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Name: Zaku Kuran
Age: 15
Gender: Male

Appearance: Body, Weekday clothes, Saturday clothes, Sunday clothes but without the shoes and gloves. He's not exceptionally tall, about 5'8".
Winter Clothes: Main outfit, backup outfit. Main outfit has black pants with black boots.
Summer Clothes: Swimsuit. His summer outfit is his saturday clothes without the long-sleeved undershirt.

Personality: Zaku is very headstrong, wanting to be the best of the best at everything he does. However, he's not particularly exceptional at anything, and generally has to work hard to keep up with others. However, he is a hard worker, and is always willing to put in time and effort to get better. He's generally a friendly person, though he is accustomed to being alone, and at times he would much rather be by himself than with others. However, when Zaku doesn't specifically want to be alone, he is almost afraid to be alone, as though something bad will happen if he's left by himself. He may enjoy being alone every now and then, but for the most part he needs to know that there are people around. He doesn't need their attention, he just needs the comfort of knowing there are people there to help him should something go wrong. Zaku is oddly unaware of most things around him, it's not that he's self-centered, he just doesn't realize when things are happening every now and then. If people around him are fighting, he may not notice until he hears yelling or until there's a physical fight happening, and even then he might not notice. He has a tendency to zone out when he's focused on something, so that everything around him becomes blank to his mind. Sometimes it gets so bad that people have to actually physically push him to get him to focus on other things. He's also a little clumsy, not enough that he breaks expensive things, but he hurts himself regularly just from tripping or running into things because he didn't notice it was there. Zaku doesn't like fighting, and generally wishes it didn't happen at all, but when it comes to physical fights, he can hold his own. He learned how to fight properly just from wandering and seeing gang fights. Zaku is not particularly bright when it comes to sexual things, he rarely gets perverted jokes, and his mind doesn't generally think up things like that, even when it's being brought up directly to him. He doesn't pretend he knows anything about it, though, if someone brings it up with him, he'll admit to knowing nothing. He finds it an odd subject, not really caring too much about it, but taking what he hears about it in anyway.

Powers/Abilities: Zaku can control the winds with his hands and arms. He can also gather the wind in his hands and release them in a surge to either propel himself forward or repel something else back. However, he generally uses his ability to control the wind to keep himself amused or to make menial tasks easier. He tends to move the wind from one room to another so that he can hear what's going on in places around him. He learned to do that as a safeguard when he wasn't living in an orphanage. He also picked up the ability to tamper with sound waves and make them move either faster or slower to project any sound he wants to any random volume.
Weaknesses/Disabilities: As with his skills or lack thereof, Zaku isn't particularly strong, and his stamina is average. He tends to lose his control of the wind when his concentration is broken, so if he has the wind gathered in his hands and loses focus, the wind will release and knock him over. Because he is still new to controlling sound waves, he occasionally amplifies sounds unintentionally, sometimes so much that he hurts his own eardrums. Sometimes all it takes is for him to take a step for the sound to reverberate at a louder volume than normal. Also, Zaku has yet to find a productive use for his abilities, seeing that he rarely gets involved in fights and does menial labor voluntarily to get stronger. He mainly uses the sound ability while meditating to hear the nature around him instead of the people around him. That, and Zaku tends to overhear things he doesn't want to hear when he uses his abilities. Every now and then he'll catch the sound of someone getting hurt, and that will make him sad, and other times he'll hear...other noises, which will creep him out.

Likes: Most foods with meat, being outside, staring at the moon, walking barefoot in the grass, meditating, and taking unnecessarily long baths. Zaku likes anything involving the outdoors, when given the option to study outside, he will take it in a heartbeat. He loves being outside so much that he will stand out in the rain regularly, even though he has no jacket or umbrella to use. He loves music of pretty much any sort, almost as much as being outside. He has a tendency to play his music at a regular volume, and then gradually turn it up until it's obnoxiously loud. When he does this, his ears adjust to the volume he's set the sound to, so he can't tell that it's too loud.
Dislikes: Tofu and hummus, being rushed, being stuck inside, exceptional heat, socks, shoes, and showers. Zaku doesn't like people who shoot him down or shoot down his ideas. He also has trouble putting up with people who give up on him when he's taking a while to figure things out. He hates when people get frustrated with him because he doesn't get things right off the bat, and he gets very defensive when people put him down. It is his natural reaction to wear his temper on his sleeve when people are being mean to him, and though he rarely gets involved in arguments or fights, he will retort if someone is putting him down. Zaku hates sitting in silence, he always needs some form of sound going on around him, anything from music to the scratching of a pencil as he writes is fine so long as it's not quiet. Most of the time if he can't make sound on his own, he'll drag sound from somewhere else just for the sake of having some form of sound to hear.

Background/History: Zaku had been to several orphanages before ending up at the Outcast Orphanage. His parents left him at an orphanage when he was six because he had unknowingly broken one of the main beams holding up the house. His parents didn't know how, but they called him a jinx and left him for others to take. He was left with very few things, just an oversized t-shirt, several pairs of shorts, a few sets of pants for him to grow into, and a green jacket. After several incidences of broken windows and door hinges, he was moved out of the first orphanage, and every year after, he was moved somewhere else, finally being left at the Outcast Orphanage. This had a very large effect on him, as after a while he became very aware of why it was that they kept moving him. He wasn't much of a troublemaker to anyone, but because he liked to play with the wind, he would unintentionally end up breaking things until he was moved somewhere else. He would test himself to see if he had control of the wind and would consistently find that he didn't. One of the times he was doing this, he had been alone in the room, and part of the bunk bed that he shared with another kid broke and collapsed on him. Ever since that incident, he's been afraid to be in a room by himself without knowing someone else was nearby. For a while, no orphanage would take him, and for several weeks he wandered to keep alive. He wouldn't steal, though, he felt bad for doing things like that, and instead went hungry until he found a homeless shelter where he could get something to eat. While wandering the streets, he would regularly be a target by gangs simply for the fact that he was just wandering the streets. He would generally try to just run away from them, but when that wasn't cutting it, he would eventually end up losing control and blowing them away with the wind. During this wandering time, he practiced with the wind and after a while realized that things worked better when he worked with the wind, instead of trying to command it. It was then that he started to get control of his powers, which drastically helped him, especially when he would run into gang members while wandering. After a while, he was taken back into one of the orphanages he had been in before. Unfortunately, he was having a dream one night and was rolling over quite a bit, which caused the wind in his room to move about and break both the window and his bed frame. It was after that incident that he was finally dropped off at the Outcast Orphanage, because none of the other orphanages in the area he had been in would take him back.

Other: Zaku has a tendency to sleep through his alarm no matter how early he goes to sleep or how late his alarm is set, making him late for pretty much everything. He is also frequently found wearing his signature t-shirt with the yin yang on it. It's a bit small on him, however, it's the only shirt that he has other than his school clothes. He cleans it each night before going to sleep, so it doesn't smell, though it is rather faded from the years of use.