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Name: Dark
Nickname/Alias: Krad
Age: 36
Gender: Male

Appearance:

• Height: 6’0”
  
• Weight: 177
  
• Body Type: Athletic
  
• Skin type: White, slightly tanned
  
• Eye Color: Crystal Blue
  
• Hair Color: Black
  
• Hair Style: Long, about shoulder length; choppy
  
• Clothing: Dark is dressed completely in black. He wears a skin-tight tank top that outlines his athletic built with a high collar (which is trimmed in gold) that reaches his jaw line. He wears a long, torn, black scarf that wraps around his neck and shoulders, which he can use to cover his mouth if he chooses to keep his identity a secret (or incase of sandstorms given from which world he comes from). He wears long, black arm warmers that reach his triceps, the larger opening in which he could slip his arms through is also trimmed in gold, and a pair of black gloves with golden metal cestus and reinforced grip. A golden vambrace is wrapped around his left arm that conceals his hidden blade. Around is waist he wears a black sash, also trimmed in gold, held up by a dark brown belt that holds most of his equipment (throwing knives, smoke bombs, and poisons) and is used as a place to hang his short crossbow and a small gourd which is filled with sand. His pants are also black and as tight as his tank top. They are tucked into a pair of knee-length gaiters (tightened by three straps that run along the back), wrapped around a pair of black boots. On each leg he has both a knee and shin guard to protect him from injury when he’s free running. (For a better image, click here)
  
• Unusual Body Art/Parts: N/A
  
• Race: Human

Theme Song(s):

• Genies Sorcerers And Mesopotamian Nights - Melechesh

Significant Trait: Vengeful
Quotes:

• ”You will all pay for your negligence!”
  
• ”…fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury.”
  
• ”لا يمكن للمياه يغسل مصير الرجل هو مكتوب على الجبين.” (No water can wash away the destiny written on a man's forehead)

Good/Evil: Evil
Homeworld: Agrabah
Main Weapon: Dual Arm Blades
Additional Equipment: Throwing knives, short crossbow, small enchanted gourd (capable of containing infinite sand), smoke bombs, hidden blade within vambrace, metal cestus, and poison
Element: Sand
Job Class: Assassin

Attack Abilities:

• Assassin Arts – A subset of abilities attributed to Dark’s Assassin class.
  • Main attacks
    • Mutilate – An instant attack with both Arm Blades that causes great damage, even more so to poisoned targets.
    • Hemorrhage – A powerful instant attack that causes the target to hemorrhage, increasing all damage done to the opponent for three turns.
  • Likes it from behind…
    
    • Backstab – Dark deals a relatively large amount of damage, but requires him to be behind the target.
    • Ambush – A massive opening attack that requires Dark to be Stealth and behind the enemy.
  • Bleeding Effect
    • Garrot – An opening move that requires Stealth to be activated, Dark punctures the target, resulting in a bleeding effect, and causing damage over time for three turns.
    • Rupture – A bleeding effect that wounds the target and causes damage over time for three turns.
  • Thrown
    • Deadly Throw – Dark throws one of his throwing knives at his target and reduces their movement speed on top of causing damage for one turn.
    • Fan of Knives – Dark instantly throws all his throwing knives in every direction at all targets near him.
  • Incapacitate
    • Gouge – Causes small amount of damage and the opponent to be incapacitated for a few seconds.
• Desert Sand – A subset of abilities attributed to Dark’s ability to control sand.
  • Sand Coffin – completely engulfs an enemy in sand, immobilizing them and sometimes suffocating them.
  • Sand Tsunami – Dark manipulates sand so it acts like a massive tidal wave, sweeping up everything and everyone in its path.
  • Sandstorm – Dark summons a large amount of sand to create a massive sandstorm strong enough to knock people off their feet. During the sandstorm, those caught within it are struck by several grains of sands moving at high speeds and cannot see. Once the sandstorm clears, everything in the area would be buried in sand.

Support Abilities:

Assassin Arts – A subset of abilities attributed to Dark’s Assassin class.
• Now you see me…
  • Stealth – Allows Dark to blend in with his surroundings, appearing invisible to the enemy, and sneak around; movement speed reduced. Any damage received or dealt will break stealth.
  • Vanish – Allows Dark to vanish from sight and breaks all movement impairing effects. Requires smoke bomb.
  • Shadowstep – Dark attempts to step through the shadows and reappear behind his enemy.
• Weapon Modifiers
  • Slice and Dice – increases attack speed by 50% for three turns.
  • Blade Flurry – Increases Dark’s attack speed by 25% and allows him to his multiple targets at the same time for three turns.
  • Poison – Dark coats his weapons with poisons depending on his opponent.
• Crowd Control
  • Sap – Disorients one target at a time for one turn and requires stealth.
  • Distract – Creates a distraction and makes the enemy turn to face the noise for one turn. Requires stealth.
  • Stun – Stuns the target, in or out of stealth, for two turn.
  • Blind – Temporarily blind target, causing them to wander randomly at reduced movement speed for two turns.
• Buffs
  • Evasion – Increases Dark’s ability to dodge by 50% for two turns.
  • Sprint – Increases Dark’s movement speed by 50% for two turns.
  • Cloak of Shadows – Instantly removes all existing harmful spell effects and increases Dark’s chances to resist all spells for one turn.
  • Cold Blooded – When activated, Dark increases the critical strike chance of his next offensive ability by 100%.
  • Adrenaline Rush – Increases the amount of energy pumped into Dark’s body, improving his strength, speed and pain threshold for three turns.
• Darkness – A subset of abilities attributed to Dark’s ability to control Nobodies and Heartless.
  • Summon – Dark can summon Heartless to aid him in battle.
  • Corridors of Darkness – Dark can open pathways that interlink the worlds and allow for speedy traveling.
• Desert Sand – A subset of abilities attributed to Dark’s ability to control sand.
  • Sand Armor - If Dark's ultimate defense were to fail, he can summon an extremely thin, but very dense layer of sand armor that lies directly on his skin to protect him. Upon activation, the sand armor slows Dark down significantly and makes it difficult for him to attack, block, and dodge, and as a result the armor can be broken and never be used for the rest of the battle.
  • Sand Doppelganger – A sand doppelganger that substitutes as Dark in battle or for information gathering purposes. Any damage done to the clone would turn it back into sand.
  • Sand Suspension – Dark can use the sand to make him levitate or catch him if he were to fall.

Passive Abilities:

• Ultimate Defense – The sand in the gourd acts as an automatic shield, independent of Dark’s will, and flickers up to protect him from any standard attack.
  
• Heightened Awareness – Dark has a constant awareness of everything and everyone around him.

Limit Breaks:

• Shadow Dance – Dark goes in and out of stealth, allowing him to use his abilities that require stealth.
  
• Killing Spree – Dark steps through the shadows from enemy to enemy, attacking an enemy every .5 seconds with both Tonfa Blades until 5 assaults are made. Can hit the same target multiple times.
  
• Sand Puppet – Dark manipulates the sand to pour into the opponent’s body, gaining control over the person’s body
  
• Sand Explosion – After manipulating the sand to pour into an opponent’s body, Dark uses his ability to control sand to harden the sand, then cause it to spike-out in multiple directions, impaling the opponent from the inside.
  
• Assassinate – An instant kill that requires Dark to be close enough to his opponent to be able to use his hidden blade.
  
• Desert Funeral – A follow-up to Sand Coffin, Desert Funeral causes the sand around the enemy to implode and compact together, crushing their body and can cause instant death.

Strengths: Agility, stealth, speed, parkour/free running
Weaknesses: Usually needs the element of surprise, casters/ranged, high defense, movement impairing effects, and time

Personality: Dark appears to be very calm and speaks coldly; harsh and direct without any remorse for the other person’s feelings. He is very vengeful and spiteful and can be easily angered. He’s quite zealous about carrying out his desire to take vengeance on man for what they have done to him. Because of the trauma he endured watching his family die, Dark is an alter ego and he is at times seen speaking to himself and addressing himself as Krad, and as a result sometimes hesitates or has difficulty going against his previous nature of light.

Family: Deceased…

Bio: There was a time when darkness and vengeance did not cloud Dark’s mind. A simpler and happier time when even during the more difficult times everything was, in its fullest definition, good. Though at this time he was known as Krad, a husband and a father of two daughters who had given up a life of thievery for a more modest livelihood as a fruit vendor. However, this all changed when the Heartless attacked…

One night, as the family was getting ready to go to bed, Bandit and Pot Spider Heartless appeared in their home and attacked. Their calls for help fell on deaf ears of late-night passerbyers The Heartless started with Krad’s wife and took her heart. His daughters were next. He watched as the hearts of his family were taken from them right before his eyes, and then were turned into beady-eyed Shadow Heartless. Finally, they set their eyes on the man, though he’d prove to be a challenge.

Filled with rage, Krad attacked and obliterated the Heartless, releasing their hearts. Once all the Heartless were slain, Krad made it his personal agenda to find and kill all the Heartless he can. Though little did he know how dark the path of vengeance was. The more he sought out the Heartless, the more the darkness was drawn to his fury and hatred until his heart became tainted.

Sooner or later, the darkness began to twist his view of vengeance. Questions such as “why the Heartless first came to Agrabah” and “why didn’t anyone come to their aid” began to fill his head. No longer was it to seek out the Heartless and obliterate them, but to seek out those responsible for bringing the Heartless here and allowing his family to die. It was the darkness within man’s heart that brought the Heartless and it was their negligence the cost him his family.

Henceforth, Krad began to identify himself a Dark—his alter ego created to help him better deal with the trauma faced when his family was killed and to carry out his new agenda—and no longer sought out the Heartless to obliterate (after all, they are mindless and instinctual beings), rather to control and use to attack others and punish them for their negligence and purge them of the darkness in their hearts.