Feathers on the Wind

Shiratori Ayumu is adrift. With his clan destroyed, his beloved Taka brutally ripped from him, the war with the Shogunate over, and his Blade Twin heavens knew where - after fifteen years of strife, he has nothing left to linger on Honshū for. Thus, when Igashichi approaches him with an idea for a new machine to test, with nothing else to do and nowhere else to go, he doesn't think twice about agreeing to help with the experiment.
However, when the machine explodes in his face halfway to the test site and he finds himself on a completely different island, six centuries in the past, and being chased by a group of large and angry men on horseback yelling at him in a language he doesn't understand, he starts to strongly question both Igashichi's sanity and his own.

Most impressive ranking: 1 in jinsakai.

I initially came up with this June 21, but only finished one chapter. It didn't help I was slowly adding to it as I played through Ghost of Tsushima (which I'm still doing). I tried to get the second chapter done before July 1, but couldn't quite make it. Then I decided I would use this for the July 30 Day Challenge. It is a quasi-novelization of my Ghost of Tsushima playthrough, with the added element of the character I made for my third run of Rise of the Rōnin being sent backwards in time to accompany Jin against the Mongols, and very subtle nods to my multiverse that Ayumu ended up being made a part of (with new lore; he's keeping his original RotR lore for this, to focus on the games). Perspective switches between Ayumu and Jin.

Inspired by the games from Sucker Punch and Team Ninja. Heavy "spoilers" for both games. "Spoilers" in quotations because ignoring the fictional aspects, both are technically historical, so some things are already long-established real-world events (i.e. the Mongol invasions and the Meiji Restoration). Shiratori Ayumu, Inaba Hanako, Miyu, and Raiugo are mine. I do NOT own Jin Sakai or any other canonical character from either game