Name: Zanshin Rai (Eastern Style)
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Occupation: Alchemist/ Physician/ Astrology consultant
Physical Description: Rai has black hair scruffy mop hair half concealing his green eyes and is 6,2" tall. He wears basic male kimono, bit worn, frayed and shabby in dark green- shoeless. He is shy and retiring keeps himself buried in a book most of the time. He has a horizontal scar across the bridge of his nose and several across his torso and back. He has a slender frame but has quite well developed muscle tone.
Powers/Skills: He has the ability, due to his skill at alchemy, to brew all sorts of herbal remedies and to read signs in the planetary
movements. He is less interested in the side of Alchemy linked to the Philosopher's stone and the transmutation of metals into gold. He is also adept in
martial arts, but not those involving weapons, being a relative pacifist.
Background: Is a distant relative of the Hakumei Yokai family. Three generations back there were twin brothers born into the family. There was
much feuding between the two, but it was evident from the start that one was a more suitable heir to the family, him being honourable, sensible and generally
more tolerant of others, whereas his twin brother was aggressive militant and volatile. When the father named the heir to his land, the rejected twin Kuro
Hitsuji Hakumei became enraged and absconded. Two generations later the family still bearing a grudge against the Hakumei family began to plot against the
current standing family. Akiko, the Hanyo granddaughter of Kuro Hitsuji Hakumei married into the Human Usagi family, to their son Yuki. The Usagi family being
greedy and generally dishonourable were eager to see the Hakumei family fall and to get a share of their land, riches and nobility. Akiko and Yuki had three
sons, Hisoka, Rai and Toshiro. Hisoka was the favourite child, but still suffered the same unsympathetic treatment from his parents as a result of their
attempt to raise their sons as ruthless fighters. The competitive sentiment bred into the children resulted in Hisoka murdering his younger brother Toshiro in
a petty fight. Ever since Rai has been against any form of violence used to harm others rather than in defence. In their eighteenth year the parents introduced
the two sons to the plot against the Hakumei family. However their second son Rai, having a heightened sense of morality disagreed with the plot and stated
this plainly to his parents and surrounding family members. There was uproar and Rai barely escaped with his life, hence the scars. Despite his remaining
loyalty to his family he decided to alert the authorities to their schemes and they were arrested. He has since changed his family name to Zanshin and moved to
Erion city to find the other side of his family and to find his place in the world. He is a reprieved kleptomaniac due to the necessity of thievery during his
3 years of wandering.
(Uses Hakumei family with permission from Lauren aka Elorwin)
(Also if the user name is too strange i.e. the ".thesakurakingdom" bit is to strange i will make a new account, i just got mixed up but i hope it
will be ok, thanks)
