Takeshi and Kiikaru

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Deus Name: Takeshi Sasaki
Gender: Male
Age: 9
Height: 4’5”
Appearance: REFERENCE
Takeshi looks like a smaller version of his brother, though his hair is kept in a shorter, sportier cut and due to his outdoorsy activities he keeps his slight tan year-round. When not at school he prefers clothes suited for roaming around vacant lots or abandoned buildings, and is usually a little scuffed-up. He almost always has his beat-up blue knapsack with him and at least one band-aid visible.

Bio: Takeshi is the younger brother of Tsutomu. Short and stocky for his age, he’s belligerent with his peers and quietly disrespectful around his elders, though he does know when to keep his mouth shut and his disrespect to a minimum. It’s not that he’s badly behaved, per se, he just has a lot to prove to the world and a burning desire to prove it. He’s also adventurous, as most boys his age are, and can sooner be found climbing trees or getting horribly dirty elsewhere outdoors than sitting quietly anywhere, much less studying. Interestingly enough, he does take good photographs, and one of his hobbies is taking pictures – usually of himself or his Angel – wherever he goes. He almost always has a camera of some sort, usually an old-fashioned Polaroid, tucked away on his person somewhere.

His attitude, according to his mother, who despairs of ever being able to tame him the way she did his brother, apparently runs in the family – there’s a rumor that Sasaki Senior was a biker in his youth. That, and Takeshi’s admiration of such tales and the lifestyle, would certainly explain his Angel. The two of them get each other into more trouble than either could on his own, and neither really tries to rein the other in.

Takeshi’s big dream right now is to get good enough on the Layers to join one of the tour Tournaments and travel all over Japan…and eventually maybe the rest of the world.

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Angel Name: Kiikaru
Gender: Male
Appearance: REFERENCE
Kiikaru looks a bit overall like the stereotype of a Bosozoku
gang member, though his outfit is accented with functional bits of shiny red samurai armor. Open over his chest is a long white overcoat, the sleeves of which are tucked into heavy leather gloves. Under this, leaving his chest manfully bare, is an armored stomach plate and baggy charcoal-black pants bloused over heavy black motorcycle boots. Around his neck is a black scarf, and his helmet has an attached wraparound black visor. The red horns on his head appear to be attached to his helmet, until he takes it off and they’re revealed to be as much a part of him as the red devil tail that serves as his Angel Cord. What’s visible of his skin is tanned, and he’s not actually as beefy as his armor would lead one to believe underneath all that.
Hair: Black. He has some real nice ducktail-and-pompadour action going on under that helmet, when he takes it off.
Eyes: Black.

Bio: Kiikaru is almost exactly like his Deus, with the exception that he never knows when to keep his mouth from writing checks his ass can’t cash. ‘D O N Gy little shit’ is the phrase that most readily comes to mind when dealing with him, though he manages to pull it off with a suitable amount of panache. He’s perfectly convinced of his own prowess and indestructibility, and his bravado leads him fists-first into every situation that might possibly be construed as a fight, and he is of course quick to take offense…or give it. He almost never uses proper honorifics, or even names, instead preferring to call people descriptive names based on their appearance or habits.

Kiikaru loves to travel and roam around just as much as Fairlane does, though his view of it is more along the lines of acquiring turf than of having an adventure. He has big plans to cover his coat with patches from every place he’s been to and eventually stencil the hemline with hashmarks for every win he’s had in the Layers (just as soon as he and Takeshi are allowed anywhere near the fabric paints again). His general philosophy – and Takeshi agrees with him – is that offense trumps everything else, and if you can’t end it in at most two hits, it isn’t worth the effort. Fairlane calls him Kiku-chan (and as a result so does almost everyone else), which annoys him no end. More ridiculous, but a serious point of pride with him, is his obsession with keeping his hairstyle neat.

Entry Line: Rock and roll! Kiikaru, ride the thunder!
Type: Power
Speed: 12
Power: 17
Defense: 10
HP: 15
Height: 5.5
Weight: 6