Hitori Kazami

"These chains hurt a lot more than you think."

- Hitori Kazami Hitori Kazami is a first-year Beacon student. He is the first OC of Maelstrom14.

Appearance
Kazami is a regular sized teenager, with an average weight. His hair is dyed a deep ocean blue. His eyes are a deep ocean blue like his hair. 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, which are set on his wrists. Under the hoodie is a black shirt which holds a face mask, covering up to his nose. The mask is there to cover two cross-shaped scars on each of his cheeks, also because he thought it looked cool. In the center of the shirt, there is a small green version of his emblem. On his neck, he carries his dark green and black wireless headphones, given to him by his father. He almost never takes them off. On each side of his pants, there is a small canister where Hitori keeps his Shiv, throwing knives.

When he's in his pajamas, he wears his mask/shirt along with black sweatpants. He also wears a night-mask to keep the lights out of his eyes. He still has his headphones around his neck, and occasionally plays them before he sleeps.

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 one of the reasons 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. Sometimes, when he's dodging an opponent's attacks, he starts to laugh and infuriate them.

He is especially protective of his headphones, as they were the last thing his dad gave to him before he was killed. He almost always keeps them around his neck, even when he's sleeping. Tori also keeps the headphones to not lose himself to his own sort-of madness. The deaths in the missions he's gone on with his mentors leave him with mental scars he doesn't want to show. Those scars show in battles and make him merciless and almost like a seriel killer in dangerous scenarios.

In addition his caring attitude, he hates how people discriminate against Faunus. He 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 a scientist 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 group of six 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 his gun on Hitori. The frieghtened child stayed in the position, waiting for his death. But nothing happened. Looking up, he saw the blade of an inflamed sickle pierce his attacker's heart, killing him. As the body fell to the ground, a green and red haired individual stood over to look at him. However, the eight year-old couldn't handle what had happened 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. Comforting him, the leader of the group and the one who saved the boy, Rojo, gave the weeping child a small wrapped box, saying his father was going to give him this for the birthday. Opening it, Hitori found the most beautiful black and green headphones. Wanting to help control his powers for the good of the city, the group of Hunters asked Hitori if he wanted to make sure this wouldn't happen to anything. Accepting their offer in a heartbeat, Hitori was adopted and trained to control his powers, and find justice against the violence that had plagued the city.

At first, Hitori felt like he was not living up to his guardian's expectations, like not being able to master the weapons they gave him. Depressed, Hitori often traveled around the city, blasting his music through his gifted headphones. Then one day, as it got late, he came across a mugging in process and tried to defend the victim, but was easily repelled. Looking on the ground, he came across a chain. Grabbing the chain off the ground, he wielded it with remarkable skill and defeated the muggers. Helping up the victim, Hitori came across his guardians, having given him a test to find his true strength. That's how he received Taka.

Throughout time, Hitori trained and fought with his new-found family, doing whatever it took to help others. By the time he had turned sixteen, the Hunters recommended him to the prestigious Beacon Academy and he was accepted 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. In addition to his agility, Hitori is skilled in stealth operations, being able to subdue a single person in a crowd with zero sound. He's also skilled in hand-to-hand combat, should his chains and throwing knives not be an option. Being that his main weapon in weighted and is often seen on his arms, he shows a higher strength in his arms compared to others.

Taka
Hitori's weapon Taka is a dual set of weighted chains, each set on one of Hitori's arms. Each chain held a vial of Dust, either Green Dust or Yellow 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 and straightens it out like a sword-whip. The right chain contains Yellow Dust, which electrifies the chain, paralyzing and shocking anything it touches. 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 mid range, he can send a wave of concussive Dust energy from Taka.

Shiv
Shiv are Hitori's secondary weapon in the form of pure black throwing knives. When Hitori wants to try a stealth approach, he relies on his Shiv throwing knives. The sharp edges can cut flesh and light armor easily just by a glancing slice. The knives have immense killing potential, depending on the body location where they have hit. Hitori also infused some of his knives with Green Dust to increase their piercing potential. If the opponent dodges the daggers, they have a chance to ricochet and hit again. While they are very useful at mid-range, Hitori occasionally uses them for a stealth attack at close range.

Semblance-Makihige
When he was about to be killed, Hitori revealed his Semblance as energy weapon summoning. By manifesting a Glyph, he can summon tendrils to gut his enemies, or defend himself using the weapons as a wall, in front of him. He has the ability to create about five Glyphs at a time. The size of the tendril in a Glyph can be a single giant that takes all the space, or a whole lot of them on the symbol. He can also change the size of the summoned Glyph depending on his preference. He can also use Dust crystals to increase their range and add elemental effects. A drawback to his ability is that the longer he uses them, the more it drains from his Aura. The size of the summoned Glyph also uses up a certain amount of his Aura. The weapons are also grounded to the Glyph, and disperse when they reach a certain height, but that can be dealt with by infusing them with Dust. The Glyphs will perish when Hitori has lost enough of his Aura or if he dismisses them.

Standard Makihige Constructs

 * Tendril- Tendrils appear from the Glyph, with their placement and timing being controlled by Hitori's thoughts. They arise quickly, but can be dodged by those with sharp reflexes. Ends have daggers meant for slashing and piercing flesh and body armor. The tendrils can go ten meters outside high before stopping and dispersing, but is increased to twenty meters when Dust-infused. Uses about a moderate amount of Aura to stay active.

Dust Effects
All give elemental effects and increase the tendril's range
 * Red Dust (Fire)- Sets the weapons on fire; Glyph turns Red
 * Green Dust (Wind)- Sharpens the weapons and gives them greater rising speed; Glyph and Spikes turn Green
 * Yellow Dust (Lightning)- Electrifies the weapons, painfully shocking anything it touches; Glyph turns Yellow
 * White Dust (Impact)- Metal is stronger; Glyph stays the same color but gives off a glow
 * Purple Dust (Gravity)- Spikes and Glyph slow down an enemies' movement; Glyph and Tendrils turn Purple
 * Cyan Dust (Ice)- Tendrils are extremely cold to touch and give a sharp pain to its victims; Glyph and Spikes turn Blue

Weakness
Hitori is weak against those who make strong use of Aura. He has low resistance against Dust attacks and other spiritual weaponry. He also has limited long ranged attacks and his tendrils can only reach a certain height, before dispersing. Its Glyph origin also allows people to anticipate where the spikes will appear, and dodge the assaulting spike. With the Glyph, Hitori has to keep his enemies either in the direction or on the Glyph for his spikes to hit, as they only go straight. But, his biggest weakness is his below-average Aura capacity.

Fighting Style
Hitori's fighting style can be called unpredictable and predictable at the same time. He use of fighting to the rhythm of his music poses an advantage as different music allows him to use different combos with his chains, knives, and Semblance. The disadvantage to this is that he occasionally uses them in a pattern, making those who are observant be able to anticipate his attacks. His choice of weaponry consist of a high-hit and high-damage combat style. Taka deals high damage at a high speed all over the body, while Shiv is quick and deadly to a small area. Makihige allows him to achieve a multitude of hits on his enemies' body with tendrils, arising from the Glyph. He can move when using his Semblance, allowing for a rapid amount of fast slashes, bashes, and stabs.

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 and give him their abilities, but the rules stated that the OC could only be either Faunus or Human.
 * The word Taka means "Hawk".
 * The word Shiv is a slang term for bladed weapons, such as knives and daggers.
 * Hitori has been involved with the Satan's Legion gang on multiple occasions. Their newly elected leader, Lucifer Iplitan, was the one who gave Hitori the scars on his cheeks. The gang was also the one who killed Hitori's father.
 * Hitori means "Alone" or "One Person", referencing the saying "Black is the Color of Loneliness".
 * Hitori often listens to instrumentals when he's battling, usually being AraabMuzik or Zedd. When he's not fighting, he listens to songs with lyrics.
 * Hitori actually has a very bad singing voice, but makes up for it with his skilled dancing and drumming. He's also known to be able to decently rap.
 * Hitori is based on ninjas, shown by his Japanese name, use of stealth and speed, face-mask, weaponry, and dark attire.