Haiiro Hoshi

Haiiro Hoshi (灰色 星, Ashen Star) is an Echt Quincy and a member of the Wandenreich's Stern Ritter with the designation "U". His partner is Kaede Kiseki, a childhood friend. He hails from Inaba city in of,.

Appearance
Haiiro is a lean and muscular young man of average height. He has very light, grey hair which is rather flat with a spiky fringe. He has light grey eyebrows and blue eyes. His facial features are very sharp and thin, in theme with his lean physique.

He wears a variation of the standard Wandenreich uniform, consisting of a scarf with the Wandenreich insignia emblazoned on it (a item of clothing he shares with Kaede) a white, waist length, windbreaker jacket that he always wears unzipped, a plain white T-shirt, light grey combat trousers and black military boots. He wears a belt that is reminiscent of a Police Duty Belt, which he uses to hold his Seele Schneider and Gintō Capsules, along with any other useful small items.

He wears the on his left hand, it is predominately white in colour with numerous black stripes running across it, it covers Haiiro's entire hand, save his thumb, index finger and pinky finger, which are left exposed, the glove extends up to nearly his elbow.

Personality
Haiiro has a level headed, if not extremely joyous personality, he is very sociable and easy to connect to, however his upbeat personality may often annoy and even deter people from spending time with him, especially in the case of Kaede Kiseki, who commonly hits him out of anger because of his annoying nature. His relationship with his partner, Kaede is while strained a very strong relationship nonetheless. He has a tendency to greatly annoy the female Quincy absentmindedly, often earning himself a whack from her ruler because of it. On the other hand, Haiiro has to put up with Kaede's obsessive behaviour of making everything perfect, with him also being her emotional crutch for when she gets depressed due to this obsession. Despite the strains in their relationship, Haiiro truly cares for his partner, often backing her up in any situation without hesitation.

In battle Haiiro's personality changes to that of a extremely excitable and reckless individual, he is extremely headstrong and hotheaded, usually charging in to attack before fully thinking out a situation. His recklessness often causes him to screw up, much to Kaede's chagrin, often accidentally missing a target due to his excitement. This reckless behaviour can even endanger himself and others around him at times. Despite his overly reckless nature in battle he can be analytical when the situation calls for it, and is an extremely good teammate with Kaede, forming intricate strategies and fighting at the best of his abilities.

He is loyal to the Wandenreich and believes that while the militaristic behaviour of the organisation is too extreme, it's morals and goals are just, he usually follows the organisation's orders with very little question.

He seems to have an obsession with writing his name with a star in the gaps between his name, despite his name having no such accent. He writes it as Haiiro☆Hoshi.

History
Haiiro was born into a traditional Quincy family in the city of Inaba, his parents were ecstatic at his birth, both stating that they thought star was a fitting last name for him.

At the age of 4, while walking with his mother, Kohaku Hoshi, Haiiro lost sight of her and got lost, upset, he timidly approached some older children, who picked on him because of his shyness. The bullies picked on him until a young Kaede Kiseki chased them away. The two children introduced each other before Haiiro's distraught mother found them, she scolded Haiiro for leaving her side, and forcibly walked him home, before he could say goodbye to Kaede.

Later, at a Quincy meeting, Haiiro once again saw Kaede, they approached each other and talked a bit, finally declaring themselves friends, much to the delight of the parents of both families, who were wanting the to of them to have an arranged marriage in the future.

Between that time and their adolescence, both Kaede's father and Haiiro's mother inexplicably disappeared, unbeknownst to the two young Quincies, their parents had joined the Wandenreich as Stern Ritter. The disappearance of Kohaku was hard for the still timid Haiiro to take, making him slightly depressed due to her disappearance. He was rather bitter towards his mother until her death was announced, at which he felt guilty and immediately forgave her.

Despite being at too young an age, Haiiro insisted that he trained at the same time Kaede trained as a Quincy. While reluctant, Haiiro was allowed to train early. He trained with an emphasis on Reishi control and manipulation, along with kendo training in addtion. While initially having trouble forming a Reishi bow, he was able to form the basic Reishi bow, Kojaku (弧雀, Arc Sparrow), in full year. After being able to form his bow, he began to train commonly with Kaede, often testing each others power for fun.

While they were still young, Kaede bore witness to her entire family lying dead in her household, at the age of 12, Haiiro was extremely shocked and saddened at their deaths along with his entire family. As he couldn't stand Kaede being in any kind of grief of depression, Haiiro decided to change his personality, becoming extremely cheery and upbeat so he could help Kaede always smile. Despite her declining the Hoshi household's request for her to stay, Kaede accepted their funds, and she continued to train with Haiiro.

In their later teenage years, Haiiro and Kaede barely get through college, due to their attitudes and their new duty of protecting Inaba from and  alike, they entered university not longer after college. While doing their university studies they were approached by Roshan Bamshad, who informed them that their parents joined the Wandenreich while the two of them were children and had recently died in battle. He then requested the two Quincies to join the Wandenreich themselves, to which the accepted.

The two were put though an initiation test in, they fought and defeated numerous Hollows, raging from weak Hollows to powerful Menos Grande. They eventually came across a Vasto Lorde, the most powerful natural denizen in the sandy wasteland. Despite their best efforts they could not defeat it, which led Bamshad to intervene and weaken the beast enough for the two young Quincy to kill it themselves. Due to their impressive abilities despite their loss against the Vasto Lorde, along with Roshan's own recommendation, the two joined the Wandenreich as Soldat (聖兵 (ゾルダート), zorudāto; German for "Soldier", Japanese for "Holy Soldier(s)"). However, due to their new taxing schedule of University and Wandenreich duties both Haiiro and Kaede ultimately drop out of University.

Now without the stress of education, both Hoshi and Kiseki are able to improve their abilities considerably, proving themselves to be above the average strength of the Soldat. After a few years in service they were enrolled into the Stern Ritter. Haiiro was given the designation "U"—"The Underworld", as opposed to his mother, who had the designation "C"—"The Constrictor", his partner, Kaede, was designated "P"—"The Polymorph".

Equipment
Quincy Cross: A Quincy Cross is the source of a Quincy's power. Haiiro's cross takes the form of a five point pentacle, which is attached to a chain.

(魂を切り裂くもの (ゼーレシュナイダー), Zēreshunaidā; German for "Soul Cutter", Japanese for "That Which Slits the Soul"): Haiiro always carries two of the soul-cutting swords on his person for practical purposes, such as close range combat and surprise long range attacks. He is extremely skilled at using them in close range, being able to perform a number of expert like attacks with them.

He can use it to steal a single Bankai released in his vicinity.

Haiiro mainly uses it in order to activate his Vollständig, he never uses the glove as a replacement reishi bow for his Quincy Cross, often ignoring the artifact in battle unless absolutely needed.

Powers and Abilities
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 * Heilig Pfeil (神聖滅矢 (ハイリッヒ・ブファイル), Hairihhi Bufairu; German for "Holy Arrow", Japanese for "Destroying Arrow of Sanctity"): A standard Quincy technique, Haiiro is able to gather reishi from the surrounding area, morphing it into an arrow shape, he is able to fire this arrow in order to attack opponents with it. Haiiro is extremely proficient at this, being able to fire off numerous Heilig Pfeil's at a time, however he has a limit to how many he can ultimately fire off at once.


 * Kage Yajirushi (影矢印, Shadow Arrow): By using his ability of "The Underworld", Haiiro is able to manipulate his arrows in such a way so that they become more solid and are able to bend and twist to his will. Haiiro can use these manipulated arrows to constrict opponents and stop them from moving, he can also use the arrows to force the opponent to move, often downward, giving to his epithet, The Underworld. He is able to manipulate arrows that have already been fired also, giving him the element of surprise in his attacks. The Reishi arrows that are affected turn black instead of the normal blue colour.


 * Mugen Kage Yajirushi (無限影矢印, Infinite Shadow Arrows): This ability is an extension of Kage Yajirushi. Haiiro firstly shoots off an uncountable amount of Heilig Pfeil's into the sky, which crash down upon the opponent, Haiiro then uses "The Underworld" to control and manipulate all of the fired arrows, creating an inescapable field of constricting arrows. While doing this however Haiiro is unable to move nor attack, requiring the help of another to attack and defend for him, which requires a great deal of teamwork.

Kokabiel ("Star of God"): Upon activation Haiiro is engulfed in a black reiatsu before absorbing reishi from the ground around him.

In this form, Haiiro looks incredibly unusual for a Quincy, as his predominant colour scheme is that of black, not white. In this form, Haiiro wears an long, black trench coat which extends down to his calves, it has an extremely high upturned collar also. His Sanrei Glove remains on him in this form, however it changes it's colour scheme to match Haiiro's current wear, being predominately black with white lines. Haiiro's most notable feature however is his reishi wings, which extend out of his back, they appear rather spiky in appearance, are are an extremely bright blue colour, his halo is also blue in colour, it is extremely plain and has a wide side to it with an extremely thin width. Haiiro's bow does not change in overall shape, however, it seems to be composed of free flowing Reishi as opposed to taking a shape, the Reishi is black in colouration. The bow is also considerably larger than his normal bow.


 * Flight: Using his Reishi wings, Haiiro is able to fly with seemingly no limitation.


 * Complete Reishi Dominance: Haiiro is able to tear away his surroundings and absorb the reishi from them, which he can then use himself.


 * Sklaverei (聖隷 (スクラヴェライ), Sukuraverai; German for "Slavery", Japanese for "Holy Slave"): By utilising reishi absorption to it's fullest extent, Haiiro is able to literally tear away at any spiritual body, breaking down it's structure into reishi for him to absorb. While this ability works on spiritual beings, it merely damages them rather than breaking down their reishi structure.


 * Enhanced Speed: Haiiro's speed is greatly increased, he is able to track masters of high-speed movement techniques with ease, however he still isn't as quick as said masters of the art.


 * Enhanced Attack Power: Haiiro's Heilig Pfeil attacks become substantially more powerful, being able to cause small explosions on impact. His Kage Yajirushi attack is also more powerful, being able to not only cause significant damage in it's own right, but actually forcefully control an opponents movements with relative stress, making them completely helpless.


 * Reishi Polearm: While in his Vollständig form, Haiiro is able to create a large pole-arm like weapon, which is as long as his body and use it for melee combat, replacing the Seele Schneider's he uses for battle normally. The cutting power of the polearm is very strong, being able to damage even heavily armoured individuals, however, it's extremely brittle, and it can break apart rather easily.


 * Shadow Wings: While in Vollständig, Haiiro is able to manipulate the Reishi wings on his back to attack or ensnare opponents like how he does with his Reishi Arrows, however instead of merely restriction of movement, Haiiro can use the wings to pierce enemies also. When he manipulates his Reishi wings, they turn from their normal blue colour to black, and the look more feral than they normally do.
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Trivia

 * Haiiro Hoshi is heavily based of Black☆Star from Soul Eater, having a similarity in some characteristics such as name, personality and appearance. This is also reflected in his partnership with Kaede Kiseki, similarly based off Tsubaki Nakatsukasa from the same series.
 * Haiiro's colour from Japanese culture is grey, which represents reliability and modesty, this relates to him as he relies on his partner Kaede Kiseki, as she also relies upon him.
 * Haiiro's home city, Inaba, from the Tottori prefecture, is a reference to the town of Inaba from the RPG game Persona 4.
 * Haiiro's Vollständig theme is Luciifer's Dance Parte C from the Bleach:Hell OST.
 * Haiiro's and Kaede's team battle theme is Never Lose Myself, from the Soul Eater OST.