CHARACTER SHEET:
[b]NAME:[/b] Haru (Formerly Togashi Haru)
[b]AGE:[/b] 29
[b]GENDER:[/b] Male
[b]PERSONALITY/TRAITS:[/b]: Haru is a highly cynical man, as you would expect from his trade. He is distrustful of authority and tends to see samurai as bound by oaths of fealty - though sometimes he does envy the support they get from their clans. In conversation he comes across as sarcastically charming and sardonic, who realizes almost everything is a joke and laughs at it. He does not hold to any particular ideology or clan loyalty, save himself. He is not cruel, but he sometimes plays with his opponents in order to make his life a little more fun. Recently, he has found himself thinking about the place of ronin in this world and of gathering many of them together under one banner..
[b]COUNTRY:[/b] Levania (Formerly Saji)
[b]OCCUPATION:[/b] Ronin Mercenary/Assassin
[b]BRIEF BIO:[/b] The Togashi Clan were a samurai clan held on retainer to several elite families and organizations with the nation of Saiji. Their main role outside of the battlefield was to be yojimbo - bodyguards, duelists, settling civil disputes through armed combat. They practiced controversial two-sword fighting styles that they closely guarded the secrets of and which other Clans considered unsporting, an unfair advantage. Haru was born out of wedlock to one of the members of the elite families that the Togashi protected, and so he was adopted by the Clan as he was illegitimate and not a member of the patron house. 

Over time, Haru learned the art of blade, of fealty and loyalty to one's lord and master. He learned to fight other people's battles and not think for himself. He took orders, fought and spilled blood. He was even pretty good at it. This went fairly well until one day, he was reassigned from guard duty to active combat during one of the proxy battles in Levania. He saw active combat against a regiment of Corus samurai, cutting through them until something went wrong. A monstrous samurai lumbered out of the mist towards him, challenged him to a duel. The man was more like a demon, swollen and pulsing from within by some unknown force. They crossed blades and Haru was victorious - but at a cost. The demon samurai's tainted blood splashed him in the eyes. He reeled back in pain and his squadmates pulled him back out of the field for medical care. 

Things did not go well from there. It seemed at first that the beast's blood might have been acidic and burned his eyes, but he had healed within days - and no-one had expected him to heal at all. His eyes had also changed color - going from a normal brown to a decidedly unnatural shade of silver. Haru seemed to be seeing even more clearly than before, in fact. One day, Haru observed from out of a window a friend of his tripping and hurting himself in the street, so he hurried down to help him back up - only to see him walking along, then tripping exactly as Haru had seen. He had seen the future. When he came forward with this discovery, he was rejected and reviled as a freak, tainted by the blood of the monster he'd killed. He was offered the chance to purify his soul through ritual suicide, which Haru rejected. He chose instead to become a ronin, a masterless samurai. He rejected his clan name and departed Saji to reside in Levania full time, the only place for an exile such as him. 

Now he works as a mercenary and assassin, using his deadly skills for the highest bidder. Though the Togashi no longer consider him a member, some of the patron families remember his skill and covertly made contact with him in order to take out contracts. Where once he was a bodyguard, now he was a hired killer, totally abandoning his former honor. He would journey to the other countries to strike people in their homes, or ambush target samurai during their missions in Levania. Untouchable by his opponents, now more at home in the night than in the day, he soon build quite a legend around himself..

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[b]ETHER INFECTED?: Y[/b]
Haru's eyes have been changed by the contact with another Ether-infected individual's blood, giving him heightened accuracy, hand-eye co-ordination and advanced sight - he can see in multiple spectra of light, including infrared and ultraviolet. He also has limited local precognition; so long as he can see, he can perceive the events that will occur around him a few seconds into the future. This only applies for as long as he can see and does not extend to anything beyond a few seconds. In practical terms, it means he can anticipate danger very well, predict his opponents' attacks etc - but he can't see how large scale battles will turn out, if someone's going to betray him next week or anything that will occur where he can't see etc. However, like all Ether-infected individuals, this power comes at a price. As his vision's sensitivity heightened, he began to find everyday light painful and blinding, forcing him to resort to wearing shaded goggles in order to function normally in daylight. While he can see perfectly well in darkest night, he would now be blind in the day without his goggles.