Kanpekina
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| What price perfection? | |
| Kanpekina | |
| Player: @Talen Lee | |
| Origin: | Natural |
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| Archetype: | Stalker |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Unknown |
| Known Aliases: | None |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | Uncertain, late adolescent |
| Height: | 4'10" |
| Weight: | 96 lbs |
| Eye Color: | Blue[1] |
| Hair Color: | Strawberry blonde[2] |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Confidential |
| Occupation: | Assassin |
| Place of Birth: | Confidential |
| Base of Operations: | Confidential |
| Marital Status: | Confidential |
| Known Relatives: | Confidential |
| Known Powers | |
| Confidential | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Ki manipulation, stealth, martial arts, infiltration. | |
| Equipment | |
| Confidential | |
| No additional information available. | |
- Everyone always hates Week Three. Like calculus, it's straight Maaaaannnn When Are We Ever Gonna Use Thiiiiis
- - Achewood
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Character
Kanpekina, out of perhaps necessity, is a quiet, polite, discrete young man who often stammers or falls quiet in surprise. Withdrawn and quiet, it therefore comes as something of a surprise when he demonstrates a capacity to flip out and murder someone.
When Kanpekina operates as an assassin, his hair is bleached white - this actually makes hiding harder, and while he has the means to hide or colour his hair, he remains still with that streak of whiteness. This suggests something of Kanpekina's personality, where he has a streak of daring to himself. This seems a more recent development, where Kina is seen wearing more fashionable clothing and even seen sneaking around in more public locations and engaging in theoretically recreational tasks.
Character History
Kanpekina's history before coming to the Rogue Isles was a scattered tale which involved a number of martial arts masters. His status as a savant meant that more than a few martial arts masters, whose were afraid their styles would be lost with their deaths, saw him as a perfect repository for this information[3].
Kanpekina came to the Rogue Isles under his own steam, and was withdrawn on the question of why. Fortunately, through his career in the Isles, he has had few people ask. During the dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse across the Rogue Isles, however, a vision of Kina was seen by a number of Fortunata, arriving in Lord Recluse's meeting chamber with Recluse's helmet.
The details of what transpired after this point are uncertain. Due to Kanpekina's work for Ghost Widow, he was called to meet with Lord Recluse, where security footage demonstrates nothing was actually said. Recluse sized Kina up, and after a long, tense confrontation, dismissed Kina. After this day, it seems Kanpekina has taken to removing his blindfold at times and stopped colouring his hair orange.
Affiliations
Kanpekina contracts through Riot Gear. Of all Riot Gear operatives, he's one of the more solitary, but he has worked at times with Drift Racer, Soubrette, and Moroii. Due to his independent nature, he's more often an information gatherer for other, less subtle excursions.
Powers
Kanpekina is a martial arts savant, with the capacity to learn martial techniques with minimal exposure. Provided he witnesses the act first-hand (to observe the ki signatures within the subject), he is capable of replicating that ki signature himself. He doesn't overcorrect and his memory for martial techniques is almost flawless.
Due to that, he has a hybridised style composed of high points of manifold martial styles. So many different martial arts focus on developing a certain mindset, a certain mode of ki attenutation. Since Kanpekina doesn't need to maintain that mindset, he can simply chain the most powerful attack modes from a variety of styles together, as well as the finest defensive maneuvers.
Of course, the offensive style he focuses on means that those defensive maneuvers are sometimes put at odds. Given his focus on offense, he sometimes leaves large openings with his opponents... not that they often can capitalise on it, given their tendency to wind up dead.
Weaknesses and Limitations
Kanpekina is a normal human being. He cannot fly, and has to scale surfaces by hand, and his ki manipulation is limited in many cases by interacting with creatures with unnatural ki signatures. While Ghosts (who are almost nothing but life energy) and Robots (who have such simple energy signatures they can be easily disrupted) pose little threat to him, Rikti are much harder for him to 'remove'[4]. Due to his sense of professionalism and ambition, however, he doesn't let that stop him in his pursuit of Rikti targets when he's hired to deal with them.
Metatext
RP Notes
- Kina isn't taking comissions any more. Since successfully assassinating Lord Recluse, he's realised he has no idea what to do with his hugely extravagent renumeration.
- Kina's reward is in fact currently arranged in big bricks of money that he has made into a small fort.
Themes
Created on May 28, 2008, Kanpekina was my reaction to test out the new changes to the changes made to the Stalker, to boost its value in PVE. His name, according to Wiktionary, is Japanese for 'perfection', and he was made as an attempt on my part to play a less aggressive, dominating personality. Instead, Kina is quiet, polite, and is meant to blend into a crowd much moreso than my other swaggering, loud characters.
Kanpekina is a more powerful character for single-player PVE than my two dominators. Unlike Moroii and Battlebriar, he actually needed no help to deal with Purple Triangle elite bosses. I've had it suggested to me that I play very aggressively, and this streak continues with my stalker. Kanpekina has never felt like some kind of squishy, though he does prefer smaller teams because they offer bigger targets.
Trivia
- Kanpekina includes Taskmaster as one of his inspirations, as well as a cavalcade of short anime prettboys who are lethal as fuck.
- Kanpekina has Energy Transfer, uses it, and enjoys it. You whiny brats.
- Kanpekina is one of my more musically enabled characters, and I find it a lot easier to play him with the right mood music on.
References
- ↑ When working, Kanpekina wears a blindfold and sometimes a mask that conceals the whole of his face.
- ↑ When blindfolded and focusing his chi, Kanpekina's hair bleaches white.
- ↑ Each artist, as he mastered their style, tattooed their sign on Kanpekina's torso.
- ↑ Their energy signatures are as complex as a normal person's, but the special barrier is totally alien.
