Name:
Katsu “K’” Sanada.
Age:
16-years old.
Gender:
Male.
Nationality and native language:
Japanese. Though, he is fluent in English and will often swear in English.
Quirk:
Will-o’-Wisp - Emitter
K’ has the ability to create purple fire out of thin air and control it to his will. These flames generally behave like normal fire, they spread like a normal fire and they can be put out like normal fire as well. These flames seem to do no damage to K’.
However, K’s fire is different in the sense that his flames are somewhat tied to his emotions, the more angry and upset K’ is feeling the hotter his flames become when he gets upset small flames and embers may start to appear from his body. On the other hand, the sadder or more despaired he feels the weaker the flames become until they eventually extinguish completely, in this stage K’ even loses the ability to conjure his fire altogether. If K’ is excited and happy the flames will be brighter and spread faster, however, if he is scared they become darker, to the point of even turning black, and will spread much slower.
Other emotions have yet to show any particular effect on the fire K’ creates and as long as K’ is in a rather neutral mood his fire is just as effective and hot as any normal fire would be. Another odd specialty of K’s fire is that once summoned it can linger in the air for a short period of time, around 30 - 40 seconds, before disappearing, unless supplied with fuel to burn, this is what inspired the name “Will-o’-Wisp”.
This quirk also has the side effect that K’s normal body temperature is raised by a good bit. His regular body temperature rests at around 50°C/122°F. However, his body temperature, while usually sitting at the aforementioned temperature also drops and raises with his mood. The more happy or angry he is the warmer his body gets, it usually caps at around 65,5°C/150°F, and the more sad or scared he is the colder he gets, this drops usually stops at around 30°C/86°F, a little below average body temperature.
Appearance:
Note: The back of his jacket says "Beast of Prey" between his shoulders.
Height:
183 Metres.
6’ Feet.
Weight:
94 Kilos.
207 Pounds.
Hair Color:
White.
Eye Color:
Dark Purple.
Personality:
High-strung, cocky… dickhead. All these are words commonly used to describe K’. He is easily annoyed and generally known to swear a lot, calling even his friends “Asshole” or “Dickhead” as though they were nicknames. K’ is also a rather lazy persona, preferring not to do more than what is needed and to avoid any additional work he could do. Ironically, he is a little cold, often preferring to answer only in short phrases and to turn people away as quickly as humanly possible.
Though, as with any other person alive, it isn’t just this black and white. K’ really is just rather shy and very uncomfortable around people, he knows well of the anger issues he has and straight-up hates the fact that he is as high-strung as he is, he would rather hide that away, or if possible delete it from his personality altogether. In trying to hide his asshole-ness away from people, however, he just exposes it to them much quicker as a sort of shell, so they bounce off, just accept him as a ball of anger and leave him alone.
The other side of K’ is easily discovered if you are just around him while he has little to no company or while he is around his mother or sister. In these scenarios, his other characteristics really start to show. Even though he still swears a lot, he becomes much nicer and sincere, his voice becomes much calmer and a bit quieter. He is now much more likely to show rather openly how much he actually cares and how his mind is constantly running, taking notes on everyone he likes, memorizing what they like, what they dislike, what their interests are and so on.
If it comes to fighting, there he can let out all of his aggression. Although he does not particularly enjoy fighting, as he perceives it as an unnecessary bother if there is no way to avoid it he will just let his anger carry him through the fight. Even though he knows many fighting techniques and martial arts, rather than sticking to one or two of them, K’ rather mixes them up and fights with pure violence, only occasionally throwing out proper techniques. On a side note, in battle he often shows how incredibly flexible and strong he is, which stands in a weird contrast to his usual rather lazy self.
Hobbies:
- General Work-Out (Cardiovascular exercise, weight lifting and so on…)
- Ironically, he likes swimming a lot.
Background:
Katsu was a rather normal child when he was born, he had a sister that was only a year younger than him, Kula. They lived as a happy family for a while. But when Katsu was 7-years old, he was getting angry at home about two of his classmates bullying a girl from another class and how he couldn’t do anything about it. This was still during a time where Katsu had little to no control over his quirk and as he became more and more worked up about it, he began building up more and more heat, which eventually released with a burst similar to a small explosion that lit up multiple flammable objects, some with explosive gases. Katsu, in getting worked up by this, accidentally blew his family’s small house to bits and pieces.
Before the police or fire watch could even arrive, a man who was only visiting the city and who was already on his way back home happened to be close to the house as this happened, he pulled over into their street and got out of the car. He was a firefighter who had been on a short vacation, with a quirk that made him pretty much immune to heat and fire. The man began furiously looking for any survivors that there may have been and shortly after the local firefighters arrived he discovered Kula and Katsu, huddled up together, Katsu trying to protect her from the debris and fire, she had been in his room listening to him rant when it happened. The two were sent off to the hospital immediately.
Three weeks or so later, the man appeared again, he visited the two children who were still kept in the hospital and said this: “I’m going to ask the two of you outright, there is no way of getting around it anyways. Do you want to go into an orphanage, or do you want to go with a stranger you have just met?” The two children, likely with a mixture of naivety and fear of going to an orphanage decided almost the same instance that they were going with the man, who then introduced himself as Taliesin Sanada, a Japanese-American who had moved to japan years ago. He adopted the two and took them home with him. Katsu later asked him once why he had adopted him and Kula, to which Taliesin only replied: “You two were in a bad spot, so I wanted to give you at least a spark of happiness back.”
Taliesin raised the two well and made them enjoy a comfortable childhood. Upon his son’s request, Taliesin gave him not just English lessons, but also trained multiple martial arts with him and helped him understand his quirk and later get it under control, as much as you could get a quirk under control that was somewhat driven by emotions. The two eventually also got a new mother, when Katsu was 11-years old, Taliesin met a woman named Sora Itou, who he later married as well. She grew very close with Kula and Katsu and when she noticed Katsu’s nack for fighting she joined him in training as well, becoming a bit of a mentor to him. It was also her who began calling Katsu just K’.
When K’ was 15-years old, Taliesin also passed due to an accident at work. A crossbeam had fallen onto him and killed him as he was trying to rescue a mother from a burning building, the woman survived, he did not. For a while K’ didn’t know what to do from there, he was angry at himself for every time he had argued with Taliesin and he was sad that he had lost another father. Though, after a while, K’ decided he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps, but since his quirk would be next to useless as a firefighter, he rather decided to become a hero.