Gaianame: Honsuke Yakura
Name: Swift Itsu
Appearance: At five-foot-ten Swift is not the tallest of people, nor, from the exterior, does he appear to be the most powerful, however, his body is well built. With his height and weight being above average, and his meals being just enough to sustain him, he has built a muscular frame, one that would only be expected of a martial artist. His training has given him enough speed and muscle to win most battles he encounters. In addition to this, he has had extensive training in wind, which has given him the look of the very wind itself; he is weathered with a complex frame and weathered look. His complexion is lightly tanned, but his torso holds a different tone, one that seems more rugged, with an undertone of art. Swift’s body represents all that he holds dear to himself: Art, and the wind.
Clothing: His normal garb for warmth, is a white blouse, with black kahkis, and black and white running shoes. He wears his white blouse with the neck button and top button un-done, and the bottom two buttons un-done. In the cold, he wears a black jacket, normally letting it stay open - the cold does not bother him in the least.
Swift wears litte to nothing for the most part because of his unique adaptation to the cold, and to the world around him. With his tuning to the outside world, he is capable of adjusting the wind currents to nullify cold winds and warm winds around him to ensure that he is of a comfortable temperature at all times.
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Age: 21
Race: Human (Elementalist)
Likes: Swift loves art, music and novels. To him, there is nothing better than art. When he is by himself, he often stares off in the distance; a close friend of his was quoted in saying “He just stared at the trees for hours, day turned to night, and night turned to day, and not once did he even move.... I dropped a plate in the room beside him, and it didn't even phase him, he just kept starring." The reason for this, is that Swift feels as though his true quest in life is to find true, untouched and unfiltered beauty.
In addition to this, Swift is also well known for his writing, and many find that he is constantly immersed in his work, and shoves reality off to the side to immerse himself in a pool of literary genius. For those who have read his works, they all seem stunned by his abilities. Literary critics have praised him to be one of the best men of words from his era. But despite the vocabulary, Swift is not pretentious and prefers to be equal to everyone else instead of placing himself ahead of others.
Dislikes: As for dislikes. Swift is pretty straight forward. For those who do not respect others, he holds a loathing for, and would rather pluck them of their existence, than let them live and harm others. He detests all who attempt to desecrate art, and all those who have art and use it to their unfair advantage. He hates the pretentious and the arrogant, along with those who chose to obstruct his views or try and harm others.
When it comes to opponents, he never fights them with vigor unless they have offended him, and in combat, there is nothing he hates more than a man of no honor and a man who goes back on his word. If he finds a man of betrayal, then he will attack with vehemence.
Personality:
Swift's personality can be summed up in a few words, but to do this, there needs to be an understanding of how he works. In the humors, he is a balance of melancholic, phlegmatic, and choleric, in other words, he enjoys his own pains and sorrows, but cares little about the material things in life, and if his intuition is overcome, anger strikes like the blast of a solar flare. To most people, he is rather kind. He finds that everyone has their qualities and that everyone also has their flaws, but many flaws - even the violent flaws - are beautiful in his eyes. As you may have guessed, Swift is an artist. He is a daydreamer, a painter, musician, writer, and a wishful thinker who wants nothing more than peace in life; he wants to see the choice of happiness, but wait to chose it. But this puts Swift in the state of depression. Most of the time, he is found drowning himself dryly in his own sorrows, as to prevent others from caring about what is wrong in his life, and to view them in his own manner; in a sense he would rather pain his own portrait than let another give his own rendering; it demonstrates to him what is truly in his soul, and what rests inside of him to come to understand.
Swift is a very kind and generous person, and treats them with equal dignity and respect until they prove themselves unworthy of such treatment, or worthy of treatment of a higher order. However, this does not stop Swift from doing what he feels to be kind, which is being as blunt as possible. He believes that hiding behind words is not an intelligent way to face life and feels that everyone must know the truth before they chose to live a lie. This is simply who he is, however, and not of what he wants for others. Swift wants nothing more than to be treated the same way as he treats others and nothing more, he does not want any better treatment, or any special treatment, he just wants to be viewed as the average person. In a sense he wants solitude.
This is essentially what he is searching for in life, thus explaining his very introvert self where he works to fix himself, and he affects himself only in the manner in which he interprets events that have occurred.
Powers: Swift is naturally capable of controlling the element of wind, how he was given this gift is a mystery, even to those who have known him his entire life, however, there is a uniqueness to how he manages to control it. Many people control wind as wind currents, however, he controls wind as a whole, as though it were physically graspable. He controls air and wind not just the simple view of wind alone.
Below are his forms of wind manipulation
Basic Manipulation –
Basic manipulation is rather straightforward, as the name states. It consists of little to do with manipulating wind on an offensive/defensive level, and instead focuses on the basic wind currents. It allows him to change the trajectory of wind currents and pull warm currents in closer and push cold currents out (and vise versa). This allows him to change the make of the air around him to either heat an area or to cool an area off.
In addition to this basic manipulation consists of the ability to create currents in areas that otherwise would not have them. The extent of basic manipulation actually allows Swift to alter the make of the currents. This meaning that he can also turn hot to cold and vise versa. In the end, basic manipulation would be used to gradually melt large masses of ice and to turn flames to ashes.
Gust Manipulation –
One of the more commonly seen forms of manipulation amongst wind users is gust manipulation, where wind is released in blasts. These gusts can take on the form of anything. This particular form of manipulation has no set limits on it’s abilities. The most basic form of gust manipulation is a simple gust of wind (hence the name). These gusts steadily progress from enough to knock an enemy backwards, to being able to (sacrificing the full extent of their energy) clearing an area of land. However, gusts can take different shapes other than straight. Gust manipulation becomes much more complex in it’s latter forms.
Another form of gust manipulation is the ability to create spiraling winds, this allows the user to push a mass of wind that spirals in either a clock-wise or counter-clockwise direction. This goes to the point of creating undertows in water and tornadoes in the skies. While this form of gust manipulation is more so a branch that consists of parries and defenses, the common trait in the all, is the ability to suspend move objects in spiraling motions and to use weaponry from a distance.
A less common form of gust manipulation, because of it’s difficulty level, is one that Swift unconsciously has been known to use. This is counter spiral. In this form of gust manipulation, Swift spirals wind in as few as two to an unquantifiable number of directions to create counter spirals. This creates a blast that is not only unexpected, but capable of cutting holes in solid objects and has a higher push force than the basic gust manipulation, and a faster spin rate than the spiral manipulation.
Friction manipulation –
This is one of the less well known forms of wind manipulation simply because it is always overlooked and believed to ‘just come’. However, this is not the case, this particular form of manipulation requires such massive concentration, and is quite deceiving in how it functions. Most believe that you simply rapidly rub wind currents together, however this is not the case. How Swift has managed this style, is by focusing on wind as millions of different pieces He then forces them into a small place and creates rapid movement. This creates massive amounts of friction, and cuts the size of each gust from long streams, to small points that rapidly vibrate and move in a specific pattern to create a long line of knives moving back and forth. There are many ways to use this.
As an attack, Swift can use this ability in projectile form, to fester around his body and release from a distance in the form of a second self; this, however, becomes visible wind, and if it misses will become moot. However, this is rare for Swift to use. Instead of using it as a projectile, Swift has a tendency to simply surround a portion of his body, normally his fists, in the rapid movement, so that he may not only increase the range of his attacks, but increase their damage drastically. The downfall to this is that it requires a fair bit of concentration and can become quite tedious for him to use because of the concentration that is involved.
As a defense, Swift uses wind in the same way as he would the projectile attack, however, he positions it in the area of an attack to not only stop the attack, but damage the attacker in the process, it is a perfect counter, and can only be stopped by something of equal or greater force. The benefit of this defense, however, is that he can adjust the temperature to his own needs, therefore, he can freeze a fist when it hits, or burn the skin when an attack fails.
Weapon Support –
The extreme benefit that Swift has in weaponry combat, is that he is capable of extending the range of his attacks. If he has his hands on a staff, he is capable of extending a possible 10 foot reach, to over 20 feet, and manipulate the extended reach. He can also use Friction manipulation around the weapon to increase it’s damage. This form of support manipulation not only gives him the upper hand in weapons battle, but also gives him a style that eludes to an opening that is not truly there, something that the opponent can only fathom when the extended part of the weapon moves; at all other times, the extensions are completely transparent.
Specialty –
Swift’s specialty sits with combinations. He has been known to use friction with a counter spiral blast, and is well known for his capabilities with gust manipulation to make himself levitate. In addition to this, he has been known to be capable of doing multiple manipulations at once, this is where his gift title comes from. His name is more than just a name, it is a definition of who Swift truly is. A genius at the wind, a master of his unique element.
Weapons: Swift uses two different main weapons. His primary weapon is found in it’s sheath on his back. A single katana, made of reinforced steel. The bonus to this, is that it was designed, not to be special, but rather to be light and aerodynamic. In addition, it is made with a groove running down the center on both sides, this allows him to create a protective barrier of wind around the blade with ease, so that it doesn’t take as much damage, and lessens all impacts taken.
His other weapon is an eight foot boa, which folds into four, and is hidden in one piece on his back. This staff has specially designed ends to be perfect for the aiding in wind manipulation. By releasing the connections of the boa, he can not only turn it into a chain weapon, but he can then use it as a whip and manipulate the air between the chains to alter the effects of the attack. This demonstrates the true potential of his abilities. The boa is designed from stone, allowing all temperatures to hit it as to prevent freezing, melting, fire hazards.
Bio: Swift was born to a loving family who nurtured his every need. They were considered wealthy and were of high society. His life was well off, with an early introduction to artistry and music, his parents having had the money to afford such royalties, and was quickly discovering his true passion in life as they embarked him on the path of higher education with languages. His family was ideal, few travails, and few obstacles in their way, everything seemed to be sunny-side-up. But things went down hill during an outing. They were traveling by horse back through the forests when a storm hit. It wasn’t that bad at first, so they decided to take their time on the way home. But light rain turned into thunderstorms, and thunderstorms turned into flooding. Pretty soon, they were fleeing as quick as their steeds could go, but a rumble in the ground pulled them all short of their goal.
From atop the neighboring hill, mud began to slide, rocks began to tumble, and from all sides, water began to crash down like nothing they had seen before. Swift’s horse fell first, and then fell his mothers; and it was by her hand that he was saved, but by her hand that she hand given her life. His father had been crushed beneath rocks, and his mother had drowned while trying to hold Swift above the water. Swift’s parents died when he was eight, and he was left with no one but his aunt and uncle.
But at the age of sixteen, even though his aunt and uncle had aided him with mastering every ability he had, and nourished every talent he possessed, try as they might to mend the wounds of the past, Swift still felt the loss and felt a certain emptiness. While it was not the yearning for his parents, it was rather the yearning for finding his ultimate goal: beauty in its true and untouched form.
Since the day he left, he has done all he can to maintain a decent life, however, he doesn’t care about food; all he needs is paper and a pencil, and his life is set.
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