User Profile

The Character:
Name: Kurogane
Fandom: Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
OU or AU: Original universe
Personality: Gruff, somewhat socially awkward personality. He tends to be short with words and often responds with more passion and violence than a given situation actually merits. Very clear-spoken and thoughtful, just also acerbic and intense. He is difficult for some people to deal with because of his tendency to focus so thoroughly on whatever his current goal may be. He is somewhat arrogant in the way of one who was once or has been nobility at some time, but ferociously loyal and, deep down beneath the scowling, temperamental exterior he is a serious, intelligent, kind-hearted personality who protects those he treasures.

History: Kurogane was raised in the province of Suwa, in Japan. His early years were spent as the happy child of a priestess and the province's Lord; he learned the ways of managing the hosue from (and for the sake of) his mother, and the ways of the sword and honor from his father. Though his mother tended toward illness and had a frail constitution, he was a strong-willed child who did what he could to make her burden an easier one. His desire to become strong-- physically and emotionally-- to protect those things he held dear was tested and recognized by his father at an early age, and honed to extend not only to his family but to all of Suwa.

On an otherwise unremarkable day, however, his father returned from combat wounded and retrieved the silver dragon sword that had been passed down through their family for generations, to battle some especially troublesome monsters which had appeared at the borders of their province. Kurogane stayed with his mother only at his father's injunction to protect her, and waited near her as she prayed for the safety of Suwa. It was this unlucky placement that put him close enough to hear and see the sudden appearance of magic within the shrine, but too far to act in time to save her. An assassin speared her on his sword, mysteriously vanishing before Kurogane could even reach her fallen body; he tried to prevent her death with his minimal medical knowledge as best he could, but was far too late. Outside, a commotion arose as several huge monsters crashed through the nearest town. One lashed the roof from the shrine in which Kurogane cradled his mother with a careless swipe of his tail.

He watched as the beasts finished consuming his father's flesh, and the useless silver dragon sword dropped to the floor below, a mere foot in front of him.

Then he ended the beasts that had ended Suwa, and went mad.

Some days later, agents of the Empress of Shirasaki (the capitol of Japan) and the Empress herself came on wind of news that Suwa had been badly damaged and worked as best they could to contain him. He was wild and would not be parted from his mother's body, and it took the person intervention of the Dreamseeing Princess, Tsukuyomi, to finally restore his sanity. She took him under her wing as her personal bodyguard and tried to offer him a new life, a new family, to help ease the hurt of his monumental loss. He withdrew, gradually growing acclimated to his new situation, and became hard and cold. Though he still wished to be the strongest man alive, he no longer had a true purpose in this wish, for the things he'd loved were gone. He grew bitter and ever more violent, until even the Princess could no longer accept his willful murder of those that were foolish enough to pick fights with him. She banished him to another world to atone for his crimes as best as was possible and learn the true meaning of strength. She cursed him to lose strength equal to the life of a man, should he kill unnecessarily again while banished, and warned him that until he did learn this lesson, he could never again return home.

This new development in his life irritated him, but did not especially hinder his goals in life, save one; protecting the princess was relatively impossible this far from home. He found himself an unwilling participant of a motley group assembled with two goals in mind: to save the princess they carried with them-- a girl, whose memories had been taken from her by magic-- and to get himself home, eventually. Over time, he found himself forced to begin to look more closely at his reasons for wanting to return home, his definitions of home, and his life up to the beginning of their journey. Forced to consider his own motivations and the repercussions of his actions, he began to make connections, though tentative, with the other persons of their group. As they traveled, he grew to know the princess and her protector much better, as well as the creature which allowed them to travel. Only one other member of the group was especially difficult for him to handle: the magician.

Even their unusual interactions began to make sense and fit into Kurogane's understanding of the world as a friendship, over time; it well might have developed into something more, had everything not gone wrong in Tokyo.

Since that unfortunate event-- the magician's idiotic sacrifice, the princess's valiant decision to fight for herself, the arrival of a new body to house the soul of the kid he had taken under his own wing as a student-- the new family which Kurogane had finally begun to accept as a part of his life-- an important group of persons whom he would protect regardless of the cost-- has been precariously perched on the edge of dissolution. Whatever friendship existed between himself and the magician seems to be forfeit, despite his own attempts to express what might be a deeper emotion than he himself realizes. The children barely talk to each other, and he finds himself given to excessive amounts of drink, even with respect to the massive quantities he knows he'd consumed in the worlds that came before.

Now they are in a world fighting a tournament for the sake of reparations to world that was damaged because of their combined errors of judgment, and for some unspoken agenda of the princess. Or they were, until Kurogane woke up somewhere else, alone.

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