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[hider=Giyuko Kihou]
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[colour=Gold]Name:[/colour]
[indent]Giyuko, Kihou [sub]ギ(gi) ユ(yu) コ(ko) キ(ki) ホウ(hou)[/sub][/indent]

[colour=Gold]Ultimate (SHSL) Magician:[/colour]
[indent]A Magician by all accounts, a master of trickery, sleight of hand and mystic arts. Though he has many tricks, his favourite has to be "Putting Casino's out of business". Once upon a time, and the reason he was invited to attend Hopes Peak, he was a famous Magician, despite his age, attending and performing at Live Shows and Birthday Parties across the globe. Perhaps even one of the best Magician's in the world. Of course... that isn't quite the case any longer.[/indent]

[colour=Gold]Gender:[/colour]
[indent]Male[/indent]

[colour=Gold]Appearance:[/colour]
[indent]Kihou stands at around 5 foot 11, with medium length, flowing blonde hair that down his back and over his shoulders. He's handsome, with something of a feminine hint to his countenance, offset with sharp, grey eyes and well built body. Despite what his Talent may suggest, his wardrobe lacks formal clothes in its entirety, instead comprised of jeans, different coloured, unbranded shirts, jackets, and a suspicious number of fingerless gloves. Around his neck are a set of dog-tags, each bearing their own inscription. Upon one reads "Only the cheated can be blamed for their loss.", and the other "Der alte wurfelt nicht".[/indent]

[colour=Gold]Personality:[/colour]
[indent]Professionalism. Tact. Generosity Kihou doesn't have any use for those things. When one thinks of Giyuko Kihou, one might associate him with the once and professional facade he took on - a Magician, to entertain the masses. Bright, cheerful, with warm and bountiful humour and a penchant for the theatrical. They might consider him a pioneer of modern magic, a prodigy despite his young age, who despite his fame never neglected to spare his time for smaller shows, and even the occasional birthday party.

The people that remember him as such would be sorely mistaken. Yes, magic was what brought him to Hopes Peak but the "Magician" the masses so fondly remember wont be found within him. Kihou is an asshole. An arrogant asshole. It can't be said that he loves to flaunt his skills to other people, more so that he was an absolute confidence in himself and his abilities that can seldom be over come, even when he is beaten. He is an upbeat, generally cheerful guy, as much so as that Magician was, but his warm humour and generosity have been erased and replaced with a snarky, dry, and generally dickish attitude and sense of humour.

The one thing that can be relied upon when it comes to his personality is his gambling addiction. It's no longer just something that he indulges in - instead it has sublimated into his being to become a fundamental component of the man that is "Giyuko Kihou". The risk of gambling is the ultimate form of ecstasy to him - the idea of placing your life savings, your worldly possessions, or even your life, on the line of what can almost be described as a game of chance is his pleasure. When it comes to gambling he will never turn down an opportunity to compete with another, no matter his relationship with the person or his own personal biases. Perhaps that love for risks is why he feels so comfortable within the confines of a Killing Game.[/indent]

[colour=Gold]Backstory:[/colour]
[indent]Kihou was young, as most of his fellows were. Like many others it was that time when he discovered Magic. An art form more than anything else, Magic allowed a person to suspend their sense of disbelief and just watch for some time, as the performer before them enacted feats beyond what should be physically possible. He grew up watching people like this, and found himself fooled over and over much like the audience did. It was captivating, pure and simple. He was fascinated.

As time went by, he attempted to become one of these Magicians. At first, like all that try, he failed. Magic didn't seem to be his calling. Slight of Hand, Card Tricks - none of it came naturally to him. It almost felt wrong for him to attempt it. But years passed, and slowly, that craft he fell in love with became his own. Dedication and practice, he came to realise, weren't just things you were told to delay your inevitable failure. Those words had merit. He started doing local birthdays parties at age nine, live shows in the city at age ten, and both across Japan at age twelve. By age fourteen he was doing shows across the globe, and began to amass a sizeable fortune. But then his career went downhill.

It wasn't as though he was losing his touch, and it wasn't as though people didn't want to come and see him. His audience spanned the globe, and everyone related to Magic as a practice wanted to meet him. That wasn't the issue. It was every time he turned on the TV, or went to YouTube, or went to a show. He was a master Magician. But everything he saw during those shows, he already knew how it was done. He could watch and perfectly predict every action, and flourish, and sleight of hand and twist in every single act. There was no suspension of disbelief. No realm of the mystical. No magic. It was boring.

By age fifteen Kihou had developed the gambling addiction that would alter his core being. Magic was boring. At one time there was thrill whenever he watched a trick, and ecstasy at the applause of his audience, but now he felt nothing. He needed a new kind of thrill, a new kind of pleasure - something to detract from the broing monotony of repeated magic tricks that his life had become. Gambling was the answer to that. Risking huge sums of money, his most prized possessions... body parts, his life...

Those kind of risks sparked something new in him. It was the pleasure, the ecstasy, the thrill that he was looking for. His skills as a Magician allowed a smooth transition, allowing for him to prove himself as an excellent gambler, despite his age. No casino would let up the chance to take money from one of the best Magicians in the world, and a kid, no less. Their false beliefs in his naivety cost many a Casino dearly in the year before his selection to attend Hopes Peak. Of course, at the time he was still recognised as a Magician, and not a Gambler. Thus, he was enrolled as such, and although he uses the title, he never considers himself truly a Magician.[/indent]

[colour=Gold]Miscellaneous:[/colour]
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