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Yakumo Ryusei; Half-Dragon
Topic Started: Jun 22 2007, 03:45 PM (73 Views)
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Character Name: Yakumo Ryusei

Age: 237 (appears 23 in age)

Species: Half-Dragon

Job: Waiter by day, Assassin by night

Relationships:

Family: He is not particularly close with his other family members, despite the tendency of dragons to band together due to their scarce numbers. The reason for this is because they tend to be a bit more of what he would describe as money-mongers than he would like.

Physical Description: refer to picture…his physical appearance is basically that except for the fact that he doesn’t generally swing around his swords all day. The swords are explained in the skills section.

Personality: Although by Dragon reckoning, he is still nearly a baby, his 237 years on Earth were not spent just fooling around and wasting time. He has seen and experienced many things, and is thus very intelligent. Not only is he intelligent and experienced by human standards, but the legendary patience of dragons has also rubbed off on him. Even when encountering circumstances that he has never encountered before, he will not loose his calm and will instead try to break the situation down into small workable bits. He also has an obsession with “fair maidens” and shiny expensive-looking objects, doubtlessly influenced by his Dragon ancestors. Unlike his ancestors, however, he does not think himself superior to the other humans around him. This lack of a sense of egomaniacal self-confidence is due to both his mix of Chinese Dragon in his blood, and the numerous times he has had certain things explained to him by the humans, though this was because the Dragons considered such topics too trivial. He is hardworking and honest, though sometimes the devious nature within his Dragon blood peeps through and will influence him to pull some sort of prank or another.

Skills
 
Martial Arts
 
Yakumo is a skilled martial artist, skilled in many forms of hand-to-hand as well as weapon fighting. Due to his vast experience and time spent on earth, he has fully mastered all of these forms of fighting. As such, he can switch between his vast array of fighting styles at will, creating a unique, powerful, and frightening brand of MMA. His prowess is not to be underestimated. Mixed with his enhanced reflexes due to his Draconic heritage, he is truly a deadly foe.

Dragoon Ascension
 
Due to his being a half-dragon (and quite the multi-cultural one at that), Yakumo can change his form to take on certain qualities of the dragons that he is a descendent of. He can not control this power completely yet, and may sometimes unwittingly activate his power or lose control over it and revert back to his original human form. When he transforms, his skin becomes a shimmering sky blue and is covered with dragon scales; his eyes will start glowing a dark, pulsing purple; and claws will grow out of his hands and feet. His ears will also elongate to a point, giving him an Elvish appearance. He still remains mostly humanoid in form, and can keep this form for however long he wishes. In this form, all of his physical qualities are boosted much beyond their already heightened state (due to his training in the Martial Arts). However, the longer he keeps this form, the longer he will have to rest before reactivating this form again, though his human form’s original physical qualities will be unaffected.

Wings
 
In his Dragoon form, he grows a pair of wings that span a total of 6 feet. These wings are sturdy and can be used to pummel people during flight while sustaining high speed flight. When on land, the wings fold away behind him so as to not serve as a hindrance to his movement. They can also fold around in front of him, covering him like a blanket, to act as a strengthened shield while blocking.

Tail
 
He also grows a tail. Like male Chinese dragons, this tail has several weapons attached and can be used as a whipping weapon. When Yakumo returns to his human form, these weapons fall onto the ground and combine into two short swords. After about a day, however, they disintegrate and become nothing more than a memory. The stronger he becomes, the longer these weapons will last.

Skin
 
Like all Dragons, Yakumo’s skin is blessed, or cursed, with the innate protective abilities of Dragons. It has a strong resistance to the elements and physical attacks. Various forms of magic are also ineffective against it. However, this skin also is extremely weak against attacks based on Lightning. When transforming back into his human form. The scales that cover his body flake off, forming a sky blue cloud of leaf-like objects that fade away before reaching the ground. However, sometimes, a stray scale or two remain behind, hardening into precious sapphires.

Breath
 
As all other dragons, Yakumo has a breath attack. Apparently, he was blessed with the ability to cast Dragon type Cold spells. He is able to “jet” out high speed currents of icy breath. The older he becomes, the stronger this attack becomes. This breath can, depending on the resistance of the target, potentially cause instantaneous hypothermia, or even death. To unalive objects, he is capable of freezing them into solid blocks with one direct blast. However, it still generally takes around 4 or 5 direct hits in the same place for the ice magic to thoroughly permeate through live targets’ defenses. However, Yakumo has also managed to make a variation to his breath attack, mixing his minimal Fire-type dragon blood with his predominant Ice-type traits to gain some limited control over water. He is capable of making a continuous stream of either ice or water, which do not seem dependent upon his ability to keep blowing air out.


History:
Yakumo was born in Switzerland and raised in a small hovel. He did not know that both his mother and father were dragons and lived in ignorance until the age of 6. Before that, he lived his life out like any toddler would – playing and eating and sleeping his head off. At the age of 2, his parents sent him off to preschool, where he had his fun. Occasionally, a child would go crying to the teacher because some “scehwy air fwoze [his/her] finger”. This was Yakumo unwittingly using his powers, but not only did the teachers never report this, the children were never hurt at all, as all it was was a thin layer of frost. At the end of the day, his parents would come home from work, pick him up, and go home, where he ate and played and slept some more. And thus, his redundant, but peaceful, life went on for 4 more years.

One day, his parents never came to pick him up from preschool. His teachers kind-heartedly escorted him back to his “home”, or rather to what was left of his home. Instead of a hovel, they found 2 lizard-like beings with stakes through their heart and heads cut off, alongside with several people in strange-looking armor lugging off chest after chest of gold coins. His teachers gripped onto his shoulders tightly and pulled him into an embrace. They were just as confused as he was about what was happening, but the fact remained that this young child had just witnessed one of the most disturbing scenes he had ever seen in his life. As they turned to leave, Yakumo got one more peek at the lizards. Their scales were slowly and elegantly peeling off their bodies. As the door of the car closed, the lizards started appearing more and more human. As the car drove away, he finally saw who they were – it was his parents dressed in their best change of clothes…the change of clothes they always wore when they were about to go eat at the local, and only, restaurant. He stared at the car that the men in weird suits had gotten into. They had turned out of the driveway and were headed in the opposite direction. He saw the heads that were bumping about and tied to posts by their hair and a crimson rope – his parents’ blank yet painful gazes stared off into the night sky. The car that the teachers and he were traveling in suddenly exploded in a burst of blue-ish light and thermite. The men had planted a bomb in the car when they weren’t looking. Yakumo was the only one who had survived, luckily activating the Dragon Magic in his blood at a critical moment.

Since then, he has wandered about the world for 101 years while working a few odd jobs here and there and finding secluded places where he could practice his newlyfound powers in relative privacy. Eventually, after mastering this transformation to some degree, he decided to go to a place where dragons were held in more of a benevolent light – Japan. There, he fit into society well, as Japanese females seemed to particularly enjoy foreign men. He was constantly moving around, though he was constantly studying the Martial Arts from their respective masters. Eventually, he wandered into Ris’Mos, and got a job as a waiter. However, deciding to keep all options open, he advertised himself as an assassin for hire, which eventually earned him the reputation of being one of the most effective agents out there.
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