Rasa Kujashal

Rasa Kujashal was the 49. Overcommander of the Amphibian Army prior to the Siege on Jupiter and the Army's dissolvement. He was also the host of Deshida Kyuzan's first creation, Shucash, which died alongside him on Jupiter. Throughout his time in the Army he became very framiliar with its inner workings. Having been trusted enough to be the Army's chief diplomat, tasked with avoiding armed conflicts, where possible. In his role as diplomat he has saved the lives of his comrades more times than anyone can count. Nonetheless, when it did come to armed confrontantions, Rasa was more than capable to hold his own.

### **Appearence**

Rasa was a man of medium height with rust-red hair, dull golden eyes and black markings around his eyes and covering his eyelids. He usually wore a simple black jacket and pants with an iron mesh armor underneath. He used to carry around a small steel canister, filled with sand, strapped to the right side of his hip. When leaving a safe area he also used to cover his body with a dark grey cape, made of iron mesh. On his back, mainly covering his right shoulder blade, Rasa had 93 small holes, shaped like upside-down tears, carved into his skin. They originated from the procedure which led to Shucash's implantation, and used to cause him occasional pain, up until his death. He also had a jaw-like scar on his lower left leg, where a carnivorous animal tried to rip his leg off, while he was lost in the Konohan wilderness.

Rasa had the insignia of the Amphibian Army tattooed below his left collarbone.

### **Personality**

Rasa tends to be very neutral and objective in most situations, being capable of staying calm even in crisis. This is because he is a well trained diplomat, forcing him to acquire the skill to delegate even with the most stubborn of partners. Although he is not above the occasional fit of rage, mainly if a diplomatic discussion he leads does not go his way and possibly has an armed confrontation, between the Army and an opposing faction, as a consequence. This anger also occasionally extends to when a comrade is being threatened without a peaceful resolution possible, although he does make his anger a lot less apparent in the latter case, always trying to stay objective and never giving the opposite party what they want for free.

Having been part of the Army for quite some time he has formed a handful of closer friendships with some of his comrades. These include Kev and Natake Leto, as their powers synergize very well with his own. He also gets along very well with Annare Ol Tsarruwen as she works alongside the Ostean in the Amphibian Army's diplomatic missions as well as Jassem Jozuyoun and Fabiano Bandeira, who are often tasked with accompanying him as bodyguards.

### **History**

Rasa was born on the planet of Ostea into the Kuja cast, one of the five different casts in Ostean society. As with each of the casts, the Kuja have their own specializations, being known for their expertise in diplomacy, rhetoric, language and politics. So, like all of his peers, Rasa was also taught these skills in school. After having recieved his education Rasa joined the Ostean Exploration Department, an Ostean initiative to explore and possibly expand to other planets. In the Exploration Department Rasa extended his education rising to become the second-best in his class, only eclipsed by his girlfriend Suna Kujaki. Together they went on a variety of different expedition, even leading their own successful expeditions on a few occasions. After a couple of years in service they decided to settle down, and as Suna was pregnant with triplets, Rasa left for his last diplomatic mission to the planet of Konoha, the longest expedition on the history of Ostea.

Rasa and his entourage arrived on Konoha landing in the Nation of Fire, Konoha's bloodiest nation. While initially being successful in talking to the citizens of fire, Rasa made a wrong assumption during a later discussion, assuming the Konohan's of the Fire would allow for travel to the populist nation. His error in judgement led to the swift slaughter of the Ostean Expedition Crew, at the hand of the *Charred Executioners*, which was led by a certain Mashita Nakakichi, older brother to the later Amphibian Army member Tosari Nakakichi. Only Rasa, a guard, and a discussion recorder managed to escape into the thick forests of Konoha. During the time in the woods, which are inhabited by a variety of different feral creatures and are only passable if one adequately prepared. The guard was killed by one of these creatures with Rasa's left leg being injured in the same attck, while the discussion recorder succumbed to the elements only days later. With no way of communicating with the his home world, desperate for food, and yet still determined to make it back to his girlfriend and children, Rasa resorted to cannibalism to stay alive.

After almost a week in the wild, Rasa was starting to lose hope in survival, he was found and taken in by the scientist Deshida Kyuzan. Sadly it was not the savior he was looking for, as while he did survive thanks to Kyuzan, Rasa became a guinea pig for his experiments, and at some point was turned into the host for the scientist's first successful monstrous creation, named Shucash. To this day Rasa still bears the scars of that procedure on his back. But due to the Kyuzan being incapable of controlling Rasa and Shucash he put them into stasis. Where they stayed until Amphibian with the help of his uncle Kakashi and a few others broke into the Kyuzan's lab and freed Rasa alongside the other nine hosts of the scientist's creations. He joined the Army, which was still in its early stages at the time, shortly later.

### **Powers & Abilites**

Rasa has a couple of different both meta-, and non-metahuman powers and abilites, that he has used to benefit and help the Army in a variety of ways.

Mostly fighting in the second line being known in the Army for his ability to protect the comrades fighting in front of him, through the telekinetic sand powers given to him by Shucash.

#### **Sand Telekinesis**

Through the implantation of Shucash into Rasa, the Ostean gained the ability to control sand with his mind. Most of the time he only has the sand in his steel canister to use, that is still enough to create blades and bullets to use in a variety of ways, he can also use it to create a shield, effective enough to block a bullet. Of course, due to Rasa's telekinesis he is at a big advantage when fighting in a sand desert, being capable of summoning a sand tsunami. His sand abilites also work very well together with Kev's mineral manipulation and Natake's magnetism abilites. Kev is capable to fully harden his sand creations, due to the minerals in them, making bullets and blades more deadly as well as turning sand tsunamis into tsunamis of liquid cement, that can lock large groups of enemies in place. Natake, on the other hand, can use Rasa's sand creations, whatever they are, as a diversion for his own magnetic powers. For example by taking the magnetic dust particles in the sand to attack the enemy, whille they are concentrated on Rasa's attacks.

#### **Partial Transformation**

Rasa is able to grow a tail, which is assumed to be Shucash's. The tail has a small diameter where it grows out of Rasa, the diameter then gets larger the longer the tail goes, before forming a tip at the end. The tail is made out of sand and is covered in sand scales, which in turn are covered in black spiral markings.

As the tail is not made out of the sand Rasa carries in his canister, he can manipulate its size with that sand, also use the tail as an additional sand resource. The Overcommander is also proficient at using his tail in a closequarters confrontation, being able to deliver powerful blows with it.

#### **Heat Resistance**

Being an Ostean, Rasa is naturally very resistant to heat as all Osteans are, due to Ostea being in close proximity to their system's star.

#### **Martial Arts Skills**

While not being a master martial artist, Rasa is capable enough to hold his own in hand-to-hand martial arts combat. Also being able to incorparate his tail for a surprise attack on his opponents.

#### **Rhetorical Skills**

While not directly a combat focused ability, Rasa has used his rhetorical talent to get himself and the Army out of some difficult situations, as well as using it as a distraction before surprising his enemies with an attack. He has also represented the Army as some type of lawyer, due to his rhetorical abilites allowing for extremly convincing argumentation.

### **Weapons**

While being assigned the same *Falling Star* pistol and *Prophecy* assault rifle as every other member of the Army, Rasa never carries around either of them. He prefers to be unarmed, both due to his role as diplomat, where he never wants to appear threatening to his discussion partner, and because he much rather relies on the element of surprise in a fight.