Motoharu Kikkawa


 * Warning: Contains blood and graphic violence. Read at your own risk

Haru Kikkawa or Motoharu Kikkawa is Motonari Mori's second child. She is Takakage Kobayakawa's older sister, Takamoto Mori's younger sister, and Terumoto Mori's niece.

She is one of the main protagonists in Samurai Warriors Crossroads. However, she is considered as the main character, along with Hiroie Kikkawa, overall. In Crossroads 2, she serves as one of the party members of Yoshiaki's crew, along with Masamune and Kojuro.

She is currently a recurring character in the Crossroads universe as well as one of the main protagonists.

She is also the leader of the Crossroads crew, a team designated to travel through the multiverse.

During her adventures, she is the latest reincarnation of one of Ozma and Salem's daughters, particularly the youngest of the four. She later became the latest incarnation of Professor Ozpin after Oscar Pine suffered a horrible accident that rendered him unable to fight.

Description

 * "A woman who combines bravery with happiness. Known as one of the Three Mori Arrows, Haru's dream is to make people smile and lift their spirits. Even if she risks her entire life achieving said goal."

Appearance
Haru is a middle aged, well endowed woman, with long black hair, black eyes in a sharp way, and a innocent complexion. She has a long tribal tattoo on her right arm.

Anime
In her anime appearance, she wears a blue and grey shirt with a dark blue coat, black gloves, black pants, dark blue stilettos, and a butterfly pattern around her coat.

Official
Her game appearance in Crossroads is vastly different compared to her anime design. Though she retains her black hair, it's been cut a bit shorter (In a similar fashion to Yusuke Godai). She wears a dark royal blue shirt, a jacket wrapped around her waist, blue and black pants, and black boots. For the back of her shirt, she has a dragon design.

Casual
Her casual appearance has her wearing a dark blue and black coat.

Playa
This outfit takes notes from the Playa's default appearance in Saints Row 4 with the only difference being

Professor Ozpin
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Personality
Despite looking mature for her age (Her official age was 43), Haru is an happy go lucky young woman who loves to make people happy, regardless of the mood. Sometimes, she would use her intellect to get out of situations or make peace with the enemy. This is evident when she actually managed to calm down Medhi, who snapped upon hearing her mother's supposedly true intentions, and managed to make amends between both of them. And while Medhi is annoyed at Haru's positive, kind attitude, she was grateful that Haru managed to help her overcome her overbearing mother, who was actually cursed by a staff.

Her hand to hand combat, however, is considered as a weak point to her skills. Despite that, she uses it if the enemy tries to kill her friends, parents, and brothers. She eventually improved on her hand to hand combat skills over time.

Her unpredictability is her strong suit, and her best tactic of all. Haru would often come up with dangerous, stupid and time consuming ideas that, to the surprise of many, always work. A big example would be her plan to distract Cordovin in order for Yukimura to stop Team RWBY from destroying her mecha. The plan not only worked but also gained Cordovin's respect for the former since she came up with a bad idea, by Suzaku's standards, that surprisingly worked in her favor.

She is, shockingly, intelligent and smart, When she acts serious, she provides useful info and clever strategies for the Mori clan, even if she outright denies it. Nuwa is rather impressed, and annoyed, that Haru rarely uses her gifted intelligence. Motonari stated that Haru acts serious when she wants to, rather than using it on a daily basis, mainly due to her learning about the positives of life itself. And while she has used this more frequently, she still manages to retain her smile. Suzaku points out that even he is disturbed at her hidden intelligence.

Another of Haru's strong points is her resilience. She can withstand a lot of damage, even DYING is nothing to her. Even after she gets beaten up by a couple of people, including Yang, she doesn't let that affect her as long as she keeps on making people smile. Her one goal. This often makes dying, at least to her, slower due to her health. Her surviving FIVE months with no type of medical attention proved that she doesn't give up easily. However, this can be a huge cost to her own health. This was the reason why she died right after the Conquest of Kyushu since she risked her own health for their happiness.

But despite all of her strong points, she has some weaknesses. Those type of weaknesses made her accept for who she is, no matter how people view her as.

Haru is easily emotional. She would often cry in situations that even she can relate to, even the most simple things due to how much love and care she put into the stuff she does. She also gets upset easily when her friends and family insult her, regardless if it's accidental. She also has a soft spot to those that are emotionally vulnerable.

She is often clumsy, possibly hindering her progress if she's not careful. Hua Xiong is surprised that Haru outlasted his assault without breaking a sweat, only for her to trip over her shoes and fall down, spraining her ankle. She's often called the HP (The Dudesons) of the crew due to her clumsiness and how she manages to break a bone almost every time she gets into a fight.

Her childlike innocence can make her naive and oblivious to pretty much everything, including her own sex appeal, which made Kazehana surprised and impressed at her looks, even though they look identical. Myokyu points out that Haru either is used to whatever throws at her, is so happy nothing seems to affect her, or she just doesn't want them to worry about her well being. This was shown during her time in The Island of Giant Insects where, despite being injured, she still manages to smile, to Mutsumi's shock. Despite Mutsumi's concerns, Haru assured that she's ok.

Another of her weak points is her unexpected admiration towards women in regards to sex appeal. In one of the sub-stages in Warriors Orochi 5, Zhang He is easily freaked out by Haru's admiration towards Wang Yi, who had nothing to do with the latest 'babe hunt' set up by Magoichi Saika. She also has a habit of drooling and getting a nosebleed, as shown when she saw Xiang-Ying wearing her night gear. While that ended up with her getting hit by a potplant, it shows that Haru is just as perverted as what people claim to tell otherwise, even if it was proven that she's kind.

Her interactions reveal that Haru loves doing what's best for everybody, putting a smile on anyone's faces. She loves making people smile, regardless of the mood, after she was told by her mother, Lady Myokyu, to make people happy. She also knows that she would go to great lengths to put a smile on people's faces. Despite people's concerns and worries, Haru knows about it and does her best to cheer people up, even if people were upset about her way of raising morale (Putting her life on her line for their sake). This extends during her new humbled

Although, as mentioned above, she is a happy go-lucky young woman, it doesn't mean that Haru can't get angry. Because of this, Haru is far from being completely happy and optimistic. This ended up making her a new form, called the Judgement Warrior, a form that Haru doesn't use unless she reaches her breaking point. Motonari points out that she rarely gets angry unless something bad happens that will put her over the edge. It got worse during their time in Atlas, where Qrow's constant agonizing drove her over the edge.

Due to her experiences with war and her knowledge about it, Haru knows that there's no happy endings in spite of her optimistic personality. She knows that sacrifices are necessary to provide a better future and a happier one. The Lost Paradise incident fulled her claims

Surprisingly, she has the agility and energy of a little child. Despite being in her middle age, she doesn't seem to get herself tired or exhausted. This has since died down as the years go past, with her experiencing fatigue as she grew older, especially since she's at around her early fifties, in addition to her weakened health.

Samurai Warriors Crossroads
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Warriors Orochi
Due to the time distortion, Haru, along with the Crossroads newcomers, were separated.

In Samurai's 1st stage, Battle of Kuzegawa, she, along with her son Hiroie, suddenly appears to help Toyohisa, Zhang Chunhua and Fa Zheng deal with Da Ji and the Orochi army. After rescuing Xiaoqiao, Haru tags along for the ride.

Light Novel
In the light novel, Haru's story stays the same except that she survived her historical death in Kyushu.

Vol 1
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Vol 2
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Vol 3
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Vol 4
Some time after the Fall of Beach, Haru was invited to attend a charity ball in Atlas.

Vol 5
Even though Haru didn't meet Team RWBY due to the time distortion, she suddenly appears at Vol 5 to support Raven and her clan.

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High School of the Dead
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Finding help
Sometime after, Motonaga was struck with a full on hayfever.

Defense of Athel Loren
Haru was among the many White Fang members sent to defend the city of Athel Loren, who was under attack by the Vale-Atlas army, led by General Ironwood.

The Trial of Muneshige Tachibana
Having known before hand that Muneshige Tachibana, one of Haru's closest friends, will betray her, Suzaku Vermilion and her friends, Haru investigated his true intentions.

Alicization Crisis
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World of Sekirei
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Truth of Cross
Motoharu was forced out of retirement to travel to the World of Cross Ange after hearing of another time distortion. Now brandishing a M1911 Handgun and a Pump Action Shotgun, Haru sets out to find out the cause of the distortion.

RWBY Volume 6
Sometime during the civil war, Haru was sent to join with the heroes.

Discovering the Truth
While on their way to Atlas, they were under attack by the Grimm, which made Team JNR separated with the others.

Tensions
As a result of Haru becoming the youngest daughter of Salem and Ozma, tensions arose. Without thinking, Qrow immediately confronted Haru about why she kept it a secret. Haru herself had no idea she was an incarnation of one of her children.

Meeting Mamako
Despite Hiroie and Suzaku's protests, the latter because he didn't want to see Kirito again, Haru decides to play the newest MMO game that was handed to her by Shiraise. What they didn't expect is that they somehow appeared at the wrong time due to the game being in development. Hiroie and, for once, Suzaku, immediately scolded her on playing a game without even checking

Haru's Resolve
Even though Medhi was annoyed at her antics, Haru was insistent that she should at least talk it out with her mother.

Arriving at Atlas
Haru and the rest of the crew arrived not long after Team RWBY's arrival.

Terumasa's new plan
While the crew argued if Ironwood's plan is a good one, Terumasa came up with an alternative: Go into a temporary alliance with Team RWBY. For once, Zhi and Suzaku were concerned about his idea since they were, or as Zhi said, "Dealing with the Devil". Seeing that Terumasa had a good idea, Haru decided to follow along with Ironwood's plan and form an alliance with Team RWBY. Despite Suzaku's worries, Haru assured that they won't know about their true motives.

Becoming Professor Ozpin
Due to Suzaku injuring Oscar by accident, Professor Ozpin used it as an opportunity to jump out of Oscar's body to Haru's, seeing that she came up with a plan that would work

An alliance with Ironwood
Seeing that Ironwood has a plan that is a better one than Terumasa's, Haru decided to form an permanent alliance with him.

Ice Cream
While in her father's ice cream shop, Haru decided to make the perfect unmelting ice cream. Using a fragment of the Relic of Knowledge, Haru discovers that

The Decision to Block off Mantle
Seeing that Tyrian and Watts have already made their presence known, Haru decided that the best option would be to block off Mantle from the rest of the world in hopes of protecting it from Salem in case if she and the rest of her forces arrive. Nora was far from happy about this as she sees it as oppression. Haru is impressed at Nora for taking an assertive approach so she simply decided to let her decide the fate of Mantle, to everyone's shock.

Invited to a Dinner Party
As part of Ironwood's plan, Haru is sent to act as a peace negotiator.

History Repeats Itself
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Left with no other Options
Realizing that the heroes have basically lied and hid the real truth from Ironwood, Haru decides to convince him into joining the crew. At first, Ironwood was skeptical, but then, Haru found some evidence that can help her prove that Team RWBY (Excluding Weiss) don't trust him as much as he doesn't trust them.

A Cruel Euology
Before Ironwood can say something, Haru

Taking the Blame
As Clover died in her arms, Haru, getting used to death, decides to turn herself in to fulfill Clover's dream.

Death
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Cutting ties with Jaune, Nora and Ren
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Two Separate realities
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Travelling to the World of Family Guy
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Meeting her four counterparts
As a result of Yueying giving her power to Suzaku, she accidentally created separate dimensions. Haru went to investigate four people that look identical to her in facial features.

Counterparts

 * Haruka Godai - Her first counterpart from the World of RWBY. Identical in terms of personality, they easily get along with each other.
 * Ashley Obsidian - Ironically enough, it's her second counterpart from the World of Last.
 * Iris Einzbern - Her third counterpart from the World of Fate.

Samurai Warriors

 * Motonari Mori - She loves her father dearly.
 * Lady Myokyu - Like Motonari, she loves her mother.
 * Takamoto Mori - ?
 * Takakage Kobayakawa - Being the older sister to him, she sees him
 * Hiroie Kikkawa
 * Nobunaga Oda
 * Hideyoshi Toyotomi
 * Nene
 * Yukimura Sanada - Is basically Haru's most trusted ally, even after Dosan Saito and Muneshige Tachibana's betrayal.
 * Ina
 * Hidetada Tokugawa

Dynasty Warriors

 * Sun Deng

Warriors Orochi

 * Nuwa

RWBY

 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee
 * Blake Belladonna - Blake sees Haru as a highly optimistic idiot.
 * Yang Xiao Long - Similar to Deng's relationship, Haru doesn't approve of Yang's attempts to protect Ruby Rose. However, it turns out that Yang hates Haru for being similar to both Summer and Raven in terms of personality.
 * James Ironwood:
 * Raven Branwen - Arguably one of the few characters that hasn't either resent her or killed her yet. Haru knows how it feels to risk everything for your loved ones.
 * Salem - Prior to the reveal of Haru being the reincarnation of one of Salem's children, she is curious to see how she acts given that she found out, by Tyrian, about all of her life. It went full circle during their time at Atlas, when Haru became the latest incarnation of Professor Ozpin.
 * Cinder Fall - She hates her for killing Pyrrha
 * Jaune Arc
 * Nora Valkyrie - Haru is amazed at Nora
 * Pyrrha Nikos - After Pyrrha was killed by Cinder, Haru feels guilty over her death.
 * Lie Ren
 * Roman Torchwick
 * Qrow Branwen
 * Taiyang Xiao Long

Other

 * Suzaku Vermillion - Their relationship is nothing more but a perfect couple (Suzaku and his strength, Haru and her charisma). Suzaku grew to admire her for her bravery (Although he's annoyed at her own stupidity), charisma, and her cute factor, something Motonari teases him about to no end.
 * Dawn Vermillion - ?

Power Level
While Haru is not as strong as the majority of characters like Sun Deng and Suzaku Vermillion, it's her quick approach that makes up for it.

Forms
In Judgement Warrior, Haru can gain access to an assortment of weapons. She can also activate Clarity, which acts as a power boost.
 * Judgement Warrior - Haru's strongest form

Theme Song

 * Sapphire Dragon - Haru's official theme

Voice Actors

 * Aki Toyosaki - Samurai Warriors series, Warriors Orochi 5, Dengeki Bunko Crossing Void (Japanese)
 * Rachel MacFarlane - Samurai Warriors Crossroads (English)
 * Hailee Steinfeld - Crossroads: Travelling Dimensions (English)

Reception
The alternate Haru Kikkawa has been positively received though she was criticized for the same reasons as Sun Deng and Jun.

Trivia

 * Haru Kikkawa may look similar to Kazehana from Sekirei with the only differences are her hair, clothes and eye colour. Personality wise, however, she is often compared to or at least a female version of Yusuke Godai from Kamen Rider Kuuga due to sharing his traits. Even her Judgement Warrior form takes notes from Kuuga Ultimate. She is also similar to both Michael J. Caboose from Red vs. Blue and Spongebob Squarepants. The former due to her childlike innocence and the latter due to her smile. With Her Ice Cream obsession, this fact makes her similar to Patrick Star in terms of how the latter enjoys Ice Cream from Goofy Goober.
 * Haru's Crossroads outfit shares a lot of similarities between three people: Yuya Sakaki from Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, Joseph Price from Saints Row, and Lei Wulong from Tekken, with more emphasis on all three of them.
 * Haru's IQ is, shockingly, 250. Ten more than Dr. Emily Grey
 * Haru has the highest health in the game, akin to her resilience.
 * Her alias, Kimberlyn MacArthur, is a reference to her initials, which is MK, but switched around.
 * With the confirmation that she's bi, Haru's the first to have revealed her own sexuality.
 * The tribal tattoo on her right arm has a lot of similarities to