Reikokuna

Reikokuna (リーッックナ riikkkuna) is one of the only known survivors of the near extinction of the Elder Spirit race alongside Kuro and is currently a legal mage of the guild Crashing Wave, usually staying quite hidden in the shadows as to not bring attention to himself from his fellow guild mates, who have never seen Reikokuna particpate before openly during the guild activites until now. As an Elder Spirit, Reikokuna was not one of the Elder Spirits credited with the creation of the world unlike his sworn brother Kuro, but according to ancient recordings by the humans who had lived before, Reikokuna was one of the more vile Elder Spirits, having invented the way of slavery as he used the many ancient humans to build several structures in honour of his power, with many of these constuctions lost to the aging of time. However, having lost his race to an unknown disease that seemed to kill off nearly all of the species, Reikokuna has come to fear the humans despite their inferiority to the Elder Spirit's, coming to terms that the Earth Land needed a new race to become it's supreme and so waits until the Elder Spirits may finally take that position later in the future.

Keeping his identity as an Elder Spirit as a secret, Reikokuna usually refers to himself as a Younger Spirit despite the hate that the Younger Spirits have recieved from the Elder Spirits before their massive decline in numbers, leaving the Younger Spirits as the superior Spirit variant in the whole world until Kuro and Reikokuna are able to find a way to bring them back. And with much history of his early activity during the dawn of Earth Land being erased over the period of thousands of years, Reikokuna is pretty much in the clear that he can finally start a new life with a new personality again, having the chance to redeem himself of the atrocious acts that he had commited during his early days on the land. Compared to Kuro, Reikokuna seeks the more neutral and if so friendly methods of bringing his race back, unlike Kuro who has made several weapons that if fallen into the wrong hands could easily be used to obliterate cities and even countries if combined with the right power, where as Reikokuna tries to find things such as time travel and portals to be more of a suitable way of bringing the Elder Spirit race back. Reikokuna does respect the humans, but even if it must end with the blood of humans on his hands to bring back his race, Reikokuna won't hesitate to do so, bringing the similarity between Reikokuna and Kuro.

Despite his sinister appearance, Reikokuna actually does care about the human race more than Kuro, and does actually enjoy spending time hanging around the different race as he finds comfort and belonging to them despite their differences in both nature and powers. A being that was built for combat and such, Reikokuna is also quite the intellect as just like Kuro he has been able to build several mechanisms that supports his need to bring back the Elder Spirit race as well as being one of the men responsible for revolutionising the way that human lifestyles can operate, from such ways as communication, transportation and especially extermination. With his connection to Kuro, who is the guild master of one of Ishgar's most wealthiest guilds, Reikokuna uses this access to gain the materials that he needs to design and build these mant constructions and products that he claims will change the way that humanity will work forever, a very daring statement depending on what the future has in store for Reikokuna and his creations. The sales of these creations has made Reikokuna a very wealthy spirit, nearly as wealthy as Uepon Mausu and uses most of his wealth to fund projects of either his or guilds whenever he's feeling pretty generous.

Though being a person who does not really wish to bring so much attention to his name, Reikokuna chooses to go under the alias of Mr. R (ムル ア muru a) whenever working with other people anonymously and to not reveal that he is infact Reikokuna. Especially in secret dealings, Reikokuna uses the Mr. R aliases as to disguise himself and to keep his identity secret, and so with this advantage to his name, Reikokuna has become quite active in much more secret meetings with various important people to power his projects all in good faith however. The name of Genesis (ジェネシス jeneshisu) is a reference to his role of the bringer of a new age, the dawn of a new world and the renovation of a new start to the lifestyle of humanity, which may also be a hint to his involvement in the resurrection of the Elder Spirit race. But his known use for his many weapons and such has earned Reikokuna the ancient epithet of the Heart Breaker (ヒアート ブリアカー hiaato buriakaa) as his merciless method of aiming for his opponent's hearts as well as his merciless execution of ripping out the ancient slave's hearts out have left a not so positive reputation to his name, in which joining a guild in his view would help him redeem it.

Appearance
Reikokuna has chosen the appearance of a young man in that looks like he is in his twenties, that stands well above the average height of the normal human being, standing well above the heights of the human mages below him as he stares them down. Reikokuna has a sort of dark red colour to his eyes, sort of like the colour of blood which is one of his biggest intimidations when facing off against opponents, using his eyes to threaten the more weaker hearted mages, and besides the pure evil that appears to plague the eyes, is a sense of innocence and belief in doing good, just like his actual reputation in Earth Land. His pale white hair is grooms in an odd way, with the hair being very spikey at the back that stick out in all sorts of directions, giving off that wild vibe to his presence with the addition of his more straight and curtained hair at the front that hang down by the sides covering his ears, which give off a clean and gentle look to his figure, countering the spikey part of his hairstyle. Reikokuna may not look quite the muscular figure, which many would think due to his extreme strength, as barely even any muscle can be seen on his body along with the fact that there are none of these packs on his abdomen, which usually is a symbol of extreme strength and huge motivation and determination of the person who aimed for their immense strength. All over his body, Reikokuna has bold red tattoes all over his figure as of he was an art canvas, with the red tattoes being the art even though no-one can even guess what these tattoes even mean without the explanation of Reikokuna himself, just like most art nowadays. From all the non covered parts of his body, there is always a strange and mysterious tattoe imprinted there, which can be seen on his unpacked abdomen, both of his shoulders and even lightning bolt tattoes over both his eyes, which match the blood red colour of his eyes.

Now moving onto Reikokuna's outfit, there seems to be a god damn load of leather and buckles on it that it would put a S&M couples to shame, as besides the buckles not serving much of a purpose, the amount of leather actually does as it does exteremly well against resisting fire of all sorts. Starting off with the top upper wear of the body, a large leather collar surrounds Reikokuna's neck as it seems to bloack all view from others looking at Reikokuna's neck for some reason, the author also doesn't know why. The golden buckles on it really don't serve much of a purpose besides as a cosmetic addition which leaves it totally useless incase of a combative sitation unless Reikokuna wants to attract electricity but you know, don't really see why you would. Moving down, there is much more leather and buckles than the collar, but the top has been designed so that it leaves the shoulders and belly of Reikokuna out in the open, revealing his red tattoes. On his arms, Reikokuna wears you guessed it, leather gauntlets that have extra leather material and buckles going up his arm which end just below his shoulders, as further down the giant leather glove, the material slowly gets more and more dense, which allows Reikokuna to handle and deflect fire very well as well as giving Reikokuna's hand to hand attakcs and such the extra punch it needs. Some leather on the gauntlets have been painted the same kind of red as his tattoes and eyes, in a way to detail the leather armour, which is usually done to add more character to the black and dense leather material. Some parts of the red paint have been made that sort of fits Reikokuna's strange markings and so gives the armour a more unique look to Reikokuna, even though no one else really goes around in that much leather like that.

Moving down to his lower body wear, this part of his armour seems to maybe have a little more detail for the author of this article to describe, but nonetheless is something unlike a few other articles that the author has done in the past, but it should be clear to see that the lower wear of the outfit is has the same kind of detail and just abit of the same materials used so not much different at all. Reikokuna wears black pants that seem to have a good fit on Reikokuna's lower body, as it gives him the ability of great mobility and flexibility despite how fit it actually looks on Reikokuna's lower body, and unlike the rest of Reikokuna's outfit, Reikokuna's black pants arn't actually made put of leather because honestly that is just a load of goddamn leather for one to have. Reikokuna's boots go up just under the heigh of his knee caps, which give him total protection of his shins and downward thanks to the amount of leather that the boots of Reikokuna is made up of. The front toes of the boots have three layers of thick leather, all with the same red painting as his upper body armour, as so do the two layered cuffs of his boots, that also have a large slit in he middle of them to reveal the leather straps with the same golden buckles at the front, which actually do serve a purpose this time as they help fasten the boots to Reikokuna's legs so they do not fall off during combat. On the calves of both legs, there are more belts and buckles that help keep these large pouches on the sides of Reikokuna's legs, as these pouches can hold up to a variety of things, which is what Reikokuna obviously does with them. Two belts on Reikokuna's waist have a small mechanism attached to the sides of them that allows Reikokuna to sheathe and hang his blades whenever he is not in combat, and can be unlocked to let go of the blades just at the simple detection of his hand nearby. So long story short, the belts and buckles actually do serve a purpose down here while up there they are complete unnecessary.

Not many know this, but Reikokuna's armour is actually mechanical as underneath all that leather is actually a mechanical body suit that activated, Reikokuna's suddenly changes and enhances as it slowly forms infront of the opponent's eyes, reaching it's second stage which Reikokuna usually calls upon when his first armour isn't enough for a certain situation. Also, remember when the author said that the belts and buckles did absolutely nothing on the upper body half of the outfit and were primarily used for just fastening articles of Reikokuna clothing on's body on the lower half? Well the author lied because these belts and buckles of the such actually hide and contain the second phases' appearance, as just by the activation for a split second they swiftly unfasten to allow the upgrades of Reikokuna's armour to properly shoot out and attach itself tightly onto Reikokuna's body. This can be seen with the gloves or gauntlets however it was said before, as the cuffs of the gauntlets or gloves is shown to have a large disk shoot out that circles both Reikokuna's wrists and can act as a sort of defense mechanism, along with the fact that arm bracers also shoot out from these disks and give much, much more protection to Reikokuna's arms. What also should be noted is that Reikokuna gets protecion now on his abdomen as his torso's leather armour piece swiftly unfastens to allow more armour to slide down it and onto Reikokuna's abdomen, also bearing the same red paint as most of the armour with the addition of a nice gold paint to go with it, also to match the other gold items on Reikokuna's body. The author does not know if there is a name for this interesting piece of clothing, so the author shall refer to this piece as the 'butt cape' so that the readers know what the author is reffering to, as it is released from the behind and hangs down between Reikokuna's legs with pride as it really is only a cosmetic addition to Reikokuna's outfit.

Personality
As an Elder Spirit, Reikokuna is naturally proud of his belonging to the Elder Spirits, but his pride doesn't seem to be enough as Reikokuna chooses to appear to the humans of Earth Land as a Younger Spirit, the more common versions of Ethernano Spirits that freely roam Earth Land, and are the lower and less powerful than their Elder Spirit cousins, with power being that an Elder Spirit aims for during their unlimited lifespan. Though what's strange about Reikokuna is that he doesn't really mind the humans of Earth Land so much, compared to Kuro the other Elder Spirit who care very little to the point that no human could ever be safe around the sadistic spirit being, with Reikokuna representing the good side and Kuro representing the bad side of both their little ying yang kind of relationship. Though quiet a bit more of the time, Reikokuna does like to spend time with the humans of Ishgar, usually participating in leisures such as drinking, smoking, doing jobs and just straight up fighting without a purpose, which has made Reikokuna quite the troublemaker sometimes. When it comes to comparing the humans to Reikokuna, he really doesn't care at all about the amount of magic strength that another human mage has to him, wanting to concentrate on his own magic strength so that he could be able to match or even surpass his brother Kuro, and having thousands of years to do so has really paid off, which really doesn't make sense as Reikokuna has not found his Elder Magic spells at all during his whole time of existence which explains why he had no part in creating and forming Earth Land. Out of all the Elder Spirits in history, Reikokuna has been the only one to ever cooperate with the humans of Ishgar willingly and passionately, actually wanting to help them out in penance for his atrocious actions back when he was a slave master.

During combat Reikokuna is quite relaxed and laid back no matter who the opponent is, which isn't the product of pride and confidence in his magical and physical capability but more of a method Reikokuna has used over the years as to show no weakness or struggle against the opponent, as by his terms showing weakness makes the opponent rest a little easier knowing they've damaged the enemy, while not showing that they are tired out makes the opponent carry on fighting to the best of their ability. Reikokuna expects the best put of his opponent most of the time, but ones that have already proven their power that Reikokuna has witnessed himself as has been awed by, then he usually politely asks to tone down their power for a lowly mage like him. He never really takes a fight seriously however and will sometimes even play around during a serious encounter, spurting out playful taunts and stuff as he does his best to avoid attacks coming his way, but can be easily shut up as he doesn't really concentrate during this period of time. Just as his alias of Heart Breaker suggest, Reikokuna likes to do attacks that aim for the heart of the opponent, but having joined a legal guild under the guidance of the Magic Council, Reikokuna cannot do such things like that to any other mage unless he is granted permission to kill in which case his Heart Breaker attitude comes into play. Just a bit of evil has stuck with Reikokuna over the 10,000 years and more that he has existed, as he is quite the sadistic fighter, laughing sometimes whenever he has been able to cut his opponents, though this is rarely even happens so it's probably all good, the author thinks. Unlike drinking, Reikokuna does know his limits and will not be hesitant to retreat from a fight or to call it quits in a spar, as he knows that his body might not be able to take much more damage if he carried on fighting in this state.

Reikokuna is pretty cooperative most of the time, and has the strengths of both a fierce and independent leader capable of doing his own thing as well as having the liking to ordering others around for him and also has the supreme loyalty and support of a follower, though chooses more to follow as he is known to have executed unpleasant and questionable orders in the past as a leader, but nonetheless still capable. Not much of a tactical genius like a few known mages in Ishgar, Reikokuna can be relyed on to carry out the dirty work, as he himself is not much the thinker but more of the doer, favouring the parts of plans that requires or just includes action of some sort, excluding himself from any means of planning that he doesn't see himself contributing to. But when he does participate in planning however, it seems as is Reikokuna is a whole new person as he would now recognise the importance of this plan and would want to help so that the plan can be turned to benifit him, which may also benifit others. Being the Elder Spirit he is and such, Reikokuna is also quite the intellect since his knowledge of Earth Land spans over 10,000 years of experience, having witnessed many things and even participated in some, which include the formation of Earth Land which he saw with his own eyes and the first practitioners of magic, where he acted as one of them. To some, Reikokuna is a vault full of history and information, even knowing information on how ethernano works that he has also figured out the way to formulate his very own magic that he could teach to other people, yet hasn't done that since he isn't much of the thinker to do such a thing. Also having travelled all over the land, Reikokuna knows a lot about places that many people call upon his assitance to tell him more about the location and area's structure as well as other things such as wild life and enviornment.

Even though Reikokuna doesn't really like thinking tactically, he definetly does like thinking up schematics and such for his inventions and creations, making him quite the mechanic as he is known to fix up nearly anything that anybody can bring to him, from rusted magic vehicles and broken magic items, Reikokuna is quite confident in his ability as a 'handyman', even though he dislikes using such a term to refer to himself as. His expertise in this can be seen by his armour which has two phases, giving Reikokuna more protection on his second form of the armour as he has been able to design the armour perfectly so that it has the capability do such things. Reikokuna's craftsman persona can also be shared with his sworn brother Kuro, as both Elder Spirits have created a variety of machines and such that have fantastic abilities and enhancements for the use of the user, with Reikokuna focusing more on projects such as weapons, armour and even vehicles and what not compared to Kuro who works on projects that are undoubtedly larger scaled than whatever Reikokuna could ever dream about creating. This love for creating has been developed over thousands of years, starting ever since he had witnessed the creation of Earth Land, admiring the creators of the Elder Spirit's ultimate masterpiece, being one of the first ever beings to actually start using the materials of Earth Land to create mechanisms of all sorts, such as the first weapons and blades, learning to create better ones as time went on. Reikokuna Would rather not see himself as a master craftsman and does like to teach others on how to create their own, as he has mastered several crafting arts of blacksmithing, carpeting, metal work and anything else that comes into mind when a person says the word 'crafting'.

Trivia

 * His character is Haseo from .hack//G.U.