Ayanami

Character Outline
Appearance: Ayanami looks to be a young man in his mid-to-late twenties. He stands at 5 foot 8, with a slender build. He has sharp facial features with a pointy nose, narrowed eyes and full lips, and pale skin. His hair is neck length, wavy and white with a soft blue tint at times, his eyes are violet, though at times the use of his abilities will give them a red tint. He usually is found wearing a black and golden trimmed uniform, along with a golden sword given to him by his employer that hangs from the golden belts he wears around his waist over the uniform.

Personality: Ayanami by and large comes off as cold, callous and rather aloof toward the world. This is largely due to his involvement with the worst sort of people the world has to offer, due to the simplistic fact he's been working for a rather important demon lord for the last thousand or so years of his life (give or take a few centuries). It might also have to do with the fact he had to deal with the loss of his entire family and clan at a rather young age as well as the fact that neither side of his heritage care to acknowledge his existence and in fact one side of it wanted him dead even.

Thus he discarded what remained of his childhood and began a charade which eventually ended up costing him a good deal of his power due to his desire for revenge. He hates being given mercy by his opponents due to certain events which happened while he was younger and will often lash out at any sign of it (or pity for that matter) which is extended to him. He is rather strong-willed (though some have called it stubbornness) and will refuse to give in to showing visible weakness if he can. He is quiet and always polite when speaking to others, he rarely shows any facial expressions and always speaks in mono-tone. He is an excellent tactician and is very rarely caught off guard and only shows surprise when opponents are stronger than he originally thought.

However...while he may be is level-headed when on business out in the field, Ayanami is quick to loose his temper and is not above using violence (mainly whipping or using his kuinshi abilities) to discipline his subordinates when they do stupid things to annoy him. He also does not trust people easily and thus tends to hold almost everyone he interacts with at arms-length in terms of friendship or other emotional involvement.

Specific Strengths/Weaknesses: Ayanami possesses two weapons beyond his racial abilities; one which he's kept from his birthplace and one which his current demonic employer has given him. The first looks like a pair of innocent and harmless flat pieces of silver metal and in the hands of anyone who hasn't kuinshi blood, that is all they are. However, in the hands of a kuinshi they become rather wicked weapons capable of cutting through flesh, muscle tissue and bone with little effort due to the fact the blade of the weapons is made up of pure vibrating energy fed through the flat silver handle that makes up the hilt of the energy swords.

The other sword is nothing near as unique, the only special qualities that it holds is the fact it will not break, no matter the pressure exerted against it. It also will cut through any man-made material as well as the men who make such things. It's last feature is to enable Ayanami to focus what little of his shinigami abilities remain through it and thus make use of them when and if he so desires to.

Character History
Ayanami was born to the Nagata line of Kuinshi and Sanada Daiki, as Nagata Verloren. His birth caused no small amount of stir among the ranks of Kuinshi considering that his father was a shinigami. His father had fled Seireitei due to differences with his co-workers and the government there, upon discovering the Nagata Kuinshi clan, he stayed to learn more about them and eventually fell in love with one, bringing the first kuinshi and shinigami crossbreed into the world.

It was six years later after the Ayanami's birth that the Shinigami from Seireitei attacked the first Kuinshi line, wiping them out within a single night and starting the long Kuinshi-Shinigami war. Upon finding out what had happened to the one line, Sanada sought to educate his new family's people in war tactics and fighting, since they had never actually ever fought on such a scale before. His son while not actively involved in this training eventually begin to attempt training himself in secret, because the boy realized that due to views held by other lines of Kuinshi, and due to the war, he and his father would be unwelcome with any of the other fighting lines due to the fact that his father was a shinigami and he himself wasn't purely kuinshi.

It was going on seven years after the start of the war when the Nagata clan suffered at the hands of the shinigami, he didn't see the slaughter which happened, but he could hear it from the area where he'd been hidden. Unfortunately he chose not to remain so hidden the entire time and on seeking to leave the hiding place witnessed a shinigami captain strike his father down not too far away. Fortunately, the captain missed seeing the boy amid the destruction and departed with his command shortly afterward. On viewing the destruction and death of the those he'd grown up with in addition to his parents, the boy decided to get revenge upon the captain and his men for their actions. It took him some planning, but thanks to certain factors of the current situation of the war and his birth, Ayanami was able to create an elaborate charade so as to join up with the shinigami's forces.

It was during the closing of the war when a group of shinigami grew sick of fighting and began rebelling that Ayanami finally began to put his revenge into action. Turning on and killing those troops from the squad who'd caused his clan's murders when he and they were sent onto missions to try and crush what remained of the Kuinshi forces. As the war ended and the army dispersed, Ayanami continued his vengeance, tracking down the remainder of those he'd sworn to kill and then in a vicious twist he decided to visit upon the shinigami what they had done to the Kuinshi, slaying entire families of the shinigami he had marked for death.

It was after he'd wiped out the last of his targets when he had been tracked down and attacked by a shinigami vice-captain that had been ordered to deal with him. The vice-captain caught him after he'd exhausted himself with the slaying of the last estate and easily took him down and removed his weapon and with the weapon, a large portion of Ayanami's shinigami abilities from his possession. After failing to kill the vice-captain and failing to force the man to kill him, Ayanami now held a new goal, being to track now the vice-captain and retrieve what had been stolen from him.

It was not to long after he'd began his new hunt that he was approached by a demon prince and offered a job and a new weapon. Seeing how the job could actually aid him in his goal, he agreed to work for the demon and thus began the current chapter in his life, over time gaining a new 'family' of sorts during his work for the demon and in his continued search for the vice-captain.