Five Top Characters More Dangerous than They Look (Friday Five)

[chomiji]

lady_ganesh wanted to know about "Top five characters more dangerous than they look." Because proving this about a character always involves a reveal, there are spoilers (which I have covered) in each answer.

Cho Hakkai from Saiyuki (right). On the surface, a mild-mannered, absent-minded young man. But cross him, and you'll find out that he's totally bad-ass - even before he takes off his power limiters and becomes a youkai covered with prehensile vines and whose strength and reflex speed greatly exceed those of virtually every other youkai we've seen in the series.

Sanada Saemon-no-Suke Yukimura from Samurai Deeper Kyo (in the post icon), a cheerful short guy whom we first see as a harmless drunk with a woman on each arm. A few minutes later, he's puking his guts out. Who would suspect that he's one of the only swordsmen in Japan who can give the notorious Demon-Eyes Kyo a good fight ... and can chop lesser opponents in half vertically with a single stroke?

Yoshino Dōa from Blade of the Immortal (right), a very petite, very young Ainu woman who turns out to be a ruthless, blood-thirsty swordswoman with ultra-fast reflexes who takes out male opponents much larger and stronger than herself with fearsome efficiency.

Sister Yolanda from Black Lagoon, an elderly, sweet-faced one-eyed nun who is the Mother Superior of a church outside of Roanapur, Thailand, who packs a a gold-plated Desert Eagle pistol and is efficiently running an arms-smuggling and intelligence-gathering operation. (Sadly, I have no Sister Yolanda icon ... )

Ayasegawa Yumichika from Bleach (left), a fey, vain, eccentric little goofball who's too pretty for his own good and seemingly too refined to even perspire, yet in actuality is the Fifth Seat of the notoriously combat-ready and violent 11th Division of Soul Reapers, meaning that he can whip the ass of just about any even semi-normal opponent without ... breaking a sweat.

Comments

[chomiji]

I know you've had troubles, I've been fretting about you a bit as I follow your LJ. I'm glad you're feeling better now.

(A postcard would be lovely, if you would enjoy sending one. I love to get mail.)

[macavitykitsune.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm definitely feeling better. Or more settled in the fact that some things are going to suck for a while, and focused on the rest, rather. I've got plenty of good things going on, I need to keep them close rather than the not-good stuff.

^__^ I'll be on the lookout for something pretty! They're not easy to come by here in gift shops, so... I live somewhere hopelessly suburban, that way. And I would love to send you a postcard.

(btw, how do you make the spoiler text? I have to do the same for my post...)