Iori Yagami

> *"A rose blooms best near death, and you're in full bloom, pal!"*
>
>

> — Iori Yagami
>
>

## Appearance

Iori is a 20 year old man with bright red hair, a dark red jacket, black pants, black shirt, white shoes with black bottoms, and some chains and belts and some black fur near his white collar. In addition to his favor of the colors, white, black and red, he also has red eyes mostly due to his Riot of the Blood state. His Starcross design is directly from the The King Of Fighters XIV however, his earlier iterations of Iori in Starcross used his old King Of Fighters '95 design.

## Personality

Iori isn't the happiest man alive, so usually he's not as lively as some others might be. He's overall calm and collected, even in situations where it will seem out of place for him to act this way. At some points he's shown to be more comfortable being more bubbly with his friends, even having a bit of an accent.

## Background

Ever since the 95th edition to the King Of Fighters tournament, Iori has been constantly fighting in tournaments across the world and was, and still is, a wanderer. Iori has no home outside of an unknown place in Tokyo, as well as being in an unknown band. Iori's blood is cursed which means that he can go into a state called the Riot of the Blood, which killed his two other teammates in the past, Mature and Vice. This personally haunts Iori so much to the point that he has no friends outside of Starcross and usually rather rude and quick to make threats, this could be due to making himself unlikable to get people away from him but it is unsure. Being the heir of the Yagami clan (Formerly the Yakasani clan) as well as being one of the three sacred clans that sealed Orochi, Iori shows little interest in helping and serving the duties of his clan which usually ends up badly, having to deal with Orochi or the members of Hakkesshu or Those From The Past in the King Of Fighters tournaments.

## Story

While Iori's story of how he got into Starcross isn't that different from many people who ended up there, the people he first meets are Dante, Majima and Michi are people that he would never forget. Really, the only major event Iori has taken part in is the Darkest Tomorrow Arc where he met Dio, other then that minor appearance, Iori has never really shown to be the one to get involved in huge problems unless someone he knows asks for help.

## Abilities and Gear

Iori wields pyrokenetic powers thanks to his families sacred treasure the Yasakani Jewel, Iori's flame is called The Flame of The End or Unbridled Instinct.

Instead of his flames being a normal color, they're a bright purple and have an additional ability to stun. He can make these flames into sliding ground projectiles, geyser projectiles, infuse his hands and or (very rarely) weapons with his flames, and make small explosions with his flames.

As well as having flames, Iori has close ranged claws where he can slash his opponents.

In addition to these two abilities, due to the Riot of the Blood, both of these abilities are advanced with the downside of losing control. Which means that he cant recognize which is friend or foe, and therefore, attacks everyone near him.

## Relationships

### Friends

* Majima (0)

* Michi Nisenaki

* Dante

* Oreko

* Dio
* Oz (Love interest)

### Enemies

* Kyo
* Orochi

## Trivia

* His favorite food is meat.
* Even though his fighting style is based entirely on brutality and pure instinct, he dislikes Violence.
* Iori loves Jazz, and is a musician himself.
* Iori has a cat named Blueberry. A black Persian with blue eyes, which also has the power of purple flames and is a little more agile then a normal cat.
* Two women, Vice and Mature constantly haunt him ever since Iori unwillingly killed them.