MISAYA, KIRITSUGU

SHI

<<NAME>>

Kiritsugu Misaya

<<AGE>>

18

<<GENDER>>

Male

<<NATIONALITY>>

North Korean

<<APPEARANCE>>

Kiritsugu, a trained assassin.

<<PERSONALITY>>

Positive Traits
Intelligent| “Checkmate.”
Kiritsugu can be considered a combat genius. He combines his affinity for detail with high speed thoughts to quickly create and adjust various combat plans. Outside of battle, Kiritsugu's intelligence is still startling. While it is not as overwhelming as his combat expertise, Kiritsugu affinity for the core subjects is still outstanding, and his scores are at the top of his class.
Calm| “Proceed as planned.”
Furthering enhancing the effectiveness of his high intellect, Kiritsugu is a calm and collected person. He rarely acts through emotions, and remains calm in the most stressful of situations.
Loyal| “They say you only value things once you lose them. I say you can value something you could never take for granted.”
Kiritsugu was never in many relationships. While he has many admirers, he has few friends. As such, he greatly values the few relationships he has. He remembers the empty void from his early life and does not want that void to return.
Warm Hearted| “My treat.”
Kiritsugu's late adoptive mother taught him compassion, and it is a lesson he will always remember. Failure to do so would be the same as allowing his mother to die once more. Even when he drops his initiation personality, reverting to the persona of a trained assassin, he abhors to this lesson. While Kiritsugu has no trouble killing another human, he will only do see if required.
Diligent| “Focus on the task at hand.”
As a calm and collected person, Kiritsugu's work ethic is simply outstanding. He remains focused on his task, determined to finish it no matter how long it takes him. He is willing to stalk a target for as long as it takes, waiting for the right moment to deal the killing blow.

Negative Traits
Distant| “... I'm sorry, I simply don't understand.”
While Kiritsugu can imitate the usual personality of a male, eighteen years of age, he is simply reacting in a way that he observed to be appropriate. To him it is like answering a question. In a group, Kiritsugu would distance himself from other members, only stepping in when needed, thus giving the impression of a loner. Even when he does imitates the personality of a cheerful young man, he still gives off a sort of cold air around him.
Stubborn| “Run, run all you want, but no matter where you go, I will hunt you down like the dog you are.”
Kiritsugu simply does not know when to give up. Once he sets a goal, he either achieves it or dies trying. This also means that once he sets a target for assassination, he will not stop until that person is dead. There has only been one case in his life where Kiritsugu lost the will to kill his target. Chances are that it will not happen again.
Ruthless| “We may not be able to feel any physical pain, but being able to see your own death can be quite painful in the mental department. I'll just slowly drain your HP until it is just barely above zero, then I'll heal you and do it again and again. Of course, it is quite possible for me to mess up and not heal you in time. After all, I barely got any sleep last night, perhaps I'll fall asleep as your HP hits zero.”
Kiritsugu is absolutely ruthless and merciless in and off the battlefield. He will use any and all resources at his disposal to ensure that his objectives are fulfilled. This includes morally questionable acts such as torture. Due to his ruthlessness, Kiritsugu often ends up in debates over morality with party members.
Intimidating| “Sorry, this was the face I was born with.”
The human body has all sorts of signals telling it when danger is approaching. Through human intuition, a glance at Kiritsugu can trigger some of these signals. For some reason, Kiritsugu simply brings a deathly air around him, which compromises moral, making him unsuited to directly lead people despite his high intelligence.
Vengeful| “It won't matter where you go, I will find you for I am vengeance personified.”
Kiritsugu holds grudges. He may not show it, but he holds them. Wrong him or a loved one in anyway and to him, you just signed your own death warrant.

<<HISTORY>>

Born as Assassin #04, “Four” as he was nicknamed, was a first generation
child assassin trained by the North Korean Regime. His only purpose was
to assassinate any potential threat to the state. From the ages of
three to ten, Four was trained in everything an assassin would need:
close quarters combat, marksmanship, stealth, acting, various languages
etc. Life was strict, expectations were high, failure was punished with
death, and success would prolonged the torturous life. There were thirty
children within the first generation, and only thirteen survived the
harsh conditioning. Life was a living hell. However, despite the deathly
conditions, there were no rebellions. This was the only life the
assassins, including Four, knew. They, like their owners, saw themselves
as tools. Upon the age of ten, the assassins would enter the final
stage of testing: the assassination of an actual target.

Four's
target was a North Korean defector. The defector held sensitive
information, which was being used as a bargaining chip, and the North
Korean government wanted it back. Four's objectives were simple, kill
the defector and retrieve the stolen intelligence. From the information
given to Four he knew that the defector was once a mother. Her child
unknowingly insulted the state and was beaten to death; it was for this
reason that she defected. Taking advantage of the defector's past, Four
posed as an escapee from North Korea, and just as planned, the woman
adopted Four. The child assassin program was a well kept secret and the
defector had no idea she had invited her own death to her home, yet Four
did not kill her immediately. For some strange reason he was curious to
why she invited him with open arms. He knew she had no idea that he
would eventually kill her, but her kindness was alien to him.

For an entire year, Four lived like a normal child. For the first time
in his life, he felt a parent's love, something that did not exist in
the cold facility that was his birth place. For an entire year, this
illusion of happiness gave Four an unforgettable experience. However,
all things must come to an end. The one year was too long for the North
Korean government. Deeming Four a failure, a second assassin was sent to
kill the defector and Four. A battle between Four and what would be the
closest thing he had to a sister was ensured. However, the one year
illusion had dulled Four's conditioning, and against an opponent who
went through the exact same training, Four was placed at a serious
disadvantage. When it was certain that he would lose, Four's adoptive
mother, the one who he was assigned to kill, took a killing blow that
was meant for him. Without hesitation, Four took advantage of the
situation and threw a knife at his opponent's neck, killing her.

The
assassin was dead but so was his mother. For the first time in his
life, Four felt true sadness. For the first time in his life, he cried
real tears. And for the first time in his life, he felt true fear. More
assassins will be sent after him unless he disappeared. Four burned his
adoptive home, faking his death. He then sneaked onto a plane on route
to Japan, to start anew.

In Japan, Four found refuge in an
orphanage. Leaving his past behind him, Four dropped the number he was
assigned and the name his late adoptive mother gave him. He took on the
name Kiritsugu after a character he liked. It was here the newly named
Kiritsugu would take on a new life. His time training as a child
assassin instilled a strong work ethic into Kiritsugu. He soon found
himself at the top of his classes, excelling at various subjects. It was
not long before a couple of high stature adopted Kiritsugu. The couple,
being sterile, desired Kiritsugu as a worthy heir. They enrolled him
into a prestigious private school, where he would continue to score top
marks. As he grew, Kiritsugu turned out to be a handsome young man.
However, Kiritsugu had a bit of difficulty understanding other people.
While he could easily act out a personality, he did not truly understand
it. He only knew responses based on the information he has. In other
words, he thought like a program, and his life felt alien to him. The
only time he felt like himself was when he acted out the persona of an
assassin. For this very reason, Kiritsugu turned to video games to give
him the feeling of the assassin he once was.

When Kiritsugu heard
about Sword Art Online, he immediately signed up for the beta tests. To
him it was not just a revolutionary game, but perhaps the one way he
could truly feel like himself. During the beta test, Kiritsugu was an
infamous PKer going by the name of Shinigami, a god of death, and upon
release, Kiritsugu, like the other one-thousand beta-testers were given
priority with the sales of the game. Changing his IGN to “Shi”,
Kiritsugu said the words, “Link Start” and entered the floating steel
castle Aincrad once more.

Kiritsugu stared at the giant cloaked figure floating in the sky. The
figure, claiming to be Akihiko Kayaba, the creator of Sword Art Online,
had turned the world's first Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online
Role Playing Game into a death game. To die in game was to die in the
real world, and the only way to leave was to clear all one-hundred
floors of the game. However, while others were panicing, Kiritsugu only
spoke to himself, “Akihiko Kayaba, do you fancy yourself as God of this
world? I see no God, only my next target. If you truly are this world's
God, then I will show you that even God can be killed.” Kiritsugu could
not become the infamous PKer he was during the beta, it would only
hinder his objective. His target was the so-called God, Akihiko Kayaba,
no one else. The assassin has returned.    

SKILLS

<<CORE SKILLS>>	<<SUPPLEMENTARY SKILLS>>	<<EXTRA SKILLS>>
>>one-handed swords >>critical hit >>leather equipment >>parrying	>>hiding >>sneaking >>acrobatics >>perception	>>shade >>n/a

SWORD ARTS

SURGICAL STRIKE. martial arts
1 Strikes, 3 Specials, 125% Speed, 125% Power

The initial movement for surgical strike is a forward jab with the user's
index and middle fingers pointing out. As the sword skill, designed to
appear as a nerve numbing attack, is performed, the user's index and
middle fingers glow in a white light. Upon striking a limb, the targeted
limb may be immobilized for one post.

SLASH TRIANGLE. one-handed swords
3 Strikes, 0 Specials, 75% Speed, 125% Power

The user's sword glows bright white as the user strikes the target with
three horizontal slashes. Each slash occurs from three different angles
with the tip of the blade leaving a white trace, creating a white
triangle. At the end of sword skill, the lines cross through the target,
intersecting at their mid points, and continue on to create a new
triangle—inverted from the first.

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