Ryu Kenchi

Cretan bull

The 12 Labors of Hercules

***Ryu Kenchi*** is a member of the Zodiac twelve under the Zodiac of Ox.

## Appearance

Ryu Kenchi is a muscular middle-aged man with black eyes, shaggy black hair, and slight facial hair. When using his powers or agitated, his eyes glowed bright yellow. He wears a gray cloak over a white undershirt, baggy black pants, and a pair of black boots.

## Personality

Ryu Kenchi is a serious and decisive individual, though he is easily annoyed and is rather temperamental, often to a fault. He is greatly annoyed by immaturity and arrogance, Ryu especially hates "cocky people". He has quite aggressive behavior is particularly noticeable in combat. Despite this, Ryu is at times a caring individual, though his attempts at being kind are often offset by his serious nature.

## Background

Ryu Kenchi is the descendent of the criminal "Pyro", founder of the Pyro Association, who died without the world even knowing he had children. Pryo's son lineage would continue for years continuing criminal activities until Ryu was adopted by 2 Hunters, who are hiding his origins from the rest of the world and even from Ryu himself.

## Abilities & Powers

Ryu has all the benefits granted by his status as a Hunter. As a Zodiac, his authority in the Hunter Association is inferior only to that of the chairman herself. Ryu is one of the Hunter Association's most powerful and talented Hunters. Ryu is gifted with superhuman physical abilities which he masterfully combines with his Nen abilities.

**Superhuman Strength**: Ryu is quite powerful even without the usage of Nen, as he can destroy walls with ease, punch with enough force to destroy a house, and has also been able to throw a car. As powerful as he is, especially when it comes to fighting, his exceptional strength can often be augmented to further levels with the usage of both the Fist of the Monkey King and the Fist of Rage allowing him to overpower everyone he fights.

**Enhanced Speed and Reflexes**: Ryu is shown to have great speed and can finish a 50-meter track within 3 seconds, implying he can run at speeds of 60.12km/h (37.3mph). He's also been shown to dodge the attacks of five Nen users, who tried to murder him.

**Enhanced Durability**: Ryu's durability surpasses the average Hunter.

**Enhanced Stamina:** Fitting his other superhuman capabilities, Ryu possesses a large amount of stamina and has often been shown continuing to fight despite grievous injuries for longer periods of time without rest.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Ryu is one of the greatest, if not the greatest practitioner of martial arts in the Hunter Association. Ryu also possesses an impressive control over his attacks, being able to pause his punch a moment before impact and adjust his power into several counter blows. Ryu's fighting style is usually depicted as being very acrobatic with his movements, allowing him to strike his opponent in several different angles which also allow him to evade several oncoming attacks. Essentially giving him great offensive and defensive capabilities, especially if the initial strike he is going for has been blocked he is able to use high flying kicks, unorthodox punches, and even a knees strike to retaliate.

## Nen

Ryu is an Enhancer, able to use his aura to strengthen his natural abilities and talents. He uses his great aptitude for Enhancement skills to increase his monstrous strength, speed and raise his durability to vast levels. His aura output is enormous. When he covers himself in Ken, Ryu's body became near impervious to blunt trauma, and even high caliber bullets have no effect on him. He is also highly resilient to heat and explosions as well. Ryu has been noted on several occasions to have tremendously vast levels of Nen, well-beyond most other Hunters. His Nen is noted to be heavy and thick. When unleashing a strong enough surge of Nen, it becomes visible and yellow in color, sometimes with the appearance of a raging bull.

If he has time to build up his Ren, the punch will be even more powerful. Ryu also uses Emission to increase the range of the attack.