Hayabusa Hori

Hayabusa Hori

Despite being far from home and the family he helped raise, Hori is determined to join his father in the ranks of the greatest pirates of the New World.

Dream

To follow in his father's footsteps and become a great pirate in the New World

Appearance

Hori is 6 ft tall, in his mid-20s, with a thin muscular build. He often wears a red buttoned vest, wrinkled khaki pants with sandals, and carries a leather satchel on his right. Hori is recognized by his heavy metal gauntlets, which he wears casually and rarely removes to rewrap his hands.

Personality

A rascally smartass with a strong sense of purpose and the desire to help others. Quick to get into trouble, especially by running his mouth or mischief. Steers towards the moral high ground with civilians, but considers the Marines and fellow pirates to be fair game.

Back Story

Hori grew up as an orphan in the coastal farming town of Kanji with other orphaned children. His mother died giving birth and his father left when he was a young child to pursue life as a pirate. Years passed; as the oldest child in the orphanage, Hori became known as "big bro", helping take care of the other children. As he got older, he grew skilled at stealing food and odd items of interest from the Marines and other pirates to help give the children hope of a better life through good meals and play things. This led to plenty of run ins with the law. Not as clever or stealthy as he thought he was, he often relied on escape using his speed to outpace his foes. Since that had failed on more than one occasion (with there sometimes being several enemies and all), he began to wear a pair of heavy metal gauntlets to give his punches some umph in the subsequent fight. While clumsy at first, over time he developed a unique fighting style around the gauntlets, which he attached ropes to, to add versatility as ranged weapons and tools: grappling hooks, swinging weapons, etc. His curiosity about his father also grew, as did his dreams of becoming a pirate, leading to more questions and few answers. Turning twenty-five, Hori finally felt ready to say goodbye to the children and Kanji to pursue his destiny on an adventure towards the New World.

History

Dancing Lawn Arc

Hori started out his adventure at The Paradise Pub with a fresh bottle of rum in each hand. After chatting with a few of the bars patrons, the pile of luggage belonging to the Crimson Pirates caught his eye. After unsuccessfully attempting to swipe a piece of luggage through a series of distractions , he's confronted by Gabriel , the gang leader of the Crimson Pirates in the pub.  Gabriel sees something in Hori that leads to him to not only spare Hori's life, but give Hori a signed piece of paper with Gabriel's name on it to take to Old Man Marcel at the town Armory.  It's here that Hori is told by Gabriel, "Sometimes, the best way to get something is to simply ask," and that, "...we all have the right to do a little bit of good in this world despite what it is that others see us as."  Hori genuinely takes this to heart and, after the Crimson Pirates leave, makes his way to Marcel with the signed paper in hand.  Marcel inspects the paper and presents Hori with the incredible Widowmaker Gauntlets.  Hori is eternally grateful to Gabriel and Marcel and leaves the shop whistling down the road and ready to take on the world in his new adventure across Havana.

The next day, Hori wakes up in a bush and heads to the training ground where he finds a fighting fisherman.  Perhaps a bit too ambitious to use his new gauntlets, Hori inadvertently socks himself in the face, not once, but twice, giving him two black eyes and knocking himself out.  Hori wakes up just in time to signup for Dancing Lawn's Harmony Tournament with some difficulty.  Later, he faces off with his opponent, Jayden Stingray, but has a difficult time hitting his opponent with two black eyes.  Unfortunately, Hori does manage to hit himself with his unperfected thrown "Lead Hammer!" technique.  The match concludes with an attack of Stingray's launching one of Hori's gauntlets out of the ring with enough force to pull Hori off the mat and into the spectator seating , knocking him out for the second time that day.  Suffering from a possible concussion, Hori thanks Stingray for the match and stumbles his way toward the Harmony Hospital into a sticky situation .  After all this bad luck, Hori tries to return to Old Man Marcel to ask about the cursed Widowmaker Gauntlets, but the Armory is already closed for the evening.  It's been a long day and so Hori desides enough is enough and that it's probably best to sleep it all off.

Fighting Style

Without formal training, Hori has begun to develop his own odd fighting style he calls "Iron Fist" based on his oversized, metal gauntlets attached to ropes from his satchel. It uses a combination of ranged attacks, dodges, and fist fighting.

Skills, Techniques, Items, and Equipment

Unarmed	Bladed	Bludgeoning	Ranged	Thrown	Pole	DF	Custom
3	1	1	1	1	1	1	N/A

Affliation	Prior Affliations	Position	Ship	Bounty	Epithet
Morpheus Pirates	His Unknown Father	Shipwright	None	None	None

Technique	Special	Cool Down	Description
Iron Strike!	+3 Dmg	3 turns	Hori throws his weight into his right or left gauntlet for a jaw breaking punch.

Location	Armor	Toughness	Special
Head
Shoulders	None	0
Chest	Red Vest	1
Gloves	The Widowmakers	1
Pants	Khaki Trousers	1
Boots	Sandals	1
	Total	4

Weapons	ATK	Special
The Widowmakers	25	If attack roll is 19, the gauntlets flare up and emit an explosive blast that does 5 bonus damage to the opponent.

Combat Stat	Value
Hitpoints	100
TA	34
TD	4
DR	0
Damage	17
Hit Roll	1d20 + 3

Inventory	Quantity
Gold	xxx, even I don't know