Kamen Hokage

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Kamen Hokage
Kamen doesn't look at explosions. Artwork by Cinnie.
A.K.A. Hokage Ouka
Hajime Kuren
Age 26
Voice Actor Shigeru Nakahara
Relatives Kurei, Father.
Neon, Mother.
Hanabishi Recca, Uncle.
Series Flame of Recca
Player Frank
  • Name: Hokage Kamen
  • Age: 26
  • Sex: Male.
  • B-Day: November 13th.
  • Place of Birth: Kyoto.
  • Parents: Kurei, Neon.
    • Nationality: Japanese.
    • Specialty: Music.
    • Hobbies: Music, Archery, Chess.
    • Likes: Soft music. Fire.
    • Dislikes: Suffering, injustice, people hurting what he holds dear.
    • Favorite Food: Sushi.
    • Least Favorite Food: Junk Food.
    • Favorite Music: Flute, violin, Piano.
    • Favorite Sport: Archery.
    • Most Valuable Possession: Father's Mask.
    • Level of Education: Master's in History and Economics. Lifelong Ninjutsu Training.
  • Physical Stats
    • Height: 6'2"
    • Weight: 215 lbs.
    • Eyes: Blue.
    • Hair: Black, dyed with red tips.
    • Special: Often wears a mask, not for any other reason than he can. Also, has very compassionate, caring eyes. He has recently taken to wearing green on his outfit somewhere.

Personality

Kamen is a sweet, caring, compassionate young man, who has an overwhelming desire to make himself loved by everyone. Unfortunately, he's also terrified of people who love him being hurt.. or worse, to have them stop loving him. As such, he tends to act cold towards those he's closest to, to keep them at arm's length, if not outright mean. To people he respects or likes, he's a fairly civil, somewhat charming young man with the... unusual... quirk of choosing to wear a mask and gloves most of the time. He enjoys discussing music and philosophy a lot, and tends to be fairly polite. To people he doesn't like or disrespects, he'll tell them to leave him alone or pay for it, if not outright take his conversation partner and leave. If they push it, he's likely to threaten or actually coerce them into leaving.
Kamen has little to no concept of right and wrong. To him, there's 'Do' and 'Don't Do', which was raised into him by his mother and father, as well as his various bodyguards and guardians. He has an overprotected only child outlook going, and, as everything to him was scared into him by his father, he has little qualms about doing something if someone can't stop him, either by fear or physical punishment.
Kamen also has a chemical imbalance, and his fear of being alone and unloved stems from this. He'll do anything to be loved by someone, even to the point (if needs be) of making them love him. However, because of his caretaker nature, he'll not let them get too close, for fear of hurting them if the 'axe comes down' so to speak.

Background

Kamen at School.

Kamen is the only child of Kurei and Neon, conceived and born after the battle with SODOM was over. Despite his other social misgivings and shortcomings, Kurei was.. well.. extatic to have a child. A new life to care for. A new life to protect with every fiber of his being, and this time, he wouldn't fail. Kurei ordered all of his followers to protect, adore and serve his child until he grew old enough to be worthy or unworthy of their respect, as Kurei would never force his loyal friends to do something they didn't want to, but protecting a child was not out of their characters. Kurei and Neon decided to name their child 'Kamen', meaning 'Mask', in hopes that around their infant son, they could finally shed theirs. It didn't work out quite this way. Because of the way Kurei was raised, he still believed that hiding yor emotions and true feelings was the only way to keep yourself and your loved ones safe. And Neon was still obsessed with having people love her. Thier child was no exception. His real name, on all legal papers, however, was Hokage Kaou.

Kamen was, in a sense, a very privileged child. Protected day and night from assassins and dangers real and imagined by his father's loyal guardians, Kamen was a little isolated from the rest of the world, but didn't mind, because he never lacked in companionship. Whether Joker and Raiha's humour or quiet meditation with Jisho's spirit, Kamen was never alone, even when away from his parents. Both his parents cared for him very much and did their best to raise their child well, or as well as they could with their principles. This is where Kurenai and Raiha came in, to educated Kamen in other aspects of life than growing up strong and being loved.

Kamen was also taught early on what his parents considered to be the most important things in life. Neon explained in details to her child how being alone and unloved is a fate worse than death, how one must make sure as they go through life to have someone to love them and love back, whether physically, filialy or otherwise, and that if one isn't loved, their life will be a horrible, terrible thing. From Kurei, he learned the harsh life, that whatever you loved, if you did not protect it completely, you had to keep away from you at all costs, to not let people know how you feel, otherwise everything you love and that loves you back is doomed to die because of it. That hiding your emotions is the only way to go, and that to be strong you have to be able to cast aside everything in a heartbeat. This had a...major affect on the child's mental stability, as he shared the genetic defect of his father's chemical imbalance, which made his rationalizations of right and wrong... odd. Most of his morality he got from Raiha and Kurenai, through Kurei's words, which gave him a kinder aspect than one might think, but still raised by the words of an unjustly killed young woman and a consummate, if comedic, warrior. Joker taught him to make bad jokes, and keep people guessing. Jisho's simple presence taught him quiet fortitude in the face of adversity.

From a very young age, Kamen was raised and trained to carry out his grandmother's goal, albeit with Kurei's stance on it. He was to be the heir of the Hokage Ninja clan, but since Kurei had turned his back on that name and let his brother have it, Kamen was raied to be the clan leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha. Kurei himself had not be trained as a ninja, and simply had memories of a childhood in a ninja clan, and as such sought out modern day masters of ninjutsu to train his son to create a clan out of the Ura Hokage Uruha. Kurei and Raiha handled the training of Kamen in the ways of the warrior, and this was the only time Kurei allowed himself and others to actually harm his child.. all in the ways of training, never more, never less. Kurei's drive to see a strong son was tempered by his unending kindness and tender nature, which made for the perfect balance. Raiha was already a master warrior, and knew what to do to make Kamen strong. The mix of styles of Raiha's finesse and Kurei's overwhelming power made Kamen into a versatile and powerful fighter.

As Kamen grew, his father acquired a Tekkou and started to train him in the use of his flame. Unlike his father and uncle, he did not have a mystical animal, so using and mastering his flame was not especially hard. It manifested naturally, under the guidance of his father, in the shape of a bat. Furthermore, he discovered his flame could be used for protection or attack, for immobilisation and murder, for every imaginable contrast that tools gives you.. and so, he changed his focus towards learning how to use his flame as a ninja, and ended up learning on his own, with a natural ability, how to use chains and the mankiri gusari (Chain Sickle Ninja Weapon). He was very pleased with this, as this made him not only a stronger ninja, but a worthy heir to be an Ura Hokage Uruha Flame Master.

His mother, not wanting her son to grow up into nothing but a killing machine, tried her best to educate him as a proper Japanese nobleman, teaching him the arts of music and litterature. She herself wasn't especially fond of litterature, but she was a fairly intelligent woman, and a master musician, which apprently, Kamen had inherited. However, while he had a much higher talent for music than he had for even fighting, but claimed this was not something he wanted to focus on. He was, of course, lying, since he was terrified of displeasing his father, and wanted very hard to bring the name of Ura Hokage Uruha as a feared and respected ninja clan, moreso than even the Hokage were in their heyday. However, in his spare time, all the boy could do was listen to music and copy it to the best of his ability, or even sometimes compose on the spot. He did not let his father know this, as he had to become the Leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha.

To become the leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha, however, Kamen had to become stronger than his flame. To accomplish this, Kurei put a simple test on Kamen. For him to become the next leader, he had to best Jishou in personal combat, without the use of his flame. After preparing for a month and a week, Kurei finally took on the flame giant in his father. It took everything in him to actually make it, but after a pitched battle, Kamen managed to beat Jishou, and was acknowledged as the Leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha.

Kurei's inherited and taken money from Mori Kouran assured Kamen an education. He has the best high school education from private tutors, a strong buisness acumen learned from the best accountants in the Kongoji Masamune Zaibatsu, the equivalent of a Master's in History, and the other rudiments of culture and humanity that can be learned in books and with practice. All he needed was practical skill.

In order for him to reach that goal, Kamen set out to meet notable and important people in Japan's modern Shadow History. He met Souichirou Nagi of the Nagi family and the Kago family. Staying with him and his daughter for quite some time, Kamen learned from him practical fighting and how to deal with people with powers. While not learning any new techniques, he did get a strong sense of what someone like them could accomplish with focus, and did get new methods of dealing with powerful opponents. He also managed to get a meeting with the former Raitei, Ginji Amano. While Ginji tried to avoid dealing with Kurei's son, he did share a few words of advice with him over the course of their meeting.

Kamen learned from his father of his uncle, and that his uncle also had a daughter. Intrigued at the concept of meeting his 'sibling', Kamen, when he turned 20, asked his father if he could leave the lands. He didn't say it was for this, but seeing the transparent nature of his family, Kurei accepted knowing full well why. However, he made his son promise to try to find other ninjas worthy of joining the Ura Hokage Uruha, which was an excuse for him to let his son go out in the world. Mori Kouran was dead, and all his other enemies were gone, so he had little reason to fear for his son. It was time to let go.

Skills

Kamen being casual.

Physical Skills:

  • Alertness: Incredible (+4)
  • Athletics: Amazing (+5/+7 with Grace and Batsuit)
  • Stealth: Amazing (+5/+6 with Batsuit)

Social Skills:

  • Subterfuge: Very Good (+3)
  • Streetwise: Incredible (+4)
  • Intimidation: Incredible (+4)
  • Leadership: Incredible (+4)
  • Expression: Very Good (+3)
  • Etiquette: Very Good (+3)
  • Performance: Amazing (+5)
Kamen's athletics.

Mental Skills:

  • Computers: Good (+2)
  • Investigation: Very Good (+3)
  • Law: Novice (+1)
  • Occult: Novice (+1)
  • Politics: Good (+2)
  • Science: Novice (+1)

Other Skills:

  • Driving: Incredible (+4)
  • Survival: Very Good (+3)
  • Empathy: Very Good (+3)
  • Languages: Japanese, English, Mandarin, a little German and a little Russian.

Special Abilities

Next you're going to say.. 'Wow that's Kamen dressed like Joseph Joestar!'.

Ninjutsu: (忍術) The Arts of the Ninja, the 18 disciplines of the shinobi. Kamen has lived, breathed and grown up mastering them. As such, he has superior athletic and physical abilities, incredible sneaking skills, the ability to shadow others, resistance to hanging upside down and several other advantages, such as breathing techniques, meditation, the ability to wear a personality like a second skin and immense concentration. The 18 Skills [1] of the ninja is what Kamen has studied.
Taijutsu: (体術) The Arts of the Body, the ninja 'Martial art'. Kamen has been trained in various forms of hand to hand combat by Raiha and Joker all his life, learning several fighting techniques and tactics, and then forging them into a single coherent and well oiled single fighting style. Kamen's training has focused primarily on Aikido, various Kempo styles (mostly soft), Jiujitsu and Capoeria, for the versatility and fluidity of these styles, but he has also learned more dangerous techniques from various styles, such as Boxing (quick punching and defense), Karate (very hard, decisive strikes), Escrima (for weapon fighting), Krav Maga and Hapkido(for control and disarmament), Tae Kwon Do and Savate for kicking.
Utsusemi no Jutsu: The fabled ninja substitution technique. Kamen learned this from an early age, the ability to substitue yourself with a log, or any other available item, to trick an opponent's attack. He has become very good at this.
Multiple Bodies Technique: Kurei's technique learned from the Master Genjuro. Kamen learned this technique from his father, in which he makes 6 duplicates of himself, and his flames, to move around at high speed and confuse the opponent. He usually masks his aura as best he can and moves around rapidly during this technique, making it harder for his opponents to spot him. These copies are fully physical, as he learned the advanced version of the technique.
Nanto Suicho Ken: (南斗水鳥拳, South Dipper Waterbird Fist, also translated as South Dipper Waterfowl Fist) a form of Nanto Seiken represented by its successor, Reiji. Its movements are compared to a graceful water bird, however, its destructive power is without equal and can slaughter enemies with its devastating slicing techniques. It allows Kamen to slash at enemies with his fingertips from a distance, with near-invisible blades of wind.

  • Nanto Suicho Ken - Hisshou Hakurei: (飛翔白麗, Soaring White Grace)㊙: Kamen performs a single, graceful looking somersault. As he lands, his hands slices horizontally to the front, slicing through the opponent's shoulders, with tremendous impact, all the way down to the ground, through the body.

Nen

Nen is a technique that allows a living being to use and manipulate their own life energy (known as aura); the term "Nen" can also be used in conversation to refer to aura. A person capable of utilizing Nen is colloquially referred to as a "Nen user", while those who cannot go by the designation "non-users". Because one can craft a great variety of parapsychological abilities through Nen, it is considered a dangerous power that is kept hidden from the public at large to maintain balance in society.

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Powers & Merits

Kamen showing off.

Flame Master: Kamen's primary power is the fact that he is an Hokage Flame Master. His father was born with a cursed flame, and he has inherited this power, as the Hokage Flame is hereditary from parent to child. This flame is spiritual in nature, and burns unnaturally hot, to the point where most normal fires can't compare to it. He can only control his flame while wearing a Tekkou. These are a set of rings on his fingers. If he removes these at any time, his flame will grow out of control and consume him, slowly but surely, unless it is replaced. This flame grants him the following abilities:
Superhuman Resistance to Fire and Heat: Kamen will burn much, much slower than he should. However, he is not immune to flame, not even his own, The advantage to this is that other mystical flame or flame-like attacks burn him much slower than they should, so a magical fireball will not hurt much.
Flame Bat: His Flame's form is that of a giant vampire bat. He can alter it's size, but for the most part, Kamen usually keeps it at a 3-4 feet length to be intimidating, or a smaller, foot length to keep on his arm and shoulder. In contrast to his father's Kurenai's angel wings, Kamen somtimes makes the bat grow it's wings out of his back as an intimidation factor. He CAN use them to slow his descent or help in a jump, but these are mostly meant for show.
Flame Aura: Kamen's flame aura can cause his shirt to burn off him.
Mastery Form: Kamen can make his flame take the shape of any weapon, armour, shield, or other inanimate object, of which he's trained intensively to use, then wield and use the flame as a solid manifestation of that object, except with total control over it, as the flame is part of his body. However, he can only make one 'type' of weapon or object at a time, so he can only make a sword, or pair of swords, or a volley of kunai, or a set of armour. He cannot make two items at once (Not a shield and sword), and he cannot make multiple copies of the same item if he can't wield them (I.E., he can't make two claymore swords, but twin nunchaku or jitte would work.) He's mastered the following techniques with his flame:
Shi no Ame - Rain of Death: Making a bow of fire, he can shoot an arrow, which will multiply into many arrows of fire as they head for their target, covering a wider area, and hitting harder. He can apply this technique to kunai or shuriken.
Kunai Renzoku - Kunai Combo: Kamen can throw as many Kunai as he wants with his flame, each will hit as a normal weapon would, but burn as well. He can also make as many copies as he wants, they will not vanish when he reforms another unless he wills it. This also applies to shuriken, but he rarely does this.
Ai no Kusari - Chains of Passion: Kamen can cover himself in chains and chain sickles, as these are his primary weapons. He can fire a dozen or so of these at a time, and unlike the other weapons, these can come out of any part of his body. He spent a lot of his time learning to master this, and this is the maximum manifestation of his power.
Ka no Yoroi - Flaming Armour: Kamen can generate a samurai-like armour made of flame around his body, or over specific body parts, which act as extra protection from attacks, and most especially, after learning how to use his chi for self-defense, training with Son Goku, to help resist energy attacks, specifically chi or chakra attacks. While in no way some sort of bulletproof armour, combined with the rest of his gear, it could help him resist more powerful attacks than he could before. It cannot be used in conjunction with other flame abilities.
Honoo no Tane - Fire Seeds: Kamen has learned to focus his chi in the shape of an egg, to keep the interior safe even as he moved violently. Using that principle, he can apply it to his flame, causing it to form into several small egg-like 'seeds', his copy of Higa's Fire Seeds technique. When anyone comes into contact with the seeds, they explode. Kamen uses this technique to fill an area and stop people from fighting, but it's not meant to be used in a group fight.
Shichito Retsu Ken - Seven Sword Combination: Inspired by a Mission in space, Kamen developed a technique by working with Belle and Izumi for toughness and speed, in which he uses after images and exceptional speed to hit a single opponent with seven swords. Starting with throwing blades of fire, Kamen speeds up and rushes past them to swing the blades, blurs back and forth against the enemy with twin Kodachi, then flips over them to slash down with two more flame kodachi, before leaping at the enemy, forming a large sword of fire from his arm and slashing down at the enemy, intending to cleave them.. or burn them to ashes.

Summon

The Rebirth Flame of the Phoenix.

Phoenix: Kamen has recieved the Phoenix Guardian Force.
"Rebirth Flame" The outline of a phoenix appears on the ground, surrounding enemies and allies with it, and then the phoenix rises from the ground, before taking off in flight, causing massive fire damage to all enemies in its area of effect, and also having a chance of reviving and rejuvenating some of fallen allies' health, bringing them back to fighting force. There is also a chance of healing petrified allies. (Both are GM's call)
Drawback: Using the Guardian Force may cause memory losses. Also, it is ill-advised to use it more than once per mission.

Merits

Catlike Balance: (2pt Merit) Kamen is excessively agile for a man of his physique.
Animal Magnetism: (1pt Merit) Kamen is extremely attractive and takes care of himself, and his inner passion is almost tangible.
Ambidextrous: (2pt Merit) Kamen can use both his hands with equal skill due to long years of training.
Graceful: (2pt Merit) Kamen does everything with panache and swiftness, due to his ninja training.

Unique Items

Hokage Tekkou: Kamen's rings, which were made by Kagerou, to contain the power of Kamen's flame. If his rings are removed he can't control his flame, though he needs to summon it to lose control of it.
Tear Gem Earring: Kamen received a teargem earring from Yukihana, which allows him to contain his otherwise volatile personality and endure his crippling fear of emotional attachement.
Kokujou: (black rope, or black binding) Wires which are woven from the hair of young women and alchemically treated with natural oils harvested from wild animals, turning them as hard as steel. Kamen wears these in his gloves.
Tengu Blade: A beautifully crafted blade from Tengu in the Rankai Lands. While it is a normal sword in every other regard, this blade can harm supernatural opponents. It is a Kodachi, though with an especially long blade.

Dark Specter Batsuit.

Dark Specter Bat Suit

Description: The Dark Specter Batsuit is an Iconic Battle Suit Style set for Tech-based Heroes. Bestowed upon his "Agents of the Bat", this batsuit allows the wearer to carry and enforce the influence that Batman's image has over the criminal underworld.
Characteristics: The Dark Specter Batsuit is made of Waynetech Nanoweave technology, allowing maximum flexibility and versatility when in use. It also has a neural interface and top of the line sensors lining the armour. This allows the wearer to actually modify its appearance to one more suited to his own, if he does not want to carry the mantle of the Bat.
More specifically, the armour's chest, leg, shoulders and back area are well armoured ands the nanoweave actually provides ballistic, thermal and kinetic resistances, basically acting like a full body bulletproof vest, increasing the wearer's ability to take hits.
Advantages: The Dark Specter Batsuit is hyper flexible and the nanoweave and neural networking make up for human foilibles. Wearing it will grant its wearer enhanced agility and light detection, the sensors warning when too much light is on the costume, and helping to adjust for falls, wind and any other variables. (Game Terms: Athletics +1, Stealth +1)
The Batsuit also comes with Detective Vision, as nicknamed by Nightwing, which allows the user to turn into every different spectrum of light, allowing to see heat signatures, find traces, and with the proper information, track specific chemicals, scents and other types of trails (When Detective Vision is on, Investigation difficulties are lowered by 1).

Items of Note

State of the Art Cellphone: Kamen really likes keeping up with the best and most useful cellular technology. As such, he has a phone with GPS, television, mass email and every other top of the line technology, and a XG (where X is whatever is the biggest at the moment) network.
Kawasaki Ninja Motorcycle: Totally riced out for pro and street racing, this is a gift from Joker that Kamen really enjoys riding, and he's a speed freak.
Kamen's Mask: Kamen's mask is lined with sword-breaking headguards and impact-absorbant foam.
Kamen's Trench Coat: Leather, highly resilient trench coat and with steel koute arm guards inside the sleeves. The inner pockets are lined with spare weapons, such as kunai, shuriken and small chains, each held in place to prevent noise.
Kamen's Armour: Long sleeved personal bodysuit, with a flak jacket to resist sharpnel, impact and knife slashes. His gloves have hard steel back hands, hidden inside the leather. His pants are Special Ops black pants, he wears knee pads, and classical ninja steel plates over his shins. He wears steel tipped combat boots, to resist damage and deliver that extra oomph to a good face kicking.
Kamen's Gear: Kamen is not a master of preparation, but there are certain things he insists on having on his person at all times. Weapons, tracking devices, etc, as follows.

  • Lockpicking Tools - The Classic.
  • Electronic Scrambler - The Modern Version of the above.
  • Shuriken - The ninja's best friend. Kamen carries about 25 of the real deal, three explosives and two tracking devices.
  • Kunai - The ninja's weapon. Kamen carries about 20 of these at all time.
  • Smoke Dispensers - The modern ninja eggshell bomb.
  • First Aid Spray - Just in case.
  • Rope - Always useful.

Weaknesses & Flaws

Tekkou: He cannot control his flame without his Tekkou.
Love Problems: Kamen has a chemical imbalance and his upbringing has left him dangerous terrified of love and intimacy (though not sex). However, this is mitigated to an incredible degree by Yukihana's teargem. Love makes him uncomfortable and a little worried, but he can process the sensations now.

Hero Worship - Kurei: (1pt Flaw) Kamen absolutely idolizes his father, and while he talks to him like an equal, the idea of surpassing him is daunting to him.
Phobia - Love: (1pt Flaw, used to be 3pts) Kamen was terrified of close emotional contact and reacts very weirdly to it still, even after the teargem.

Gallery

NPC(s) to go with char

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