Real Name: Akara Shi'Nise
Alias: Ninja
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Occupation: Benihana's Restaurant Chef (The one that cooks in front of you)
Physical Appearance: 5'4", 140 pounds of lean muscle. Black hair kept clean and well maintained, pulled into a ponytail at the top of the back of the head, the ponytail reaches the middle of his back. If his hair is ever let down, the hair will reach to the small of his back. Jade green eyes. A tattoo that covers his entire back of a Gold Dragon, the tail sweeping across his right and resting at his navel, the head resting on his left shoulder, and the wings wrapping themselves around his left side and right shoulder. Numerous battle scars, but they are all light because he takes care of each wound medicinally
Costume: Stereotypical Ninja Suit, complete with full head and face mask. From the top down, there are two tantos (Japanese knives) in a shoulder holster under each arm. A pair of razor sharp katanas strapped to his back (Which is atypical of Ninja, who use the ninja-to). Two throwing knives strapped to his wrists. Four 6-point shuriken hidden in his belt. Two combat knives strapped one to each thigh. Two throwing knives hidden in each soft boot (yes, that's 4).
Skills: Melee Combat, thrown weapons, and stealth. He definitely knows how to cook, but that's not wholly useful in combat. Swimming, non-electronic Breaking and Entering, and mimicry. Languages known are Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and English.
Equipment/Resources: For equipment, see the costume section. Resources, he makes some decent tips at Benihana's restaurant (If you've never heard of it, google it. Neat restaurant). He doesn't expend a lot of resources when he does his vigilante stuffs, so he doesn't need a rich billionaire wife or anything.
Weaknesses: He has a major disdain for ranged weapons, other than thrown weapons like daggers or shuriken. So, if you catch him from afar, then you've got him at a major disadvantage. His other major flaw is his loyalty, if you get it, then it's permanent. He will attempt to move the heavens and earth to ensure the safety and well-being of those he is loyal to.
Personality: Extremely disciplined. Everyone gets verbal respect, even if they've shown they don't deserve it. He is slow to acquire friends, but when he does, they become like part of his family, and you don't mess with his family. The same goes for enemies, slow to acquire them, but once you're an enemy, your story has a definite ending. Either acquaintance or friend, if you show aptitude or skill in something, he assumes you don't need help unless you ask. He feels that guns are the weapons of the weak, and that getting up close and personal is the only good way of winning a fight. He has a twisted sense of honor, not fully the code of the Bushido (Samurai) and not fully the ways of the Ninja, but somewhere in between. When he gives his word, he will do most anything to keep it, so he gives it rarely.
Base of Operation: He lives in the Japantown part of Champion City, and he works out of the personal garage that comes with the apartment.
Biography: Akara comes from a long line of Ninja, or so he has been told. The community he grew up in was his family, so he doesn't know who his actual mother and father are, but everyone in the community was instilled with a sense of family for everyone else. Since he could walk, he's been trained in martial arts, learning how to evade, and learning the weapons that would define his craft. At the age of 3, he started learning with wooden weapons, but by the age of 5, he knew nothing but live ones. His life in the community was not one of diversion, but a hard one of trickery, deception, and combat.
Through the early part of his life, from the age of 9 when he took his first mission, to the age of 14, he was very active in his family and community. He lived for the people there, devoting his life to their cause. And it was just that, 'their' cause. He never quite adopted the ideals of being a mercenary. By the age of 14, he finally realized that he didn't want to be an assassin for hire to the highest bidder. That just wasn't his way any more. So, he took a mission into greater Tokyo and botched it up on purpose. He got himself arrested, which is a write-off offense in his community. You get caught, there's no coming home. You're also expected to 'forget' about where you came from. Any sign of breaking your loyalty will get you killed.
He finally got out of prison at the age of 20, having finished his schooling in prison. He bounced from job to job, learning the ways of cooking and eventually landing a job as a chef's assistant when he was 24. For two years, he absorbed everything that the chef would and could teach him, so he attempted to strike it out on his own, which failed miserably. So, he decided to head to America, where opportunities were more abundant. Like his job career, he bounced from city to city until he finally landed a job at Benihana's in Champion City as a chef. During the last few years, he has mastered his art of being a chef and has become that restaurant's Lead Chef.
Two years ago, his girlfriend and he got engaged. They celebrated with a few drinks and decided to walk back to their apartment together. On the way home, they were mugged by at least a dozen people (Akara could have been seeing double due to their celebrating). This led him to be attacked and pinned down by three men, then hog-tied with a rope around his head being forced to watch. They then proceeded to enjoy his fiancee, taking turns until they had their fill of her. The damage was extensive enough to cause her death before the ambulances arrived.
The police said that nothing could be done, because if you can't identify the men, then you can't convict them. After a few months, the investigation was dropped. This sent Akara over the edge. So he began to go patrolling in his old outfit. The Ninja was born. Over the course of the last year and a half, Akara believes that he's gotten his fiancee's rapists, but he's realized that they are just the tip of the iceberg. More work needs to be done.