Shinku Ryu

"Death losses meaning when you've seen enough of it."

- Shinku Ryu

Appearance
Ryu has long jet black hair and eyes of crimson red. He is somewhat tall and fairly muscular. His normal combat wear is red sleeveless leather vest over a grey muscle shirt, crimson leather gloves, black pants, a belt around his waist, combat boots, and his sword strapped to his back. His symbol is a flame on his left shoulder.

Personality
Ryu is hot-headed, cocky, and can come off as stubborn. He seeks to become the strongest there is. As such he is one to get into fights often to test his strength and skills. He is confident in his abilities as fighter but sometimes he gets too confident and will let his guard down. He gets excitement from just the prospect of a good fight. Despite this he can be friendly and outgoing.

However Ryu is also somewhat blood thirsty. He get's a thrill out of fighting no matter what. He shows no remorse in killing and has cold emotionless view to death of any kind.

History
Ryu grew outside of the four kingdoms. He is the oldest in the Shinku family. He spent his days with his family roaming around the world in a caravan with many other people. For him it was either fight or die with the constant threat of grim. As such he learned to fight from an early age. As he grew up he developed his semblance of fire and gained a firm control over it. He learned channeled his fire semblance into his own unique fighting style, the Arekuruu Hiryu style of fighting. This focuses on the use of swift strikes with increased power from his Semblance and aura. At the age of twelve the Gu Huoyan was passed down to him from his father as it has been for many generations. His use of the sword differed from his normal way of fighting. He had to trade the speed of his strikes for power.

As time passed Ryu refined his fighting style until he was 13 years old he fought in the Faunus Rights Revolution on the side of the faunus despite being humans. This was due to both his and his family's support of the faunus and their rights. He fought in the war for three years alongside his sister Youko becoming well known on both sides earning the title of “The Hero of the Faunus”. During times between battles and missions he would explore nearby ruins with his sister. In some of these ruins they discovered many ancient technique lost to history. In one of the ruins they explored contained knowledge regarding an ancient prophecy in their family. The version the family knew stated that “Should the spark be rekindled a great catastrophe… befall the world.” However the version they found in the ruins stated “Should the spark be rekindled a great catastrophe that would befall the world shall be prevented so long as the one who sparked the flame masters it. Should the one who sparked the flame fail to master it the flames shall consume that man and it will look as though the sun is setting.” Upon discovering this Ryu began to work on unlocking this hidden power. While his sister was fearful of the consequences of this power at first she too began to learn it along side him. After the war Ryu left home seeking strength and to no longer be inhibited by family taboos and tradition. One year after this he was accepted into Beacon Academy. The three years Ryu spent in the war and the year away from home has caused him to have problems sleeping.

Unique Abilities
Ryu is able to control the flow of his aura allowing him to raise and lower his aura's defense at will as well as charge up powerful attacks. Because of this Ryu was able to harden his body through training by shutting his aura's defense off. This means even when his aura is zero he can still take concussive damage, depending on the severity of the blow. This however does not protect him from anything that can stab, cut, pierce, etc. Ryu also possess High levels of endurance allowing him to fight for hours.

Gu Huoyan
The Gu Huoyan is an ancient blade forged in a long forgotten era passed down from generation to generation in his family. The Gu Huoyan weights about 75 lbs and is 5’0” long. Like many weapons aura can be channeled through it. However what makes the Gu Huoyan unique as it appears to be sentient as it recognizes its wielder’s aura. As such It can only be passed down through a special ritual held sacred in the Shinku family. Through this only Ryu is able to hold it until he performs the ritual on someone else. This connection allows him to call the sword to him no matter where it is.

Semblance
Ryu’s semblance is fire. He has the ability to produce fire, control existing fire, or absorb fire. By producing fire he can channel into a blasts of fire or explosions. By absorbing fire he recharges any aura expended. If he has fully recovered his aura absorbing fire will temporarily increase the strength of his aura’s defense, offense, and healing as well as the strength of his flames. In this state his eyes will glow red.

Fighting Style
Ryu fights adept at both wielding his sword and hand to hand combat. Due to size of his swords uses it for powerful yet relatively slow strikes able to hit multiple enemies at once. Due to this limitation on speed he will switch to hand to hand combat for weaker yet faster strikes. He can further increase the power of his strikes through his semblance by using his fire to create explosions as well as his aura. In the event of a prolonged fight he is able to lessen the strain on his aura by lessening its defensive capabilities to conserve it. He will also use this in the event he would have to charge up a powerful attack through his semblance.

Abilities and Techniques

 * Dragon’s Fury: Ryu unleashes a fury of punches on a target. Each punch is empowered by mini explosions on impact.


 * Crimson Dragon’s Rage: Ryu releases a very large powerful blast of fire from his fist.
 * White Dragon’s Rage: The empowered form of Crimson Dragon’s Rage. This can be achieved when he is powered up by Caesar, in Crimson Stance, or a large overfill of aura.
 * Meteor Strike: charges an extremely large ball of flame in the air and sends onto a target are a group of targets creating a large explosion.
 * Ring of Fire: Ryu swings his sword in a circle releasing a ring of fire out from it which travels out for several feet before dissipating.
 * Dragon’s Blade: Ryu ignites flames upon his blade and greatly increases the size of the flame taking on the shape of his blade. At full length the blade of fire is 200 ft long, the blade of flame has the same ratio as his normal blade.
 * Dragon Ax: Ryu does a flame empowered ax kick.
 * Megaton Kick: Ryu performs a powerful kick empowered by an explosion from his semblance and his aura.
 * Solar Wave: Ryu’s most powerful attack. It was developed after the discovery of a technique recorded in an ancient ruins two years before arriving at Beacon. Through this Ryu is able to produce an attack capable of shattering through anyone’s aura no matter the strength, requires use of semblance. This attack is a wide blast and the heat of the flames is capable of melting most metals in an instant. While powerful this attack has many drawbacks. One is that it will drain Ryu’s aura to near zero. Due to this he has to make sure it hits the first time. Another is that it takes 5 mins to properly charge up the attack. As such Ryu can not use any aura for defense during the charge up and after firing the attack. The attack also can not receive a power boost from Caesar nor Crimson Stance. However while in Crimson Stance is able to perform in more than once but with the same charge up time.
 * One Inch Megaton Punch: Ryu performs a one inch punch empowered by both his aura and his semblance.

Stances (Italics means he hasn't learned it yet)

 * Crimson Stance: Ryu increases everything tenfold. His speed, strength, durability, reaction time, processing of information, aura strength, and semblance strength all increased with the exception being the capacity of aura he has. While in this state his aura is drained and his body is under and incredible amount of stress. If he remains in this stated to long serious and even fatal injury could come to his body. In this stated his eyes and emblem will glow a crimson red.
 * Vermilion Stance: In this state Ryu receives a 20x boost to everything as opposed to the 10x increase from Crimson Stance. His body is under the same stress as in Crimson Stance and burns through his aura the same. However, unlike in Crimson Stance his aura capacity is increased. In this state Ryu’s eyes and emblem glow a vermilion orange.
 * Amber Stance: In this state Ryu receives 30x boost to everything with the exception of his aura’s healing factor. He has the same aura capacity increase as in Vermilion Stance. This state also comes with the same stress on his body and aura consumption has his previous two states. While in this state Ryu’s eyes and emblem glow an amber yellow.
 * Azure Stance: In this state Ryu receives a 40x Boost to everything. He also has his aura capacity increased by 40x. His body burns through aura at the same rate as the previous stances. However it is canceled out by the increase to his aura’s healing factor in this stated. In this state Ryu’s eyes and emblem glow an azure blue
 * Pseudo Crimson Stance: Similar to Crimson Stance except the increase is only 1.5x. It is cause by the absorbing of a lot of fire overfilling his normal aura capacity triggering the state to relive it. He returns to normal once his aura has returned to normal capacity. Only his irises glow a crimson red in this state.

Trivia:

 * Ryu's name is ordered last name first name
 * Ryu alludes to Goku from Dragon Ball
 * Ryu is a japanese name for dragon
 * Shinku means Crimson in Japanese
 * Many of Ryu's techniques and abilities are based on techniques from a few anime (Mainly Dragon Ball) as well as real world martial artists
 * Dragon's Fury is based off of Luffy's gum gum gatling from One Piece
 * Crimson Dragon's Rage is loosely based of the Kamehameha from Dragon Ball
 * White Dragon's Rage is loosely based of the Super Kamehameha from Dragon Ball
 * Solar Wave is loosely based on Tien's Tribeam from Dragon Ball
 * Meteor Strike is based on the Spirit Bomb from Dragon Ball
 * Ryu's semblance is inspired by Natsu's Dragon slayer magic from Fairy Tail
 * The One Inch Megaton Punch is inspired by Bruce Lee's one inch punch
 * The four stance refer to main things but the main one is the colors of fire with the weakest, Crimson Stance, being red the coolest flame and the strongest, Azure stance, being blue the hotter flame
 * They are also based on the idea of the kaioken from Dragon Ball
 * Crimson Stance is a referance to the red kaioken aura and the red Super Saiyan God aura from Dragon Ball
 * Amber Stance is a referance to the Super Saiyan from Dragon Ball
 * Azure Stance is a referance to the Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan or Super Saiyan Blue from Dragon Ball
 * Pseudo Crimson Stance is a referance to the Fan dubbed pseudo Super Saiyan seen in the Dragon Ball Z movie Lord Slug