[hider=Ryuga] Name: Ryuga Nicknames: The Swordsman of the Night Parade Age: 24 Gender: Male Rank: Assassin Specializations: Single sword combat, Brawling, Quick thinking. Appearance: [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/c0/89/97c089b92c2dd6012a5e7aa5b8c9b521.jpg[/img] Personality: Ryuga is a rather rude and blunt individual, being born and growing up in an improvised environment, caused him to take a more thug like demeanor though more mellowed out than the common street thug. He also has a more negative view of the world, which causes him to take unexpected situations as in stride, as he is absolutely sure that the world is out for him. Though despite his thuggish demeanor and general cynicism, he has a soft side especially towards his adopted family and is able to quickly connect with lower caste members of society. While he tends to follow his own way and only gives lip service to the code of Bushido to get by in the Shinsengumi, he actually respects those who genuinely follows it. As in his eyes people who can follow such strict rules and are still kicking are genuinely impressive for being able to do so. Biography: Ryuga was not born from a Samurai family, infact he was just a nameless orphan from an improvised area who just so happened to have a talent for the sword, having first picked one up when he was forced to defend himself from a bandit an eventually using it to become a sellsword to survive. He took on many jobs for various people, gaining both fame and infamy as he became known as the Swordsman of the Night Parade. One day, he was seriously injured after a job that had gone wrong and collapsed on the side of the road, he thought it would be the end of his life, but he was saved by a wandering samurai and the three children that the samurai took in. At first he didn’t really know what to make of it, as he had lived a life of selfish survival, but he knew one thing people were after this wandering samurai, owing the samurai his life he joined them on their journey to protect them. He never knew what the samurai did to have assassins after him, he never asked, as a sellsword it was common courtesy not to ask about a person’s past or the reasons behind a job. He just kept on following them and fighting along side the samurai to repel his assassins and the group became something he never had before, a family. However, one day a particularly powerful assassin simply as Yon, was sent after them, who was more than a match for the two of them. The Samurai took a fatal blow for Ryuga and left a brief opening that allowed Ryuga to exploit and take the assassin’s left eye. The assassin retreated after that, having suffered an injury, the assassin decided it wasn’t worth it to risk his life any further. Ryuga took the children under his care, he decided after that encounter continuing to travel wasn’t safe and bought a small home and hired a caretaker in the city, by collecting a few bounties. He joined the Shinsengumi to continue providing for the children, due to the fact that they valued merit over family names, meaning someone like him who had none, could get in. He also didn’t want to have the children he takes care of to get influenced by his line of work as a sellsword and end up on the wrong side of the law. Fighting Style: His style doesn’t have an official name, as he has never been trained in an official sword style. Instead his style is an amalgamation of self training, on the spot improvisations, and moves that he copied from watching other swordsmen, making an extremely fluid hybrid style that is described as fighting a person who has been possessed by a hundred demons. It is both versatile and combined with him throwing out kicks, punches, and throwing knives, it makes it unpredictable. However, it’s greatest weakness is in it’s lack of discipline and lack of focus, which leaves it with no real physical strengths or weaknesses as it doesn’t really specialize in any specific technique, making it a jack of all trades style. Preferred Weapon(s): Katana, Throwing Knives, Iron plated Gentas. [/hider]