Profiles

Kotaro: Age: Who knows... probably ancient. Looks to be in his early twenties. Race: Incubus Height: 6' Weight: 150 lbs Eyes: Burgundy Hair: Blue-black. Instrument: Could quite likely play anything he damned well pleases, but sticks to being lead vocalist of the band.

Personality/Background: Kotaro is basically a nice guy, which is highly irregular since he is Incubus, a sort of erotically inclined demon. His inability to handle many of his emotions, mostly because he doesn't know what they are, can be a severe problem for him. He is the one that created the band, by collecting, as he sees it, "People with music in their blood". He is not interested in people who can merely play. He picked the band members for the fact that they had rhythm in their soul, literally. He is, if anyone is, a leader for the small group. He's also the only unifying factor as things start off. He wants the band members to get along, and he wants the success. He is driven by his vision of being able to enthral an audience and make them sway to his will and voice. Some might speculate that he is merely using the band as a stepping stone but nothing could be farther from the truth, and this is where his demonic nature truly conflicts with his personality. He actually cares for the others and wants the best for them. Being a demon, Kotaro is spawned in the underworld. When, he can't remember. All he remembers from there are the endless routines over and over again. His existence has been awfully boring but normally, a demon would not care, as it would not feel, and therefore would not know boredom. But Kotaro evolved above what he was and learned what emotions are. However, he is so new to most of them that he doesn't recognize them. Boredom - he knows what that is. Anger he knows. But he doesn't know what love is, for instance. He has never felt it before and largely believes himself unable to relate to anything from his past, which is his preferred method of handling new experiences: Compare it to something vaguely similar from his past and handle it based on the experiences he made then. However, unlike most demons, he has a lot of imagination and a well developed ability to adapt to any given situation. This comes mostly from his introspection. Some of his masters in the underworld would say he was created flawed, and that he should be destroyed. Others are fascinated and sees Kotaro as perhaps the next generation of demons in the making.

Ookami: Age: 19 Race: Human Height: 5'7" Weight: 110 lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Blue Instrument: Second guitar, chorus on some songs.

Personality/Background: Ookami has a history of being lonely. All the way through her life, she's suffered tremendously from an inferiority complex and shyness. She has, however, always shown an amazing understanding for music. Like Bach invented the "systematic music", Ookami has taken it a step further. One she has heard a few notes of any song, she is able to guess the next note every time. Some doctors have speculated that it is some sort of mental disorder along the lines of autism, but Ookami is an otherwise bright, smiling and perfectly normal young woman. She simply shows an unearthly, in- depth, disturbing understanding for music. She's always been the best friend one could wish for but for some reason, she has shied away every time anyone got near her. Those precious few she's ever really got to know can all testify to her being kind, open-minded, and truly altruistic. She always tends to think of others before herself. On the extremely rare occasions when she gets angry, however, a very strong will shows and she will put her foot down to make people listen to her. She is never unreasonable. And people usually end up having to concede to her point. She's an excellent guitarist, but still has a few things to learn about technique. She practices a lot. The last person Kotaro recruited for Honou To Hyoushou, she is nevertheless perhaps his wisest choice. No matter whom is feeling discouraged, no matter what the reason, she will always be there for the others. For the first time in her life, she feels she has met people where she doesn't have a reason to be shy and she is not about to let anything ruin that.

Byakko: Age: Byakko doesn't even remember his own parents. In all likelihood, he is truly ancient. Appears to be 20. Race: Immortal/human Height: 5'8" Weight: 120 lbs Eyes: Red Hair: White Instrument: Bass. On very rare occasions, he sings.

Personality/Background: Byakko has no clue how old he truly is. He can't remember. He does, however, remember living for thousands of years and he's never really seemed to be much younger than he is now. Albino, or at least very near albino, he has always faced scorn for being "different". It has not made him bitter, however, rather it has made him an amazingly humane person, who understands that those who are, in some way, emotionally, physically or socially different than others aren't bad people by default. He has an amazingly well developed sense of empathy, and while this is in no way supernatural, it is at the peak of what is humanly possible. Byakko is not a true immortal per se. He knows he does age, but it goes so incredibly slowly that in all likelihood, he will still be around to see the end of the world. At that time, he'd probably look around thirty or thirty- five. Byakko is aware that he can indeed be killed by physical violence but it will take a lot more than a normal person and he will heal at an amazing rate. He knows that he has at least one time had his head cut off and replaced within moments on his neck... and had healed. He is, as most very old people, a slightly mellow type. He has seen everything there is to see ten times over and yet, he retains an almost childlike, if quiet, sense of wonder about the world. He is coupled with the drummer of the band, Sennedjem, and this relationship is helping him tremendously in his everyday life. Kotaro wanted Byakko to join the band because of his amazing skill on the bass - an instrument that Byakko has found fits his sombre nature quite well, as well as allowing him the occasional "wild ride". He's happy within the band, as it is a new and totally original experience for him… something he finds so rarely these days that he will do nearly anything for it to last.

Sennedjem: Age: Quite old. Most likely around a millennia. Race: Magically enhanced human. Height: 6'3" Weight: 160 lbs. Hair: Midnight black Eyes: Silver Instrument: Drums, backing vocals.

Personality/Background: Sennedjem is the eternal joker. The one person whom apparently can't take anything seriously for more than ten seconds. And while to an extent, this is true, it is also very wrong. Sennedjem is old. Nowhere near as old as some of the others in the band, but still old. He is the product of a liaison between a tribal warrior from the innermost Africa and an Egyptian noblewoman. How that unlikely match-up happened, Sennedjem isn't all too sure about. But it did, and he was the result. He learned the ways of his father's tribe and became a shaman at a young age. His potential for magic was already then impressive and he has since developed further to a truly awe-inspiring mage. He does, however, know the first rule of a true mage : "The best magic is the kind you never use." He has prolonged his life with his skills and can in theory do so night infinitely. While Sennedjem still ages, the process is now extremely slow. He has a spiritual affinity for the cheetah and can change his physical form into one, making him a fierce combatant which he has relied heavily on during his life on the Serengeti plains. Always the prankster, he often needed to outrun a pride of peeved lions or defend himself against tribes who didn't find it amusing to have him rearrange the cattle pens during the night. He always got away with it. And while his entire demeanour says that he'd do so again at a moments notice, this is not entirely true. He knows he is fortunate to have survived, and now that he has found the love of his life with Byakko, the band bassist, he is content to play harmless jokes on people. He has a wickedly sharp tongue when the mood strikes him and he gladly uses it to get his point across. Sennedjem is also without comparison the most wealthy of the band members. Having witnessed the fall of several central African civilizations, he had the good common sense to loot as much gold as he could from these dead cities and these days, this serves him well as he is able to sell these artefacts for high prices at auction houses. It's made sure he doesn't need for anything. Except thrills and those... he can provide for himself.

Kanashii Yoru: Age: When the first person thought about cold as an anthropomorphic personification, Kanashii was born. He is nearly as old as the human race. Race: Winter Elf. Height: 5'10" Weight: 120 lbs. Hair: Blue-black Eyes: Dark brown. Instrument: First guitar, second vocalist.

Personality/Background: Kanashii Yoru is to most people what Malibu Beach must've been to an Eskimo a few hundred years ago. Totally incomprehensible. His life has always been full of pain. Not just the one he brings others, but what he suffers himself as well. Cold, distant, with a hair- trigger temper and the ability to literally freeze anyone he wishes with but a touch, he does not come across as a nice person by any length. When he enters a room, the temperature starts to drop. When he gets angry, frost is on his breath. When people get too near him, they start feeling ill and most shy away, simply because he has long since given up hope of warmth in his life and he lets them feel his cold. His entire being, however, is a mystery even to the most learned of scholars. All that can be said for sure about him is that he is highly dangerous and about as unpredictable as a winter night in the arctic. He dislikes intense heat and therefore often has to concentrate on staying cold while on stage under the intense heat from the lighting, but he manages. Kotaro brought Kanashii to this world for reasons unknown. Some might say that Kotaro, being a creature of fire and heat himself, was fascinated at the contrast. Kanashii, on the other hand, was less than pleased initially. However... for some reason that remains to be seen, he curbed his anger and joined the band where he isn't winning any popularity prizes. Ultra androgynous and not really caring what anyone might think about him, he dresses as he feels like. Which tends to be very classy... and very effeminately. His body language is somewhat similar to his manner of dress. Some say... after all... that winter is a strange old lady. And others talk of it as a man. Maybe therein lies the explanation...

Nathan Silver: Age: Except for Ookami, he's the youngest of the bands members at 45 years of age - ironic, given his race. Race: Human Vampire Height: 5'11'' Weight: 160 lbs. Eyes: Eerie green Hair: Light brown Instrument: He doesn't play, he's a manager. Some would say he plays a mean cigarette, though.

Personality/Background: The creation of Vachel Dauphin, an almost two hundred year old vampire, Nathan Silver has a history largely embedded in mystery. His life before his death and rebirth as a vampire is not something he ever talks about. He keeps his vampiric nature a strict secret, and the band members are unaware of him being so. In truth, his life was intensely unpleasant, with his mother dying when he was very young and his father only a few years later from drinking. His grandfather took over and raised him very strictly and Nathan did not really know what joy of life was before he was made a vampire in his early twenties. Then he truly began to blossom. He has an acutely developed artistic sense, not just for music, but that is the venue where he found he could make the most of his abilities and he works for a major record company nowadays. Nathan is not an evil man at any length, but he is ruthlessly ambitious and sees the band as an opportunity for him to gain some standing as a manager. He likes the band, not just their music and would not take any action that might be detrimental to them, as they are his bid for fame. It is not his intention to get them to fame, and then leave them to it. He intends to stick by them for as long as they are around.