Post by hollowmaster740 on Jun 1, 2023 3:40:54 GMT
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"Lass, I've been at this as long as anybody. I could tell ya a ton a' stories of the fortune I've lost, the mates I've hurt, the times I was done. But I won't waste your time, because all those stories end the same. I. Kept. Goin'."
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Personal Information
Name: Nagato Haruki
Alias(es): The Beast of the Haruki-kai, The Beast, Boss, Sir, The Bane of Crimelords
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race: Gifted Superhuman
Pitch: An extroverted Irishman preferring to work on his own. Has a lot of swagger, charm and personality that demands respect, and has fun when he fights to kill. Despite his openness, he's intelligent and devious.
Genre: Mystery and Crime, Supernatural and Horror, Action and Adventure
Affiliations: The Hundred Families
Background:
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This young lad, born into the hands of the infamous and honorable Haruki mob family, Nagato was the son of a respectful and organized Japanese mother and a charming and tough Irish father. On the surface, their family was kind, charitable, and hard working, but beneath the surface of the public eye, they were feared, respected and recognized for their advances in smuggling, trafficking, blackmail, kidnapping, torture and especially murder. He was a boy with a lot of energy, a lot of intelligence and a lot of faith in his family's resolve. When he was just 7, he was taught the values of loyalty and integrity along with their code, and his father, Fredrick Haruki, started to train him alongside his best young agents to not only defend himself, but defend the family's strong reputation in the mobster world.
Nagato got his first-hand experience in what their work was when he watched his company's band hunt down and badly overpower a well-known drug lord who was not only selling his goods to naive children, but also worked on a precise human trafficking system around Buster City. From there, his mind grew numb to the sight of violence and he even grew to enjoy watching and even partaking in it himself. He excelled in several fields of his crew's skill tree, greatly surpassing even the most talented of students under his father's wing. From the get-go, his specialty was in assassination, murder, torture and kidnapping, training in many martial arts including Wing Chun, Kickboxing, Karate, Aikido and his favorite: his very dapper practice of Bataireacht, the Irish art of Stick Fighting. Through the next few years, he ensured that his work was done near flawlessly, and it was done so he could keep the peace, with the lifestyle of his "people" preserved for the greater good of this city.
When he reached his teen years, he began to be more extroverted with his personality, keeping his family's business a well-kept secret while having fun in between jobs. It was like father like son, the boy being a tough man with a good heart. There were a lot of women in the families that were swayed by his natural charm, and he was a lovable tease sure, but he wasn't interested in a relationship yet. He was kind about this, though, and he gained a lot of friends in his run. Before he knew it, all his work paid off as he had become his father's right-hand man in the family. It was this stage where he started experiencing the losses that a boss has to deal with, including some theft of funds, betrayals in the ranks, and some friends and even family members lost, including the loss of his mother at the age of 17. It was extremely daunting to him, but he was able to persevere over time.
However, now there was something new to the old man's plans for him now that he had risen to this state. What he didn't know until now was that Frederick was a highly renowned biologist and chemist, secretly researching the products that made up mutant genes. He had witnessed the growth of certain gifted individuals throughout his years and he was close to a breakthrough as to how he could give these 'gifts' to his people. He needs his son to help him. So, for the next few weeks, Nagato became his residential apprentice in terms of not only working to keep his family in check, but also helping his father to find the key to creating superhuman powers. He was able to adapt to some lab work, getting education in chemistry and three main levels of biology, but he had a feeling like something bad was going to happen after Frederick had put into effect the use of more mystically inclined chemicals into the experiments. Then, one day, the latest chemical experiment went horribly awry as it caused an explosion within the lab that caught both him and his father in the blast. The room was a wreck, and the chemicals were mixed and splattered all over them. It was then that they both decided to put the project to bed for good because of how dangerous it was.
Three years had passed since that day, and on the anniversary of his mother's death, he went over to the town cemetery to visit her grave. His father had fallen ill with a type of incurable lung disease, and he was in a state where he wanted somebody to guide him one more time, guide him how he was going to manage the family all by himself when the time comes. He knew he wouldn't get an answer from a tombstone, but he visited anyway. He felt a sense of desperation flow through his body before a sudden surge of energy burst from him all of a sudden, a stream of pain reveling within his form as a dark aura enveloped him. The man witnessed his own shadow twist and bend, stretching and rounding before materializing into a solid mass as the pain slowly faded away. He reached for it, the shadow morphing into a cane for him to bring himself back up from the ground. Nagato wondered what had just happened to him, then it hit him. The chemicals that had splattered on him back then were given enough time to develop inside his body, causing him to mutate. He was now a superhuman with the power to materialize shadows into any form he wished.
So excited, he quickly went through the streets with his gang to inform his father the news of his realization. Down street after street, he rode on until he wade it to his family's headquarters, their mansion. He went inside, and went to his parents' bedroom. Then... the tragic news came to pass. He was too late. His father, Frederick Haruki, had passed away. He was the new head of the family business now, and he had the knowledge and experience to do so, but he needed time to adjust. To get used to this change. He'll be pretty busy now, but he'll do whatever he can to ensure that this life is preserved for everyone he knew. After all, they were his pawns to work with now, his children to keep in line, his sheep to herd. And if any sheep gets sick, it gets either cured or mercifully killed. That's how his mind's going to think from then on.
Even so, he still had his extroverted nature intact and, with his new powers, he'll be able to make an even greater future for his family. As the years went by, after a few hard battles in the field, he discovered his cells had also adapted to recover his wounds much faster than normal, a sort of healing factor. Though he didn't have much control over it as it simply healed everything by itself, he did have plenty of time to train with his shadow mutation, adding it into his martial arts arsenal as a new way for him to fight. He even got himself a custom-made cane sword for himself, specially designed to use both as a blade weapon and as a bludgeon weapon alongside his stick fighting prowess. He's adapted quite well with the world as it was now, and he's only getting started with his movement. His family and trusted ones will live on in a glorious, peaceful life as long as he still stands.
Now, he just needs to worry about a certain... maiden to take in as his wife. This should be a lot of fun for him.
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Appearance
Profile: (Please provide at least one image as a “profile picture” for the character.)
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Description: Nagato is a very menacing yet attractive young man, 6'3" in height and 202 lbs in weight. He has a slim and well toned build with white skin, short black hair and bright green eyes along with a small goatee on his chin. He has two slash scars over his right eye. His clothing includes a brown jacket with dark grey fur along with his tan shirt and black jeans with a dark grey pair of sneakers. He usually wears a tribal necklace with 5 tiger claws around his neck. He also wears a pair of black gloves covering his long pointed nails. On special occasions, he'll wear his father's signature family business suit to fit pretty much any kind of festivity or business matter.
Abilities
Gear (Please describe any and all weapons, armor, gadgets, and other items that your character uses, whether it is relevant to combat or not.)
Cane Blade: His specially designed weapon of choice. He has his martial arts by his side, but there's nothing like a good old blow to the head to shut someone up. It's specially designed to lock up on the hilt if he wants to use it as a beating weapon in combat.
Dual Pistols: Sasha and Natasha, his two guns of family inheritance. They were engraved with the trademark icon and name of the family bloodline and were specially designed internally to never get worn out after multiple uses, so he need not clean them often or discard them. They are usually on his person or nearby.
"The Tools": A bag of special Japanese torture tools built for his operative matters. He uses them when he's dealing with a prisoner in interrogation, and the process in using these tools is absolutely painful. Anyone who gets his treatment either die a slow and agonizing death or live with scars that remind them not to mess with the family.
Family Funds: His incredible source of riches that he uses to his advantage in the city. He has a big budget, normally used to buy silence, loyal followers and weapons and tools for his children.
Abilities:
Martial Arts Expert: Throughout the years, he's specialized in a variety of different martial arts so he can defend himself and his allies should he need to. The list of arts he works in is as follows:
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Wing Chun - A concept-based traditional Southern Chinese Kung fu style and a form of self-defense, that requires quick arm movements and strong legs to defeat opponents. Softness and performance of techniques in a relaxed manner is fundamental to Wing Chun.
Kickboxing - A stand-up combat sport based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate mixed with boxing. Kickboxing is practiced for self-defense, general fitness, or as a contact sport.
Karate - An unarmed martial-arts discipline employing kicking, striking, and defensive blocking with arms and legs. Emphasis is on concentrating as much of the body’s power as possible at the point and instant of impact.
Aikido - A martial art and self-defense system that resembles the fighting methods jujitsu and judo in its use of twisting and throwing techniques in its aim of turning an attacker's strength and momentum against himself.
Bataireacht - A martial art traditionally applied to various forms of stick fighting indigenous to Ireland. Methods of this fighting style have evolved throughout thousands of years in his father's lineage, and he was trained in a couple of different styles, both for mid range and close range combat with his cane.
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Healing Factor: His mutation gave him the supernatural ability to heal and regenerate cells in his body. He's very hard to kill, as his cells will automatically regenerate any wounds that get inflicted onto his body and it doesn't react negatively to organs being separated from the heart or brain like normal humans. The cells being highly active also gives him immunity to disease. However, the healing has it's limits, as though healing himself of the most lethal injuries or apparent death is a good background activity, all of it stems to his brain. If the head or brain gets injured, the cell regeneration can be slowed down to a degree, but it'll stay active as long as the brain is still intact.
Umbramancy: The mystical properties of the chemicals also affected his spiritual body, giving him the power to manipulate the shadows around him and materialize them into solid forms that he can bend to his will. These can take any shape or size he feels necessary so long as there are enough shadowed areas to draw from. He can generate these forms into various constructs like guns and blades, tools, platforms, even clothes and sometimes whole vehicles with enough shadows around him. These constructs can last for a long time until they dissipate, and once he dematerializes his shadow constructs, he'll need to find another source with around the same level of shadows to draw a new construct of the same value.[/align]
