Post by Kurogane on Dec 7, 2020 16:31:33 GMT -8
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KUROGANE HOTARU
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KUROGANE HOTARU
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Personal Stuff
Name: Kurogane Hotaru
Alias: Kurogane, Hotaru, Kuro
Gender: Male
Age: 15 (Pre Time Skip) 17 (Post Time Skip)
Species: Human / Demon Hybrid
Father: Kurogane Mochi
Mother: Kurogane Anko
Physical Information
Height: 179 cm (5'10½")
Weight: 75 kg (165 lbs)
Hair Style: Short and messy, spikey.
Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Pale Purple
Notable/Distinctive Characteristics: Aside from his odd eye color - pale purple - and white hair; Kurogane has various other distinctive characteristics. The most notable of which are the many scars which cover his body; a testament to his training but also his desire to protect others even if it means doing so at the expense of his own body.
Clothing/Style
Kurogane tends to wear loose clothing, comfortable clothing. He wears a mixture of traditional clothing as well as modern attire. His traditional clothing tends to expose his chest a lot, which shows off several scars across his well developed chest and stomach. When wearing modern clothing, he wears whatever he feels is most comfortable and allows for freedom of movement.
Physical Description
Kurogane is a well toned young man. Standing at five foot ten and a half inches tall, he isn’t the tallest man around. He is covered in multiple scars across his body - all along his chest, sides, legs, back, and some even across his neck, shoulders, and one across his face across the bridge of his nose. He is not ashamed of these scars. He wears those scars as proof of his commitment, but also as his reasoning for wanting his revenge against the people that helped destroy his clan.
His white hair and pale purple eyes make him stand out; his eye color matches those of his mother, whom his father would routinely say that he took after due to him having white hair and large eyes much like her.
Personality:
Orientation: Undecided (Homosexual)
Likes: Cats, Cooking, Training, Reading, Older Sister (Sakura)
Dislikes: Older Brother (Domyoji) , Thunderbird Clan
Friends/Allies:
Enemies:
Personality Summary:
Kurogane is a quiet and soft spoken young man. He tends to keep to himself and has a hard time making friends. He can at times be very shy and avoids interactions with people. One reason for this being him having a hard time trusting others; mainly since it was his own family members that attempted to kill him. He has a strong distaste for his surviving older brother and tries not to think of him much, except as motivation to keep training. He does, however, care a lot about his elder sister.
When in battle, he is ready to lay his life on the line for others, fighting to protect the people around him even at the cost of his own body. He is a hard worker, trains a lot, and tends to avoid things such as alcohol.
He’s got a soft spot for cats and other animals.
He tends to try to help people whenever possible and doesn’t like those that abuse their power.
History:
Kurogane Hotaru was born into the Sparrow clan. He was the youngest of five offspring born of Mochi and Anko Kurogane, the two heads of the Sparrow Clan; Anko was the original head of the clan, Mochi married into the clan and had become the co-head of the clan alongside her. The eldest of his siblings was Sakura, his only sister, and after she was born, Anko gave birth to four sons.
From the beginning, people said that Hotaru took after his mother, due to having similar features (mainly her white hair and pale purple eyes) much like his elder sister - it appeared that those traits were always passed down on the mother’s side of the family, as rumor had it that Kurogane’s mother, Anko, had the same eyes as her own mother. His three elder brothers, apparently, took after their father more than their mother, having similar jawlines, dark hair, and dark eyes like him.
Hotaru lived in a large home. Not a palace by any means but he did live on a well sized estate compound with a small crew of staff, cooks and maids and gardeners. He lived a relatively normal life, albeit he was trained, from a young age, how to fight and how to wield a sword - not by his father, but by his mother.
Their compound was relatively close to the land of the Phoenix Clan. The Sparrow Clan had long since been the protectors of the Phoenix Clan, with whom they had divided a large plot of land in the Westernlands.
For many generations, the Sparrow Clans’ male offspring worked as protectors, bodyguards, or shadows, of the heirs to the Phoenix Clan. That was to be the job of Kurogane’s elder three brothers. However, something was different this time; his sister, Sakura, had fallen in love with the eldest son of the Phoenix Clan. The two of them became engaged, and it became clear to Kurogane’s three elder brothers that if the marriage were to occur, and she were to marry the eldest son of their ally clan, when the transition of power happened, not only would Sakura be co-head of the Phoenix Clan but also head of the Sparrow clan, as she is the eldest of the five children of the head of the clan.
Enraged by this news, the three brothers contacted members of the family's rival clan, the Thunderbird clan, and arranged an attack against the wedding party.
The attack was merciless. No one was spared; the Thunderbird clan descended upon the wedding venue, slaughtering any that crossed their path. During the attack, his brothers fought alongside the Thunderbirds, managing to kill their father and mother before turning their eyes onto their sister.
Two of them were, thankfully, halted by members of the Phoenix Clan - including Sakura's fiance - while the third was confronted by Hotaru. The fight was, for the most part, one sided, as Hotaru was not as proficient as his elder brother. But, at one point during the fight, Hotaru managed to blind his brother temporarily and managed to kill him. Seeing one of their own die, Domyoji - one of the other two brothers - became distracted and was subsequently knocked out. The final brother was killed by a member of the Phoenix Clan.
The Sparrow estate was destroyed in the battle, the heads of the Sparrow Clan were killed, and many members of the Phoenix Clan lost their lives. However, the coup was put down, the Thunderbirds were forced to flee. Domyoji, the surviving brother, was tried and exiled by the new head of the clan, Sakura.
With their home destroyed, Sakura moved into the compound of the Phoenix Clan. Hotaru, however, moved to Oolong City.
In the five years following the incident, he spent most of his time training to increase his strength and fulfill the promise he made his sibling; that he would get strong enough to one day be her protector.