Takamoto Hanamichi

**Takamoto Hanamichi** (高本花道, *Hanamichi Takamoto*), often called Taka by his friends, is **Hebitsukai Silver** of the **Kyurangers**. He is a student of Haritaki High with most of the other Kyurangers.

## History

### Backstory

From a young age (about nine or ten), Takamoto had always been considered an odd one. Instead of leaving his house to play similarly to other children, he often sat in his room reading books focused on… constellations and inner darkness? However, he always hid them away when his parents came into the room because he didn’t want to worry them over his research on the rather… interesting topics.

For the majority of his childhood, this was the norm; he sat locked away in his room and refused to have contact with anyone. The reason for this was because his parents often neglected and ordered him to refrain from showing his emotions, for two different reasons. His father grew irate and incredibly furious when Takamoto made any sort of attempt at expressing emotion due to the older male’s “Alpha male expressing emotions is weak” mentality, whereas his mother genuinely wanted him to do so; however, she had multiple threats made by her husband that involved both beating her half to death and murdering Takamoto where he stood.

One night, as the young boy was preparing to head off into the realm of unconsciousness, he heard banging, screaming and yelling from his parents’ room. His interest having been peaked and himself having been slightly awakened, Taka left his own room and headed over to the room of the older Hanamotos; through the walls, he heard the gruff and deep voice of his father growling something unintelligible (from his perspective, at least) to his mother.

Unbeknownst to the boy, the man had made a death threat on both her and Taka, promising to make good on his threat if she defied him anymore. Unfortunately, that was exactly what she did about a month later, and she found herself at the mercy (or lack thereof) of the man. As he moved in to strike, that was when it happened; Takamoto’s anger reached its boiling point, and he stood in front of his mother. He then stabbed a knife deep into his father’s heart before ripping it out… and crushing the organ in his hands.

With his mother horrified at what he had done, she grabbed Taka and, after packing a strange gauntlet and a silver globe-like object which had been sitting inside of her dresser into her bag, evacuated from the household. She called the police in order to inform them that a murder had taken place, but did not tell who committed the crime out of her desire to protect her son.

After the two had gained enough distance from the scene of the murder, Takamoto washed the blood off of his body and rejoined his mother down in the living room, where she handed the devices to him. She then relayed the functions of the devices to her son, who appeared to understand; eventually, he took his leave from their current living quarters and set out on his venture into the world.

While he was unable to obtain a job, he steadily grew to become well-known for his mercenary-assassin work as the fearsome warrior, “Silver Snake”. However, there was one occasion where he chose to equip the gauntlet from his mother and activate the globe. There was a hole in the gauntlet that he slammed the orb into before pushing it forward, causing the object to yell something out. Startled, he pushed the trigger down and then pulled it, causing the constellation of the snake warrior Ophiuchus to manifest and then slam onto his body. Having heard the device state the name of the globe (Hebitsukai), and the fact that he was known as the “Silver Snake”, Takamoto decided to christen himself Hebitsukai Silver.

### Being in a Pod

The real Taka was spotted by Dark Taka in a pod in Incarceron's lower level. The Dark Taka started speaking to the sleeping Taka, questioning what he was. Dark Taka then looked over at the other pod with Nashi in it, having a moment of remorse before being shot at by Renari, Dark Ash and Renari then had a showdown with Renari before Aleia, Shion, Sapphire, Sugako and Reina joined the battle. Aleia broke both Nashi and Takamoto out of the pods, carrying them while Dark Taka teleported everyone away.

## Personality

Takamoto is an emotionless man, having been that way for the entirety of his life. Due to this, he is very inept in terms of socialness, which tends to make for… ***interesting*** conversations. He generally disregards any emotions displayed by others and refrains from trying to get back in touch with his own; what little emotion he does show, however, is limited solely to anger.

Takamoto is also incredibly dismissive towards others, normally waving them off when approached by people. Furthermore, he holds little to no emotion in his voice, mainly carrying himself in a neutral demeanor and speaking in a monotonous tone. He maintains a sharp and cold glare when confronted by others, and could be considered a man of little (or no) words. He generally keeps to himself unless speaking to his childhood friend; even then, though, he does not disclose much information about his troubles. He can oftentimes be problematic due to his lack of emotional connection; he comes off as cynical and a genuinely unlikeable person.

Despite these setbacks, Takamoto is a good person at heart; he’s just incapable of showing it. However, he is steadily showing signs of growth and progress towards regaining connection with his emotional state and self. And with certain events like Christmas coming up, he’s bound to resynchronize with his emotions; at the very least, joy and affection.

Takamoto holds a certain degree of fondness for jigsaw puzzles, somehow always finding time to put at least one or two together. Due to his teammates being people who are also the “odd one out” like him, he also cares heavily about them, considering them to be his friends; and he will jump (quite literally) at the chance to protect or help them. Takamoto holds a strong disdain and animosity towards those who manipulate and kill others in order to further their nefariously devious plots. He honestly just doesn’t really like anything except for what’s been stated previously. One of the few things that Takamoto fears is failing to regain control of his emotions, which is up there with losing his friends as well as his life. His emotionlessness is his biggest flaw, alongside his non-desire to share anything with people. He keeps to himself far too much, and takes people’s words extremely heavy to heart.

## Forms

* Hebitsukai Silver
* Hebitsukai Metal

**Hebitsukai Silver**

Takamoto’s default form, accessed through inserting the Hebitsukai Kyutama into the Seiza Blaster. Although Hebitsukai Silver lacks as much power as Oushi Black and does not possess as much fighting prowess as the other Kyurangers**,** Takamoto makes up for it with the usage of his Paralytic Snake Eye ability.

**Hebitsukai Metal**

After being brainwashed by **Akyanba,** the **Hebitsukai Kyutama** is converted into the **Dark Kyutama.** Inserting this **Kyutama** into his **Seiza Blaster** turns the transformation device into the **Dark Seiza Blaster,** which allows Takamoto to transform into this form. In this form, his suit is covered in **purple and yellow garb,** with the snake emblem on his head partially painted **red** and his **Kyu Sickle** adopting a **darker color scheme.**

**Hebitsukai Metal** possesses powerful abilities that were previously unused by **Hebitsukai Silver,** including using the scarf around his neck to restrain his targets, as well as firing a powerful beam blast from the snake eye ornament on his chest.

After being freed from **Akyanba's** control, he can now use this form in full control. He now uses the regular **Seiza Blaster.** While he keeps his garb, he retains everything else from **Hebitsukai Silver.**
### Arsenal

* Kyutama
	+ Dark Kyutama
	+ Black Hole Kyutama
* Kyu Buckle
* Transformation Controller Seiza Blaster
* Dark Seiza Blaster (when evil)
* Dark Kyu Sickle (when evil)