Kim Shin

==Summary==
Kim Shin is the main protagonist of Castle. A mysterious korean man, Kim Shin is a legend in Russia. He is the top hitman in the country, known as Amur Tigro by those who live there. After one last mission, he has decided to go back to Korea and settle his score with Castle, the supreme criminal conglomerate that governs the entirety of the Korean underworld. With a past closely tied to Castle's own and a plan, built and prepared for through many years, Shin is finally ready to take down Castle, building his own forces along the way.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: 
Name: Kim Shin; Amur Tigro
Origin: Castle.
Gender: Male.
Age: On his 30's.
Classification: Human; Criminal; Assassin; Former Member of Iskra; Apprentice of Min-Seong.
Powers and Abilities:
*Superhuman Physical Characteristics
*Acrobatics (Can do things such as using his own kick as an impulse to propel himself some meters away from a foe[Castle #19], leap for a few meters and bound over foes, attacking them mid-air)
*Aura (By just directing his bloodlust at a woman that was about to backstab him, she felt that she would die[Castle #25]; Paralyses a man about to stab him on the back by looking at him[Castle #48])
*Enhanced Senses (Has no trouble fighting and navigating through darkness that required other people to use lamps to move around[Castle #25]; Felt Gustav's far-off presence when he was pursuing him[Castle #68])
*Information Analysis (Fighters on his level, in general, can gauge a person's strength and skill just by looking at them; Noticed that Tae-Jin was a dangerous foe by looking at him[Castle #30])
*Martial Arts (Exceptionally skilled in melee combat, is one of the most skilled fighters in the series in this regard, managing to fight with Jin-Tae, unarmed, while Jin-Tae himself had two knives[Castle #57], and even outskilling him)
*Analytical Prediction (Predicts a knife-fighter's moves based on the usual movement of knife wielders[Castle #2]; Should scale to other similarly skilled fighters that can generally predict the moves of other fighters, particularly of those with less skill)
*Pressure Points (Most fighters close to his level are capable of targetting and repeatedly hitting vital points in their fights and using pressure points during combat)
*Social Influencing (Shin is extremely charismatic, knowing what to speak to convince others[Castle #21] and being described as an exceptional leader[Castle #70]; Knows how to behave in order to intimidate a large group that has cornered him[Castle #66])
*Stealth Mastery (Can move around in darkness without alerting anyone to his presence and generally move silently)
*Weapon Mastery (One of the most skilled weapon users of the world, having his dual knife-wielding skills praised by Gustav himself[Castle #72] and able to use any weapon, from improvised weaponry in the form of furniture or other people's bodies to knives and guns, with mastery)
Attack Potency: Wall level (Is casually superior to the likes of Dae-Geon and Pi Woo-Jin before their training, defeating those superior or comparable to them in a single strike, such as he did[Castle #21] with Deok-Su and Yi Seul, and is directly compared to the absolute[Castle #19] strongest[Castle #32] of Castle repeatedly[Castle #12], actively exchanging blows with Oh Do-Hwa, Baek Do-Chen and Gustav, and being considered as significantly superior to high-level cleaners like Tae-Jin and Hyuk; Can send people flying for a few meters with his blows[Castle #30], break bones with each strike[Castle #48] and broke a mask by punching it[Castle #43]; Hits a punching bag with such strength that, upon it swinging and hitting Jin-Tae, sends him flying[Castle #58])
Speed: Peak Human in movement speed, Subsonic in combat and reaction speed. (A man watching Shin move can not believe humans can move that fast[Castle #19], and even Hyuk thought impossible how quickly and easily Shin could move around him[Castle #29]; Tae-Jin notes that Shin can move quicker than the human eye can see[Castle #31]; Reacted to gunfire from an assault rifle at a distance[Castle #70], and can repeatedly, at close range, either push firearms about to fire away from him[Castle #71] or aim-dodge, even from people of comparable speed; Can track and somewhat react to the trajectory of a revolver bullet at close range[Castle #72])
Lifting Strength: Peak Human (Easily breaks limbs with his grapples[Castle #7]. Can grapple with and overpower the likes of Dae-Geon[Castle #14]. Can casually shake a heavy punching back with a single hand[Castle #57]; Managed to force Gustav to his knees, although he was overpowered shortly after[Castle #72])
Striking Strength: Wall level
Durability: Wall level (Can easily take hits from the likes of Pi Woo-Jin, Dae-Geon and those superior to them, and can edure attacks from those on the level of Baek Do-Chen and Oh Do-Hwa, such as Gustav, who broke a wooden wall[Castle #71]; Even as a teenager and way inferior to what he is today, he took a full-power baseball bat hit to the forearm, without flinching or suffering real damage[Castle #26], and, as a grown-up but still considerably weaker than in the series' timeframe proper, he could take full-powered kicks from professional fighters without any injury[Castle #71]. Endures being thrown against a car's door by Oh Do-Hwa with enough force to violently crack the windshield[Castle #50])
Stamina: High (Can fight for extended periods of time while injured without much issue; Could fight the likes of Gustav for extended periods of time while suffering from insomnia and being injured all the while)
Range: Standard melee range physically, up to a few hundreds of meters with weapons
Standard Equipment: Shin usually equips himself appropriately to the situation, being fully capable of acquiring assault rifles and similar kinds of weaponry, but usually carries nothing with him, or at most a few knives and up to two pistols with himself when expecting trouble.
Standard Tactics: Shin is a collected and cold-blooded fighter that, usually, acquires information about any enemy he might expect to fight before deciding to progress, and dealing with them as necessary. When caught in the open, Shin usually attempts immediately to dispatch them nonlethally, but if he gauges the enemy's strength to be great or if they resist unexpectedly well, he immediately backs off and attempts to fight carefully, even defensively, in order to gauge them and decide on the best course of action. Note, however, that this can change easily depending on the situation, and he is not hesitant to employ lethal force if he assumes it to be necessary or in a warlike situation.
Intelligence: Gifted. Shin is consistently described as incredibly skilled in combat by all who know him, and is also often described as the best and most well-trained hitman in Russia at the time[Castle #12]. He is a charismatic man, who knows what to say and do to make people believe him[Castle #21], and understands psychological warfare, managing to terrorize a man to the point of trauma, with said man being noted to be quite resistant to that kind of thing[Castle #30]. Shin is an extraordinary genius, an exceptional leader and Iskra's best killer, with a 100% success rate in his assignments and making perfect plans to catch his targets[Castle #70]. Has planned for most of the big events in the series, and can compete in his cunning with the likes of Baek Do-Chen.
Weaknesses: Standard human weaknesses
==Feats==
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*Acrobatics: Shin is an extremely agile person in general, and employs such agility in fights. He can contort his whole body, standing only with his feet while the rest of his body lays back, in a single dodging motion in order to avoid a blow[Castle #14]. Can use his own kick as an impulse to propel himself some meters away from a foe[Castle #19]. Can launch blows from a headstand position[Castle #31]. After being thrown through the air, Shin grabs Masa's jacket in mid-air for but a moment in order to stabilize himself marginally quicker[Castle #49]. Can still fight well and without decrease in his skill on a boat that is erratically swinging around[Castle #71].
*Analytical Prediction: Shin, as with most of Castle's fighters, can in general avoid attacks by predicting an enemy's movements and moving beforehand, doing so extremely quickly and in the middle of a fight.
*Aura: Shin has such a bloodlust and might within him that his directed focus often scares people. When a woman thought about stabbing him on the back, Shin made her give up just by directing his bloodlust at her, making her feel paralysed and that he wasn't human[Castle #25]. Stopped a man dead on his tracks, about to backstab him, just by glaring at the man[Castle #48].
*Enhanced Senses: Shin has sharp senses, particularly his danger sense and vision. He had no trouble in attacking and dodging blows in the dark, when normal people simply couldn't see what was happening around them, with said darkness justifying the use of a lamp by other people[Castle #25]. Correctly feels that Gustav is pursuing him[Castle #68].
*Information Analysis: Shin is capable of great analytical feats on the go, in midst of a fight. Fully identified Dae-Geon's fighting style's weaknesses in the middle of a fight with him[Castle #14]. Just by looking at Tae-Jin, he can note that he is a dangerous man[Castle #30]. Noted Pyo Young's potential upon seeing him fight Jin-Tae[Castle #42].
*Intelligence: Shin's extremely cunning and is capable of complex thought processes, and is by far one of the proeminent figures in Castle's central story on this regard, having his[Castle #32] skills in general widely complimented. He is repeatedly remarked as one of the best assassins in the world. Krot has stated that he is the best assassin he had ever seen[Castle #12], being Iskra's greatest assassin and a master planner and strategist, having a 100% success rate on dealing with his targets and making perfect plans for each of them[Castle #70]. His skills in psychological warfare are praised, having worked even on people who were specifically prepared to be resistant to said tactics[Castle #30]. Medvedi, in order to portray how threatening Baek is, states that he has Shin's skills and strategical abilities[Castle #94].
*Martial Arts: Shin is an exceptional martial artist.
**Defense: Shin can parry an axe's blows with his bare hands repeatedly and quickly by very precisely striking at the flat of the blade[Castle #49]. Kicked a thrown axe in mid-air without hurting his foot[Castle #50]. Repeatedly blocks and parries knife blows from the likes of Jin-Tae with his bare hands[Castle #58].
**Flying Strikes: Shin is precise with his flying attacks. After knocking a man down with a thrown backpack, he could precisely hit a jumping kick mid-fall[Castle #2].
**Grappling: Shin is a master at grappling. He effortlessly transitioned from a block to a joint armlock[Castle #3]. In a single movement, he can grab Seong-Jun's arm mid-strike in such a way that it both disarms him and puts him in position that Shin could easily break his arm[Castle #9]. Took advantage of a high kick from Dae-Geon in order to grab his other foot while dodging said blow and using it to throw him into the ground[Castle #14]. Quickly alternates between striking and grappling, parrying a blow with the shoulder in order to twist Dae-Geon's arm, and upon striking him, immediately using the hand he just punched with to grab his shirt's collar and pull him into another strike[Castle #15].
*Social Influencing: Shin is a highly charismatic man. He knows what to say and do to convince people of his cause[Castle #21]. Intimidates the whole Hasung group with his behaviour, despite being alone amidst dozens of them, and making one of their leaders nervously step back just by getting close to them[Castle #66].
*Weapon Mastery: Shin, while mostly focused on fighting unarmed, is also proficient in using weaponry to defend himself.
**Knife: Shin is exceptionally skilled with knives. Oh Do-Hwa noted how he'd have lost his hand on Shin's counter stance if he had rushed in[Castle #50]. Gustav praises Shin's dual-wielding knife skills, saying that he is unlike any other "pretentious" knife fighter he has ever met before[Castle #72].
**Improvised: Shin can use the environment as a weapon with efficacy. He has used the body of a nearby attacker in order to shield himself from submachine fire[Castle #1].
==References==
==Gallery==
Castlemoments1pt8.png|Shin invades the Hasung HQ in Hoeam.
Castlemoments1pt9.png|The aura of Amur Tigro.
Castlemoments1pt13.png|Young Shin learns of his father's death.
Castlemoments1pt16.png|Shin stalks his prey.
Castlemoments1pt17.png|Shin dives head-first into Gustav's den.
Castlemoments1pt19.png|Shin declares his intention to take revenge.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Yu (The Boxer) Yu's Profile (Yu's Debut key was used. Kim had no weapons. Fight took place at a UFC ring. Win condition was KO, incap or death)
Inconclusive:
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