Kuki Ken

Full Name: Kuki Ken
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Element: Air
Birthplace: Green Isle
Position: Sword-for-hire (a.k.a. Mercenary)

Personality: She is cold, very cold. A biting wind in the North Pole can't compare to her. But she's not rude; far from it. In fact, she is very formal and polite. However, her coldness is more due to her lack of emotions than any particular distaste for you she may have. She is extremely focused in every aspect of her life, ranging from combat to breakfast. This had quite an impact in her daily life, and she often finds herself stuck in fights started by attention seekers. Not that she minds; she doesn't mind much anymore, really.

Either you hold her attention, or you don't; there is no in between with her. If she likes you, and she finds what you are saying interesting, she will listen, though it's doubtful she'll comment. She is very selective about her words, only caring enough about anything to utter more than a handful of words a week. Regardless, her few trusted confidantes will find she is a trusted and loyal friend, protecting them to the bare end. Oddly enough, her sense of loyalty and friendship hasn't been affected by the demon's tampering.

However, if she doesn't like you, or find you boring, she will walk away without a backwards glance. If she is stopped, the person who dared to stop her will soon find a sword at their throat. She despises being touched, as well, and will react with ferocity towards anyone who touches her, even her closest friend. She finds physical contact unnerving and distracting, and one thing she will not handle is distractions.

Despite contrary belief, she is not wholly evil, or even wholly without emotions; she is simply cut off from feeling the brunt of them. She can still feel annoyance, though the more intense anger is beyond her reach. In the same boat are slight feeling of disappointment and excitement. However, these feeling are so slight, and last for so little of time, she barely has time to know what emotions they are, and they certainly have no outwardly signs.

She despises killing innocent people, and though she won't feel guilt about it, it does bring the law down on her, which tends to make her annoyed. Then she has to fight off the police, and it's very troublesome. However, she will make an exception to this rule if they are a mark. Conversely, she will not kill a mark she thinks is powerful, as she despises weakness. If they impress her, she will immediately stop the fight and walk away without nary a backward glance. She will finish the fight if they press her, however.

Abilities: She is an airbender; however, her style is unique to her, and her alone. Due to her being forced to not draw attention to herself, her airbending has grown largely undeveloped. Also, her father's style of defensive firebending combines with his mother's style of airbending to create a sword fighting style, called "Rīfutowaringu", which the likes the world has never seen. It combines the aggressiveness of firebending into powerful strokes of the blade and impenetrable walls for defense, and the fluidity of air bending to dodge and weave her way to an opponent unscathed. However, this alone wasn't enough to let her hold her own in a world dominated by benders.

Her twin Katana hold a special secret; miniscule holes, drilled through the sides and the tip of the blades, allow for airbending through the weapons. This allows for many different unique options, available to only Kuki. Opponents who dodge a sword strike would find themselves cut anyway, hit by an invisible blade of air. Enemies who decide to test her defense would find there blades or fists diverted by a shield of air. Ranged combatants would the ground being torn up curiously close to them by a single slash. Her styles are unique and threatening, and thus, hard to combat. Not impossible, though; like every style, there are weaknesses to the trained eye.

However, that's not her most terrifying aspect. Little known to anyone besides her are the multitudes of hidden weaponry on her body. Ranging from stiletto to kunai, these razor sharp blades, combined with a burst of focused airbending, are airborn blades of death. They fly at intense speeds, flying twice as fast as an arrow. This is due in part to the burst of airbending them. She hides four stilettos in her boots, three kunai strapped to each sleeve, five shuriken in the lining of her robe, and a dagger in her cleavage. The dagger is perfectly balanced, so it is perfect for throwing. However, it can be used a weapon of close combat if needed.

She is also proficient in a brawling style of fist fighting. However, this is her least proficient form of fighting, and used only until she can scrape up an escape, or get any of her weapons back. This is a form of fighting she hates, as fists are not likely to do a lot of damage. She prefers blades for this reason exactly. They're fast, clean, and efficient. However, her fists can be just as dangerous as any blade that she may wield, due to her street fighting days in her youth.

Also, like most airbenders, her skill in it allows her to enhance her own movement with it, giving her enhanced speed and agility. As for natural ability go, she is highly perceptive, able to discern opponents fighting skill with relative ease, as well as react to many otherwise impossible-to-dodge attacks. She has mastered the use of airbending for martial enhancement, shown when she jumps to deadly heights and uses acrobatics at breakneck speeds. She is a natural acrobat, able to perform dazzling feats even without the help of her airbending.

However, she becomes even deadlier when fighting men. Due to her training, she employs the Kunoichi's Art of Seduction. This essentially means that she is not adverse to use sexual advances and her own physical beauty as a weapon against men. This leads to distraction and, adversely, death in those who are untrained. It is, despite it's simple initiation, one of the more deadly techniques in her arsenal.

Appearance: She is beautiful. That is the only way to describe her. Her eyes are bright green, and despite her lack of emotion, still twinkle with an inner light. Her skin is tanned, with scars scattered throughout, but it is still soft, and beautiful, like age-worn velvet. Her hair is long and wavy, curling up at the tips. However, it is also curly on the foremost layer, giving her hair a unique look. It is as red as the morning sun.

Her breasts are huge, at least an H cup. However, she is also quite skinny, having a very slim waist and an hourglass figure. However, she is also very fit, having very little - if any - body fat on her, due to her decade of constant training and practice with her master, Rei Tai. She has a high amount of muscle on her, evident by her abs and her muscled arms. She is muscled like a runner though, and her thinly muscled frame belies her strength.

She wears, not the typical orange, red, blue or green, but pure black. The reason is simple; to stand out. Black is hardly worn by anyone as typical garb. She wears a pure black, traditional Kunoichi outfit. It is as follows: it has no leggings, revealing instead her long, luxurious legs. It doesn't have any arms either. It has a short, thin robe made of silk, coming only to her upper thighs. It is tied off with a silk sash, though this is quite unnecessary. In place of a bra, she wears tight fish net, tied off in a knot at her back. The outfit show quite a bit of her breasts. To augment her typical garb, she also wears a pair of black leggings and a pair of black hard-soled boots. The boots look fashionable while having the added effects of intimidating men and hurting when people are kicked by them.

She walks with grace, and poise, almost as if she were a princess. This is, in fact, not true. Though she is a lady warrior, and thus has class, she is not royalty. Her graceful and polite demeanor and bearing are part of her training as a Kunoichi, and as part of a daughter's upbringing. Despite all assurances to the contrary, she is a lady. Her voice is soft and velvety, but slightly rough due to not being used. She speaks with precision and politeness, as is befitting a lady.

When going on a mission, she changes two things. For one, her long and luxurious hair is pulled back into a ponytail, tied with a black leather thong. For another, she wears a black velvet eye mask. On the right side of the mask are a multitude of feathers. She also puts on a pair of black leather gloves.

Weaponry and Other Gear:
Name: Reddookutsuinzu (roughly translated as "Red Oak Twins")
Type: Dual Katana
Material: Hardened Steel with oak handle
Description: Dual blades fashioned in the likeness of roses and styled with all the majesty of the earth. The handle is fashioned out of red oak and in the likeness of a rose stem, the pommel even turning into a rose bud. The handle and pommel are red. The guard curves bends around to the knuckle and is made of hundreds of thin "vines", each one bent and smelted with the care of an artisan. They are green. The blade itself is 2 and a half feet of hardened blue steel, with a winding vine along the right half of the blade. On the left side, there are runes, and the only thing different about the Twins. On the right handed blade, there are the words, "Be one with nature, and nature shall be your friend." On the left handed blade, there are the words, "Death shall not claim those who claw." These are both written in Kanji.
Abilities: Reddokutsuinzu has no inherent abilities. However, it does have one functional advantage. as a side effect of having to blend in with Fire Benders, her air bending skills are still undeveloped. Reddokutsuinzu has several tiny holes drilled through the blade, at the very tip of the blade. While not cutting down on damage potential, it allows for a unique style of airbending; Rifusatairu o Mawaru, or "Twirling Leaf Style." This style is unique to Kuki and her blades; she forces air out of the holes in the blades, creating elongating slashes and gusts of air.

The sheath's are also different. The right blade is contained in an oaken sheath, stylized with vines and leaves. Also, it seems almost as if the sheath was ... alive. It had a green glow to it. The reason for this was simple; a live vine was entangled around the blade, sustained by the same demon that cut her off from her emotion. The left sheath, on the other hand, is almost the opposite. It is pitch black and made of steel, with a skeletal picture of the Grim Reaper on it. A giant skeletal being, clad in black robes and wielding a giant scythe.
Creator: Tatsumaki Ken, the Smith of the Green Isle

History: Her parents arrived on a private boat, to an island called simply "Green Isle" due to the lush and fertile land that grew around it. They were fleeing trouble, of the marital kind. Her mother, Sa Ken, was set to marry another airbender whom she didn't love. Her father, Tatsumaki Ken, was a lowly fire nation smith in a town so small, it isn't even on any map. Sa tried to run away en route to her marriage, and ran into Tatsumaki. It was love at first at sight.

Long story short, Tatsumaki fought and killed her pursuers. However, he was now a wanted man. So, they ran away together, living a relatively happy life and birthing Kasai Ken, a firebender and Kuki's older brother. However, it eventually became clear that they were not safe on the mainland. So, they saved up, built a house on Green Isle, and hopped on a ship over there. It was at that time that Sa went into labor. She was born, there on the beach, underneath a gentle spring breeze. Thus, they dubbed her "Kuki Ken" meaning literally "Air Blade".

She grew up hidden from the main world, discouraged from learning her unique powers of airbending. She still learned the forms, from her mother, and fighting, from her father. Her father taught her the Smith's art of firebending, forming an impenetrable defense, then counterattacking. From her mother, she gained the traditional, flowing style of the airbenders, learnt for generations pass. And thus, she trained. For many long and happy years, she lived on that island, training and living her life. Of course, she didn't airbend, but through her brother, who was ten years older than him and a prodigal at weaponry, she learned swordsmanship.

When she turned 16, her father gave her a special gift; the Reddokutsuinzu, or the Red Oak Twins. They were blades specially adapted to handle her unique style of fighting. She was overwhelmed and happily thanked him. She then went to her special forest sparring area, where she has spent hours training and honing her skills. It was then that she heard curious noises in the direction of her house, and spurts of fire shooting above the treetops. She rushed home to find her parents dead, her house burned down, and her brother missing.

She was overcome with grief. She wandered her homeland, not burned and wasted by the ever burning power of fire, until she was broken, bruised, and bleeding. She collapsed into a cave, where she passed out from exhaustion. The next day she woke to ... something amazing. Her blood had run into a sacred summoning circle, and activated it.

A demon appeared, wreathed in fire and shadow. What ... would you wish of me, young one, for freeing me from that prison? His voice was quiet and sinister, and his "S"'s slurred, like a snakes. The then-young Rosalin, her vision blurred by tears, looked up at the ancient evil. M-make it end ... make the pain the end! I-i don't want ... to hurt anymore .. make it end ... She curled into a tight ball, vulnerable, and wept.

The Demon looked at her, and smiled a sinister smile. I shall grant you this one request, young airbender. And when you gain the power that emotions do not hold, remember me and smile. Slowly, the demon laughed, louder and louder, until it echoed into a cacophony of noise. But the louder he laughed, the more kuki could feel her emotions draining out of her. And when it finally disappeared, and the Demon with it, she stood up, brushed herself off, grabbed her twin blades, and waited for the next ferry.

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Years passed, a decade to be exact. She spent this decade training with Rai Ten, the Kunoichi of the First Blade. While training with her, she honed her natural skills of agility and speed, and mastered the Rifutowaringu style of Airbending and Sword Combat. She also took up the arts of seduction and blade throwing, the typical skills for a Kunoichi ninja. When her training was complete, she took up her blades and left Rai Ten's side.

She quickly joined up with a mercenary guild, where her skill and ability to pursue a target to no end quickly escalated her up the ranks, until she the number one assassin in the guild. However, despite her life of mercenary work and free living, her thoughts always drift to the demon who she owed so much, and the people who killed her family. That is her goal in life; find her brother, avenge her family.

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