Ranru Ishida

"Humans, you're pathetic! I know toddlers who could fight better!"

- Vegeta, taunting a human fighter. "I wield this blade out of hatred. I didn't come here to do battle. I'm here to slice you to pieces."

- Toshiro Hitsugaya, Bleach Manga Chapter 389, Page 19 "Every force you create has an echo. Your own bad energy will be your undoing."

- Gogeta, Dragon Ball Z Fusion Reborn

I will have all the info ready soon. I am also waiting on my character's artwork for the design, weapons, etc. The picture you see of the wolf is only a substitute for when I do get my character's artwork.

Appearance
Riken is a very dark and secluded individual. This is mostly seen by the clothes he wears. His street clothing is covered mostly by a thin, black, button-up hoodie. Underneath the hoodie is a crimson colored vest over a white T-shirt. Both the T-shirt and the vest bare his symbol on them; the vest has it placed over his heart on the left colored to be black while the T-shirt bares his symbol in the middle of the shirt, making it significantly larger along with it being the color of black as well. Riken also wears a pair of crimson colored cargo pants with a hole in the rear for his wolf tail so it can "roam free." The shoes Riken wears resemble hiking boots however they actually have small spikes hidden in the sole of the boots that he uses when fighting off creatures of Grimm along with the White Fang. One of his accessories to his outfit is a chain necklace with an amulet attached to hit. The amulet was given to him by his twin sister Shuri and is a five-bladed shuriken with a red gem in the middle. The gem holds some of Riken's Family Aura, which he uses mostly to amplify his Semblence when he triggers it. The second accessory Riken has on his outfit is a black leather belt with two hooks on both waists for his weapons to be held on when not in use. While the weapons fold up, they are still very heavy to carry around and are folded up when on the hooks. Riken's third and last accessory is a pair of red headphones he keeps around his neck at all times, even when in school uniform. Riken is also very bulky, which means he has large muscles along with a tall body. However, this causes him to be a bit slower than the rest of his team at Beacon, but it is a cost for an enormous amount of strength and endurance when in combat.

Personality
Riken used to be a very happy and helpful boy during his childhood. However, on his 17th birthday, a raid of jealous commoners erupted within their clan territory. What had happened caused a very dramatic and violent change in Riken. He had also become insulted and felt disrespected because of the commoners' damage to his family. He had killed most of the "army" that had invaded their home. He saw the blood on his hands. When his main family saw what he had done, both his father and sister knew what he would become in the future. He left the Ishida Clan after the battle. Since then he has been very quiet around his birthday. Any other time he is happy and playful and a bit crazy with his ideas. In battle, he sees it as a game and mostly toys with his enemies until he feels the need to finish them using a special combo he developed when training secretly in the woods. Crazy or not, you can still see the anger in his eyes. Also, either way, he always lives by one belief: Everyone's force they create has an echo, depending on who passes on the echo determines the fate of everything. The only reason he doesn't seem angry all the time is because of his friends. He feels that he needs to push aside the past and worry about what is going on in the present and look toward the future. The weapons he chose to train with when a part of the Ishida Clan also helped with the fact that he would become this way in the future. Occasionally, he gets letters from his sister sent by messenger birds which can cause him to feel relieved in a way. Shuri is the only one who knows where Riken is because they keep in touch secretly. Obviously, keeping a connection between himself and his sister helps to keep him happy family wise. Outside of his family are his friends at Beacon, who will often mess with him with pranks and friendly jokes about him, which in return can cause him to snap sometimes. He gets back at them at some point, usually when they completely forget about whatever prank they pulled on him. Riken is basically just happy in his own little way. He keeps in touch with his twin sister making him happy along with his annoying friends making him even happier.

Weapons
Riken's signature weapons are two giant twin shurikens named Kurenai, which means "Crimson," and Rouga, which means "Wolf Fang." These weapons are pure melee weapons except for the times when he makes his weapon Koori shoot out small, sharp ice crystals at his opponent. This is connected to the ice dust crystal he keeps in the chamber of his weapon, so he can sort of control when to release ice spikes. Kurenai is always on his left side and is in his left hand when engaged in combat. Rouga resides in his right hand along with being stored on his right when not in use. The way he tells them apart is simply by color. Kurenai means "Crimson" so it's color scheme is more of a crimson with a shade of violet being the secondary color. Rouga means "Wolf Fang" so it lies more on the light blue and white side of the color scheme. The blades have always been sharpened after a battle so they stay in tact along with never dull out. When in combat, the weapons would usually stay still. However, Riken uses a dark gray Dust crystal on both weapons in order to make the blades spin for increased damage to his opponent. However, once this has started, the blades will not stop spinning until the Dust runs out so he mainly uses smaller crystals instead of larger ones. This fact can still get in the way because of time. Sometimes he may need more time for the blades because of stronger opponents or sometimes he may have to sit and wait after a battle before they stop spinning. There are two transformations for Doku and Koori. the obvious one is it's storage mode, in which Riken folds the blades and hangs them onto the two hooks on his belt on both sides of his waist. The other transformation they possess is the ability for them to combine into one weapon. The way this works is the extra space between two blades inserts in between the section where one of the blades is. This creates a space in which the other shuriken can combine and lock in place with the other. The blades also become in line with each other so that way, for example, Rouga isn't in the front while Kurenai is behind Rouga. Both of these transformations can be undone with the push of a button on the rod Riken uses to hold both weapons, which is in the middle of an intentional hole in the middle of the weapons. This transformation, or combination, will usually signify that he is about to deliver the finishing blow. His finishing blow, or special combo, is called by him the "Howling Wolf Rush." It's a flurry of slashes and strikes he makes with Kurenai and Rouga seperately at first, and then he throws them up into the air and combines them for the final rush, forming Kurenai Rouga. That final slash with Kurenai Rouga is followed by a deafening howl. If there is no howl after the attack, his attack either did not finish his opponent or it missed somehow, which has only happened when training with his master.

Semblance
Iron Fur is Riken's special semblance. Since Riken's main part that gives him away as a Faunus is a wolf tail, he "developed" his semblance to make his fur into a sort of bodily armor for a short time during battle. Because of his semblance endurance training, he could easily make it last for a good ten minutes. He doesn't keep it activated for long because it restricts his movement in battle. Another perk is that he can grow fur anywhere on his body in short amounts of time for a couple of brief seconds, that fur also being as hard as iron. He also uses this during his final rush as a defense in case of any projectiles heading toward him. He can also activate his semblance in his hair and in his wolf tail. He will sometimes use his wolf tail as an "extra blade" to strike opponents behind or as an addition to a combo. The only big outside weakness would be other semblences, like glyphs, that can enhance Dust or his opponent's weapon. This means that base Dust or base weapons would not affect him if he activated his semblance in time. However, if he faced an opponent like Weiss, she could use her Glyph semblance to either enhance her Dust attacks or weapon attacks to get some damage on him while he activates his semblance, which would be neutralized just as Weiss' blae or Dust made contact with his body. His only defense then would be Kurenai and Rouga.

Childhood
Riken's childhood wasn't like any regular kid's childhood. He didn't get to go exploring in the woods or go play video games at a friends house. While he did have friends and everything at school, immediately after would be his weapon training. He went through school until he was thirteen years of age. By then, his real training began along side his twin sister, Shuri. Shuri was a very fast and powerful fighter, but with little endurance. Riken was the same except he felt like he was in the shadow of Shuri because of her hugely developed skills. He had not only looked up to her because of this, but he had also vowed himself to catch up to her and begin training on her level as soon as he could. He trained in secret in the nights he had in the woods surrounding his home village. One night, while he was training in secret, two Ursa grimm ambushed him. Luckily, his family had noticed he had been missing for the past couple of ours and his sister came just in time to save him. At that point, Shuri voluteered to train Riken what she knew so he could train on the same level she was with their master. At the age of fifthteen, Riken began training with his signature weapons, Kurenai and Rouga. By this time, he had become very well developed in his mind and body. He was able to judge when to strike an opponent, where they're weak points were, and when to activate his semblance. When he had discovered his semblance, his master and father immediately cut his weapon and physical training in half and began his semblance development and endurance training. Because of all his training, he didn't have time for school at his home village. He rarely saw any of his old friends from school and became secluded from most of his family, spending most of the day training and hanging out with Shuri. Riken had finally had some time to go outside of his family's estate walls for a couple of days and decided to go and spend some time with his old friends. When the parents of his friends found this out, they executed a plan they all had been working on over a number of years and attacked the Ishida Clan Estate. When Riken heard all the commotion he hurried back and saw his family fighting against the commoners. Riken rushed in to help out his, his friends doing the same except helping the commoners. Riken was then faced against his best friends all because of their parents. Shuri had come to back him up. As the two sides fought, Riken defeated his friends, killing all of them in the process. His parents and master came out with the same result. They were then exiled from the village and never to return. As they were walking up the mountain near their old village, they watched as their estate burned to ashes. At the peak of the mountain, Riken's father said that he would look for another village or town or city to rebuild they're estate. He also said that Shuri and Riken must go with they're master to his home and finish they're training. They're master was killed by grimm a week after they had been there. Riken and Shuri had a fight then afterwards because of their father's choice and whether they should listen or not. They had contacted their father about what had happened and received a reply to join the White Fang. Riken refused immediately, thinking it would only cause more pain for him. Shuri, however, tried to convince him to change his mind and join with her, but he still refused. He believed both of them, being twins, were too young to be in such a "foul organiztaion," as Riken put it. Shuri left and joined the White Fang while Riken cleared the area of Grimm, which took about a month to complete. After, Riken recieved word from SHuri that she had been accepted into the White Fang's Elite Squadron. Riken replied to her mail, congradulating her on her success and told her that he would be attending Beacon Academy, which is where we find Riken today, starting his first second semester assignment of shadowing a professional hunter with his team in hopes of becoming more familiar with hunting creatures of Grimm.