Shadows bend and hell crumbles.
Ryu is a man with a dark, and deeply troubling past. He was even born due to an evil act.
Despite everything he's done and been through in his life, he vowed never to fall to evil temptation.
Constantly smiling, it takes great sorrow or anger to remove the sometimes out of place grin from his face. He takes it upon himself to carry his problems in silence, and not to burden anyone else with his own past. He's also a known womanizer and has a unsatisfyable thirst for sake.
Ryu travels with quite a bit, considering he has hardly nowhere to put it.
His main weapon is a stunted katana. Laughably small, it's much more
than meets the eye. From time to time, he'll also carry a heavy, spade-headed spear lashed on his back, alongside the katana. Inside his clothing he hides several throwing stars. Black with silver dragon's winding their way up the cutting prongs, the prongs themselves are curved at wicked 90 degree angles. The design is to allow maiming and severe tearing of tissue and flesh, and to allow embedding. He also carrys several flasks of his favorite drink tucked away inside his top.
Ryu's history is dark, depressing, and in some parts, shrouded in mystery. What matters to him is here and now. To save anyone in distress, to track down his murderous father, and avenge his mother.