Name: Demon name: 'Yoko Kurama' ---- Human Name: 'Shuichi Minamino'
Age: Kurama is 200+ ----- Shuichi is 15 years old.
Race: Half-Demon...sort of. Shuichi is Kurama's Reincarnation, the soul of Yoko Kurama has fused with a human body.
Powers:
Rose Whip: Kurama's signature technique, where he uses his demon energy to grow a rose from its seed state to its flowering state and then into a long thorny whip that's capable of cutting even through steel. With this he is able to conceal seeds of different plants with such stealth that the opponent doesn't realize it until it has already happened.
Petals and Thorns: a whirlwind of razor-sharp rose petals materializing in the palm of Kurama's hand and then swirling around him. If an opponent/attacker gets within a certain range, the petals attack and rip them to shreds. Kurama mainly uses this technique as a barrier or to take out large numbers of weaker demons.
Seed of the Death Plant: This is a small seed that Kurama plants in his opponent's body and can be manipulated using his demon energy. After it has had enough time to secure its roots within the victim's body, the death plant bursts forth from within, killing the opponent.
Death Tree: the Death Tree is a root-based plant that contains huge mouths at the end of each root. It is a carnivorous tree with an acidic saliva capable of melting flesh and bone easily. Instinctively it strikes anything that moves.
Ojigi Plant: A plant indigenous to South America. When grown with demon energy, it mutates into a creature that responds to movements or heat by closing its leaves around its prey and crushing it to death. It is considered the demon world equivalent of the mimosa plant, but unlike its human world counterpart, which withdraws in response to a presence, this demonic plant actually pursues any heat it notices.
Bloodsucking Plant: A special Demon World plant that can attach itself to its victim and drain them of their blood before blossoming into a beautiful, rose-like, flower once it has drained enough blood from its victim.
Accelerated Growth: Kurama is able to speed up the rate of growth of plants, allowing him to create a forest in mere seconds as a means of hiding himself. He can also control the plants he grew to do certain tasks.
The Binding Fist of the Demonic Vine: Similar to the Rose Whip in that it is composed of a vine with thorns, but this time it grows around Kurama's arm and is wielded as a sword-like weapon.
Weapon: Mekai Plants
History: Kurama was once a powerful fox-demon, Yoko, who was classified as an A-class demon and a master thief. He was renowned as the "Legendary Bandit." At some point, he and his former partner in crime and second-in-command, Yomi decided to gain power through theft of very valuable items from secure facilities in Makai, even gaining a group of like-minded individuals. However, too many of his lieutenant's impulsive and rash decision of acting on his own, had cost Yoko several of his men, and had to save Yomi several times in the past. Eventually, Yoko sent a hitman to punish Yomi, using false information of a well guarded treasure as bait; the assailant would blind him and Yoko left him for dead. Sometime afterward, he met Kuronue, a fellow thief,who shared similar values to him, becoming good friends who would steal various important artifacts together. Eventually, after successfully obtaining some rare antiquity, they fell into a trap of shooting bamboos, that would mortally wound Kuronue. After hearing his friend's pleading to leave him behind, Yoko reluctantly left to once again be alone to thieve by himself.
About 15 years ago, he was mortally wounded by one of the Era's Strong Battle Priests after a failed theft, and was forced to retreat to the human world. He implanted his soul into Shiori Minamino's unborn child. He only planned on staying in the human world long enough to regain his energy, but he hadn't planned on caring for his human mother. He stayed, so as not to hurt her, and because he truly and deeply cared for her. As he grew up, his mother grew ill, forcing him to join forces with Hiei and another demon named Gouki, to steal from an ancient Ruined Demonic Fortress, to receive an artifact capable of saving his mother's life, the Forlorn Hope. The Forlorn Hope is a magical artifact in the shape of a mirror with a demon spirit within the mirror. It grants wishes in exchange for a sacrifice. His life was spared, in the process of sacrificing it, due to the aid of a selfless human who also tried to sacrifice himself to save his mother, because he did not want Kurama's mother to spend the rest of her life mourning the life of her son.
Ever since then, Kurama has moved on becoming a nomad, he specializes in herbs since he already uses a wide variety of leathal plants as his choice of weapons. He works as a healer and a pharmisist helping anyone he can, he has come to terms with Yoko Kurama and found that he can transform into his true form with the use of a certain potion or other magical tools that would have different effects on other people but not him. Soon he found the means to transform into Yoko Kurama at will and have control over a wide variety of Mekai Plants.
Personality: Kurama is very calculating, cunning, and analytically. He is extremely perceptive, able to quickly recognize the patterns and mistakes that his opponents make, which gives him an edge. In battle, while his preference is to concoct strategies based on deduction of his opponents' fighting abilities and style, his natural battle instincts are also highly tuned. The love of his friends and family are the backbone of his actions. He has a very kind heart.
As Yoko Kurama, he is much more cruel, vindictive, and merciless, retaining all of his intellectual capabilities.He enjoys toying with his enemies in a sadistic manner. Though he may seem to have a split personality between Shuichi and Kurama, they are both each other and the same.
Other: Shuichi can transform into Yoko Kurama