Reitō-kō

Haku Mura, known by his alias Reitō-kō (Frozen Steel) was an Alt member of the Nightstalkers and self-proclaimed 'ninja', he worked closely with the Aoi family but was later revealed to be a traitor to the group and loyal to the Triads, despite this he had a secret love for fellow Nightstalker Darq who Volt later married in secret.

### History

Born into a highly split and secretive family Haku was the son of Triad Tsang Nuying, who was a member of the prolific Tsang crime family and Yakuza Eizō Mura, the lovers' secret relationship came to be after a short cooperation between the two crime syndicates, but the fling ended up with Nuying pregnant; nevertheless Nuying wanted to keep the baby, while Eizō wanted to abort the child, but their work made it difficult for the two to meet up often and they kept up the relationship for over 9 years before they permanently split.

When the Yakuza discovered that Nuying had been seeing Eizō they accused him of being a traitor and had her murdered in front of 12-year-old Haku and his father, but did not kill Eizō so serve as an object lesson to him and his son; this, however sent the boy into shock and he became sickly and ill; Promising to keep him safe Eizō was ousted from the Yakuza under threat of death and looked after him in the town of Chichibu where he later met Haru and Hidaki; during 'treatment' for his sickness the boy was unknowingly subjugated to experiments by Nami-Atarashi Biogenics; a subsidiary of Midori Bioscience who had previously created Cybrids such as Haru himself, the beetle cybrid Kabuto.

While receiving 'treatment' he began to feel like he was dying until he was granted superhuman gifts. He was then approached by Goro Imai, head of the Yakuza's mantis clan and current CEO of both Midori and Nami-Atarashi, to ask if he was willing to come back into the fold; however to be accepted he had to use his powers to kill his own father.

Haku became a member of the Yakuza swiftly, but never trusted or liked them for the murder of his mother and made sure that a major "deal" between the two clans over territory in America would go the way of the Triads and bring gang war to Miami.

TBC

### Personality

At first Haku was a quiet and lonely boy, and after the murder of his mother he underwent a serious form of shock that affected his mental and physical health and stress, becoming frail, thin and pale, Haku's lymph nodes had stopped working properly and became highly susceptible to illness. During the secret experimentation a great deal of hormones were used to stabilise the resequencing process of his genome alteration, and it change the boy from shy and twitchy to rageful and aggressive, a personality that betrayed his androgynous looks.

### Appearance

Haku had always been a tall and skinny boy, even as a child, during his heavy lymphoma and infection he looked abnormally gaunt and pale. He regained some of his colour and form as his alt powers settled, although he had to continually take pills and the odd injection to maintain his powers and mental stability, he started to take pride in his androgynous appearance. Haku had long, black hair and dark eyes, his skin was pale and his cheeks seemed often slightly flushed, he was also unable to grow facial hair, supposedly a side-effect of his alt treatment's use of altered oestrogen in the stabilisation efforts to successfully balance his hormones. He often liked to wear loose-fitting clothing and traditional Japanese robes.

### Powers and Abilities

**Powers**

Haku was altered by various treatments from Nami-Atarashi Biogenics when his father went to them asking to help 'fix' his son; Nami-Atarashi, unknown to Eizō, was both a subsidiary of notorious fringe science organisation Midori Bioscience and a recent Yakuza advanced research acquisition thanks to cyborg Goro Imai.

**Cryomagnetokinesis:** Haku developed an unusual magnetic ability that let him create magnetic fields that would instantly supercool any metal he is in control of. Since he has taken the codename Reitō-kō meaning "Frozen Steel" in Japanese.

* ***Metal Fracturing:*** Depending on the type of metal and the intensity of his concentration, Haku can cause said material within his field of control to break and shatter almost instantly, and can then manipulate these frozen shards as weapons.
* ***Cryo-Metallic Imbuement:*** He can imbue special cryogenically-tempered metal weapons, such as his Tanto, or hidden metal wire, with cryogenic properties without shattering, and could create icy effects on metallic surroundings to aid in his movement or hinder his enemies.
	+ ***Cryoneedle Manipulation:*** He can control specialised needles, often stored on his person in vastly numerous amounts, created to be highly resistant to the negative affects of extreme temperature reduction of his power allowing him to imbue them with extreme sub-zero temperatures; these needles instantly freeze anything they pierce and against living targets, merely one needle in a targeted area such as the heart or brain can kill instantly, but can also use them to painfully torture.
	+ ***Electromagnetic Reflection:*** As he discovered in fights with Volt, placing his needles in certain formations in front of him allows him to create powerful magnetic fields that easily deflect extremely-high voltages of energy or redirect electricity like lightning rods. This was powerful enough that Haku managed to reflect lightning from Volt that was directly under his mental control.
* ***Ice Sliding/Limited Levitation:*** By learning to create cryomagnetic ripples on metallic shoe plates, Haku learned to move at high speed across any surface and leap great distances. He later learned to levitate for a short period of time in this manner but the concentration to sustain this was immense and rarely did so, often using this for a gliding effect if she should fall from a great height.

**Abilities**

* ***Skilled Assassin:*** Haku was taught by the Yakuza how to kill with stealth and precision and had a natural talent for being quick and efficient at it.
* ***Needle-throwing Expert:*** He learned to throw small needles with high precision, but later learned to control them with his power, and they became his primary weapon of choice in most scenarios.
* **Tantojutsu Expert:** Haku was trained in traditional Japanese knife-fighting styles, but rarely used this skill unless he was forced to; nevertheless he was incredibly skilled with his tanto blade.
* ***Deception:*** He was incredibly skilful at being deceptive and could misdirect people's attention with some skill.
* ***Intelligent:*** Haku had a high IQ, although his actual IQ wasn't known, often used calculative and systematic combat tactics and analysing patterns cam naturally to him; He'd often use this to taunt his opponent by pointing out their weaknesses.
* **Underworld Connections:** He knew dangerous and elusive people in both the Yakuza and Triads.
* **Hacking:** He had some knowledge of software and computer systems, enough for him to steal secrets from rivals or dox others.

### Limitations and Weaknesses

Haku's beautiful feminine image often betrays his vile temper and rageful scorn, he often sees himself in far superior lieu of others, despite his powers and mental health often being unstable.

Like many alts he requires constant supplements and chemical balance to maintain his power, although with Haku these are often simply pills, and the odd injection every few months, with his powers being relatively stable for an alt, as his alteration and power seem to have had a dramatic impact on his emotional state and these must be kept in check at all times;

Despite his skill and superiority complex, he himself despises negativity towards his person and is in fact himself easily distracted and taunted, unable to take even the smallest criticism.

As is often the case for many alts it is likely that at some point his powers or his own mental health and emotion will one day lead to his demise, and Haku secretly fears losing himself to this madness and worst of all losing his powers.

Haku was thought to have gender dysphoria, though "straight" by male standards, he often felt like he was in the wrong body, and considered himself neither gender; this, however made him extremely unhappy and was unaware what he was feeling, which added to the breakdown of his mentality.