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[Sigfried Hunin]

General Description:
Height: 5’11”
Weight: 155
Hair: Silver
Eyes: Yellow hazel

Gozen has a lithe, slender frame and stands slightly shorter than his actual height, due to his perpetual crouching hunch. He wears dark red ninjutsugi (the clothing that the stereotypical ninja wears) adorned with intricate gold embroidery depicting clouds across his shoulders. Black edges line the sleeves and the folds of the chest. A thick black leather girdle wraps tightly around his waist fitted with a large bronze buckle depicting a goblin’s grinning face. Strips of bandage are wrapped tightly around each hand, the palms soiled with soot and grime from regular use. Skin tight cloth lies under his ninjutsugi, riding up his neck and covering the space of the arm before his hand wraps.

The most notable feature of his appearance is his tarnished bronze Oni mask, depicting a grinning demon. The mask hangs over his face with seemingly no support, his yellow tinted eyes glaring from beneath. His wild silver hair writhes out from the edge of the mask and scatters out behind his head in almost every direction.

A large kanabo (a type of metal spiked club) hangs from his waist with several tiny bells and ribbons hanging from the haft. The black iron of the head is covered in overlapping paper seals, holy wards written in red. The bells jingle with every step he takes, bringing a faint ring to everywhere he goes.

Combat

Gozen’s fighting style is anything but traditional. He employs a great variety of acrobatic maneuvers with a speed and precision that makes them a bewildering blur of spinning, flipping and other general evasive and deceptive maneuvers. Known even to clutch his heels together and spin like a top or balance on one foot in the middle of combat, no manner of acrobatic tomfoolery is out of his range!
He prefers to avoid the others attacks and lash back out with energy attacks, often putting all that he has into a single counter in order to put down his opponents.

While he carries a metal club at his hip, he rarely uses it in combat. This is both due to his evasive nature, and due to its ancient construction. It might easily be broken if brought to bear against more hearty opponents, and as his means of banishing evil spirits, he would rather keep the relic intact.

Notable Relations

Belle Hibiki:
Gozen found Belle’s flying ship amidst the woods in a bid to track down the Dragon Balls. Belle met him in combat, and during the battle attuned himself to his past in a bid to find any weaknesses. Belle still won the encounter however, maintaining his claim to the Dragon Ball. While they have not interacted since, the red haired saiyan hangs on Gozen’s mind often since the encounter.


Custom Techniques

Spirit Sight:

Gozen can see and hear the spirits of those who are dead, but not quite in the realm of the spirit world. This might apply to a spirit who has returned from the spirit world without a corporeal body, or those that have simply not moved on. This technique does not allow Gozen to interact with the spirits or speak to them if he would be otherwise unable to.

Darkvision:
Prerequisite: Spirit Sight

Gozen can see other living beings perfectly in the dark or with very light concealment such as fog by seeing their spiritual energy.

Exorcise:

Gozen’s kanabo is designed specifically to exorcise spirits and foreign consciousnesses from objects and people. Gozen strikes the subject of possession, his own ki striking out at theirs in a direct competition, expending one Power Point. This many times will dislodge the offending spirit or mind, at the very least weakening their grip on the victim's body. It may have the unfortunate side effect of injuring the subject of the possession as the offending spirit...

Astral Projection:

Gozen can separate his spirit from his body and travel short distances without having to physically go there. He may fly around, but cannot phase through solid materials as you might expect of a ghost. His spiritual form is still able to be detected by those with Ki Sense, and scouters and other energy reading devices may react to him as well. His physical form is susceptible in this state, completely unaware of what is happening around him. If he is injured or moved while in this state he quickly returns to his body in a dazed condition for a few seconds.

Banish:
Prerequisites: Astral Projection

Sometimes kicking a spirit out of a body just isn’t enough. With especially malign or evil spirits, Gozen will go into a personal spiritual duel with the incorporeal spirit. In this spiritual duel, Gozen wages battle against the ghost, and if victorious, he effectively sends the spirit to the appropriate afterlife. He may not send a spirit to and inappropriate afterlife. For example, he may not send a nun’s spirit to Hell.
During this spirit battle, his physical body susceptible, because he is completely unaware of it other than a fleeting tinge when physical contact is made with his body. If he is moved or injured while in this state, it immediately tears him back to his body and he is stunned for a short period of time. He may not engage in the banishing if the spirit still inhabits a person or object.

This ability does not take the place of telepathy, and he cannot use the power for any other purpose than banishing evil spirits which are between the living world and the dead.

Ultimate Balance:

An acrobatic master, Gozen is capable of amazing feats of balance and poise on the battlefield. Capable of such feats as standing on one leg on a ship swaying at sea or perching atop the head of a pin (if it doesn’t break, that is), Gozen’s abilities seem to be tied to his agility and his deep connection with his own ki force.


Roleplay Notes:

Flight:
Gozen refuses to learn how to fly by means of ki, and thus uses the transport of the Cumulus Cloud, a small blue cloud that inexplicably carries the weight of the exorcist. It will occasionally aid him in combat by providing a means of flight, but it is usually far too unreliable to count on for battle.


Threads

Stepping Through the Ethereal
Mission: Resurrection Impossible
[SPAR] Belle vs. Gozen

[Vad]

Oh right. You can edit your own roster now. Let me delete the staff post and you can just post in it's place. =D

[Sigfried Hunin]

Holy wow, magic!