| Kisho was born to a single mother in an ultra*traditional neighbourhood of Kobe, Japan on Sept 12, 1980. He was the elder half of a set of fraternal twins who had never known their father. A friendly [but very shy and perhaps slightly 'odd'] child, Kisho displayed brief flashes of paranormal ability, even from a young age: shadows danced at his whim or explosive bouts of temper. As he grew slightly older, small items began to 'disappear', only to show up in often the oddest of places, sometime later. His sister also showed an affinity for 'odd' behaviour, though her abilities ran more towards healing and soothing pacifism. |
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| The peace of their neighbourhood was regularly shattered, as the Fujimiya twins grew into adolescence, several blocks [including and surrounding their own] contested territory in a Syndicate turf war. In March of 1997, their lives were altered forever. Refusing to give up their home and the family store located beneath, Kisho and Ayoki's grandparents had unintentionally marked them all for 'expedient removal'. On their way home from school, Kisho felt something terribly 'off', wrong. Racing ahead of his sister, he yanked open the door to the shop, just moments before a bomb set near the stove in back detonated. His own Hedge magic saved his life, and the life of Ayoki. But there was nothing to be done for their mother and grandparents. Kisho was thrown across the street and through the window of a shop found there. Ayoki was pelted with a shutter. Both teens spent several months thereafter, recovering from their wounds in a hospital in Kyoto. | But the image of his family writhing in flaming agony had been imprinted forever onto his mind's eye. Sullen and withdrawn, Kisho regained consciousness two months later, and eventually his health. Ayoki, however, remained in a coma. Swearing vengeance upon the part[ies] responsible, the young Asian listened when a foreign woman came to him, offering a means to that end. She called herself 'Mau', and she spoke to him of an organization who dealt with the sorts of things he'd experienced, and so very much more. 'Descrimen' was a 'policing agency', of a sort, though no government would openly acknowledge their existance, nor admit to giving them sanction or help. Descrimen took in people like him: displaced, angry, hurt, severely wronged. It gave them training and a purpose: to put an end to those who would feed off the suffering and pain of humanity, those who were too far beyond the reach of the law and standardized Justice. Even if that meant stealing, bribery, lying and utimately... killing. | |
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Kisho excelled at his training, driven and hardened by his terrible experience and difficult life. But, one team after another seemed like a bad fit for the young vigilante. He was too hot*headed, too violent, too cold. And his teammates seemed to drop like flies, around him. Finally 'Chartreaux', his shadowey benefactor and one of those higher up in Descrimen, tossed up his hands in frustration and did the only thing he could do, was willing to do. He built a team up around the boy, once called 'Knight', now to be known as 'Abyssinian'.
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