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[ origins ]

Born into the silence of a night of February, the first thing Ran heard was the sound of the falling snow, the sounds of nature drained by the thick cape of snow expanding in every direction. Quiet he was, like the falling snow itself, and the first thing he could recall was looking up at the breaking sky to see the light of the stars and the moon, shining their pale light over the world.
And he was like that himself. His hair and skin pure white like the snow, his eyes luminous like the light that broke through the clouds, his mind untroubled.

[ null moon ]

And it all sounds beautiful, almost like a fairytale... of course that would be it if Ran could remember anything besides that. From the first moment of his awakening into the world as a young twilif to a short while after obtaining the name he holds at the moment everything in his memory is blank, caped by a veil only too simillar of that he remembers waking up into. The oddest occurence is that nobody remembers him prior to his appearance there either... Wether this is for the good or the bad, remains to be discovered...

[ a name ]

Ran's original name was lost with his early memories. Someone once told him he looked like a white orchid and this was how he came to obtain his name. ( 蘭 (ラン/ran) is the Japanese word for an orchid) He has been introducing himself as such ever since and is known by that name.

[ l o s t ]

Ran has been around for a while now. It is an often occurence to find him roaming the woods where he woke up in his current state, looking for something, a trace of a clue maybe, that may help jog his memory up a little. So long he had no luck with it at all, however. He's too thick-headed to admit defeat just yet, though...

[ strength of heart ]

In regards to power, Ran is mostly oblivious to his true strength. He has figured that he has some control over luminous auras and that he can manipulate them in such a way
to create small 'lanterns' to illuminate the darkness. He can also use them offensively, like a sort of flame -but his current control over it lacks greately resulting into unpredictable results. He doesn't use it often in order to avoid making a fool of himself.

[ origins ]

Physically blind Ashura Ouji comes from the faraway land of Zippangu -formally known as Shimaguni Zippangu Teikoku (Empire of Zippangu the land encirlced by seas)-. The peaceful kingdom at the end of the world was a prosperous land which he cherished as hims home where he lived with his four older sisters and brother and his honored mother, the Empress, and father. When he came of age he started venturing around the country from the mountains to forests to plains then back to the royal palace in the capital until someday a great calamity hit his hometown to which he doesn't like to refer anymore. After that he left his home and world behind and went searching for Enma Daiou, the lord of the Underworld to grant him a wish in exchange of his life. When he was turned away, by being told his wish was not possible to grant he decided to eventually live with it and has since outgrown his self-destructive wishes and guilt for the loss of his people and is simply roaming the world, always searching for new sights.

[ wander, wander wanderer... I wonder where you might be tonight ]

Ashura has travelled to countless worlds and has long looked for a place as peaceful as his home where he could finally settle down and call his home and live the rest of his life in peace. Even though he thinks it almost impossible it might not be such a distant dream after all.

[ a name ]

Ashura's name comes from Hinduism's Asuras (असुर) a group of power-seeking deities thought of as being 'evil' as opposed to Devas. His actual personality doesn't reflect his name's ominous heritage, however.

[ a prince's charm ]

Normally Ashura is a very kind, generous and generally cheerful individual and having to fight saddens him greatly, as does war -in general-, strife and having to witness people being unkind. He always does his best to help those in need and will often go out of his way just to make sure everything is okay even when it comes to total strangers. His past is rather troubled -as his initial purpose for his journey can prove on its own- but his determination and bright outlook on life keeps him going.

[ strength of heart ]

Ashura is blind, but can see just as well as any other creature by means of his mind. He was trained ever since a baby in that regard so he wouldn't lack in anything in comparisson to his older brother and sisters.
Other than that, he is a planeswalker, meaning he can move between different worlds with ease, just like a traveller travels from town to town.
Last, but not least, he is quite good with his katana when it comes to a fight, although he despises having to fight in general.