Name: "Kikuchiyo"
Species: Vampire
Age: 17
Appearance:
"Gimme a break."Personality: "Kikuchiyo," meaning "Thousand-Generation Chrysanthemum" is the only name under which this surly individual introduces himself. His demeanor, which under most circumstances is stoic and unshakable, is merely a facade. His stony face is a thin veneer under which a seething bloodlust boils. Kikuchiyo is only able to allow his true nature to escape when in the heat of battle, where he can allow his primal nature to run free.
Bio: The person today known as "Kikuchiyo" was born in Tokyo, the bastard son of a Yakuza and Club Hostess. His youth was spent as a delinquent and biker in the rougher parts of the otherwise glamorous city. His entire live he has possessed a warrior's spirit, which he could only express through street brawls and motorcycle battles. In the midst of one of these battles, he was impaled with a sharpened pipe, a mortal wound. As he lay dying in the streets, a passing vampire, attracted by the scent of blood, discovered him. She had been vacationing in Japan, and had been searching the streets for a meal, and found it in this young man. However, rather than be the prey of some supernatural creature, with the last of his strength, he punched the vampire square in the face. Impressed by his willpower (though completely unharmed), the vampire decided to turn Kikuchiyo rather than eat him, thereby saving his life.
He came to learn from his sire that she was actually a member of vampire nobility; no less than a distant relative of the royal family. This, in turn, made him nobility, despite his circumstances. Given both his youth and rough demeanor, his sire decided that he would be wasted on court politics, and instead enrolled him at the Final Academy, both as a plant for the nobility and to train his warrior skills. He was given a slave to serve as his retainer in this time; a young-appearing vampire who had been depowered and forced into servitude for her crimes against the royal family.
Power 1: Kikuchiyo is blessed with the vampiric power of flesh-sculpting. It is, in essence, a form of shapeshifting, but it is far more visceral in nature. He can reshape and manipulate his own flesh, bones and blood to variety of ends. Bones can be shaped into armor and weapons, blood can be turned to a viscous acid, and so on. If he consumes the blood of a person, animal, or any other manner of creature, he can perfectly replicate their form and physical abilities, though not any supernatural powers they may have. His flesh-sculpting can also be used on other people, essentially as a form of biomancy, and is an extremely painful process for the victim.
Power 2: Kikuchiyo's regenerative ability is no less than prodigious. Wounds heal nigh-instantaneously, and there is seemingly little that he cannot recover from. A severed limb can restore itself before it hits the ground. Even sunlight is not a death sentence as it is for most vampires, though Kikuchiyo will merely lock himself into a painful cycle of burning and regenerating until either the sun goes down or his power ceased to function. A stake in Kikuchiyo's heart will stunt his regeneration greatly and paralyze him until it is removed.
Power 3: As a vampire of the mystic East, Kikuchiyo can not only consume blood, but also chi. This allows him to either drain the supernatural power from a person, or by consuming all of their chi, devour their soul entirely. This is his most useful talent when combating supernatural monsters, spell-casters, or the incorporeal. An individual that is "possessed" by some manner of being can be cured of it by having the possessor's chi consumed instead of their own, in essence "eating" the being out of the victim. Kikuchiyo can absorb the skills and memories of those he consumes the chi of, and should he completely devour their soul, all of their power is added directly to his own.
Markings: Has the bite scar from when he was turned on the base of his neck.
Family: His mother, a club hostess, still lives in Tokyo. His vampiric "mother" generally spends her time in Italy with the other members of their bloodline.
Friends: None, aside from the few remaining members of his biker gang in Toyko.
Sentimental Attachment: His cap and coat; he never takes either of them off, and tends to get pissed when they're touched.
Ability: Like any vampire, Kikuchiyo's strength, speed, durability, and senses are all superhuman, and he can enhance his abilities further by consuming blood.
Special Item: A gift from his sire, Kikuchiyo carries Kokorowatari, a cursed odachi, which is specialized to kill demons.
Pet Name: Technically none, though Kikuchiyo calls her Cheri-chan.
Pet Gender: Female
Pet Age: Somewhere in the range of 500.
Pet Species: Vampire (essentially)
Pet Appearance:
"..."Pet Power 1: Material fabrication; Cheri-chan can make just about any mundane, non-mechanical object out of thin air.
Pet Power 2: Blood empowerment; by consuming Kikuchiyo's blood, she can temporarily restore her lost vampire power, which bordered on the legendary when in her prime. However, with the more she consumes, the less under Kikuchiyo's control she becomes. She also advances in physical age as her power increases, with he fully-restored form appearing to be about twenty-seven.
Pet Power 3: Blood Sorcery: Cheri-chan was a sorceress in her heyday, and has access to numerous dark rituals and powers. Her most often-used magic allows her to reside in a pocket dimension within Kikuchiyo's shadow until she is summoned by him.
Markings: Her bite scar is directly over her heart, though she has a second one on her throat from her depowering.
Family: All dead.
Friends: None left.
Sentimental Attachment: Wears an aviator cap and turns violent on anyone that tries to take it off.
Other: Kikuchiyo has dominance over her through a psychic bond formed during her depowering ritual, which places him as the master in the archetypal vampiric synergy of master and servant.
