Hizoka, 28

“He deals the cards, licks his lips and waits to see just how interesting you can get.”

Hizoka is a self-styled magician in a world where fighters bend their own life energy into powers, and his is an aura that stretches like gum and sticks like glue. Tall and lithe, with red hair swept up in spikes, narrow golden eyes, a star and a teardrop painted on his cheeks and a deck of cards that never leaves his fingers, he looks like a jester and moves like a predator. He passed the deadliest licensing exam in the world for fun, fights on the top floors of a two-hundred-storey arena tower, and once joined a band of thieves just to fight their leader. He is only interested in people with potential, which he likes to let ripen. He has watched you fight and decided you're worth the wait.