Kemono

""That's not for you to decide.""

Kemono is a professional hero of the Hero Association. He is ranked Class S Rank 3.

Kemono is a reserved individual who much prefers to be by himself, although enjoys hanging out with other heroes and people he considers to be friends. He's the kind of person to keep things as simple as possible and straight to the point. Despite his kind-hearted nature, he's reticent around people and friends, keeping his thoughts to himself and hardly ever speaking when he deems it pointless. However, he is still selfless and enjoys seeing others safe and happy.

Albeit his rather closed-off personality, Kemono is extremely well-respected by other heroes and those from the Maelstrom, even the gods. When faced with a threat, Kemono puts on a more stoic and focused attitude, refusing to give opponents any room to breath or recover.

Powers

 * Martial Arts - Developed for almost a handful of years, Kemono had been teaching himself martial arts, further developing his average human body to superhuman levels. Kemono uses karate as the base of his fighting style: Using his fists for powerful strikes to the head or torso, combining them with horizontal kicks. His melee combat skills allow Kemono to make quick judgments and strike powerful blows in rapid succession. He can also adjust the power output between attacks depending on just how much damage he wants to deal.
 * Accelerated Development - Kemono's main attribute that lets him grow stronger through various battles, improving his natural abilities far faster than most other characters. Such a skill allows him to turn the tides of battle rapidly and give himself an edge. No matter how backed-up he is, Kemono is sure to come out on top in the end, making him an absolute risk to fight in prolonged battles.
 * Enhanced Adaptability - Kemono is capable of adapting to, or quite possibly, mimicking the moves of his allies and opponents alike. This goes for other martial art styles or certain special moves within his range of capability.
 * Superhuman Strength - Kemono possesses immensely powerful strength, far more than enough to incapacitate opponents. His individual strikes can destroy dense materials like concrete or even parts of the body with upmost ease. Kemono can also hurl extremely heavy objects to the atmosphere and rip apart anything far larger than him.
 * Enhanced Durability - Kemono's body is far more durable than one might think. He can take fatal hits, crash through dozens of debris, or block all sorts of attacks and still be standing. Most limitations put on the his human body subsided, allowing Kemono to fight beyond human limitations. He is highly resistant to several forms of pain, inhuman temperatures, earthly diseases, and poison.
 * Enhanced Speed & Reflexes - Kemono is capable of accelerating his running speed to incredible levels, steadily making him increasingly difficult to follow. He can make sharp turns and travel across surfaces of different angles. Kemono's reaction time was heightened to detect incoming danger faster than a normal living creature and dodge or repel several attacks from many different directions. Kemono has been able to both move and perceive objects moving at fractions of a second.
 * Enhanced Stamina - Fitting his other superhuman capabilities, Kemono possesses a large amount of stamina that lets him continue fighting without experiencing fatigue. He can also power through a large number of injuries that could mortally harm a normal human, as long as they don't put him in any critical danger.

Techniques

 *  Masked Wolf: Abyssal Claw  - Kemono slashes the air in front of him, propelling his open fist forward in the style of a claw slash, generating a shockwave that tears through any structures or beings in his way.
 *  White Knight: Critical Boost  - Kemono's damage increases by a considerable amount the more he attacks with his legs, taking on a temporary taekwondo fighting style, as well as using leg sweeps to knock down opponents.
 *  Snow Leopard Acceleration  - After developing a tail and leopard markings over his body, Kemono will gain a tremendous boost of movement speed. This can let him throw blindingly fast attacks and dodge incoming attacks at a rate that surpasses his regular speed, but only for less than a couple dozen seconds seconds.
 *  Kade Fox Awareness  - By closing his eyes, Kemono dedicates all of his attention into his sound and scent. With this, Kemono gains spatial awareness of his surroundings and can find hidden entities from afar.
 *  Spiraling Beifeng Dragon  - Kemono launches a powerful flying uppercut while spinning rapidly. During the ascent of the attack, Kemono is enveloped in a deep blue aura powered by his fist, signaling that he's using the technique. The damage is enough to leave the neck and spine permanently dislocated.
 *  Squid Dog: Multi Tendril  - A super rare skill where Kemono develops both a second pair of white arms and paws with four squid tentacles extending from his back. Kemono can do practically whatever he wants with these extra limbs, be it lifting several objects or people or drive his tentacles underground to use them from afar.
 *  Crystal Wolf: Red Strike  - A technique that creates spatial distortion when Kemono connects with an impact of energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit after immense concentration. The phenomenon causes such power to flash in a red blast, creating a more potent attack to the power of 2.5 of a normal hit. Some can describe the damage to be extremely lethal, enough to blast one's body part clean off without realization.
 *  Azure Inu Wave  - Derived from Red Strike, this technique also creates a spatial distortion when Kemono starts the attack, manifesting a large black and blue wolf silhouette. Kemono gathers the "flow" around himself and redirects it to his target, creating a powerful blast of air that can destroy the terrain. However, Kemono often combos his opponent prior to using this technique so it can set up for the attack.