Re: Character Profiles

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James- Servant of Kame

Name: Takahashi Akira (Nicknamed Hasaki (blade edge) for his assembly of bladed weapons)

Sex: Male

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Physical Description: Akira stands, when standing tall, at a decent height of five foot eight, with a light, fast build. His skin, of pale complexion, lacks any blemishes or wounds. His shoulders sag with the weight of metal contraptions bound to his arms. His back is slightly hunched. His legs are always pulled apart somewhat and bent slightly, his hands open and poised, ready to spring into action whenever the need be.

Akira’s face is sharply angled, with a chin jutting slightly forward and a jawbone that turns up at the neck almost on a dime. His nose points down, fierce and sharp, and his eyes are narrow, long, intense, and a bright green in color. A thin beard runs down his jaw from to his chin. Gus hair, black as a starless night, falls freely down to the middle of his back in many groups of strands. Some run down the side of his face. While clean, his hair is unkempt and a little messy.

As for clothing, Akira’s attire offers little protection but great movement. He wears a long sleeved black shirt with a turtleneck collar. Over this he wears a gi jacket of thin navy blue cloth, the trim of crimson. The jacket has wider sleeves than most, and is bound at the waist by a yellow sash. Strapped around his forearms are metal contraptions consisting of a blade, angled to a single point and about a foot in length placed on a sliding track. When he positions his arms a certain way, said blades spring forward into a clip on his palm, where it bends up to be perpendicular to the surface of his hand and snaps in place. Another track bears a second blade straight out through the elbow of his jacket (It’s often riddled with holes at that spot). Finally, over his hand he wears a black cloth glove bearing on the back of the hand a metal plate protruding forward into cruel looking metal coverings for his knuckles. On the palm is the metal clip into which the blade is locked as it comes out from the tracks on his arms.

As for pants, Akira wears a simple pear of loose dark red trousers, covered partially by his jacket, that billow out at the knees and are tied right below the knees by bandages covering the rest of the length of his leg. His feet are covered by perfectly fitting black cloth slippers with white padded soles. Like his arms, another identical metal contraption, save that its altered so as to produce a blade angled away from his legs slightly, is wrapped around each shin.

Basic Skills:

Kami Knowledge – Akira possesses this from his many years spent with nature and his religious life.

Camper – Akira gained this skill from his constant living in the wild.

Trap Setter – He learned this as it was necessary to catch food, and also as his father had left some notes on the subject for Akira to study in his scrolls.

Expert Sword Handling – He has this because it’s the closest requirement for the hidden blades he possesses. No, he cannot pick up a katana and start slicing people up.

Stealth Combat – He learned this from his father’s manuals.

Throwing Mastery – More like a proficiency. He isn’t a master with projectiles, as in he can’t choose where he will hit in most cases. The best he can do is throw it with a high chance of hitting *something*.

Shinjutsu:

Kawarimi – Again, something his father taught him out in the woods.
Bunshin – See above.

Equipment: His hidden blade assembly as described in the physical description.

Gear: His jacket and pants provide minimum protection from late blade strikes, but it’s negligible.

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Saurus- Servant of Kame

Name: Keijin Seiichi

Image: www.deviantart.com/deviation/16533309/

Gender & sex: male

Age: 22

Physical Descryption: Keijin is a healthy young man, standing a good six feet and build reasonably well, though not noticeably muscled. He’s more agile then he is strong, though he has a good amount of force in his arms, and also can run a good sprint. His face is slightly angular but very youthful; the face of a teenager in his final stages to adulthood. His eyes are a dark brown, as is his bushy mid-long hair, eyebrows and the occasional hint of a beard. His body doesn’t seem inclined to grow much facial hair. He has the nice tan of someone who spends most of his day outdoors.

As for clothing, Keijin travels light dressed; always and everywhere, given the temperature permits it. No matter the weather, he wears a baggy jeans trouser and old miner’s boots, which are worn and weather beaten, but sturdy and still waterproof, even if the metal tips are beginning to rust. As for his upper body, under normal circumstances he’ll usually be found wearing a plain grey shirt, over which he dons an open, sleeveless, green sweater.

Another thing he’ll almost never take of is his head band. It’s a simple ribbon of jeans he found lying on the street one day. Why he likes it, he doesn’t even know himself, but he has worn it almost every day since.

Around his wrists and hands he wears bandages to take the strain of them when using his weapon. His weapon, a Kusari-gama, is fairly plain as far as Kusari-gama go. It is a piece of chain of about ten feet; a sickle attached on one hand a heavy weight on the other. The weight however, is slightly more unique then the average types in this class. Shaped like a three fingered claw, the center of this claw formation is a mechanic pressure plate. When it hits something the four claws snap inwards, their edged blades burying themselves into what activated the mechanism. When pulled free with a strong and abrupt jolt, or if the claws did not make contact, the weight of the claws and the centrifugal force of the swinging motions will extract the blades and return them to their original position.

Basic Skills:
-Linked Weapons: having learned this art from his father, he is very skilled and gifted.

-Signal Mastery: The miners often used whistling signals to transfer messages throughout the tunnel networks. As such Keijin learned this from an early age and knows all these signals flawlessly and by heart.

-Kami Knowledge: while far from a sage when it comes to knowledge of religion, the spiritual and mythological side of things always fascinated Keijin, so he knows a fair bit about that.

-Camper: Keijin picked up the survivalist’s way of life early on in his travels. Hence he manages himself well enough in the outdoors.

Advanced Skills:
-Invisible Weapons: While he hasn’t mastered this to the full extend that his weapon actually becomes invisible, years of training have giving Keijin a certain gifted speed with his chain. His strikes will often come too fast to be dodged, or at the least catch his opponent of guard.


Equipment:
-a Kusari-gama

Gear: Keijin only relatively recently set on the path of a warrior. So far he has had neither the money nor the desire to purchase an armor and simply fights in the clothing he wears.

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DP, Servant of Tori

Name: Roiyaru Dorei

Sex: Male

Gender: Male

Physical Description:
Roiyaru, when standing tall measures at a decent height of five foot seven, with a light, fast build. His skin has a pale complexion. No visible scars can be seen on his cranium. However, his back tells a different story regarding his life, covered in bruises from drunken brawling.

Roiyaru’s face is angled slightly; his chin slopes slightly forward. His eyes are slim, long, intense, and a vivid blue in colour. A thin beard runs down his jaw from to his chin. He has jet black hair, which hangs neatly at his shoulders.

Roiyaru’s garments offer little protection. Instead they offer him great agility. He wears a short sleeved red shirt with a phoenix woven across the chest.
Strapped around his forearms are gold bracelets, inscribed with runes of good fortune. Over his hands he wears red gloves bearing yet another phoenix insignia.

Over his legs, Roiyaru wears a simple pair of dark red trousers. Unlike his top half however, these trousers have no embroidery. His feet are covered by perfectly fitting red leather boots.



Land: Tori

Basic Skills:

-Expert Scribing – His excellent academic years made him into an excellent scribe.
-Anatomical Knowledge - He gained this from the Anatomical syllabus.
-Expert Sword Handling – He learnt this in the fighting academy.

Equipment: Kodachi

Gear: Roiyaru’s clothing offer little protection in fights.

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Electric Rice Cooker, Servant of Kame

Fo' reals. This time, I am actually posting this one.

Name: Futatsu. It's a pretty stupid name (two, in native numbers?), so he asks people to call him "Fu". His ultimate dream would be to be named "Ikari", which is "anchor", but you don't care, and that doesn't matter.

Sex: He's got a wang.

Gender: He's okay with his wang.

Physical Description: Would you think a guy with three arms is a freak?
Futatsu would as well. I mean, man! Three arms! How does that even make sense? Fu here has the normal amount of arms for people, and that's two. The arms are criss-crossed and tattooed with a series of flowing teal patterns. Some might call it woad war-paint, but they're tattoos. Not vegetable dye. This isn't even England. Forget you. They begin at the top of the shoulder, run all the way down to the back of the hand. His nails are always dirty, because of his habits of digging in the dirt for awesome plants and such. He's grown quite supple fingers as well, and you'd be surprised at the things he can do with his hands... moving on.
He has normal eye color for the region (which is brown), and his nose is a little smaller than usual. Hair is kind of rusted red, which is unusual, so it's cut short to keep it out of sight... he usually wears an old battered rice hat to cover the rest of it. The hat must have seen better days, but he holds on to it. Teeth are very nice teeth. Ears have a fine fuzz on them (about the same color as his hair, but harder to see).
He is a tallish fellow, standing about five foot nine perhaps, and he isn't built like a warrior. He could not swing a sword at you all day long. He looks like he's strong enough to use a scythe for a long time, but not offensively.
As for his clothes: he is clad in a pair of old black pants, which are as sad-looking as his rice hat. The one little perk that completely destroys their anonymity is bright pink string around the bottoms, which are tied shut to keep snakes out of his pants when he's out a'roaming. Over this all is slung a faded traveller's robe, which is long enough to cover the pair of sickles that he keeps around his belt. His feet are clad in split-toe socks, and heavy shoes. Once again, the fear of snakes overtakes his desire for being quiet.

Basic Skills: Healing knowledge / Herbal knowledge / Signal Mastery / Drummer

Advanced Skills: He plays his drums in a frightening fashion! Egad!

Equipment: A sickle, usually poisoned if manageable.. Nobody expects it, nobody takes it seriously, and nobody appreciates being cut down with them.

Gear: Fu fights quickly, and to get out of the way. Unencumbered by heavy armor, or light armor, Fu is pretty much screwed if he's fighting somebody who takes him very seriously.

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Sumiyoshi- Servant of Tora

Name: Subaru Minazuki

Sex: Oh my god, it's a female character!

Gender: Female, though something of a tomboy.

Physical Description: At first glance, Subaru isn't particularly noteworthy. She's a slim, uninpressive-looking nineteen-year-old girl with brown, shoulder-length hair (straight and at least decently cared for, if somewhat bland in style) and wide brown eyes. Oh, and there's the slightly spaced-out grin that usually graces Subaru's delicate features.

At second glance and above, Subaru still isn't particularly noteworthy. At a modest five-foot-five (and a little more than 118 pounds), she doesn't really stand out too much in a crowd, even with her somewhat masculine peasant's garb- loose, off-white trousers, typically rolled up to the knee, a long-sleeved brown robe that goes down to her waist, and an off-white shirt underneath. Simple, worn straw sandals complete the outfit.

The typical bystander would probably be shocked to hear that Subaru is, indeed, a member of the Tora military. Her sleeves not only conceal the bandages wrapped around Subaru's forearms, but also the numerous throwing implements she carries, including her primary weapon, the Senbon.

Oh, and there's probably also a flute somewhere in there, too.

Basic Skills:
~ Throwing Mastery, yo. Hurling sharp and pointy (or blunt and equally painful) objects at things is Subaru's primary defining skill, and it's the one she's had most practice with, at the expense of being able to anything requiring melee combat.
~ Stealth Combat. Not so much the 'killing people' aspect of the skill, but more throwing undetectable things and staying hidden while doing so. This she learned in the military, so she's definitely no master at this.
~ Kami Knowledge. Subaru's bizarre sort of wandering, introspective thought processes and her love for nature means that she's got the right mindset for learning this stuff. At the moment, she knows a bit more than the average person.
~ Flutist. Yeah, she can play 'em. Musically, even.


Advanced Skills: None yet. Subaru can throw things well, she can keep out of sight, and she can play the flute- nothing extraordinary here, yet.

Equipment: Senbon.

Gear: Nothing that counts as armor in the military sense... Subaru wears clothes. Specifically, she wears peasant's clothes.

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Comanche- Servant of Ryu

Name: Tengri

Age: Something above 30.

Sex: Male.

Gender: Insane.

Physical Description: Tengri stands six foot one. His height (relatively speaking of course) is not the only unusual physical characteristic of his: though he wanders the land of Ryu his facial features are more similar to those of the denizens of Tori: his features are slightly less angular than the typical denizen of Ryu. Tengri's eyes are light brown. His hair is mostly black with some gray and is cut mid-length, falling unevenly around his head.

Skills:

Kami knowledge (specialization)

Various knowledges of nature and learning:

Healing knowledge
Camping
Scribing

Combat skills: Speed. Not quite on the level of Bunshin, Invisible Self, or any of those, but combined with unpredictable, arythmical attacks it produces a disconcerting effect. Tengri's spiritual knowledge may provide him with some tools for use in combat, but Tengri rarely thinks of such things and doesn't devote any time to training for battle.
Tengri is also decent with a (short) bow, but doesn't carry one on him.

Equipment: Various herbs and other reagents with mystical properties. An assortment of varied religious iconography. In a small bag, Tengri also has some essentials for survival in the wild (fishhooks, small knife, flint and tinder).
Tengri's weapon is a "mace" approximately 2 feet long. The "mace" is actually more like a carved stick, weighted by metal at both ends. The stick vaguely resembles a tree in terms of carving and ornamentation.

Gear: Tengri wears a cloak over pants, a shirt, belt, and boots. The pants and shirt are colorful - dark reds and light blues in simple designs. The boots are a light brown, and the cloak is a dark black-blue.

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Surreal- Servant of Tori

Name:
Seitheach Duir (In Gaelic, Duir means oak. Or door. But I’m sure it’s oak. Seitheach means wolf.)

Age: 34

Sex:
Male

Gender:
Male

Physical Description:
Seitheach Duir is a tall man, standing at six foot two. He has a strong build, lean, yet powerful, like a wolf’s. Seitheach has hard, bony hands, with little skin over them, making the veins bulge to an easily visible size. Seitheach’s hair is very dark brown, not extremely long, but nor is it very short. It’s always tousled, as if he’s just gotten out of a fight, or a sport, perhaps. Seitheach has a full moustache and beard, which, like his hair, isn’t too long, but it isn’t short either. He has a long, slightly downward curving nose. His eyes are very dark brown, and yet are hold a very intense stare.

Seitheach wears earth-tone clothes; dark browns and greens. He wears a large, dark green tunic, with a large, boiled leather patch in the middle. The patch is studded with small bronze circles. Seitheach wears bronze gauntlets on both his hands, but they’re kind of tarnished from years of use. On his shoulders, he wears boiled leather pauldrons, studded with bronze circles. He also wears a kilt, (tartan, of course) that stretches down to about just an inch past his knees. His boots are quite large and are made out of wolf skin.

On Seitheach’s back, there’s a strap of very strong cloth-like material, wrapped tightly from his shoulder to his hip. It’s tartan. He uses it to carry his massive sword, which looks like most long swords; a cross hilt, and a blade. The hilt has a circle in the center, forming the Celtic Cross. It’s adorned with Celtic designs and five gems, one at the north point, one at the south, one at the west, east, and center. The blade is long, measuring nine feet in length, (seven feet for the blade, two for the wooden handle) and one foot in width. Running through the center of the blade is a string of Ogham letters. The handle is made out of oak; the blade is made out of an alloy of bronze and another metal.

Basic Skills:
-Large Weapons
-Expert Sword Handling
-Camper
-Signal Mastery
-Trap Setter
-Herbal Knowledge

Equipment:
Seitheach’s sword, which fits under the classification ‘cleaver’. It comes with the material strap to carry.

Gear:
-Bronze-studded boiled leather pauldrons
-Tarnished bronze gauntlets
-Bronze studded cloth & boiled leather tunic
-Kilt
-Wolf skin boots