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Injustice Guest Fighter: Hotaru

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Name: Hotaru
Gender: Male
Eyes: White
Hair: Silver
Debut: Mortal Kombat Deception (2004)
Voice: Liam O'Brien

Appearance
His primary costume from Mortal Kombat Deception and Armageddon

Class:
Power

Bio:
Hotaru is a general  from the realm of order known as Orderrealm. Orderrealm, or Seido, is home to a humanlike race called Seidans. Seidans obsess over structure, perfection and organizing things, in contrast to their life long enemies, the Chaosrealmers. Hotaru, despite being above good or evil, will take favors from someone as long as that favor fits the agenda that Orderrealm revolves around.

Powers/Abilities:
*Martial Arts
*Magma Manipulation

Intro/Outro:
*Intro: A magma portal opens up and out of it pops Hotaru with his naginata. Hotaru says, "I will bring about order!"
*Outro: Hotaru kicks his opponent in his/her thing and then twists his/her neck 3 times, with the third time spinning the head to a ridiculous level. The opponent falls down dead as a result with Hoatru standing behind him/her.

Special Moves:
*Grasshopper: Hotaru pulls a Liu Kang and bicycle kicks his opponent.
*Lava Burst: He shoots a ball of magma to the ground and summons up a rising magma flow; can hit his opponent who either touches it or is standing on where the lava eruption occurs.
*Fury Punch: He rushes towards his opponent with a punch while leaving magma trails.
*Quick Tricks: Like Fury Punch, only he disappears and reappears behind his opponent.

Character Trait:
*Lawful Glow: Hotaru thrusts his naginatta to the ground, making him glow yellow for 10 seconds. This increases the hit rate of his attacks.

Super Move:
*Law and Order: Hotaru impales his opponent onto his naginata and then the scene flashes to Hotaru and his opponent (who is then not impaled) to Orderrealm, all in front of the center pyramid. Hotaru does two slashes at the opponent then twirls the naginata at him/her. The opponent falls down and then he pushes the down opponent with the naginata and then scoops him/her up into the air. He finishes with the Lava Burst and after the opponent is knocked up out of the picture, the scene flashes back to the battlefield with Hotaru standing there and the opponent falls down to the ground.

Ending:
During the battle between the Seidans and the Chaosrealmers, Hotaru mysteriously ended up in an alternative Earthrealm that was torn by a war between the One-Earth Regime and the Insurgency. While in that realm, Hotaru chose to side with the Regime, believing that Superman's rule would bring about order. Despite days of being the one world government's enforcer and facing against the Regime, Hotaru was shocked to witness the High Councilor murder Shazam for questioning his methods. He killed Superman in retaliation for murdering a child, something that even a Seidan would condemn in particular. Hotaru left the Regime and returned to Orderrelam, to finish the battle with Havik, the cleric of chaos.

Clash Quotes:
*General:
-"Order is a virtue!"
-"I will make your defeat a death penalty!"
-"Lawfulness is the only way."
-"You will face judge and jury!"
-"I will not stop preserving the law."
-(vs. any villain character except Ares/Black Adam/Doomsday/Lex Luthor/Scorpion/Sinestro/Zod) "A criminal not deserving to live!"

*Attack Clash:
-Aquaman: "I do not need to align Atlantis with Seido!"
-Hotaru: "But it will help bring order, for you are a king!"

-Batgirl: "Are you related to Firefly?"
-Hotaru: "Is this because of my name?"

-Batman: "You don't represent the rules, Hotaru."
-Hotaru: "You just wouldn't understand us Seidans, Earthrealmer."

-Black Adam: "I see you appreciate order."
-Hotaru: "Orderrealm lives and breathes in order!"

-Doomsday: "I WILL DESTROY ORDER!!!"
-Hotaru: "I will not let you, monster!"

-Doomsday: "I WILL DESTROY ORDER!!!"
-Hotaru: "I will not let you, monster!"

-Green Arrow: "Why do you have a girl's name?"
-Hotaru: "My name means "firefly"."

-Harley Quinn: "This ain't a Renaissance fair, bozo!"
-Hotaru: "What do you mean, "Renaissance"?"

-Havik: "To hell with law and order!"
-Hotaru: "To hell with you, Havik!"

-Havik: "Chaos will reign over order!"
-Hotaru: "Not on my watch!"

-Joker: "You're more of a pushover than the Bat!"
-Hotaru: "And you're more twisted than Havik!"

-Scorpion: "Why are you here?"
-Hotaru: "For the same reason you're here."

-Shazam: "Are you a guardian of something?"
-Hotaru: "Yes, of Seido!"

-(Regime) Superman: "I want you to be in our ranks!"
-Hotaru: "My view of law and order is different where I'm from!"

*Defense Clash:
-Hotaru: "As a ruler, you deserve much praise."
-Aquaman: "Thank you for not mocking me for my powers."

-Hotaru: "Why don't you work as a Seidan guards woman?"
-Batgirl: "I prefer to uphold the law my own way."

-Hotaru: "Why not join us in Orderrealm?"
-Batman: "I refuse to take lives."

-Hotaru: "Your rule will help bring about order."
-Black Adam: "That's what my purpose as dictator is."

-Hotaru: "Now I see why you are a big threat!"
-Doomsday: "PREPARE TO DIE!!!"

-Hotaru: "How about some lava up your ass?"
-Green Arrow: "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?"

-Hotaru: "Why are you in love with a maniac?"
-Harley Quinn: "Why are you dressed like some Gen Con attendee?"

-Hotaru: "I finally found you, Havik!"
-Havik: "I will end you once and for all, Hotaru!"

-Hotaru: "I will make you an agent of order!"
-Havik: "NEVER!"

-Hotaru: "You'll be burning in hot lava for your crimes!"
-Joker: "Unless the Bat saves me, more or less!"

-Hotaru: "I will kill Sub-Zero for you."
-Scorpion: "I hope I can take you seriously!"

-Hotaru: "Your powers rival that of Raiden's."
-Shazam: "Who's that?"

-Hotaru: "You would murder an innocent child?!?"
-(Regime) Superman: "Billy Baston questioned me!"
Just to let people know, yes, I'm still doing Epic Blades. However, at the same time, I'm also back to Injustice guest fighter entries and hopefully this time, I'll upload these entries more often.

Now you may remember Hotaru if you've played Mortal Kombats Deception and/or Armageddon, or if you saw him in the beginning of Mortal Kombat 9 where he was one of the many warriors to get mauled during the battle of armageddon. Well here he is in Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Trivia:
*Liam O'Brian is known for voicing Jushiro Ukitake (Bleach), Gaara (Naruto), Dr. Kenzo (Monster), and Yasou the Unforgiven. He also voices characters like War (Darksiders), Asura, and Judas (Cross Edge).
*Hotaru's neck snapping fatality from Deception is now part of his victory cutscene. I chose that one because, compared to other fatalities in MKD, this one seemed rather tame and since Injustice is T-rated, this would make sense.
*You'd think that Hotaru would join the Regime in his story, which he does, and thoroughly like it... that is until Superman kills Shazam, who is a little boy. Hotaru even calls Regime Superman out on that act in one of the clashes.
*Because of Hotaru's name, there are two clashes about it. One is where Batgirl asks if he's related to the Batman villain Firefly, since "hotaru" is Japanese for "firefly". Another is where Green Arrow questions the gender appropriateness of his name since Hotaru is traditionally a girls name. But hey, even Reiko is a victim of this gender name confusion.
*This is the first Injustice entry where a character clashes with another character who already got their entry before. Havik got his entry from me, now it's Hotaru's turn.
*Speaking of Green Arrow, even his clash, "How about an arrow up your ass?" is parodied by Hotaru with lava, since he does have lava powers.
*One of the clashes with Havik references Hotaru's ending in Mortal Kombat Armageddon.
*...And then there's a clash with Scorpion which alludes his ending in Mortal Kombat Deception.
*You can pretty much get why Hotaru is comparing Shazam's powers to Raiden's powers.


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Darknight241's avatar
I think Hotaru would challenge the ENTIRE REGIME for letting Superman kill Shazam.