Post by Kuro Boushi on Dec 19, 2008 23:39:39 GMT -5
~:Basic Character Information:~
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Name: James Ferris Jr.
Alias: Kuro Boushi
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Orientation: Straight
Personality: Kuro is said to be an “oddball” at times, one quote that Kuro normally responds to is when he is told he is crazy responding with you haven’t seen crazy yet. He is overly excitable and energetic. This does not by any means mean that Kuro is dumb but simply plays that part of the foul very well and prefers people to think of him that way. He is very intelligent and patent individual even thou it is seldom seen. Kuro’s most notable trait is his speech, he is very respectful in his speech most often and will talk to people with this respect even if he is about to fight them, referring ti men as Sir and women as Ma’am. This is something that Kuro has always done, simply to be respectful, he believes all people are equal and should be treated with the respect that they deserver.
Kuro is a preserver of life, and will do anything to make sure that it is keep safe, wither it be man or animal. He is not a vegetarian by any means but will not stand by and watch the animal he is about to eat be slaughtered. He is someone that will try and protect everyone, even at risk of his own life, this can be something as simple as helping someone up if they call or something as extreme as diving in front of a car for them.
Kuro’s personality is something that he has developed over times, and something that he has tried to keep from changing. He has had hard times in his life but has not allowed them to effect him for the fact that he was told by someone special to stay the same no matter what.
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 187 lbs (Body) 237 lbs (Coated Arm)
Physical Description: Kuro is well toned and built individual, his upper body being the most toned portion. He has a large toned barrel chest and arms like tree trunks. His body mass is mainly muscle and he has worked hard to make sure he stays in good enough shape to protect anyway that needs it. Kuro has a strong jaw line, with deep set dark brown eyes, he has been told its like a chestnut but he tends to say they are “Shit Brown” and will argue if he has too. A mess of stubble often covers his strong jaw line.
His mangy brown hair hangs loosely around his face, and when needed he will take a red headband from his pocket and tie it up, forming long spikes. With his hair up Kuro has one think column of hair that hangs down in front of his face crossing his right eye and ending at the tip of his nose.
Kuro’s body is ratter free from scars from his life style as a hero, which is a surprise to him and most people he tells of his tales, one reason most don’t believe him. The main place Kuro has scars on him is right arm and some creeping across the right side of his chest, most that are visible are very minor but if his arm was visible it was be rather extreme looking.
His right arms shines in the light, red and orange armor reflecting light from it. Kuro’s stage one of his power, The Arm Of Salvation, an armor that coats his entire right arm. It is a darker red with layers of orange and yellow under it. This armor looks bulky but it rather light and directly linked to Kuro’s body and cannot be removed or broken. By being directly linked to his body, the armor moves as if it were skin and causes no movement impairment.
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~:Powers/Tools:~
Powers & Abilities: Kuro can create a form a nearly impenetrable armor across his entire body protecting him against any bodily harm. By concentrating and condensing molecules that float in the air on his body and super compacting them he can create the armor nearly instantly in any location on his body. The flaw to his power is that the more of his body he covers the more of his own energy he must use to keep the armor intact, as he becomes tired or strained the armor will eventually start to crumble off him and return to what it once was. Below lists the main stages of his he can uses:
Along with his armor, Kuro also has increased Strength, Durability, Endurance, Stamina, these are nearly super in quality but rest just below that point.
Weakness: Kuro’s armor burns threw his energy quickly, so long drawn out battle typically weaken him. Also since his armor is incredibly dense he can no longer swim and has a high chance of drowning if pushed into deep water.
State of Control/Rules: Kuro has nearly mastered his powers; he has had them for a while now and has gotten use to them. He spent a good deal of his teen years perfecting his control over them, his only problem is maintaining the higher levels of the armor for long periods of time, but he manages that by just being overly durable. Also Kuro is mainly a close range fighter, staying close to his target and trying to keep them on the defense until they break and he can get them to give up. By keeping close he lowers his chance of being blasted by a long-range attack and not being able to block it. Mental attacks aren’t that strong against him, since he is mentally strong he can stand up to most mental suggestions but mind blasts will eventually break him down if hit with a few.
Reason You Choose Your Power: Personally I chose the armor since I am the kind of person that I want to help people and protect them from harm. Thus having armor that I can coat my body in and stand in the way or protect them from anything that may hurt them seemed like a good plan.
Weapons: None
Equipment: Backpack with change of clothing, sleeping bag, tent.
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~:History:~
Place of Birth: Huston, Texas
Relatives:: Kuro has very little family left; there are his adoptive parents, Kaito and Ichi Boushi, who are both teachers in Texas. And his brother Zane Ferris, who has the ability to create a blade that can cut threw anything; he is evil and wants to kill Kuro.
Other Figures in Kuro’s life –
Ivan Hughs – Shadow User, Cassy’s younger brother, hasn’t seen Kuro in a long time, Quite and antisocial. Still very torn up about lose of family.
Hiiro Yazuki – Spirit User, Brawler, Overly excited and fun loving.
Amp (Spike Conner) – Sound User, Psychosocial, and sociopath loves to kill.
History:
Born James Farris Jr. he was born to a James senior and Mary Farris, and younger brother to Zane Farris four years his senior. They lived in a very small town outside Huston TX, in a rundown apartment. James jr. was a born rather large and a C-section was required to get him out of Mary, leaving her with a rather large scar on her stomach, also leaving her bed ridden for the next week. So his father who was stand offish about his son, left Zane to take care of him at times, took him home. When his mother finally returned home from the hospital she returned to her duties around the house, cleaning, cooking, maintaining everything and making sure Senior never got angry. Senior had a tendency of beating Mary, once almost to near death, breaking two ribs and dislocating his right arm.
One day while Zane was holding Jr. he dropped him on his head, some say this is why Kuro is a little dumb, and Mary screamed at the boy. When Senior got home, Zane ran to him, taking to boy’s side he pummeled into Mary, breaking her jaw and her nose, she collapsed. The baby began screaming and crying; the father turned and looked at him, and began to shout. He ordered Mary get up and take care of the child, but she did not move, he brought his leg back and kicked her in the ribs, still nothing. Mary had passed that night from the trauma that her head had received from the blows, and Senior had taken Zane and left the newborn in the home with his dead mother. The infant would be found several hours later when a neighbor would stop by and see the door open and hear the baby crying, the police would never find James and Zane and Kuro would never learn of the horrible life his mother had lead.
A few months later Kuro would be put up for adoption, at the time without a name only being called Kid. Kuro was adopted very quickly in a matter of weeks after being put up; he was a small boy full of energy bouncing around and very easily amused, something that still holds true today. Kuro would be adopted by an very kind Japanese man and his wife, Kaito and Ichi Boushi, and would name their new son, Kuro, for his deep brown almost black eyes.
Kuro would be taken care of very much so, he was a spoiled baby getting every toy, every learning tool, anything a child could need. Ichi and Kaito were both schoolteachers so money wasn’t the greatest but they did not struggle to get by. As Kuro would age, he would start school, and start a few other programs that his parents thought were important for the child to go into, marital arts being the largest. Kuro seemed to have a knack for them, he rose through the belts very quickly, true they were child belts but he was always top of his class both in school and in after school programs.
Kuro would soon start high school, keeping up with the same routine his parents had set up for him, school, training, marital arts, homework, relax. Some of the other kids Kuro had made friends with said his parents were a little strict and expected a lot from him, but Kuro would just shrug it off. With the way he was going he had mastered three styles and become a straight a student, so he wasn’t going to complain. He was in all honors class getting very large amounts of homework so it was very rare for him to have free time other than when he was out on weekends.
While in school Kuro would eventually meet a girl names Cassandra, or Cassy as she preferred to be called. And the two would become very close friends and eventually a couple. Cassy was a smaller girl, only about 5’3” and about 100 pounds, she had dark brown hair and normally wore contacts much to Kuro’s disapproval. They both cared about one another quite a bit and would spend all the time they could together, meeting their sophomore years paid off too, for it gave the two of them a lot of time to hang out with one another.
The next year, Kuro would calm down his schedule and take only regular class, his parents didn’t like that all to much, but since his dream was to be a firefighter and help people him getting into a great college was already kind of gone. Since Kuro slowed down his routine he was able to spend more time with Cassy, and her younger brother Ivan.
Cassy began noticing something was going on when Kuro suddenly stopped wanting to see her, and stopped going to school. His parents would tell her that he was busy every time she would call and no one would answer the door when she would come to the house. The problem had been that Kuro’s powers had begun to show, his arm had been encased in a black leather looking material that no one knew what it was. Kuro was afraid that it was some type of disease and did not want to spread it so he would simply stay locked in his room, not leaving no matter what. By watching the news he had learned the people were being born with gifts and the government was taking those people away and performing medical procedures on them to cure them. Kuro came the conclusion that he must be one of those people, he was scared at first but he called Cassy and had her come over to see his arm, which had now changed into a redish orange armor and was not coming off.
When she entered the room, she was confused at first then somewhat scared, but it was still Kuro, nothing was changed other than his right hand was a little colder than it was before, is how she put it. She always had a way of putting a smile on his face, even in the worse situations. After talking with Cassy they decided that maybe he should keep it for a little while and figure out what he was able to do with it before getting it removed. So the training regiment was started. Everyday Kuro would wake up, and practice with his new arm, running, trying anything to get his body use to the new weight, then Cassy would come over, help him get a jacket over it, and a glove on to make sure it couldn’t be seen, then school. After school the two would go to Cassy’s house and hang out with her little brother and train some more, then home for homework and sleep. The one thing that Kuro had learned to avoid was water, due to the weight of his right arm it was very difficult if not impossible for him to swim with it, thus making him sink like a rock and nearly drown the past times he had tried it.
After a while, Kuro would tell Cassy’s parents, who took it rather well, and didn’t treat the boy any different, and would offer him rides home so he didn’t have to walk and take the chance of being caught by the police or government officials.
Kuro would get rather good with his powers, learning that he can move the armor across his body, and that it gave him limitless strength, but those seemed to be rather simple. Kuro was happy about it; it allowed him to put himself in more dangerous situations in order to help other people, which was something that he had always done.
As summer of their junior year came, Cassy’s family was going on a trip upstate to visit family and they asked Kuro if he would like to go. Since he had no real plans of his own, he tagged along. While ridding in the car, Kuro sat next to Ivan, Cassy’s little brother and helped him bother his sister. The two parents sat up front talking about the trip and money and housing, things children don’t care about and Cassy was listening to music, or trying if Kuro and Ivan would leave her alone. While traveling down the road a loud pop was head, Kuro turned his head in time to see a large Semi coming crashing towards the car, he wrapped his arms around Ivan, encasing him in the armor, but had not been wearing a seatbelt himself. As the big rig slammed into the car, he was shot from it, slamming into the concrete a few hundred yards away. Ivan sat in the car screaming and cry, he crawled from the car, and sat on the road, he just looked at the car. Slowly Kuro began moving, his face badly cut, his head was bleeding badly and his left arm was broken in two places. He forced himself to his feet, he looked at the car and grabbed it was his right hand, and began pealing back sheets of steal, he looked at Cassy, she was cut up rather badly and had a large crack in her head, He just sat there for a second, he didn’t move her, he wanted to hold her, but he didn’t want to hurt her more. He went to the front of the car, the front end of the truck was wedged on top of the small car, Kuro encased his other arm and lifted the truck pushing it back. He head sirens waling in the distance, he walked over next to Ivan and collapsed in pain.
When he awoke, he looked around, he was strapped down to the bed, and his wounds had been covered. He grabbed the belts with his right hand and snapped them, forcing himself to his feet, he exited the room and walked into the hall, then to the waiting room, seeing Ivan sitting alone, still crying. He walked over to him, and grabbed the boy, “Anything?” he asked, with no response. He walked up the service desk and was given no information, he then walked back into the emergency care area, a few people tried to stop him but to no avail. He walked to the window of the room Cassy was in, she had gone into cardiac arrest and it seemed she wasn’t going to pull threw. Kuro dropped to his knees right there; he just sat in the hall, on the cold tile and just stared off into nothingness.
He would return home, his parents also took in Ivan, not wanting the boy to be sent away. Kuro had changed though, he was no longer happy and energetic, he was quite, and a loner. He soon stopped going to school and simply would just lay in bed all day. He never left the house, and never talked to anyone, even his family. A year would pass from the incident, he would return to school, but no longer caring if people saw his arm, as people would start problems he would grab them and toss them across a table or to the ground. People soon would forget the caring kid that he use to be and only know him as what he was now, simply a jerk.
A knock would come to the door, someone that Kuro did not know but knew him very well. Zane had found his brother and wanted him to go with him, and help him fix the world. Kuro didn’t understand, he had knew he was adopted but did not know he had a brother, and did not believe him at first but over a few months of talking to Zane he began to trust him and soon left with him. Dropping out and school, and not telling his parents he would simply leave, with nothing more than the clothing on his back and some cash he had saved.
Kuro and Zane would work together for several years; Zane would learn everything about Kuro and Kuro would learn almost nothing about his brother. Also he would be haunted with nightmares about Cassy and her death. Kuro would refuse to kill people, even if Zane would tell him too, he would wound or knock out but that’s the farthest that he would go, some of his old personality began to show through but he was still rather cold and standoffish. As the two traveled they would break into military bases and destroy anything that they could be working on the could be power user related, making the two of them very wanted individuals, but with Kuro’s armor and Zane’s blade, they two were almost impossible to stop.
Zane’s powers were very similar to his brothers, he had the ability to summon knives that would already be in motions that could slice threw anything and if needed a rather large katana with the same attribute. This allowed Zane to cut threw the toughest armor, or strongest walls, protecting things that he wanted destroyed.
The two would travel far and wide, covering most of the U.S.A. and taking out most complexes on their route. As the two traveled they would run into a few other users, that would stand in their way, questioning what they were doing or trying to stop them, but Zane tended to dispatch them with little effort, it seemed like Zane had completely mastered his powers and used them in almost ever situation they would be needed.
Eventually they would run into a foe that could stand up to the two brothers, Amp, as he called himself, he real name he never told the brothers. He was a sound user, he loved to hear the screams of those he slaughtered, normally women and children, Kuro thought of him as a monster, Zane a powerful ally. The two confronted Amp, at first Kuro shouted, demanding to know why he did what he did, when he was replied to with a “Its fun” he grew furious and charged the man. The two would fight for a brief bit, Kuro being blasted by Amp’s sound waves while trying to get in the connect with a punch. Kuro was nothing more than a play thing to Amp, just blasting him every time he would get close, eventually a women would walk into the area where the fight had come to somewhat of a stop. Kuro sat slouched over on a wall, while Amp laughed, Zane simply watched his brother fail. Amp looked at the women, Kuro’s attention went to her as well, Amp let out a hellish laugh and sent a blast at her, Kuro quickly rose to his feet and stood in the way of the blast, he looked at her as some blood came into his mouth, she looked like Cassy. He collapsed.
While he slept he had another dream, this time not a nightmare but more of a vision, it was Cassy, and they were sitting at a park by the water, just the two of them. Kuro looked to her, but was unable to speak, he simply sat there. Cassy looked at him, and asked why he had changed, he simply sat there unable to talk, she then said it was cause she died, and she understood, but he was a hero, and what he had been doing was wrong, he was not this monster that Zane had turned him into, he was a kind hearted person who cared about everyone. She kissed him on the cheek and smiled, “Never change, you’re a hero, that’s what your suppose to be, and that’s what you are.”
Kuro woke up, he was lying on the ground in front of the lady, he placed his hand on the ground and forced himself to his feet, he looked at her, asked if she was ok, and told her to run. A smile came across his face as Amp looked back at him, “A hero can’t let a damsel be in distress now can he?” he said as Amp let loose another blast, Kuro stretched his arm forward absorbing the blast and charged in on Amp. Confused at first Zane watch his brother, he had changed, he wasn’t fighting just to fight he was protecting that women, which changed everything. As Amp prepared to fire again, Kuro grabbed his hand, “No more” he said then crushing his hand and spinning him, then tossing him into a wall, knocking Amp out.
He looked over to Zane, “We are done hurting people.” He said, then clenching his fist, “Your not going to hurt anyone else, even if I have to stop you by breaking both your arms and legs.” He smiled, “You going to cooperate bro?” he asked.
Zane smiled, and let loosed a bunch of knives, Kuro blocked them with his arm, but blood leaked from the holes in the armor, Kuro winced, “I will cut you to ribbons, if you try this hero crap with me.” Zane said in a soft tone, “I am your older brother now you listen to me!” he shouted, his hair flipping on his face.
Kuro smiled, “I am a hero, its what I am going to do.” He charged at his brother, jumped up trying to get him with a kick, Zane blocked it with his forearm, then created his sword, “To bad you were such a good lap dog.” He swung the blade at Kuro. Barely dodging Kuro rolled across the ground, he bounced up, and began bouncing on his toes, “Lets rock then.” He said running at Zane again, he began throwing punches as Zane dodged and swung to sword. The two seemed to be evenly matched, Zane began to grow angry at his brother, “Will you just sit still and DIE!!” he shouted, Kuro laughed “Ya that’s a good plan on my part get hit by the sword.” He smiled as he brought his knee up into Zane’s stomach as he took the blade to his arm.
Zane looked in shock while gasping for air, “You…. took the hit, just to land one.” he took a deep breath.
“Yup, and just remember, you may be good with that blade, but I can take a hell of a lot more than you.” He tapped himself on the arm, which was cut and bleeding but wasn’t too bad. As Kuro back up Zane looked over at Amp, who was coming too, Kuro looked noticing it too, he kicked off his shoe and through it at Zane, who cut it in half but didn’t see Kuro charge in and land an uppercut launching Zane onto his back, Kuro stepped on his arm which was holding the blade, “My foot is cold now.” He sighed then looked at Zane, “I will leave you for now, but remember this if you continue to hurt people I’ll find you and pay you back ten fold.” Kuro said then ran off into an alley towards the main road.
As Kuro reached his twenties he continued his travels, now alone, but happy for the first time in a long while. He made a few allies on his trip, but for the most part tried to stay to himself, not wanting anyone to get caught up in helping him and getting hurt. His new goal, instead of destroying the government bases, Kuro would simply break in and rescue any users that have been captured and were experimented on. Kuro’s goal was to save as many people as possible and maybe one day be accepted as the hero that he is, instead of being hunted by the people he tried to protect.
Kuro would make one ally though that would travel along side him, a young man about four years younger than Kuro, his name was Hiiro Yazuki. Hiiro was another power user like Kuro, but his ability are to control the spirit energy within his body. Hiiro was an orphan raised by a Buddhist monk in the Himalayas, but was sent to the States in hope of finding his real parents and helping this part of the world with the constant war that seems to be pulling it apart into Users and Non. Hiiro meet up with Kuro while the two of them were working on a mission to break some users from a complex. This ended up tying the two together, Kuro as the teacher and Hiiro as his student. Hiiro would end up looking up to Kuro as an older brother, helping and doing as he did, with no questions.
Kuro would help to train Hiiro everyday, in the same general method that he trained himself, he would try and teach Hiiro things that he remembered from school, then after he would help him train with his powers then they would walk a while then set camp. This was the pattern that they lived for about a year, slowly moving from state to state, from town to town, both slowly getting better and better with their powers and also becoming very close. Kuro respected that amount of work Hiiro was willing to put into a day of training, never complaining about it being to hard, only forcing himself up to continue.
While they traveled Kuro and Hiiro would run into a few “bad” users, people that used their powers only for self gain, or to hurt those around them. Kuro’s beliefs spread on to Hiiro, the belief that no one needs to die, no matter what the situation there is always away out of the situation without someone losing their life, and Hiiro would see Kuro put himself threw hell time and time again to uphold to this.
In the mist of their travels Kuro would run into a face from his past, a face he hoped he would never see again, he placed his hand on Hiiro’s shoulder and told him that their travels together had come to an end, and told him to run. Zane had returned and he seemed to have allied up with the monster known as Amp, and the two were here to seek revenge on Kuro. Kuro looked at his brother and smiled, “Long time no see bro.” He brought his hand up and scratched the back of his head while closing his eyes, “How has life been?” he asked.
Soon after a fight broke out, the three of the men traded blows, Kuro on the end of most of them. Between the sound blasts of Amp and the blades from his brother Kuro was slowly being crushed and sliced to near death, he managed to land a few minor punches but nothing serious. The two men didn’t let up on him, Amp dropped back and charged a large blast and let it fire towards Kuro, as the blast got close Kuro turned to see a beam hit the blast dispersing it. Hiiro stood, he blew the top of his finger and smile, then charging towards Amp, his spirit abilities gave him the upper hand against the long range sound abilities of Amp, by forcing him to close range he struggled to fire, and even when he did Hiiro could fire a blast to disperse it.
Kuro and Zane stood face to face, the looked over one another, Zane smiled then let loose a barrage of knives towards his brother, the dodged most of them then catching the last and throwing it back. Zane moved and the knife stuck in the wall behind him, he smiled, the attack was towards his arm, Kuro was still unable to go for the kill. He summoned his sword and charged Kuro, swinging violently trying to cut him in two, Kuro side stepped and jumped back to avoid most of the attacks every so often taking a minor cut to his stomach, or his arm. Kuro was on the defensive, and with Zane slowly getting closer and closer he needed a plan, he jumped back, catching his footing on the rim of a dock, Zane had pushed him onto a small pier overlooking about a twenty foot deep body of water, “Crap” Kuro thought.
Zane trusted his sword, he knew his brother was unable to swim with the armor on his arm, he would surely drown, and even if he didn’t dodge the attack the blade would run him threw. Kuro side stepped the blade then losing his footing he fell in, he took a deep breath as he hit the water and sunk like a stone. Hiiro who had immobilized Amp looked on at his teacher as he sunk to the bottom of the lake, he began screaming for him, then charged towards Zane, as he reached the beginning of the dock he heard a loud splash, he looked up to see a shine in the sky. Kuro had gone to his full armor form and trusted himself from the lake, the helmet of the armor slide back and Kuro smiled, “Your done Zane, just grab your new pet and get out of here.” He said pointing off into the distance. He then landed next to Hiiro, “Just know this, I will beginning training more like him, and soon we will be everywhere to stop you and those like you, this will become a safe place to live.” Kuro messed up Hiiro’s hair and his armor slid back to just the one arm. Zane slowly walked towards Amp, and then headed out of town, Zane had not been beaten but would rather not burn up too much energy when there are more plans ahead.
Kuro and Hiiro would soon separate going different ways, Kuro hoped his friend would be ok, but wanted him to continue his own journey and not just follow him on his. Kuro would soon find himself in Florida, he had heard of a military base that had been capturing users and transferring their powers into troops used to capture more users. It seemed like a good place for him to provide his assistance, and maybe find a few friends.
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Name: James Ferris Jr.
Alias: Kuro Boushi
Age: 23
Sex: Male
Orientation: Straight
Personality: Kuro is said to be an “oddball” at times, one quote that Kuro normally responds to is when he is told he is crazy responding with you haven’t seen crazy yet. He is overly excitable and energetic. This does not by any means mean that Kuro is dumb but simply plays that part of the foul very well and prefers people to think of him that way. He is very intelligent and patent individual even thou it is seldom seen. Kuro’s most notable trait is his speech, he is very respectful in his speech most often and will talk to people with this respect even if he is about to fight them, referring ti men as Sir and women as Ma’am. This is something that Kuro has always done, simply to be respectful, he believes all people are equal and should be treated with the respect that they deserver.
Kuro is a preserver of life, and will do anything to make sure that it is keep safe, wither it be man or animal. He is not a vegetarian by any means but will not stand by and watch the animal he is about to eat be slaughtered. He is someone that will try and protect everyone, even at risk of his own life, this can be something as simple as helping someone up if they call or something as extreme as diving in front of a car for them.
Kuro’s personality is something that he has developed over times, and something that he has tried to keep from changing. He has had hard times in his life but has not allowed them to effect him for the fact that he was told by someone special to stay the same no matter what.
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 187 lbs (Body) 237 lbs (Coated Arm)
Physical Description: Kuro is well toned and built individual, his upper body being the most toned portion. He has a large toned barrel chest and arms like tree trunks. His body mass is mainly muscle and he has worked hard to make sure he stays in good enough shape to protect anyway that needs it. Kuro has a strong jaw line, with deep set dark brown eyes, he has been told its like a chestnut but he tends to say they are “Shit Brown” and will argue if he has too. A mess of stubble often covers his strong jaw line.
His mangy brown hair hangs loosely around his face, and when needed he will take a red headband from his pocket and tie it up, forming long spikes. With his hair up Kuro has one think column of hair that hangs down in front of his face crossing his right eye and ending at the tip of his nose.
Kuro’s body is ratter free from scars from his life style as a hero, which is a surprise to him and most people he tells of his tales, one reason most don’t believe him. The main place Kuro has scars on him is right arm and some creeping across the right side of his chest, most that are visible are very minor but if his arm was visible it was be rather extreme looking.
His right arms shines in the light, red and orange armor reflecting light from it. Kuro’s stage one of his power, The Arm Of Salvation, an armor that coats his entire right arm. It is a darker red with layers of orange and yellow under it. This armor looks bulky but it rather light and directly linked to Kuro’s body and cannot be removed or broken. By being directly linked to his body, the armor moves as if it were skin and causes no movement impairment.
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~:Allegiance:~
Faction: The Alliance
Position: Leader
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Faction: The Alliance
Position: Leader
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~:Powers/Tools:~
Powers & Abilities: Kuro can create a form a nearly impenetrable armor across his entire body protecting him against any bodily harm. By concentrating and condensing molecules that float in the air on his body and super compacting them he can create the armor nearly instantly in any location on his body. The flaw to his power is that the more of his body he covers the more of his own energy he must use to keep the armor intact, as he becomes tired or strained the armor will eventually start to crumble off him and return to what it once was. Below lists the main stages of his he can uses:
- The Arm Of Salvation: This is the name of Kuro’s power’s first form, a red and orange armor that encases his right arm. The armor works in several ways, the main one being that it is completely impenetrable, able to stop any attack and hold back any force. The armor also gives that arm near limitless strength, the only limitation that it has it when it will be ripped out of the socket. This form of the armor is always activated, keeping his right arm completely encased.
- Body Of The Savior: The second form of Kuro’s power, this spreads the armor across his chest and encases his other arm, it has the same attributes as the previous form but now incorporated bother arms and his chest, allowing him to lift any weight for the joints are solidly held in place. This increases the amount of energy Kuro normally uses allowing him to only maintain this form for about fifteen minutes.
- Form Of The Creator: The final form of Kuro’s armor, completely encasing his body, the armor will move down his legs and up his neck creating a helmet that encases his entire body. In this form Kuro is completely invulnerable and has limitless strength. On his back two large wings like structures will jut out, allowing Kuro to fly at high speeds and be able to leave the atmosphere. In this form Kuro burns threw energy rapidly and is only able to maintain it for about three minute, he will attempt to knockout his target quickly with hopes of saving some energy, incase he must continue moving forward.
- A Heroes Will: One skill that Kuro has perfected with his armor, allowing him to create the armor off his body, this can be used to encase a friend to protect them from an attack, or a wall to keep it from falling temporarily. This uses rather little energy since it is not something that is maintained normally but for a few seconds, but if forced to hold it, it can drain him quickly.
Along with his armor, Kuro also has increased Strength, Durability, Endurance, Stamina, these are nearly super in quality but rest just below that point.
Weakness: Kuro’s armor burns threw his energy quickly, so long drawn out battle typically weaken him. Also since his armor is incredibly dense he can no longer swim and has a high chance of drowning if pushed into deep water.
State of Control/Rules: Kuro has nearly mastered his powers; he has had them for a while now and has gotten use to them. He spent a good deal of his teen years perfecting his control over them, his only problem is maintaining the higher levels of the armor for long periods of time, but he manages that by just being overly durable. Also Kuro is mainly a close range fighter, staying close to his target and trying to keep them on the defense until they break and he can get them to give up. By keeping close he lowers his chance of being blasted by a long-range attack and not being able to block it. Mental attacks aren’t that strong against him, since he is mentally strong he can stand up to most mental suggestions but mind blasts will eventually break him down if hit with a few.
Reason You Choose Your Power: Personally I chose the armor since I am the kind of person that I want to help people and protect them from harm. Thus having armor that I can coat my body in and stand in the way or protect them from anything that may hurt them seemed like a good plan.
Weapons: None
Equipment: Backpack with change of clothing, sleeping bag, tent.
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~:History:~
Place of Birth: Huston, Texas
Relatives:: Kuro has very little family left; there are his adoptive parents, Kaito and Ichi Boushi, who are both teachers in Texas. And his brother Zane Ferris, who has the ability to create a blade that can cut threw anything; he is evil and wants to kill Kuro.
Other Figures in Kuro’s life –
Ivan Hughs – Shadow User, Cassy’s younger brother, hasn’t seen Kuro in a long time, Quite and antisocial. Still very torn up about lose of family.
Hiiro Yazuki – Spirit User, Brawler, Overly excited and fun loving.
Amp (Spike Conner) – Sound User, Psychosocial, and sociopath loves to kill.
History:
Born James Farris Jr. he was born to a James senior and Mary Farris, and younger brother to Zane Farris four years his senior. They lived in a very small town outside Huston TX, in a rundown apartment. James jr. was a born rather large and a C-section was required to get him out of Mary, leaving her with a rather large scar on her stomach, also leaving her bed ridden for the next week. So his father who was stand offish about his son, left Zane to take care of him at times, took him home. When his mother finally returned home from the hospital she returned to her duties around the house, cleaning, cooking, maintaining everything and making sure Senior never got angry. Senior had a tendency of beating Mary, once almost to near death, breaking two ribs and dislocating his right arm.
One day while Zane was holding Jr. he dropped him on his head, some say this is why Kuro is a little dumb, and Mary screamed at the boy. When Senior got home, Zane ran to him, taking to boy’s side he pummeled into Mary, breaking her jaw and her nose, she collapsed. The baby began screaming and crying; the father turned and looked at him, and began to shout. He ordered Mary get up and take care of the child, but she did not move, he brought his leg back and kicked her in the ribs, still nothing. Mary had passed that night from the trauma that her head had received from the blows, and Senior had taken Zane and left the newborn in the home with his dead mother. The infant would be found several hours later when a neighbor would stop by and see the door open and hear the baby crying, the police would never find James and Zane and Kuro would never learn of the horrible life his mother had lead.
A few months later Kuro would be put up for adoption, at the time without a name only being called Kid. Kuro was adopted very quickly in a matter of weeks after being put up; he was a small boy full of energy bouncing around and very easily amused, something that still holds true today. Kuro would be adopted by an very kind Japanese man and his wife, Kaito and Ichi Boushi, and would name their new son, Kuro, for his deep brown almost black eyes.
Kuro would be taken care of very much so, he was a spoiled baby getting every toy, every learning tool, anything a child could need. Ichi and Kaito were both schoolteachers so money wasn’t the greatest but they did not struggle to get by. As Kuro would age, he would start school, and start a few other programs that his parents thought were important for the child to go into, marital arts being the largest. Kuro seemed to have a knack for them, he rose through the belts very quickly, true they were child belts but he was always top of his class both in school and in after school programs.
Kuro would soon start high school, keeping up with the same routine his parents had set up for him, school, training, marital arts, homework, relax. Some of the other kids Kuro had made friends with said his parents were a little strict and expected a lot from him, but Kuro would just shrug it off. With the way he was going he had mastered three styles and become a straight a student, so he wasn’t going to complain. He was in all honors class getting very large amounts of homework so it was very rare for him to have free time other than when he was out on weekends.
While in school Kuro would eventually meet a girl names Cassandra, or Cassy as she preferred to be called. And the two would become very close friends and eventually a couple. Cassy was a smaller girl, only about 5’3” and about 100 pounds, she had dark brown hair and normally wore contacts much to Kuro’s disapproval. They both cared about one another quite a bit and would spend all the time they could together, meeting their sophomore years paid off too, for it gave the two of them a lot of time to hang out with one another.
The next year, Kuro would calm down his schedule and take only regular class, his parents didn’t like that all to much, but since his dream was to be a firefighter and help people him getting into a great college was already kind of gone. Since Kuro slowed down his routine he was able to spend more time with Cassy, and her younger brother Ivan.
Cassy began noticing something was going on when Kuro suddenly stopped wanting to see her, and stopped going to school. His parents would tell her that he was busy every time she would call and no one would answer the door when she would come to the house. The problem had been that Kuro’s powers had begun to show, his arm had been encased in a black leather looking material that no one knew what it was. Kuro was afraid that it was some type of disease and did not want to spread it so he would simply stay locked in his room, not leaving no matter what. By watching the news he had learned the people were being born with gifts and the government was taking those people away and performing medical procedures on them to cure them. Kuro came the conclusion that he must be one of those people, he was scared at first but he called Cassy and had her come over to see his arm, which had now changed into a redish orange armor and was not coming off.
When she entered the room, she was confused at first then somewhat scared, but it was still Kuro, nothing was changed other than his right hand was a little colder than it was before, is how she put it. She always had a way of putting a smile on his face, even in the worse situations. After talking with Cassy they decided that maybe he should keep it for a little while and figure out what he was able to do with it before getting it removed. So the training regiment was started. Everyday Kuro would wake up, and practice with his new arm, running, trying anything to get his body use to the new weight, then Cassy would come over, help him get a jacket over it, and a glove on to make sure it couldn’t be seen, then school. After school the two would go to Cassy’s house and hang out with her little brother and train some more, then home for homework and sleep. The one thing that Kuro had learned to avoid was water, due to the weight of his right arm it was very difficult if not impossible for him to swim with it, thus making him sink like a rock and nearly drown the past times he had tried it.
After a while, Kuro would tell Cassy’s parents, who took it rather well, and didn’t treat the boy any different, and would offer him rides home so he didn’t have to walk and take the chance of being caught by the police or government officials.
Kuro would get rather good with his powers, learning that he can move the armor across his body, and that it gave him limitless strength, but those seemed to be rather simple. Kuro was happy about it; it allowed him to put himself in more dangerous situations in order to help other people, which was something that he had always done.
As summer of their junior year came, Cassy’s family was going on a trip upstate to visit family and they asked Kuro if he would like to go. Since he had no real plans of his own, he tagged along. While ridding in the car, Kuro sat next to Ivan, Cassy’s little brother and helped him bother his sister. The two parents sat up front talking about the trip and money and housing, things children don’t care about and Cassy was listening to music, or trying if Kuro and Ivan would leave her alone. While traveling down the road a loud pop was head, Kuro turned his head in time to see a large Semi coming crashing towards the car, he wrapped his arms around Ivan, encasing him in the armor, but had not been wearing a seatbelt himself. As the big rig slammed into the car, he was shot from it, slamming into the concrete a few hundred yards away. Ivan sat in the car screaming and cry, he crawled from the car, and sat on the road, he just looked at the car. Slowly Kuro began moving, his face badly cut, his head was bleeding badly and his left arm was broken in two places. He forced himself to his feet, he looked at the car and grabbed it was his right hand, and began pealing back sheets of steal, he looked at Cassy, she was cut up rather badly and had a large crack in her head, He just sat there for a second, he didn’t move her, he wanted to hold her, but he didn’t want to hurt her more. He went to the front of the car, the front end of the truck was wedged on top of the small car, Kuro encased his other arm and lifted the truck pushing it back. He head sirens waling in the distance, he walked over next to Ivan and collapsed in pain.
When he awoke, he looked around, he was strapped down to the bed, and his wounds had been covered. He grabbed the belts with his right hand and snapped them, forcing himself to his feet, he exited the room and walked into the hall, then to the waiting room, seeing Ivan sitting alone, still crying. He walked over to him, and grabbed the boy, “Anything?” he asked, with no response. He walked up the service desk and was given no information, he then walked back into the emergency care area, a few people tried to stop him but to no avail. He walked to the window of the room Cassy was in, she had gone into cardiac arrest and it seemed she wasn’t going to pull threw. Kuro dropped to his knees right there; he just sat in the hall, on the cold tile and just stared off into nothingness.
He would return home, his parents also took in Ivan, not wanting the boy to be sent away. Kuro had changed though, he was no longer happy and energetic, he was quite, and a loner. He soon stopped going to school and simply would just lay in bed all day. He never left the house, and never talked to anyone, even his family. A year would pass from the incident, he would return to school, but no longer caring if people saw his arm, as people would start problems he would grab them and toss them across a table or to the ground. People soon would forget the caring kid that he use to be and only know him as what he was now, simply a jerk.
A knock would come to the door, someone that Kuro did not know but knew him very well. Zane had found his brother and wanted him to go with him, and help him fix the world. Kuro didn’t understand, he had knew he was adopted but did not know he had a brother, and did not believe him at first but over a few months of talking to Zane he began to trust him and soon left with him. Dropping out and school, and not telling his parents he would simply leave, with nothing more than the clothing on his back and some cash he had saved.
Kuro and Zane would work together for several years; Zane would learn everything about Kuro and Kuro would learn almost nothing about his brother. Also he would be haunted with nightmares about Cassy and her death. Kuro would refuse to kill people, even if Zane would tell him too, he would wound or knock out but that’s the farthest that he would go, some of his old personality began to show through but he was still rather cold and standoffish. As the two traveled they would break into military bases and destroy anything that they could be working on the could be power user related, making the two of them very wanted individuals, but with Kuro’s armor and Zane’s blade, they two were almost impossible to stop.
Zane’s powers were very similar to his brothers, he had the ability to summon knives that would already be in motions that could slice threw anything and if needed a rather large katana with the same attribute. This allowed Zane to cut threw the toughest armor, or strongest walls, protecting things that he wanted destroyed.
The two would travel far and wide, covering most of the U.S.A. and taking out most complexes on their route. As the two traveled they would run into a few other users, that would stand in their way, questioning what they were doing or trying to stop them, but Zane tended to dispatch them with little effort, it seemed like Zane had completely mastered his powers and used them in almost ever situation they would be needed.
Eventually they would run into a foe that could stand up to the two brothers, Amp, as he called himself, he real name he never told the brothers. He was a sound user, he loved to hear the screams of those he slaughtered, normally women and children, Kuro thought of him as a monster, Zane a powerful ally. The two confronted Amp, at first Kuro shouted, demanding to know why he did what he did, when he was replied to with a “Its fun” he grew furious and charged the man. The two would fight for a brief bit, Kuro being blasted by Amp’s sound waves while trying to get in the connect with a punch. Kuro was nothing more than a play thing to Amp, just blasting him every time he would get close, eventually a women would walk into the area where the fight had come to somewhat of a stop. Kuro sat slouched over on a wall, while Amp laughed, Zane simply watched his brother fail. Amp looked at the women, Kuro’s attention went to her as well, Amp let out a hellish laugh and sent a blast at her, Kuro quickly rose to his feet and stood in the way of the blast, he looked at her as some blood came into his mouth, she looked like Cassy. He collapsed.
While he slept he had another dream, this time not a nightmare but more of a vision, it was Cassy, and they were sitting at a park by the water, just the two of them. Kuro looked to her, but was unable to speak, he simply sat there. Cassy looked at him, and asked why he had changed, he simply sat there unable to talk, she then said it was cause she died, and she understood, but he was a hero, and what he had been doing was wrong, he was not this monster that Zane had turned him into, he was a kind hearted person who cared about everyone. She kissed him on the cheek and smiled, “Never change, you’re a hero, that’s what your suppose to be, and that’s what you are.”
Kuro woke up, he was lying on the ground in front of the lady, he placed his hand on the ground and forced himself to his feet, he looked at her, asked if she was ok, and told her to run. A smile came across his face as Amp looked back at him, “A hero can’t let a damsel be in distress now can he?” he said as Amp let loose another blast, Kuro stretched his arm forward absorbing the blast and charged in on Amp. Confused at first Zane watch his brother, he had changed, he wasn’t fighting just to fight he was protecting that women, which changed everything. As Amp prepared to fire again, Kuro grabbed his hand, “No more” he said then crushing his hand and spinning him, then tossing him into a wall, knocking Amp out.
He looked over to Zane, “We are done hurting people.” He said, then clenching his fist, “Your not going to hurt anyone else, even if I have to stop you by breaking both your arms and legs.” He smiled, “You going to cooperate bro?” he asked.
Zane smiled, and let loosed a bunch of knives, Kuro blocked them with his arm, but blood leaked from the holes in the armor, Kuro winced, “I will cut you to ribbons, if you try this hero crap with me.” Zane said in a soft tone, “I am your older brother now you listen to me!” he shouted, his hair flipping on his face.
Kuro smiled, “I am a hero, its what I am going to do.” He charged at his brother, jumped up trying to get him with a kick, Zane blocked it with his forearm, then created his sword, “To bad you were such a good lap dog.” He swung the blade at Kuro. Barely dodging Kuro rolled across the ground, he bounced up, and began bouncing on his toes, “Lets rock then.” He said running at Zane again, he began throwing punches as Zane dodged and swung to sword. The two seemed to be evenly matched, Zane began to grow angry at his brother, “Will you just sit still and DIE!!” he shouted, Kuro laughed “Ya that’s a good plan on my part get hit by the sword.” He smiled as he brought his knee up into Zane’s stomach as he took the blade to his arm.
Zane looked in shock while gasping for air, “You…. took the hit, just to land one.” he took a deep breath.
“Yup, and just remember, you may be good with that blade, but I can take a hell of a lot more than you.” He tapped himself on the arm, which was cut and bleeding but wasn’t too bad. As Kuro back up Zane looked over at Amp, who was coming too, Kuro looked noticing it too, he kicked off his shoe and through it at Zane, who cut it in half but didn’t see Kuro charge in and land an uppercut launching Zane onto his back, Kuro stepped on his arm which was holding the blade, “My foot is cold now.” He sighed then looked at Zane, “I will leave you for now, but remember this if you continue to hurt people I’ll find you and pay you back ten fold.” Kuro said then ran off into an alley towards the main road.
As Kuro reached his twenties he continued his travels, now alone, but happy for the first time in a long while. He made a few allies on his trip, but for the most part tried to stay to himself, not wanting anyone to get caught up in helping him and getting hurt. His new goal, instead of destroying the government bases, Kuro would simply break in and rescue any users that have been captured and were experimented on. Kuro’s goal was to save as many people as possible and maybe one day be accepted as the hero that he is, instead of being hunted by the people he tried to protect.
Kuro would make one ally though that would travel along side him, a young man about four years younger than Kuro, his name was Hiiro Yazuki. Hiiro was another power user like Kuro, but his ability are to control the spirit energy within his body. Hiiro was an orphan raised by a Buddhist monk in the Himalayas, but was sent to the States in hope of finding his real parents and helping this part of the world with the constant war that seems to be pulling it apart into Users and Non. Hiiro meet up with Kuro while the two of them were working on a mission to break some users from a complex. This ended up tying the two together, Kuro as the teacher and Hiiro as his student. Hiiro would end up looking up to Kuro as an older brother, helping and doing as he did, with no questions.
Kuro would help to train Hiiro everyday, in the same general method that he trained himself, he would try and teach Hiiro things that he remembered from school, then after he would help him train with his powers then they would walk a while then set camp. This was the pattern that they lived for about a year, slowly moving from state to state, from town to town, both slowly getting better and better with their powers and also becoming very close. Kuro respected that amount of work Hiiro was willing to put into a day of training, never complaining about it being to hard, only forcing himself up to continue.
While they traveled Kuro and Hiiro would run into a few “bad” users, people that used their powers only for self gain, or to hurt those around them. Kuro’s beliefs spread on to Hiiro, the belief that no one needs to die, no matter what the situation there is always away out of the situation without someone losing their life, and Hiiro would see Kuro put himself threw hell time and time again to uphold to this.
In the mist of their travels Kuro would run into a face from his past, a face he hoped he would never see again, he placed his hand on Hiiro’s shoulder and told him that their travels together had come to an end, and told him to run. Zane had returned and he seemed to have allied up with the monster known as Amp, and the two were here to seek revenge on Kuro. Kuro looked at his brother and smiled, “Long time no see bro.” He brought his hand up and scratched the back of his head while closing his eyes, “How has life been?” he asked.
Soon after a fight broke out, the three of the men traded blows, Kuro on the end of most of them. Between the sound blasts of Amp and the blades from his brother Kuro was slowly being crushed and sliced to near death, he managed to land a few minor punches but nothing serious. The two men didn’t let up on him, Amp dropped back and charged a large blast and let it fire towards Kuro, as the blast got close Kuro turned to see a beam hit the blast dispersing it. Hiiro stood, he blew the top of his finger and smile, then charging towards Amp, his spirit abilities gave him the upper hand against the long range sound abilities of Amp, by forcing him to close range he struggled to fire, and even when he did Hiiro could fire a blast to disperse it.
Kuro and Zane stood face to face, the looked over one another, Zane smiled then let loose a barrage of knives towards his brother, the dodged most of them then catching the last and throwing it back. Zane moved and the knife stuck in the wall behind him, he smiled, the attack was towards his arm, Kuro was still unable to go for the kill. He summoned his sword and charged Kuro, swinging violently trying to cut him in two, Kuro side stepped and jumped back to avoid most of the attacks every so often taking a minor cut to his stomach, or his arm. Kuro was on the defensive, and with Zane slowly getting closer and closer he needed a plan, he jumped back, catching his footing on the rim of a dock, Zane had pushed him onto a small pier overlooking about a twenty foot deep body of water, “Crap” Kuro thought.
Zane trusted his sword, he knew his brother was unable to swim with the armor on his arm, he would surely drown, and even if he didn’t dodge the attack the blade would run him threw. Kuro side stepped the blade then losing his footing he fell in, he took a deep breath as he hit the water and sunk like a stone. Hiiro who had immobilized Amp looked on at his teacher as he sunk to the bottom of the lake, he began screaming for him, then charged towards Zane, as he reached the beginning of the dock he heard a loud splash, he looked up to see a shine in the sky. Kuro had gone to his full armor form and trusted himself from the lake, the helmet of the armor slide back and Kuro smiled, “Your done Zane, just grab your new pet and get out of here.” He said pointing off into the distance. He then landed next to Hiiro, “Just know this, I will beginning training more like him, and soon we will be everywhere to stop you and those like you, this will become a safe place to live.” Kuro messed up Hiiro’s hair and his armor slid back to just the one arm. Zane slowly walked towards Amp, and then headed out of town, Zane had not been beaten but would rather not burn up too much energy when there are more plans ahead.
Kuro and Hiiro would soon separate going different ways, Kuro hoped his friend would be ok, but wanted him to continue his own journey and not just follow him on his. Kuro would soon find himself in Florida, he had heard of a military base that had been capturing users and transferring their powers into troops used to capture more users. It seemed like a good place for him to provide his assistance, and maybe find a few friends.
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