Naoki Taylor

Naoki Taylor is a former member of The Cujoh Gang turned full member of Roy's neutral party.

## General Stats

Nickname: The Devil's Bastard Son

Date Of Birth: 10/12/2002

Place Of Birth: Kami, Kōchi, Japan

Hobbies: Baseball, reading books, learning other languages

Favourite Food: Mochi

Likes: Cooking, Freedom, Having Friends, Making Memories

Dislikes: Small Spaces, His Brother, People In Captivity/Torment, Death.

Theme Song: Animal - The Living Tombstone

## Appearance

Taylor is boy of around average height, around 5'10", with messy black hair, greenish-blue eyes and lanky proportions. He is well muscled, and usually wears a leather jacket with a dragon on the back, a white shirt, leather trousers and leather boots, with ear piercings on both ears.

## Personality

During his time in The Cujoh Gang, Taylor was very soft spoken, and never really spoke at all. He was twitchy and disturbed, never sitting still. He was constantly scared of them randomly turning on his ability, The Thing, and never looked anyone from The Cujoh Gang in the eye. He seemingly had no control over his emotions.

After being rescued by Roy, Taylor became more confident in himself. He is able to keep his ability under control and activate it at will, and became a lot more happy and chatty. He doesn't like to hear about or bring up his past, going back to his previous personality whenever it is. He is deathly afraid of The Cujoh Gang, instinctively running away whenever he sees a member. He is extremely defensive about his new friends.

## Abilities

Naoki's main ability is The Thing. Naoki is also very skilled in hand-to-hand combat, able to take on three people at once. He is very physically strong and fast, and is an expert motorbike driver. His fighting style usually revolves around delivering one strong blow and following up with many light blows. His main weapon is a baseball bat, but he is also skilled in knife usage.

## Backstory

Naoki was born in Kami to a British father and a Japanese mother, but was was forced to move back to England at age 4 after they got divorced. His father married another woman and had a new child, John Taylor. Naoki and John got on well for the first ten years, but on John's eleventh birthday, he was gifted a thriller book. He was entranced by the murderer in the story, but Naoki didn't believe it to be of any importance, and it was just a phase.

A year later, Naoki's dad was murdered on the way to work. In vengeance, Naoki joined the Dragon Clan, a gang dedicated to bringing vigilante justice to London, in an attempt to find the killer. He never told his family. In 2018, the killer had killed 15 other people in the exact same way they killed his father: their throat ripped out through a slash on the neck. He asked John if he knew anything, if he saw anything before his dad went to work. John denies seeing anything. In an attempt to take a break, Naoki decides to read the book his brother got on his eleventh birthday. To his surprise, Naoki finds that the killer in the book kills in the exact same way. Refusing to believe his brother killed all those people, including his father, he attempts to find anyone else who may have read the book and been inspired by it, but John realized that Naoki would eventually break and find out it was him. John tries to kill Naoki that night, but he didn't realize Naoki was out in a meeting with the Dragon Gang as he didn't know he was a member. Naoki gets home that minute, and finds John in his room holding a knife. In instinct, Naoki beats his brother to death with his baseball bat, snapping his legs in two swings and his back in one. Seeing his brothers face permanently frozen in anguish and terror after Naoki kills him, Naoki can't take the stress of the situation and hangs himself.

Naoki is confronted by the Cloaked Figure, and is resurrected with the ability The Thing. Naoki fakes a suicide note for John, where he confesses that John was the killer, and throws his body out of the window to fake a suicide. After trying to sleep at the base of the Dragon Gang, along with a few other members who lost homes or have a stressful house life, he hears his brothers screams of pain in his dream and his ability activates, killing the other members there. Naoki awakens with his jaws sunk into another members neck and has a breakdown. After running away and living on the streets for a few weeks, transforming and killing whenever he heard sounds of pain and anguish, he is captured by Naiomi and is used as a weapon of The Cujoh Gang. A wireless earbud was stitched into his ear and Naiomi uses it to play screams of anguish and pain to transform him.