"The unsmiling baby"
Sasuyo Thrustinto (sasuyo="I'll stab")

Clan : Bumblebee
Gender : Female
Age : 17
Height : 152 cm
Weight : 45 kg
Hair : Pink
Eyes : Red
Wing : One pair with yellow and black vertical
stripes. See diagrams.
Role : One of Loyal Phalanx. Tamako's roommate.
In Japanese calls herself as : watashi
Nickname invented by Ginji : Bee-bee
Example of speeches :
"I shall get rid of you here."
"I am different from Kamako. I am not
insane."
"Tamako-san, would you stop doing something
like that to me?"
"URRRGHHH!" (during battle)
"Sob, sob..."
Special technique :
Bumblebee war art; Hexagonal Death
Sasuyo concentrates six rays of light from
out of "*"-shaped magic enhancer
in her back, then releases a huge energy
wave.
Square-faced Sasuyo doesn't even smile (she
is smiling in her "victory" win-lose
graphics to express an ironical gap between
her usual). However, in the game, she momentarily
bursts into smile saying "So sometimes
even Tamako-san cries." upon seeing
Tamako shedding tears, "Iii waaas so
scaaared".
Since her childhood, she had been feeling
resentment against the way Bumblebee clans
love banding together and alcohols.
While structure of her speeches are polite
(in Japanese, her speeches usually end by
"desu"s), she uses hurting words
like "fool" and "wimp"
without hesitation, causing a little bit
of her isolation from society. However, whether
she really loves seclusion is doubtful since
her relationship with childtime friends Nomu
and Kiru (drunken all the time) never ceased.
In the game, they have taken Sasuyo out and
are following her.
One year earlier, she applied for regular
troops of Hypnotic City, ignoring "that
sucks!" protests of her cohorts. Then
she was shocked to hear that the troop was
not meant for real combats. Sasuyo and Tamako
shares a same room in the barrack, Sasuyo
sleeping in lower bed in one 2-storied bed.
Tamako found a like in Sasuyo at first sight,
and is sticking around Sasuyo since then.
Though Sasuyo finds Tamako rather annoying,
she attends Tamako when they go to shopping
during their day off from duty. Sasuyo did
punch Tamako when Tamako sneaked into Sasuyo's
bed and licked back of her neck.
Relation with court people other than Tamako
is scant. Though Ginji does treat Sasuyo
warmly, Sasuyo is not bright enough to understand
his warmness. Sasuyo especially hates Kamako
who purely loves killing.
She is really sensible in "win/lose"
subject, allowing to her fall into Marquis's
ploy, the "sexy martial arts match"
in the game. Thick Bumblebee blood in her
is still visible when she tries to fight
back with gimmick costume which resemble
male genital.
She roars like a beast when she fights (on
ir any win/lose subjects). Her style of fight
is rough and power-oriented, occasioanaly
concentrating her mental to speartip and
then releasing death ray.
On the other hand, she has cute habit of
crying loudly when she is hard-pressed.
Though Sasuyo's clothing, boots and shield
in the pictures are part of Loyal Phalanx
uniform, the "*"-like stuff she
carries in her back is magic enhancer she
bought in flea market. Also, her spear is
in fact a simple wooden stick, with a speartip
of pure blue energy (Bumblebees have abilities
to turn their psyche into blades). Speartips
leave traces when she swings spear, and also
she can transform speartip into long seven-branched
form.
Though she is dressed i copper-colored bikini
when she is in her homeland, her off-duty
clothes is a dull gym suit.
This character has "win-lose graphics".
Normal

Winning

Victory

Attacked

Almost dead

Defeat
About drawing :
While her arms and legs are exposed in above
drawings, Loyal Phalanx uniform is made out
of white and thick fabric, like that of wet-suits
in fact, so I would appreciate if arms and
thighs are white.
She wears no gloves. Her shield in her left
arm is hacked short so she can use her left
hand to employ spear.
Tips of her boots are facing up, like those
of Turkish boots.
Bumblebees can fly around a little, but "*"-like
stuff in Sasuyo's back that presses down
her wings disables her from flying. Let one
of her hands hold the "*" when
you draw her flying.
Refer to kabuki actor or Tenchi Muyo! anime
when you draw her hairs.
Note her breasts are infact pitiful(smile),
measuring 79 cm.
If you remove the protector which covers
her forehead and cheeks, her hairs hang down
over her face, giving her eerie barbaric
look.
From designer :
I really like a character
called Reia who appeaed in the game "Fighter's Ragnarok" (see here
for details), and I shamelessly asked author of the game to draw Sasuyo.
Sasuyo was initially meant to be a quite
important personage, but Tamako, who was
invented as Sasuyo's friend had much more
outstanding personality, so Sasuyo's role
is far more subtle now. You can even say
purpose of Sasuyo's being is for Tamako to
consider, "I am uneasy about Sasuyo,
I must be at her side and protect her".
Maybe my setting that she is opposing the
way of her clan, unlike other characters
who are supposed to be typical of clans they
belong, isn't visible.
"A character who never smiles and sometimes
utters insults" is a well-used motif
since for Rurirui in Nadesico the anime (more
earlier, Gal Force), but I do not think Sasuyo
is a successful attempt.
Though Sasuyo is a little pride-filled all
the time, but in a real decisive situation,
her body quivers helplessly and she cannot
fight. She is that kind of flawed character.
I initially developed her inspired by a speech
"I will get rid of you here." from
one of bosses in Gaiapolis, the Konami arcade
release.