Post by Kuma on Oct 22, 2016 22:10:05 GMT
Name: Riku Kurenai
AKA: Riku the Razor. Kamakiri. Chikumo
Age: 19
Height: 1.69 mts
Weight: 59 kg
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Background
Born in Tokyo, son to a humble office worker and a housewife his life was marked with tragedy from a young age. A car accident took his parents away from him and he ended up living on his mother’s family home. They were a family of criminals who mistreated him and treated him with violence. This life chipped away his humanity, sharpening his rage, sadness and hate into a sharp weapon. Finally one night the weapon he became showcased its sharpness and after being kicked to the point of puking bloody he dragged his battered body into the kitchen and took a kitchen knife, stabbing his relatives on their sleep. He left the house and became homeless.
He survived eating what he could, stealing and killing when necessary just to have a warm meal on his stomach or a roof over his head. Soon he bit more than he could chew, trying to steal from some Yakuza, who beat him, but not before he killed one of them with a perfectly timed counter. This was witnessed by a passing Spirit Boxer who tended to his wounds and decided to train him. He wasn’t a ranked fighter, or a good one, but he took care of Riku, healed him up and proposed to train him. For the first time in years Riku felt like he was in a family again.
Yet tragedy struck again, as his master was killed by a ranked fighter during a fight and afterwards he was not only insulted but also kicked from the Federation. This enraged Riku, who wanted to get revenge yet he knew he wasn’t strong enough to win. He vanished to train following the notes left by his master. He became sharper than ever, from a switchblade to a katana, each fiber of his being sharpened to its utmost limit, all in the name of vengeance against the now ranked 29th in the world Joe “Maxim” Mulligan.
Personality
Riku is silent, aloof and disciplined. He spends his days either working in construction to keep him fed and train or actually training. Riku despises any distractions and considers things like movies or tv like useless trash, to him his only duty is to become as strong as he can be. This doesn’t mean his is power mad, he holds great respect for violence and those who can inflict it by their own hand, as for him violence has been more of a tool to force respect than an evil act, you could say that his second language is violence.
He is humble, almost to the point of self-deprecation and he will never admit being in pain, hunger or emotional turmoil, to the world he shows a poker face, lacking any kind of humor, deadpan or otherwise. He is the personification of the “Just Business” saying. He has a high protein diet and works out almost religiously with the zeal of a fanatic. He is focused on his goals and takes any kind offers of a detour as a personal insult. He wants to defeat Mulligan using his master’s style even if he dies in the process.
Appearance
Riku, at first glance, doesn’t look like much, anybody without a trained eyes wouldn’t notice how muscular he is, with almost no fat on his body. He is extremely lean, which helps the illusion of him being scrawny. Anybody with a trained eye would notice the level of training he has just from his inhumanly jagged knuckles, evidence of his constant exercising. His body is full of scars from his childhood and beyond.
He has dead purple eyes, not showing any emotions to the point of being unsettling. Yet deep down something burns, hidden behind the emotionless mask he has. One could call it ambition or determination. His unkempt white hair strays apart from his scalp in disordered fringes of hair that tend to wave with the wind. He is really pale, as most of his training tends to be during nighttime and on his work he keeps a full overall, covering his body and making him sweat.
After consuming Benkeinium in Uzhastale, his body radically changed. His skin looks like cracked porcelain, with lines of metal filling the gaps. His hair became spikier and his eyes turned red. His skin is even paler than before.
After consuming Benkeinium in Uzhastale, his body radically changed. His skin looks like cracked porcelain, with lines of metal filling the gaps. His hair became spikier and his eyes turned red. His skin is even paler than before.
Powers and Abilities
Spirit Boxer
Stats
Weight: 1.69 mts
Height: 59 kg
Stance: Low Hand Southpaw
Mentor: Unranked Boxer
Strength: B
Speed: A-
Stamina: C+
Durability: C+
Technique: B
Guts: A-
Winning Combination
Jab: Henshikiri-Hasebe: Quick downward cross jab, focuses the power in the middle knuckle to inflict painful bleeding cuts. If connected as a counter he usually aims to land them on the joints to cut the ligaments.
Straight: Konote-Gashiwa: Dangerous Straight-Counter in which Riku puts his whole weight on his middle knuckle with a full thrusting motion adapted from Kendo. Failing to hit this punch means defeat, but connecting it tends not only to defeat the opponent, but also shoot a jet of blood into the air, gaining the nickname “Chikumo” (Blood Cloud)
Cross:
Uppercut: Kokindenju-Yukihira: Focusing his Fighting Spirit on his hand, Riku launches a dangerous uppercut that creates a sharp trail he pushes with his elbow as he raises his fist. Some tend to call this the Redline Upper, considering the wounds left on the opponents.
Overcut:
Haymaker:
Block:
Sway: Maai Kenbu: Combined Footwork and Sway Technique, that allows Riku to move in and out from the enemy range with incredible speed, allowing him to bait the opponent into attacking to connect a counter. The better in-boxer the enemy is the more effective this becomes as it uses the opponent natural instincts against themselves.
Footwork: Maai Kenbu*
Killing Blow:
Sunday Punch:
Support Skills: Riku lacks any kind of knowledge outside Spirit Boxing and doesn’t care about anything else.
Benkeinium Powers
After self-infusing himself with Benkeinium, Riku's body and body chemistry drastically changed. He requires less water and food, his stamina was increased and his base physical attributes were increased. He can selectively activate the Benkeinium on his body to harden it and increase his durability and striking power. The metal is psycho-reactive, so telepathic attacks and affect it, so can any power that affect his demeanor. He can coat his skin with a thin layer of Benkeinium and sharpen it, giving his body a more angular and geometric outline, but only to partial parts of his body. The strain of Benkeinium created by the combination of his Fighting Spirit and the Alien Metal has different abilities than the one Masako Hihashi, who was a powerful esper, had. Seemingly Benkeinium has different results depending the power it fuses with. Riku lacks shapeshifting and size-changing abilities like Masako had, but the psycho-reactive properties of the metal and enhanced as Fighting Spirit is basically a more psycho-reactive strain of Ki. The main focus is enhancing his body rather than flat-out altering it.