Taichuu

Taichuu Blitzbeak is a played character in the Contest of Champions Campaign.

Taichuu Blitzbeak is a Tengu Monk on a quest to learn about other cultures so as to help those facing discrimination, particularly his home in Drott. Originally he has no such stakes in the contest but after a chance encounter with Austin "Five-Finger" Dallas, Taichuu would find curiosity in the Champions and enter the contest to learn more.

Appearance
With black feathers that have an iridescent sheen and beady eyes, Taichuu most resembles a crow in appearance. His eyes are dark and while it may seem like he possesses the ability to fly, such is not the case. Two feathers poke out of his head and are akin to an ahoge.

He wears simple garb, a workers top and loose pants, tied together with a sash. Over that he dons a simple dark cape with a hood which acts as a blanket on chilly nights. Normally he wears wraps around his arms, but recently has added Bracers of Archery over it.

History
Taichuu Blitzbeak was hatched in the south of Drott, a human settlement.

Tengu are not accepted by all, so they settle where they can and tend to make up the slums of cities. That being said, living commodities were difficult to obtain and money was not easy to obtain in any quantity larger than enough to live on. Rather than remain in the cities, Tengu would become merchants (often seen as nobles by their own featherkin) and amass wealth through trade with other races.

Taichuu as a hatchling had a handful of other siblings more rambunctious than he, as he was the studious one who knew people. How they would act, how they speak, and how to imitate them.

As he grew older, the clear discrimination and wealth gap between his kind and the humans become more apparent to him and drove him up the wall. After his coming of age at age 16, Taichuu had left his hometown so he may learn about other cultures in the many reaches of the realms and hopefully come home with a solution to lessen the discrimination.

During the three year span before Taichuu had arrived at the Contest, a portion of memories and time simply does not exist in his memory. Occasionally, dreams of 8 figures, covered in shadows, stare back at him. Taichuu does not know why or how these dreams occur, but he is sure that these figures are people he had held close to his heart.

Trivia

 * Taichuu had been used in a previous campaign a year before Contest of Champions began.
 * This campaign is considered part of his backstory and at this point, is something that will remain forgotten to him.
 * Taichuu and Toshiyuki share origins, as they are both from this campaign.