Nagoriyuki

Nagoriyuki is one of the supporting characters in the Guilty Gear series who makes his first appearance on Guilty Gear -Strive-. He is described as a noble vampire samurai who wields a bloodsucking blade.
==History==
===Backstory===
Nagoriyuki is a mysterious man from Nigeria who styles himself after a samurai. He is a student of Slayer and, like his master, a Nightwalker who pursues the ideals of Dandyism. Having traveled across the world in his journey to tame his vampire instincts, he took part in the Crusades as a warrior until one day he vanished under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly, in 2187, he makes his presence known once again, but his reasons for doing so are unclear. 
===Story===
Nagoriyuki is found and awakened by Chaos, who once again uses his binding magic to force him to be his bodyguard, since he is the only person who knows his weakness. During the ensuing events he is forced to fight on behalf of Chaos and I-No, and Chaos also copies the unique properties of his blade to create bullets that slows health regeneration's speed for short periods. His ability to use Gamma Blade surprises Chipp Zanuff during their first encounter.
Through these battles, he develops a rivalry with Sol Badguy, telling him his flaws in battle as they fight. However, in their final battle, Nagoriyuki praises him and breaks free of Chaos's control, allowing Sol to defeat him, but sadly have no time to ask him about Chaos' weakness, as Sol is in hurry with US President Vernon E. Groubitz, and the Gear Maker Asuka R. Kreutz to escape from Chaos, but instead, tricking him into being trapped inside the air ship White House's PEOC escape pod and got rid of him.
However, when the real Chaos is revealed to still be aboard the airship, and uses the Tome of Origin which fused with Asuka to fuse the former with I-No, to restore the witch's full godlike power, Nagoriyuki is properly freed from Chaos' control.
In the final battle against a godlike I-No, he returns to help Sol (now simply a 'human' named Frederick Bulsara), Ky and Axl Low find and expose her weak point, allowing Sol to destroy her with his Outrage cannon. With Chaos and I-No gone, Nagoriyuki's whereabouts are unknown.
==Physical Appearance==
Nagoriyuki is a tall, heavily built man with a dark skin complexion, blue eyes and thick, shoulder-length dreadlocks tied into a ponytail. He wears a white coat with purple lining decorated with silver studs and snaps in the style of a haori, with only his right arm through the sleeve; the back of the jacket is emblazoned with a red kanji and the word "HEART" beneath. This is worn over a simple orange robe cinched at the waist by a red obi and three leather belts, which is likewise half-removed. Beneath this is a long white waist cloth matching his jacket, with several purple and blue straps embroidered with crosses and the phrase "KEEP OUT." He also wears white fingerless gloves, black leggings, and simple gray sandals.
==Abilities==
Gameplay-wise, Nagoriyuki is a powerful mid-range fighter who uses his ōdachi to keep opponents at bay while dealing massive amounts of damage. Like Potemkin, he is slow and cannot dash or airdash. Unlike Potemkin, he has his master Slayer's teleporting dash and command grab as special moves. Similar to Sin, and also Hakumen from the games' sister series BlazBlue, Nagoriyuki has the unique ability to seamlessly cancel his special moves into one another. However, using these moves comes at a price: he also has a Blood Gauge that fills up by a certain portion depending on the moves he uses. If it fills up completely, he will be forced to enter Blood Rage. 
During Blood Rage, Nagoriyuki cannot use any of his special moves, and his health drains at a rapid pace, but in exchange the range and damage of his normal sword attacks are increased dramatically and can use a special Overdrive that deals massive damage and also ends the Blood Rage state prematurely if the animation is completed fully. To make his Blood Gauge go down so he doesn't enter Blood Rage at the wrong time, your options are to wait, land his command grab, hit the opponent with normals that use his katana, or use his Overdrive.
==Personality==
As noble as he is, Nagoriyuki is also a cordial man, often being willing to provide advice to those he defeats in battle much akin to Slayer, though he often expresses regret and no ill will towards others when it comes to his past being a puppet of Happy Chaos' bidding. Unlike Slayer, he seems to be more active in expressing his desire to help others in spite of having as little worldly-attachments as he does.
==Theme Music==
What do you fight for
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