Full Name: Taro Kagete
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Element: Learned techniques and skills by observing each, but uses none.
Birthplace: Shino Village, Earth Kingdom
Position: Wandering Swordsman
Personality: Taro has a strong sense of justice and nobility born from the extortion of his village by bandits as a child. He believes that those who willfully bring others to harm must be in turn face his blade. However, despite his noble personality and intentions, he maintains a humble disposition when speaking with others, often downplaying his actions or abilities. While he was a better warrior than the bandits, and certanly stronger than any of the farmers. This false notion of strength, along with his ambitions of justice cause him to be naive at times. Jumping into a dangerous situation recklessly in order to protect or save someone.
Abilities: Taro relies on speed, agility and skill in combat rather than overbearing brute force. He plans and constantly runs tactical options through his head while he fights, waiting for an opening before he strikes his enemy. While he has the potential to be a great warrior, and has already accomplished realatively impressive feats, he is still young and does not possess much experience in battle. His only true enemies thus far have been bandits and vagrants. Which are not very difficult to fight in comparison to a trained soldier.
Appearance: Taro has grey eyes, not light blue, but grey, almost colorless. His skin is a light tan color and he has a scar on his back that runs from his right shoulder to the bottom of the left side of his ribs. His short hair is very light brown, that shifts to a dark blonde in the sun. He is 6' 0" tall and is thin from his meager lifestyle, but muscular from his training. He wieghs 170 lbs. Taro wears traditional earth nation clothes, with green, samurai-esque scaled steel armor with yellow trim that only covers his upper torso. He also wears a red bandana around his right arm, and has kore gauntlets and tekko hand guards.
Weaponry and Other Gear:
Name: The Divine Twins, Hogosha and Koeken (Protector and Guardian)
Type: Dai Katana and Wakizashi
Material: Master forged, multi-folded refined steel
Description: Hogosha is a five foot long two handed sword akin to a katana. It has a long grip that is bound with strips of dark brown leather, the rectangular handguard is covered in green cloth and the pommel is an irregular conical shape, with the steel revealed. Koeken is a smaller katana-like sword, only three and one fourth feet long. It is Hogosha's smaller twin and can be effectively used with one or two hands.
Abilities: Upon the swords' completion, Miaru bragged that, when combined with Taru's conviction, the swords would be able to "Rend the earth and split the sky in two." That claim is actually believable to anyone who has used the swords. Because of the superior craftsmanship of the weapons, they are nearly indestructable and hold a sharper than razor edge through the most brutal beatings. This edge can slice through lesser weapons with ease, even boulders and stones can be hemmed in two by a slash from either sword.
Creator: Lifetime swordmaster Miaru Kagete, and his apprentice Taro Kagete.
History: Taro was born in Shino village as the son of an earth kingdom farmer, and he was raised to to just that. Farm. His village had never done anything of any importance, very few of their ancestors even fought in the great war. They were farmers and they wanted to live a simple life. So when the bandits came, no one resisted. They claimed Shino as theirs, and acted like the rulers of their own sad little kingdom. This is the world that Taro grew up in. He struggled along with his family, and village, to appease the impirical demands of their overlords. But, unlike the rest of the village, Taro was born with a spark of resistance, a fragement of defiance that grew into a flame that drove him to fight for a better world. Taro knew that he couldn't fight them on his own, he didn't have the skill. But no one in the village could teach him, so when Taro was eight, he was kicked out of the village by the bandits, who overheard him talking to his friend about fighting back.
For two weeks, Taro wandered the countryside until he eventually collapsed in the dust from hunger, fatigue and dehydration. Luckily for Taro, he was found by a hermit who lived nearby. The old man took him in and tended allowed him to rest. When Taro woke up, he found himself in a strange house, and partially due to his lack of food and water, didn't question it. The old man walked in soon after he woke up, and introduced himself as Miaru Kagete. The old man went on to tell Taro how lucky he was to be alive, and asked where the boy came from. Taro tolk the man his story, and how he was exiled from his village. Miaru saw Taro's potential as a peacemaker and bandit hunter, and offered to train the boy in his art. Taro jumped at the offer and couldn't wait to get started, despite Miaru's warnings about the difficulty of the training.
Miaru raised Taro as his son and taught him how to fight with a weapon that was unusual in the area. A dai katana and wakizashi. After eight years of training, on Taro's sixteenth birthday, Miaru declared him ready to face the bandits and gave Taro his last name. Miaru told Taro Kagete that it was his destiny to face the evils of the world, and eradicate them wherever possible. Miaru and Taro forged a pair of swords and a set of armor to aid Taro in his journey. Miaru gave Taro a red strip of cloth to remind him of the blood he would have to shed for his mission. Then with Miaru's blessing, Taro left the house that had been his home, and the man who had become his father, to face his fate.
Taro arrived in his village three days later, and called out the bandit leader, declaring his intentions. The bandit chief emerged from his den with a pack of thieves and brigands, laughing at the teenager's threats. Taro drew his two handed dai katana and said that justice would finally be delivered to the village of Shino. The chief ordered his men to kill the boy, they charged him and Taro quickly dispatched all of them, then moved on to the bandit chief, who began to beg for his life as Taro drove his blade through the man's chest. As he fell to the ground, Taro whispered that there would be no mercy for the wicked, and left the town without telling them who he was, or why he had come to save them. But the village was liberated, and eternally grateful to the wandering swordsman who saved them.
**OPTIONAL**Sample RP: Eh. you've all seen me rp before.
Character Box:
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Taro Kagete
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So, i'm pretty sure this is what i'm supposed to put in for 'character box' though there's always the off chance that i'm wrong.
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