FULL NAME    Master Kohga ( コーガ様 Kōga-sama )
Given Name: Danjūrō
  TITLES    Leader of the Yiga Clan, The Inverted Eye, The Top Banana, Chief, Boss
  AGE    Ripe ( physically appears to be a Sheikah male in his 80s ~approx. mid-40s for a Hylian )
  HEIGHT    Aprox. 6'8"
  BIRTH DATE    [redacted] Born sometime in mid-August
  OCCUPATION    Leader of the Yiga Clan, thief / rogue, proud mischief maker
  RACE    Sheikah Yiga ( Japanese in the real world )
  GENDER    Male
  PRONOUNS    he / him
  ORIENTATION    ( ⚣ ) homosexual
  RELIGION    Defier of the Goddess, practices a form of ancestor reverence/honoring
  EYE COLOUR    Sheikah Red
  HAIR COLOUR    Naturally white. It’s dyed black as a form of rebellion, but the white tends to show at the roots. He has two cowlicks that stick out prominently. He wears his hair done in a chonmage (topknot), and when down, it reaches past his shoulders in a curly, untamed mess.
  SKIN COLOUR    copper brown  BIRTHPLACE    ( Ancient ) Kakariko Village
  CURRENT HOME    Yiga Clan Hideout ( Karusa Valley, Gerudo Desert )
  LANGUAGES    Hylian, Sheikah ( + Yiga Dialect ), Hylian/Sheikah sign language, Gerudo, some Ancient Zonai & Ancient Hyrulean, bits of Ancient Sheikah

  CONDITIONS    ADHD & chronic fatigue  FEATURES   
For reference on how he appears, see this post.Pear-shaped and pudgy, much of his weight goes into his stomach, which the Yiga ADORE. Despite his appearance, Kohga is exceptionally spry and nimble. The rest of his body is quite thin in comparison.Showing his face is an extraordinarily rare occurrence for any Yiga, and a privelege almost exclusively reserved for fellow Yiga. Kohga is fresh-faced despite his age and has round features, with tired, hooded eyelids and a big, button nose. There is a red Sheikah Crest symbol plastered on his forehead, which he tries to offset with kabuki-style makeup around his eyes. His arms and shoulders are inlaid with Sheikah Runes in the style of tattoo sleeves, embedded with anti-aging technology.

  FOOD    BANANAS, duh! 🍌 but his favorite dish is honey banana crepes with almonds & his mother's banana mochi recipe
  DRINK    banana sake, noble pursuit, anything fruity & boozy
  ANIMALS    sand seals, frogs, cats
  COLOURS    purple, red, (golden) yellow
  PLANT    yellow lotus
  MUSIC    anything involving shamisen or taiko drums, festival music. the louder and more intense, the better.
  WEAPON    demon carver, vicious sickle, eightfold blade, metal spiky balls, Sheikah runes & magic

  + TRAITS    confident, charismatic & charming, friendly, zany, extravagant, draws in a crowd, passionate, protective, creative, mad genius, caring when it counts, perceptive, intelligent, cunning, an absolute goofball, likable, dedicated, persuasive, smooth-talker, easy to get along with, theatrical & dramatic, boisterous, secret heart of gold  - TRAITS    lazy, lackadaisical, chronic underachiever, temperamental, egotistical & arrogant, easily distracted, can be cowardly, immature, vindictive and vengeful, can be incredibly petty, would rather nap than do his job, procrastinator, liar, ruthless to his foes, more stubborn than a mule, over-indulgent/hedonist, enjoys causing problems on purpose, vicious streak  LIKES + DISLIKES    ( + ) bananas, napping, frogs, eating, his clan, technological doodads, studying ancient scrolls through the night, dance, theatre, putting on a show ( - ) the Hylian Royal Family, LINK, meddlers, royalty/royalists, overworking himself, betrayal and deceit, being woken up  FEARS    Urbosa, betrayal, losing his clan/subordinates, being under someone else's control, getting cornered, an all-vegetable diet, cuccos  STRENGTHS    Mastery of esoteric arts & advanced ancient Sheikah techniques, living Sheikah Slate, espionage, leadership, charisma, acrobatic & nimble, stealthy & sneaky, book smart, quasi-immortality, strategist, cunning, fast, tech-savvy  WEAKNESSES    Lazy, magnesis, clumsy, arrows & thrown projectiles, self-destructive & reckless fighting style, leaves himself vulnerable to his own attacks, lack of wisdom, easily stressed out, cowardly, doesn’t apply himself, distractible  STAR SIGN    leo
  MBTI    enfp
  ENNEAGRAM    7w6
  MORAL ALIGNMENT    chaotic neutral

• go to backstory

Master Kohga is the beloved Leader of the Yiga Clan. At first, he may seem like a bumbling joke due to his flair for theatrics and general lack of impulse control, but he is the strongest banana out of the bunch with a smart head on his shoulders.While first appearances may suggest otherwise, Kohga does take his leadership seriously in his own peculair way. He prefers spending most of his time loafing about and napping unless he's sufficiently motivated to take action. He'll gladly flex his power and bust out some impressive moves, but he'd much rather avoid getting his hands dirty and prefers to leave most tasks to his underlings.But don't be put off by his theatrics and lackadaisical attitude, Kohga is by far the strongest Yiga for a reason—with mastery over ancient, advanced techniques that would take most people dozens of years to even grasp. And it is for this, and many other reasons, that he's earned the deep respect of the clan.Kohga possesses a larger-than-life persona that commands attention wherever he goes: he's comical, bombastic, informal, boisterous, and quick to lose his temper. His unorthodox charisma and unbridled enthusiasm have earned him the adoration of even the coldest Yiga. His endearing, goofy personality subsequently makes him universally adored by all of the Yiga Clan. He's simply the kind of guy that's hard to hate.Kohga is known to possess many secrets about the Sheikah and the long history of Hyrule, knowledge thought forgotten and lost to time. Despite how loud, theatrical, bumbling, and egotistical he can be, he keeps mum about what he really knows, and there is a general impression that Master Kohga harbors far more knowledge than what his otherwise comical exterior suggests.

Although Kohga appears largely lazy and self-centered at first glance, at the end of the day, it's a loyalty that goes both ways with his clan. Kohga cares deeply for the well-being of his clan in kind, but he has a lovable sort of brusqueness about him which he likely uses as a means of hiding how much he truly cares about them. Make no mistake, you mess with the Yiga Clan, and you mess with him.Kohga is a fairly childlike character at his core, and often requires his underlings to keep him on task as he's easily distracted and pulled away from focus. Though he is depicted as a goof, Kohga is an incredibly spiteful person and is more than capable of holding a grudge until the end of time. At times, he comes off as a bit of a flake, if not a coward, but if the people he loves are in danger, he's willing to risk his life for them and fight tooth and nail alongside his clan to keep them safe.Kohga (and the rest of the Yiga Clan) harbors a strong, long-standing hatred against the Hylian Royal Family who betrayed and oppressed his people eons ago. The Yiga Clan supports the rise and revival of Lord Ganon if that's what it takes to bring about Hyrule's end. While aligned with Calamity Ganon and a devoted follower in his name, Kohga's interests begin and end with the destruction of the Hylian royal family. His primary motivation in life is little more than the preservation of his clan’s well-being, longevity, and happiness— whatever the cost.

& Enter, Kohga...

Born 10,000 years in the past in a far older settlement of Kakariko Village to Sheikah parents with a long history of mastery in the martial arts, Master Kohga was to be one of the hundreds of monks sealed in the Sheikah Shrines in the aftermath of the First Calamity to guide the future hero against the impending battle against Calamity Ganon when it would inevitably return to bring destruction to the Kingdom.Kohga was never particularly enthusiastic about the role, nor was he one to sit still for long during training; he could never say no to an extra banana (or five), and was often found slacking off or napping during training with his peers. However, under all that blasé attitude laid a hidden genius not to be underestimated.It was shortly before Kohga was to go into his own shrine that the King of Hyrule's fear over the Sheikah's superior technological prowess reached its climax. In one fell swoop, the king's ever-growing fear had mounted into a full-scale, oppressive decimation of the Sheikah out of paranoia of an imagined betrayal. The Sheikah's laboratories were closed, research was prohibited, and data was destroyed. Their best researchers were expelled from the kingdom and monitored. Any Sheikah who dared oppose this order was met with severe punishment, including imprisonment... or worse.

Kohga would have none of it, fled his shrine, and gathered what few Sheikah who actively opposed that oppression to fight back. Choosing the abandoned Kakariko as their stronghold to fight the marching Hylian Army, they were crushed, and Kohga gathered what little tech he could and fled with the survivors to the edges of the world where the Royal Army could not find them, hiding among the shadows. They lived as nomads for years and years, scraping up what little they could just to survive, before finding an abandoned ruin among the edges of Gerudo Desert to at last call their home.Kohga’s rage at what happened to his people would never vanish and festered like a flame over the centuries even as his memory faltered with age. That hatred burned and burned as ever before. He would not forget. He would avenge his people and make the Goddess Hylia and her blood pay for her betrayal after all they, his people, had done for them since the dawn of Hylia's time. That the goddess could not bat a pitying eye upon them, grant them even a shred of mercy was never lost on Kohga. They would not be servants to a goddess who saw them as little else but beings born to serve her will.From the dark, the shadow folk would rise again to claim their place in a world reborn from the Calamity’s ashes, free from the shackles of the gods. ...Or so that is what they had long believed and told themselves. Alas, history is oft never so kind. Had the goddess truly ever smiled upon them before?

& AGE OF CALAMITY

Kohga and the Yiga Clan ally with Calamity Ganon's prophet, Astor, and plot to revive the Calamity during the events of AOC.After the Yiga Clan suffers a terrible betrayal—and nigh obliteration—at the hands of Astor, Kohga feels he has no choice but to surrender to the Hyruleans upon seeing his clan sacrificed like lambs to a slaughter to revive the Blights and empower Calamity Ganon.Kohga approaches Zelda shortly after she awakens her power, begrudgingly asking to join her forces and the kingdom he despises so he may get revenge for his fallen friends. To his surprise, she accepts his plea, and the two sides unite as one. Now the people of Hyrule and their former enemies must adjust to their new allies and work together to defeat their common enemy.Master Kohga has been keeping himself unusually busy since then, joining his clan on the front lines more often than he's ever done in the past. Nothing tastes as sweet as revenge!

& AFTER THE CALAMITY

Post!AOC. After defeating the Calamity, the Yiga lead efforts to restore their hideout to its former glory. Instead, Princess Zelda offers reparations as thanks for Master Kohga's help in defeating the Calamity, and together the two leaders and their people set off towards Faron Woods to find the Yiga a true home to call their own and work towards peace talks for a future where the Yiga can reside as a part of society.To think that he and the Hylian Royal Family would ever work hand in hand, he couldn't say he ever saw this coming, not in a hundred years!

& modern

Modern verse Kohga is a crypto hacker mob boss, head of the Yiga Clan yakuza, and wanted by every international government, never once able to be pinned down by the authorities. He moves his invisible hands across the world all from his cozy ass office desk.His HQ is hidden beneath a kabuki theatre he runs and performs at as an incredibly famous actor alongside his lackeys, while no one knows any better that he's the infamous leader of this crime family.

& BREATH OF THE WILD

Master Kohga has been riding a high since the Calamity struck 100 years ago, spending most of his time loafing around the hideout whilst working behind the scenes to see Link disposed of upon hearing of the hero's return to the living, in which he's sent out his Yiga underlings to scour the land in search of the hero.Until the little pest himself shows up to quite literally steal their thunder... but it's the perfect opportunity to see Link fall himself! Alas, the only one who falls here is Kohga as he knocks himself into the bottomless pit after the long-awaited showdown with Hyrule's Champion.

& TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

Miraculously surviving his un-glorious fall into the Depths some years prior, Master Kohga is back and more motivated than ever before! Over the intervening years, Kohga has surveyed the entire Depths before anyone else. He and the Yiga have subsequently scattered their forces across the Depths in search of the ultimate weapon to offer to the Demon King and bring the world to its glorious 'end'.All the while, he and the Yiga Clan create and innovate a variety of devices using their technological heritage from the newly discovered Zonai technology to take Link—and the kingdom—down for good.

& Destined for Darkness

Villains Win : AU in which Astor and Kohga are victorious in their plot to revive Calamity Ganon, eventually leading to the return of the Demon King Ganondorf in the flesh, and the long-awaited downfall of the Kingdom of Hyrule to usher in a new world and era. For his dedication and loyalty, Kohga is selected to serve alongside Ganondorf as his spymaster, with the Yiga as a mercenary intelligence force that seeks to bring down what remains of the Kingdom and ensure Ganondorf’s proper place in this new era.All the while, he and the Yiga Clan create and innovate a variety of devices using their technological heritage from the newly discovered Zonai technology to take Link—and the kingdom—down for good.