Hitori Kazami

"I'll give you a reason to fear the dark."

- Hitori Kazami

Hitori Kazami is a first-year Beacon student.

Appearance
Kazami is a regular sized teenager, with an average weight. His hair is dyed a deep ocean blue, like his eyes. His skin color is a dark brown, which looks like a Hersheys chocolate bar.

Hitori's casual attire consists of a pure black hoodie and jeans, which he wears with black combat boots. The sleeves of the hoodie stretch outward over his hands, covering his black finger-less gloves and his dual chain weapon, Taka. Under the hoodie is a dark green shirt which holds a face mask, covering up to his nose. The mask is there to cover two cross-shaped on each of his cheeks, also because he thought it looked cool. On his neck, he carries his dark green and black wireless headphones, given to him by his father. He almost never takes them off.

His Aura color is dark gray.

Personality
Despite his loner appearance, Hitori is quite sociable and friendly. His problem is that he is afraid to talk to new people. He gets over his meeting fright, through his love of music and dance. He gets a new attitude whenever he's listening to his favorite music, which is why he keeps his headphones on his neck all the time. Whenever he feels stressed out, he puts them on and blasts them at full volume, often annoying those around him. Whenever he gets angry, he starts to curse excessively and violently.

In battle, Hitori is excited and confident. In order to stay focused, he puts his headphones on and likes to fight with the rhythm of the song. This, however, makes him oblivious the world around and makes him concentrate on his objective. He also sometimes underestimates people he has defeated in the past.

In addition his caring attitude, he hates how people discriminate against Faunus. He also shows no mercy to those who bully others, as well as his enemies for the deaths of his mother and father.

Background
When Hitori was three years old, his mother died from a Grimm attack. This led him and his father to fend for themselves. But through five years of determination and effort, his father, Link, had become one of the top scientists at the Schnee Dust Company. Everything was in place and they were surviving. But, one day masked gangsters invaded and kept the workers hostage, wanting a large sum of money and Dust.

At the same time in Hitori's house, one of the gangsters invaded and held him hostage, threatening to shoot and kill him. Before they could receive their payments, a small group of Hunters arrived and easily defeated gang members at the laboratory. But, they were to late to save one of the hostages from being killed, which was Hitori's father. With the his comrades arrested, the gangster pulled on his gun on Hitori. The emotional strife and desire to live activated his Semblance, Dusk, causing a dark tendril to pierce his attacker's heart, killing him instantly. However, the eight year-old couldn't handle what he had done and fainted.

When he awoke, the Hunters, revealing themselves to be old friends of his father, explained what had happened in the hostage situation. Hitori cried and cried, his only family was gone. He had nowhere to go and nobody to turn to. Feeling pity and wanting to help control his powers for the good of the city, the group of Hunters adopted and trained Hitori to control his destructive powers, and find justice against the violence that had plagued the city. By the time he had turned sixteen, the Hunters recommended him to the prestigious Beacon Academy and he was moved there, a year early from regular students.

Abilities
Hitori is a very skilled combatant, specializing in the difficult nature of chains. In addition to his specialty, he's very agile, easily dodging most strikes, and is able to run on walls at high speeds. He's also skilled in the use of knives, should his chains not be an option.

Taka
Hitori's dual chain weapon Taka is a dual set of chains, each set on one of Hitori's arms. Each chain held a vial of Dust, either Green Dust or Black Dust. He attacks with them by spinning and infusing them with either type of Dust, depending which chain, before hitting them with impressive power. The left chain holds Green Dust, which sharpens it with Wind energy. The right chain contains Yellow Dust, which electrifies the chain, paralyzing anything it hits. He can also use them without infusing them, resulting in rapid chain strikes. Hitori can spin them at high speeds, blocking most projectiles, like bullets. At long range, he can send a wave of Dust energy from Taka.

Semblance-Dusk
When he was about to be killed, Hitori revealed his Semblance as partial Shadow Manipulation abilities to defend himself. Though he prefers not to use them, in tough situations, he can use his Shadow abilities to manifest armor, weapons, and other constructs as long as he's in a certain radius to them. He can also extend his chain's length using Dusk and create constructs at its end, as well. A drawback to his ability is that the longer he uses them, the more it drains from his Aura.

Trivia

 * Kazami means "Watching the wind" implying the use of Green Dust.
 * Hitori was originally supposed to be able to temporarily carry the abilities of the Grimm he absorbed, but the idea seemed OP so it was scrapped. The exposure to the Black Dust was also supposed to make him half-Grimm abilities, but the rules stated that the OC could only be either Faunus or Human.
 * The word Taka means "Hawk".
 * Hitori means "Alone" or "One Person", referencing the saying "Black is the Color of Loneliness".