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| “ | Sensei Ishikawa. We have judged each other harshly. But the Buda tells us that our greatest enemies can be our best teachers. I am greatful for your teaching and for the chance to fight by your side a final time. I have been your student. I would have become your daughter. But the Way of the Bow is behind me now. What lies ahead? I am like an arrow shot from a bow. Who knows, where the wind will take me? | „ |
| ~ Mitsuko's letter to Sensei Ishikawa. |
Tomoe is a supporting antagonist in the 2020 video game Ghost of Tsushima, serving as the main antagonist of The Tale of Sensei Ishikawa. She was a former student of Sensei Ishikawa who joined the Mongol Empire and helped them in their goals to conquer Tsushima by teaching them the Way of the Bow, while secretly planning to betray them when she was able to.
She was voiced by Judy Alice Lee.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Not much in known about Tomoe's backstory, only that she met Sensei Ishikawa and tried to prove that she was able to be his student, while Ishikawa initially refused, Tomoe had such ability with archery that she was much better than any student he ever had, and understood that not allowing her to become his student would be a great waste of potential, causing him to stop training Jin Sakai due to him prefering Tomoe over him as his student.
It's implied that she lost her parents when she was young, as she mentions that to Jin when she was disguised as a civilian named "Matsu".
Tomoe would then become Ishikawa's successor and Ishikawa planned to have her adopted and become her adoptive father, but he found her teaching the Way of the Bow, causing Ishikawa to try to kill her, but he fails to do so and she ends her connections with Ishikawa.
Ghost of Tsushima[]
Sometime after this, Tomoe was kidnapped during the Mongol Invasion, where people where being tortured for information. Understanding that people were suffering and that she could be of use to the Mongols, she convinced them that she could teach them the Way of the Bow, causing them to spare her.
To put the tortured people out of their misery, Tomoe ordered the Mongols to use the people as target for the Mongols to train at. This would not only make her gain the trust of Khotun Khan, but also get the attention of Sensei Ishikawa and later Jin Sakai, who started to try to stop her because they saw her as an enemy of Tsushima.
Tomoe would then order the attack on a village, which Ishikawa and Jin stop, but it's later revealed that she intended for them to stop the mongols, and only did it to have time to distract them and burn down Ishikawa's temple to gain a victory against Ishikawa, with Tomoe being able to escape.
In Act 2, Jin and Ishikawa were incriminated for the murders that Tomoe and the mongols committed in order to get their attention and bring them to a trap where she brought a woman that was being tortured by the mongols to put her out of her misery and had her and Jin and Ishikawa killed, but the woman dies while Jin and Ishikawa survived.
Tomoe then had several mongol camps made to train them in archery, with Jin and Ishikawa destroying most of them, so she confronted Jin so he would go after her, when Jin caught her in a waterfall, and Tomoe told him not to trust Ishikawa because he would betray him like she did to her before she jumped into the waterfall to fake her death, but she escaped without them noticing.
In Act 3, Jin meets a peasant named Mitsu when Jin was looking for Tomoe, and Jin helped her get food and she brought him into her house, Jin understood that Mitsu was Tomoe and she tells him to help her stop the mongols from destroying a village, Jin asks her why she wants to help him, because the Khan betrayed her and so she would take what she gave to him as revenge, that being the archers that she trained while she was with the mongols, which were going to be used to attack the village.
Tomoe then convinces Jin to tell Ishikawa to help them, with Tomoe telling them that her and Ishikawa should put their differences aside to stop the mongols, which he agrees despite him not trusting her. Tomoe then tells Ishikawa and Jin that she was forced to do most of her actions because the Mongols where going to torture her and that she wanted to put the civilians out of their miseries as well.
Tomoe then helped them in stopping the mongols, and after they were stopped, Tomoe left to a boat and left Tsushima to go to Kyoto, with her putting her past life behind and leaving a letter for Ishikawa to find, where she tells him that she thanked him for teaching her the Way of the Bow, and that she regrets all the things she did against him.
Personality[]
According to Sensei Ishikawa, Tomoe was cold-hearted and didn't care about killing innocent people to achieve her goals, and that she was a hypocrite at times. All that he agreed upon is that Tomoe was cunning, able to trick the sensei and Jin multiple times. Ishikawa overplays her as an amoral sociopath who doesn't show forgiveness nor mercy towards anyone.
However, it's revealed that Tomoe truly is a victim of a hard life, as not only was she an orphan and is implied that Ishikawa was strict towards her, but she also grew as a criminal and grew to see other thieves as the closest things she had to friends, and only joined the mongols because she was forced to, and all the people she killed were mercy kills because the mongols would have done far worse to them.
Tomoe also put her differences with Ishikawa aside in order to save a village and was far nicer to other people than Ishikawa accused her to be. Tomoe understood she would never be forgiven for her actions, so she left Tsushima and wrote a letter to Sensei Ishikawa that she was thankful to have been his student before they parted their ways.
Trivia[]
- Tomoe is based on an onna-musha (female warrior) named Tomoe Gozen, who was a samurai in 12th century during the Heian Period of Japanese History and helped during the Genpei War.
External Links[]
- Tomoe on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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