Toda Kuraoka "What are we waiting for? Today’s as good a day to die as any." --Standing just under 5’11”, he weighs about 162lbs and has a body of thin, well-trained muscles. His long straight hair is jet black and rather messy and his eyes are a piercing, icy blue, which stand out against his pale skin and soft features. Overall, he often looks like someone who doesn’t put a lot of time or thought into fashion nor ‘his look’.-- [Name-] Toda Kuraoka [Username-] Ryūmare [Age-] 19 [Ethnicity-] Japanese [Sexuality-] Heterosexual ________________________________________ [Level-] 15. [Pref. weapon-] Scythe Two-Handed Battle Axe - 372/1000 [Fighting style-] Kurao is extremely aggressive, sometimes to the point of recklessness. With his magic scythe and his regeneration skill, he often lives close the edge and wastes no time getting up close and personal with the enemy and uses a range of wide, sweeping attacks. His party term would be ‘Striker’, a high-DPS build with a focus on multiple-enemy damage. [Health Points-] 2,800 [General Stats-] • Strength - 450/1000 • Movement Speed - 200/1000 • Parry - 100/1000 • Shield - 1/1000 • Agility - 330/1000 • Battle Healing - 420/1000 • Perception - 1/1000 • Hide - 1/1000 • Tracking - 1/1000 [Profession Stats-] • Blacksmithing - 1/1000 • Fishing - 1/1000 • Cooking - 1/1000 • Tailor - 1/1000 • Gathering - 1/1000 ________________________________________ [Worldly Skills-] School-yard Scrapper – Got into plenty of fights in his younger years making him relatively unafraid of pain/injury. He is easily able to dedicate himself to a fight and block out distractions. Baseball Club Member – He is in great shape from years on the school baseball team and was always seen as a power hitter with a lot of upper-body strength. This has made him a relatively good at swinging and short-distance sprinting. [Personality-] Kuraoka is rather headstrong and quick to act: he hates wasting time debating over what to do and what not to do. Still, he is friendly enough when it comes to working with a team so long as others don’t get in his way and step on his toes. He rarely backs down from a challenge and has been known to fist fight other kids at school for small or petty reasons, mostly because he enjoys it. In a strange way, Kuraoka enjoys living on the edge and in SAO that's on the edge of life and death. He has no desire to be six feet under but he has a lot of trouble finding meaning in his life and therefore uses a challenge, the rush of adrenalin, to feel alive. This makes him seem quite unstable and if truth be told there is always the risk that he'll lose himself to this sort of madness, for adrenalin is as addicting as any other drug. In this sense, Kuraoka is forced to rely on others to keep him grounded and to keep him focused on the true goal at hand which should be teamwork and survival. [Biography-] Before the SAO Incident, Kurao grew up in a lower-income family in Okayama-shi, a small city in south-western Japan. His father was a factory worker and was rarely around the house (even more rarely sober) and his mother tended rice fields, which she often forced her son to help her with after his school days. He attended a simple trade-high school but never really dedicated much time to studying or bettering his education. Instead his time was spent with his hands on a bat on the baseball field or with his fists up behind the gymnasium. He was never a bully but was often seen as a trouble-student simply because of his sarcastic attitude and poor test scores. This attitude left him with few friends and many enemies though Kurao always appeared not to care about any of these things. Still, on the inside he always struggled with being labeled by teachers and fellow students and after so many years he had begun to think that they were right in assuming he would amount to nothing. Unwilling to work in the fields or the factory, like his parents, he desperately wanted to find something that he could really enjoy and that would make use of his fierce spirit. In a lucky (later to be unlucky) turn of events, Kurao’s best friend was a huge gamer and waited in line for many hours to pick up a copy of SAO. However, due to a sudden death in the family he was forced to leave town and so rather reluctantly left his Nervegear and game with Kurao, who was quite interested in playing after seeing several trailers of combat and game progression. This of course led to his being trapped inside the world and while initially terrifying, he was able to find a good guild to help him level and progress through the initial stages of Aincrad. He excelled in high-damage combat and, despite the true risk of death, was highly respected for his willingness to lead a fight and ability to bolster morale with a well-timed charge. This skill increased further when he landed a rare-loot drop and found ‘Karishi the Lifehunter’, a deadly scythe weapon with life steal attacks. This weapon encouraged his more relentless (and reckless) form of attack and made him a prized Striker in the guild. ________________________________________ [Weapons/Armor-] ‘Karishi the Lifehunter’ – A two-handed scythe weapon with life-stealing attacks. Essentially the weapon bolsters Battle-Healing stat when dealing damage to enemies: not a crazy or broken amount, but enough to be significant in the heat of battle. Bolstered Leather Armor Black Hooded Cloak [Items - Consumable and Misc-] X5 Health Crystals X3Teleport crystals X3 Seaweed-wrapped Rice Balls Iron Lantern Floor 6 Map Travel Pack (slightly increases inventory space) Dice Deck of Cards