Shiro Koza

'''Profile ''' Name: Shiro Koza

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Race: Faunus

Height:5'8

Weight: 160 lbs.

Hair: Long black hair reaching to just below his shoulder blades with a strip of white hair on the bang that hangs down over his right eye, he usually wears the rest of his hair in a low ponytail secured by a strip of white leather.

Eyes: deep brown eyes

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Shiro is of medium build and has many scars covering his body, the most prominent is the scar that runs from the bottom of the right side of his jaw up his cheek and stops just under his eye also a bunch of scars on his right inner forearm. Shiro also has a few tattoos these include: A large tattoo of his symbol on his left pec, The words Never Forget in a fancy calligraphy style on the top of his left arm near the wrist, he also has the mark of the White Fang on his left inner forearm (it's scarred over to the point of almost no visibility (though other members will eventually realize it) it is usually wrapped in black bandages to hide it when he's not wearing his jacket), on the back of his left hand is a highly stylized rose that takes up the back of his hand and its thorned stem wraps up his left arm and around his symbol tattoo on his chest. (The barbs of the thorns dig into his skin like its embedded into the skin)

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Personality

Out of Combat:

Shiro is shy and quiet around people (especially females and humans in general) at first but once he gets to know them he gets very friendly towards them (he loves giving his friends hugs) he is also protective towards those closest to him.

In Combat/When threatened: Shiro changes from shy and quiet to serious and calm.

Note: -due to his past he has moments of insanity, usually at night when he's alone.

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Weapons and Abilities

Weapon Name: Tsuki and Taiyo ((Pronounced:T-suki, Tai-yo)) (Translation: Moon and Sun in Japanese)

Weapon Class: High Caliber Tanto Revolvers (HCTR)

Style of Sword: Straight edged Tanto

Gun Type: 6 shot Long barreled Revolver

Description: Tsuki and Taiyo are 2 specialized Revolver Tantos, which both have 2 modes. The blade edge on Tsuki is black. While the blade on Taiyo white.

Sword mode: Tsuki and Taiyo are retractable dual Tantos, each blade is 30 inches long, the place where the guard would be have a white and black (respectively) revolver style chamber and has a decorative etching in the opposing colors on the revolver, and the barrel of the gun extends on the back of the blade, the handle of the swords are slightly slanted to fit the hand and keep the weapon comfortable for firing when it is in its gun mode.

Gun Mode: The guns are break action Revolvers whose barrels are approximately 10 in. long, they use Dust FMJ ammo (its incendiary dust). The handle or the sword houses the firing mechanism of the gun and has a trigger guard to make sure the weapon doesn't accidentally fire, attached to the trigger guard is a longer version of a ring guard formed to fit the rest of the fingers, the 4 finger guard can be racked (like on a lever action rifle) to collapse the blade into itself then into the a protector that is attached to the underside of the revolvers barrel switching the weapon from sword mode to gun mode.

To break open the revolver, Shiro pushes down on a small button near the top of the handle and flicks the weapon down using the force to open the revolver.

Notes: -Swords absorbs a small amount of his aura as he uses it, causing fatigue over time. -Reload time on the guns are slow but can be improved by the use of quick loaders, but even with these it's still fairly slow. -The swords are made of a lightweight but strong metal making it easier to use and doesn't cause as much fatigue on the user. -The gun can still be fired in sword mode.

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Skills

Combat Skills: Shiro is not very strong, but is fast and agile enough to make up for itfor the most part, he's a good enough swordsman and a good shot with his revolvers. He is intelligent though he has his moments of idiocy and prefers to think things through in combat before acting.

Regular Skills: Shiro is a good calligrapher and can play the Violin fairly well, Shiro while being a great tactician has absolutely no clue when it comes to deciphering the fairer sex, goddess forbid a girl have a crush on him because he'd never figure it out til she told him.

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Semblance

Smoke - Shiro's semblance is smoke control, using his Cigarillos as a catalyst Shiro exhales the smoke to create a smokescreen to blind his enemies, due to his faunus heritage Shiro can see and track his enemies within the smoke and will use it (and is most known for using it) as a silent assassination technique.

Other uses include using scented smoke to hide his and his companions trails as they are fleeing, along with many many more.

Disadvantages: -Using his semblance for too long will deplete him of his aura, fatiguing him. -Using his semblance for too long can cause health problems

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Backstory

Shiro was born in a small Faunus village, he lived a peaceful life until they choose to move to the city when he was 10 their his parents joined the White Fang (when it was still peaceful), often going to rallies while Shiro was in school, it was school that Shiro learned about Hunters and Huntresses and decided he wanted to be one.

He dropped of normal school at the age of 14 and joined Signal to become a Hunter with his parents blessing. During his second year into schooling at signal his life fell apart, while he was at signal his parents were murdered by an anti-Faunus group during peaceful protest that had quickly turned violent.

Now an orphan at 16 he took to playing the violin something his father had taught him and doing odd jobs to make money to pay food costs and his monthly fee to keep his house that his parents left to him should anything ever happen all the while attending beacon.

He barely scrapped by on his own, his grades falling to the wayside due to his inability to juggle everything at once he was forced to drop out of Signal and work to support himself, it's during this time he fell into a depression and turned to less then legal substances to help cope with his parents death and the struggle of day to day life. He went into debt with a local gang who supplied his habit, having no one else to turn to he used turned to the White Fang for help, knowing that his parents were part of said group, they accepted him but not before he was forced to undergo a trial of sorts in which he was to wipe out a small group of anti-Faunus gang members.

This in turn drove him slightly mad as he had to kill them in cold blood listening to them beg for mercy and knowing that their blood was covering his hands, he continued to work with them for the next two years unable to get away from their clutches, doing all sorts of jobs, from murder to robberies.

His addiction to the illegal substances spiraled out of control, finally one day he decided to leave, killing his partner (a rather small man by the name of Alexander) during a mission he fled off into the night, trying to atone for his sins he applied to beacon using the fake name Shiro Koza he was accepted due to his time in Signal combine with his combat prowess.

He has since vowed to make things right by becoming a protector of those of whom he once terrorized.