Zan ShiShio [Cirith]

MY NAME IS NAME, AND MY AFFINITY IS FIRE. MY SECONDARY ELEMENTAL IS WIND. I AM HETEROSEXUAL AND I AM PLAYED BY ZAN.

Zan is often considered an oddball around both friend and enemies alike and is someone who revels in his passions for freedom and strength. Not someone to be afraid of action, he is very energetic and full of brashness and naiveté often easily being pushed into things that he doesn’t understand nor care to. He is very social though usually in his own world though this can get on peoples nerves. He has no problem voicing his opinions and is exceptionally straightforward in his views not caring for “right” or “wrong” but the reasons behind such situations. He however has a short attention span for things that don’t interest him and is usually onward to the next thing very quickly. He is serious however in situations like someone hurting innocent people, those who wish to take his own life, and those that hurt his friends or allies whether they dislike him or not.

Thanks to his kid-like disposition, he doesn’t care much for the opposite sex and in battle isn’t one to hold back against them and sees things like “strength” as a way to gauge who is who in the world. He can be quite reckless though, jumping into situations head-first without second thought. Due to usually being the odd man out in his village, he is someone who understands what it feels to be by himself and his aptitude for hard work and determination drive him for what he does most and with this gives him a steel resolve to finish what he starts. He is quite selfish in terms of petty things (like who can eat the most, who can run the fastest, and stuff like that) but has no problem giving up the clothes on his back for someone who truly needs them. He is quite rude talking in a way that many people find despicable (in Japanese it would be him not using honorifics, he has no concern for being a gentleman, not kneeling to royalty). He lives by his own convictions and words, and is quite simple in his approach to life in tandem to this.

He is highly ambitious in being stronger and traveling and thus trains hard and makes sure to follow whatever myths or situations he may meet in the world because he finds adventure interesting. He isn’t very intelligent in terms of book smarts, but understands survival and combat with an incredible amount of skill due to constantly training by himself in Cirith and getting into trouble. Due to his aptitude for competition he rarely turns down a challenge. He has a certain confidence in himself, and proudly proclaims his wish to become the strongest swordsman in the world.


Zan is a young swordsman from the nation of Illeia, growing up was difficult due to his parent’s untimely deaths while he was still young. Due to his parents being gone, he was placed within the home of an elder who he often fought and complained with due to his wild nature and tendency for getting into trouble. Zan due to being this, often had the streak of being very gung-ho and was considered weird to both children and adults being the “black sheep” of Illeia. He would often be upset due to how he was treated but learned to live with it and “suck-it-up” as he understood that the world was different. While he was young he wished to set out to the world beyond, and started training at a very young age.

Growing up, he was often one to sneak out of the village in order to do training of his own. There was no love lost between him and the villagers and all he wanted was to overcome his weakness in order to gain the strength to get out of it and see the world. He took up swordsmanship, of which he became a self-taught fighter using his own skills in a fight against monsters and building up his strength in order to secure his own skills. Due to a few close calls he had learned the art of survival through practice and training developing his talents further. Due to his title as one of the least liked of the village, he was often considered a thief even if no evidence showed as such. People thought that due to his shady activities. The old man he lived with often didn’t question him though, considering he had no reason to see him as anything more than a resident of the village. Zan though he said nothing thanked the old man for believing in him in his head.

Nearing his seventeenth birthday due to the shadiness of himself once again, he was placed under distress but the adults of the village due to them knowing nothing about what he was doing. With snide remarks back towards the villagers they got angry at him, and due to him being seen as an adult decided to confront him by force with their own strength. The old man tried to protect him again, but Zan told him to stop with a very calm face. Deciding to show them exactly what he was doing, as they sent fighters at him with the will to kill him, he decided to show his swordsmanship. With his training he gained great skill and strength in the art of the sword and defeated them with ease using a wooden stick to smack their legs and faces until they were beaten unconscious. The villagers angered by the boys striking back from his punishment made the old man angry, of which he replied that Zan did nothing wrong in defending himself.

Zan had decided to leave the village, after the villagers wanted to kick him out for his rudeness and brash sense of standing thus decided to show him out. The old man gave him a sword which he could use to defend himself. Zan thanked the old man going on his way, deciding that he wouldn’t look back and would never come to the village again moving on to the world instead.