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Name: Kachiro
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Role: Hunter

Appearance: Kachiro is scrawny and thin, with a build more akin to a seeker than a hunter. He stands straight at 6'2", but he slouches slightly, so this is hard to discern. He has wiry limbs, long legs, and spindly fingers, good for running and climbing. Kachiro has long chestnut hair framing an ovular face, with tan skin and bronze eyes. He has slight stubble decorating his cheeks and jaw. There are three long scars across his chest from a cougar that he killed during his apprenticeship. He now wears its pelt as a cloak, along with pants from rabbit and raccoon skins and light sandals made from grass, wood, and bits of fur. He carries his spear with him, with a bundle of his throwing spears secured with twine to his back, and a small hide bag on his pants.

Personality Traits: Kachiro is quiet, confident, and cunning. As a hunter, he likes exploring and ambushing small animals, and in conversation, he does much the same thing. He is clever and skilled in conversation and rhetoric. He is quite introverted, enjoying solo hunting trips and spending time by himself. Kachiro is open to romantic relationships, but is aware that the closer in family you are with your mate, the more likely the children will be druids (genetically abnormal). He respects druids as a whole for what they do for the tribe, but doesn't want his children to become druids themselves, as he wants to maintain a close parental bond within the customs of the tribe. Kachiro places importance on customs and the culture of the tribe, and enjoys the ceremonies and rituals the tribe does. He admires his uncle, and his father. His mother, Kaa, passed away due to post-childbirth illness. His father, Chiro, after becoming to old to maintain his hunter duties, became a firetender, and Kachiro makes an effort to spend time with him.

Special Skills: Kachiro has sharp eyes and a good sense of balance. He is not very physically strong, but is quite agile, both in intellect and in movement. He is good at setting traps and ambushes, and is adept at using both his stabbing spear. He enjoys using his throwing spears, long thin lances of cedar whittled to a point, and has brought down deer with them before.

History: Kachiro was a quiet child. He was dutiful, always listening to the firetenders and providing help where he could. He liked to mimic certain words and phrases that the firetenders and adults of the tribe used, leading him to speak like an adult. He was always clever, though not necessarily mainipulative; he dislikes tricking other people, and has always disliked bullying, even when he was with the firetenders.

Ever since Kachiro saw his father use a spear alongside Chief Magura to kill a bear, he was enamoured by it; its simplicity, its duality, and its elegance. He knew he wanted to use a spear, so with that goal in mind, he trained. He trained tirelessly with whatever sticks he could find, and asked his father for help whenever he could. When he became old enough, he apprenticed as a hunter, and learned how to use traps. Still, he trained, and by 17, the hunters decided he was good enough to be taken on a journey.

The reason for the journey was simple: a cougar was killing game and stealing food from the hunters. It was fast and strong, and Chief Magura wanted it dead. So Kachiro, Chiro, and a few others set out. The journey was not long, but it was the dead of winter, and when night came the air was deathly cold. Kachiro sat shivering with his father and the other hunters, and decided he had to urinate. He went some way into the woods, but in doing so he came face to face with the very same cougar that they were set to track down! Knowing from his father that running away was useless, Kachiro picked up his spear and got ready. 

The fight was gruesome. Kachiro managed to land several glancing blows, and had pierced the cougar's ribcage. However, Kachiro was not entirely unscathed, as the cougar managed to land a long blow across his chest that bled quite heavily. Woozy from blood loss and knowing that this was last chance, Kachiro rammed his spear through the cougar's mouth, then passed out. Upon regaining consciousness, he found that he had successfully killed the cougar, and that he had survived, although by a thread; the other hunters managed to apply enough snow and ice to staunch the bleeding so Kachiro could be brought back to the tribe. This was thought of as a miracle.

Following his fight, Kachiro had the shapers make the cougar's hide into a cloak, and one of the ribs into a curved skinning knife. After becoming a full hunter, Kachiro finally became satisfied with his spear skills. Since he accomplished that goal, he is looking for another one.
 
Relationships: Nephew of Magura, son of Chiro and the late Kaa. Admires Tsuka, would like to get to know him better, maybe become friends.

Other: His five-foot long spear is hewn from heavy oak, with a slightly crystalline rock filed to a sharp edge affixed to one end. He also has throwing lances, two feet long, which he throws by hand. He carries a bundle of twine, a skinning knife made from cougar bone, and a few especially sharp rocks with him, in a small hide bag.

Kachiro is interested in teaching Killik how to set traps for small game as a hunter. Killik peaked his interest, after seeing him use a spear.
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