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   "Crack the Earth, God's of thunder. Man and beast will be torn asunder."
   

Name(s): Kensei Murakami
Nickname(s): Raging Bolt
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Birthday: October/6/X761
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Class: Mystic
Alignment: Neutral Good
Rank: D-Class
Guild: Sabertooth
Guild Tattoo: Right pectoral- Black
Face Claim: Sakata Gintoki- Gintama

II. APPEARANCE

Height: 6'0"
Weight: 175 lbs
Hair: Silver
Eyes: Red
General Appearance: Kensei is an over average height young man with a lean athletic build, not overly muscular, though he has defined abs, and biceps. Kensei has natural wavy and silver hair and half-lidded red eyes. His usual dress would be a black shirt and pants with red linings, and a white yukata (a summer kimono) with light blue patterns worn sloppily, draped over his left shoulder. This is what he can normally be seen wearing at all times, even during the winter seasons.
Extra: None

III. PERSONALITY

Personality: Kensei gives the outward appearance of laziness. Often being seen laying around the guild doing nothing. Though this is truly a guise to deter unwanted attention, not unwanted work. Kensei is a truly hard worker, but prefers to give off the appearance of a lazy bum.

Kensei has a funny side, and many child like personality traits that given his age he should have grown out of. Kensei has often referred to himself as being a child in a mans body (even though he is all of 18 years old). He has a love of sweets and manga that could rival any child's. Most notably his favorite sweets are usually in drink forms, such as over sugary soda's and chocolate milk. He has been warned by doctors several times he is on the road to diabetes but cares very little.

His funny side can vary from small jokes, to sexual innuendos, and suggestive remarks toward the female members of his guild, along with the females in the town in general. His jokes toward the males are usually pranks pulled on them. Thumbtacks in their chairs, hot coal in their beds, and buckets of water over doorways. Small "harmless" pranks only meant for a good laugh, at someone else's' expense.

He enjoys alcohol, namely sake, but he has such a low tolerance, that means he can become quite a handful for friends, and a nightmare for the females in the surrounding area. Though once he has finally passed out or fallen asleep you won't be hearing from him the next day.

Kensei is an avid meat eater, usually staying away from most vegetables due to what he says is a lack of flavor, and they just look plain nasty.

Kensei has a fear of doctors, this fear spreads from basic doctors to dentists. Though he has always taken care of his dental hygiene, and his person hygiene but fears bad news when going to doctors so he chooses to avoid them at all costs unless he is forced.

Kensei has been called a coward many times in his life because of the fact that he will back out of fights he sees as pointless. Though if the conflict involves someone he cares for, then he will fight tooth and nail to defend his friends, going so far as to kill the person in question who wishes to do them harm.

Kensei is deathly afraid of ghosts, and other things of the paranormal like. For the sole reasoning when he was younger the neighborhood bullies locked him in a "haunted" house and played pranks on him the entire night to give the house the appearance of being haunted.

Despite his appearance and initial behavior, Kensei has a great amount of pride and confidence in himself and his abilities. He takes it upon himself to rescue or avenge not only his comrades and friends but also people he barely knows.

Likes:

• Sweets
  
• Alcohol
  
• Women
  
• Manga
  
• Naps
  
• Food
  
• Karaoke
  

Dislikes:

• Vegetables
  
• Healthy snakes
  
• His hair
  
• Ignorant people
  

Motivations: Kensei is motivated by loss. Kensei experienced a lot of loss as a small child. He lost his older brother and father to civil war. Leaving him with nothing but memories of going to bed at night and hearing his mother weep relentlessly over the loss of her oldest son and her husband. That instilled a desire to become strong, and to protect what he had left, and what he will have as far as friends and possessions in the future.
Fears:

• Ghosts
  
• Doctors
  
• Dentists
  

Positive Traits:

• Enhanced Strength (+3): Your character is slightly stronger than other characters when it comes to physical strength.
  
• Fortitude (+3): You are tougher than normal. You can take more hits than the regular Joe.
  
• Swift (+3): You are fleet of foot. When running, you move three times your normal speed.
  

Negative Traits:

• Allergies (-1): You are afflicted with allergies. These may be something as simple as hay fever, but the reactions to such will result in something like a huge bout of sneezing and gasping. You must mention this allergy in your character application. (Allergic to Pollen)
  
• Ambitious (-1): You crave power. Money is nice, but being in charge of other people is your favorite thing. You are likely to be brought down by attempting a risky grab for power and failing. Even when deals are risky you will give in and agree most of times.
  
• Curiosity (-1): You're a naturally curious person and you find mysteries of any sort irresistible. In most circumstances, alas, your curiosity overrides your common sense.
  This forces you to investigate something unusual, even if it looks like it might be dangerous.
  
• Dark Secret (-1): You have some sort of secret that, if revealed, would make you an outcast amongst your society and companions. While this secret is on your mind at all times, it will come up in topics only once in a while, but when it does, watch out! (At a young age he had used his magic to hurt others for money because his father and brother died leaving only him to fend for himself and his mother.)
  
• Hedonistic (-1): You love a good time. You party too much, drink too much, and eat too much. You have trouble resisting an invitation to join someone in a drink and sometimes shirk your duty if offered a more enjoyable time elsewhere. Whenever a good time is presented you let your guard. You're also not capable to resist seduction of any sort. It's just not in your nature to resist such opportunities.
  
• Intolerance (-1): You have an irrational dislike of a certain thing. It may be an animal, a class of person, a situation, or just about anything at all. Note that some dislikes may be too trivial or ridiculous to count--a dislike of Bavarian-crème-filled donuts or mechanical pencils, for example, has no real dramatic value and will not be allowed. (Despises those who don't care about the well being of others as long as they aren't affected.)
  
• Lecherous (-1): You have a lusty nature and a tendency to pursue the pleasures of the flesh. A woman or a man (however your tastes run) is an almost irresistible temptation to you. You give in to these temptations easily.
  
• Misfortunate (-1): Lucky breaks are something that happen to other people. Your luck isn't terrible; you wouldn't have survived as long as you have if it were. It just isn't very good. Look at it this way: if you need some blind luck to get you out of a sticky situation, expect to be sticking around for a while.
  
• Short Attention Span (-1): You have little patience, causing you to have difficulty concentrating on repetitive tasks.
  

IV. MAGIC

Magic: Lightning Magic
Caster or Holder: Caster
Description: Lightning magic is classified as elemental magic. The user of lightning magic may either cast it from their body, or summon it from the sky. The user harnesses the electrons in their body and in the atmosphere to cast and summon lightning. Lightening magic has strong offensive and decent defensive capabilities along with some supplementary capabilities. Lightning magic if used correctly can buff both speed and strength. Lightning magic can be molded into weapons, used as projectiles, and cause massive explosions in the right circumstances. Lightning magic can deal burn damage due to the high temperature of electricity, not only can it deal burn damage, but at high enough levels of lightning magic it can be used to trap and paralyze enemies. Though only temporarily.
Strengths: Lightning magic has several uses and strengths all of which will be listed in great detail. If one can think of it, and has the electrons and magic energy to make it, can be done. On the projectile front, He can cast bolts of lightning from his hands, finger tips, and even his mouth if he were desire to do so. This blasts of electricity can be molded into several different entities such as animals, mythical creatures, and so on and so forth. For example, if he want to make a lightning spell that resembled a dragon he could do so. On the supplementary/buff front of things, he can coat his body in the electrons in the air/atmosphere or use the ones in his body to over charge the muscles in his body. This allows him to enhance his strength/speed for a short amount of time. If he were to desire to make traps with this magic he could do so, by harnessing the electrons in the body and air, he can throw down rune like traps, when sprung they will shock and temporarily paralyze the enemy. On the defensive front he is able to project the electrons from his body, as well as pull them from the air/atmosphere in order to make defensive spells to shield himself from on coming attacks. Lightning magic does possess a few defensive capabilities but it's real strength lies in it's offensive capabilities. As everyone knows, electricity is hot so therefore it is also able to deal substantial to minor burn damage depending on the rank of the spell used. It has a natural strength against water magic and metal magics, considering both are nothing but one giant conductor for the electricities current.
Weaknesses: As mentioned above, Lightning magic is far more useful in an offensive role, though it has defensive capabilities you will sometimes be better off casting a spell at the oncoming one in hopes of neutralizing it. For some stronger spells to be potent you will need to pull electrons from the atmosphere/clouds. On days where there are no clouds, the electrons in the users body may not be enough, and they could end up shocking themselves if they are not careful. Lightning magic has a natural weakness to earth magic, considering earth is not a conductor of electricity, if an earth mage were to cast a spell there is a strong possibility it would still be able to pass through the defensive spell that was cast in order to block it. The greatest weakness to all regular elemental magics, are the slayers that can eat their magics. For example the Lightning Dragon and God Slayers would have no problem dispatching a lightning mage. Lightning magic is also weak against wind magic. These are the weaknesses of lightning magic.

V. HISTORY

History: Kensei was born in a small village on the outskirts of Balsam. His father was a farmer, and his only sibling, his older brother would help his father with the crops and bringing them to town to sell. It was a peaceful life for the most part, not a care in the world. But not everything stays that way. Hardly anything ever stays the same. It was on that fateful day, that everything changed. His village had decided to go to war with another small village that neighbored them. His father and brother were apposed to the war, but had no choice but to participate.

The war was bloody, hardly anyone survived shy of a handful of a few people. Before the war reached his home, he and his mother took shelter in Balsam. Praying that everything would be alright in the end, not knowing the horrors of what would await them. Then the day came as the dreaded knock on their inn room door came. It was a friend of the family, he came bearing bad news. Both his brother and his father had been slain in the war. Which left Kensei and his now widowed mother without a way to provide for themselves.

When the day came to burry the two of them, Kensei would  cry at the gravesite for hours. Violently weeping over the loss of his father and brother. As the weeping continued, storm clouds began to roll in. The harder he cried the more clouds came, until lighting struck by the gravesite. Kensei of course startled jumped back a bit. The sky was clear moments before they burial took place. His mother was convinced that he was the one who called down the lightning. She enrolled him at a local magic school to test him to see if he had the ability to use magic. Upon concentrating enough he was able to call down bolts of lighting, and fire bolts of electricity from his palms.

He saw this as an opportunity to make money. So he would wait until it grew dark outside, and send paralyzing jolts of electricity through those who passed by, he would steal their jewels and bring them back to his mother to help pay the rent. Until the day he found his mother's suicide note. Apologizing to him for leaving him like this but she couldn't go on anymore. Now alone and without a care taker he wandered the streets causing trouble until he was apprehended by the rune knights and given over to the Sabertooth guild to be looked after and taught how to use his magic for the correct purposes. He has resided in that guild since he was a small child, becoming very loyal to both masters.