Aragami

Aragami is one of the Agents in FLAME vs BLAZE.

Blade of the Undying
Part 1
 * The woods were always quiet at night this high up in the mountains. That night was different. The man stirred from where he lay. Footsteps. He reached for his katana, but didn't draw the blade. A pause. One breath. Two. The footsteps came closer. The man stood up and ran.


 * His would-be assassin was a woman. He could tell by the lightness of the footfalls and the faint scent of perfume. She was still tailing him. Who had sent her? It didn't really matter. Too many people wanted him dead. He had intended to end his life here, in these mountains, but this little intrusion changed his mind.


 * The assassin was falling behind. He could hear her faltering footsteps. The man snorted. For three hundred years he'd trained in the way of killing. This amateur was no match for him.


 * But she was not giving up. He could commend her stubbornness, at the very least. He stopped and turned around, drawing his blade in one smooth motion. After a few moments, his would-be assassin appeared out of the underbrush. He could feel the fear emanating from the woman.


 * Blood. It aroused a vigor within him. Thoughts of his own death faded away. There was an adversary in front of him. A target. Her blood screamed at him to be let free. Blood must flow.He slowly raised his blade to strike. The amulet hanging from the chain around his target's neck glinted in the moonlight. He froze.


 * The man sheathed his blade. The gemstone in that amulet -- there was no mistaking it. It was the amulet of his kin. There was only one of those in the world. How did this woman come to possess a second one?"

Part 2
 * "His parents took their own lives soon after he was born. The only things they left him were an amulet and an unusual name: Aragami."


 * This all happened three hundred years ago. Orphans were not rare back then, and Aragami could've just been one of them -- the victim of one of the many wars ravaging the world in those times.


 * But Aragami never accepted that explanation from his foster parents. Why would his real parents take their own lives and leave a newborn to the whims of fate? Was it an act of kindness, or cowardice? In his mind, Aragami knew there was another purpose to his existence, another reason for his parents to choose death over a life with him.


 * He left his foster family to try and find the answer to these questions -- at least, that was his excuse.


 * What he truly craved was a purpose. He discovered he had a natural affinity to blades, and taught himself to fight. He sought meaning in battle, and in war. He believed for a time that there were only two kind of people in the world: the victors, and the dead.


 * But wars, again, were a convenient excuse. They gave context and meaning to the killing. He could tell himself that the enemy deserved their fate. He could tell himself that he wasn't enjoying the bloodshed and death.

Part 3
 * Twenty years after he left his foster home, Aragami came to suspect he wasn't like everyone else. After thirty years, he was convinced: he was immortal. He hadn't aged a day. In order to hide this little peculiarity of his physiology from others, he kept on the move, never staying in one place for long.


 * Naturally, knowning that he had all the time in the world changed Aragami. He wanted to learn about things, about the world, and most of all, about himself -- where he came from, and what he truly was.


 * Eventually, he would come across an old tome in an old, dusty bookstore. The tome was a collection of obscure, unique, and extinct peoples. The book taught him that he was Muroi -- a cursed "people" composed of a single individual. The Muroi were described as being immortal, yet forever unable to satiate their thirst for blood.


 * The tome also mentioned the only way to rid the Muroi of their blood curse: to bring a child to this world, and to entrust it with their people's gemstone amulet. After so many years of searching, Aragami finally undrstood why he was born, and why he was alone.


 * Some people considered immortality a curse. Aragami didn't subscribe to that notion. He believed it was a gift, an opportunity to test the boundaries of what a sole individiual could achieve, both in understanding the universe, and to perfect the ways of the blade. And hence, three hundred years passed.

Part 4
 * Argami was tired. He was also afraid. He'd lived hudnreds of years and he was starting to feel the limits of his abilities. He kept going back to a passage he read many years ago: "when an organism has fully matured and can no longer grow, then all that is left for it to do is to wither and die."


 * Aragami felt that he had reached that final stage, that all that was left for him was to wither away and disappear. He ventured deep into the woods, and waited for death... until that fateful night.


 * He once again looked at the young woman standing in front of him. He saw that she, too, had noticed the amulet hanging from his neck. She began to speak. She told him she came from the future -- a grim future where he, Aragami, had turned into a shadowy demon, and was driving humanity to extinction...


 * He listened intently to her story. According to her, something called the Emptiness was the cause of him turning evil. She had come back in time to this era to stop it from happening. Argami decided to join forces with this young woman and to find a way to change the future. He secretly thanked her for giving him a purpose -- a reason to live, at least for a while longer.

Noble Warrior
Main Mode

Noble Warrior
Alternative Mode

Gale
Aragami creates a wave of force in front of him, damaging nearby enemies and decreasing their defenses.

Harmony
Aragami increases his defenses and splits all damage he receives between himself and up to one monster following him.

Tempest
Aragami continuously slashes with lightning speed, dealing damage to all enemies he hits.

Gale
Aragami creates a wave of force in front of him, damaging nearby enemies and decreasing their defenses.

Reflection
Aragami deals damage to one enemy that pierces their defenses and stops their actions.

Rising Sun
Aragami becomes impervious to death and his combat capabilities increase for a short time, but he pays a heavy price when the skill expires.