The slim and stringy type of muscle, body type kick artist with broad shoulders.
Seems like a very body-conscious middle exec who has had some standard
cosmetical surgery. Average oval japanese face, d'brown eyes, short black
hair in conservative corp haircut, smooth skin, typical japanese snub nose,
small ears. No muscle development above average. Ambidextrous.
Appearance: Totally average, totally inconspicuous, moderate charisma, THE typical middle corp exec who likes a good body workout in his free time. Perfect manners in corp environment. Uses a perfect mix of cyber and magic to enhance his abilities.
Spirit: Strong, centered, concentrated, unyielding, fast, intelligent, loyal, sophisticated. All ideal characteristics of a ninja are represented in him. Exceptional acting ability, particulary in corp environment. The perfect close combat assassin. Possesses old knowledge of the art of healing with herbs. Despises orks and trolls, bears elves and dwarves, hates street scum.
Weaknesses: No streetworker, no firearms, doesnt make friendships, cannot act well outside corp environment.
Black kevlar ninja suit with chemo, thermal and absorber weavings and suited with enormous amounts of armor and upholstery, ninja mask, arm splints, boots and gloves made of the same material, everything covered by ruthenium coating, as well as his samurai no-dachi and his two sai, both with black blade and dark colored knotted grips, and 12 shuriken fitted with a miniature signal transmitting device each. All of these weapons are treated with dikote and constantly covered by DMSO and narcoject, MAO, hyper or atropine. Other weapons are the ranger-x-bow with laser marker and 12 dicoted arrows, the classic ninja-to / tanto set, a yari-bo and a kusari gama used to inflict stun damage.
The ninja mask is fitted with a sight enhancement system over both eyes with built-in ultra sonic, 3d all-round sight, signal locator display and computer display for maps, tactics and data. Gloves and boots have extendable claws which are suitable for battle as well as climbing.
Arm splints: The right arm splint contains a computer (2 gp) including scanner and printer, and a vidphone. The left arm splint has a built-in grapple gun with 20 m of thin nylon wire rope and a miniature rollback device; the mini claw at the end of the rope snaps on contact and can be controlled remotely from the arm splint, and, with limits, can also be used as a weapon. A snake made of pure orichalkum is twined around his arm, his power focus and voluntary gea.
Clothes: Above the ninja suit under normal circumstances a camouflage duster of the appropriate environment, either squatter, city, forest, snow or desert. On corp mission a only light armored, very dark blue conservative tres chic suit, additionally black leather shoes, d'grey thin leather gloves and an old-fashioned melon.
Assassin tools: Thermo smoke and flash grenades for creating confusion, flat mines and monofilament cords for security. A glass flex and a microtronics kit for breaking in. For masking a mini make-up case only equipped for face modeling. Several herb packages provide for first aid material.
A full orphan. His parents were probably impoverished farmers who could not afford another child. Almost directly after his birth Takeo was brought to a monastery, but he was soon discoverd and adopted by the already 55 years old ki master Ash who could feel the hidden magic inside the baby. Takeo lived from earliest childhood on in almost complete isolation, being educated in the ninja arts, bushido, shodo, philosophy and general education with the goal of becoming the perfect ninja, Ash's successor. At age 6 Ash and Takeo flew towards the UCAS; Ash's old enemy, the ki master Lord, had found his place of residence and pushed for the last battle. The two escaped.
Ash already maintained long-lasting relations to Renraku, therefore they settled down in the Seattle arcology because the sheer size of the city meant perfect cover. To Ash's disappointment, Takeo was more interested in technic and the asphalt jungle than in traditional customs and way of live. As a scholar he was however unbeatable. With the help of his master he learned the best ninja and ki arts, at the same time studying everything about every new technologies he found. At the age of 12 years the first real ki powers had shown up, and he began to prove himself worthy on many quests his master carefully observed in order to promote his further development. Wandering the Renraku arcology, Takeo practiced social adapting and inconspicuousness. However, he developed no relations, living alone with his master over a long time.
At age 17 Takeo entered the shadow biz under the street name "Shadow" with Ash's agreement, since Ash got too old for shadowruns with his 70 plus years now; his magic abilities remained unequalled, but his inner fire began to slide away. Ash used his contacts to Renraku, and the corporation equipped Takeo with first-class cybernetic enhancements and promoted him in the further process as well. Takeo is still being teached by Ash while earning their upper class lifestyle; Ash still enhances his magic abilities in order to ease Takeo's way from a ki adept to a ki master. Equipped with the old knowledge of the ninja, the mightiest ki powers, the best cyber and bio ware and the newest cutting edge technologies, Takeo is now the perfect assassin.