Name: Ayumu Hisakawa
Alias: Amazing weakling, New age samurai, the one weird guy who always carries a sword around
Age: 19
Element: None?
Origen: aprendice
Circuit quality: E
Circuit quantity: E
Circuit composition: Very crude
Talents/Likes: swordsmanship, full moon nights, dedicated people
Weakness/Dislikes: history, guns, inconsequetial people
Natural enemies: kurogi artemyeva
background
Ayumu was (and still is, to a certain point), a pretty normal person who knew nothing of the secret magical side of the world. he was raised alone by his mother, who worked as a substitute teacher for mostly homuhara academy. he never met his father and his mother seemed not remembers the man very well, but he never cared too much. the only thing special about him was his apparent talent for kendo, as observed by one of his mom's friends.
This changed when when he was twelve.
After accepting a dare from a friend, twelve year old Ayumu sneak out at night to visit the ryuudo temple, who they say was haunted. When he was almost at the gate he saw someone, so he hided in the bushes and observed. It was a strange man wearing strange, old-style clothes. He watched as the strange man praticed strokes with a overly long katana who Ayumu knew from his kendo lessons, should be impratical to use. Yet, the mans moviments where perfect, he was swinging with precision and moving so fast that Ayumu could barely see.
For the next nineteen days the young boy would return to watch from the bushes while the strange man would pratice different and increasingly more difficult movements, like he was showing off or, maybe, trying to teach someone. However at the twenty first night, the man was gone. But at this point, something had awoke inside Ayumu.
From that night onward, the boy would go to the ryuudo temple gate to pratice swordsmanship, trying to mimic the strange man's techinic and, at one point, better his own. This newfound resolve would carry to his everyday life, and once he was old enough, he decided to look for information on his father. That is when he stumble into the alredy metioned secret magical world. His father, he would learn, was a low-level inconsequent magus who used his magecraft to seduce woman all over the place. While this was not of too much relevance for Ayumu, he also discovered that because of this, he had very crude, but still functioning, magic circuits. An information would lead to the development of his ultimate technique.
personality
Ayumu is universaly regarded by those who meet him as a cool guy. He is casual but still friendly enough too not come of as rude, and his posivitive attitude is rarely shaken. He is also a very determinated person, and once he decides something, he won't stop at nothing to achieve that thing.
Because of how his mother raised him, Ayumu is very serious about the promises he makes and that are maked to him. If he gives his word, he does not give up on it. At the same time, If someone gives his word to him, he expects the person to go through and at least try, and while there is no grudge in failing a promise, he sees giving up without trying as a betrayal, and does not forgive it.
Abilities
Twenty nights at the temple gate
Ni jūya sanmon de
The sword style that Ayumu has develop since he was twelve, based on that he saw during the twenty days he spend watching the strange man at the ryuudo temple gate. This is not something like magecraft, but insted a state of mind achieved with training.
When utilizing this style, his are praticaly perfect. He moves with great speed and hits with absurd precision. His movements are very hard to follow and fundamentally imposible to predict, and even a oppenent who fought him several times before would strugle to keep up with it. Ayumu can also easily discern the enemies way of fight and learn their weak spots.
But in the end, this is a incomplete style who is far from the level of the strange man he saw on those nights, there are several weaknesses with him. The first: it takes some time for Ayumu to "get in to it", a second or two where he needs to concentrate. The second: because the style is not fully mastered, the state of mind is very fragile and taking damage will break Ayumu out of it, which then needs another short moment to focus again. The third: staying in this mode for to long is mentaly tiring, and while there is not effect on the style itself, the longer Ayumu uses this style, the longer it will take for him to focus the next time he tries to use this. And the fourth: while he is able to use this style with anything remotely similar to a katana, the More unfamiliar he is with the weapon, the harder it is to enter the mental state. For this reason, Ayumu always carries around his favorite and sword, who has especific details to make the usage of this style easier.
False motion, Other sideNise dō - hokagawa
Ayumu's ultimate technic, a stroke that looks like its imposible to make.
By applying mana to a movement while using his style of swordsmanship, he is able to change the direction of a slash he alredy make. For exemple: he makes a horizontal movement from left to right, who suddenly turns into a diagonal move from right to left. This is done by overwriting the first move with the second, basically making so that the first never happen.
While the amount of mana spend in this technic would not be problematic to most mages, since Ayumu's circuits are so few and so low-quality, using this one time will tire him severily and using two times is pratically out of question.
items
Zure furyō
Ayumu's most prized possesion, a sword get from a apprendice blacksmith in mifune city.
He was told that the sword was a antiquity that used to belong to a yakuza family but was broken in half. The blacksmith acquired the blade in hopes of fixing it and saling it at a great price, but ended up comiting a mistake during the process of fixing it, which resulted in imperfections that made usage very hard.
The sword has a simple black handle with diamond pattern, the blade has a dull shine despite being very sharp, apt eyes will notice a slight misalignment and that the sword seems to be a half of a centimeter shorter then what it should be.
All of those details would make the sword feel weird to most experienced swordsman, but it actualy helps Ayumu, making it easier and less tiring to enter in the mind state of his personal style.
It appers that there is a vestige of mystery on the sword, albeit so little that it hardly makes any difference most of the time.
Originally Posted by Tobias
