Kumara Bharata

## Personality

Kumara is a man of many traits; most of them negative. He's loud, brash, extremely arrogant, stubborn as a mule, lazy, never takes anything seriously, a notorious prankster, an outright bully on most occasions, a flirt with nearly everyone he lays eyes on, obnoxiously annoying, and just an all around jerk.

However, this is all a carefully constructed mask Kumara has cultivated so that no one ever takes him seriously. He's sharp as a tack and putting on a front lets him pick up on cues that people unintentionally put on display, and can be deadly serious if motivated enough. He's also quick to anger at times, especially if he feels as though his friends or loved ones are in danger and is the first to throw a punch. Even if he is a decent strategist, he more or less tends to throw any carefully laid plans out the window to wing it.

Multitudes of traumas throughout his childhood, coupled with Inforra's notoriously hash noble culture has forced him to lock away parts of himself and only letting people see what he wants them to see him as; a playboy flirt that drifts by on life and wouldn't accomplish anything if he wanted to.

## Appearance

Kumara has firetruck red hair that's about shoulder length and has the appearance of being tousled yet somehow in a styled way. His eyes are the color of fire, and his ears are unique in the fact that they're pointed and shaped somewhat like a flame, and he sometimes wears up to three earrings, typically more on the left ear.

He has two tattoos, one underneath his eye and another on his left shoulder, both of a swirl of fire with three dots along the swirl.

In his demon form; he turns into a monstrous, fox like creature with the build of a lion, long rounded ears, and a long, serpentine like tail with the added curiosity of ending with a metal prosthetic claw, which is able to open and close, as well as grab items. His tail is incredibly prehensile, and Kumara tends to use it as an extra limb in this form.

## Powers and Abilities

Demons are gifted with a huge host of powers beyond those of humanity. Control over the elements, great physical advantages, and incredible life spans set them apart from many beings. Fire Demons have control over their given element, the ability to teleport within and between planes, great strength, speed, agility and other abilities.

* **Demon Physiology:** Demons have superior strength, speed, constitution, and agility to most beings.
	+ **Strength:** Demons are capable of bursts of strength sufficient to overturn a car or smash through concrete.
	+ **Speed:** Demons have reflexes far superior to human beings, and their natural physical strength makes them quicker runners as well.
	+ **Lifespan:** Demons live for thousands of years unless they are struck down by violence or illness, both of which they are highly resilient to.
* **Warping:** Demons have the unparalleled ability to teleport within and between planes as long as they have been there before or understand the destination. Kumara has journeyed far and wide compared to many of his kind, and as such has a much greater range.
* **Healing:** Healing is an already uncommon gift that is exceptionally rare among Fire Demons, dying out more each generation. Kumara has unusually strong healing abilities, though his brother, Keiji, has some of the strongest healing magic for both the Bharata family and for a fire demon. [!]
* **Pyrokinesis:** Kumara has incredibly strong control over fire, even for a Fire Demon noble.
* **Demonic Blood:** To facilitate their power, Fire Demons have searing hot blood. Contact with their blood is enough to cause third degree burns for most beings.
* **Demonic Form:** Fire Demons are born with the ability to transform into a monstrous form of whatever animal their familiar takes. For Kumara, he is able to transform into a large, fox-like creature, heavily muscled with a mane of fire and an iron claw on the tip of his tail which was cut off by Sorella during their first meeting with each other.
* **Familiars:** Each Fire Demon is born with a familiar - a powerful magical creature that is both bound to their soul, and an individual. Kumara's familiar, Kit, assumes the shape of a fox that can change his size as he pleases.
* **Weapon Summoning:** Kumara's Scythe is a weapon he forged himself and has bonded a part of his own Soul Fire to it, allowing him to dispel the weapon into a sort of pocket space until needed, upon which he can summon it again. It is a wickedly lethal weapon, the blade able to become white-hot as it cuts.
* **Weapon Proficiency**; Kumara is a dangerous opponent to face when he's serious, as no other fire demon is as proficient as wielding a scythe as he is.

## Relationships

#### **Shigen**

Shigen and Kumara are exceedingly close, Shigen being one of Kumara's first and oldest friend. They're seen together nearly 24/7, and both have little to no personal space between the other. Truthfully, Kumara does hold romantic feelings for Shigen, but the two are more comfortable remaining close friends than acting on those feelings.

#### **Sorella**

Sorella and Kumara's first initial meetings were hostile at best; their first ever encounter leading to Sorella slicing off the tip of Kumara's tail whilst he wa in demon form and leading him to replace it with a prosthesis. Repeated encounters, however, cooled down the hostilities as they began to learn about each other and now the two are incredibly close. Both are willing, and very nearly have died for each other on numerous occasions, only cementing their bond further, and culminating into Kumara realizing that he had deep romantic feelings for her. Terrified of losing her due to his own issues; Kumara had began to try to hold Sorella back from broadening her own horizons selfishly; nearly driving a wedge in their relationship before Kumara was able to finally mature enough to begin sorting through his own emotions and mended the growing rift between the two.

## Trivia

* Kumara is bilingual, able to speak English and Italian fluently. He also has some very limited knowledge of Hylian thanks to Shigen and some Gerudo language from Kyoukan's wife, Anjean.
* Ironically, Kumara can't stand hot peppers over a certain degree on the Scoville scale. He likes the more milder peppers compared to those with a bit of kick to them.
* Funnily enough, despite living a long time, Kumara has only very rarely dabbled in driving a couple of times, and thus, doesn't actually know how to drive a car. He typically walks, warps or has someone else give him a lift to where he needs to go, thus never picked up learning how to drive.

## Notes and Questions

* Extrapolate on Kumara's familiar and weapon.