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[b]Name[/b]: Kikunojo Kichiro 

[b]Age[/b]: 22

[b]Gender[/b]: Male

[b]Appearance[/b]: 
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[b]Personality[/b]: Perhaps it's a result of spending his formative years around the dead, but at some point in the last decade Kichiro just sort of stopped caring. Saying he has no regard for life wouldn't be entirely fair: He does think twice before killing anyone. He certainly doesn't want to die, and he wants the few people he has any attachment with to stay whole and healthy. It's more that he has the chronic habit of not taking anything seriously, approaching the world with cynicism and detached amusement. 
	He has Manic-Depressive tendencies as well, making him a difficult person to form long term friendships with. Kichiro is frequent user of intoxicants, mainly alcohol and psychotropic drugs, as a way of staving off the general breakdown of sanity associated with his condition, but worries he is fighting a losing battle. 

[b]Equipment[/b]: Kichiro carries a number of spiritual and shamanic, mainly things that produce smoke such as sage, palo santo, and frankincense. He doesn't actually know if these items actually make him more effective, but they do make him feel more confident. He doesn't carry any physical weapons as he generally avoids fair fights.

[b]Abilities[/b]: Kichiro is an ectopath: he lives deeply in tune with a phenomenon he calls “the Ghost Soup”, a sort of psychic smog made from the remnants of dead mortals as well as ambient spiritual and elemental forces attached to any given area. He can channel and redirect these forces to produce a number of paranormal effects.

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[u]Communication[/u]: Kichiro can receive simple messages from the spirits around him in the form of short phrases and sensory inputs, manifesting in a sort of “enhanced intuition”. As it turns out, holding in-depth conversations with ghosts is like pulling teeth from a spastic wild cat:  Only the recently dead and particularly strong willed individuals retain their rationality, leaving the majority flighty, emotional, and unreliable.

[u]Obfuscation[/u]: Kichiro channels the energy around him to hide himself from view. He isn't invisible while doing so, only significantly harder to detect with normal senses or esp, and completely obscured from electronics. In a dark room or deep patch of shadow, it's nearly impossible to know he's there unless one were to walk directly into him.

[u]Manifestation[/u]: Kichiro directs large amounts of energy into an individual spirit, giving it physical form. Once released, a spirit manifested this way is not under his direct control. He generally uses this method when in a tight spot to create havoc and distract any pursuers while he slips away.

[u]Inverse Possession[/u]: Kichiro can channel a specific spirit through his body in order to utilize their skills through muscle memory. For example, channeling a highly skilled martial artist would temporarily give him a deep instinctive knowledge of hand-to-hand combat. Maintaining this state for any extended period can be very damaging to his psyche, however, as he must struggle against the emotions and personality of any entity being channeled through his body. 

[u]Ikiryo[/u]: Kichiro separates a part of his mind from his physical form to become it's own free roaming entity. His Ikiryo is significantly stronger than most average humans and is able to physically manifest and move physical objects, but lacks higher function and rationality. His body still functions on it's own, but is completely emotionless. He has yet to find a practical use for this ability, as reuniting his body and soul is very difficult.
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[b]Skills[/b]: Kichiro's main focus lies in espionage. His talents make him ideal for information gathering, information which he relies upon for trade. He's very skilled in deception and manipulation as well, displaying a knack for playing people off one another to keep suspicion off of himself.

In terms of non-profitable skills, Kichiro has a peculiar way with animals. Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats tend to gravitate towards him and give him an unusual amount of trust. 

[b]Brief Backstory[/b]: Translated roughly to English, “Kichiro” reads as “lucky son”. It's widely held by those that know him that whoever named him must have done so as a mean spirited joke. He keeps a tight, heavy lid on his childhood, so all that is known about him by the Agency starts when he was sixteen. 

It was at the scene of a murder, five high school students torn to bloody pieces in a locked apartment. The young Kichiro had slipped in amongst the agents as they investigated, looking gaunt and filthy as though he had been living on the streets. He claimed to know how to help them, and indeed proved his worth by tracking down and assisting in subjugating the rogue entity that had done the deed. Kichiro was offered a job, which he declined, on the grounds that he couldn't bear the idea of bonding himself to any group. He did accept a large sum of money under the table for services rendered, however, being proud but not a fool.

Since then, he has worked as a sort of “freelancer” for the Agency, assisting whenever his particular talents would be most effective. He mainly makes his living through the black market and organized criminal groups. Officially he owns a small occult shop in a dark back alley, directly above which is his small apartment. The items he sells are advertised as “very haunted, possessed, and otherwise hexed”, so most of his sales go to eccentric collectors.

[b]Allegiance[/b]: Outbreak Agency (Mostly, and unofficially) 

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