Commander Tsugumi Saionji

IC Information
Full Name:	Tsugumi Saionji
Gender:	Female (She/Her)
Species:	Human (Newtype)
Age (Birthdate):	30 (September 22nd, 0065 U.C.)
Hair Colour:	Black
Eye Colour:	Black
Height	6'0"
Job:	Specter of Axis
Homeland:	Zum City, Side 3
Awakening:	3
Primary Unit:	AMX-011C Zaku III Late Type (AXIS Custom)
Alternate Units:	AXIS Specter, Endra-class, AMS-129 Geara Zulu
BGM:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-He6EzP5zY
OOC Information
Origin:	Original
Factions:	Sleeves
Player:	Mom

Tsugumi Saionji is a war veteran who leads a PMC called Crescent, composed of survivors of past Zeonic conflicts. She is a hardened woman who has no stomach for compromise with the Earth Federation or those who condone them. She has come out of retirement to collaborate with a scientist who promises new Mobile Weapons and resources in exchange for agreeing to help the Sleeves. Tsugumi fights for her ideals, her hatred, and to put to rest the Specter of Axis that has haunted her all these years.

Background

0065.09.22: Tsugumi Saionji is born in Neo-Japan to Musashi and Keiko.
0066: Ken Ooshiro is born.
0068: Tsugumi sees the chaos surrounding the (alleged) assassination of Zeon Zum Daikun on a public broadcast, as well as initial collapse at an assembly, but doesn't understand what it means then.
0072: Ken Ooshiro's father, Jun Ooshiro, joins the newly formed Zeonic Military Force (ZMF).
0077.04: Musashi Saionji moves his wife and daughter to Zum City in Side 3 to be closer to a growing military power. Jun Ooshiro participates in the Reah Revolution on the side of the Nationalists as an MS pilot in the MS-05B Zaku I.
0077.9.22: On her 12th birthday, Tsugumi is informed by Musashi Saionji that she will be having an arranged marriage with Garma Zabi of the Zabi Family, despite Garma being nearly seven years older than her. She is upset by this declaration made without her consent and rejects the proposal, but is told she has no choice in the matter.
0079.02: Jun Ooshiro is deployed to Earth as a member of the Earth Attack Force under Garma Zabi.
0079.08.05: Tsugumi Saionji runs away from home to enlist in the ZMF. She looks older than her age, and manages to pass herself off as mid-teens. The arranged marriage falls through with Tsugumi's absence, in no small part because Garma was never even aware of the arrangement. It was always just arranged through an intermediary who was trying to gain political power by brokering the union. The Saionji family enters a sharp decline.
0079.10.04: Jun Ooshiro falls in battle while assisting Captain Garma Zabi against the White Base and the RX-78-2.
0079.10.06 - 07: Ken Ooshiro receives word about his father at the same time as he hears about the death of Garma Zabi. He enlists in the ZMF the next day.
0079.12.28: Tsugumi Saionji is sent to fight at A Baoa Qu, but a scheduling mix up delays her departure. Tsugumi and Ken Ooshiro meet for the first time while waiting for their respective shuttles.
0078.12.31: Tsugumi arrives too late to make any difference at A Baoa Qu and gets swept up in the retreat order of Captain Aiguille Delaz without firing a shot.
0080.03: Tsugumi assists in the construction efforts of Delaz's "Garden of Thorns". Ken Ooshiro arrives during this time too, escorting Earth Zeon forces.
0080.06: The Federation announces the former Principality of Zeon forces on the African Front have been disarmed, and Tsugumi condemns this as cowardice, drawing mixed responses from other Delaz Fleet soldiers.
0080.10: Tsugumi and Ken return to Axis on an escort mission.
0081.03.28: Tsugumi Saionji meets the renegade Zeon forces as they approach the space fortress Axis with the infant Mineva Lao Zabi in their care, and sees them safely to their destination.
0082.05.13: Tsugumi and Ken become much closer after participating in a mess hall brawl with fellow soldiers over Tsugumi's loud and continued insistence that not fighting to the death with the Federation is a sign of cowardice, despite her not having even fought before. While locked up in the brig with Ken, she rethinks her position and dwells on her own hypocrisy thanks to Ken's words. This is the foundation of her new belief system that one should not expect others to do what one hasn't done one's self.
0082.7: Tsugumi unknowingly becomes pregnant.
0082.10: As Tsugumi becomes aware of her pregnancy, a nasty rumor is started by unknown parties that the father is Aiguille Delaz himself due to Tsugumi's intense loyalty to and closeness with him, but she neither confirms nor denies the rumors.
0083.05.13: Tsugumi has her daughter, Suzuha Saionji.
0083.06: The ugly rumors fade away thanks to a mix of Ken's charisma and Tsugumi's dedication to Zeon and growing ability to socialize amicably with her fellow soldiers. Suzuha becomes 'Axis's Baby', cared for as much by the engineers, pilots, and other personnel as by Tsugumi and Ken. The small family is seen as hope for the future.
0083.09.22: Tsugumi has her 16th birthday.
0083.09.24: During a deployment against Federation forces, Tsugumi is declared Killed-In-Action due to the destruction of her mobile suit, but manages to survive and is rescued by Ken Ooshiro.
0083.11.08: Tsugumi is reported Killed-In-Action during the conflict between the Federation battleship Birmingham, aided by the Albion, against the Cima Fleet.
0083.11.10: Still very much alive, Tsugumi rejoins the Delaz Fleet forces to attack a Federation Forces naval review. Ken Ooshiro hijacks one of two space colonies mid-transfer, and is trapped aboard it as it begins falling towards the Moon. The Federation's remaining vessels, and Tsugumi Saionji, hurry to pursue.
0083.11.11: Tsugumi manages to rescue Ken from the colony as its trajectory is changed to an an earthward trajectory, extracting the both of them as the Albion moves to pursue the colony.
0083.11.13: Tsugumi and Ken await rescue in space while watching the colony fall on the North Britannian Union continent.
0083.11.15: After reaching safety, the two teenagers, struck by how they could have died, as well as the death and devastation they helped to cause, decide to live their lives to the fullest with their daughter, knowing they could lose their lives tomorrow.
0085.07.31: Ken barely makes it out of Colony 30 of Side 1, where he and Tsugumi were staying while trying to find a way back to Axis, before the Titans use poison gas to kill the population.
0085.08: Tsugumi is livid when she hears about it from her partner, and decides to return to battle despite Ken begging otherwise.
0085.09: Tsugumi and Ken assemble other survivors of Zeon, especially the Delaz Fleet, in an elite company called "Crescent" after an informal group of pilots that the two were part of during Operation Stardust.
0086.02: While attempting to return to Axis in their mobile suits to resupply, the Titans find and ambush the Crescents. Several members, including Ken Ooshiro, are killed in the attack.
0087.03.19: Chasing after the Argama, intending to join the AEUG, Tsugumi barely misses them at Side 1's Colony 30.
0087.05: Tsugumi receives word of Bright Noa planning to go to space, and begins making her way back towards Earth in her damaged mobile suit, hoping out of desperation to convince him to help her. She arrives too late once again, as the Temptation has already been rescued by the Argama and departed.
0087.06.26: After having to ditch her mobile suit in the sea following a near-fatal atmospheric reentry to Earth, Tsugumi follows rumors of the AEUG across Asia. She arries in New Hong Kong days before the Psycho Gundam attacks, but has already left by the time the fighting takes place.
0087.08.16: Tsugumi is infuriated by the announcement at the Earth Federation Assembly, and attacks a Titans base single-handedly, killing a dozen soldiers with guerilla warfare tactics, and stealing a trans-atmospheric Mobile Suit from the hangar bay on her way out. This enables her to return to space, but not before waging a one-woman war on the Titans before she goes.
0087.08.28: Tsugumi finally manages to meet up with the AEUG, meeting Bright Noa and pledging her assistance to the AEUG cause.
0087.10.12: When Axis arrives in the Earth sphere, Tsugumi has complicated loyalties, but urges the AEUG to team up with the Axis Zeon forces, since she knew many of them personally from her time serving there before leaving with the Delaz Fleet.
0087.10.14: The negotiations break down and the Axis Zeon forces align themselves with the Titans, shocking Tsugumi to her core. Betrayed by Federation, Titans, and now Zeon as well, she has nowhere left to go but wherever the AEUG do.
0087.10.15 to 0088.02.22: Tsugumi continues fighting alongside the AEUG forces, infiltrating Axis to rescue her daughter with the help of personnel who retain loyalties to her, before finally disappearing when the Titans are destroyed.
0088.02.29: Tsugumi doesn't initially respond to the declaration by Axis Zeon that they are "Neo-Zeon", remembering their betrayal.
0088.05.13: Tsugumi arrives back at Side 3, and leaves her now 5-year old daughter with surviving members of Crescent while she attempts to secure a new life for them.
0088.06.20: Ridiculed by her father and mother for attempting to reconcile with them, Tsugumi disowns them and attempts to reform Crescent in order to earn the money for her daughter's upbringing.
0088.08: Tsugumi and a few fellow veterans decide to rejoin Neo-Zeon out of a mix of desperation and hope that maybe this time it will be different. They head for Earth, but "hop" battlefields repeatedly throughout the Neo-Zeon War. Tsugumi Saionji is declared KIA three separate times but manages to escape and survive in each instance, beginning the legend of the "Specter of Axis".
0088.08.01-31: Tsugumi is given a special mission by Haman Karn to spy on Glemy Toto under an alias, due to Haman's suspicions. During this time, she meets Leina Ashta periodically but does not have extended interaction. She is still shattered by the news that Leina was killed by Haman Karn at a party. She cannot look at Haman the same way again.
0088.11.14: Tsugumi and her surviving comrades learn that Side 3 has been ceded to Neo-Zeon and celebrate, seeing their families and futures as being secure now. They plan to return to Side 3. Several, including Tsugumi, ponder retiring. In particular, Tsugumi does not want to keep serving under Haman Karn, knowing she is a child-murderer.
0088.12.25: Tsugumi is celebrating the first Christmas she has actually gotten to spend with her daughter when she learns of Glemy Toto's betrayal of Neo-Zeon. It is such a shock to her that she becomes incapacitated by an emotional breakdown, seeing it as a repeat of all the other betrayals she has suffered.
0089.01.08: Tsugumi is bedridden for weeks, but eventually decides she isn't going to let everything fall apart this time and returns to the battlefield despite not being in very good health.
0089.01.13-17: Tsugumi Saionji fights on the side of Zeon with everything she has left until Neo-Zeon is finally defeated and its leaders slain. Despite a desperate attempt to at least extract Mineva Zabi, she fails to find her. She blames herself and retires to Side 3.
0090 to 0094: Tsugumi focuses on running a PMC called "Crescent" after her former team, with the few remaining survivors of said original team. She is no longer deployed to the field, but instead acts as their commanding officer. She recruits other veterans and anti-Federation forces on an individual basis, selecting them based on disposition, skill, and reliability. The sanctions from the Federation do plenty to earn the Crescents many missions.
0092.12.22: When Char Aznable re-emerges at the head of a new Neo-Zeon fleet, Crescent remains right where it is. All of them, especially Tsugumi, have had enough of idealogues borrowing the name of Zeon.
0095: Tsugumi is contacted by Doctor Salamedes about receiving supplies, equipment, and new Mobile Suits. She tentatively agrees to see what's on offer, and meets them on Mars. Whatever she witnesses there convinces her to accept the assistance. She begins training intensively to get back into shape for combat.
0096.06.15: Tsugumi receives a tour of Salamedes' upgraded facilities on Mars and a secondary base called "Asteroid X".
0096.06.22: Tsugumi joins Rau Le Creuset's forces attacking Federation ships, under her sobriquet, "The Specter of Axis", to keep her true identity -- and, by extension, her family -- safe. Though her Geara Zulu is destroyed, she once again escapes seemingly certain death. (2022-07-22:_Dangerous_Descent_P1)
0096.06.25: Tsugumi heads to the PLANTs, where her newly-acquired Endra-class battleship "Mithra" receives supplies to deliver to Rau le Creuset's forces. (2022-07-21:_Youth_And_Innocence)
0096.06.28: The Mithra links up with the Garancieres, and Crescent officially becomes affiliated with the Sleeves. Tsugumi meets Banagher Links and Puru Ten for the first time, and Banagher also encounters Ten and Salamedes. Tsugumi attends dinner with Suberoa Zinnerman aboard the Garancieres later. (2022-07-28:_Not_My_Circus,_Not_My_Newtypes, 2022-07-31:_Captain's_Hospitality)
0096.06.29: Puru Ten and Salamedes depart for Earth and take part in a ground-and-sea assault under Rau le Creuset's leadership.
0096.06.31: The Mithra enters the Earth Sphere.

Resources

Endra-class x2 ("Mithra" and "Vlitra")
AMS-129 Geara Zulu x12
AMX-011C Zaku III Late Type (AXIS Custom) x5 (with enough spare parts for another 8 units)
MS-08TX Efreet Rebuild x3
MS-08TX Efreet Schwarzwald x1
MS-08TX(EXAM) Efreet Schwarzwald Custom x1
AMX-004G Qubeley Mass Production Type x1
G-Crescent x1 (Presently Under Development)

Relationships

Aiguille Delaz (Former Commander; Deceased)
Haman Karn (Former Leader; Deceased)
Ken (Partner; Deceased) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhwgqdKNTXM
Suzuha Saionji (Daughter; Unapped) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5-gPbJQo0
Doctor Salamedes (Dubious Ally)
Master Sergeant Hel Adir (Crescent Member; Unapped)
Lieutenant Violetta Vasquez (Crescent Member; Unapped)
Ensign Ambley Norad (Crescent Member; Unapped)
Petty Officer Malcolm Light (Crescent Member; Unapped)
Banagher Links (Acquaintance. Ally?)
Puru Ten (Ally?)
Suberoa Zinnerman (Fellow Veteran; Ally)
Asuka Shikinami Langley (Enemy)
Leina Ashta (Acquaintance. Believed to be dead.)
Mineva Lao Zabi (Acquaintance. Believed to be dead.)
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