"Know the day of your death, know the freedom of life, the freedom to fight for your King.
Give all for a half breath, let your bones lay with your family, all for a punk kid and his shitty cat.
We fought the entire universe, just for one day with you!"
- write-up from leaflet.
A (mis) interpretation:
Category type: Experimental prototype replicants.
Model type: The Tomorrow King - GEN 2.5
Unit type: The Seven Bones (七骨) Slicer.
ID: Kureiji Yaro / The Crazy One.
Rank: Wakagashira-hosa.
Manufacturer: The Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation.
Incept date: 9th June 1990.
Serial no.: TKG2.5MAB0000007B.
Longevity: Unknown.
Function: Close assault.
Physical level: A.
Mental level: B.
Abilities: Panzer Kunst - anti-armour martial art; superhuman physiology; pre-cognition.
Std. armaments: "Slice and Dice" - power weapon x 2; melta grenade x 8; krak grenade x 8; frag grenade x 6.
Yaro is one of the elite Seven Bones or Nanatsu Hone-gumi, hand selected, experimental prototype replicant TK which also acts as personal bodyguard of Punk King the Fourth. He is genetically purpose-engineered and bred from the Slicer TK gene seed template. Yaro is far removed from a standard Slicer in terms of both skills and abilities. Wielding a pair of master-crafted monomolecular-edged Biting Blade electro-plated power blades called "Slice and Dice", which is powered by a THC fuelled power battery pack and sheath in blue-ish energy, the weapon could cut through any object at molecular level. Like a whirlwind, blurry in movements, Yaro could cut up a Mortis Warp corrupted Titan and reduce it to pieces at a pace which is said to be between the span of a human inhaling and exhaling. He would charged into the intertwined and intermixed Warp energy and realspace corrupted battlegrounds of the Underverse Warp rift armed with at least twenty two hand grenades, capable of destroying large swath of the Mortis Legion singularly, if they hadn't been fell by the Slice and Dice. He is called The Crazy One due to his hyperactive behavioural trait. In combat, Yaro would be nigh-uncontrollable, sometimes even defying the orders of the Onna-Oyabun, Queeny. But he is exceptionally loyal and dedicated, to the point of obsessive and fanatical. To the untrained eyes, Yaro is sometimes mistaken for Kyoku, the wakagashira and second in command of the Seven Bones for both shared the basic physical template as a Slicer, different only in ranking and authority. Like all Seven Bones members, he has pre-cognitive ability, giving him the fore-sight to see the ebb and flows of a combat in advance. And Yaro has seen how he would die but like they say, he doesn't care and in fact looking forward it.
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Ever since the debut of Baka and Kyuuketsuki, the Slicer TKs, I have been a fan of its design. For all that's worth, the Slicer TK is exceptional for its time, different from other TKs which 3A came out with. Of course, the law of progression means that much more interesting and creative designs have come and gone, but the Slicer TK remains a classic, which I guess why 3A market it under their, uh, Classic line. I have not expected 3A to revisit a Slicer. And it is great when Yaro was announced because I have since sold off my Kyuuketsuki. Initially I was abit unhappy, as I noted that the prototype pictures seem to have omitted the part where I could slot in a grenade on the helm of the pants. Which is not. Good news. No QC issue with this figure, and comes with the 7B tattoos and all the standard stuffs expected of a Slicer. Of course I would wish 3A would put in the word "大麻" on the battery pack like Kyuuketsuki. I miss the "naughty and cheeky" times of those days from 3A.
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