Name: Taiga Kanzaki

Age: 14

Gender: Male

Personality: Taiga could be called a scaredy cat, and he wouldn't call out on it, mostly because he is scared of what would they do to him if he responded. His fearful nature also caused him to be superstitious, constantly looking at the horoscopes and fortunes, following traditions to not to upset spirits or get back luck. On the subject of socializing, Taiga stutters and is nervous around strangers, only regaining some confidence when he is around close friends or family. When he has a problem to deal with most of the time Taiga tries to run away from it, hiding on his "safe" place which most of the time is his room. When he shape-shifts into his lion form there is an 180° flip on his personality; he becomes brave, competitive, boastful and full of pride with an ego just as big as his love for a good fight.

Backstory: Taiga was always a child who got frightened easy, thankfully his older brother was always there to protect him from whatever thing he was scared. After a while, their parents send them to a private school, where their age difference separated in different classrooms. Quickly noticing Taiga frightful nature, they kids started making fun of him, to top it off his brother started talking less and less to him and instead spent his time studying. One particular day Taiga was quickly walking to his home since he wanted to be as far away from school as soon as possible, but he unexpectedly met with 5 of his classmates. They cornered Taiga into a wall and told him that from now on he had to buy them their lunch. With all his stuttering Taiga told them that he didn't have the money to buy one for himself even less for five people, but they apparently didn't care about what he had said and began to kick and punch him until he accepted. Having nowhere to run, Taiga retreated to the back of his mind as he went numb, he awoke in the same place he was before, with no more injuries than the first kicks and no one of the bullies insight. After that, the men from the institution came to his house and explained what he was and how they could help him control his power. There was no reason to say no, after all, it was a chance to escape that school he hated so much, to possibly meet people like himself and maybe becoming a more brave person. This is his third year at the Institute.

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Abilities: Taiga has become very good at running away from all kinds of things, primarily his problems.

Channeller Category: Alternative

Description of power: Lion shape-shift: Taiga can shape-shift into a humanoid lion that possesses enhanced senses, strength, speed, and agility. As well as sharp teeth and retractable claws. One notable thing is that Taigas personality changes once he transforms and once he comes back, either because he consciously returned or became too tired to keep the form up Taiga has little knowledge about what he did during that time.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Charge: Using his enhanced speed, Taiga rushes into the enemy ready to tackle. Once he picks up speed, it becomes difficult to change direction so it's not useful against enemies who can move quickly.

Shining Slash: Retracting his claws Taiga rushes into the enemy feigning to try to slash his opponent while in reality, he delivers a strong kick into his stomach.

*more moves later

Character theme song: youtu.be/dUTHU3Fuu1I

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