#ikesen aru

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Another WIP of the married couple ever🤸

They have my whole soul I fear♥️ hopefully I can finish this one

Also I put some Aru facts under the cut just for fun :3!! Feel free to check them out^^

• Aru is a kunoichi

• Before being transported to the Sengoku era she was a highly renowned supermodel

• She’s been trained by both Shingen (who is like a father figure to her) and Mitsuhide

• She was born in Kerala but was raised all over the world- Los Angeles, Kyoto, Melbourne and Paris

• She has an affinity with learning languages and can speak fluent English, (palakad) Tamil, Japanese and French

• She majored in Chemistry in college and while she didn’t pursue a STEM career once she graduated she still has a huge passion for the field

• She is excellent at brewing teas and loves perfume

• She also is great at crafting poisons

• Her birthday is December 5th

this was so random but theres so much more to come!! i’ll make a proper profile for her one day💪

[masamuneskitchen]

Arundhati: …Nobunaga?

It was late and the kunoichi couldn’t sleep. So, she found herself at the Devil King’s door instead. She assumed he’d probably make her play a game of Go but that was better than staring at her wall.

“Arundhati?” Nobunaga seems slightly surprised but not upset when she enters the room. He bids her to sit with him. “It is rather late for a casual visit. Is something wrong?”

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Well

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Ikemen Sengoku: Arundhati☀️

A Character Profile (Sort of)

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Name: Arundhati Ayyadurai

Brief Profile.

Meanings:

•Arundhati- Washed by the rays of the sun

•Ayyadurai- Clever

‘Aru’ - [A shortened version of her first name.]

A name she allows those who struggle to pronounce ‘Arundhati’ call her + used by most (if not all) acquaintances and close friends.

Date of Birth: December 5th.

Place of Birth: Kerala, India.

Positions/Occupations:

[Former]: Undergrad at California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

She got a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry with a minor in Aerospace Engineering.

[Former]: Model.

An international ambassador for luxury brands [ie. Chanel, Dior, Prada, etc]. Her responsibilities included participating in model campaigning for companies, attending shows and managing brand publicity. She enjoyed her work quite a bit and started working at the age of 20.

[Current]: Kunoichi.

She’s worked for several spy masters of the Sengoku Era. Notably, Mochizuki Chiyome and Takeda Shingen. She currently serves as one of Shingen’s famed Mitsumono.

Current + Most Notable Relationships with the Canon Cast:

Sarutobi/Mikumo Sasuke: Her canon partner.

Arundhati’s main ship is with Sasuke.

Takeda Shingen: Shingen is a father figure to Arundhati and in turn he sees her as a daughter.

Uesugi Kenshin: Kenshin and Arundhati come to see each other as siblings. Oftentimes he will call her his kunoichi (much to Shingen’s ever so slight displeasure considering she is one of his Mitsumono).

—> In truth, Arundhati is both a Mitsumono and a Nokizaru (unofficial but everyone who knows her also knows that she’s just as loyal to Kenshin).

*More will be added later on.

• Alternate AU ships: There are alternate versions of events where Arundhati ends up with the following warlords/characters:

Oda Nobunaga and Date Masamune.

Admittedly, these ships are yet to be explored in depth (I just think the dynamics are interesting.)

More Notable Details:

• Arundhati’s main titles are “Bronze Blade” (her more initial title) and “Kunoichi of The Shining Sun” (what people call her the more prolific she gets).

• Arundhati wears a mask when in her ninja attire for the sake of total anonymity.

A sketch of her mask:

• Arundhati is very proud of being Indian and almost always tries to incorporate her culture into her attire and accessories.

• She speaks fluent English, French, Tamil and Japanese

• Arundhati’s main motifs and symbolisms all relate back to the sun.

• Since all the canon IkeSen characters have animals, Arundhati’s would be a lioness named Mihira.

Brief Background (pertaining to how she traveled back in time):

Aru’s story starts in Paris where she was finalizing arrangements for her marriage to one of her closest college friends and Michelin star chef, Gaël.

She’d been dating Gaël for a few years at that point and didn’t think twice when accepting his proposal. However, their relationship hadn’t always been the best but both parties were trying to ignore how fast it was all falling apart in lieu of focusing on their respective careers.

It all truly burns down when Aru gets a message from her manager informing her of a particularly amazing opportunity to take part in a modeling campaign and establish her own makeup line based in Kyoto. She found it absolutely perfect since both her father and elder sister Ichiyo were based there (context: Aru’s mother, Janaki Ayyadurai, divorced Aru’s father and remarried a Japanese businessman, Harue Akiyama, when Arundhati was eight. Harue coincidentally had a daughter named Ichiyo. Arundhati and Ichiyo became two peas in a pod in record time and have been each other's closest confidants ever since). Ecstatic, she ran into Gaël’s arms when he came home from work that day to tell him the news. Yes, it would mean pushing back dates of their engagement by a few months, potentially close to a year but that wasn’t too much to ask, was it? After all, the opportunity Aru had in front of her wasn’t likely to pop up again. To her it was now or never and she thought Gaël would be supportive.

Gaël was not supportive.

Gaël was furious.

He lashed out at Aru with venomous words, questioning why she refused to get a “legitimate job” with her degree that she’d worked so hard for. In the end, he proposed an ultimatum: the job or being his bride. Heartbroken and rather furious herself, Aru was forced to realize just how awful her relationship with Gaël really was, how little he valued her and how unhappy she was through it all. She ended up breaking off the marriage, the engagement, all of it, then and there.

She booked the next available flight to Kyoto and was off.

She arrived in Kyoto in the wee hours of the morning, entirely unaware that by midnight of that very day, she would find herself 500 years in the past.

But before that, a party.

Arundhati had texted a group chat of her closest, most valued people in her life (apart from her parents) about the situation. She needed good drinks and her loved ones. And thus, she found herself surrounded by friends and cheer in the penthouse apartment her father had bought for her and her sister, overlooking the sparkling cityscape of Kyoto.

That night, after a few too many drinks, the group found themselves wandering the city. They come across the Honnoji monument when thunder claps in the distance and lightning flashes across the sky. A torrent of rain whips down upon them all and in a matter of moments, they’re gone, separated, sent tumbling through time and space- spread far and wide across the Sengoku Era (also yes, the others in the group are all my other OCs for this verse).

Arundhati arrived in the province of Iga in the year of 1578.

(this would be roughly around the time Sasuke arrives in Echigo and four years before Mai in Azuchi).

Now, “arrived” is a rather plain way to put it. You see, she actually happens to crash straight through the roof of one Mochizuki Chiyome’s home. Chiyome would go on to become one of Arundhati’s very first mentors. She teaches Arundhati all the ninja arts in her possession, shaping her to be a legendary kunoichi. While her life is an undeniably dangerous one, it’s also quiet, still and on a good day, tranquil.

That changes two years into her time in the Sengoku Era.

Takeda Shingen, a famed warlord characterized by his brutality in battle and vast, interconnected network of spies, the Mitsumono, comes to hear about some “bronze blade”.

In all honesty, he thought it to be some funky, insane new weapon at first until he heard various accounts and realized they were just about an insanely talented ninja. A ninja who was ridiculously hard to find.

Yet the second the tracks point towards Iga, he’s able to contact someone who most certainly knows quite a lot about this “bronze blade”.

To keep it brief, Shingen and Chiyome are contacts of one another and he manages to get Chiyome to introduce Aru to him. Rather, he gets Chiyome to let him spectate a training session she takes part in anonymously.

It's worth noting that by this time Ichiyo had started a life in Echigo and had mentioned a few times that she had a sister who looked nothing like her, a foreigner and thus, Shingen knew right away that he was looking at Arundhati.

Things go very quickly from there. Shingen reveals his identity, the fact that he knows where Ichiyo is and that he is willing to take her in as a Mitsumono. She accepts and begins the new chapter of her life in the Sengoku Era in Echigo under the banner of the Takeda.

Aru is reunited with her sister and is a crushing, humongous, gargantuan disappointment to Kenshin who thought Shingen was going to bring back a funky blade to spar with. Arundhati responds to this by saying she would very much like the opportunity to kill him. Kanetsugu then recoils in horror and Kenshin has found an addition to his very small collection of favorite people.

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Something I admittedly do not touch upon as much as I should is the effect that such a drastic life change has on Arundhati. This feels like a rather obvious point but I do want to mention it. Aru is light, she’s naturally a warm, welcoming, magnetic person. People find themselves drawn to her because she is charismatic and is able to charm a crowd with ease. At least that’s how she was before traveling to a much darker, much colder time.

Her experience as a ninja obviously reshapes her, changes very core things about her. Here, Aru is otherworldly, distant, detached- just as bright and eye-catching but unreachable, ethereal. Only a handful of people (the court of Echigo, and a few others) can see past that veil.

It’s also worth mentioning that Arundhati is not always a kind person, nor an understanding one (she tries to be but does fail at times), at least not right after the events of traveling back in time.

Even though she is perceptive and loyal, she can be equally as ruthless, have tunnel vision and has lost a part of her compassion throughout the years as a result of what she’d been through herself and what has been done to others. That being said, Arundhati grows. She learns to find the light she once lost and slowly becomes a new version of the person she once was.

[masamuneskitchen]

Arundhati: Um. Masamune, I fear a crisis has indeed occurred.

*Standing in the doorway of the kitchen was the kunoichi holding a pan that was on fire.*

*grabs a canister of salt and dumps it of the fire*

Hmm *he pokes the remains once the fire was out* You might need to try again Kass. That’s pretty charred.

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I hc Arundhati and Marie having so many inside jokes in Tamil.

Oh absolutely!!✨💖

Can we make this canon please please please plea-

Okay I must also just say that the two of them having inside jokes in Tamil would make Arundhati feel so much better🥺💛

Like ofc she loves those around her but she still very much misses her Indian culture and speaking in Tamil would just ugh YES <33

Arundhati would absolutely love this!!

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Hihi

So heres the thing Mayra and Aditya (Sasuke x Aru kids) can use some friends >:3

And I think it would be so cool to do a little multiverse 2nd gen ikesen thing where the kids of our ships can interact!!

If you are interested: lmk!! either comment or DM me with the ship you’d like to include and details about their children!!

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HI I HAVE IDEAS!!

I’d really like to interact more with people’s OCs especially for ikémen sengoku and the rest of the series!!

Soo I was thinking about how Diwali is coming up soon and how it’d be so cool to have characters celebrate with Aru!!

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Would anyone be interested in being tagged if/when I post about Aru, Kiyomi or any other of my Ikesen (or ikeseries) OCs :33??

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Oooh I love them!!

Adopted by Hideyoshi and Mitsuhide omg!!!! I love that🥹 now how would they like to have Kiyomi for a mother :33

They sound super cool in all versions!!

Thank you for sharing💛 and if you’re interested I could share a bit abt Aru or any of the other ikesen ocs in return :>>

To all my fellow ikesen (+ the rest of the ikeseries) players if u you guys have ocs/sonas and would like to share abt them PLEASE DO💛

I’d love to hear abt their lore, see their designs LITERALLY ANYTHING!!!

[masamuneskitchen]

He smiled at her candor. This was what he had been hoping she would admit to herself.

“Then do not let yourself regret the connections you have made here. Regret is for the weak.”

“Even if things change in the future… the respect that has grown in your heart for the people of Azuchi does not need to change.”

“More missions will come… but you will remain the Aru I have come to know. I am certain of that.” He smiles.

“Now if you are to remain unburdened by sleep… might I convince you to entertain me in your last night here?”

Arundhati: …Nobunaga?

It was late and the kunoichi couldn’t sleep. So, she found herself at the Devil King’s door instead. She assumed he’d probably make her play a game of Go but that was better than staring at her wall.

“Arundhati?” Nobunaga seems slightly surprised but not upset when she enters the room. He bids her to sit with him. “It is rather late for a casual visit. Is something wrong?”

[masamuneskitchen]

“It is not enough simply to know that I’m pleased?” He chuckles at the cheeky ninja.

“For the same reason you should find me a valuable contact. I value you Aru.”

“You’ve shown me that value through your skills and though how you have conducted yourself while in Azuchi. I commend you for your work and for the relationships you have built here.”

“It is because of those relationship that you have gained a home here. I suspect this is why you are reluctant to leave?”

Arundhati: …Nobunaga?

It was late and the kunoichi couldn’t sleep. So, she found herself at the Devil King’s door instead. She assumed he’d probably make her play a game of Go but that was better than staring at her wall.

“Arundhati?” Nobunaga seems slightly surprised but not upset when she enters the room. He bids her to sit with him. “It is rather late for a casual visit. Is something wrong?”

[masamuneskitchen]

Nah, just a little salty. *he says dusting himself off* but not as salty as Ieyasu.

*he offers her a cheerful wink then steers her back into the kitchen.*

Seeing as how your dinner is ruined. How about you let me put something together for us to eat?

Arundhati: Um. Masamune, I fear a crisis has indeed occurred.

*Standing in the doorway of the kitchen was the kunoichi holding a pan that was on fire.*

*grabs a canister of salt and dumps it of the fire*

Hmm *he pokes the remains once the fire was out* You might need to try again Kass. That’s pretty charred.

[masamuneskitchen]

Nobunaga frowns. Those carnelian eyes don’t miss much, but he chooses not to comment.

“Your last night? And where exactly do you plan to go from here, Aru?”

Arundhati: …Nobunaga?

It was late and the kunoichi couldn’t sleep. So, she found herself at the Devil King’s door instead. She assumed he’d probably make her play a game of Go but that was better than staring at her wall.

“Arundhati?” Nobunaga seems slightly surprised but not upset when she enters the room. He bids her to sit with him. “It is rather late for a casual visit. Is something wrong?”

[masamuneskitchen]

He smirked for a moment before leaning forward and pouring her another cup of sake.

“I will reward you for your honesty, by telling you the truth. I am pleased your assessment of me is more positive than even you anticipated.”

Arundhati: …Nobunaga?

It was late and the kunoichi couldn’t sleep. So, she found herself at the Devil King’s door instead. She assumed he’d probably make her play a game of Go but that was better than staring at her wall.

“Arundhati?” Nobunaga seems slightly surprised but not upset when she enters the room. He bids her to sit with him. “It is rather late for a casual visit. Is something wrong?”