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CHARACTER INFO;
name: Kei Yuki
age: (approx) 22-24
height: (approx) 5'4"
weight: how rude!
fandom: Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey
overview:
It needs to be noted that there's a lot of assumptions and guesswork as to how Kei's original history relates to Endless Odyssey Canon; Leiji Matsumoto's work intersects or altogether retcons/warps things from show to show without explanation, so...
Orphaned and on her way to prison, the sixteen-years young Kei Yuki is rescued by notorious space pirate Captain Harlock, and rather than accept this kindness and leave, she decides the pirate life is for her and stays, quickly becoming a high-ranking officer on deck despite her age. Specializing in navigation and scientific analysis, Kei becomes one of the key members of the Arcadia, the battleship belonging to Harlock. Throughout the long and perilous struggle with the Mazone, an alien race bent on the conquest of Earth, Kei provides support on and off-deck, proving to be an ace shot as well as a level-headed soldier. She continues this service throughout the campaign, and once the Mazone have been soundly defeated, she leaves the ship to help fellow crewmate Daiba Tadashi build up an observatory on Earth. This part probably did not happen--as Endless Odyssey reintroduces Daiba as a new person, rather than a member of the old crew. So I can only assume for EO's sake, she just went off and started her own crew and Daiba's stupidity and green spandex never factored into the EO-version of the Mazone fight.
Endless Odyssey picks up years after the events of the original show--just how many years is uncertain, but at this time, humans have expanded beyond their home planet and already made a bit of a mess of it. People still talk about the "legendary" Captain Harlock and his renegade crew, and the government is still rounding up members and throwing them in prison. At this point, Kei is an established pirate captain herself, manning the small ship Flourite with her new crew. She seems to be doing well for herself, but a dirty trick by the Earth government lands her in the slammer, pushed straight up to the front of the line for an execution with the rest of the Arcadia's old crew.
Just as the shooting gallery preps to fire, First Officer Yattaran launches a huge, 30-second distraction, which happens to be just enough time to get Harlock and the ship literally ramming into the room and rescuing the crew. Kei shrugs off her captain duties and immediately picks up her old role as navigator. This time around, the foe appears to be a quartet of undead scientists controlled by an ancient evil god or gods called Noo. They've shot the Earth into another dimension, and the Arcadia sets out to figure out what the hell is going on.
During a brief respite on a western frontier-like planet, Daiba's stupidity (but lack of spandex, suprisingly) gets him nearly shot, but Kei shoves him out of the way in the nick of time. She lands in a coma, and things look pretty bad for her chances--her heart had stopped to long by the time they had gotten her back to the ship.
At this point, the Noo decide to exchange bodies and possess the invalid Kei and have her go about blow crap up in the ship and try to take out the central computer. While that's going on, Kei's soul is stuck in a kind of dimensional limbo, trapped in the dimension the Earth was shot in, and meets the souls of the dead scientists who go on about what caused the Noo to start doing this crap. She runs into Mayu, Harlock's goddaughter on Earth, who tells her to let Harlock know that the Earth is still alive. Daiba manages to get the Noo out of Kei's body, and her soul is restored, and she's back to normal.
After that, she takes a back seat to the action, as she and the rest of the crew (save for Harlock, Daiba, and Mimeh) are kicked off the Arcadia and can only watch the action from a crappy viewscreen on a space semi-truck. The show ends without letting the audience know what happens to her (or anyone, really).
Kei Yuki has a good head on her shoulders. She doesn't stress or anger easily, and seems almost infinitely patient with those around her--a byproduct of living out in space for long stretches of time, most likely. There is little that seems to fluster her save for a few intimate details (her weight, her age, probably her looks), and she's handled her share of scoundrels and hotheads enough to know how to keep cool and in control. That said, she's a bit of a flirt to those sorts, and getting a rise out of them is all in good fun, as she hopes to teach them how to loosen up. She values her freedom and wishes to share the feeling with others. Though she is very aware of herself as a woman, she knows such things have a place, and that when the chips are down, there's no time to play damsel in distress.
name: Kei Yuki
age: (approx) 22-24
height: (approx) 5'4"
weight: how rude!
fandom: Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Endless Odyssey
overview:
It needs to be noted that there's a lot of assumptions and guesswork as to how Kei's original history relates to Endless Odyssey Canon; Leiji Matsumoto's work intersects or altogether retcons/warps things from show to show without explanation, so...
Orphaned and on her way to prison, the sixteen-years young Kei Yuki is rescued by notorious space pirate Captain Harlock, and rather than accept this kindness and leave, she decides the pirate life is for her and stays, quickly becoming a high-ranking officer on deck despite her age. Specializing in navigation and scientific analysis, Kei becomes one of the key members of the Arcadia, the battleship belonging to Harlock. Throughout the long and perilous struggle with the Mazone, an alien race bent on the conquest of Earth, Kei provides support on and off-deck, proving to be an ace shot as well as a level-headed soldier. She continues this service throughout the campaign, and once the Mazone have been soundly defeated, she leaves the ship to help fellow crewmate Daiba Tadashi build up an observatory on Earth. This part probably did not happen--as Endless Odyssey reintroduces Daiba as a new person, rather than a member of the old crew. So I can only assume for EO's sake, she just went off and started her own crew and Daiba's stupidity and green spandex never factored into the EO-version of the Mazone fight.
Endless Odyssey picks up years after the events of the original show--just how many years is uncertain, but at this time, humans have expanded beyond their home planet and already made a bit of a mess of it. People still talk about the "legendary" Captain Harlock and his renegade crew, and the government is still rounding up members and throwing them in prison. At this point, Kei is an established pirate captain herself, manning the small ship Flourite with her new crew. She seems to be doing well for herself, but a dirty trick by the Earth government lands her in the slammer, pushed straight up to the front of the line for an execution with the rest of the Arcadia's old crew.
Just as the shooting gallery preps to fire, First Officer Yattaran launches a huge, 30-second distraction, which happens to be just enough time to get Harlock and the ship literally ramming into the room and rescuing the crew. Kei shrugs off her captain duties and immediately picks up her old role as navigator. This time around, the foe appears to be a quartet of undead scientists controlled by an ancient evil god or gods called Noo. They've shot the Earth into another dimension, and the Arcadia sets out to figure out what the hell is going on.
During a brief respite on a western frontier-like planet, Daiba's stupidity (but lack of spandex, suprisingly) gets him nearly shot, but Kei shoves him out of the way in the nick of time. She lands in a coma, and things look pretty bad for her chances--her heart had stopped to long by the time they had gotten her back to the ship.
At this point, the Noo decide to exchange bodies and possess the invalid Kei and have her go about blow crap up in the ship and try to take out the central computer. While that's going on, Kei's soul is stuck in a kind of dimensional limbo, trapped in the dimension the Earth was shot in, and meets the souls of the dead scientists who go on about what caused the Noo to start doing this crap. She runs into Mayu, Harlock's goddaughter on Earth, who tells her to let Harlock know that the Earth is still alive. Daiba manages to get the Noo out of Kei's body, and her soul is restored, and she's back to normal.
After that, she takes a back seat to the action, as she and the rest of the crew (save for Harlock, Daiba, and Mimeh) are kicked off the Arcadia and can only watch the action from a crappy viewscreen on a space semi-truck. The show ends without letting the audience know what happens to her (or anyone, really).
Kei Yuki has a good head on her shoulders. She doesn't stress or anger easily, and seems almost infinitely patient with those around her--a byproduct of living out in space for long stretches of time, most likely. There is little that seems to fluster her save for a few intimate details (her weight, her age, probably her looks), and she's handled her share of scoundrels and hotheads enough to know how to keep cool and in control. That said, she's a bit of a flirt to those sorts, and getting a rise out of them is all in good fun, as she hopes to teach them how to loosen up. She values her freedom and wishes to share the feeling with others. Though she is very aware of herself as a woman, she knows such things have a place, and that when the chips are down, there's no time to play damsel in distress.