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Name:Myamoto, Tsubame/ Yaiba

Alias: Seijin(sage)/ Ketsueki nomimasu (blood drinker/ he who drinks blood) [plz anyone correct me if these translations are wrong]

Age: 135/over 600 (it's over sih hundreeeeed!!!)

Gender: Male/Male

Side: neutral/neutral

Alignment: Good/Evil

Sexual Orientation: heterosexual/ blood.. sexual? doesn't exist? ok then, asexual

Personality:
Tsubame- Kind, caring, soft spoken and deeply spiritual. Bears great guilt for his very existence and constantly searches for someone capable of killing him.
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Yaiba- psychopathic, homicidal, constantly laughing (albeit maniacally), incredibly intelligent and crafty despite his insanity, loves blood(the taste, the smell, the color, everything about blood) more than anything

Appearance: Tsubame is fairly tall and wears the traditional robes of a Buddhist monk along with many prayer beads hung around his neck. He is rather thin for his height and looks physically frail. His head is obviously shaven as is the way of his discipline, yet he retains a youthful appearance despite his age and wardrobe (this is because of Yaiba being in his body). His left arm is completely wrapped up in medical tape but this is just to cover up the scrolls of heavenly seals he's wrapped around it underneath. He also had a prayer bead bracelet for extra insurance. His eyes are of a deep-sorrowful gray.
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Being stuck in Tsubame's body Yaiba has lost his original appearance but you can tell that he has awakened by the sudden growth of a large, shaggy white mane of hair as well as the more evident myriad of scythe blades that rip out of his right arm, as well as the few that poke out of his back and the two placed at the back of his caffs. His presence also makes Tsubame's Eyes turn to a wild red and his teeth grow to fangs.

History: In life Tsubame was a traveling Buddhist monk who worked tirelessly to aid those in need. Though he had quite the talent in exorcism and the banishment and purification of demons, his true calling was charity work. He would help build shelters for those without homes, He would work tirelessly to bless the fields of farmers, then work hard in them so that they may produce ennough food to sustain their village until the next year. He gave his all for not only the blessing and protection of people's lives but also worked tirelessly to improve their way of life. However, as much as he was known with the commoners for his kind soul, it was his spiritual powers that drew the attention of lords wherever he went, no matter where he was it always seemed like some wealthy man was willing to pay him mounds of gold for the exorcism of some evil spirit, or the slaying of some demons. He had no need for such frivolities and he much preferred spending time with the people but he took the jobs anyways and always made sure to pump the nobles with too much wealth for all they were willing to give. This was not out of greed since he only ever kept ennough money to feed himself and keep him healthy on his travels, the rest he re-distributed among the people later. This earned him the respect and admiration of many peasants and he soon found himself with a small gathering of like-minded people who wanted to travel the world and spread Buddha's love for the world, helping those less-fortunate than they. Tsubame grew close with these men and women of purer hearts and soon the group wove between them the ties that bind those related by blood.

One day however, After having done battle with a particularly powerful demon for over four days, Tsubame, returned to his group with a particularly bad wound to his left arm and a slight fever. Fearing that the demon may have placed a curse on him with his dying breath, Tsubame bathed in water purified by the nectar of sacred lotuses and wrapped his arm in bandages soaked of the same holy water before heading off to bed. This however, was still not ennough to prevent him from having a terrible nightmare of bloodshed and destruction the likes of which he'd never though possible. The next day, he awoke to find himself sleeping in a pool of blood and torn flesh, his friend's bodies strewn all across the camp site and his hair having mysteriously grown to a wild, blood-soaked white mane over-night. As the horror of what happened revealed itself to him he heard a mad-man's laughter echo in his mind.

"Poor whelp, had you thought you'd finally purified me? laughed the demon Tsubame thought dead. No, my body simply rotted away because I had grown tired of my weak host. Now child, you will be my new vessel, and with your powers i will make blood rain from the very heavens!"

The laughter still continued in his mind and Tsubame saw his left arm, warped and perverted from the presence of the demon that now inhabited it. He could not take the horrid truth of what he had done and immediately climbed a mountain side, all, along the laughter echoing in his head and driving him to insanity. He could no longer take what he'd done, he found a tall cliff with sharp rocks at it's basse and threw himself from it's top, plunging to his willful death.

However this was not ennough, two day later he awoke again, once more in a sea of flesh and blood. No conventional means would kill him now and free him from this hell. He later decided to resume his pilgrimage. He cut his hair once more, wrapped his demonic arm in holy scrolls to seal away the demon who lived inside and vowed that as long as he was alive he would continue helping the poor and unfortunate as well as search for someone strong ennough to kill him to compensate for the murderous impulses of the demon that now inhabited his body.

a hundred and ten years later he still walks the roads of japan, not having aged a day, searching for one who could kill him and stop the demonic transformation that occurs within him once every four nights.

Weapons: Tsubame does not know the use of weapons but has become (excluding the Mantra weapons he can summon, but those are special) extremely proficient in non-lethal hand-to-hand and hand-to-weapon combat over the past century. If needed however he does posses a large scroll with him at all times containing various healing, binding and purifying mantras. The stronger purification mantras can even be used to free a human's soul and send it to the nirvana if needed.

Yaiba on the other hand only fights with the blades that protrude from his body and his extremely resilient and agile demon body.

Powers: Tsubame has gained excellent speed, strength and recovery capabilities from having Yaiba sealed away in his arm but as long as the sealing scroll remains wrapped around his left arm then it is nothing super-human. The ability to read divine mantras however is something not usually found in humans. Even monks who have attained nirvana can rarely read them and use them to their full potential. on RARE occasions where he feels he absolutely needs to save someone's life he will remove the bead bracelet around his left wrist and draw on a small fragment of Yaiba's power, allowing him to increase his speed, strength and recovery rate by 10% and to summon two scythe blades from his right arm.

Yaiba can't use the scroll but his speed, strength and recovery abilities far out class Tsubame's and he can gain more strength by drinking a large amount of blood.

Weakness: Though Tsubame's body can not be killed permanently, he can suffer from a temporary death until the next time Yaiba takes over his body, this only makes him half-immortal. Also every time he dies there is a possibility that Yaiba could take over permanently.

As powerful as Yaiba is, Tsubame's holy powers prevents him from taking over his hosts body completely, restricting him to his left arm. He needs to accumulate power for four days before he can take over the body and use it as he will, however he can only do this for a maximum of twelve hours before being sealed away again and relinquishing control to Tsubame. Living in the body of a monk, holy seals are no longer lethal to him but they do drain away his powers, allowing Tsubame to re-take control of his body more quickly.

Also he has a tendency to drag out the battles so that he can inflict as many wounds as possible. His obsession with blood can often be used as a means to defeat him or lure him into traps.

Likes:

Tsubame- people, helping others, people who seem strong ennough to kill him once and for all

Yaiba- blood, killing, blood, the taste of blood, the smell of blood, the feel of blood, and ..... more blood, oh, did i mention blood?

Dislikes:

Tsubame- Yaiba, people who pick on the weak and defenseless

Yaiba- The fact that he can't take over Tsubame's body permanently, the absence of blood.

Other Information:
--> theme songs:

Tsubame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M0gI...eature=related

Yaiba: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbP6w...eature=related

Name: Shiro Kūdō

Alias: "Void"

Age: 20 (unknown)

Gender: Male

Side: shogun

Alignment: good (sort of)

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual

Personality: Shiro Is over-all a good person. He doesn't like to see people suffer needlessly and often tries to help people any ways he can. However he is also slightly twisted from the curse he bears and is obsessed with 'the void' whatever that may be. If he sees that someone is hurt his form of 'help' will usually be 'returning the poor soul to the void' aka killing them painlessly. He is also very depressed concerning himself and feels he is worthless and useless he constantly seeks to fill the void inside of himself but realizes he is nothing more than a parasite to anyone he comes close to. he is easily manipulated because of his disposition

Appearance:

History: Shiro doesn't remember much of his past. All he remebers is waking up two years ago in a cave, and being completely, bone chillingly cold. Tho this day the heat hasn't returned to his body. Shiro suspects that he isn't alive, or at least not completely, but he's given up on finding out about his past for a long time now. All he knows is that he's cursed now. To live without a soul, to live with a constant, hungry void within himself that always seeks out more power to devour. He knows that whenever he makes physical contact with someone, if he's not careful the void inside of him will devour their souls within seconds, so he keeps away from people. But he can't live like a hermit either, because if he doesn't absorb energy around him on a constant basis, he'll starve and go crazy from hunger, loosing all will and self-control. What he has learned to do is control the radius of his absorption over the years as to spread out the absorption from one victim that will lose it's soul to a large number of victims all around who will only lose a bit of life energy. He's learned to spread it out as far as to steal energy from anyone within two hundred feet of him. As such people rarely notice the difference as far as their own energy reserves go. But for some reason, anyone of whom Shiro steals their essence immediately becomes extremely unlucky, so many a village has kicked him out for being a 'jinx' when he spent too much time in there, forcing him to stick to densely populated cities instead.

Weapons: the void in him takes teh shape of any weapon whose essence he has absorbed.

Powers:
Shiro has also noticed that if he focuses his essece absorbtion on a single person. If that person had any special traits or abilities then Shiro can steal these abilities for a small amount of time. he can also store essence and use it later rather than as soon as he steals it, he can combine essences as he pleases.

Weakness:
- essence can disappear mid-battle
- even stored essences burn away after a while
- he needs to either touch his oponent or their ability to stea essence mid-battle

Likes: people, euthanasia, the void, people chsen by the void, people who worship the void, feeling loved, people who praise him

Dislikes: feeling alone, feeling hated, feeling useless, people who try to return him to the void, the void.