Name: Kazuo Aleinikov (Kaz for short)

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Appearance:
At 6' with an average but tightly well-muscled build, short very dark hair and hazel eyes, Kazuo is half Japanese, half Russian. The young man opts to wear simple dress clothes; a white button-up, black vest, tie, boots and pants. Kazuo also has a couple of overcoats for varying weather conditions. For more strenuous activities, Kazuo goes for a black double breasted military jacket over a white tee shirt, more athletic pants and black combat boots.

Personality:
Kazuo does his best to maintain a polite and friendly mask to cover up his more ruthless intellectual side. Despite the emotional void his jaded worldview has left him with, Kazou still has heart. His father instilled a strong sense of justice into him and as such, Kazuo has no patience for bullies or anyone else who abuses power to exploit those weaker than them.

Backstory:
Kazuo's parents met while doing humanitarian work for the U.N., his mother, Hoshi Hayakawa, a doctor and his father, Alexander Aleinikov, a marine escort. When they had Kazuo, they moved to his father's hometown in Russia, Alexander getting a job with the local police and Hoshi continuing to work as a doctor in a nearby hospital. Both of them aiming to continue their work in service to others while still raising a kid.

Everything went well for years, but Alexander was ultimately too good at his job. Eventually, he managed to take down a major member of the Russian Mafia. Two weeks later, Alexander was killed in a car accident and Hoshi who was riding in the passenger seat was badly injured. Kazuo was 12 at the time. At the funeral, Alexander's partner from the force quietly pulled Kazuo aside and told him what he had suspected to be the truth; the "accident" had been a hit by the Russian Mafia.

Once Hoshi recovered enough to travel, she went back to Japan with Kazuo and moved in with her grandparents. The hole Alexander's death left in Kazuo's life was patched over with a harsh understanding of the world. That with enough power, be it physical, social or economic, the rules of the world mean nothing. And while his father had meant well, his insistence on playing by the rules is what got him killed. If Kazuo ever wanted avenge his father's death or continue in his footsteps, he'd need power; and what beter place to start than one of the top combat schools?

Inherent Engine Skill: Wings
kazou's IE generates a pair of avian wings out of his upper back. At full extension, they give him a seventeen foot wingspan. Aside from the obvious power of flight, they can also serve to block incoming attacks or cushion Kazou's impact into something. That said, they can only take a couple of solid hits or several minor ones before the energy matrix forming them collapses. If destroyed, the wings take about an hour's recharge before they can be formed again.

Active Engine Device:

Skills:
- Fluent in both Russian & Japanese and has half-decent English.
- Driver's license
- Has learned the basics of mechanics and engineering in order to be able to do basic maintenance on his Mana Engines.

Rank:

Club: Martial Arts
Kazuo's weakest point in a fight is melee, specifically unarmed. In order to make up for this, He joined the Martial Arts club in order to diversify his skill set as much as possible.