<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/ba/Img025.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Tengu (Actually a series of squawks and ticking noices, but no one ever bothered actually pronouncing it)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>18<br/><strong>Height:</strong>6'10"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>130 lbs<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Yellow<br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Black<br/><br/><strong>Combat Aptitude:</strong><br/>-Kenjutsu: B<br/>-Taijutsu: C<br/>-Genjutsu: D<br/>-Ninjutsu: D<br/>-Fuinjutsu: D<br/><strong>Class Aptitude:</strong><br/>-Stealth: A<br/>-Survival: S<br/>-Chakra: D<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>A very tall and thin young man, Tengu stands a head above most and certainly has some very birdlike qualities. For one feathers seem to grow out of his arms, hair and back, not nearly enough to enable him flight but certainly enough to make him stand out even more in a crowd. There is also his very impressive dexterity with his hands and feet, further helped by his talon-tipped fingers and toes, which he has used for everything from climbing and combat to picking up single rice seeds from the air. He moves in a rather birdlike fashion as well and can be surprisingly stealthy in spite of his very unusual appearance.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>The Tengu Clan of birdmen was once a rather powerful faction hailing from the dense jungle-like forests of their homeland. Sadly they were a bit too ambitious and proud of themselves and as such they found themselves in conflict with a lot of the other nations, even including the Academy at one point. In an effort to bring peace between the two after a devastating conflict, the Academy was given a nobleborn son as hostage to ensure the peace treaty was kept until his 18th birthday. However the Tengu were just about eradicated by the other nations they were at war with and today not many remain, not the least their nation.<br/><br/>As such the boy was effectively raised by the Academy from a very young age. The boy was simply called Tengu because his true name was simply too hard to pronounce for regular folk. Since he was eight years old he has sneaked out of his confines of the academy to live on his own in the wild for extended times, possibly because some sort of genetic propensity for it since the Tengu Clan lived in and of the wild forests of their land.<br/><br/>Ever since he started studying at the Academy itself it has become increasingly obvious that he might not actually fit for it. His only strengths are his talents for stealth and survival and his skill with bow and arrow has kept him from flunking kenjutsu (barely, since he can barely handle a fork without hurting himself). With his final exam coming up the faculty of the Academy doubt that he will make the cut, but he is strangely determined to do so no matter what.<br/><br/><strong>Notes:</strong>Picture coming up soonish.