<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;">Basic Information</span></span><br/><hr/><div class="floatright">(https://a-static.besthdwallpaper.com/final-fantasy-original-character-oc-tapetti-22266_L.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Character Name:</strong> Nozomi Ono<br/><strong>Nickname:</strong> None<br/><strong>Alias:</strong> None<br/><strong>Age:</strong> 25<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Male (albeit confusingly femine looking/sounding)<br/><strong>Height:</strong> 5'5'ft<br/><strong>Weight:</strong> 140lb<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong> Black/Dark red stripes<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong> Ruby red<br/><br/><strong>Esper:</strong> Cait Sith<br/><strong>Element:</strong> N/A<br/><strong>General Appearance:</strong> Nozomi is short, slim and light in build, he has a pretty face, a feminine sort, and his voice is also soft dulcet in tone and he has pair of feline cat ears in his head (easily hidden by a straw hat). Many easily mistake him as a young girl or woman. His irises are ruby red or dark red depending on light and he prefers wearing a hakama with dark, black, and red colors, with some bright contrasts. He prefers to decorate the handles of his katana, wears simple bead bracers or scarfs as accessories usually. He wears usually a well-worn pair of wooden sandals. Then of course his waist hangs usually a dark wood scabbard sheathed katana. He avoids makeup, not cause it enhances further his feminine looks but cause he feels them be icky. But he does prefer flowery perfumes, what women usually wear.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Although Nozomi is a serious soul who takes matters of honor and the code of warrior seriously, he has a bit sly and sarcastic sense of humor. A bit circumstantial jokester in him. He never confirms his gender, even if asked directly, clearly. He lets people assume he is female on purpose. Never correct them unless absolutely needed and when he does, he enjoys the looks of shock and surprise in people's faces. He is a private person, preferring his own space around him and he does not let people get touchy and close to him. Unless he absolutely trusts them and likes them. He refuses to admit liking head pats, but he <em>absolutely loves them</em> when given by a person he is fond of. In sense, someone giving him a head pat, caressing him, and petting his ears, is more intimate than a kiss to him. When someone does that, it displays his soft, vulnerable, affectionate side which he hides otherwise well.<br/><strong>Strengths:</strong> Nozomi has strong sense for a code, code of a warrior (https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/3/1-bushido-code-white-nikita-abakumov.jpg), ingrained into him. He tries to honor all the seven virtues best as he can and live ideals of them. Besides this, he has the drive to perfect his techniques, enhance teachings taught by 'Old Man' and become a greater warrior. He has honest pride for his skills and he likes sparring in good spirit both teach himself or someone else through it. But besides his skills and accomplishments, he tries to live humble as he can.<br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong> Nozomi has some difficulty following all seven virtues consistently, especially compassion. More so his desire for revenge can blind him and tunnel vision him, mixing a sense of justice with the desire for revenge. Also, he despises those who are especially weak at any of the seven virtues from the code of the warrior, so he has disgust towards those who do not keep their word, are cowards, liars, and so on. In those times, he can have a very sharp tongue and speak words that cut sharper and deeper than his blade ever would. Besides this, he has a fear for fire and fire magic; related to an incident when he was a kitten.<br/><strong>Religion:</strong> None<br/><br/><strong>Backstory:</strong> Nozomi's tale starts with a country of <strong>Odobori</strong>, which was located on the west coast of Caerduja and was once a kingdom-rivaling in power against Caerduja. It was a land ruled centuries by a royal family that trained elite warriors to safeguard the realm (elite enough to match god-like warriors of Caerduja) and thus secure the royal line staying in power. The royal family was strict but also benevolent for their subjects and subjects did not mind it, until a day came when an illegitimate bastard from the royal family got hands-on fruit from <em>The World Altar</em>, transformed into a demon in human form to gain immense power and influence to gather criminals, bandits, and monsters to form an army and seek to usurp the royal throne! Starting the war with an attack by a ninja clan which he/she (gender debated) hired to assassinate the royal family in a surprise attack, leaving only one survivor who was a young boy.<br/><br/>Nozomi does not know details much, only that at end of the war in a massive decisive battle between two parties, both armies nearly annihilated each other, and leaders both sides slew each other. It led to anarchy and chaos in the country, which eventually came to end when Caerduja forces arrived and conquered the lands with their military force and stabilized the region. Erasing all identity from the region and leave the ancient nation's history be near-forgotten, except minds of natives who survived and which some fled and scattered in the world as refugees. <br/><br/>So how this relates to Nozomi? Well, the old man, as Nozomi calls him, was a warrior from the side who supported the royal family. He is a survivor from the decisive battle and since the loss of the crown prince (and wife and son during the war), he became a purposeless drifter, a mercenary sword. He in his journeys rescued a black kitten from a burned house, which he adopted and kept around for company. In his journeys, he came across a fruit fallen from the tree. The same type of fruit which had brought misery to his homeland, he took it and wished for his son returned to him. The wish came true somewhat; the black kitten which he had kept around, got transformed into a young baby boy. The old man stopped being drifter, he used a few of his savings to buy a farm and house in the farming community and became perhaps the world's crappiest farmer but perhaps the happiest one. Life was good until the day a demon masked assassin came and slew the old man, after Nozomi buried his remains he swore revenge for the assassin and set on a journey to find and get his revenge.<br/><br/>Joining the tournament is a means to test and improve his skills, gain finances to purchase better weapons and armor, and fund his lonely journey for revenge.</span><br/><hr/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Equipment &amp; Stats</span></span><br/><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Occupation:</strong> Samurai<br/><br/><strong>Weapon</strong><br/><em>Weapon Name:</em> Crimson Lily Blade<br/><em>Type:</em> Katana<br/><em>Tier:</em> Green<br/><em>Material:</em> Coral<br/><em>Bonus(es):</em> +3 PA/+2MA, +4MP<br/><br/><strong>Armor</strong><br/><em>Description:</em> Worn Hakama<br/><em>Tier:</em> Green<br/><em>Material:</em> Cloth<br/><em>Bonus(es):</em> +1 PD/+3 MD, +4 HP<br/><br/><strong>Accessory 1:</strong><br/><em>Tier:</em> N/A<br/><strong>Accessory 2:</strong><br/><em>Tier:</em> N/A<br/><br/><strong>Tier:</strong> Green<br/><strong>Level:</strong> 1/10<br/><strong>HP:</strong> 14<br/><strong>MP:</strong> 9<br/><strong>Physical Attack:</strong> 13<br/><strong>Physical Defense:</strong> 11<br/><strong>Magic Attack:</strong> 9<br/><strong>Magic Defense:</strong> 8<br/><strong>Luck:</strong> 0<br/><strong>XP:</strong> 0/10<br/><br/><strong>Skills</strong><br/></span><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Blade Arts</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Quick Draw, passive</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em>Base:</em> instantly kill 1 enemy who is a lower tier than you.<br/><em>Tier:</em> Green<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Slay the Sword Lvl 1, 5 MP</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em>Base:</em> Power Break (Enemy PA -5, 2 Turns)<br/><em>Tier:</em> Green<br/></div></div></div></div><br/><br/><strong>Items</strong><br/>1)<em>Potion</em><br/>2)<em>5 Gil</em><br/>3)<em>Tent</em>