Baiken

Appearance: Baiken is a young man in his early 20's. He has long red hair tied into an angry ponytail. He is covered in scars from previous battles, his most noticeable feature is his lost right arm and goggle-like eye patch on his permanently scarred right eye. He is Japanese, came from a small village in the mountains during the Sengoku Jidai period. His attire is a simple red, black and white kimono with a torn right sleeve paired with greaves and sandals. Over his kimono he wears a black gakuran jacket with a white skull over his sleeve, worn like a cape. Backstory: Baiken grew up as a normal kid, surrounded by sisters and his parents. He was helping his dad fishing and enjoyed fighting with a bokken with his father at the age of 8. Unfortunately, his whole family was attacked by demons, who slaughtered everyone, burned every house. Baiken tried to protect his family with his wooden bokken. And the demons took pleasure in destroying him. They took his arm, eye, poked him with their claws and threw into the river to die. Baiken survived all of this, and since that very day, he is fueled by hatred. He fought like a wild beast, determined to get revenge on those demons and kill every single one of them in the country. He spent the first years surviving, he fought with a broken rusty sword, and soon enough became extremely skilled with just a junk of a sword. At the age of 13, he was found by monks, to whom he showed extreme hostility. The monks took him in, healed his wounds, and gave him a proper sword. They taught him about demons, different type of demons, yokais, and everything he needed to know in his journey of cleansing the country from evil forces. As a one armed warrior, Baiken needed to compensate, so he built a clawed grappling hook and concealed weapons like slashing fan, cannon and a shotgun which he hides in his long torn sleeve. Baiken killed demon after demon, often coming to save people whenever he could. And at age of 15 became a legend, he had many nicknames, but the ones that stick were “The Left Handed Demon” and “The Lone Samurai”. During one of his rescue missions, he found a demon that carried a blade, an ancient blade that he brought to the monks who identified it as the “Mortal Blade” that allows him to kill the undying, Baiken that can really end the forces of evil. Since that day Baiken kept on traveling alone, determined to bring justice to every victim. To him, even in a human can be a demon, so he makes no difference between demon or bandit. Because of that he always turned down shoguns who wanted to recruit him, calling them all demons. Personality: Baiken always lived and traveled alone in extremely bad conditions. He has a hard time trusting people, he is foul mouthed, always making dismissive commentaries. He’s not easily impressed? Baiken is known to be rude, he WANTS to draw people away, because he’s a warrior and he doesn't want people to get killed because of him since he has survivor’s guilt. Because of that guilt, he goes into battle after battle, that's his only way of paying the price and the debt he has before his village. He doesn't care if he bleeds, if he's exhausted, if he’s starved, if someone needs to be saved, he will not hesitate a single second. He is very disciplined, very skilled, and very respected. Every village knows of Baiken and the “Left Handed Demon” he’s often welcomed in villages where people want to repay their debt for being saved. He always accepts but only small gifts, in his opinion refusing a gift is disrespectful. He can read people like open books, lies never work on him. Fighting techniques: Baiken is an extremely skilled warrior who at his young age and crippled form can defy strong demons. His Mortal Blade (Fushigiri) allows him to kill the unkillable, like corrupted immortal monks who traded their humanity for immortality. He has many secret techniques he never teaches to anyone, like Azami (薊) wrapping an enemy in thick purifying scriptures to tie them up. Youzansen (妖怪扇) which is a revert salto strike with his slashing fan. And many more. He is good at improvising, because he doesn't fight for honor, but to win. Goals: Kill every single demon in the country and find the source of the evil. He wants to save people and give them a better life with his skill. He doesn't care about his own life, that's a necessary sacrifice in his eyes. Setting: Sengoku Jidai period, during shogun wars and political intrigues. But spirituality is the core of this setting, faith and demons are the center conflict here.