Shōjirō Kusaka

"He who has traveled for the sake of others."

- KILLER5591

Shōjirō Kusaka (草冠 ショウジロウ, Kusaka Shōjirō) ia traveling mage and member of the Kusaka Clan. He is a traveling scholar of magic and magic hunter, one who learns many types of magic to help the helpless.

Appearance
Shōjirō is a young mage with short red hair and brown eyes and a shorter stature. He wears full length and slightly baggy pants or shorts and cut off shirts or regular T-shirts, depending on the respective season. he has the general appearance of a well groomed and highly hygienic individual. Shōjirō has shown to have a moderate muscular build despite his appearance. He is extremely youtful expecially around his face. When traveling, Shōjirō has shown to wear a simple light brown cloak and is usually seen with a type of backpack.

Personality
Shōjirō has shown to be a fairy easy going person, having a great sense of humor and is generally a laid back person. He has shown to for the most part a pacifist and only engages in fights when needed or when having taken a job or if protecting people, but Shōjirō has shown to prefer to try to resolve fights peacefully through talking and almost entirely refuses to kill another person unless absolutly necessary. He has shown to a highly loving elder brother to his younger family members, ofter doting on his sisters and picking on his brothers. Shōjirō takes threats towards himself rather lightly but when his friends or family are threatened he tends to get very serious and will usually remove the person making the threats.

Shōjirō has shown to rarely ever get angry, but when he does many say that he pretty much transforms into another person entirely. Shōjirō, because of his passive nature, when fighting tends to end a confrontation quickly by usually knocking out his enemy or trapping them until he can remove himself from the entire situation. Shōjirō, due to his many years of traveling by himself has given him a very mature demenor. Shōjirō also because of his traveling has become and acts much like a wise, old sage in his speaking along with his usually polite speeking mannerisms. Even thought Shōjirō has a very polite way of speaking, he has displayed a very foul mouth when and if angered enough.

Ways of Combat
Grandmaster Swordsmanship Specialist: Shōjirō has shown to use swordsmanship as one of his primary forms of combat. Having come from a family famed for its fighting, magic, and swordsmanship abilities, Shōjirō has proven to be immensely formidable fighter. Shōjirō has shown able to fell multiple skilled enemies in a single draw faster than the naked eye could perceive. A large amount of his experience comes from having studied and practiced from a very young age. He has shown to combine his swordsmanship abilities and his martial arts abilities into his own unique style that has proven to extremely deadly if misused. 


 * Iaido Mastery : Another traditional Japanese school of swordsmanship in which Shōjirō  has practiced in is "Iaijutsu" ( 居合術 , Art of Drawing the Sword), which focuses primarily on drawing the sword in such a way that it can actually be used as a combative art. Iaido is primarily used as a feigning technique, meant to surprise an opponent before using more traditional Kenjutsu or Zanjutsu to deal damage, or Kendo to finish an opponent off. Shōjirō’s mastery of this technique is so great that most people are unable to see the draw, let alone defend against the actual attack.


 * Demon Cloak: Ashura (鬼外:阿修羅, Kigai: Ashura) as a Sword Magic spell that Shōjirō uses when needed. This spell creates a cloak out of Shōjirō's magic power, that when formed gives Shōjirō four extra arms, two above and two below his real arm's, and two extra faces on either side of his head. Shōjirō has shown able to independently move each arm from each other, and the two faces on either side of his head have a shared field of vision allowing him to see in three of four directions. Shōjirō upon using this spell has shown to use Requip to arm each arm with a sword. Shōjirō has only displayed one technique with this spell. When using this spell Shōjirō has displayed a massive increase in both speed and strength, but this spell has shown to use a considerable amount of magic to maintain, so Shōjirō rarely uses this spell, unless backed into a corner.
 * Rokuten (六天, Six Heavens) is sword technique and not a spell of Shōjirō's that is only usable when using his Demon Cloak spell. This technique uses the six arms and blades of his Demon Cloak to attack with all six arms at once. When using this technique, Shōjirō moves in close to his enemy before bringing all six blade into the enemy, the two arms above his real ones come down as is striking the collarbone while his real arms attack from the middle and the lower set comes up from below at an angle before all six pierce the enemy at the same single point. From this position Shōjirō can twist the blades and cleave the enemy into multiple pieces.
 * Master Hand-to-hand Combatant: Shōjirō, much like his swordsmanship skills are masterful in knowledge and use. Shōjirō, having had training more or less from birth has now shown an immense amount of skill in his use of unarmed and martial arts abilities. Shōjirō's use of martial arts has shown to be more defensive in nature, his preferance being soft styles of fighting do to his passive nature. When fighting, Shōjirō has shown to use defensive, reversal, and throwing techniques as well as joint manipulation, locking, and seperation techniques in conjunction of disabling and temporary unconscious rendering techniques. Despite all of that, Shōjirō has also demonstrated his knowledge and use of more violent and harmful fighting styles that use powerful bone breaking, tearing, ripping, concussive techniques in combat, even though they're not his prefered method of combat.

Physical Attributes
Immense Strength: Shōjirō has a considerable amount of physical strength, despite his physique and stature. He has demonstrated his ability to throw others that are considerably bigger than himself. He has also shown able to fight certain magical beasts and creatures that wound normally be considerably stronger than any normal human with relative ease. Again, Shōjirō's physical strength is attributed to his upbringing and his time spent traveling and training.