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“Why do I even have to fight anyway? You should just give up instead. Saves me the trouble.”
Name:
Izumi Kanesada
Age:
24
Gender:
Male
Race:
Formerly Half-Human Half-Youkai
Ranking:
Rook
Appearance:
Renya is a somehow delicate looking young man, having an overall lean build, average height (174 cm/5'8½"), abnormally pale complexion and fair, feminine looks that can only be described as beautiful rather than handsome when complemented by his long black hair - usually wore in a way that clearly denotes lack of care, letting his bangs - that can easily reach his his nose - freely fall over his face and letting his hair hang freely in despite of how long it is, at most tying it in a ponytail to stop it from disturbing him during fights - to produce the image of a young man lacking any visible tarnish that could possibly denote having ever faced harshness during his whole life, almost like the pampered
child of a rich traditional family... At least apparently. If someone truly paid attention to him, though, they'd quicly notice that truth hidden under his clothes is clearly different from the overall fragile feel that he gives, as in despite seemingly delicate appearance, he not only has quite muscular physique but also seems to be heavily marred with scars, mostly results of his heavy training and past fights as a martial artist.
Skills:
Gentleman Skillset: Izumi seems to have acquired quite a few skills from being raised in a traditional household, ranging from etiquette and tea brewing to mild mastery over the four arts of a scholar.
Master-level sleeping skills: Izumi seems to be capable of sleeping anywhere and anytime, under any circumstances.
Capable-yet-unwilling musician: Izumi appears to have a certain degree of mastery over quite a few classic musical instruments, especially the Koto (Japanese Zither) and flute, but hardly seems to be willing to actually use his musical skills.
Abnormal Learning Speed: Thankfully to his abnormal talent, surprisingly disciplined study methods and above-average intellect, Izumi seems to be able to easily understand and learn new skills as long as he puts some effort in doing so - to the point where he completely adapted to his new role as an japanese teacher in less than a single year in despite of lacking any previous instruction in the teaching area, though this was fairly easy to master since he already had quite the mastery over the language and calligraphy due to his traditional upbringing. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem that interested in learning new things.
Sacred Gear:
N/A
Magic:
Senjutsu: Having practiced Senjutsu since a young age due to his background and being naturally talented enough to be called a peerless genius by the elders of his clan, Izumi is naturally tremendously capable when it comes to using Senjutsu to attack and defend, being not only a high-level Touki practicant but also knowing quite a few advanced techniques based on the use of natural energy, from aura reading to using natural energy to mask his presence.
Style
While Izumi is well known for mastering quite a few different styles of martial arts, his core techniques as well as main senjutsu-training method are all derived from the Black Heaven & Earth School techiniques - An elusive martial arts style rarely passed down to the most promising members of his clan.
The nature of this school of martial arts revolves around using the circulation of Ki with in the body to enhance the practitioner's body's performance and result in techniques with great force. This force is both internal and external from the practitioner. As witnessed by Ryuji displaying this style's Walking Techniques, while giving the practitioner great speed, it also creates a wind-like pressure from his movements pushing the surrounding individuals back.
However, due to the interference with the Ki's circulation, which is a delicate area of the Ki's usage there are drawbacks to this style rendering it potentially dangerous. The most well known drawback so far is the emotion which can affect the performance of the practitioner. Strong negative emotions can distort the practitioner's circulation causing him to loose control while his performance is still enhanced resulting in the state known as Black Origin Threshold which is referred to as "an uncontrollable technique or Demon Art". Also, it should be noted that almost all of those who are practicing this style were seen with a dark aura around them and this is taken to the extreme while in the state of the Black Origin Threshold.
Core Techniques
Black Heaven and Earth Breathing Technique
The core "cultivation" technique - used to gather and circulate Ki inside a human practitioner's body - of the Black Heaven and Earth school, said to be the ultimate power distribution technique, coveted by all the martial arts practitioners due to its unique capacity of acting as both, a Ki gathering and body strengthening technique at the same time, naturally enhancing the user's physique the further they push themselves in battle to the point where it can break the natural limits of their species, giving them the ability to equal supernatural beings as long as they continuously get into fights and thus said to be capable of defying natural order.
Offensive Techniques:
Soul-Crushing Strike: The Soul-Crushing Strike is a Ki strike intended to deal internal damage, a variation of a style that is normally not very strong as it is intended targets are weak points such as organs, the Soul-Crushing Strike, however, has been show to be powerful enough to break bones and even a door of reinforced glass, possibly as a side effect of the black heaven and earth body reinforcement. This technique seems to consist of expulsing an abnormal amount of Ki as soon as the user's blow connects, not only wrecking havoc in the oponents insides and ignoring most of the physical defenses but also causing actual external damage, for the explosive impact of the Ki creates shockwaves strong enough to produce a sonic boom.
Gale Wind Destruction Strike: An external Ki-strike with a whirlwind like effect that sends the receiver of this technique flying while whirling around in a spiral pattern, causing some cutting and impact damage at long ranges and directly shredding the target's insides when used in conjunction with a physical blow, pretty much instantly killing less durable targets - though receiving a strong backslash in the process, for the whirlwind-like Ki's recoil is received in full when used as a close range attack.
Heavenly Exploding Penetration Strike: A simple attack using Ki coupled with a straigth open hand blow mimicking the properties of a piercing weapon. At the hands of a stronger practitioner, it seems to be strong enough to pierce throught steel and other similarly resistant materials with ease.
Focus Stomp: A stomping technique consisting of using concentrated touki to deliever abnormal blunt damage at contact, instantly breaking even highly resistant materials and being more than capable of breaking magical barriers through sheer blunt force. It is often considered to be Izumi's speciality and strongest technique.
Supportive Techniques:
Cry of the Phoenix:The specifics to this technique are fairly mysterious and mostly unknown, but it seems to be, essentially, a scream loosed with little or no preparation. It can be assumed that it requires Ki circulation around the respiratory system, for the few known users subconsciously gathered a large amount of Ki towards the area of their lungs before screaming towards the sky to unleash the gathered Ki as an enormous shock wave.
While this technique is mostly seem as a sign of a practitioner about to lose control and enter the black origin threshold, it seems to be fairly strong as a sound technique, being capable of shaking nearby helicopters and shattering glass windows and solid concrete with its shockwave. Additionally, it seens to be fairly uncomfortable for those with an enhanced hearing.
Fiery Eyes: An ancient technique consisting of using Ki to enhance the user's eyes, strengthening their eyesight and giving them the ability to see the "essence" of their enemies, breaching through most illusions and being capable of spotting the weak spots of whatever they focus their vision on.
Walking Techniques
While Izumi is well known for mastering quite a few different styles of martial arts, his core techniques as well as main senjutsu-training method are all derived from the Black Heaven & Earth School techiniques - An elusive martial arts style rarely passed down to the most promising members of his clan.
The nature of this school of martial arts revolves around using the circulation of Ki with in the body to enhance the practitioner's body's performance and result in techniques with great force. This force is both internal and external from the practitioner. As witnessed by Ryuji displaying this style's Walking Techniques, while giving the practitioner great speed, it also creates a wind-like pressure from his movements pushing the surrounding individuals back.
However, due to the interference with the Ki's circulation, which is a delicate area of the Ki's usage there are drawbacks to this style rendering it potentially dangerous. The most well known drawback so far is the emotion which can affect the performance of the practitioner. Strong negative emotions can distort the practitioner's circulation causing him to loose control while his performance is still enhanced resulting in the state known as Black Origin Threshold which is referred to as "an uncontrollable technique or Demon Art". Also, it should be noted that almost all of those who are practicing this style were seen with a dark aura around them and this is taken to the extreme while in the state of the Black Origin Threshold.
Core Techniques
Black Heaven and Earth Breathing Technique
The core "cultivation" technique - used to gather and circulate Ki inside a human practitioner's body - of the Black Heaven and Earth school, said to be the ultimate power distribution technique, coveted by all the martial arts practitioners due to its unique capacity of acting as both, a Ki gathering and body strengthening technique at the same time, naturally enhancing the user's physique the further they push themselves in battle to the point where it can break the natural limits of their species, giving them the ability to equal supernatural beings as long as they continuously get into fights and thus said to be capable of defying natural order.
Despite its advantages, it is extremely difficult to train this technique dhs to how the pure state of Black Origin Threshold can be accessed at any given time by any practitioner yet cannot be easily controlled even by the most experient users of this technique. Extreme emotions, in special those negative in nature such as anger, can spontaneously drive the user in the pure state.
In addition, it seems that the longer the Black Heaven and Earth Technique remains active in battle, the closest the user gets to the Black Origin Threshold. This is shown as a natural reaction of the body due to exhaustion of Ki reserves
In addition, it seems that the longer the Black Heaven and Earth Technique remains active in battle, the closest the user gets to the Black Origin Threshold. This is shown as a natural reaction of the body due to exhaustion of Ki reserves
Black Origin Threshold is a state that represents the purest form of the the Black Heaven and Earth Technique, the ultimate power distribution state and, ultimatelly, the most dangerous demonic art made by humans. The Black Origin Threshold causes the natural flow of the Ki to flow in reverse and signifies the moment when one surpasses the limits of the consciousness and the subconsciousness, the enemy & the self, and becomes the purest expression of his Touki (Fighting Spirit) - but this is also its greatest weakness, for any sense of self is completely lost in the process, reducing him to a beast focused in a single vague goal and more than willing to crush anything in its way.
Additionally, when used by Izumi this technique seems to trigger some sort of atavism, bringing up the characteristics of his Youkai bloodline to transform his body, expanding it to the point where he reaches gigantic proportions - supassing 3 meters in height and bulking with muscles - and changing his features to equal those of his ancestor, with a reddish colored skin, bleached white mane - for his hair takes the form of an lion-like mane - red eyes with dark sclera and black colored bull horns coming out of his head. In this state, it seens to be comparatively easier for him to use his true fire, to the point where he can actually use it in battle.
Additionally, when used by Izumi this technique seems to trigger some sort of atavism, bringing up the characteristics of his Youkai bloodline to transform his body, expanding it to the point where he reaches gigantic proportions - supassing 3 meters in height and bulking with muscles - and changing his features to equal those of his ancestor, with a reddish colored skin, bleached white mane - for his hair takes the form of an lion-like mane - red eyes with dark sclera and black colored bull horns coming out of his head. In this state, it seens to be comparatively easier for him to use his true fire, to the point where he can actually use it in battle.
Offensive Techniques:
Soul-Crushing Strike: The Soul-Crushing Strike is a Ki strike intended to deal internal damage, a variation of a style that is normally not very strong as it is intended targets are weak points such as organs, the Soul-Crushing Strike, however, has been show to be powerful enough to break bones and even a door of reinforced glass, possibly as a side effect of the black heaven and earth body reinforcement. This technique seems to consist of expulsing an abnormal amount of Ki as soon as the user's blow connects, not only wrecking havoc in the oponents insides and ignoring most of the physical defenses but also causing actual external damage, for the explosive impact of the Ki creates shockwaves strong enough to produce a sonic boom.
Gale Wind Destruction Strike: An external Ki-strike with a whirlwind like effect that sends the receiver of this technique flying while whirling around in a spiral pattern, causing some cutting and impact damage at long ranges and directly shredding the target's insides when used in conjunction with a physical blow, pretty much instantly killing less durable targets - though receiving a strong backslash in the process, for the whirlwind-like Ki's recoil is received in full when used as a close range attack.
Heavenly Exploding Penetration Strike: A simple attack using Ki coupled with a straigth open hand blow mimicking the properties of a piercing weapon. At the hands of a stronger practitioner, it seems to be strong enough to pierce throught steel and other similarly resistant materials with ease.
Focus Stomp: A stomping technique consisting of using concentrated touki to deliever abnormal blunt damage at contact, instantly breaking even highly resistant materials and being more than capable of breaking magical barriers through sheer blunt force. It is often considered to be Izumi's speciality and strongest technique.
Supportive Techniques:
Cry of the Phoenix:The specifics to this technique are fairly mysterious and mostly unknown, but it seems to be, essentially, a scream loosed with little or no preparation. It can be assumed that it requires Ki circulation around the respiratory system, for the few known users subconsciously gathered a large amount of Ki towards the area of their lungs before screaming towards the sky to unleash the gathered Ki as an enormous shock wave.
While this technique is mostly seem as a sign of a practitioner about to lose control and enter the black origin threshold, it seems to be fairly strong as a sound technique, being capable of shaking nearby helicopters and shattering glass windows and solid concrete with its shockwave. Additionally, it seens to be fairly uncomfortable for those with an enhanced hearing.
Fiery Eyes: An ancient technique consisting of using Ki to enhance the user's eyes, strengthening their eyesight and giving them the ability to see the "essence" of their enemies, breaching through most illusions and being capable of spotting the weak spots of whatever they focus their vision on.
Walking Techniques
72 Transformations: Having previously trained the 72 transformations, Izumi is capable of freely changing his form into that of a different person, animals and even objects, perfectly copying every single aspect of their appearance and even their aura - virtually a perfect method of disguise, save for the fact that he can only maintain this technique for around 10 minutes as of now.
Youjutsu: Though normally unwilling to do so, Izumi is capable of using youjutsu to a certain extend, being able to at least make use of basic illusionim as well as making use of his father's signature technique.
Lesser Samādhi Fire: While he isn't capable of freely wielding his father's flames, Izumi is capable of using a weaker version of this technique to emit fire from his limbs and mouth, reaching a level nearing high-class when making use of this - though he is remarkably against using fire as a weapon, mostly because he considers his Senjutsu as a stronger and considerbly cleaner method.
True Samādhi Fire: Having inherited
the method to produce True Samādhi Fire from his father, Izumi naturally can manifest this unstoppable flames - Said to be capable of devouring even water and other flames to use as fuel - through his limbs and mouth to strike his foes when forced into a dangerous situation. Unfortunately, that also comes with a price, damaging his own body to the point where he would immediately find himself incapable of even moving after summoning this otherworldly fire.
True Samādhi Fire: Having inherited
the method to produce True Samādhi Fire from his father, Izumi naturally can manifest this unstoppable flames - Said to be capable of devouring even water and other flames to use as fuel - through his limbs and mouth to strike his foes when forced into a dangerous situation. Unfortunately, that also comes with a price, damaging his own body to the point where he would immediately find himself incapable of even moving after summoning this otherworldly fire.
Strengths:
Martial Arts Expert: Having almost mastered his clan's martial arts, Izumi is naturally quite the capable martial artist.
Prodigal Senjutsu User: Check "Magics"
Abnormal Regeneration Speed: As a former youkai and senjutsu user, Izumi naturally heals in a considerably faster pace when compared to normal devils.
Abnormal Physical Strength: As a former youkai and Rook, Izumi naturally wields an absurd natural strength that could be said to be abnormal amongst devils with the same ranking as him, being amongst the top-class of his rank.
Fire Resistance/Near-Immunity: Due to being the direct descendent of a Youkai known for his mastery over Samādhi Fire, Izumi is naturally immune to flames inferior in strength.
Weaknesses:
Laziness: Although he undoubtedly has the potential to be extremely dangerous, Izumi is mostly indifferent - if not against - the idea of getting notoriety for himself, preferring to live a quiet life without having to fight for anything.
Youkai-Devil Physique: Due to his current mixed physique, Izumi shares the weakness of both youkais and devils, being highly susceptible to holy magic and purification techniques.
Vulnerability to Coldness: Due to his fire aligned physique, Izumi is naturally vulnerable to cold/ice aligned magic.
Personality:
Izumi is a person with a personality that can be perfectly described by the word bland, having a calm and seemingly apathetic nature as well as a tendency towards easily getting tired without any specific reason, what makes him look absolutely listless during most of the daily life when coupled with his natural tendency of avoiding doing anything slightly bothersome and sleeping anywhere as long as he feels like doing so, having the reputation of being extremely lazy and hardly reliable. As a matter of fact, Izumi tendency of hardly demonstrating emotion, talking or even putting some interest into anything - Responsible for his tendency of ignoring his surroundings even if a seemingly urgent issue as long as it doesn't involves him directly and rarely showing any response to anything other than a direct interaction that he can't ignore, such as an attack or being held back by someone - often expressing his belief that everything around him is simple to the point of being boring for someone as talented as himself. Even in the rare situation where he does get involved into ranking games or similar matters, Izumi shows little to no regard to his companions and demonstrates even less emotion, directly acting to finish the assignment in the most clean and quick way possible while showing absolutely no care towards his companions, normally ignoring them and completing the missions by himself while claiming that doing so is more efficient, fact that often makes him sound excessively arrogant and resulted in the spreading of quite a few whispers about his bad attitude.
In fact, Izumi is hardly as apathetic as his actions display, having quite the hidden sense of camaraderie towards his fellow peerage members and a tendency of inwardly losing his cool when his companion are under dire situations, being overall quite the good friend if you ignore his tendency towards silence. Izumi is known to be somehow awkward when it comes to openly expressing his feelings - favouring a mask of indifference in place of actively interacting with others - and appears to be extremely apprehensive when it comes to actively befriend people, deeply fearing the result that actively forming an emotional bond with someone may bring - specially if they end up parting at some point.
Izumi occasionaly displays a completely different, and considerably darker, side of his personality when facing psychological strain - sort of snapping when under excessive pressure - demonstrating a tendency towards cruelty and a ruthlessness that hardly suit a person as young and supposedly inexperienced as himself. This state appears to directly mess with his persona as a whole, completely messing with his normal way of thinking - what makes him somehow hesitant when it comes to make use of this part of himself, demonstrating a sort of self-imposed restraint when it comes to openly expressing this side of his persona, as he fears that it would make him lose his mind should he start to rely on it.
History:
Born amidst a clan of martial artists known for their fierceness as the bastard son of the clan leader's daughter, it wouldn't be surprising if Izumi's whole life was the sad story of an orphan - for his mother died on his birth and he never met his father - hated by his own family and ridiculed by his peers. Fortunately, this isn't such a story: He was away too capable to be hated.
While this may sound a tad bit too arrogant, the truth behind his acceptance by the traditionalist clan is fairly obviously motivated by the fact that Izumi was, from the very start, what most would call an uparelled talent. Easily mastering most of his family's basic techniques as soon as he completed seven years, acquiring proficiency in senjutsu before even completing ten years and ultimately reaching the point where he found no equal outside of the elder generation before he could even be considered a young adult, Izumi was - In all aspects - a genius without an equal during most of his life, being not only martially talented but also regarded as a capable yet humble person by most of the clan and naturally attracting the admiration of his peers to the point where he was capable of quickly gathering his cousins from the young generation and earning their friendship and support - more than enough to undoubtedly set him as the most suited successor for the clan leader, definitively setting him into a future of glory... Or so he thought, but fate had other plans set for him.
The turning point of his life came around the time of his seventeenth birthday, when a group of Youkai attacked his clan's ancestrals home, wrecking havoc in the secluded area through the use of their mysterious powers. It wasn't the first time something like this happened, of course - after all his clan had been enemies with the youkai since the warring states period, it would be weird if conflicts never happened - but this time it had been different: the main force of the Youkai was composed by an actual demon king - a chinese youkai who reached the turning point betweem high and ultimate class - an existence that they simply couldn't hope to fight with only the current forces of the clan, for the clan leader and highest elders where in a meeting with the leading figures of the Japanese Murim.
Overwhelmed in both, numbers and individual power, the clan had no choice but fight with bravery alone until their bitter death - supposedly unavoidable at this point... Or so they though. In the end, the outcome of the fight was decided as soon as the first elder of the clan died, for the impact of the elder's death triggered something that could only be described as a calamity descending in the form of a sea of golden flames that mercilessly consumed the Youkai: for the first time since his birth Izumi's bloodline was pristine clear - and it wasn't human at all.
Unfortunately for Izumi, this new power didn't come without a price, for even if it was used to save them, the clan simply couldn't accept a man with the bloodline of a race that they vowed to hunt - specially one that was clearly descended from the infamous Hong Hai Er, who once fought and won against the equally monstrous Monkey King - forcing him to not only abandon the home thay fostered him but also constantly run away from those who he once considered as friends and family, who now mercilessly pursued him to eliminate the stain in their honor developed from fostering a demon.
The specific conditions that ultimately resulted in his inability to continue fleeing around four years ago as well as the reasons for him to be left alone and bleeding in a faraway city, waiting for death and yet willing to accept a deal that would delay it for an indefinite period ain't known by anyone but Izumi himself, but the fact is that he did so, joining the peerage of Ixveria and following her as his King for the following four years, having enough loyalty to accept assuming the role of a teacher in the Shitenhoji Academy to be near his master, even when he knew doing so would be fairly troublesome.
Other:
- While this isn't commonly perceived due to how high Izumi's guard is, he seems to easily get flustered when targeted by flirtatious people - a direct result of him lacking any romantic experience. While this is pretty hard to notice due to his constant deadpan, it seems that he occasionally recites buddhist mantras in a low voice to "ward away temptation" when faced by such a situation.
- I Chooseth this fate of my own free lack of will.
