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majimemegoro · 3 years

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So this is copy pasted from a google doc I wrote it all down in last night. Uh to preface it’s been awhile since I played y5 and my focus wasn’t really on the mountain stuff when I did so I cross referenced the wiki and what I remembered from your stuff mostly for a lot of this so i might have forgotten some things. Also this is basically a rough timeline of how the concept i think could play out from backstory to y5, likely with tweaks bc I think a few points are a tad weak currently, so some stuff I think would be interesting to go into is mostly glossed over. Anyways enjoy my thought dump.

So idea, with real magic and actual mythical creatures and ghost and stuff being actually real in the yakuza games,

why not werebear og Okudera?

Werebear Yama-Orochi Okudera even

So something funky happens on a yakuza job, and okudera finds himself suddenly a werebear. While somehow keeping the bear part specifically under wraps, he starts poking his nose into a bunch of stuff he shouldn’t be trying to as to find answers, and ends up expelled from the yakuza in response to all his really weird behavior and actions.

Okudera then ends up at the mountain village somehow, maybe to get away from tons of people to minimize risk or hoping a more traditional place might have the answers he seeks. They probably don’t, but he sticks around because there’s plenty of space to transform and wander as a bear for a while without much risk. (He has no control as a bear as you can guess)

Some time passes and the transformation gets harder to control, Okudera is out for longer times, and his control on pushing back the actual transformation window sometimes doesn’t work as well as it used to but Okudera doesn’t think too much of it at the time.

Sato shows up sometime and Okudera rescues him, and gets pretty attached in the process, even though he has a good idea why Sato had shown up in the first place. They have a good time for awhile, but Okudera finally realizes that the bear thing is becoming increasingly hard to control especially with the level of suppressing he’s been doing so that Sato doesn’t find out, and he can’t slip out for a few days here and there anymore- the last time he did he ended up in bear form for most of a week, and Sato thought Okudera had actually wisened up to him and booked it before Okudera finally made it back to the cabin, the relief of his friend target being back was the only reason Okudera got away with it at all.

Following that incident Okudera realizes he’s probably out of time for dealing with the bear thing- it’s just something he instinctively knows is at the end of his control now, and decides to do something about it while he still has a chance.

So he tells Sato he’s going out to hunt Yama-Orochi, and heads out.

Sato follows later of course, he doesn’t want to miss the opportunity to kill Okudera, after such a close call, plus clearly he’d stalled too long already.

They have their confrontation, where Okudera realizes that Sato has gotten too attached to kill him which would be great if the whole bear thing wasn’t looming over them. So he tells Sato about the werebear thing, and to take his name and get a second chance at life where Okudera can’t, and to say he was killed by the bear instead.

Sato obviously thinks he’s talking nonsense.

Until the high emotions trigger the transformation and Okudera transforms into a bear, which stuns Sato who’s unable to even shoot at the bear as it runs away into the forest.

Sato takes the whole situation and everything into mind as he holes up in the cabin before deciding to take Okudera’s words as a dying message, and thus take his identity.

Sato puts off hunting down Yama-Oroshi for a bit though because despite the whole bear thing he’s still working through the fact it was once his friend. Which catches up to him when a year later Yama-Oroshi’s gotten more aggressive and the town is attacked by the bear because of stuff the villagers were doing. The newly dubbed Okudera steps in to deal with that because hearing your past friend who is now a bear came really close to eating people (and possibly now is resorting to eating stray people in general) makes him sick. And OG Okudera instilled good environmental and hunting values into him so the whole thing just rubs him the wrong way.

Stuff mostly continues like normal from there, but now Sato’s trying to hunt down Yama-Oroshi because he wants to put his friend to rest- as he regrets not doing so that day, but he hides it under other reasons when others ask.

After several near misses and being still unable to kill Yama-Orochi even when face to face through the events of y5, Sato comes to terms with the fact that he can’t kill the bear, and after reveals from the villagers, and a somewhat truthful reveal (no werebear stuff mentioned) from Sato himself, he decides to instead treat the bear as if it was simply one of the rest of the wildlife maybe he could get over the loss then. Because if he is truly getting a second chance at life from all of this then OG Okudera should as well, even if he is a bear now- especially bc of that even, since OG Okudera didn’t get the chance to truly atone for his own yakuza shit due to the whole bear thing.

Another reason for Sato wanting to stick around the village following everything and not go back to prison like he’d originally planned is because he wanted to keep an eye out for Yama-Orochi and the village to make sure neither got hurt, like having to scare off the bear or such.

(Perhaps with time and things calming down on the mountain OG Okudera somehow turns back, or perhaps Sato never sees Yama-Orochi ever again who knows)

ANON. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING I ACTUALY LOVE THIS SO MUCH. AAAAAA. IT WORKS SO WELL

#AaaaaAAAAAAAAAA #okudera #sato kiyoshi #yakuza 5 #frozen roar #yakuza kiryu #hunting village #yama-oroshi #IVE BEEN HAVING A REALLY BAD TIME AND THIS IS. REALLY A GODSEND.#THANK YOU

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