Mukade Takusa

**Mukade Takusa,** real name being **Ayato Takusa** is a specialist specializing in vampire exorcism. He later became an international criminal when he decided to save Rosario Caravan, despite being tasked to exterminate her. He afterwards decided to be by Rosario's side for as long as possible.

## Appearance

Mukade was a fairly tall teenager of fair complexion. He had onyx eyes, under his eyes were tear-troughs. He had jet-black hair and his face was framed with left-parted bangs that extended to his lower ears; the bangs grew longer over the years. His overall appearance is very similar to Kouta's. Even more, like Kouta, he was considered very handsome as many girls became infatuated with him. When he lived in Naoetsu, his casual clothes consisted of a black shirt with navy blue high-collar short-sleeved coat, bandages around his ankles, and black shoes. He wore tan pants with a weapons pouch strapped to his back. When on duty, he would wear basically the same thing, only difference being a sword holster on his lower back.

As he would grow older, he would eventually sport a ponytail, with his bangs out and centre-parted.

## Abilities

Even within the famed and battle-adept vampire hunters, Mukade was a genius of such talent, consistently showing prowess well-beyond his years, effortlessly learning new techniques from simple observation, and rising rapidly through the VH ranks, for example, In Kizunakage at the age of 15, he would already learn how to ignite anken within his blade.

At 16 years old, he learns to manipulate dark-purple matter (anken), creating various moves with it, including:

**Death Grip:** Mukade slams his hand to the ground, manipulating the anken to go straight to his target via ground. If he slams both of hands to the ground, he creates a pool of anken flammable to the target.

**Judgement:** Mukade charges head first into his opponent with his hands out, and grabs the target's face. After that, he pushes their face against a hard surface (ground, wall, etc.) and runs across with huge amounts a friction.

Later on in Owari no Kizuna, he is turned into a full-fledged vampire in order to defeat Kamiya Vantas, ultimately failing to do so (Marking this battle the first one he has ever lost). His vampiric abilities mirror Rosario's and Stephanie´s abilities, including enhanced vision, superhuman strength, etc.

## Personality

From a young age, Mukade was calm and insightful, showing noticeable maturity for his age and knowledge on how to deal with every situation. For all his accomplishments, talent, and fame, Mukade was a rather humble man. Never arrogant about his own abilities nor underestimating others, most things he said would be unbiased and accurate. If an opponent exceeded his expectations or posed a legitimate challenge to him or his allies, Mukade would freely admit it.

A pacifist at heart, Mukade did not actually like fighting and would avoid it when he could. When he couldn't, he would end the fight as quickly as possible, all the while holding himself back as much as possible. Despite this, Mukade felt his own needs were secondary to the greater good's and to that end he became a Vampire hunter. He trained tirelessly to improve himself as quickly as he could and subjected himself to all of the human life's inconveniences without complaint for the simple motivation of being useful to others. His commitment borderlined recklessness, due to training privately using extremely deadly methods such as dodging a barrage of knives.

## Quotes

(To Kouta Shinohara) *“How can someone who seeks a reason from another person be right? While you’re forcing that reason on someone else, how can you take responsibility?”*

(To self) *“If I can, I’d like to bring back what she has lost, what she threw away.”*

(To Rosario Caravan) *“If you’re going to selfishly admire someone only to be disillusioned later, then maybe you shouldn’t try to get to know them better at all.”*

(To Stephanie Caravan) *"Crap...did I put it in the wrong hole?"*

(To Blair Takusa) *¨So can I have her now?¨*