Kemono

## Soundtrack

Accelerating Development

Red Strike

Training Montage

> *"I should've just stayed home..." T~T*
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**Kemono** is a reserved and introverted individual. Despite his kind-hearted nature, Kemono is reticent around people, keeping his thoughts and opinions about others to himself. He often shies away from new people and turns down any possibility of making new friends. His asocial behavior prevents him from starting conversations. Rather, he ends up hugging his own tail and hiding his face in it when faced with nervousness, sometimes muttering how much he wants to go home.

What Kemono wants more than anything is to live a quiet life, devoid of anxiety or fear of the future. He is committed to achieving this goal and ensuring the safety of the people around him. Whatever the reserved vibe he gives off, Kemono is still selfless and enjoys seeing others safe and happy.

As an insomniac, Kemono finds trouble getting proper sleep, so he has a habit of passing out at random. This is also noted by his sleepwear—a t-shirt and sweatpants—that has become his main attire. Even the hair that conceals his eyes prevent others from knowing if Kemono is awake or asleep. Underneath his hair, Kemono bares solid black pupils and bags under his eyes.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Nigh Adaptability** - Kemono's main attribute that lets him grow stronger through various situations, improving his physical abilities much faster than most other characters. Each new scenario he is met with allows Kemono's body to adapt accordingly to them. In combat, his body memorizes the attack patterns and behavior of his enemies, allowing Kemono to swiftly dispatch of similar enemies in future confrontations, if not one-shot them. Some have described his body as a collective consciousness that analyzes and answers at a rate several times faster than his brain. The effect is always autonomous and, even if it seems like a losing battle, results are guaranteed. The bodily changes created by this development are permanent and the number of times he can adapt will remain limitless.
* **Martial Arts (Karate)** - Developed for a handful of years, Kemono employs traditional karate as the base of his fighting style: Self-defense techniques and using his fists for powerful strikes to the head or torso, combining them with horizontal kicks. Very little would notice that each attack mostly begins with the enemy throwing the first blow, so Kemono can respond accordingly with a counter. This lets Kemono make quick judgments and respond with powerful blows in rapid succession, as well as the ability to completely redirect the flow of power from his opponents.
	+ **Kemo Style** - A layer of traditional karate custom-made by Kemono that adds new techniques and a set of principles to follow. Because this acts as a style of karate instead of a completely different fighting style, the Kemo Style is much like a "flavor" that centers around the martial art. Kemono developed and trains in its techniques repeatedly, and throughout the course of his Anti-Disaster career, he seeks to optimize it. Unfortunately, he attempted to make the style teachable with a book, but Kemono believed that the principles were too pessimistic. So he abandoned the illustrations before Kitsune picked them up, making her the second practitioner of the Kemo Style.
* **Augmented Strength** - Kemono possesses immensely powerful strength, far more than what's required to incapacitate opponents. His individual strikes can destroy unearthly materials and parts of the body with upmost ease. Kemono can also hurl extremely heavy objects beyond the stratosphere and rip apart anything far larger than himself with a single hand. With his strength being one of the main accelerating factors, Kemono can annihilate colossal targets and wipe out a variety of opponents in one fell attack.
* **Augmented Endurance** - Kemono's body can take fatal hits, crash through dozens of debris, and block all sorts of attacks and remain unfazed, allowing Kemono to fight beyond human limitations. He has grown resistant to several forms of pain, inhuman temperatures, diseases, poisons, psychic powers, and radiation, with each encounter adding something new to the list. Kemono can heal life-threatening wounds quickly, but has evolved to where his injuries immediately vanish after first appearing.
* **Augmented Speed & Reflexes** - Kemono is capable of accelerating his running speed to incredible levels, making him increasingly difficult to follow. He can make sharp turns and travel across surfaces of different angles. Kemono's reaction time was heightened to detect incoming danger faster than a typical superhuman and dodge or repel several attacks from many different directions. Generally, Kemono is able to completely move, perceive, and react beyond milliseconds.
* **Aura Detection** - Kemono is capable of detecting one's metaphysical aura, that being the vibe an individual gives off. He uses this deduction to determine if someone is worth approaching to or if they show hostility or resentment.

### Techniques

* **Tanuki Reversal** - A wide variety of counter attacks utilized at short, mid, and long ranges. Prior to an attack, the user relaxes their body. Then, with one or both hands, the "flow of power" is redirected back to its sender. In this manner, the user can make their opponent's attacks miss as well as make an opponent lose their balance, leaving them open to attack.
* **Masked Wolf: Abyssal Claw** - Derived from the iconic karate chop, the user slashes the air in front of them, propelling an open fist forward in the and generating shockwaves that tear through any structures or beings in his way.
* **Demon Sheep: Force Field** - Allows the user to either defend from powerful blows or attack with significantly more force through instantaneously clenching all muscles at the moment of impact, increasing the solidity and density of the user's body. This prevents the impact of outside attacks from inflicting much, if any, damage. This is manifested as a purple barrier that appears after each successful block.
* **Rising Beifeng Dragon** - A powerful flying uppercut while rotating the body. During the ascent of the attack, the user is enveloped in a deep blue aura powered by their fist, signaling the use of the technique. The damage is enough to leave the neck and spine permanently dislocated, and is seen as a finishing move.
* **Shade: Blinding Void** - A unique counter that sends back the opponent's attack to the side of their head. Striking this area will hit the nerves closest to the eyes, causing the opponent to temporarily go blind and see black. This, in many cases, throws the opponent's balance completely off, even if it's just one eye.
* **Squirrel Hammer Tail** - A powerful and blindingly fast slam-throw with hardly any time gap between grabbing and throwing an opponent. Once within range, the user hooks the opponent by the clothing and launches them into the ground. The impact combines the user's force and the opponent's weight, in which the energy mix together and shoot back upwards, giving off the feeling of being smashed between the ground and a large hammer.
* **Sudden Shark Dive** - A technique where the user quickly sidesteps underneath an opponent's attack right at the moment before the attack is delivered, causing the opponent to think that their attack phased right through the user.
* **Mist Panda Echo** - The act of rhythmically moving around and shuffling across the field with just the soles. The user begins to generate illusional afterimages to all those that watch them. Several of these afterimages surround the target, obscuring them in a field of mist.
* **Rapid Rabbit Leaping** - Pursuing targets by leaping and landing over vast distances, regardless of how level or askew the terrain is. Trails of pink and blue lights follow the user wherever they jump. Can also be used to super jump to airborne targets or quickly back off from an attack.
* **Snow Leopard Acceleration** - Using a tremendous amount of speed by digging the toes into the ground allowing for a major burst in speed. At the highest movement speed, the user is forced to dash in a straight line, appearing as a distorted blur. This lets the user close the distance or pursue their target.
* **Great Squid Fall** - The user blitzes their opponent and, usually before or while an enemy attack is launched, quickly leaps overhead. As they descends, a powerful upside-down bicycle kick is executed down the opponent's head, with enough force to shatter blocks and drive their head into the ground. The initial leap gives off the illusion of the user vanishing right before they attack from above, where no fighter ever suspects to look.
* **Crystal Wolf: Red Strike** - A technique that creates spatial distortion when the user connects with an impact of energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit after immense concentration. The phenomenon causes such power to flash bright red, creating a more potent attack to the power of 2.5 of a normal hit. Some can describe the damage to be extremely lethal, enough to blast one's body part clean off before they realize.
* **Azure Inu Wave** - Derived from Red Strike, this technique creates a spatial distortion when the user dedicates more focus into a counterattack, manifesting a large blue and black blast. The user takes the kinetic force from whatever hit they sustained while loosening their body, gathering that "flow" around themselves, and redirecting it to their palm to create a powerful blast of air that can destroy the terrain.
* **Roaring Sky Fist** - The combination of Red Strike and Azure Inu Wave being used in rapid succession, both techniques wielded in each of Kemono's fists. Kemono repeatedly unleashes the two techniques in perfect unison and accelerates his punches and kicks, as indicated by the massive streaks of red and blue lights trailing his fists. While this technique is being used, relentless shockwaves blast out from the points of impact, capable of doing severe environmental damage.

## Trivia

* His voice is mostly quiet and tired.
* He is super clingy to other tanukis.
* He prefers sleeping to the sound of rain.
* His favorite music genre is drum and bass.
* He has a knack for baking loaves of bread, among other pastries.