Greetings everyone, I received an invitation to join the guild. I'll be making two characters for it. Here's the first for now. 

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[center][h2][i][color=f26522][i]Kirei Yoshikage[/i][/color][/i][/h2][/center]

[b]Appearance[/b]:[img]https://enishiyukishiro.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/oav125.jpg[/img]

[center][color=f26522][h3][i]"Yo, name's Kieri Yoshikage. Now get the hell outta my face!"[/i][/h3][/color][/center]

Standing around 5'8'', Kirei wears grab indicating his time spent in the Mist Continent. His clothing consisted of a blue oriental shirt along with orange pants with black stripes on the sides. He can sometimes be seen wearing a jacket matching his pants and a gray shoulder cowl when traveling. He can always be seen wearing his round sunglasses, which were a gift from someone close to his heart.

[b]Name[/b]: Kirei Yoshikage

[b]Race[/b]: Human

[b]Magic/Abilities/Equipment[/b]: Kirei's fighting style combines bone-breaking martial arts along with powerful sword techniques he learned while in the Mist Continent. In the east, this style is called Watōjutsu, which focuses on attacks combining the Watō (a Zipangunese Sword that was designed in the Mist Continent) and hand-to-hand combat. He further augments this combat style using powerful wind magic to severe all in his path; his fluffy of sword strikes are similar to the tearing wind of a tornado. 

Kirei prides himself in this art, claiming to have fully mastered it. It is a style that ignores defense completely and focuses on overwhelming offense and countering to prevent the opponent from reacting. 
 
[b]Personality[/b]: Kirei is a truculent young man, often being described as a troublemaker or even a rebel by some. He is short-tempered, stubborn, loves to fight, and won't hesitant to be the judge and jury of his peers. However, deep inside his psyche, he is a young man who is trying to find meaning in the dog-eat-dog life he lived as a little boy. He is quick to lash out a someone but also has a habit of keeping people at an emotional distance. 

Despite this, Kirei is rather intelligent and has a keen business sense - albeit crooked. While living on the streets of the Mist Continent he learned the in and outs of underground activities and black market dealings in order to increase his status in the land's underworld. This, along with his mule-headed will kept him alive during those days. 

[b]Background[/b]: Kirei was a young boy who was originally born in Zipangu. He lived in a small village household consisting of himself, a sickly mother, his father, and his older sister (named Himawari). Their village was poor and resources were scarce, and his father could barely afford the house they lived in - let alone the medical expenses for his wife's declining health. The imperial government often ignored the struggles of nameless villages like the one they lived in; eventually the mother died to her sickness and the father saw fit to have he and his children live in the Mist Continent. This decision while strange to the children, was ultimately met with obedience. 

It was revealed that the reason for this change was because the father made a deal with a weapons dealer in Zhanghai (a business district in the Mist Continent). The deal was that the father would assist in smuggling weapons in the region, and the weapons dealer would vouchsafe his family a better home on the continent. The deal would often have the father out traveling, so that left only Himawari and Kirei to fend for themselves for the most part. This caused Kirei to view his sister as a motherly figure and hold his father in disdain. 

As time passed, the dealer grew more and more dissatisfied with the work the father was providing. The dealer began to threaten the man's children if he didn't start improving. When the father was unable to hold up his end of the bargain, the dealer made good on his word and attacked the siblings. In order to protect her little brother, Himawari used her body to shield Kirei from a fatal blow, sacrificing her life in the process. In a fit of psychotic rage Kirei took one of the swords from the dealer, a Watō, and used it to stab the dealer through the heart during the exchange. That night, the horrified father came home to the corpses of his former benefactor and daughter. Kirei was no where to be found. 

Kirei found a book containing teachings of Watōjutsu in one of the dealer's compounds, and by learning from it he developed a powerful fighting technique, with which he armed himself with a means of survival on the streets of Zhanghai. Using his skills, he made his way into the underworld market in a means of increasing his status and reach. Kirei, however, only wanted a way out of the continent. His plan was to arm himself with tools necessary to survive in the western world, one that he was vastly unfamiliar with. After sometime, he eventually succeeded in gain a way to the western continent. He had lost interest in the East - there was nothing for him in Zipangu, and life on the streets of Zhanghai only brought him pain. 

He began life in the west as a fighter-for-hire and weapons seller as a means of making a living. Soon those around him began to know of and fear his skill. Apparently a curious man named Bartholomew Barker had caught wind of his skills, and gave him an invitation to join his guild. Kirei, looking at it as a means of further increasing his status and resources in the west, decided to take him up on his offer.

[b]Favorite MG[/b]: Usually changes from time to time. But it normally bounces from between the Ryu, Lizardman, and Sea Bishop

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EDIT: Scrapped. Back to the drawing board.  

[@PaulHaynek]