<div class="floatright">(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Redfoxmagi/Bishi-swordsman.jpg)</div><strong>Name: </strong>Shigure Tenma<br/><strong>Race: </strong>Human<br/><strong>Sex: </strong>Male<br/><strong>Orientation: </strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>Occupation: </strong>Sword Dancer<br/><br/><strong>Mode of Attack: </strong><em>Steel, Blood, and Bone -</em>While Shigure primarily uses his twin blades to fight with speedy footwork, his family has a saying.  "Blades until they break, muscles until they tear, bone until they shatter."  He has been trained to use weapon as well as the physical force of his body to bring down an opponent.<br/><strong>One Thing In My Pack: </strong>A copy of<em>How to Make Friends and Counter Social Anxiety, Vol. I</em><br/><br/><strong>Description: </strong>Standing at approximately 5'10" tall, Shigure's body is one of a person who has never missed a day of training in their life.  Built incredibly lean, his physique is one rife with tightly-packed, springy muscle that is made for fast-twitch reflexes to deliver a precise, powerful strike rather than bulky muscle made for lifting and power.  Akin to a dancer or gymnast at its peak, it is obvious when looking at him that he is an imposing sight.  Jet black locks of straight hair that hang down to his mid-back frame a face that may as well have been finely-crafted from chiseled marble and a pair of intense, pale eyes the color of the sun when high in the sky.  Due to his years of training, he carries himself with an almost wolf-like grace--an air of physical danger permeates his immediate surroundings as if Death itself stalks him in the hopes that he will slay someone else nearby with the precision of an assassin.<br/><br/><strong>Personality: </strong>Despite his rather intimidating looks and demeanor, in reality all Shigure has ever wanted was a friend.  Due to carrying his family's legacy as the legendary warriors of the continent the Tenma clan, he has trained every day of his entire life without stopping to consider what a social life would actually be like.  A body like his did not come without a price, but after getting older and never even having been able to hit it off with a woman despite the fact that his intimidating demeanor seemed to portray that women would willingly throw themselves at him, he often found himself wondering whether or not the price was just too high.  People fear him despite the fact that he really is just a nice person wanting to get to know someone well.  Despite the fact that the motto of the Tenma clan is that each one of their members should be the equivalent of a small army (and since Shigure was to be the heir, he should eventually be the equivalent of<em>at least</em>ten!), he has difficulty completing even the most mundane quests due to the fact that people mistake him for a high level adventurer and bypass him thinking that their quests are just a waste of time for him.  It is downright discouraging, but he won't give up!  He has recently found a book to help him get over his social problems, so he has an ace in the hole now!<br/><br/><strong>Likes: </strong>Swords, training, meditation, pondering the mysteries of life, learning new skills (maybe they will help him socially relate to people?  That's in Chapter XI!)<br/><strong>Dislikes: </strong>People who judge others by their appearance, disrespecting others.<br/><br/><strong>Story: </strong>Born as the only son to the head of the Tenma clan was no joking matter.  Legendary warriors renowned throughout the continent, they were the stuff legends were made of.  Literally.  Almost every tale known referenced a member of their ancestry in some physical capacity saving the world from imminent disaster.  It was into such a family that Shigure was thrust.  Daily training piled on with special training compounded with warrior ethics was crammed into his mind and body every day since as far back as he could imagine.  The Elders taught him how to look to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies (Secret Technique: Glare of the Fire-Hearted Sky Serpent) that once mastered had caused the Orc Lord Gruth'kar to defecate his own loincloth and run from the battle which he headed the entire host of the combined Orc and Goblin forces according to legend.<br/><br/>It had taken a great deal of time for his training to be completed, but once he came back to himself, he had already left his teenage years behind to never have been very close to a woman.  Nor had he even completed a quest!  Despite all the training from his family, he had never passed level one!  However, he has been defeated again and again at the most basic quests.  The scion of the Tenma clan looks so experienced and intimidating that the villagers will not even approach him to ask him to complete a quest for them!  They do not want to even waste his time!  The shame to his family if they knew!  But, what villager would want to waste the time of a warrior of the legendary Tenma clan with their low level quest?  And because Shigure has been training his entire life without having been socialized with anyone besides gruff Elders of his own clan without even having siblings to talk to, he is unable to correct these misconceptions of the villagers himself!  Having stumbled upon a book to help build his social skills, he has learned his new secret weapon.  How to smile!  Though, he has no idea why it seems to cause people to run away from him in terror...