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AU notes: He was first created as a character for the "Dead&Dying" (2019) Roleplay event from the BSD Big Bang server. This version of him is the ORIGINAL and CANON timeline, that is later on mirrored into the modern AU story.
Birthday: June 1
Origin: ====
Occupation: Mercenary, Mafia intel
Height: 178cm
Weight: 67kg
Family members: adopted sisters Ophelia and Shikayo, Spouses Kotik and Cha
Element: Electric
Preferred weapon: Daggers
Specialties: Elektrokinesis, close-quarters combat, cold weaponry, Stealth, Tracking
Brash and aggressive with mouth of a sailor. Impulsive, but wth sharp intuition to follow up on his moves. Dislikes a chaotic environment, so if nobody is leading, he takes charge to keep everything and everyone in order. In combat, he is as silent and as fast as his blades. He deals with problems and enemies with lethal efficiency.
Now in his peaceful life, Rakurai's explosive temper has mellowed down. He doesn't yell as much but still ends up cursing. His usually glaring expression only hides the fact that he is a curious and healing soul. He is also very much new to affection and struggles to accept and express it.
Unfotunately, the ashes of war is still lingering in the corners of his eyes, leaving him with aversion to sudden noise and touches. His senses are still subconsciously high. Only when he is around his loved ones does he let his guard down, and enjoy the moment as it is.
born during the Border States War.
Orphaned very early. Grew up with a traveling Mercenary group after they had scavenged (and "rescued" him) from a nearby town. Rakurai was later on trained in their ways and believing in the unending war around him
Age 11: Awakened his electric prowess, giving him a new importance in the group. Was rigourously trained to master his capabilities very early.
Age 13: meets Kuva after another subgroup of the mercenaries regrouped with them in their base. Being nearly the same age (Kuva was 14yo), they immediately became friends.
Age 15: Kuva awakened his ice powers. Their synergy immediately became a lethal weapon against their enemies, and because of this, the Mercenary group started to prepare them for more dangerous missions. Rakurai was trained in different types of combat and frontal infiltration and assaults, meanwhile Kuva was trained in espionage, negotiation, and firearms.
Age 16: Started seeing the damages they were causing when he had stumbled upon displaced families hiding in a shelter. Rakurai was told to leave as his job is now done and the higher ups will be handling them. Rakurai asks Kuva about this, but Kuva dismissed it.
Age 19: "The Siege" operation was now in effect, in which they were to take control of a major city to put out their demands to the Central city. Unfortunately, Rakurai and Kuva's team were only sent on a suicide mission for an underhanded scheme, and plenty of Rakurai's comrades fell because of the misinformation that was fed to them. It turns out that Rakurai and Kuva were going to be traded in exchange for safe passage in the city, among other benefits.
Rakurai was unable to control his emotions and went berserk, harming allies, foes and civilians alike. In order to stop Rakurai from burning himself out, Kuva stepped in and was fatally wounded as a result. Rakurai snapped out of it and only witnessed Kuva's fall before Rakurai was eventually subdued by the enemy. Rakurai was thrown to prison was scheduled to be executed.
Age 20: Escaped prison and went to take revenge on the Mercenary group— tracking their main leaders and killing them.
Age 21-22: Travelled while laying low. It was during this traveling that he picked up Ophelia and Shikayo, who also lost their parents and were struggling to keep themselves well. Rakurai brought them to a safer town and started working small and quick jobs to give them their necessities and a small room to stay in.
Age 22: Took the job offer of a small escort mission to the next town over when he runs into trouble. What he did not expect was Kuva— seemingly alive and changed— appearing again. Learns that Kuva didn't die and recovered from his wound. Their clashing personalities and point of view of that time in the past made their reunion very strained. After the escort mission, he was favoured very well by the couple in the group and was offered a place to stay where he can bring Ophelia and Shikayo along.
Age 23: moved in with the couple (Kotik and Cha) in another town where Rakurai started working around their restaurant. He was able to send the sisters over for basic schooling too. Kuva decided to stick around and become the local gossiper (he has a job but nobody knows what it is).
The Border States War has also ended by now, and related entities (Mercenary group, Governing state groups) have been disbanded. Though plenty of investigation was done, many were left unchecked, including Rakurai's whereabouts and punishment.
Age 25: finds out Kuva is going to become a Sentinel— a chosen person by the Favorkeepers to assist them in combatting corruptive entities in the world. Rakurai is pissed yet again because Kuva withold another story of what happened when he supposedly died. Despite his initial disdain for this, Rakurai wanted to join Kuva, and this issued a challenge to a Favorkeeper to become a Sentinel.
request was continuously denied, making Rakurai frustrated. Decided to make an independent organization where he started training others.
- He was originally created as an OC for a Bungou Stray Dogs roleplay event "Dead&Dying (2019)", from the BSD Big Bang server.
- His last name Hatsuho is similar to that of Hatsuho Naito, author of 'Thunder Gods', a book recollecting experiences of survivors of the Kamikaze missions. Taking this last name is a homage to the BSD casts having real life inspirations.
- He and Kuva are partners in every universe.
- His name "Rakurai" is the Japanese name of the Pokemon Electrike, but he has been compared to a Pikachu most of the time instead.
- Emoji: ⚡🍵
