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Amiboshi

Name: (Warrior Name) Amiboshi

Birth Name: (Chinese) Wu Kang-De (Japanese) Bu Koutoku

Alias(es): Chiriko, Kaika (Huai-ke)

Character:

Constellation: Virgo

Birthday: 26 August

Age: 15

Hair: Dirty blonde

Eyes: Blue

Height: 5'6"

Blood Type: A

Family: Twin brother, Suboshi (Shunkaku); father, Kanri

Birthplace: Tenryo, San'un Province in Kutou Empire

Status: Seiryu Warrior

Quote: "I wish...I was born as one of the Suzaku seven"

Anime: Fushigi Yugi

Voice: (English) Steve Canon (Japanese) Yuji Ueda

History and Personality: Amiboshi is a Seiryu-seishi ("star-person", or celestial warrior) from Yuu Watase's Fushigi Yugi. He's the elder twin brother of Suboshi, who is also a Celestial Warrior of Seiryu. While Suboshi is the more aggressive and violent twin, Amiboshi is the one that prefers peace and doesn't like to fight. The twins were born in a town wracked with war and battle. As orphans, they had to do everything needed to survive and Amiboshi decided that he didn't want anyone else to suffer the way he had. Nakago promised him that if he helped to summon Seiryu all the suffering would end. He also convinced Amiboshi that the Suzaku seven planned to invade Koto.

Amiboshi first appeared impersonating the Suzaku-seishi Chiriko under orders from Nakago. When the Suzaku seven and Miaka attempt to summon Suzaku he uses his flute to play a melody that should kill them, however the real Chiriko appears and saves everyone. After that Amiboshi runs with Tamahome and Tasuki in close pursuit. However, Miaka tries to save him claiming that anyone who plays such beautiful music cannot be evil. While being chased he falls into a river. Miaka tries to save him by grabbing the flute he is holding, but he lets go and plummets into the water with a smile. He is believed to be dead as no one can sense his chi any longer - not even his twin. However, he is somehow found by an elderly couple who take him in. It appears that he has amnesia and the couple adopt him as a son and call him Kaika. He is apparently a very good son, kind and hardworking, and when Miaka appears in the town injured while she is searching for the Shinzaho, he saves her and nurses her back to health. It soon becomes apparent that he he pretends that he does not have amnesia, however he continues to pretend that he does and that he does not recognize Miaka. He tries to convince Miaka to stay with him and perhaps even marry him, but in the end realizes that she cannot. He saves her from Tomo (another of the Seiryu seven) with the help of his twin. He tries to give his brother a forgetfulness potion so that they can live simple lives as brothers instead of as warriors, but Suboshi tricks him and forces him to take it, saying that Amiboshi is too kind and gentle for fighting and should never have been forced to be a warrior. After this Amiboshi is returned to his foster parents and continues a normal life. However, when Suboshi dies he feels a strange pang of loss, proving that they are still connected in their souls. He is the only surviving Seiryu-seishi at the end of the story.

Tranquil and reserved, at times he can be single-minded and merciless. Before the events of the book, he was a kind young man determined to judiciously protect his younger brother. For that reason, he was faced with a dilemma and the pain of choosing between the Seiryu-seishi and the Suzaku-seishi.

Relationships: Though Amiboshi joined the Suzaku seven in order to destroy them he appears to form true friendships with them. Chiriko states that he could break Amiboshi's song so easily because the boy himself was already conflicted.

Amiboshi's feelings for Miaka are vague, however, when he reappears as Kaika he seems to have a romantic interest in her, pleading with her to take the forgetfulness potion and remain with him as his wife. He then risks his life to save her, even knowing that her heart is still Tamahome's.

Amiboshi and his brother are very close, even though they are very different. They have a mystic bond, allowing them to experience (to some extent) what the other is going through. Amiboshi and Suboshi can sense one another's chi from anywhere - even between the book world and the real world - and can exchange messages by scratching their own skin. What Amiboshi carves into his skin will appear on Suboshi's as well and vice versa. Both brothers are willing to sacrifice almost anything for the happiness of the other, and both are greatly pained by the loss (or apparent loss) of the other.

Techniques: Amiboshi channels his chi through his flute. With it he can control living things (such as bats). He can also cause insanity and even pain so intense it can kill.

Trivia: Though his flute is his weapon it is also his primary joy in life. He enjoys composing and playing to calm others.

Why we love him: He's so sweet, and he just wants to do the right thing, but he's been fed so many lies that he isn't quite sure what the right thing is. Still, in the end he always makes the right decision.

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