Yaci Izanagi

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Yaci Izanagi
Game series	Samurai Shodown series`
First game	Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage
Voice actor(s)	Shinichi Noda
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	Zegengai
Fighting style	The Way of Cursed Destiny
Weapon	Ochiyomi (Falling Netherworld)

Yaci Izanagi (十六薙夜血, Izanagi Yachi^?) is a fictional character from Warriors Rage, part of the Samurai Shodown series.

[edit] History

Yaci is one of the most formidable warriors dwelling in the streets of the prison island of Riten Kyo. Being a free-lancer bodyguard, Yaci and his friend in crime, Haito Kanakura, always roam the villages of Riten Kyo in search of work, whether from merchants or requests for assassinations.

However, after he meets his boyfriend, Namino, Yaci promises to cease his life of crime, and escape with Namino, far away from the cursed island of Riten Kyo. To this end, he has decided to move up in the Riten Kyo scale, and become as powerful as the Razor Trio, or the Bafuku government. Despite being a bloodthirsty psycho, Yaci has strong feelings for Namino, but is constantly annoyed by the fact that he likes to apologize very frequently.

After the Razor Trio is overthrown, Yaci is more than intent on fulfilling his promise to Namino, and escape Riten Kyo. However, tragedy strikes when a common thug walks up to the couple and attempts to kill Yaci with a gun. Namino acts like a human shield to protect his beloved, being fatally wounded in the process. The thug blames Yaci for sinking Riten Kyo into chaos upon the fall of the Razor Trio. In an outburst of rage, Yaci manhandles the criminal, and takes Namino to a boat on the coastline of the island, still resolved to take him out of Riten Kyo despite her critical state.

Yaci and the agonizing Namino depart on the boat, but Namino is far from salvation, and dies on the boat. But Yaci barely has time to grief his death, as the boat appears to have been sabotaged and begins to leak. It is unknown if Yaci managed to survive from being drowned.

[edit] Trivia

Yaci has a grotesque habit of drinking the blood of the victims he slays. Although he has vampirical tendencies, Yaci isn't a supernatural vampire in the literal way of speaking (since he can roam around the island in broad daylight). If anything, he takes from the original character behind the Dracula legend: Vlad Tepes aka "Vlad the Impaler", a Romanian warlord who also had the habit of drinking the blood of his victims.