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[Ursus the Grim]

Name: Bryan Anderson
Race: Human
Age: 17 years
Sex: Male
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 140 lbs
Personality: Bryan usually shifts between three distinct moods. Usually, he comes across as reserved and mellow. When he's focused, he has a "zone" that he enters. At this point, he puts aside all emotion in order to achieve his task. It was with this attitude that he fought the demon Dragonis. Alternatively, he loses all control of his emotion and allows his rage to take over. In this berserk state, he stops at nothing to kill his foe.

Appearance: He's about 5'8" and lean. He has medium, dark brown hair that would cover his eyes if it had not been trimmed. His eyes are technically hazel, but are usually a mix of gray and green. He's always seen with his bokken (wooden training katana). He usually wears black jeans, boots, and a gray shirt. He gave his jacket to an angel, and still hasn't asked for it back.

Weapon: At first glance, it appears that Bryan carries only a bokken. However, it conceals a real katana, and the bokken's wooden "blade" serves as a sheath. He usually leaves the sheath on when he doesn't want to use lethal force in a fight. However, he once killed a man merely by bashing his skull in.

Abilities: What he lacks in supernatural abilites and sheer strength, Bryan makes up for in speed and endurance. This is especially true when he is fully focused. More than once, he has survived a blow that would prove fatal to a normal human. He is also very resistant to cold.

Bryan is also good with animals. While not technically a druid, he is certainly more than a snake charmer. Despite the time he has spent in nature, he has never been attacked by a wild animal. What's more, he finds that he is often able to calm them, especially when he employs the music of his clay ocarina.

In combat, he employs a mix of iaido and his own personal technique. His kiais are primarily drawn from his background in kendo. If forced into hand to hand combat, he fuses hapkido, tae kwon do, and a touch of his own flair. Therefore, it is fairly easy to tell he has a fair amount of martial arts training, although a good portion comes from his own innate talent.

History: Bryan was once a fairly normal member of society. Nearly two years ago, he decided he no longer wanted any part of humanity. He was sick of the way humans were destroying the environment, how hypocritical everyone was, and how all that mattered to guys his age was sex. He was looking for something more.

His family didn't like how reclusive and withdrawn he had become. In an attempt to force him to talk to people, they had him transferred to a boarding school. There, he fell in love. Not knowing how to deal with his feelings, he ran away on the very first day.

As much as Bryan wanted to remain in the wild forever, he was running low on food and water. He survived for a while on squirrel and deer meat. But after a while, he felt himself growing weaker. So he found another boarding school, and reluctanctly enrolled.

No sooner had Bryan entered his new school, than had he found trouble. As he explored the grounds, he stumbled across a wrecked room. Inside was the girl he had fallen in love with, but she was a bloody wreck. After recovering, she revealed that she was, in fact, an angel. She had nearly sacrificed herself for another tortured soul. What's more, she stil wanted to find him. Although they searched nearly the entire school, the young man was nowhere to be found. During a heartfelt conversation, Bryan finally revealed his feelings for the girl.
Once again, he wasn't able to cope, and fled into the woods.

It was a full month before Bryan reemerged. During that time, he survived on a raw fish, small game, and river water. As a form of meditation, he began to inscribe runes of ash on his flesh. Each set of runes was a record of important events in his life. Along his forearms, he recorded the day he beat his sensei in a duel. On his stomach, he wrote a dedication to his deceased, beloved dog. Across his chest. . . .

Finally, Bryan found another school to enroll in and felt he needed to go. As he stood before its great doors, he heard a girl crying. He knew exactly who it was. She had been hurt again. With the help of one of her friends, he comforted her, and they came to terms. What hurt Bryan the most was the fact that she had been looking for him. The guilt was overwhelming, but he managed not to run.

Just as it seemed everything would work out in the end, the man who hurt her returned. Bryan and the angel fled inside the school, while her friend bought them some time. Once inside, they finished their reconciliation. As they finally kissed, an explosion destroyed the wall. Bryan's foe had arrived.

An epic fight ensued. Although he gave it everything he had, Bryan suceeded only in holding the demon off so that his love could escape. But she refused to leave. Just as Bryan was about to die, she spirited him away. He felt exhiliaration in its purest form. He had never been happier. . . . Then he fell.

He fell and fell and fell. It was a fall no mortal should have survived. The sound of his body hitting the ground could be heard a mile away. Nonetheless, he was alive. For a week, he drifted between the excrutiating pain of conciousness, and the half-death of sleep. Finally, he managed to get to his feet and the pain eventually faded.

But something had changed. He was amnesiatic. He could remember only the fall, not the events leading up to it. He remembered someone screaming "Bryan", which he assumed to be his name. Somehow, he could still fight, as well as play his ocarina. But he could not recall how or why. Even the runes on his upper torso only recalled emotions for him.

He soon felt himself drawn towards a building. . . by forces he couldn't identify. With nothing else to do, he walked towards the figures he saw there. He recognized none of them, but his heart knew one. As he was about to approach her, he grew confused. There was another, and he wasn't sure who he was meant to be with. He was torn between the two.

Finally, one of the young women spoke up, and admitted that she had bewitched him. She had supressed his memories, jealous of what he had had with the angel. She apologized, and Bryan recalled everything. He turned to his love, and together they left the world of civilization. For the past six months, they have been living in a cabin in the woods, staying devoutly together. He, however, still feels a sense of wanderlust, and sometimes disappears for up to a week. Of course, he always returns, and she's always waiting, faithfully.