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Name: Kurosaki Hisoka
Canon: Yami no Matsuei
Race: Shinigami (formerly human/snake-youkai hybrid)
Age: 17-ish (appears 16)
Birthdate: Sept. 28, 1981
Physical Description: Around 5', and -very- small - being stuck looking like he did when he died means he retains the build of someone who spent the last three years sick. He has dirty-blonde hair and vivid green eyes that really aren't that natural for someone with a long, traditional Japanese family background. He habitually wears turtlenecks, long sleeve shirts, and jackets no matter what the weather.
Running across most of his torso and arms all the way down to the wrist is an intricate red pattern, not always visible; it could be almost mistaken for a tattoo.
Background: Hisoka's family was founded out of a conflict with a snake youkai lord; the family founder unwittingly married the snake-lord's daughter during the conflict, and ended up killing her. The snake clan laid a curse on the family, that one day the shared blood would be the destruction of the Kurosaki family. Not only that, there were many further incidents of the family unwittingly marrying through the snake clan.
When Hisoka was born, somewhere between his tendency to notice things he would have no way of knowing via his empathy and a couple incidents of him handling vipers without knowing any better, his family turned to panic and paranoia that he was the manifestation of the curse - but also their sole heir, which precluded killing him outright.
He was kept largely shut indoors, in a small room in the basement; taught by a tutor within the family, let out to be trained in the traditions and trappings, otherwise kept secluded and locked in that one small room.
He started sneaking out on the grounds at night when he could find an opening to get away; it was on one of those nights when he inadvertently stumbled across a murder. Muraki spotted him, and instead of just killing him, raped him, fed off him, and Marked him with a curse, then blocked his memory and left him there.
Hisoka withered slowly over the next three years, while the curse ate him alive from the inside out. When he finally died of it, the mixture of the curse and the confusion and despair he'd died in bound his soul to the mortal plane; he was, briefly, the beginnings of a potentially very dangerous angry ghost.
He was found by one shinigami or another before he began killing people, but still tied to his old life; when he was brought before the Judges of the Hall of Candles, he was recruited to work as a shinigami himself.
He was assigned to work with Asato Tsuzuki, something of a continual problem case for the Ministry; on their first case together, they encountered Muraki again; Hisoka's memory of how he died was restored.
Since then, he's been with the Ministry of the Underworld for a little over a year now, with several run-ins with Muraki among a spread of various other cases. He's basically devoted himself to keeping Tsuzuki in one piece as much as he can, and takes his work seriously, although he has a personal grudge to get revenge on Muraki.
Personality: Hisoka comes across as very antisocial and standoffish. he's incredibly mature for his age, although not all of it is in ways that are particularly healthy. While he bonds very strongly to a few people, he is also pragmatic and cynical; his approach to problems tends to be very objective and analytical, and while he has good tactical sense, he also has no fear of putting himself in the path of injury, pain, and suffering if it will accomplish something. He's spent most of the last year in a state of functional depression, ironically not entirely his own.
A great deal of Hisoka's behavior is influenced by his empathy. He doesn't even really pay much attention to facial expressions or voice inflection, instead going by his empathic impressions. He rarely makes eye contact and avoids physical contact, as both cause even stronger input from a person. Large crowds make him anywhere from uncomfortable to downright sick.
His death affected him profoundly - and he's had more than a little rub off on his personality from Muraki.
Canon: Yami no Matsuei
Race: Shinigami (formerly human/snake-youkai hybrid)
Age: 17-ish (appears 16)
Birthdate: Sept. 28, 1981
Physical Description: Around 5', and -very- small - being stuck looking like he did when he died means he retains the build of someone who spent the last three years sick. He has dirty-blonde hair and vivid green eyes that really aren't that natural for someone with a long, traditional Japanese family background. He habitually wears turtlenecks, long sleeve shirts, and jackets no matter what the weather.
Running across most of his torso and arms all the way down to the wrist is an intricate red pattern, not always visible; it could be almost mistaken for a tattoo.
Background: Hisoka's family was founded out of a conflict with a snake youkai lord; the family founder unwittingly married the snake-lord's daughter during the conflict, and ended up killing her. The snake clan laid a curse on the family, that one day the shared blood would be the destruction of the Kurosaki family. Not only that, there were many further incidents of the family unwittingly marrying through the snake clan.
When Hisoka was born, somewhere between his tendency to notice things he would have no way of knowing via his empathy and a couple incidents of him handling vipers without knowing any better, his family turned to panic and paranoia that he was the manifestation of the curse - but also their sole heir, which precluded killing him outright.
He was kept largely shut indoors, in a small room in the basement; taught by a tutor within the family, let out to be trained in the traditions and trappings, otherwise kept secluded and locked in that one small room.
He started sneaking out on the grounds at night when he could find an opening to get away; it was on one of those nights when he inadvertently stumbled across a murder. Muraki spotted him, and instead of just killing him, raped him, fed off him, and Marked him with a curse, then blocked his memory and left him there.
Hisoka withered slowly over the next three years, while the curse ate him alive from the inside out. When he finally died of it, the mixture of the curse and the confusion and despair he'd died in bound his soul to the mortal plane; he was, briefly, the beginnings of a potentially very dangerous angry ghost.
He was found by one shinigami or another before he began killing people, but still tied to his old life; when he was brought before the Judges of the Hall of Candles, he was recruited to work as a shinigami himself.
He was assigned to work with Asato Tsuzuki, something of a continual problem case for the Ministry; on their first case together, they encountered Muraki again; Hisoka's memory of how he died was restored.
Since then, he's been with the Ministry of the Underworld for a little over a year now, with several run-ins with Muraki among a spread of various other cases. He's basically devoted himself to keeping Tsuzuki in one piece as much as he can, and takes his work seriously, although he has a personal grudge to get revenge on Muraki.
Personality: Hisoka comes across as very antisocial and standoffish. he's incredibly mature for his age, although not all of it is in ways that are particularly healthy. While he bonds very strongly to a few people, he is also pragmatic and cynical; his approach to problems tends to be very objective and analytical, and while he has good tactical sense, he also has no fear of putting himself in the path of injury, pain, and suffering if it will accomplish something. He's spent most of the last year in a state of functional depression, ironically not entirely his own.
A great deal of Hisoka's behavior is influenced by his empathy. He doesn't even really pay much attention to facial expressions or voice inflection, instead going by his empathic impressions. He rarely makes eye contact and avoids physical contact, as both cause even stronger input from a person. Large crowds make him anywhere from uncomfortable to downright sick.
His death affected him profoundly - and he's had more than a little rub off on his personality from Muraki.
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