Homura

Homura Kurenai is a character of Senran Kagura, she is the sister of Yuuki Kõtetsu, the best friend, rival and sister of Asuka Shimada

A former student of Hebijo Academy as well as the former leader of Crimson Squad a splinter group of Hebijo and one of the main protagonist of Senran Kagura: The Black Swordsman series.where she first appear as a main character in Senran Kagura: The Black Swordsman and as one of the main protagonists of it's sequel Senran Kagura: Passing on the Legends.

She also proved to be alongside her sister Yuuki, one of the main factors in winning the Second Shinobi Great War. The defeat and eradication of The Reaper and the fall of the Yoma army finally bringing the peace in the world.

Appearance
Homura is a tan girl with dark brown hair tied in a long ponytail with a white ribbon, the ends of the ribbon standing straight up.

In her shinobi form,  She wears a short black dress that looks similar to her old Hebijo uniform, and covers it with a small, light grey jacket, with samurai leg armor on each side. Around her neck is a long black cape with white trim.

18 years later, Homura who was able to return to Hanzõ Academy after the Shinobi Great War wear the standard uniform of Hanzõ National Academy and wear a red scarf around her neck in memories of Asuka who was at that time considerate dead.

Crimson Form
In addition to six katana which she wields at the same time, she carries a nodachi known as Engetsuka on her back that she only uses when in her Crimson mode.

When Homura enter into her Crimson form, her appearance changes ever so slightly. That being that her hair is now dyed red/orange (crimson) color and is let from its usual ponytail state. Her eyes also change color, where they become red to accommodate her red hair.

Amaterasu-ōmikami Form
Under the form of the Goddess of sun, Homura's appareance drastically change, she wear a Crimson kimono, long white japanese tabi, a pair of geta, her face now possess tatoos of her animal guardian and a pair of Crimson wings appear on her back and an enormous amount of fire energy-like aura was unleashed all around her body

Personality
Homura's personality at the beginning is the same as when she was part of Crimson Squad and Hebijo Academy.

At the surface of her appearance, Homura has a rather cool demeanor to her upon interaction. She can be calm until a present situation calls for her to get serious. She's not one for conversation as she believes that actions speak louder than words. She also follows the ideal from her former sensei, Rin, that silence is a shinobi's best weapon.

She can become rather impatient at times and tends to display headstrong qualities when trying to solve a present problem. Her desire to get things done tends to land her in awkward situations, especially if it is concerning Hanzõ. This normally leads to her saying the complete opposite of what she truly means and is often teased of this by her comrades; being called a mindless thinker who often doesn't want others to know how she feels; especially by Haruka.

When fighting, she becomes very intense and focuses mainly on testing her opponent's strength to see them worthy of even fighting. This is especially displayed towards her heated rivalry with Asuka. When fighting a well versed enemy, Homura can become ruthless and is not afraid to kill another if presented the chance/reason.

In the past, Homura have trust issues due to an incident that forced her to be exiled from Hanzõ Academy and even from her own family, She does not like being deceived but accepts the fact that it can be used as a tool in the shinobi world. Her own relationship with her comrades was not always strong, seeing as how none of them trusted her or even liked each other for that matter. However, leading to the incident that forced Homura into exile, her relationship grew stronger with her comrades as they chose to follow instead of abandoning her. Now Homura has a strong urge and responsibility to become a strong enough leader so that she can not only lead her team but protect them as they grow to become fearsome shinobi.

However after the death of Hanzõ at the hands of The Reaper ("under the guise of Dõgen her arch-enemy") and her meeting with Yuuki Kõtetsu the daughter of her best friend Asuka, Homura become a kind and carring person around Yuuki who see her as the sister she always wanted and her family she want to protect, her contact with Yuuki has made a permanent change in her personality similar to that of Asuka while retaining most of her old personality.

Background
Homura's past was bright at first, she was from a prestigious family of Shinobi and worked hard to enter Hanzõ Academy and become a Shinobi, however due to an incident involve her teacher who was a evil shinobi and got kill by accident, Homura was expelled from Hanzõ Academy and from her family which led her to be enrolled to Hebijo Academy where she meet her friends and members of Crimson Squad.

During her time as a Evil Shinobi, she was a rival of Asuka Shimada the granddaughter of Hanzõ Shimada who both clashes always end up with Homura as the winner until the climax of Hebijo Invasion where the investor of Hebijo Dõgen reveal his true nature and decide to help Asuka defeating Orochi from the inside while Asuka fight him from the outside.

After those events Homura decide to exil herself from the Shinobi World with her friends who decide to follow her instead of abandoned her and form the group that will be know as Crimson Squad.

Sometimes after those events, Homura came to know the infamous Shimada Family which Asuka and Hanzõ are from and when she heard about Hanzõ being captured by Dõgen using Miyabi and her team to do his dirty works, she and Crimson Squad decide to give a hand to Asuka in her rescue operation of her grandfather.

Power & Abilities
Homura is an extremely powerful shinobi in her own right, even more powerful than Asuka when they first battle, Homura have mastery over Fire and fight her opponents with her six swords that she use like claws as a fighting style.
 * Master Shinobi: as a legendary shinobi Homura is highly skilled with skill forged with self training and further training under masters such as Genji Shimada as she refer to him as "Master or Grandpa" and Rin who was her teacher during her time at Hebijo,  Homura came to possess utterly immense skill as a shinobi, capable of crafting his own unique and powerful ninja technique, and had a natural talent for mastering jutsu far beyond what she should have been capable of at the time.
 * Immense Strength: Homura possess an incredible strength that come from her years of training under Rin and Genji Shimada and also during her fight against her rival Asuka, her strength is so immense that she can take down a entire army of enemies
 * Immense Durability: Homura possess a immense durability which make her able to resist any kind of attack her enemies can throw at her, she can come out of worst situation completely unscratched after taking a powerful attack of Asuka,
 * Immense Speed: Homura possesses incredible raw speed, being able to out-maneuver and surprise someone of Genji's caliber,

Shinobi Form
Like all shinobi from her generation, Homura possess a Shinobi Form which is based on the manifestation of her idealized appearance, under this form Homura can use her shinobi powers and her speed durability and strength increase as well.

Hidden Ninpo
Homura possess several Hidden Ninpõ in her possession those are
 * Charge (魁 - Sakigake, lit. "Charging Ahead of Others") an attack which Homura charges in a frenzy of slashes, boxing in any and all enemies at once; drawing them in with strong suction. It finishes with two separate slashes, each with delaying gaps in between. Hitting enemies with this ferocious onslaught will inflict a burning status for a set duration of time and will continue to harm them until it wares off.
 * Resonate (響 or ひびき, Hibiki) Homura's second attack which made her begins to swing her swords about, creating a barrage of slashes. She moves forward in a slowed pace, however, each swing is backed by power and the fiery essence of her crimson energy. To finish this move, she ends it with a switch swift uppercut, followed by one final joint slash of all six of her katana.
 * Roar (轟 - Todoroki, lit. "Roar") One of Homura's attack in which she cloaks her body in a crimson essence before she gets down on all fours; suddenly dashing right after. As she charges, she leaves a trail of fire that follows along the path that she sets until the end. It finishes with a vertical leap by jumping into the air, causing a fire-like beam to shoot up before landing back down on to the ground.
 * Sound of the Wind (颯 - Hayate) one of Homura's attack, she spins around while attacking with all six of her swords extended outwardly; emulating a mini tornado that sucks in and cuts any and all enemies trapped by it. It finishes with her releasing an explosion of crimson energy, sending her enemies flying.
 * Dawn (暁 - Akatsuki) Whilst airborne, Homura slashes outward with her six katana and unleashes a wave of Crimson energy in all directions; slicing through enemies in the surrounding area. In her Crimson form, while the attack bares the same concept, the attack has a noticeably wider range than normal.
 * Supremacy ("覇走 - Ha hashi") one of Homura's attack, she rush at her opponent and fiercy attack them four time before deliever the finishing blow in a wave of flame

Crimson Form
Homura also possess a Ultimate form as she transform into her Crimson Form, she gain incredibly powers and her speed, durability and strength increase drastically, under this form her hair become red/orange, ("Crimson") and is let from its usual ponytail state. Her eyes also change color, where they become red to accommodate her red hair..

Special Attack
Under her Crimson Form, Homura gain several new powerful attacks based on her fire powers and her crimson form, those attacks are
 * Crimson Sun (陽紅 - Kurimuzon san) one of Crimson Homura's attack, Homura takes hold of Engetsuka with both hands firmly gripped around its handle. She then takes a stance before swinging her sword violently in one motion. At this time, an immense amount of crimson energy forms around the blade, unleashing it in a ball-shape form. It hurls in the direction of her enemies, mowing down and burning anything that comes into contact with it
 * Lotus (蓮 - Ren) One of Crimson Homura's attacks, She uses this sword to guide the other six swords out of their sheathes as they become coated in a crimson aura and fly forward. She thrusts her seventh sword up into the air and generates a gigantic tornado of fire. The six swords begin to spin around her as she moves around, finishing the move with a burst of crimson fire the envelops her body.
 * Roku hi ten'en kiba ("テン火災炎 - Ten fire flames") She execute a hand sing and use her shundõ to to jump in the sky at high speed, She fall on us like a fire ball and when she hit the ground, it leave a crater behind.
 * Guren taishakuten ("紅蓮帝釈天 - Guren Emperor Shakuten") one of Crimson Homura's attack, she send her opponent into the air and proceed to attack them furiously and finish her attack by rushing at them with all of her swords spinning around her body.
 * Guren tsuchi jogeki ("紅蓮土跳撃 - Crimson lotus flea") one of Crimson Homura's attack, she draw her six swords via psychokinesis, she rush at her enemies as her swords spin around her body, she then pull back and rush at them with her swords several times giving them heavy damages.
 * Kurenai no ten no hikari ("紅の光 - Heavenly Light of Crimson") one of Crimson Homura's technique who appear to be a teleportation technique, this technique let escape a large light that envelop everyone who was on her side and reappear in a location chosen by homura herself
 * Rokudō kurimuzon-en ("六堂栗本苑 - Six Paths of Crimson Flame") one of Crimson Homura's attacks which she unleash six huge flame slash from my sword all around her and caught the enemies in it, the effects of this attack are brutal that can incinerated them instantly.
 * Unmei no kurimuzon-fū ("運命のクリムゾン風 - The Crimson Wind of Destiny") One of Crimson Homura's attack though usually used as a combined attack with Neo Nakamura and Gerardo Nakamura, Homura can use this attack by gathering her crimson energy and unleash a very large flaming wind at The Reaper who got caught in the attack suffering critical damages from it.
 * Kurimuzon no idaina-en ("クリムゾンの偉大な炎 - The Great Flame of Crimson ") a powerful attack where Homura summon a giant crimson flame with her right hand and then unleash it at The Reaper, who can't move due to his left meg being freeze and take a direct hit from it.
 * Kurimuzon-en no senpū ("クリムゾン炎の旋風 - Whirlwind of Crimson Flames") A powerful attack where Homura summon several Flame tornados as she spinning around herself and send them at her enemies who take critical damages from it and can neutralize their powers as this attack was mixed with the power of the White Magic of Mars.
 * Kurimuzon-en no Tachi ("クリムゾン炎のロングワード - Crimson Flaming Long Sword") one of Crimson Homura's most powerful attack, she gather all of her crimson energy into her sword and the flame from her sword became more large and more cutting, she rush at her enemies and slash them violently and can set them on fire at the same time.
 * Kurimuzon rōtasu no moeru tsume ("クリムゾンロータスの燃える爪 - Burning claws of Crimson Lotus") The swords that Homura hold in her right hand begin to be enveloped in the flames and take the shape of a dragon claw she then rush at the yomas and beat them down with my attack which left them burned to death, her flame powers combined with the power of the White Magic of Mars make it one of the most dangerous and the most powerful attack of all of them.
 * Eien no kurimuzon-en no honō ("永遠のクリムゾン園のほほ - Eternal Crimson Flame of Destiny") Her sword gather all of her Crimson energy and then slashed her enemies multiple times as her attack was infused with the power of the White Magic of Mars it can neutralize any attacks, her opponents that take the hit suffered severely from the attack as they can barely stand up on their feet.
 * Shinku no honō ("深紅の炎 - The Flame of Deep Crimson") Homura gather all of her crimson energy into her sword as it begin to glow as she unleash an extremely powerful wave of flames from it at her enemies and finish it with a powerful slash in the back.
 * Shinku honō ken ("深紅の炎の拳 - Crimson Flaming Fist") an Attack that Homura mastered during the three years following the Second Shinobi Great War, she gather fire energy into her fist who ignit itself and punch his enemies that set them immediately on fire, the damages caused by this attack are very high.
 * Kami no shikō arashi ("God's Supreme Storm") An combined attack of Neo, Gerardo, Homura and Yuuki's elements, after gathering enough energy from their respective element, they unleash an beam of mixed energy of ice, fire and lightning at their enemies, this attack is extremely powerful as it was able to destroy the yomas red blast and hit them critically incinerating their bodies into ashes in the process.

Amaterasu-ōmikami Form
During her fight against Misha Kreutzev, Homura revealed her new form that come from her three years of training follow the Second Shinobi Great War, her form is inspired from the Goddess of sun, Amaterasu-ōmikami, under this form the temperature of her flames reach 10 000-degre-celsius which is enough to melt everything within her range including water and ice.

Under this form Homura's appareance change to look like a true goddess of the sun.

Her incantation is "O queen of eternal flames, by the contract that binds you to me, please lend me your strength, the strength to defeat my enemies and protect those I love, flame of the goddess of sun appears and merges with me, ignite you, Amaterasu-ōmikami ("the Great August Kami (deity) who shines in the heaven")"
 * Enhanced Strength: Under this form, Homura's strength increased drastically, as she fight against Misha she clash against her was enough to shake the whole area of Oowarai Beach and take down a whole army in one hit, her strength under this form largely surpass the strength of the archangels and god himself.
 * Enhanced Durability: Homura gain a enhanced durability under this form, making her whole body completely impervious from any kind of attacks whatever it is and can even get out of the worst situations without a single scratch on it.
 * Enhanced Speed: Homura's raw speed increase considerable to the point of breaking the wall of sound, with her speed she can dodge an attack of Misha with ease and avoid all projectile her enemies can throw at her.

Goddess of the sun's powers
After three years of training under her Amaterasu-ōmikami Form, Homura gain new attacks based on the element of the sun, combinate with her own powers which make her extremely powerful shinobi.
 * Taiyō no megami no honōnonami ("wave of flames of the goddess of the sun"): one of Homura's newest attack under this form, she raise her hand in the air and several holes of fire appear behind her and unleash a wave of fire like spears at her enemies at high speed, the intensity of the attack is so brutal that can melt Misha's wings immediately after coming in contact with the attack.
 * Taiyō no megami no honō o suraisu ("slicing flames of the goddess of the sun"): one of Homura's newest attack, after gathering all of her fire energy, she unleash several powerful slashes at her enemies which is powerful enough to break their defenses and can critically injures her opponents.
 * Hiryū no moeru ha ("Fire Dragon's burning blade"): one of Homura's attacks under her Goddess of sun's form, gathering all her fire energy, she rush at her opponents and slash them at high speed without them having time to react to her attack, this attack can burn the enemies from the inside as a side effect.
 * Moeru kitsune no ya ("Burning Fox Arrows"): one of Homura's attack under her Goddess of sun's form, she raise her hand into the air and summoned several arrows of flame above her enemies, as she raise her hand down all the arrows of flame are unleashed at high speed the speed of the arrow are so fast that the opponents defense can break, they can even counter all of them however they can still receive damages from the attack.
 * Hiryū no nenshō ken ("Fire Dragon's burning fist"): an attack based on Hansuke's Fire Dragon Iron Fist, Homura ignite her hands with flames and rush at her opponents and punch them very hard sending them off flying in the air or putting them on the ground.
 * Hiryū no nenshō appākatto ("Fire Dragon's burning uppercut"): one of Homura's powerful attacks, She ignite her hand in flame and hit her opponents with a strong uppercut, the attack is so brutal that that the flame begin to burn her opponents body.
 * Taiyō no megami no eien no honō ("Sun Goddess's Eternal Flames"): Homura and Yuuki's combined attack, and the most deadly of them all, gathering their respective elements together, both Homura and Yuuki unleash a large wave of fire at the yomas, the attack's strength is so big that the opponents cannot escape from it and can burn them to death upon contact of the attack.

Shundõ
It is show that Homura is a master of the shundõ, A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow she use this technique many times against enemies and yomas, her shundõ is at the same level as the one Asuka and Yuuki possess.
 * Koku Shundõ (虚空瞬動, Void Instant Movement): Homura have also a great mastery over the Koku Shundõ, a form of instant movement that allows her to use instant movement on the air by bouncing off it.
 * Raisoku Shundõ (雷速瞬動, lit. Lightning-speed Instant Movement): Homura show that she can use the Raisoku Shundõ who is a technique created by the Shimada Family and demonstrate that she have a great mastery over it, It is a type of Shundõ that enables Homura to move in the speed of lightning, which is relatively 150 km/s (about 93 miles/second)

Other Abilities

 * High Level Intellect: Homura possess a utterly high level intellect, as show during the second shinobi great war as the shinobi allied forces were facing a barrier summoned by the yomas, she analize the situation and managed to find four weakspot of the barrier and warn the shinobis about this information, she was also able to know what kind of plan their enemies prepared for them and created a counter-measure against them.
 * White Magic of Mars: Very unique among the shinobi, Homura is the wielder of a powerful magic called the White Magic of Mars that has the ability to neutralize any type of supernatural powers like magic barriers. She proved that she had a great mastery over this power as she was able to neutralize The Reaper's magic barrier without much effort and allowing her and his friends to defeat him, his mastery of this power is so great that she can extend her power around a specific perimeter when she and her friends face a fearsome enemy.