Hattori, do you remember the tale of the wise fox spirit and her giant magical hammer? Yeah, ME NEITHER!
Koji after a beat down from a newcomer to the Grand Tournament
Let me tell you the tale of the blind seamstress and the thousand wolves.
Yumiko
As the story goes...[]
Any Valkyrie could see that the blind seamstress was a centuries old fox spirit in disguise. Only the half-Valkyrie saw a great Valhallan.
From time immemorial the Japanese village of Aoku sat at peace on the edge of the great northern forest. Then the forest changed. The winters grew bitter, and the cold seemed to flow out of the forest itself. From the forest too came great wolves - first in ones and twos and then in great packs. The forest came to be called Kiba, The Fang, and the villagers feared.
To villagers, Yumiko, the blind seamstress, was a happy soul - afraid of dogs, and roused to anger only by shoddy needlework. None ever knew that, at the age of 537, she picked up a bow for the first time and went to war with the monsters of the Kiba.
The first winter, she rescued a toddler from wandering wolf[sic], the second winter she slew a pack of wolves to protect the hibernating Tororu. Year after year, the assault grew, and so did her skill. By the twenty-fifth year, she had defeated a Tengu army, slain a dragon, and realized she must confront this mystery at its source.
Weary but determined, she traveled deep into the woods. There she fought the witch Ukionna and broke the bond between Yumiko's world and the twisted forest corrupting her land. In the final moments of the battle, a valkyrie appeared. Without a word, Yumiko leapt on the flying horse and went happily to sleep.
Yumiko is happy to fight in the tournament, while she senses that she has one more great deed to accomplish, but waits patiently. When she's not participating in Brawlhalla she spends her time tinkering with Scarlet in her workshop, hiding from Mordex and sharing a quiet bond with the enigmatic Asuri.
While there is no official kanji given for Yumiko’s name, it is likely that the kanji spelling would be 弓子 (literally: "bow child"), as 弓 (yumi) means “bow” and 子 (ko) means "child."
Yumiko has Cynophobia (the fear of dogs) due to her kitsune physiology.
Yumiko's skins depict her in many different styles:
Fox Spirit Yumiko depicts her true form.
Lil' Yumiko shows that back when she was a child Yumiko had orange hair, pink eyes, pink triangular markings on her cheeks and light orange fox ears with pale yellow canals.
Tokyo Yumiko depicts her during the modern era.
Cursed Mask Yumiko depicts her as a nogitsune/yako, an evil or mischievous kitsune who seeks to cause chaos and disarray in the mortal realm.
Matsuri Yumiko depicts Yumiko as a participant in the Matsuri festival.
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