FAUSTEIN KUROYAKUSHI (SPIRIT USER RETRAIN) [COMPLETE]

Faustein is a stereotypical mad scientist in thought, word, and deed and his various personality traits apply as much in battle as they do outside it. Due to his insatiable curiosity, he pursues knowledge at any cost and views the whole world and everything in it, including himself not as individuals worthy of respect and care, but rather merely as experimental specimens to use in this eternal quest for knowledge. As if this were not bad enough, he blatantly disregards the personal rights of others (especially his specimens and/or research volunteers) and brooks no complaints from them, either about his research or the methodology therein. This already reprehensible aspect of him is exacerbated further by his utter lack of inhibitions or qualms of any kind which could possibly regulate the methodology of his quest for knowledge.

Due to the rigorous demands and high focus which his research and work as a physician-scientist requires, he is strictly objective almost all the time and can be moved to act only by the cold logic of a situation or by his desire for knowledge. In keeping with this strictly objective view, his face usually looks stern, distant, and inscrutably emotionless almost all the time. That said, he is very protective of and is wholly invested in his research and so, he usually tends to be very reclusive and reticent about the exact nature of his research. He was also fairly paranoid in the past as he believed most people around him wish to restrict and oppress him. Nevertheless, this aspect has been lessened in more recent times due to the positive influence that others he has met have had on him. Still, his allegiance lies mostly with himself and of course, his digimon as they are his specimens, research assistants, and guardians. His allegiance to everyone else is secondary to this priority.

Furthermore, he has an incorrigible superiority complex towards others which often gets him into trouble with them since it makes him act in a condescending manner towards them. However, this is only towards those whom he is certain are less capable than himself. Despite this, he realizes that nothing and no one in the world is truly perfect. Actually, he abhors the concept of perfection and ridicules anyone and anything that claims to be perfect since to him, perfection is a completely stagnant state which cannot accommodate any further improvement. Additionally, he is highly manipulative of others, including his digimon. Of course, in the latter case, he does hold back a little on his manipulative aspect since he knows that he needs their support and eternal allegiance for his research to truly reach success. Apart from this there is also his egregious hedonism which causes him to crave and try to acquire or experience all the finer things in life such as gourmet cuisine, vintage wines, expensive imported cars, etc. This is especially true since he has known it all the while from childhood till present day. So, he tends to enjoy these things, but he is still rather uncomfortable in formal settings due to his introverted nature and his obliviousness to common social mores. That said, this aspect has decreased somewhat in recent years due to external influences, so he is able to tolerate formal settings which usually include such high society life at the very least. However, he would attend such occasions really only to satiate his hedonism or if he is forced to attend by someone else superior to him.

To his credit though, despite having all of these defects, he does have some saving graces, though some may consider these to be a blessing and a curse simultaneously. The first of these is his determination which lets him persevere till the end in all his ventures, for better or worse. However, this is also a drawback since it does also cause him to have a rather stubborn mentality at the same time. As a result of this headstrong aspect, he can be quite intractable to any attempts to sway him toward any path other than the one he sees lying before him. Then, there is his objectivity of view and his ability to stay emotionally detached regardless of whatever may be going on around him. While this does help him keep a calm and clear mind in all but the most trying of situations, it also means he is utterly oblivious to the emotional needs of others. Besides this, he is quite passionate, driven, and focused when he is hooked and this give him the advantage of being able to avoid many common distractions which may otherwise impede his research. However, it can also be a negative thing because it does cause him to ignore everything else, like the basic everyday things such as personal maintenance, for example.

In addition to this, he prefers to be as efficient as possible in thought, word, and deed and this is a boon since it allows him to delegate resources properly to where they are needed and saves time which he can then spend on other projects or studies, but it also makes him speak very bluntly since, to him, hiding the truth behind any kind of façade just to make it palatable to his audience is a waste of effort. Naturally, this tends to get him into trouble with others, especially those among his audience who may take issue with his lack of verbal filters. When confronted with most emotional issues, especially the issue of romance, his face tends to turn blank and clueless. Then, there is his tendency to warn people of potential dangers when he sees them coming, but if it is a specimen which intrigues him enough to want it, he has no qualms in lying and doing whatever he has to acquire said specimen, even though his actions may cost him and his allies a crucial victory or even if doing so would lead to massive casualties on his side. In a sense, one could say that he is ruthlessly cold in thought, word, and deed.

After that, there is his innovativeness as well as his cerebral and eccentric nature. His innovative side and his cerebral nature do give him the ability to solve most if not all the problems he may face, but they also give him that insatiable curiosity which causes him to want to take apart and analyze everything and everyone around him if they happen to intrigue him. This tendency to want to analyze everything when combined with his innately observant aspect of his nature leads him to lurk about observing everyone and everything around him in order to glean any valuable intelligence about them which he can put to some use or another and so, he can notice things most tend to overlook in their surroundings.

Besides this, there is the cautious aspect of his nature which he now has because he not only inherited it from his parents, but also trained steadily since childhood. This means he never even enters into an area or situation without researching it thorough through remote means, whether it’s by sending his digimon ahead of him, planting hidden surveillance devices on one of his purported allies, or some other ways as well. He usually ensures that he at least has a handful of main action plans, a handful of backup plans to handle common contingencies, and escape plans for the worst-case scenarios. This cautious nature combined with his innately super tier curiosity causes him to use any and all situations he enters as a series of field tests for any new techniques or gadgets or anything else he is developing, with both him and any opponents/enemies acting as the lab rats. He tends to keep his distance from his opponents while gleaning information on them which he then puts to use to slowly but surely overwhelm them over the course of the confrontation.

Of course, if it means getting his hands on some exciting source of new or otherwise unfamiliar knowledge, this cautious aspect of him tends to take a backseat, though he will still try to maintain some modicum of it even when hunting said knowledge. Finally, there is his extreme, unbridled eccentricity which, though beneficial in that nobody who is willing to hang out with him would be assured of never getting bored and any potential enemies can never quite accurately predict his next move, can also be quite the obstacle in his interpersonal relationships since he is not only highly unconventional and prone to doing things which others find rather disconcerting, but also because it makes him a very difficult subordinate since any authority figures tend to have trouble accepting his highly whimsical behavior.

This eccentricity extends to his practice as a physician-scientist and when combined with his amoral outlook, means he usually employs highly unorthodox treatment methods. These may come with some unsavory side-effects as well for any patient that puts themselves in his care even though they are undoubtedly efficacious. The last effect of this eccentricity is that he occasionally tends to behave in a very uncharacteristic way, which may surprise others around him (e.g. making esoteric puns and references, trying to fluff some particularly fluffy digimon when they least expect it, uttering a maniacal laugh like some stereotypical supervillain/ mad scientist when one of his research projects comes to fruition, displaying a disturbingly high level of excitement when encountering sophisticated technology or anything completely unfamiliar to him, and making impromptu and unorthodox changes to battle plans while still in battle.)

Faustein is 5' 7" tall, weighs 140 lb., and has a medium-heavy bone structure. His skin is mostly sallow in complexion due to a certain degree of melanin deficiency that he inherited from his parents. That said, this pallor is offset to some extent due to the weather-beaten texture and color that his skin now has due to all the exposure it has had to the elements and other harsh environmental conditions he has had to face over the course of his ongoing research, both in the past and in the present, and very likely well into the future. Apart from that, he has very thick, coarse, dry, medium length (down to the base of his neck), bluish-gray hair that has bangs hanging over his forehead. Like his skin, his hair's texture is also due to these aforementioned challenges that have and still continue to test him thus. However, he never bothers to care for his hair or even keep it tamed due to his inherently lazy nature and also because it tends to get disheveled anyway over the course of his research. He has a generally ovoid head like any other regular human. He also has some distinctive facial features such as: gaunt cheeks with high-set cheekbones, a high and wide forehead (though this is somewhat obscured by his bangs), as well as thin, roughly almond-shaped eyes with the usual round pupils and darkish-amber colored irises. The last of his distinctive facial features are his gently tapered chin and his somewhat strongly set, somewhat sharply defined jawline.

He has a slender, slightly longer than normal neck with a very prominent Adam's apple. His back and shoulders are broad and well developed with lean, well defined, clearly visible musculature due to his own basic physical conditioning and also because he often has to exert himself physically during his travels and research. All across his torso, both the front and back aspects, he has no more than an ounce of fat anywhere since he almost constantly forgets to maintain a proper meal schedule, especially when he is engrossed in one of his long-term research projects. His upper limbs are of average length and just like the rest of his body, they too possess fairly lean, somewhat well-defined musculature. Due to his medium-heavy bone structure, his wrists are slightly larger than normal and his hands are also slightly larger and somewhat more muscular than average too, with this latter aspect being due to the near constant use in his various physical exertions. In contrast, however, his fingers are longer than average and have a rather skeletal look to them. Of note is the fact that recently due to a violent encounter in battle against some enemies, he has lost his left upper limb and has since replaced it with a bionic prosthetic of the same form. However, he always keeps it hidden under his clothes, so it is usually not visible to the average eyes.

He has a narrow waist and hips, again due to the veritable lack of body fat, especially the abdominal type. Below, he has lower limbs which are longer than average and like the rest of him, his lower limbs also have not more than an ounce of fat anywhere. As a result, like everywhere else on him, his lower limb musculature is also clearly visible and well defined, but also due to the effect of his physical exertions and specific training as well. Like his wrists, due to his medium heavy bone structure, his ankles are also slightly bigger than average as are his feet. However, like his fingers, his toes are also quite spindly in appearance. The rest of him is similarly well endowed due to the genetic gifts he has inherited from both sides of his family.

Faustein prefers to keep his outfit as simple and practical as possible, though he does give in to occasional flights of fancy due to his flair for the dramatic. When at home, either alone or with guests, over the usual male undergarments, he always wears a simple t-shirt and shorts combo (both non-pink)while going barefoot most of the time. If pressed to put on footwear, then he usually prefers closed toed sandals or otherwise may use traditional geta shoes as well. When out in the city or otherwise just traveling somewhere, his outfit of choice is some light-colored, full-sleeved, hoodie shirt with a thin dark-colored fleece jacket over it with a simple pair of dark colored jeans and sneakers below (all of this over usual male undergarments, and non-pink). Interestingly enough, this is one of the few times that he is willing to tie his hair into a high or low ponytail.

His work outfit is of course that of any other standard physician-scientist. Namely, over the usual male undergarments, he dons a formal light-colored, full-sleeved shirt with a red necktie and a typical white lab coat with multiple pockets over that while having formal dark colored pants and patent leather shoes below. His hands are covered by disposable light-colored surgical gloves. His eyes are protected by durable protective goggles if he is in the lab. This outfit is what he usually wears when moving about in the Digital World as well, both on his research trips and when taking on client requests, jobs, or missions.

When attending some formal occasion, like anybody else, over his male undergarments, he wears the usual formal attire with his being either a standard three-piece black suit ensemble with a white formal shirt, red necktie, and his standard patent leather shoes, of course. Lastly, his winterwear consists of some light colored full-sleeved shirt with a 6 feet long red scarf which is wrapped loosely around his neck; a moderately thick, weather proof, Sherpa type jacket over that while below he wears some simple pants and a pair of shoes with good traction. This is also the outfit he tends to wear when called to be a Teaching Assistant at his alma mater. Obviously, as in all other occasions, under this outfit are his usual male undergarments as well. For other types of inclement weather or special situations such as the beach he uses the appropriate clothing for the situation.

NOTE: Along with everything mentioned above, he usually has a variety of other wearable electronics on his person and since he has recently joined Team NEXUS, he usually has a small, inconspicuous lapel pin or badge with the team symbol on it somewhere on his attire, especially when going out on team business. Aside from this, the other near constant part of his attire are his custom order Google Glasses.

Faustein’s story begins with that of his parents, his father being a man named “Siegfried Faustein” and his mother being a woman named “Izanami Kuroyakushi”. They had met during a medical conference in the U.S. and so became entangled with each other. Initially, they hated each other’s guts, but eventually they did warm up to each other. Their respective families noticed this, and after a thorough cross examination of each other, decided to unite them in a sort of political marriage which was intended to be a stepping stone toward a future where the two sides would be allied with each other and be sharing their respective stores of knowledge, resources, and so on with each other for the purposes of advancing their fame, wealth, and influence in society. After their union, Siegfried and Izanami settled down in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Once everything was in order, they then set about establishing the U.S. branch of the alliance between their respective sides and the associated U.S. branch of the business conglomerate owned by Izanami's parents and clan. Just as it was with the parent keiretsu, this branch was also called the "Kuroyakushi Group" in accordance with the combined wishes of the elders of both sides. Once that was finished, they started their private practice as a physician-scientist couple and also started up an associated research lab, both of which eventually became quite famous. Then, in due course, they brought Faustein into the world and since he was the only child of these two current heirs to the sides, the elders agreed to make him the next heir to the future leadership position of the alliance as well as of the two respective sides and to the next CEO position of the business group.

His childhood started off being fairly normal, and thanks to his excellent genetic heritage, he showed great promise right from childhood, especially in his scientific and mathematical aptitude, and business acumen as well as in his high IQ, which was clocked at 180 points. So, his parents decided to bring him onto the fast track to prepare him for capitalizing on that aptitude for business, science, and mathematics, mainly by trying to enter him in rigorous private tutoring sessions dealing with the beginner level knowledge in business strategy, various science disciplines, and mathematics as well. However, much to their surprise, he stubbornly resisted their efforts to fit him into their envisioned mold since he wanted to enjoy his childhood like other regular kids. Realizing that they wouldn’t be able to convince him to reconsider, his parents decided to let him do as he pleased instead for they were confident in the fact that, sooner or later, he would learn about the dark side to the world around him, and would come back to them so that they could enact their original plan for him.

In the meantime, he did enjoy doing the things that other kids normally did for quite a while, and whenever they had time and he had a considerable amount of vacation time, his parents took him on camping trips in various locales in the U.S, usually during the summer. They did this not only to be able to spend time bonding as a family, but also for the purposes of teaching him basic outdoor survival skills so that he wouldn’t be without recourse should he ever need them at any point in the future. In this manner, time marched on for them until finally he came to high school and became a teenager. It was during these years that he became acquainted with the darker side of those whom he had considered his friends up until then. There had been a series of events during his sophomore year of high school which led him to realize that the people he had considered to be his friends till then had been just exploiting his talents for their own benefit. It was then that he understood that they had never considered him as their friend, but rather were just putting up the façade of friendship to hide their ulterior motives.

Needless to say, he was quite broken up about this, but instead of taking revenge or anything edgy like that, he cut them off unceremoniously without giving them any preamble or warning. Not only did he cut them off, but he also vowed to himself that he would never bother with anything cheesy like emotions, friends, or even a social life ever again. Instead, he threw himself almost entirely into his studies from then on and to this end, he accepted his parents’ proposition of fast tracking him into the business, science, and mathematics realms of knowledge through private tutoring. This steadily developed his knowledge bank over the course of this time period. Additionally, he was also taught the various aspects of high society life during this time since his parents wanted him to be familiar with such sophistication. That said, he did have his craving for watching anime and reading a variety of manga, so he tried to stay in touch with them by watching as many anime and reading as many manga as possible whenever he needed a break from his studies. Furthermore, he also did indulge his interest in strategy and war games, mainly through playing offline solo player versions of games like Age of Empires and the Civilization series. This helped him in two ways: the first was by offering him pure relaxation and the second since it let him pick up basic strategic and tactical skills. Thus, his high school years came to an end and he finally graduated with honors due to all the effort he had placed into completing his studies. During this time, something else was born inside him too, that is, the obsession with the quest for knowledge which would remain with him lifelong. This obsession only grew stronger once he had gotten admission to Harvard U. for the usual 4-year liberal arts undergrad college education. His entry into his college life went off well enough and he started to distinguish himself right from freshman year though since his focus was mainly on studies.

Since he made a point of avoiding having a social life throughout this time, his freshman year was fairly uneventful besides the excitement he got from being involved in basic science research as part of his biology major curriculum. Then, during his summer vacation, like always, he spent time with his parents going on camping trips where he had the chance to put his outdoor survival skills to the test. To this list, he also added basic knowledge of MMA skills which he started learning from his mother who was quite proficient in it from having been born to parents who ran a mixed martial arts dojo in their free time back in Japan. Of course, during this time, when he was not busy advancing his knowledge of the sciences or mathematics, he was kept busy with more and more advanced lessons in business strategy and other related aspects of that realm of expertise as well such as high society life. After this came his sophomore year, during which he formally declared his interest to be a dual major, one in biology and the other in business since his parents felt it would be useful for later entry into medical school, future practice as a physician-scientist, and for his eventual takeover as the next heir and CEO of the Kuroyakushi Group as well. Along with these, since there was a high-level humanities program at Harvard, he was able to make a bit more progress in his knowledge and skills in general linguistics and other humanities disciplines too which he had started taking in his freshman year like most of his peers. Thankfully, due to his ability to manage his time effectively, he was not only able to complete his day to day scholastic assignments and tests, but also continued his involvement in basic science research under the guidance of his professors. This fed his obsession with the quest for knowledge even more which eventually caused him to try delving into some rather obscure kinds of experiments, albeit still fully legal. And so, his sophomore year also went by with him luckily still being able to indulge his obsession with offline solo player war and strategy PC games occasionally whenever he was not busy with his research projects or his regular coursework. As always, when he returned home during the summer months, he was able to spend time with his parents going on camping trips when feasible, or working on learning his mother tongues some more. When not doing either of the above, he kept progressing ever farther in his practice of MMA, although it was still fairly basic because he couldn’t spend as much time on it as he used to before due to his now increased academic responsibilities.

Then, came his junior and senior years where, as per the usual trend, he started prepping for even higher studies and as a result, he ended up putting his hobbies and other extracurricular activities on the back burner with the intention of returning to indulging them when he had a bit more time on his hands. As a result of focusing more on his studies and also on the basic science research he was involved in, he was able to get a high GPA and eventually graduated again with honors. However, for the time being, he figured he would take it easy for a bit while trying to figure out what he wanted to do next in his academic career. Still, he didn’t completely relax and to ensure he wouldn’t lose sight of his ultimate goal of quest for knowledge and also in an attempt to narrow down his preferences for possible future careers in the healthcare sector, he took some time to enlist in a shadowing program over the course of the next year or so. When he was not busy with this, he was made to accompany his parents whenever they had various business meetings with the leaders of other companies or with the Kuroyakushi Group's Board of Directors so that he could gain valuable, practical experience in the field. Apart from this, he also accompanied and assisted his parents at their clinic whenever there was time in his hectic schedule. This went on for a while, after which, he resumed the application process. His interest in anime and manga had sparked a general interest in Japanese culture as a whole by this time and so, he applied to the medical science program, specifically an M.D./Ph.D. type at Tokyo U. since he figured it would let him experience immersion in Japanese culture while also letting him pursue his higher studies into the medical field.

Thanks to his excellent track record throughout his academic career till that point and also due to the extracurricular activities he had done to prepare for this phase, he was able to gain admission to this prestigious institution. Thus, his college years came to a close and he began the next phase in his education. After working with his parents to get all the requisite paperwork done, he set off for Tokyo, Japan. Once he arrived, he was taken in by his mother’s parents and the rest of their clan and so, didn’t have to worry about lodging or any other basic necessities. In exchange, however, he had to endure lecture upon lecture regarding the various companies that formed the Kuroyakushi Group led by his maternal grandparents and even attend business meetings to introduce him to the group's main Board of Directors and the rest of the employees as well. As if that were not sufficient, He also had to endure several tests of his business acumen and general force of personality. Nevertheless, despite his chagrin, as a result of this aid and support, he could focus his efforts on getting ready for his assimilation into the Tokyo U. student body. So, despite not liking it one bit, he was inevitably forced to accept this sordid fate. That said, at least he was able to convince them to let him pursue his own path for the time being, until such a stage when he was ready to formally take over as next heir and CEO to the Kuroyakushi Group and the associated businesses/companies therein. Eventually, in this manner, his medical school life at Tokyo U. began and like before, ultimately, he was able to make a name for himself due to his considerable academic prowess. Unlike before though, the time he had available to spend on his non-academic activities declined still further, albeit not completely. So, he was still able to find some time occasionally to indulge his hobbies or work on his supplementary skills and talents. Time went on in that fashion from his first year to his last and finally, he was able to graduate as one of the top students yet again and had even co-authored a couple of research papers with some of the more willing/accommodating of his professors.

After graduation, he was able to link up with one of the hospitals in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo and formally began his professional life at the age of 27 years. Along with this, he also began indulging his fascination with more and more obscure, exotic kinds of research. Unfortunately, however, he couldn’t actually cross over into the truly exotic research which was the dominion of “mad science” due to how the law was structured and also because of ethical impediments. So, he was forced to begrudgingly content himself with skirting or toeing that line every time, although he did dream every night of the day when he would be able to work on such ventures without any of these aforementioned annoying hindrances. Things were relatively calm and peaceful for the first year or so of his professional life, but then, in the second year of his career, there came those mysterious incidents during that one particular Golden Week when people claimed to have borne witness to strange sightings as well as strange inexplicable events in and around central Shibuya. Naturally, his innately insatiable curiosity wouldn’t let him rest peacefully. So, he tried to investigate these rumors and the incidents pertaining to them to the best of his ability, but alas, it was to no avail. He didn’t find anything of much significance, so his interest in said events faded away after a while. Things once again returned to normal for him, that is to say, going to work in the hospital he was affiliated with now and then returning home late in the evening, and when there was any bit of free time, spending it on indulging his hobbies and working on his nonacademic skills and his personal research projects as far as said downtime would allow of him. However, something strange was waiting in the wings, ready to assail him once more. That said, this series of events started in a fairly innocuous manner, namely with him having obtained a simple little V-Pet device. It had actually come as a surprise to him from a cereal box he had bought a few days earlier. One certain morning, he had been getting ready to have his usual cereal breakfast when the device literally dropped from the box and fell into his bowl of hot milk and half-soggy cereal, causing the milk and cereal to splash onto his dining table, thus making a major mess.

As he wasn’t expecting this to happen, he was understandably alarmed, but thankfully, he was the type to quickly regain his composure, so he was able to recover from the shock fairly easily. After that, he proceeded to quickly take the V-Pet device out of the bowl and clean it up as far as possible. Hoping, but not expecting it to be intact after that fiasco, he locked it away for the time being and then went about the rest of his day. After coming home, however, he tried out his new V-Pet device out of curiosity and so, he added another activity to his daily routine henceforth. However, that's all it was, a relaxing activity which he could indulge in when he had a little downtime from his job and wasn't preoccupied with any of his research projects either. Little did he know, though, that this small, quaint, innocuous looking device would soon change his life forever.