----Basic Information----
Mind behind the Character: The DJ Ghost
Name: Makoto Kusanagi
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Personality: Makoto is friendly and a lot more down-to-earth than the other students. This is possibly the reason why he is capable of approaching and befriending them. Komaru refers to him as a ‘herbivore man,’ which means that Makoto is likely to be the passive one in a relationship; this is reinforced in his conversation with others.
According to himself, Makoto's most distinguishing feature is his optimism and because of it, he's capable of befriending almost anyone.
History: Usually when those who are accepted into DWMA, it's usually due to their talent and skill as a potential weapon / meister to become something great. Makoto and Komaru didn't have that kind of story. The scene shifts to Makoto, lamenting how today was not a lucky day for him. Makoto's life has been nothing but normal up till that point - normal school, normal friends, and a normal family. He's pretty much the textbook example of a normal high school student. However, something went wrong on that particular day.
It all started on a clear day after school. Makoto was in a cheery mood thanks to the weather, and he had a feeling that something good might just happen to him. One thought occurred to him - maybe he should take the long way home. He thought about doing something different than usual.
And that was the beginning of his misfortune. Makoto passed by a park, and saw a group of his friends trying to decide who to send to the convenience store in a game of rock-paper-scissors. They invited Makoto to join the game, and although Makoto would've usually refused it (he didn't know more than half of the people anyways), he felt that he might as well do something different in this case as well. Plus - there were about 10 people in the group. He didn't think losing was a big possibility.
Yet he lost on the first round. Everyone except for him put out rock, while he played scissors. His friends were astonished at just how unlucky Makoto was, but sent him off to the convenience store to buy them snacks and drinks regardless.
Ten minutes later, Makoto was struggling with the two heavy bags filled with the stuff he got from the convenience store. He tried to distract himself by thinking of the music show that'll be on TV tonight - featuring a certain former classmate of his. Yet as his mood began to improve, misfortune struck again. Both of the plastic bags tore open at the same time, spilling their contents all across the pavement.
A few minutes passed and Makoto finished collecting all the cans and bags, but wondered for a moment, as he felt like the stuff he managed to gather was less than what he had started out with. He looked around and spotted an old man sitting on the bench. The old man slowly bent down and picked up a can of coffee that rolled to a stop at his feet, opened it up and drank it.
That can of coffee belonged to Makoto - yet the old man said he felt that it was natural to drink it since it ended up right in front of him. Makoto is flabbergasted at this incredulous excuse, and revealed to the old man that he seemed to be having a very unlucky day, complaining that he didn't do anything bad enough to deserve this streak of misfortune.
The old man laughed and told Makoto that he didn't believe in karma at all. He'd seen plenty of evil people be blessed with fortune, and plenty of kind people suffer all sorts of misfortune. In the end, he says, luck isn't something that a man can control, no matter how much talent one has or how hard one works. He suggests for Makoto to just accept things the way they are.
After finishing their conversation, the old man returned the half empty can of coffee back to Makoto and left, yet Makoto noticed that the old man had left his phone on the bench. He called out to the old man, who was already a distance away, but the old man seemed deaf to his calls. Makoto was conflicted - should he just ignore the phone and bring the snacks to the park, or should he leave those snacks and chase after the old man? He eventually decided on the latter, and rushed after the old man.
His calls were once again drowned out - this time by the sound of a bus coming to a stop ahead. The old man immediately took off towards the bus station - Makoto panicked slightly and upped his own pace as well, and managed to hop into the bus after the old man in the nick of time. Makoto found the old man sitting in the back, and just as he was about to head there, his legs wobbled from the intense running and he lost his balance. Just before he crashed to the ground, he instinctively grabbed onto something. He heard the sound of something tearing, and fell to the ground regardless.
Makoto's sole consolation was that he managed to soften his fall somewhat by grabbing onto the mysterious object, but even that turned out to be simply a continuation of his misfortune.
He happened to drop a box, from which spilled dozens of human souls. The owner of the box, someone looking like your average salaryman, immediately took out a knife and demanded everyone to freeze.
That man was actually an evil human with the soul of a kishin egg.He was just done holding people hostage and had just killed some people before taking their souls, and was on his way home, dressed as a salaryman that nobody will think of looking at twice.
It all went smoothly, until he was involved in somebody's misfortune. It was a misfortune powerful enough that he could not overcome even with his unnatural luck.
In the meanwhile, Makoto was experiencing a minor breakdown thanks to the series of incredibly unlucky events. And to think it all started from him taking the long way home - he couldn't even wrap his head around everything. Correctly identifying Makoto as the cause of his recent misfortune, the man decided to take him hostage, and got the driver out of his seat by threatening to slit Makoto's throat if he didn't comply.
He sat Makoto down in the driver's seat and used him as a hostage. In the meanwhile, he ordered the passengers in the bus to gather the souls for him, promising their safety if they cooperated. However, just as someone finished gathering all the pieces, the old man, who had been faking sleep up till that point, sprang up and tackled him, pinning him on the ground. The old man was a kendo master.
At that precise instant, one thought ran through Makoto's mind particularly strongly - he must save the old man.
That right there showed a slight hint of Makoto's optimism and willingness to fight, but that was all for naught as the bus suddenly accelerated - Makoto had accidentally shifted the gears and stepped on the gas pedal. The bus lurched forward, throwing both Makoto and the old man off balance. The old man yelled at Makoto to step on the brakes, which Makoto did immediately, putting the bus to an abrupt stop that knocked him off balance once again. As he was regaining his balance, his hand accidentally brushed over a button.
It was a button to open the bus's door. The evil man saw this as an opportunity and immediately hightailed it out of the bus. The old man was writhing on the ground in pain, and shouted at Makoto to chase after the robber. Makoto couldn't believe that he'd ask someone of his stature to chase after a grown man - and capture him, no less. But for some reason, the entire bus seemed to be in agreement. Makoto sought out the bus driver for assistance - surely he would point out how ridiculous this situation was - but found the bus driver passed out. How unlucky.
Left with no choice, Makoto jumped out of the bus, only to crash into a postman who took note of the bus's erratic movements and came over to check. Both of them fell over - Makoto lamenting his bad luck again before noticing the evil man riding the motorcycle that once belonged to the postman. He was frustrated with the series of irregular happenings that disrupted his careful planning - something like this had never happened before -, and threatened Makoto by saying that he'd hate Makoto for the rest of his life if he ended up being arrested.
The evil robber started the engine and accelerated, believing that he could escape successfully with this motorcycle. He'd have to abandon it eventually since post delivery motorcycles tend to stand out - but that'll be a while ahead. The postman shouted at him, and Makoto simply stood there unmoving. He was tired of the streak of misfortune that seemed to follow him at every step, and decided to give up and do nothing. He just wanted to go back to his normal daily life as a ordinary high school student.
At that moment, the motorcycle that the robber was riding tipped over and threw the man across the street. The motorcycle spun wildly and hit a streetlamp before exploding in a shower of sparks and smoke, killing the robber and releasing a kishin egg soul.
Makoto walked towards the accident site, unable to believe his eyes. What he found was a bent and broken can of juice - the cause for the motorcycle overturning, and one of that cans that Makoto accidentally spilled all over the streets just a while ago, and one that he wasn't able to locate when he searched for missing cans.
It was a series of impossible coincidences caused by Makoto's bad luck. And this situation was merely a result of Makoto's overwhelmingly bad luck managing to defeat the robber's careful planning and luck. It rendered all sorts of talent and hard work futile.
Yet this was not the end of the worst day in the life of Makoto Kusanagi - but he himself would not realize this until much later.
Death the Kid, who has been informed that the target for an experienced meister and weapon pair has suddenly died and has his sould collected from an accident involving the robber and a motorcycle stolen from a postman. Having heard that, Kid decides to look for that same child who had indeed collected a kishin egg soul out of sheer luck, and found the child. Originally thinking of all this as a fluke, Kid looked into Makoto's soul when Makoto was too busy trying to explain to the plice the weirdest and most unluckiest event that ever happened to him. Obviously they didn't believe him, but Kid had. In fact, he's already gotten the results of the draw, and saw Makoto held a soul compatible to hold a weapon.
Meanwhile, Makoto was returning home after a long period of questioning by the police (and of course, he missed his classmate's performance on the TV that he was looking forward to). He was dead tired, yet his nerves were still on the edge as he was wary of more unfortunate things happening to him on the taxi ride home. Fortunately, he arrived home rather smoothly - only to be greeted by his enthusiastic younger sister, who told him that a letter from Death Weapon Meister Academy had arrived for him, accepting him and Komaru as their student.
Makoto was overjoyed - he felt like all the misfortune that he'd experienced in this day had been overturned by this news, but little did he know that he was wrong.
----General Information----
Race: Meister
Family (If none leave blank): Komaru Kusanagi - Sister/partner
Occupation: Meister
Weapon Form: (If you are a weapon, this is where you will either describe your weapon form or post a URL link of the actual weapon. If you aren't a weapon, delete this part.)
DWMA: (If you are allied with the DWMA, this is where you will put your class, either 1st year student, fourth year, or graduated. Machinist, remove this section)
Augmentation(s): (This is where the Machinists will list the augmentations that they have. Weapon and Meister, remove this part.)
Partner: Komaru Kusanagi
----Abilities and Techniques Information----
Soul Menace
- Contrasting to the usual usage of a Demon Weapon to amplify one's Soul Wavelength to attack, Soul Menace is a technique which allows the user to strike their opponent by channeling their own Soul Wavelength without the usage of a weapon. This results in an electrical-like attack with powerful conclusive force capable of even damaging a weapon in their weapon form.
Soul Perception
- Those with Soul Perception have the ability to perceive the souls of other individuals and, depending on their skill level, can "read" a person's soul to various degrees. At a basic level, one can simply sense another soul/presence, though one of the various difficulties in using this ability is getting through the "noise", requiring a great deal of focus to achieve.
Photographic memory
- Due to Makoto's keen eye sight, he can spot things out of the ordinary and will have it into his mind where he will remember no matter what.... Yet he still will forget his homework.
Soul Resonance: Witch Hunter
- Makoto's strongest move and a traditional Soul Resonance attack used by Scythe-Meisters. It is the first of the Great Traditional Techniques of the Scythe-Meister. Makoto has the ability to transform his partner's sword appearance into that of a Scythe, using his soul wavelength.
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----Miscellaneous----
Hobbies:
- Guitar and singing
- Video games
Likes:
- Music
- Anime
- Playing video games
- Food
- Exploring new lands
Dislikes:
- Telling people how the embarrassing story of how he got accepted to DWMA
- Doing something embarrassing in public
- Choking on his own words
- Large crowds
Dreams & Aspirations:
- To turn from a talentless normal kid to a top rank Meister.
- To be a musician
Other: Makoto had been playing the guitar for so long, that it was this that reminds him that hard work can easily beat talent.
