Kingdom Hearts 2013

Name: Hinode Kyohaku, spelled with the Kanji for sunrise and star

Age: 21

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Appearance: Kyohaku is quite tall and in rather good shape, perhaps as a direct result of the fact that he has to stay in shape in order to ride Light Cycles. A tousled mess of brown hair flutters about this way and that over his sharp face, matching in contrast to his reddish eyes.

He generally wears a high collared uniform with black gloves and pulled over cuffs. The stiff jacket clasps at the front, and matches a pair of fitting dark pants. These pants are usually worn over the tops of heavy boots that are only visible through the bottom of his cuffs.

Over the top of these pants he wears a pair of festooned belts that bear a series of clasps and grommets. Perhaps the most notable aspect, still, are the necklaces with prominent amulets that he wears about his neck. Many of these are aspects of his old life and symbols given to him by those from his old village that he's now sworn to defend.

When having transformed into his Keyblade Armor, Kyohaku wears spindly plates of golden white shell. Having an almost polished appearance, the aforementioned plates reflect the light that's so important to his style. A full helmet comes over his head that continues the spindly almost avian look, with a clear lavender guard coming over the front of the mask to protect his eyes and mouth in the heat of combat without unnecessarily obscuring his vision.

Type: Human
Homeworld(s): Space Paranoids, though he works out of the base of operations in the Land of Departure
Reason(s): The Light Cycle gang he used to hang around with in Space Paranoids was attacked before he joined the Order. As a result there are few things he opposes nearly as greatly as the manifest evil that disrupted his old life in the days before.

Bio: Growing up in Space Paranoids with a rebellious personality and a penchant for fast vehicles just seemed to fit so well. Kyohaku had everything that he needed in the crowd that he used to run with. He was able to trade in the various types of technology that were present on the streets of his aforementioned home world, and had a great time risking life and limb on throwing discs and riding deadly machinery.

Of course, all good things must come to an end as they say and the technological paradise that he so loved was spoiled by the encompassing evil that has so violently assaulted the rest of the land around them. Even the most detached of areas eventually fell victim to evil. Even if Kyohaku wasn't exactly seen as the kind of guy that the more ordered elements of his neighborhood might have associated with, he had the advantage of being very streetwise as a result of his own associations.

More than that, though, he had the drive to defend his village because of what he had seen. Regardless of who he might have had a falling out with in the past, he was ready to stand up and protect the town in spite of any of that. Perhaps this was why he had come into possession of the Photon Debugger.

Naturally it only makes sense that one who has come into the possession of a Keyblade should join the Order if his alignment is so structured as to do so. Having been approached, it was only a matter of time before he joined, albeit not a moment too soon. Had Kyohaku been allowed to run about and do as he pleased, he probably would have ended up killing himself. He had certainly needed some manner in which to focus his abilities and train appropriately with that Keyblade to harness the power that he had been so gifted with.

Since that time he's primarily operated out of the Land of Departure since he became a member of the organization. Those he's intensely proud of his work, that doesn't mean that he doesn't miss his old hometown. Working on assignment can be lonely and thankless, so it's taken a huge paradigm shift from his old wolf pack mentality from the old days.

Keyblade: Photon Debugger
Glider: When Kyohaku dons his armor he's able to traverse the lanes by riding on a Solar Sailer. Similar to the ones used in his home world, the Sailer is a rigged blue ship that rides on waves of photonic energy instead of the wind. As a result, the rigging is attached to sails that actually catch the quantum particles that make up light. This provides propulsion in the path that the light stream is heading toward. Though the ship is fast, it's also extremely dangerous and that's a dichotomy that suits him only all too well.

Style: When most people consider legends they think of warriors of light as gracious beings that strike down evil-doers from on high, but this analysis is completely unlike what Kyohaku has become. Rather than a warrior of philosophical light, it's far more literal when applied to him. He learns attacks based on the heat and energy of light and is learning to manipulate it quite literally. Rather than adhering to the abovementioned philosophical aspects of what a light warrior should be, the fieriness of stars and other sources of light are far more appealing to his personality.

This makes the drawbacks to his abilities quite obvious as well. While light is impervious to temperature, it can be rendered useless by any methods that suck away light. Servants of darkness who take the term darkness as literally as he takes light can withdraw and neutralize his light beams. It's additionally important to remember that these are beams. If someone had a shield that could withstand his power they could merely remain in the shadow behind it where they would render his attacks completely useless.

Abilities include =

Star Formation: This technique creates a blinding flash that stuns the opponent by temporarily blinding them. It's more effective against those who tend to dwell in extremely dark places, but those who are used to well-lit environments can often put up a resistance.

Since these formations do little permanent damage, they often have to be strung together in a series of attacks to make an effective multi-hit combination.

Pulsar: Through use of gestures, a series of repeating low-impact 5 1/2" spheres of what appears to be electrical energy are released. While they lack a great deal of explosive yield, they make up for it in the ability to continuously regenerate. This makes them useful for situations where waves of enemies continuously attack in a consistent assault. The spheres can maintain a constant size and rate as long as he has energy to hold up the attack, which adds to their usefulness in this sort of situation.

Light Orbit: With a strike of the Photon Debugger Keyblade, Kyohaku creates a stream of superheated plasma that hurtles toward the opposition at incredible speeds befitting a being that manipulates light as a source of power.

Unlike the Star Formation attack, Light Orbit is a single strong maneuver. That makes it impossible for Kyohaku to use it in rapid succession.

Supernova: By unleashing the full power of the Photon Debugger Keyblade, Kyohaku is able to create a large explosion in a radius around him that resembles the explosion of dying stars. While the power is immense, in doing so he also takes a great deal of damage as well as the opposition.

This makes use of the attack heavily reliant on adequate strategy. When he was first learning how to use the Photon Debugger, he nearly blew himself up on more than one occasion.

Other: For possible future expansion in terms of attacks and techniques.

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which was how he initially came into contact with the Order.

I'd take this part out. I'm most likely going to have them meet your character in the City of Secrets--which is the name I came up with for the Gargoyles world--with the excuse that a Heartless attack caused him to be thrown out of his world. In this way, he'll be with the group for a while before they go back to The Grid.

I don't see any issues with the sign-up, but we can't open the image.

By the way, if you need to ask me about something, I can be reached through PM, MSN, or I suppose the chat box at the bottom of the forum. We don't often use it, but if I'm on & I know someone is going to be there, I can go in.

You do not. I could be there right now and you wouldn't bother.

HarleyThomas wrote:

You do not. I could be there right now and you wouldn't bother.

I literally said that I have to know that someone is using it, because I don't usually check it....

Thank you for looking over my character profile. I literally excised the section that your dropped quote came from, so you can have them meet him up in the City of Secrets. Was there anything else in the profile that contradicts your plan? I assume the other references to the Order weren't conflicting at all.

Apparently the image wouldn't load underneath a spoiler and just got stuck. I was trying to avoid taking up too much room on the board. Does it look okay now?

Thank you for the offer. If I have any pressing concerns, I'd probably go the private message route. PMs are usually the easiest to work with I find.

Let me know if there were any other profile problems to deal with!

It should be fine, I didn't see anything else contradictory. So I'll include a section for him whenever I make my next post.

Goddamn, this dude makes the rest of us look like a bunch of gonks.

Speak for yourself.

I just realized that the Gargoyles world started with a link to a youtube video of the music from that show, haha. I feel kind of old now!

Thanks for the section for me to reply to in your last post, Bahamut. I hope I did all right, but I'm sorry for leaving that wall of text. I didn't mean to get too carried away.

It's okay.

I often link to music for the RPs. In the case of KH, all of the music is supposed to take place in the background of the RP, as long as I can come up with an explanation for why, no matter how strained. But I've gotten lazy with that recently, & often don't even link to things, figuring people can just go into the list of tracks in the information topic.

Edit: Oh yeah, I've recently gotten a strange MSN invitation. Was that you, by any chance?

But nobody does.

Well, for what it's worth I'll go and have a look at the list of different music links. I kind of think it's cool to have a background series like that. As for the MSN invitation though, no I closed my MSN account a long time ago. I didn't send you anything.

Sometimes you get weird ones, I remember, though from spammers. It's best to not reply or your name gets added to a list of names to send spam to *sighs* If you can't tell I'm speaking from experience.

Sadly, the same thing happens with Skype now too!

I'd say it's probably spam, then. But you never know, occasionally it's someone from a website I go to, or something. I leave my contact information plastered all over the place. It's a double-edged sword.

Realized I never said hello, so hello!

I've gotten several messages that said "fuck u" for some random skype.

Sometimes it's nice to have two sets of contact information to avoid those kinds of problems. I mean like say you have one email inbox for work and another to actually go around plastering all across the Internet.

Oh hey there Leafy. I don't think we got a chance to meet yet, you're right! It's nice to see you around here.

Somebody should've said that the rule for only three abilities to start is no longer a thing.

And possibly that additional abilities can be signed up at any given time.

Lancelot wrote:

Sometimes it's nice to have two sets of contact information to avoid those kinds of problems. I mean like say you have one email inbox for work and another to actually go around plastering all across the Internet.

Oh hey there Leafy. I don't think we got a chance to meet yet, you're right! It's nice to see you around here.

Yeah, I have several million email accounts for this purpose.

I hope that last response wasn't too far off the mark. I had a question about him seeing people around not looking like they do on the Grid. Does Kyohaku look like a normal person now, or does he independently still look digitized? If he looks down and sees pink hands it will give him the shock of his life, haha. I was going to write that, but didn't know if he was.

By the way, since you kept using Hinode I wasn't sure if you realized that's actually his last name. Since Riku, Kairi and Sora's names were written with katakana in the original I wasn't sure whether to use a Japanese-style or other style name, so I just wrote his name in Japanese order.

HarleyThomas wrote:

Somebody should've said that the rule for only three abilities to start is no longer a thing.

And possibly that additional abilities can be signed up at any given time.

I told him that I got rid of basically all rules regarding when abilities can be signed up, which he seems to be aware of, since there's more than 3 abilities in his sign-up. Either that or he didn't see that part to begin with.

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Does Kyohaku look like a normal person now, or does he independently still look digitized? If he looks down and sees pink hands it will give him the shock of his life, haha. I was going to write that, but didn't know if he was.

Minimally, their clothing no longer glows, since clothing doesn't inexplicably glow in the outside world. Other than that, I suppose it's personal preference. As I recall, Legacy has Quorra look like a completely normal person off of The Grid, but I had Avici keep his grayish skin, in order to differentiate him from his creator.

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By the way, since you kept using Hinode I wasn't sure if you realized that's actually his last name.

Yeah, but it's easier to remember.

Hmm, admittedly I always prefer to play characters who look and act differently from regular human beings. After all, I'm a human every day of my life so I like to play whatever in the world of fantasy. On the other hand I opted to make him look like a regular human, just like the profile image I used for him before, since I figured it could give me a 'once again I'm home' moment in the future if he returns to the Grid and sees himself as he perceives to be normal.

On top of that, right now he thinks he's been erased since he's never left before xD

I'm heartily sorry that it took a week for me to reply to the last post. I was very busy at work this last week and I hope that my lack of posting wasn't the reason that the RP hadn't moved forward at all from August 31. If it were my fault, however, since I hadn't posted to keep the rotation going then I truly am sorry and wonder if I'm actually not cut out to keep this kind of an RP schedule. I don't want to hold anyone back of course.

Speaking of being sorry, I hope I'm not breaking any rules by double posting. I'm not sure where this should have gone.

There's no "rule" against double posting per se. There is a [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for extended absences. I tend to post in it if I know I won't be around on any particular day, but that's mostly just because I'm the head cheese.

Whether or not I'll skip a person depends on a variety of factors, including but not limited to how long they've been gone & how difficult it would be to catch up with the change. With 3 or more people, I usually end up having to wait a week or so here & there.

Thank you for clearing that up for me about double posting, and for that matter for sharing the thread about extended absences. I appreciate it. I'm sorry that took so long over this past week, and I hope that kind of thing isn't set up to happen again.

That being said, I'll make sure to put out a warning if it does.

By the way, is there anything problematic with the way I've been RPing so far? I'm still kind of a newbie here I admit.

I haven't really noticed any problems. I have few rules. Just, if you murder someone, say I had nothing to do with it.

Lancelot wrote:

Thank you for clearing that up for me about double posting, and for that matter for sharing the thread about extended absences. I appreciate it. I'm sorry that took so long over this past week, and I hope that kind of thing isn't set up to happen again.

That being said, I'll make sure to put out a warning if it does.

By the way, is there anything problematic with the way I've been RPing so far? I'm still kind of a newbie here I admit.

So I'm not sure if you're aware or not, but I sent you a PM about some things I didn't understand in your post.