Sakura "Sun Goddess" Himiko

Sakura "Sun Goddess" Himiko
Nicknames: Himiko, "Sun Goddess"
Age: 21
Birthday: July 18
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 128 lbs.
Handedness: Right
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Outfit: Almost exactly wears Sakura Hagiwara's exact same outfit: a white wrestling singlet with red lines across the edges and sides. However, she also wears red boxing gloves and white boots.

Preferred Matches: Sakura was originally a wrestler, following in the footsteps of her mentor, Sakura Hagiwara at the time. But as time moved forward, Sakura realized that wrestling wasn't really her thing. She decided to focus on boxing instead, which she definitely preferred over wrestling. However, that doesn't mean she's incredibly good. She's much more of a jobber, because she enjoys being pounded on, preferably her face. She doesn't mind brutality, and actually enjoys it. However, she trains every day that she can, so that eventually, she can possibly take on Sakura Hagiwara and defeat her.

Fighting Style: Sakura is a slugger, able to give and take blows so easily it almost borders on insane. Her power comes from her years of constant workouts, and her durability is because of the various beatdowns she's received while sparring and in matches. Not that she can complain. When it comes to why she chose slugger as a primary fighting style (and her only fighting style) is mainly because to her, it enraptures the heart of boxing perfectly to her: the idea of throwing out these massive hooks and punches makes her enthralled with excitement. To see herself or her rival's head being cranked to the side thanks to a powerful punch is..liberating to her. It's why she enjoys boxing more so than wrestling, since while in wrestling you can do this, it isn't the forefront of many fighting styles and she's noticed a lot more people enjoy submissions and holds compared to strikes.

Stats:

Strength: 5/5 Her strength is second to none, able to plow through the strongest of guards.
Speed: 2.5-3/5 Sakura actually isn't the slowest woman ever, but she's not the fastest. She's fast enough to dodge blows when it comes down to it, but overall she's not extremely fast.
Defense: 3/5 Sakura can defend if she wants to, but prefers not to. Only when fighting someone who she wants to definitely win against will she actually try to reserve her body a bit more.
Resilience: 5/5 Sakura is able to take blows like no one else. Cracks to the jaw, blows to the liver... its all the same to her. Pain resilience and stamina are her bread and butter.
Technique: 2/5 Let it be said that being smart and being a slugger don't go hand in hand well. Sakura's tactics range from running people over with her might to falling back on her guard.

History:
Sakura was born into a family that didn't care too much for her. She was often ignored since she didn't do much that stood out to her family. So, Sakura spent a lot of her time in isolation. She didn't have many friends if any at all, but she didn't really mind that. Then, when she was about 19 or 20 years old, she heard about a girl in an idol band named Sakura Hagiwara who left the idol scene to become a pro wrestler.

When she went to watch her first match against Rio Kazama and saw her lose, she felt bad, but not surprised. She only attempted to avenge her friend's humiliation. Sakura found that admirable, and actually was so inspired that she decided to take in the footsteps of Sakura Hagiwara and became a minor wrestler herself. At first, she found it somewhat enjoyable. But as time went on, and her interest in wrestling began to dwindle, as well as her interest in Sakura (due to her massive losing streak, and her not seeming to improve at all) She began to dislike Sakura Hagiwara, even hate her. How could someone who wanted to become the strongest in the world...not improve at all? Even Himiko was improving with every match, even if she lost!

Frustrated, Himiko turned to boxing, where she actually found more enjoyment in this sport than wrestling. While the holds and throws of wrestling actually pained her a lot, boxing wasn't as bad for her. She didn't mind the pain as much. And when it came to her physical strength, she constantly worked on punching power, wanting her hits to count when they did.

Finally thinking she's ready for the amateur and professional circuits, she enters into them, reminding a lot of the audience of Sakura Hagiwara, purposely losing, and every chance she got, she would call out Sakura on national television, mocking Hagiwara and hoping to meet her former mentor in the boxing ring and prove to Sakura that she's weak and she doesn't deserve any of the praise she has, and is willing to beat the stuffing out of Hagiwara to ensure that message stays in her head.

Personality:
Due to her past, Himiko is rather quiet when talking to others. There isn't much for her to say and she doesn't mind staying quiet. However, it's when she's in the ring that Himiko's personality changes.

Himiko becomes a lot more masochistic, wishing that her opponents would hit her as hard as they could, without holding back, since she can take it. And when and if she were to fight Sakura Hagiwara, she would become serious and wouldn't take any shit from her.

Hello, and welcome to AFW.

I actually don't think profile's need approving if your first character is a boxer - it's only with Friction and Tension characters where you need to have the first character approved before you're allowed to post.

However, while this is a good profile overall, I have to put a pause here - the character pic you've chosen is already taken.

https://www.afwrpg.com/t17519-the-idols-of-berserk

Aside from that, though, you're good to go, and I'm glad to see your interest in Momentum.

Trust me, I would've gotten a different pic, but there wasn't one available to me, and I felt like I had to have a reference point for her outfit. Would you like me to delete it?

I understand. Finding pics can be quite hard.

I'd say you can just delete the pic for now and RP as you like while you're looking for a new one. It's not that big of a deal, and I'd hate to hold you up over that.

Thank you for not making such a big fuss over this. Give me a moment and I'll change it.