Name : Uno 'Monster' Darkstalker
Description Keeps his hair up in a rough topknot. Skin, tanned. Face : His mother couldn't even love it, dominated by a large scar over his left eye, which he lost along with his wife to the Yaoiists. Torso and arms covered by rough iron chainmail and plate cuirass, ribbed like scales. Wears an eyepatch over his empty left socket, with a red eye traced onto the surface in blood. (His wife's)
Weapons : Main Weapon : Long sword, one sided, curved, nicknamed 'Trahelion Rose'. Other weapons : His entire body, various concealed weapons, extensive knowledge of naughty words.
Affiliation : Sworn enemy of the Yaoi and all who practice/associate/fraternize/sympathize/spend-too-long-staring-at it.
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Theme Song : You Know My Name
Background A retired veteran of the Blightwars of Randland, a sparsely populated ficdom, he met Birgitte Silverbow, a bisexual Yuri activist. They fell quite in love and traveled to several fandoms, spreading the Yuri goodness. (Personally, Uno thought the marriage in spring was rather cliche, but wisely kept his mouth shut to avoid getting his ass shot up with arrows.)
When the Yaoiists attacked, they were in TFF. Uno rushed home to find his wife dead and several Yaoiist assassins standing over her body.
He saw red, and when he came out of it, he was repeatedly stabbing a dead body with a sword stolen off of one of the assassins, and was missing an eye. He bagged and tagged the bodies, and noticing he was missing one.
He was annoyed, but quickly cheered up. The hunt is the best part of the kill, after all.
He wandered the streets for a few days, stabbing occasional dead bodies of Yaoiists to make sure they were dead. He came across a TFF official plastering a poster across a wall in a alleyway.
It read-
SIGN UP FOR TFF ACADEMY - PREPARE FOR THE ASSAULT ON YAOI!
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
He started laughing so hard that he actually broke open his healing eye. Then, he rooted his old armor out of storage, tied an eyepatch around his head, and joined the ranks the next day.
Abilities : Experience In Randland, there were rumors that too much time in the Blight could do funny things to a man. They based this partially on the constant battle and nigh-unexistant rest and food, and the other part on how the things they were fighting were like nightmares made flesh. There are things that dwell in the real nasty parts that can leave a man broken and gibbering and covered in stuff you don't want to identify.
Uno's idea of funny is cutting a man's tongue out and then feeding it to a kitten, before asking him if the cat's got his tongue. So maybe the rumors have a little basis.
Sword Skills : Uno never really cared for all the fancy-schmancy, complicated sword moves. When they asked him to preform Hummingbird Nips the Blossom, he threw a fistful of petals in the eyes of the eyes of his opponent, before nailing him in the groin with his practice sword.
He may not have much aptitude with the more classical forms, but he knows very well how to use a sword. He knows what angle to stab upwards so you can't scream as you die, and he can move onto the next sentry and do it again. He understands that the hilt of the sword can work as a club, and that if you knock a few nails through it it gets even more interesting.
Hand-to-hand : In the camps, they teach a little basic hold and grapple. What's not mentioned is the after-dark no holds barred brawls that men bet their stipends on, and the title of Ring Lord that Uno still holds from the time killed a man by biting off both his ring fingers and shoving them down his throat.
Uno thought it was quite amusing at the time.
The Flame and the Void : While Uno didn't quite get along with the classic drills and excercises, he caught onto this particular form of meditation like clockwork.
Called the Flame and Void, the Oneness by others, the warrior imagines a flame and feeds all his emotions to it, leaving nothing but a white void. Users can process information, analyze situations, think quickly and coldly, while in this state.
Items of Importance : The Trahelion Rose Uno's sword used to be that of a Yaoiist, forged from their blind devotion, and hence, unbreakable and eternally sharp. Said Yaoiist also seemingly had an Anime inclination, as it is in the form of a long katana, and had SasuXNAru MPreG sqEE><!!! written on the blade.
It wasn't too much of a problem painting over that. Uno always had a soft spot for 'Yaoiist Blood Number 5'.
He named it the Trahelion Rose, because Birgitte's maiden name before her legendry archery skills became known was Trahelion, and one of her nicknames was the 'Rose of Shara', Shara being one of the provinces of Randland. Hence, the Trahelion Rose.
The sword will break when their devotion does. Uno doesn't mind. He's prefers breaking their skulls, not their devotion, so he estimates it will last pretty damn long.
Potential For Growth : Uno has seen his fair shitton share of battles, but he knows that he'll only see more as the Assault begins. And with the death of his wife, his attention's been drawn back to the fact that he's still just an ordinary human. He's been considering revisiting those boring old pansy forms of swordfighting, to see what all the hype is about, and as of late, when he enters the Void, he's gotten the feeling that there's a strange sort of light, shining just beyond his vision...
Ally : Ghost of Birgitte Silverbow : Though Uno doesn't realize, that old 'She's still watching over you' line, isn't all sappy bullcrap. As of now, she's only been watching, hoping and praying for his success, but ghosts do tend to get stronger the more they get stressed, as is demonstrated in the Bleach district of TFF.
Birgitte's Abilities : She wasn't called Birgitte Silverbow for nothing. It was known throughout Randland, that when Birgitte shot, she didn't miss.
Ever.
And add that to as much battle experience as Uno, and then some, then throw in some natural girl-ticked-at-being-killed power, and you've got a woman who three different kinds of badass and counting.
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