He's around 5'8 with black hair and black eyes. Rather normal. Looks dopey.

His avatar is about 6 foot. It looks really stupid, so he wears a full helmet all the time. His helmet usually doesn’t match the rest of his armour, as if it isn’t a full helm, Kurogane won’t wear it. This is what it is right now.

There’s nothing really noteworthy in Takeshi’s history. He has a sizeable family, with him and 3 sisters, aged 25, 15 and 9 respectively. He went to school, made a lot of friends, moved out when he went to college. His Alfheim career is more interesting, and boy is it funny. He started off some time in high school, picking a Salamander character. When he chose his skills, he decided to pick heavy armour and some other stuff. If you asked him why, he’d say that he was really thick, so he thought it would make sense to wear the thickest armour. He then ran into some trouble.

When he made his character, he chose a randomly generated appearance. This normally results in an adequate appearance, but Takeshi got the short end of the stick. He has one of the stupidest looking avatars to ever exist. Everyone laughed at him back in Salamander n00b city, so he took the first full helm he could find and put it on. He never took his helmet off ever. At this point, he started looking into changing his face, but he found that it was annoyingly expensive. Thus began his long quest to change his ugly avatar into something more acceptable.

He eventually made a name for himself as a tower shield bearing wall, renowned for tanking hits even when his health was in the red. He often forgot about keeping his health up and he also forgot to take potions a lot, but he built a good friendship or acquaintance with the friendlier part of the player base, gaining the reputation as a stalwart wall for those he knew, defending even NPCs to a fault.

As you can may have guessed, he died a lot. No one begrudged him for it, and they liked his simple personality. That said, he didn’t get a lot of money and most of his equips were gained from his party’s pity. He also spends and gives a lot of his money, so he’s still pretty far away from fixing his face.