Kazan

An official art of Kazan made by ThePain99.

Kazan is a maroon earth-stickman who is a contender that wields The Clarity, a shapeshifting organism, in the Blessed Tournament. He is an optimistic young stickman looking for opportunities, which ends him up in the Blessed Tournament. He is the first contender to sign up to the tournament, and goes up against fellow contender Saigai.

### Etymology

Kazan (かざん) is a japanese word roughly translating to "Volcano". This could have inspired the Clarity's design and Kazan's color scheme.

Ironically, his birthplace, Suui is a very cold place.

## Biography

Kazan was born in Suui, a continent notorious for being cold, and lived there until he was a young adult stickman. All of his peers had special abilities, but Kazan had discovered that he had Aspectrality, a condition that deems the individual unable to become an elemental. Still, Kazan was optimistic and well-liked, and trained with his elemental peers often (and his various animal companions). Then, some of the members of the clan have disappeared, which led to Kazan venturing out and discovering the clarity. Kazan was able to pacify the creature by making himself look friendly and use it's shapeshifting qualities as a weapon to utilize, whilst treating it as a pet, to which The Clarity responded accordingly. It was at this point in time that Kazan realized that he wanted to discover new horizons, so he went to Arter through a long journey on the bridge connecting Suui to the mainland, where he signed up as a contender in the Blessed Tournament.

#### The Blessed Tournament

In the Tournament, Kazan would fight Saigai in bracket A1. Despite having the untapped power of The Clarity, Kazan lost to Saigai, which meant he was going to contend in the losers' bracket, though after Saigai mocks Kazan on how powerful he could've been, Kazan realized his power and won against Kemuri and Akuma in brackets A12 and C12 respectively, going on to face Jikan.

## Personality

Throughout the tournament, Kazan is shown to be very respectful to his opponents, including Saigai. He also cares a lot about his clan, venturing out to kill the Clarity, which he helped only due to how defenseless it looked. Kazan is also very confident and adventurous, seeking to find a new adventure in Arter. Kazan shows himself to be nurturing, treating The Clarity as a pet than a weapon.

In his early life, Kazan is shown to have insecurities regarding his nature as one of the only Earth-Stickmen in his clan, and feels inferior to everyone around him, but never voices these thoughts out or talks to anyone about it, although later on the insecurities disappeared, demonstrating that Kazan moves on from things quite quickly.

## Abilities

### The Clarity

The Clarity can shapeshift into anything for any purposes, and can even change its state of matter, being able to become gas or liquid.

### Tenacity

Kazan is shown to rarely give up, to the point where Saigai almost killed him.

### Animal Whispering

Kazan is able to tame animals easily, being known as the tamer by his clan.

## Relationships

### The Clarity

Despite the Clarity having killed members of his clan before, he treats it as a pet, and cares for it whenever he thinks it is wounded, failing to realize it's indestructability.

### Saigai

After losing, Kazan is mocked by Saigai for not being able to use The Clarity to it's fullest potential, which Kazan takes as advice. Even with Saigai's open mockery, Kazan seems to respect Saigai.

### Kemuri

Kazan showed a degree of sportsmanship toward Kemuri when he won, which implies that the two are at least on good terms.

### Akuma

Akuma's strange attitude made Kazan weirded out by him, but even after Akuma was defeated in demon form by Kazan, Kazan somewhat showed a level of respect, although he admits that Akuma is strange.

## Trivia

* Despite his name translating to "Volcano", there was never a plan to make Kazan a firebender of any sort.
* Originally, Kazan was going to lose in the first round not by Saigai, but rather by Kage.
* If Kazan were to be in a Disney movie, he'd be a disney princess.