Sawada Tadiori

Subject: Sawada Tadiori Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:09 pm

Name: Sawada Tadiori

Age: 23

Bounty: 50

Species: Human

Occupation: Swordsmen

Allegiance: Sano's vigalantie group

Home Village/Ocean: Shimoshiki island (east blue)

Appearance: fairly tall, dark brown neck lingeth wavy hair with at top knot on the upper back of the head, a straw rounded traditnal asian style travlers hat, a blue Haori (traditnal samuri shirt) black hakama (ttaditinal samuri pants)

History: At the age of 8 Sawada and his younger brother decided to escape the streets by enrolling in a sword school, while his brother didn’t take to sword fighting much Sawada quickly began to excel without much effort, beating his senpi with in days and there senpi within weeks, here was a smaller kid with a second hand boken and no armor was beating people twice his age in the latest equipment, this seemed to be the only way he was able to best anyone so naturally he took to it and began dueling his peers very frequently and his win total began to pile up and he became hard pressed to find challengers until one day when his sensei told him that he would never achieve true strength on that path and that true strength can only be achieved threw what one fights for. He died three days later of a serious illness that he had and all along but never told him, from then on he refused to fight anyone and lost his status as the best swordsmen in the dojo, during that time he trained himself to master “more than the sword” training in ninja arts and advanced samurai teachings, for years until one day bandits attacked his home town killing his brother before he was forced to fight them off. He then left home to find out what true strength was.

Personality: serious, quiet, fiercely loyal, stern sense of honor, protective, lazy, gets drunk on occasion

Ship: None

Ship Flag: a half whit half black flag with black and white pistols over the opsite colors pointed at each other

Devil Fruit: N/A

Special Abilities: incredibly fast, very strong, master swordsmen, lightning reflexes

Learned Techniques (Keep it 1-25):
-Eyes of the owl: by swiftly moving his eyes in all directions and quickly turning his head from side to side he is able to extend his field of vision to 270 degrees instead of 180 and extends the radius of his vision several feet, threw training he has been able to use this without any loss of precision or dizziness and he can still zero in on things like normal
-Blade breaker: Makes use of the durability of the Myakuhaku to deliver a blunt strike to the side of the victims blade, severely damaging it
-Phantom blade: slashes with the blade, then when an opponent goes to block he drops his sword in mid air so that only his hand passes over the aria that is being protected, before his opponent can realize what has happened he caches his sword and delivers a slash at the unprotected part of the body
-Blood painting; five point star: repeatedly drops and caches his sword like in “phantom blade” and moves closer to the opponent (if this is attacked the attack will hit a moving blade) until blowing past them completely ending up behind them, sheeting his blade as five slashes leave there mark on the abdomen in the shape of a star
-Blood painting; field of red flowers: trusts his blade forward many many times in an incredibly skilled and controlled fashion producing many shallow stab wounds on the body in the shape of three pronged four Ys (flowers)
-Sheath cannon: unsheathes his sword a little then slashes in the direction of his target sending the sheath flying at the target with incredible force
-Totsunyuu kutsuoto (rushing footsteps (footwork)): by jumping long distances in succession he can travel faster than he could normally run and by kicking his foot to the ground and turning his ankle he can change direction or accelerate easily
-Killing intent: stairs down an opponent and projects his raw intent to kill, filling them with total fear this scares off 96% of his opponents, this technique is also known as the absolute evil fist and will not work unless he is totally sure he will win

Weapons/Items: Myakuhaku (see custom wpns for details), Shuriken, a sturdy knife, heavy steel plated sandals (for defense)

Goals: To find out what true strength is if you can show him he will join you