Name: Daijuji Kuzaku
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Two Sword, Two GunCanon, AU, or OC?: Canon
Universe of Origin: Deus Machina Demonbane
Personality: A self-proclaimed "knight in shining armor," Kuzaku envisions himself as a hero of justice and a protector of the innocent, and lots of other, similar-sounding descriptions. He has a rather juvenile and underdeveloped moral code, but he clings to it with stubborn determination none the less. Quite sure of his status a powerful sorcerer and warrior, he tends to get disproportionately angry when it is suggested that he is less powerful than his predecessors. Despite his immaturity, Kuzaku does genuinely wish to help people, and make the multiverse a safer and happier place. He pushes himself hard to become stronger to better achieve his lofty goals, and his stubbornness is simply a sheen over his steely willpower.
Abilities/Weapons: Kuzaku is a strange and admittedly sort of disturbing hybrid: half human, and half grimoire. Son of the world's most powerful sorcerer, Daijuji Kurou, and the most powerful grimoire, Al Azif, Kuzaku is a fusion of the two that is both at once. As a grimoire has spells written in letters on its pages, Kuzaku has spells written in his DNA. As such, he functions with all of the power of a sorcerer without the need to wield a grimoire.
As a living "copy" of Al Azif, Kuzaku is less powerful as a grimoire than his mother, but still quite powerful all the same. He possesses superhuman strength and speed of a realized sorcerer without the need for any sort of transformation, but he lacks the additional benefits of his father's Magius Style form. Among the many spells within his body are the abilities to summon the twin spell canons, Cthugha and Ithaqua, harness the powers of Atlach-Nacha, cast illusions using the Mirror of Nitocris, shield himself with the Elder Sign, conjure the sorcerous Scimitar of Barzai, and manifest the dual sabres, Lloigor and Zhar. In addition, he is skilled in the art of blood sorcery, which can be applied to such ends as healing and rejuvenation, raising the dead, or manifesting one's nightmares. One spell written within him continues to elude him: the Shining Trapezohedron. Despite his inability to summon this ultimate artifact, he continues to work at it, practicing to channel its unspeakable power.
Finally, he is the master of the Deus Machina Demonbane Two Sword, the successor to the almighty god of artifice piloted by his parents. As sorcerer and grimoire both, he can both power and pilot his Deus Machina, a benefit bestowed by his unique lineage. When piloting the tremendous war machine, Kuzaku can cast the same spells that he could on foot, only amplified to a colossal scale by the Deus Machina's Cor Leonis drive. He can also manifest the mecha's unique abilities, the Lemuria Impact, the spell drives Timaeus and Critias, and the Shantak Wing flight system.
Backstory: After the guardians of humanity, Daijuji Kurou and Al Azif saved the multiverse from the schemes of Nyarlathotep, they settled down together and started a family. Their son, Kuzaku, should have been a physical impossibility, but liberal application of magic allowed his birth to come to fruition. For a time, they lived as a peaceful, loving family. However, this peace was short-lived, as the Outer Gods once again began to wreak havoc upon reality, Kuzaku's parents set off into the depths of the multiverse to wage war against them, and never returned. Kuzaku was put in the care of the Hadou Group, his parents' oldest allies, and though he was treated like a prince among them, he found them to be a poor substitute for his true family.
Embittered by having been "abandoned" by his parents, Kuzaku trained intensely to match their power, and cooperated with the Hadou Group (the creators of the original Demonbane) to produce a newer, updated model, personalized to his own liking, Demonbane Two Sword. In continuing his training, Kuzaku hunted down rogue sorcerers and malign deities across the universe, soon enough gaining the nickname of "Two Sword, Two Gun," due to his signature dual-wielding fighting style. Kuzaku hopes to master the arcane arts enough to be able to travel back in time to "settle things" with his parents.
Faction: UMMA
