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Name: Zen
Species: Pink Panda (Panda Hybrid)
Gender: Do you really have to ask?

Age: Teen
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 125lbs

Hair: Black, most of the time at least. Usually down, except for special occasions.
Fur: Pink and white with markings characteristic of her panda heritage. A heart shaped pink spot has recently developed right along her hip bone.
Eyes: Green

Clothes: Zen's style is eclectic at best. Her influences range from Hollywood to Harajuku and back again, and no two of her outfits are alike. She does enjoy accentuating her...assets, which may be why she favors her altered pinstripe vest so much. She prefers skirts to pants, possibly for similar reasons, and loathes anything that covers her heart. As far as jewelry goes, she tends to avoid it, except the brooch that her karma was bound to. She also has an inexplicable love of fishnet stockings.

Personality: Zen is quite opinionated. Whether it's a person, item, or current event, if she's heard of it, she probably has something to say about it. She may seem to lack moderation at times. If she finds you to be uninteresting, you're more likely that not to be completely forgotten. However, if she's interested (either positively or negatively) you'll definitely know it. Sometimes this makes her seem a tad blunt, but it's more of a personality quirk than an intentional insult. If pushed, she won't hesitate to get nasty, but more often than not she is quite (perhaps too) cheerful.

History: Zen is the product of Kuro's first (and probably last) attempt to organize his attic. Among other things, he found an antique brooch that he intended to have appraised. A few extraordinarily vivid and unmentionable dreams later, Zen emerged from the spirit world, pink blanket and all.

Name: Kuro
Gender: Male
Species: Human enough.

Age: Late 20's, for all practical purposes.
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 145lbs

Hair: Bluish black or blackish blue, depending the light. Kept at a medium length, and usually a bit on the messy side.
Eyes: Hard to tell behind those omnipresent sunglasses.

Clothes: Kuro's style is a simple one. Comfortable, quality long sleeve button-up shirts. He usually drifts towards silk, especially in red and black. Pair one of those with a nice pair of dress slacks and some comfortable shoes, and you've got a typical Kuro outfit. Oh, and let's not forget his omnipresent sunglasses, no matter the lighting.

Personality: Kuro is, in one word, mellow. No matter the situation, nothing seems to phase him. He seems to eternally occupy the eye of whatever storm happens to be going on. This can be both a blessing and a curse. One moment he might be ignoring your excitement over some massive event, but the next he'll be offering valuable advice during a bout of pure and utter chaos. He's also quite lazy, but not in any normal fashion. He will spend hours on something to help him avoid work that would take him minutes. A perfect example of this lies in his family. Ending a line of nigh-immortal demon spawn just to inherit enough money to live in comfort isn't precicely...sane. He also has an odd habit of disappearing suddenly and at random.

History: Kuro comes from a very old family, in several senses of the phrase. Being the last surviving member of his line, he currently has complete control over the family fortune, though he does very little with it. At the moment, he lives in one of their "smaller" houses just outside of Durem, a simple three-story house, complete with attic and cellar, in the style of the area. Both he and Zen together only manage to take up the lower two floors, and the attic has been used for little else than storage for time unknown.

Heritage: Kuro's ancestry is complicated at best, but is more generally described as a clusterf***. His oldest traceable ancestors were socialites, powerful within the business and political worlds. Several generations of poor judgment, bad investments, and betrayal later, they were on the brink of social and economic bankruptcy. Their desperation led to a plethora of unscrupulous dealings, both corporate and mystical.
However, it seems that dealing with the darkness is a slippery slope. Not long after their return to power, the half-breeds began to appear in the family tree. Over the next few centuries, Kuro's family skyrocketed in power as they plummeted into inhumanity. Demons, vampires, the undead, pretty much every creature of darkness imaginable was incorporated into the bloodline in exchange for much-desired power. Over time, the questionable breeding took its toll. The older generations lived on, their life-spans extended by their abominable blood, but younger children were fewer and far between. Some didn't make it past birth, not designed for this world, while others were impotent, incapable of continuing the line.
After a while, only three remained, but the story of the other two is for another time. The third is what we're concerned with, Kuro himself, the reluctant demon and last heir. The only thing even close to a pure blood in the family for years unknown, and the one that ended their legacy of terror once and for all. The fact that he gained the family fortune, and thus the ability to live in luxury without labor for all of his (greatly extended) lifespan was just a perk.