was a narrative prose bio of Battle Angel written by James Bridger as part of the eponymous series. It primarily served to expand Kate's backstory prior to meeting the Symbiote. It included NSFW elements.

Contents

Plot

Takako Yoshida is born the daughter of a “renowned” landscape gardener, and grows up with three brothers. However, their formerly-affluent family falls on hard times, and the father ends up deep in debt to the Yakuza. Eventually, when he misses one deadline too many, gang members murder him and abduct an eight-year-old Taki and her mother, selling them as slaves in the underground to recoup their costs. Taki struggles through a demeaning four years as a waitress in illegal clubs and casinos until one day, when a guest attempts to assault her, she defends herself with lethal effects. Her efficiency as a killer impresses her masters, who have her trained as an assassin instead.

However, the teenaged assassin proves “too” good for their tastes, bringing them unexpected attention as she becomes something of a legend throughout South East Asia. They eventually decide to hand her off to international authorities in exchange for reduced attention on their other criminal operations. The “handover” takes the form of what is to be a deliberately-sabotaged assassination, with Taki sent to London to supposedly assassinate Sir James Carey, who's actually been informed that she's coming and arranges for her arrest. On the verge of attempting the shot, Taki herself begins to hesitate, reflecting that she is far enough from Japan that she could hope to escape reprisals for disobedience, meaning, for the first time, she has a choice whether to go through with it. Before she can make a decisive choice, a military team bursts in on her location, managing to bring her down thanks to the presence of a Combat Psyker with telepathic abilities.

Though the Psyker's telepathic attack does knock Taki out, it also meant the Psyker's mind downloaded Taki's lifetime of traumatic experiences in an instant, which sends her to the hospital as well — from which she would later emerge as the supervillainess Sin.Drella. Meanwhile, Sir Carey visits her in the off-the-books place where she's being detained, and arranges to have her freed and records of her crimes destroyed if she'll join Section P, the British Ministry of Defence's superhero team, which he controls. She accepts, being given high-quality kevlar body armour and becoming “Battle Angel”. Over the following years, Taki grows to enjoy using her near-superhuman fighting abilities to protect rather than destroy, though she has difficulties forming personal relationship with the rest of the team, with the one she becomes closest to being Kate Five.

Worldbuilding

Universes

• This story takes place in Reality Z-25 31-H.

Other

• Taki is twenty-four years old. She is 5 foot 4.
• Taki is proficient in “Shotokan Karate and Bushido”.

Continuity

• Taki's unusual resistance to telepathic control, rooted in her tragic past, was a plot point in COMIC: Kate Five vs Symbiote - Chapter 1.

Behind the scenes

Background

The bio was written based on a template created by DeviantArt user Shocksauce98. James Bridger also credited another user, Kmon13, for pushing him to write such bios for his Kate Five characters.

Read online

Battle Angel Yoshida Bio was released on DeviantArt, where it is still available.