Valis T'Sarran

Name: Valis T'Sarran AKA Eikougin Ikari
Age: 202
Race: Demihuman (Elven / Kitsune halfbreed)
Birthplace: D'hennex
Status: Active
Faction: Power Wielder Hero, Tier 3 (10,000-100,000)
IRL Years of Existence: 1.5

Appearance

Valis is six feet tall, six-eight if you meaure to the tips of his ears, thin and lithe of build, with long silver hair and gold-speckled silver eyes. His facial features are fey and elven, almost femininely pretty, but rather than an elf's pointed ears, he has silver fox's ears. In addition, he has four silver fox-tails.

Powers

Valis uses dual powers in combat. He is an aspiring blademaster of the Ikari tradition, like his father before him, and has achieved near-perfect mastery of the katana including the ability to create devastating blade-like ki blasts with his weapon. From his mother, he learned elven Chaos magic, and he has blended the two, using magic to bolster his melee abilities or hinder his opponents. Most recently, he has also manifested some sort of power-increasing transformation in which he embraces his kitsune nature and becomes fully fox-like in form.

Biography

From the moment of his birth, Valis T'Sarran was a man doomed to duality. Even in his naming, there was conflict. His mother bestowed upon him a name traditional among her own elven people, while his father's clan decreed a name in their own language and custom. In the elven tongue, his name is Valis, a name passed down from an honored ancestor of the T'Sarran clan who fell in battle against humans many generations ago. In the eyes of the kitsune, however, he is Eikougin of the Ikari Clan. To this day, the duality continues, and depending on the time of day when you ask him, and how far out of his favor his father is at the moment, Valis would say that he hails from either a village on the fringes of the elven lands of the continent of D'hennex, or from the Ikari clan-lands of the kitsune domain.

Even his very being is a strange duality - a halfbreed of two very xenophobic races. Valis' mother, Talisantia T'Sarran, is one of the Elves of D'hennex, and his father, Kenshiro Ikari, is a kitsune - a fox-being of ancient legend. Both the elven village and the Ikari clan have been very suspicious of Valis's 'impure' nature. He spent the first half-century of life in the elven village. When Valis was still but a boy, his father returned to the Ikari clan-lands, leaving Valis and his twin sister Alystin (Megumi, to the kitsune) behind with their mother. There the two youngsters were raised in the elven ways, and schooled in their mother's practice of Chaos magic, until the age of fifty, when their father made an abrupt appearance as well as a mysterious deal with their mother which remains as yet undisclosed. The two children were whisked off to the clan-lands to be trained in becoming true kitsune of the clan.

For another five decades, Valis lived at the Ikari blademaster's dojo, under his kitsune name of Eikougin, and endured the life of the blademaster's son. His lessons were harsher, his treatment stricter, and for one who had been raised a Chaos mage, it was all but unbearable. It was only the love of a fellow student of the dojo, a female half-elven child named Tadashi Kazuya, that made the time Valis spent under his father's tutelage anything less than a thoroughly unpleasant memory. For political reasons held tightly secret within the clan, however, Valis was forbidden the company of his youthful love. With even that removed from his grasp, at the age of one hundred, Valis did the unthinkable: he challenged the blademaster for supremacy, declaring his intent to avenge his mother's honor in his father's blood. A lucky blow struck home, giving Valis first blood, as well as his freedom.

At that time, Valis left the Ikari, his father, and his forbidden mate behind, vowing never to return to the clan-lands again, and returned to the elven village of his birth. Here he honed his previous grasp of the arcane, and began his practice toward fusing the art of Chaos magic with his swordsmanship. Here he remained for most of a century, though even here he was eventually discontented. Denied the position of elven guardian because he was not of pure blood, he found himself no better a fit to the elven people than he was to the kitsune.

The Ikari clan council, monitoring the youngster from the shadows, saw this as the perfect time to recruit him back by offering him the illusion of freedom. Valis was granted the position of clan inquisitor, one sent to far lands and unknown peoples to research them and report back on their usefulness or any threat they might present to the clan. There was a threat to be assessed, in the distant land of Cardinal: a race called the Saiyans. In the few places the Ikari had encountered them, the Saiyans had been rumored to be little more than monsters, incapable of any emotion save lust for destruction and battle. The Ikari sent Valis, the young misfit, forth to the land of Cardinal to study these Saiyans in relative safety distant from both the Ikari lands and the Saiyan homeworld.

Unknown to Valis, he followed in the footsteps of his father before him. Almost immediately upon arriving in Cardinal, he met, befriended, and eventually moved in with a female of the Saiyan race, albeit one who had been raised in a human orphanage: Makomo Sinata, four-time world yo-yo champion and magazine model. Though his encounters with other Saiyans and half-Saiyans have mostly been considerably less pleasant, in Makomo Valis finally found a centering and settling influence that had been missing from his life. He divided his time between his continuing magical studies and training in swordsmanship, and posing as Makomo's bodyguard to escort her through the travails of public life. He thought less and less of his assigned mission, and thought more and more of the hectic, busy world of misfits that Cardinal seemed to be as the perfect home for one like himself who was at home with neither of his parents' people.

In the meantime, Valis met and befriended Anna Maybelle, a young demihuman and adopted daughter of the great psion James Kaider. As months passed, he came to love the girl as he did the sister he had left behind in the clan-lands, and to respect and fear her astounding physical prowess with the sword. For many months, the possibility of someday besting Maybelle was a great driving force behind Valis's will to train. He saw no shame in being handily defeated by a child; it was simply a lesson in Chaos. One could never know what to expect of someone from appearances... and the child's cheerful smile certainly belied the vicious swordswoman within. During the events of Etiquette of Reform, just before he went to ARCHIE III to participate in the final showdown against the Shen'Ihr Chorus, it was to Maybelle's care that Valis entrusted the most precious of treasures: his hoshi no tama, the star-ball that holds a piece of the very soul of a kitsune, and which can be used to harm or command the one to whom it is linked. In her hands it remains even to this day, due to the simple fact that Valis places his absolute trust in her innocence.

The Ikari council were livid with Valis's following of his father's footsteps, but Valis would not be herded back into the fold as easily as his father had been. Instead, the clan sent an assassin trained specifically in martial arts meant to counter the Ikari style of swordsmanship. That assassin proved to be Valis's first love, Tadashi, who accepted the assignment not knowing that Valis T'Sarran was the man she had known by the name of Eikougin Ikari. When Valis learned of his young mate's treatment at the hands of the clan, it was his turn to be infuriated, but he did not act until the clan committed an unforgivable sin. On the day when he was to wed both Makomo and Tadashi, the clan sent another assassin, who almost succeeded in killing the one who had failed in destroying Valis.

Taking his leave of his brides, his family, and (he assumed) his status as a competitor in the still-ongoing 2006 Tenkaichi Budoukai, Valis returned to the clan-lands a man possessed. He destroyed the clan's defenses, slaughtered hundreds of warriors, burst into the stronghold, and faced down the Ikari council single-handedly to demand his freedom and the safety of his loved ones. He was granted his wishes, at least for the mortal lifespans of his mother and Makomo, but in return, the council extracted from him a promise to return and continue his assigned place as a blademaster of the Ikari upon their eventual deaths. Thanks to his father's subsequent suggestions to the council (or meddling, depending on your point of view), Valis was also granted two additional tails for his bravado and show of power. Much to his surprise, upon returning to Cardinal from the kitsune lands, he also discovered that he had still placed second in the lightweight division of the Budoukai.

Somewhere along the way, Valis discovered that the truth of his path lay not in the wildness of Chaos, nor in the rigidity of Order, but along the grey border between. He refers to himself as the Voice of Dissent, as if it is some sort of title he has earned, and takes it upon himself to bring Chaos where order is too harsh, and justice where chaos is too disruptive.