Age: 27
Gender: Male
Appearance:
A young male look with clean shaven skin and a sharp chin. His bright green eyes are what normally attracts the ladies along with his sly grin and easy going style. Haku constantly has problems with his auburn hair getting in the way of his vision, so he sometimes keeps it back with a bright blue paper clip he found one day. When he can be bothered, he'll make a jagged cut with a knife to shorten his hair just above eye level in the front and just below his ears on the sides and back. The male's figure is slender and tall, not showing much muscle and making him rely more on his speed than his overall power in combat. He stands at relatively 5'11" and finds he looks down on others rather often.
His attire is simple. A blue-green two toned T-shirt with holes in the arms and stomach region, black denim jeans, and ragged tennis shoes. Sometimes he wore finer clothing and armor if he knew he would be heading to the arena that day. For those times he dressed in tight fitting black shirt and pants with metal plates underneath the leather. The plates lined the outfit on his chest, shins, and shoulders while he wore gloves to protect his hands. The metal plates aligning on the back of his hands for extra protection from disarming attacks. He is also normally found with a backpack on his shoulders where he carries his change of clothes along with other miscellaneous things.
Mission:
Funny. You think a male who deals with the rat king has a purpose? His mission is to live the next day. When that goal is achieved, he'll work out whether he keeps his goal or makes the next one to survive whatever adventure he plans for himself.
Powers/Skills:
- Has the ability to shapeshift if he possesses the skin of the animal he is planning to shift into. He possesses a crow feather, a ragged piece of bear hide, and every once in awhile he finds himself a rat carcass to use until it rots.
- Very agile
- Can wield a sword well
- Without the skins of animals, he has no ability to transform and use his abilities.
- Being fast only gets him so far. His strength is limited though he isn't weak and can hold his own in an arm wrestle. He just can't take down men twice his size or have the power to throw a human more than two feet.
- Personality-wise, it becomes a coin flip whether he will accept a dangerous challenge. Sometimes he can be convinced into wanting to fight a god. Sometimes he won't even take up a challenge from someone in the arena in Harosa City. Guess it's a side effect to where he lives.
Let's start with when he was 10. Easy, he lived an okay life in the chaos that filled the world. Sure, his family had the hardest time keeping him alive as well as the rest, but who doesn't when a god is displeased with your race? He grew up pretty fast and his mind already knew the dangers the world held.
What he didn't know is how quickly he could be taken by his own kind and used to try and build the "perfect God". Humans are stupid creatures, always wanting to play god or fix something that isn't in their control. He was kidnapped by a pair of males who took him to a facility, telling him his family would live if he stayed quiet and let them do what they wanted. Being a kid still even though he matured fast still made him want to leave and he fought ruthlessly to stop them from doing what they wanted to him. He was only 10 though against grown-ups. They used him anyway.
Years went by and he had accepted his fate to be an experiment. They poked and prodded him trying to create something with the chaos the god had given them. Using Crystals, Snowfire, anything they could get their hands on that might have a reaction to DNA or skin. Kids and adults alike experienced this torture that these scientists called "Advancing the human race". What a bunch of nonsense. Haku suffered burns, electrocution, severe headaches and more to this place and for awhile it became normal. His mind no longer cared what happened to his body as long as he got rest and food the next morning.
They used a strange substance they found to give him the ability to morph into animals, the process was severe and most experiments that had the substance injected into their bloodstream died from the amount of pain they went through. Haku was apparently made of tougher stuff, but nothing happened. They were baffled that his body accepted what they lodged into him, yet nothing changed. The little boy at age 15 was deemed a failure.
The fateful day he was to be terminated, something amazing happened. Well, not amazing. They had brought him into a room and held a syringe up. They told him it would all be over soon and just before they injected him with the poison, a female walked into the room with a sly smirk on her face. She wasn't a scientist, she was another experiment who had caramel wings. This woman was around the same age as him as she pointed to the researchers and said "You want to kill him? Let him go out with a bang. Then you get two failed creatures out of your way and some entertainment on the side." Her words didn't make sense, but she soon explained that she wanted to die fighting, not with a needle to the arm.
A week later the two failures were placed in a fenced in area, barbed wire lining it all the way around and a roof over their head. Haku was determined to live and maybe find a way to live. The female... her eyes showed an alternate motive. As they fought, the boy's attacks were to kill while the girl try to weaken him. She went for his shins and torso to knock the wind out of him or cause him to pause his actions because of the pain. When she started landing more than a few hits, she had already gotten a bloody nose and a rib or two might have been broken. She still held a big grin though as she fought him, as if she knew he wouldn't win.
In a snap moment in the middle of the fight, the female moved her hands up to the roof and flames burned a large hole into the metal, flimsy roof of the pen they had been placed in. It grew and grew as the scientists frantically looked around for a gun or another way to stop the experiment from causing more damage. A scoffed left her lips and when the hole was big enough, she grabbed the boy in her arms and used her wings to fly out of the hole, their escape was flawless. The woman made her way towards a forest that had been crystallized by the chaos the god had brought down on the world. It became their home for awhile.
Years went back and the male dealt with the heat the forest gave off in the day time while the female thrived off the warmth. They both suspected this was perhaps one of the many places the scientists gathered materials from. It would explain the woman's happiness and ability to ignite flames from air molecules. It got to a point though where the 20 year old boy longed for an adventure though, and he bid his friend farewell. He promised to find her again one day and heading off on his own.
On his travels he found out about his power to shapeshift and embraced it to fill in his weak stature. He bought bear hide from a merchant with a meager amount of coins he had from either stealing or doing the oddball jobs no one else did in the places he found civilizations. He used this skin to become a strong grizzly and keep himself from dealing with a lot of troublesome situations. Of course, in his spare time he worked to use his skinny figure to his advantage, learning to wield a sword with grace and precision.
On his travels he found Harosa City, reduced to rumble and met the Rat King herself. They didn't exactly get along at first and he found himself trapped again in a new place. This time though... he was given a chance to do something about it. The Arena became a proving ground for him and somehow he was able to impress the Rat King enough to become one of her subordinates that was able to leave. He became a loyal champion for her. It allowed him to leave the sewers as he saw fit and come back later on in the day with a possible scolding from the short female. Even though some might have thought he was better off wandering again instead of staying in a rat hole, he preferred where he was now. His reasoning has never really been made clear.
Companion:
When he was on his long journey before Harosa City, he had come across an injured Crow that he nursed back to health in a nearby city. The crow soon became the other half of him and when he made his way to the sewers, he made the bird stay outside where it could easily fly away. Haku resurfaces from the sewers every day to meet with his companion and hang out before being called back to the sewers for a challenge or because Marinth got bored with her subjects.