Full Name: Kurokami Takuto
Nickname(s): Taku, Faultline, Hazard
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Birthday: April 4th
Affiliation: Akechi
Personality:
A pessimist by nature and a lazy ass to boot, he tends to give in at the slightest sign of trouble and go with the flow to avoid any further problems, which is unfortunately how he became entangled in this conflict. Still, he adapts quickly to whatever situation he finds in and has more or less accepted his new job.
What he still has trouble living with is, however, his ability to put foot-sized holes in the ground by just standing if he's not careful. Having to walk in eggshells so that he doesn't cause any kind of property damage for the past few months has made him a lot more eager to understand how this soul stuff works. At least if he learned to control it Takuto could earn a promotion or two and make dealing with monsters and crazy people easier.
Takuto doesn't have any special love for the Akechi family, but if there's anything he shares with its leader it's his practical attitude, preferring results over any kind of flashiness, and not being ashamed of hitting below the belt if it gets the same or better results with less effort. He's also indifferent to the other two families, whom he groups most of the members in the crazy people category.
Likes:
Instant food
Payday
Quiet days
Dislikes:
Being handed important tasks or objects
Causing a scene
Property damage
Pissing off his superiors
Full Moons
Strengths:
Flexible: An open mind lets him keep his composure and accept new facts and situations as the new normal
Resilence: On a good day Takuto could take a car smashing into him and come up with a couple of scratches at most.
Weaknesses:
Inexperienced: He lacks any kind of formal training in battle, relying on his magic to be able to fight and defend himself.
Inept: Has poor control or idea on how his magic is supposed to work
Takuto's ability is useless against things that aren't solid and against other humans. So he's as vulnerable as the average person if someone decides to throw a punch at him or shoot a lightning bolt.
Hazard: He shouldn't be trusted with any kind of valuable objects
Relationships:
Touma Akechi: While he's somewhat thankful for his decision to offer Takuto a place in the family instead of just outright getting rid of him, Takuto fully knows he's just a tool to Touma and was probably "scouted" just so others couldn't do so first.
Hector Johnson: While a bit too strict for his liking, Takuto follows his orders to a T in order to not make him mad, he's already a possible liability on the battlefield so he at least should make himself useful.
Backstory:
❖ Aside from learning to take care of himself at a young age due to his parents' work, Takuto had a pretty average childhood.
❖ Spent around two years taking any part-time job he could take while looking for something that paid well
❖ About a year ago he would wind up returning late from an interview just as Zero Time began, and on a full moon just to make matters worse.
❖ Would manifest his powers for the first time when cornered by various zero time creatures
❖ A lack of understanding combined with panic would end up with him leveling an old building while trying to run away
❖ Found by Akechi mages soon after, who believed he was some new mage messing around in their area, ended up breaking the wand of one of the mages in half while trying to explain that he didn't get what was happening
❖ Then he would be taken to the Akechi headquarters. They told him that despite having no mage blood in him, whatever that meant, he had the potential to be a good lapdog if he was trained properly.
❖ It was either work for them or being punished for breaking a family artifact and damaging one of their properties
❖ Having his choice almost made for him, Takuto accepted and was welcomed into the Akechi family being assigned to Hector's squad.
Exceptional/Beginner/Competent
An aura around Takuto that weakens everything he touches or is a few centimeters around him to the point of being able to make the hardest materials break or shatter with little effort on his part as if they were made of tissue paper. Though right now he’s barely able to keep the ability from activating when he doesn’t want it to, though control sometimes slips when he gets nervous or loses his focus. Another facet of his ability that he struggles to control is the strength of the aura itself, it seems to fluctuate based on the situation he’s in and his own emotional state, one day tearing down a wall like it’s made out of paper mache and another day struggling to break a wooden box.
His ability also doesn’t seem to work on people, though he’s not sure if that’s an inherent limitation, or if he subconsciously excludes them from the effect, as monsters from zero time are affected by the aura. Takuto also speculates he might be able to reverse the effect of his aura, to harden things instead of making them brittle and weak. But that would require fine control of his magic, and that’s years away.
Actually gets paid by the Akechi family for his work, though he gets deducted some of his pay in order to pay for an ancient wand he broke.
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