FAUSTEIN KUROYAKUSHI

Name: Faustein Kuroyakushi
- Given/First: Faustein
- Surname/Last: Kuroyakushi


Nickname:
- Faust / Stein (his family, fellow clan members, and anyone else he allows usually use this form)
- Dr. Stein / Prof. Kuro (his colleagues, patients, and test subjects usually use this form)
- Mr. Stein / Mr. Kuro (his business associates and any other formal acquaintances usually use this form)  
- Master Faust (his companions, pets, and summons would use this form if capable of speech)
- "SK" (his clients and enemies usually use this form)
Gender: Male
Race: Human w/ infused Drakulich soul (Drakulich = True Vampire / Elder Lich hybrid)
Age:
- Apparent: 29 years old
- True: 2900 years old
Birthday: August 2nd
Orientation:
- Sexuality: Asexual
- Romance: Aromantic

Unique Characteristics:
- His IQ clocks in at 180 points, which is higher than that of either of his parents.
- He is a human who has the soul of a Drakulich permanently fused to his own human one, making him effectively immortal, meaning he cannot die from old age or any other natural causes. However, he is still susceptible to violent or unnatural death, such as in straightforward battle against an enemy or by assassination.
- He has crimson red eyes and whitish-green, gravity defying hair.
- His eyes have prominent dark circles beneath them because of the marked degree of sleep deprivation he suffers from due to the stress and demands of his professional practice as well as the effort he puts in to accomplish his never- ending research goals.
- His lips have a noticeable dark discoloration because his body is always somewhat oxygen deprived not only because of a certain inherent genetic defect, but also due to constant exposure to the various chemical substances which he tests on himself as part of his research.
- He has a thick rope-collar like permanent tattoo encircling the base of his neck.
- His body has several healed scars, suture lines, and other blemishes all over it from his usage of himself as a guinea pig for several of the research projects he had undertaken in the past:
   1) The biggest is a large patch of mismatched skin bounded by two healed suture lines which lies diagonally across his torso from the top of his left shoulder down to his right hip.
   2) The second biggest is the curvilinear suture line that cuts across his face from the left temple to the right side of his jawline.
   3) The third biggest are the healed scars that cut across both of his eyelids vertically, starting from just above his eyebrows and ending just above his high cheekbones.
   4) Unfortunately, like his neck and torso, the rest of him is also marred by innumerable healed scars, suture lines, and various other types of blemishes and imperfections which he has acquired over the long course of his ongoing research.
- He is eternally 29 years old in both form and function, but the Drakulich soul inside him is 2900 years old, making his apparent age belie his actual age.
- Whenever he encounters anything he finds annoying or unbearable, he tends to complain greatly while saying phrases like “how irksome…”, or “This is such a royal pain…” unless it’s something important to him, personally.

Profession: Physician-Scientist

Personality:
Stein is a stereotypical mad scientist in thought, word, and deed and his various personality traits apply as much in battle as they do outside it. Due to his insatiable curiosity, he pursues knowledge at any cost and views the whole world and everything in it, including himself not as individuals worthy of respect and care, but rather merely as guinea pigs to use in this eternal quest for knowledge. As if this were not bad enough, he blatantly disregards the personal rights of others (especially his specimens and/or research volunteers) and brooks no complaints from them, either about his research or the methodology that goes into it. This already reprehensible aspect of him is exacerbated even more by his lack of any modicum of inhibitions or qualms of any kind which could possibly regulate the methodology of his quest for knowledge.

Due to the rigorous demands and high focus his research and work as a physician-scientist needs and has, he is strictly objective almost all the time and is almost impervious to most sentiments, being moved to act only by the cold logic of a situation or by his desire for knowledge. In keeping with this strictly objective POV, his face looks stern, distant, and inscrutably emotionless almost all the time. That said, he is very protective and is wholly invested in his research and so, he usually tends to be very reclusive and reticent about his work. He also doesn’t trust others very much and believes everyone around him is out to take his beloved research away from him. So, he tends to have no allegiance to anyone or anything but himself…and of course, his pet/companion since it is his helper and guardian.
Toward anyone else, especially if he knows for certain that they are weaker/less capable than himself, he has an insufferable superiority complex which often gets him into trouble with them since it makes him act in a condescending manner towards them.

To make things worse, he is also extremely manipulative of others, and this includes his pet/companion. Of course, in this latter case, he does tend to ease up a little on his manipulative aspect because he knows full well that for his plans to truly succeed, he needs to keep it around for the aforementioned reasons. Even though he has a superiority complex, he realizes that neither him nor anything or anyone else in the world is perfect. In fact, he actually abhors the concept of perfection and ridicules anyone and anything which claims to be perfect since to him, perfection is nothing more than a stagnant state which doesn’t allow for any sort of improvement or progress. Finally, he has no reverence for any sort of religion whatsoever and puts all of his faith is the power of science. As a result, he has no qualms experimenting on even the holiest of holy beings or the vilest of the denizens of the dark or anything in between those two extremes of the creature spectrum.

To his credit though, despite having all these defects, he does also have some saving graces, though some may consider these to be a blessing and a curse simultaneously. The first is his determination which lets him persevere diligently and see each of his research projects till the end, for better or worse. However, this can also be a drawback since, at the same time, it does also make him quite headstrong and stubborn as a result of which, he can be quite intractable to any attempts to sway him toward any path other than the one he sees lying before him. Then, there is his objectivity of view and his ability to stay emotionally detached regardless of whatever may be going on around him. While this does help him keep a calm and clear mind in all but the most trying of situations, it also means he is utterly oblivious to the emotional needs of others.

Besides this, he is quite passionate, driven, and focused when he is hooked and this give him the advantage of being able to avoid many common distractions which may otherwise impede his research. However, it can also be a negative thing because it does cause him to ignore everything else, like the basic everyday things like personal maintenance, for example. In addition to this, he prefers to be as efficient as possible in thought, word, and deed and this is a boon since it allows him to delegate resources properly to where they are needed and saves time which he can then spend on other projects or studies, but it also makes him speak very bluntly since, to him, hiding the truth behind any kind of façade just to make it palatable to his audience is a waste of effort. Naturally, this tends to get him into trouble with others, especially those among his audience who may take issue with his lack of verbal filters.

Then, there is his tendency to warn people of potential dangers when he sees them coming, but if it is a specimen which intrigues him enough to want it, he has no qualms in lying and doing whatever he has to acquire said specimen, even though his actions may cost him and his allies a crucial victory or even if doing so would lead to massive casualties on his side. Finally, there is his innovativeness as well as his cerebral and eccentric nature. His innovative side and his cerebral nature do give him the ability to solve most if not all the problems he may face, but they also give him that insatiable curiosity which causes him to want to take apart and analyze everything and everyone around him if they happen to intrigue him. This tendency to want to analyze everything when combined with his innately observant aspect of his nature leads him to lurk about observing everyone and everything around him in order to glean any valuable intelligence about them which he can put to some use or another and so, he can notice things most tend to overlook in their surroundings. An interesting side effect of this is that he tends to show up when someone least expects him to in a given situation which often leads to them being either greatly startled (if they have decent mental resilience), beating him senseless (if they be prone to violence), or running away screaming about creepy mad scientists (if they are particularly susceptible to fear or surprise).

Besides this, there is the cautious aspect of his nature which he now has because he not only inherited it from his parents, but also trained steadily since childhood. This means he never even enters into an area or situation without researching it thorough through remote means, whether it’s by sending his pet/companion ahead of him to survey and then report back, planting hidden surveillance devices on one of his purported allies, or any number of other ways as well. He usually ensures that he at least has a handful of main action plans, a handful of backup plans to handle common contingencies, and escape plans for the worst-case scenarios. This cautious nature combined with his innately super tier curiosity causes him to use any and all situations he enters as a series of field tests for any new techniques or gadgets or anything else he is developing, with both him and any opponents/enemies acting as the guinea pigs.

He tends to keep his distance from his opponents while gleaning information on them which he then puts to use to slowly but surely overwhelm them over the course of the confrontation. Of course, if it means getting his hands on some exciting source of new or otherwise unfamiliar knowledge, this cautious aspect of him tends to take a backseat, though he will still try to maintain some baseline version of it even when hunting said knowledge. Add to this his inherently lazy nature and the result is that he tends to be very inertial as well, which may be good for helping him keep a low profile when needed, but it also means if such a mood does overtake him, there is virtually no one in the world who can convince him to get going with whatever they want him to do for them.

Finally, there is his extreme, unbridled eccentricity which, though beneficial in that nobody who is willing to hang out with him would be assured of never getting bored and any potential enemies can never quite accurately predict his next move; can also be quite the obstacle in his interpersonal relationships since he is not only highly unconventional and prone to doing things which others find rather disconcerting, but also because it makes him a very difficult subordinate since any authority figures tend to have trouble accepting his highly whimsical behavior. This eccentricity extends to his practice as a physician-scientist and when combined with his lack of moral compass, means he usually resorts to highly unorthodox treatment methods which, though remarkably effective…may just come with some unsavory side-effects as well for any patient that puts themselves under his care.

The last effect of this eccentric side of him is that he occasionally tends to behave in a very out of character way, which may throw some for quite the surprising loop (e.g. randomly fluffing some particularly fluffy creature or being when they least expect it, bursting out into a maniacal laugh like some stereotypical supervillain when one of his research projects comes to fruition or when he discovers something new to him, making unorthodox and impromptu changes to any battle strategy or even scrapping it entirely mid battle, etc.)

Likes:
- MAD SCIENCE!!
- Rare, Durable, and Mysterious Specimens (especially if they have all 3 of these traits)
- Power
- Animals (Foxes, Cats, & Owls mostly)

Dislikes:
- Anything and Anyone Unbearable/Annoying
- Ignorance
- Prejudice & Persecution

Motivations:
- Knowledge (all the knowledge available about all the secrets of the universe around him as well as all things present in it, both phenomena and beings)
- Unlimited Freedom
- Acquisition of Research Subjects (the rarer, more mysterious, and more durable the better)

Fears/Disgusts:
- Betrayal
- Dogs and Wolves
- Inadequacy (in all its various forms)

Appearance:
Eyes: Crimson Red
Hair:
- Base & Middle: Ivory White
- Top: Forest Green
Height: 5’ 7”
Weight: 140 lb.
Complexion: Pale/Sallow

Overall Appearance:
Physique:
Faustein is 5' 7" tall, weighs in at 140 lb., and has a medium-heavy bone structure. His skin is very pale and maybe even somewhat sallow in appearance. Due to the constant traveling he does and the intermittent exposure to the elements as well as the various substances he deals with in his practice as a physician-scientist, his skin is also very coarse and dry to the touch. He has very thick, coarse, and dry hair which is mostly white at the base, but melds into dark green towards the tips. He never bothers to keep it tamed due to his inherently lazy nature and also because it tends to get disheveled anyway over the course of his research. He has a generally ovoid head like any other regular human. He also has some distinctive facial features such as: gaunt cheeks with high-set cheekbones, a high and wide forehead, as well as thin, roughly almond shaped eyes with the usual round pupils and bright crimson red irides. The last of his distinctive facial features are his gently tapered chin and his somewhat strongly set, somewhat sharply defined jawline.

He has a slender, slightly longer than normal neck with a very prominent Adam's apple. His back and shoulders are broad and well developed with lean, well defined, clearly visible musculature due to his own basic physical conditioning and also because he often has to exert himself physically during his travels and research. All across his torso, both the front and back aspects, he has no more than an ounce of fat anywhere since he almost constantly forgets to maintain a proper meal schedule, especially when he is wrapped up in one of his long-term research projects. His upper limbs are of average length and just like the rest of his body, they too possess lean, well defined musculature. Due to his medium-heavy set bone structure, his wrists are slightly larger than normal and his hands are also larger and more muscular than average too due to the near constant use in his various physical exertions. In contrast, however, his fingers are longer than average and have a rather skeletal look to them.

He has a narrow waist and hips, again due to the veritable lack of body fat, especially the abdominal type. Below, he has lower limbs which are longer than average and like the rest of him, his lower limbs also have not more than an ounce of fat anywhere. As a result, like everywhere else on him, his lower limb musculature is also clearly visible and well defined, but also due to the effect of his physical exertions and specific training as well. Like his wrists, due to his medium heavy bone structure, his ankles are also slightly bigger than average as are his feet. However, like his fingers, his toes are also quite spindly in appearance. The rest of him is similarly well endowed due to the many genetic gifts he has inherited from both sides of his family.

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Attire:
Faustein prefers to keep his attire preferences as simple and practical as possible, although he does sometimes give in to flights of fancy to indulge his flair for the dramatic. So, at home by himself, he usually just wears a muscle tee of some shade of color along with PJs of some color (never pink though because he hates that color). At home, he usually doesn’t bother with footwear, but if pressed to wear some, he would go for simple geta shoes. If at home, but entertaining guests, then of course, he would wear a semi-formal long sleeved Boscosi shirt with a traditional Joyan ballooning hakama (edited to able to equip a tactical utility belt) with the usual male undergarments along with the same geta shoes for footwear.

When out and about, but not at work, he usually prefers to don a simple semi-formal t-shirt and tactical utility belt equipped cargo shorts of some color along with the usual male undergarments (none of them being pink). For footwear in this situation, he prefers to use standard long tabi boots of some color (except pink). When out and about at work, either at his profession as a physician-scientist mage or just taking on client requests, over the usual male undergarments, he wears his formal work outfit, that being a high collar, below knee length doctor’s white coat with long sleeved formal white shirt of some color and a crimson red colored necktie. Below that, he wears a tactical utility belt equipped, dark colored formal pants and for footwear, he wears formal patent leather, black or brown western style shoes.

For any other situation, he dresses as the occasion or environment demands of him (e.g. swim trunks at a swimming pool, weather appropriate clothing in accordance to the seasons, a 3- piece tuxedo and formal black shoes for really formal events, etc.[/b]). While traveling, he can usually be seen his usual work outfit and maybe a thick white trench coat over it and a white fedora with a dark blue silk band around the top on his head. Needless to say, in addition to the abovementioned attire, he also always has whatever light armor, weapons, and other accessories are necessary for his mage work.