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- Posted: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:40:29 +0000
- Ichigeki Hissatsu
- nick-name: Ichigeki
Gender: Male
age: unknwon
Race: Supposedly Human
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 150-160lbs
Eye Color: Forest Green
Sexuality: Straight
likes/dislikes:
Ichigeki has many likes, one of which being reading. He loves visiting libraries and finding books he has never read, especially the unusual. Novelties are his specialty, as he could date and name many trinkets that would be found at a common marketplace. Variety in life is something that Ichigeki aspires to gain, and talking to people he meets as much as possible is one way to do it. Though Ichigeki has likes, he also has dislikes. He travels the world not because he has to, but because he hates to feel tied down. Although he also hates being alone, he travels the world (which is ironic for a traveler, that's why he likes to talk to people while in towns). Being in a rut and mental inaction are two things that he tries to avoid, and trivial learning like school is something he shies away from as he prefers unconventional learning.
Personality: Ichigeki may be rather old, but he is very youthful and lively. He is adoptable and can be around many different kinds of people, and versatile to where he can cope with almost any seemingly bad situation. He is an intellectual as he reads a lot, communicative as he loves to talk with other people, and witty when in a conversation.
Bio: Ichigeki was born into a small village that was precariously perched between two larger kingdoms. They were at peace for many years, enough for Ichigeki to grow into a man, inherit the family farm, marry, and have 2 children, a little girl and a boy. The kingdoms were never very stable with their peace, and always sent threatening letters to each other via horseback. Eventually a war broke out between the kingdoms. One would strike out at the other and destroy a building with explosives, the other would retaliate with a few killings. But while these smaller battles went on, the kings of the castles were busy building large armies which they intended on throwing at the opposing kingdom. Each drew their armies and sent them to attack, however Ichigeki's home was between them. They converged on the town, killing anyone and burning anything in their way, including Ichigeki's home and family.
Ichigeki was distraught, and out of a fit of rage and agony, released all energy he had in one burst through his hands at the armies, turning himself and them to stone. The kingdoms thought of their war as pointless, and the efforts of one man to stop them heroic, so they set aside their differences and combined their kingdoms on the spot where the man sacrificed his life to stop them. His body (encased in stone) stood at the center of the city for three hundred years before Ichigeki came back into consciousness. A voice from what seemed like nowhere told him to protect nature. That she was passing on her power to him, Yggdrasil, the mother-tree, was dying, and he was the perfect vessel to hold her power... For his anguish over his loved ones, his suffering for 300 years, and his want to protect all that is in danger turned out to be what she was looking for in a successor.
The power wasn't trivial like one would think; it didn't give him strength or skill or the power to conjure fire with his mind. It gave him life, not forever, but until he found a successor when he was close to death: It also fueled his want to learn and protect. However this power did not grant him amnesty from death. Ichigeki has died a few times over the years, but never once was he sent to the afterlife. Each time, Ichigeki came face to face with death himself, only to be brought to a place of seclusion for fifty years. Where Ichigeki died, a tree would grow: a beautiful Yew tree with fruit so delicious that it is said that people would go to war for just one bite. After about fifty years, the tree would die, and from its roots, Ichigeki would emerge: slightly different than he was before, but with the same skill and mind as before. His blade, Kotetsu, would be solidified where ever it landed when he died, as no creature alive or dead but Ichigeki would be able to lift it.
Ichigeki was devote on learning arts what would help him protect people, animals, and nature alike. After mastering swordsmanship, he decided to master martial arts, learning any form that was strewn before him in his travels. Along with his travels he found many spirits, two of which were known as Ko and Su, the spirits of the moon and ocean. They gave him their power as well to be put into a blade tied together with his spirit. This blade wasn't extraordinary, just one that only he could use, one that would always be his as long as he lived, and one he could pass down to his successor. He called it Kotetsu, in honor of the spirits that gave him their power.
Side: Good
Powers: Ichigeki has no definite powers that he can use in battle. A couple come from experience and his blade, and he never really had a talent for quick casting magic (as he would have to speak out the entire incantation before being able to cast it). He is a master martial artist and swordsman, and has developed his own style of fighting, so in a way, this is his power.
Weapons: A long katana that is always strapped to his side when traveling. It rests in an pitch-black onyx sheath with a small red ribbon tied in a bow about an inch from the end. In the side, carved in a long since dead language, is the blade's name; Kotetsu. The hilt of the blade is made of more onyx, wrapped in a braided red ribbon in a diamond X formation. In each diamond, carved into the hilt are words in the same dead language; on one side, saying the phases of the moon, and on the other the names of those Ichigeki knew as a child whom were lost at sea. Ko, the spirit of the ocean and Su, the spirit of the moon bound by a piece of Ichigeki's soul making the powerful blade.
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