Who the hell...

[Wizard]

Is he? I've never seen him at all and apparently he's in SC1. Sure I'm the one thats suppose to know everything, but WHO THE HELL IS HE.

[Weirdy]

アーサーは、自分の親兄弟を知らない。生まれはイギリスの港町で、物心ついた時には一人で生きていた。大西洋貿易航路の拠点に当たるその街では、浮浪児でもその日一日を過ごすだけの小銭稼ぎはいくらでもできた。

　八歳の時、親しくなった水夫に誘われて、彼は船に乗った。商船の雑用係として海の上で暮らす日々は、楽しかった。だが、船のマスコットとして水夫たちに可愛がられ、世界中を巡る旅は、わずか2年で終わりを告げた。遠い東の国――黄金の島と謳われる日本を訪れた時、取り引きの相手だった堺の豪商が彼を養子として引取ったのだ。

　その商人は富の証として、西洋の品物をコレクションするのと同じ感覚で彼を引取ったのだが、わずか十歳の子供にそんな大人の酔狂など理解できるわけがない。初めて父と呼べる人を得た彼は有頂天だった。養父に少しでも気に入られるように、日本語も行儀も手習いも懸命に覚えた。日本人たちは「日本人のように振る舞う異人の子」を珍しがり、やがて養父は請われるままに、彼を得意先である豪族に行儀見習いの形で献上した。

　戦場で、彼の容姿は格好の標的だった。矢が、刃が、鉛の弾が彼に襲い掛かる。生き残るには、がむしゃらに戦うしかなかった。そして幾多の戦場を経、腕に自信もついた頃、ある日突然彼は気づいた。

　ここにいるのは、日本人でも異人でもない、拠り所を持たぬ一個の修羅である、と。

　日本人たちは、ただ好奇の目で自分を見るだけで、決して一人の漢(おとこ)としては見てくれない。だからといって、既に故郷の言葉も忘れた彼が、西洋人に戻る術もない。

　とてつもない不安と焦燥が、彼を襲った。

　どうすれば、人として認められるのか―――思い付くのは、戦うことだけだった。手柄を立て名声を上げる、誰にも為し得ない大事を成し遂げる!

　何を成し遂げればいいのかも判らないまま、彼は主家を出奔し、戦場を駆け巡った。強くなるために、何度も死線を潜り抜けた。

　その結果失ったものは、人々がガラス玉のようだと誉めそやした碧眼の片方、得たものは無数の傷と、誰にも負けないという自負と、自分の影にひっそりと寄り添う色街育ちの愛しい女。

　混血の赤子が産声を上げた頃、一つの噂が彼の耳に届いた。

　西洋の、異形の騎士。そしてソウルエッジ。

　今だ成すべきを見出せずにいた彼にとって、それは一つの啓示のようだった。

　その戦士を倒し、無双と言われる剣を得れば、今度こそ人々は自分の実力を認めるかもしれない。そうすれば恋人と祝言を挙げられるし、子供が奇異の目で見られることもないだろう。

　女と乳飲み子を残し、彼は二十年ぶりに船に乗った。

　帆布が出港の風を孕んだ瞬間、それまですっかり忘れていた生まれ故郷の風景が、隻眼の奥に幻のように蘇った。

I'd tell you if I knew what that said

[Gryph]

That's Mitsurugi's 3rd outfit I think. I don't know. I should finish Soul Calibur and get all the time release things.

[Wizard]

It will remain a mystery to me. All I know that it's a pallet swamp of Mit.

[Dooz]

Arthur, the Samurai? That has to be the worst name for a samurai ever.

 

Well, maybe better then Conrad.

[Gryph]

Arthur, the Samurai? That has to be the worst name for a samurai ever.

 

Well, maybe better then Conrad.

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Or Nathan Algren.

[Weirdy]

Arthur, the Samurai? That has to be the worst name for a samurai ever.

 

Well, maybe better then Conrad.

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Or Nathan Algren.

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that's kinda ironic. The Last Samurai being a white guy. Memmer what Paul Mooney said "how bout the last nigger, starring Tom Hanks"

[Rag]

the picture is mitsurugi but different looking. Maybe its his 3rd outfit or its innaccurate.

 

Its just one of those time released secrets.

Edited May 2, 2005 by Rag

[Dooz]

Soul Calibur's been out for ages. Time's up.

[AndymaN]

 

[King_krm]

This guy as I know is for the (Euro) version of soul calibur.

 

Mitsurugi has been converted into Aurther in this version and the

profile of Mitsurugi has been changed to fit on him.

 

He is not from any game but I don't actually for what purpose did they

change Mitsurugi?

 

In the same game ( Ivy ) has also been changed.[ dressed with violet clothes from her legs to her elbow ]

[Agozer]

Maybe namco wasn't too sure how the europeans would welcome a japanese samurai... Then again, I'm just speculating. As for Ivy, her original outfit might have offended some sensetive people.

[Robert]

Weirdy here is your text translated (if you can work out what it means)

 

ASA - You do not know your own parent sibling. The origin when with the English port, matter and mind being attached, had lived alone. In the town which hits to the base of the Atlantic Ocean trade route, with the vagrancy child and the sufficient change income which passes that day one day was possible with a lot of. At the time of eight years old, being invited in the sailor who becomes intimate, he rode in the boat. The everyday life which lives on the sea as a chore person in charge of the merchant ship was pleasant. But loved in the sailors as an emblem of the boat, the traveling which is related to in the world informed end in only 2 years. When the country of distant east - - the golden island and Japan which is praised visiting, pulling you took the Sakai wealthy merchant who is the partner of transaction him as an adopted child. That merchant when the article of the West the collection is done as a proof of wealth, pulling took him in the same feeling, but whim and the like of such an adult there is no reason which you can understand in the child of only ten years old. For the first time, he who obtains the person who can be called the father was ecstasy. In order to be liked even a little in the foster father, you remembered Japanese and manners and the hand habit eagerly. The Japanese as "the child of the stranger who like the Japanese behaves" the り, as for the foster father was begged unusually eventually, him presented to the thane who is the customer in the form of the manners learning. At the battlefield, that figure was the target of the appearance. The arrow, the blade, the bullet of the lead attacks to him. To survive, only it fought recklessly. The time which and the sutra, self-confidence has the numerous battlefield in the arm and is, a certain day he became aware suddenly. Being here in Japanese, also being the stranger it is one timber chute which does not have the foundation, that. The Japanese do not see simply you just look by your with the good odd eye, never the alone China (with densely) as. Therefore with saying, he whom already word of the home you forget, there is no either technique which returns to the western person. Absurd insecurity and irritation, attacked him. If how it does, whether it is recognized as the person - - - the fact that it conceives was the け which is to fight. The feat is raised and reputation is increased, the important matter which which it cannot do in anyone is achieved! Without understanding whether what should have been achieved, he was present of the master's residence and 奔 did, scampered the battlefield. Because it becomes strong, the dead wire it dived and passed through many degrees. As a result when the people seem like the glass ball, you praise any which are lost and, the そ palm are one side of the blue eye, as for those which are obtained the redlight destrict being brought up which draw close to your own shadow quietly are dear the woman where the self-confidence that and the countless scar and, it is not defeated by anyone. The time where the mixed race baby increased birth cry, one rumor reached in that ear. Suspicious looking horseman of the West. And the Seoul edge. Now is, for him whom it should form, that seemed like one revelation is not discovering. That soldier is pushed down and the sword which if is called hit and miss is obtained, very this time perhaps the people it recognizes their own capability. So, if it does, the sweetheart and celebration word can be listed and, probably there are no either times when the child can look strange. The woman and the milk drinking child were left, he rode in the boat after 20 years. The instant where the canvas is filled the wind of departure, to that the scenery of the birthplace which has been forgotten completely, in the inner part of the eye like vision it revived.

[Agozer]

Babelfish? I hope not.

[Robert]

It is a lot of babble... perhaps that's what gave it away.