Puma Ototo (Benjiro Nekozawa) [Villain]

THE BASICS

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Benjiro is a cutie, to put it bluntly, he stands at an average height with a cute body. He has cotton candy blue hair and a slim figure with hints of muscles underneath. He has an acrobat's body, to put it bluntly. He often wears tight clothes since he finds them most comfortable. On top of his head is a pair of cotton candy blue cat ears.

His multicolored eyes and blue markings are attractive features on him, but what makes Benjiro an exotic cutie is his cotton candy blue tail. But an odd feature he doesn't share with his siblings is his slitted eyes. Which only slit when his quirk activates.

PERSONALITY

"Huh! Y-you want to know more about Puma Ototo? That's me! Umm-if you want to-I can tell you I guess- umm here we go!"

The shy and cute not so little-little brother of the Strays is considered quite the treasure by his siblings and fans. He has an aura of innocence and shyness that draws people to him and want to protect and cuddle. But despite his adorable shyness, he is a born entertainer who loves to make the crowd fall in love with him. He is the beloved Puma Ototo after all!

The Puma Ototo loves love. It's just a shame he has the worst luck with men. And there's something about love that makes him go over the edge. His brothers have a saying about Benjiro falling hard and fast for somebody. "Going full Benji." When Benjiro goes "full Benji," he gets hyper-invested with his crush/lover to the point of obsession. And obsessions often end up a messy affair.

"You have pretty eyes... did you know that?"

A part of Puma Ototo's appeal to the masses is how adorable and how harmless even meek he seems. And this isn't fake or a persona, he is shy, but he also has a very dark side that shows itself when love happens. Not only does he become obsessive of his lovers but he also becomes possessive and needy for their love and attention. Which is often the root of his failing relationships and when relationships fail it becomes messy. He gets violent.

While his romantic love is far from the purest thing, his love for his brothers is as pure as they can get. He's the little brother people always want to have. He loves his big brothers, Hihi-nii, Rara-nii, or Zuzu-nii! They never do anything wrong in his eyes! But outside of his siblings, Benjiro loves hot guys with big muscle and assertiveness. They give the best hugs, and cuddles and they never see the knife coming when they break his heart.

"Y-you have my heart in your hands... and may the gods show you mercy for I won't if you break it."

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Many children were loved the moment they are born. Not Benjiro, nor, his brothers, Benjiro's earliest memories, were vile and he hated them. The smacks of glass bottles against his head by a drunkard mother, and the horrific beatings from their father, all because he was the youngest. Even with Rara-Nii's best efforts, he still got hurt.

There were a few nights where Rara-Nii's plans worked. Where their mother would stop slurring at them and throwing bottles at Benjiro and pass out in the bathroom until she woke up to a hangover and the abuse starts over again. The best nights were when their father left them alone. Those nights meant they get to eat.

Benjiro was always a quiet and meek child and when child's services arrived Benji wanted to cry and scream of all of the abuse they went through, but he was scared of what would happen to them if he did that. He regrets not speaking up. But he was a scared child, they all were, Benji knew each day would be worse living with them.

And he was right.

When his brother's quirk manifested, they all got these' extraordinary powers, Except for him. He was quirkless. Worthless. He was defenseless. And their parents' knew that.

Benjiro remembers everything about that night. When Benji and his brothers were seven year's old their mother came home a drunken mess and was furious over food prices. Benjiro did something unexpected of him at the time. He called their mother "A drunkard bitch." And with those words Benjiro and his brothers were hiding in a room with Rara-Nii holding the door close, but they forced it open and beaten and threw Rara-Nii around. Benji was bagging them to stop hurting him. And their father did as he said and then inched his way closer to him with a knife in hand.

His cries of "I'm sorry! Stop! Please! It hurts!" ring out throughout the house.

So after fourteen stabs and too many slashes to count that's how Benjiro died for the first time. But not for the last.

Benjiro remembers the darkness of death. It was so cold, so dark, so lonely. Despite everything life threw at him, he wanted to go back, he wanted to live, he was scared that this darkness was all that's there. But suddenly in the darkness, a flash of light consumed him, and he woke up with a gasp as air returned to his body, when his body came back to life. He has a quirk. And it allowed him to come back to his brother. They were all together again. But Benjiro didn't come back right.

Over the next six years, Benjiro died two more times without his brothers' knowing. And each time he came out a little different. The first time was a mugging gone wrong when the person he tried to mug took the knife from him and stabbed him with it, to 'teach him a lesson.' When he came back to life within the stabber's eyes the stabber got frightened and gave him all of his money. Which fed his brothers for a week, but he avoided saying where the blood covering his clothes was from. He didn't want to scare them again. At that moment Benji learned that he needed to know how to fight. So he practiced with knives. Until he became as good as he is today.

Before his third death, he learned more about his quirk. Benjiro was attracted to dying things dying animals and people, but it was after he comforted a dying runaway teen in his final moments did he realized something. He stole life. He doesn't quite know why but he just knew. He didn't exude life upon death like a phoenix. Instead, he was a monster that took the life force of those dying like a demon. And he was horrified by it. To the point, he didn't want to hurt his brothers so he threw himself into oncoming traffic. And as expected he came back to life. But when he came back this time he came back even more different.

But after that attempt to end his own life, life started to become easier, and Benjiro and his siblings could focus more than surviving. After Rara-Nii got them a permanent house, Hihi-Nii would stay out all night, Rara-Nii and Zuzu-Nii would be gone all the time to keep up their fighting businesses. Benjiro got lonely during this time and he learned over the years being alone was bad. During this time he befriended a young boy around his age. And Benjiro would go 'full Benji' on him and within a week murdered him by accident in that sad embrace, Benji learned he could keep everybody he ever loved within himself by taking their life force. Benji would than proceed to kill eight of his dear beloveds over the span of years to keep them within him so he would never be alone again.

During one of his dates, Benji was taught how to play guitar by a then boyfriend and now 7th life which would prove to be useful to his brothers as they started a band. And Benji couldn't be happier. He got to spend more time with his brothers and he gets to have fun with them too.

Life couldn't get any better.

THE ARMORY

Knives: Benjiro always carries several small knives on his person at all times. Some for slashing, some for stabbing, some for throwing. It depends on how he's feeling and what he intends to do that day on how many and what kind of knives he carries around.

PumaPhone: A cell phone with a puma-ototo casing and tiny chain plushies of himself and his brothers. This phone is only used to call his brothers, not even his boyfriends' get a call from it.

Pictures of his brothers: Several pictures of his brothers. Has no use outside of making him feel better.

QUIRK & SKILLS

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9 LIVES

TYPE: Mutation
RANK/LEVEL: B
SUMMARY:
Benjiro has a unique and scary quirk. Much like a black cat in many European stories when he dies he comes back as if nothing happened. But unlike those black cats, this Puma can restore those nine lives.

First, let's talk about how his quirk works. This quirk saps the life force of those dying when the host is alive, and if the host is dead, it siphons life from any nearby source of life. But the process of siphoning life is slow and intimate. But Benjiro can keep reserves of up to nine lives worth of life force within himself. So with max life force, he can die nine times without any issue. But the tenth time his body needs an excessive amount of life force to come back which could take months.

But the process of siphoning life is an act of intimacy of itself. As the range and time frame, the quirk can siphon life is limited. It has a range of an inch and the time frame is moments after death (He can siphon a dying person's life force within the immediate posting cycle the NPC's or Character's death after that posting cycle its too late) that means Benjiro basically has to embrace a dying person to get the most out of them. But when he's dead anything living that touches him is quickly drained of its life force within five posts. And due to its one-inch range, it can also go through clothing.

The process of coming back to life is often a messy one. It takes anywhere from one to five posts to return to life depending on the severity of death. But he comes back fully healed even if he took injuries before death.


WEAKNESSES/LIMITATIONS:
First thing first Benjiro can't access his quirk unless he dies. His regenerative abilities only kick in when he's dead. If he gets injured or sick, tough shit he has to deal with it like a regular person. Also, dying is painful. No way around it no matter how quick it is it's always painful. He also cannot control who he siphons life from when he dies. His corpse becomes a biohazard for anybody to touch, but it takes five posts of constant contact with the body to drain a human of all of their life force. And to get a full life's worth of life force from a dying person, they would need to be in peak health before they were dying. Otherwise, it takes multiple lives to get one life's worth of life force.

Another side effect of this quirk is that each death changes the host personality little by little. With each death, it makes the host more violent and reckless. Rather this is the quirk itself or a side effect of dying multiple times nobody knows. Besides from coming back to life Benjiro might as well be a quirkless person. No enhacned strength, durability, or anything like that. He is just a cat-boy. And he cannot change this.

RANK/LEVEL: B-
SUMMARY:
Despite his shyness, Benjiro is a skilled guitarist thanks to his siblings' band and early encouragement. He is the strays' lead guitarist, and back-up vocalist some people say if he wasn't so close to his brothers' he could go solo.

RANK/LEVEL: B
SUMMARY:
This silky soft cat boy is hiding steel. Despite their meek and submissive nature, he is dangerous. This Puma's claws are as long and sharp as any lion's. Benjiro is a skillful knife weirder both up close and thrown. His close range knife style is graceful and breathtaking both figuratively and literally. And at a range, he can throw a knife in between a person's eyes from a room away. He knows where to stab where it hurts and where it kills.

RANK/LEVEL: B-
SUMMARY:
Benjiro keeps his slim figure by doing yoga every morning after he wakes up and every evening before bed. This skill proved useful many times.

CARAMEL

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