[hider=Kuroguro][center][color=ROYALBLUE][b][h1]Kuroguro[/h1][/b][/color][/center]
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[center][sub]”A journey must end, otherwise its beginning is without purpose. I will find my end no matter how it comes to me.”[/sub][/center]
[color=royalblue][sub][b]A P P E A R A N C E[/b][/sub][hr][/color][indent]
A lean built and well toned man, Kuroguro--as was his appointed name, originally Edgerin Bembe--has not once in his life used an artificial weight to gain the muscle his body presently wears. He is also not a man of exceptional height, the length of his body ceasing at 5’9. Otherwise, Kuroguro’s most notable physical feature are his worn knuckles and the callouses that have formed from his years of field combat.

Dress is nothing with flash, sometimes typical monk robes, and sometimes a [i]yat-sen[/i]. When he is not teaching, Kuro wears the yat-sen. His hair is almost always worn with its long locs wrapped up and are only down when he is meditating. His locs run down his back and stop at his buttocks.[/indent]

[color=royalblue][sub][b]G E N E R A L L Y[/B][/SUB][hr][/COLOR][indent]
[color=royalblue][sub]ORIGIN[/sub][/color] Kaga
[color=royalblue][sub]FORMER FACTION[/SUB][/COLOR] Koga Inc.
[color=royalblue][sub][A.K.A.[/sub][/color] “The Lotus of the East”, “The Shadow of Koga”, “Faceless”.[/indent]

[color=royalblue][sub][b]F I G H T I N G  S T Y L E[/B][/SUB][hr][/color][indent]
[color=royalblue][sub]THE COBRA MAW[/sub][/color] Centered not around striking as little as possible, the Cobra style in the Maw fighting family focuses on evasion and relaxation of the entire kinetic chain. Expend little to no energy and keep one’s base moving with careful steps, typically circling around the opponent but this is, of course, not the only manner of movement present. Slips, head movement, use of the elbows, wrists, and palms for strike deflecting and counter-shifting of an opponent’s weight and stance against them are the core tenets of the Cobra Maw style. Let one’s opponent strike for him. When chained together, the movements are reminiscent of several other families of dance-styled martial arts.

[color=royalblue][sub]SLITHERING MOUNTAIN[/sub][/color] The complimentary style to the Cobra Maw technique, slithering mountain brings its practitioner short, explosive movements when on offense and makes up for what it lacks in outright power in the use of controlling and manipulating an opponent’s ability to gauge the depth and distance of the practitioner and his adversary. One is not ‘ever-moving’, for that is a waste of energy. Rather, before one ever arrives at [i]beginning[/i] of use of the slithering mountain technique, he is taught the limits of human sight and how perception corresponds to angles and space. As such, the Slithering Mountain technique’s sharp, subtle changes in stance and  the positioning of the body aim not to confuse the opponent, rather to manipulate what he sees first before the practitioner glides in to strike.

[color=royalblue][sub]WEAPONS[/sub][/color] None. Kuroguro fights completely unarmed.

[color=royalblue][sub]SKILLS[/sub][/color] I. Unarmed Combat II. Acrobatics III. Stealth.[/indent]

[color=royalblue][sub]BACKSTORY[/sub][/color][hr][indent]

Bembe grew up stealing. Sectioned in the slums of his respective sector, Bembe was a pickpocket of no great order, but was skilled enough at the craft to ensure he and his mother and siblings would eat. Hi ways manifest from his father, with whom Bembe would sometimes travel alongside in search for victims. Morality and compass were not existent.

His talent for picpocketing landed him in jail more times than he could count. As happens to all criminals, careful tact gives way to comfort and comfort finds slop. Soon, he was arrested for more unsuccesful attempts and theft than he was at succeeding at his unsavory profession. A representative--Tokugawa Misashi--of the lords--the Koga--of Bembe's respective fief saw for himself a promotional opportunity if he could conscript the young Bembe into his lords’ ranks.

Thus, Bembe spent the first half of his youth learning how to become more than just a pickpocket; he became a master of subterfuge, assassination, deception, combat (unarmed combat in particular, for weapons left too much a trace). His twenty years of service as the “shadow” of Koga Inc. gained him a reputation--one that, unlike most reputations, is not necessarily associated with him; few have seen the Lotus’ face, fewer have lived to report the sighting.

After two decades of violence, however, his heart and mind have recently begun to shift, and now the Shadow of Koga is looking for a way out and a new start. His ties are deep, and he remains one of the Koga’s most valuable assets; will [i]he[/i] survive and find himself happily retired somewhere, or will he die? This is where his story begins.[/indent][/hider]