Issei Hyoudou (AxA Universe)

Issei Hyoudou (AxA) is the AxA universe counterpart of Issei Hyoudou of DxD Universe. He is a Master Ninja of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, from the Tenjinmon Faction

Appearance
Being similar to his DxD Universe counterpart, Issei resembles his counterpart in his adulthood with short spiky brown hair, with two short locks of hair behind his head which are tied together as a short pony tail. He has an extremely muscular body due to extremely intense personal training regimen as a Ninja. He also appeared younger than he look.

Personality
Due to having many different life experiences and history particularly the death of both his parents from an early age, Issei Hyoudou (AxA) has developed a very different personality in comparison to his DxD universe counterpart. Described as steadfast yet unpredictable; merciless, yet kind by those of Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan. Issei is calm, collected with great emotional control compared to his counterpart yet generally friendly and generous with others. His life experiences and interaction with people including humans and supernatural beings, grant him exceptional wisdom and emotional intelligence, making him a serious and unflinching realist. Like his counterpart, Issei has great kindness and compassion, deeply respected by all his friends and acquaintance due to his magnanimous nature and benevolence. While he also have abnormal sexual desires like his DxD counterpart, due to his life experiences, Issei have an extremely high self control as he does not harbour any lecherous thoughts towards every single beautiful women he met, nor he does he desired a harem, having directed all his lust and perverted desires solely toward his beloved wife Kuroka (AxA universe counterpart) whom he have extremely passionate sex with on a daily basis. Issei tremendously love Kuroka and his three children from the bottom of his heart, and would pray for nothing more than their happiness, he also had an extremely close bond with his older sister Hijiri and nephew Rio. In battle, Issei is completely pragmatic, following his own pragmatic code of never seeking pleasure in fighting, nor finding honor in the death of his enemies as well as himself, use any trickery, and dirty tactics such as ambush and sneak attacks to defeat enemies.

Power & Abilities
Immense Strength: Due to his extremely rigorous physical training regimen supplemented with dedicated daily Senjutsu breathing meditation, Issei has trained and developed his body to complete perfection, granting him immense strength and is physically one of the strongest humans alive. His strength is described as overwhelming by the Ninjas of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan. When enhanced by Strengthening Magic, Touki and Boosted Gear, Issei's physical power allow him to fight the most powerful supernatural beings including Gods with pure might and skill.

Immense Speed: Due to his training, Issei

Immense Stamina

Master Hand to Hand Combatant: Having underwent extremely hard training in Ninjutsu since childhood as well as extensively self studied other forms of martial arts from martial arts books and movies, Issei is an immensely powerful master hand to hand combatant.


 * Tenjinmon Style Mugen Tenshin Ninjutsu: Under the tulage of the Kunoichi Kasumi and through sheer effort and diligence in training, Issei has tremendous mastery of Tenjinmon Ninjutsu, having become a Master Ninja at age 18 and is considered one of the strongest Ninjas of the Tenjinmon Faction.
 * Shotokan Karate: Issei is an extremely skilled self taught practitioner of Shotokan Karate, which he also incorporate the Goju-ryu emphasis on Senjutsu breathing technique to enhance his physical capabilities.
 * Judo: Though self taught, Issei has great skill in Judo which he frequently supplements in his fighting style to counter physical attacks. When combined with his powerful body, Issei could grapple and throw opponents larger than himself as shown when he easily grapple and throw an armored samurai, sending him crashing towards an entire ashigaru brigade. When enhanced by the Boosted Gear Scale Mail, Issei was able to grapple Big Mom, an immensely powerful Fire Giantess with immense power and skill.
 * Kung Fu: Issei is a skilled self taught expert of Kung Fu, such as Tai Chi, Hung Gar, Ba Gua, Wing Chun and Shaolin, which he improvised and adapted into his fighting style.

Master Swordsman: Issei is extremely skilled and masterful in swordsmanship, being a master of Kendo and one of the best swordmasters of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan. Specializing in Strong Blade swordsmanship, Issei can perform precise and powerful strikes that can cut down monsters and supernatural beings with his Spirit Sword Ryujin Rekka. When his swordsmanship is enhanced by his Boosted Gear's Boost and Penetrate, he can cut through the hardest defenses and split powerful aura blasts using a single slash.
 * Kendo (剣道 lit: Sword Way): A modern style of Japanese swordsmanship based on traditional samurai swordsmanship, it is a versatile form of swordsmanship when fully mastered. Issei learnt Kendo from his mentor Kasumi, he trained extremely hard during his youth, and attained immense mastery of Kendo which is further honed through experience in countless battles. Issei also taught Kendo to Jellal.

Master Magician: Issei is an extremely skilled and experienced magic user, specializing in Ninja Magic developed by the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan. He also has knowledge of many Western Magic spells which he had studied with his sister Hijiri and Kuroka in the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Library of Magic. Senjutsu Master
 * Strengthening Magic: Tenjinmon Ninja's magic training emphasized mastery of strengthening magic to gain superhuman physical attributes for combat. As a Master Ninja of the Tenjinmon Faction, Issei has fully mastered Strengthening Magic, and frequently used it in battle to superhumanly enhanced his strength, speed and durability to monstrous levels, when combined with his already powerful body, Touki and Boosted Gear Scale Mail, allow him to fight even God Class beings.
 * Elemental Magic: Issei is also a master of elemental magic, specializing in water, earth, fire and wind magic. He can perform powerful elemental magic attacks.
 * Wind Magic:Issei has great skill in wind magic, able to unleashed explosive gusts of wind even create an enormous tornado. He can also fired powerful blades of wind to slice through enemies.
 * Water Magic:Issei is well versed in water magic, create and control water with great versatility for offensive purposes such as multiple towering streams of water with large amount of force. He also used water magic for practical purposes such as creating water for drinking, cooking, washing and bathing.
 * Healing Magic: Issei is skilled in healing magic

Expert Tactician: Issei is a great strategist

Stealth Master

Master Artisan:Like his DxD counterpart, Issei is an extremely talented sculptor, having occasionally worked for Muramasa to create intricate hand made ceramic sculptures to supplement his family income. He specialized in making ceramic sculptures of supernatural beings of Shinto and Buddhist mythology such as Youkais, Shinto Gods and Buddhas

Master Chef: Issei is a magnificient master chef. Having learnt from his sister Hijiri who had inherited their mother's cooking skills and mentor Kasumi and honed through practise by cooking for his family, Issei could cook extremely delicious food that is described as exquiste. Though he claims he lacks any skills in baking cakes and sweets.
 * Chicken Stew:Issei's personal version of Japanese style chicken stew, consist of chicken, shimeji mushrooms, burdock roots, daikon and carrots stewed in a dashi broth flavoured with spices and herbs. Issei cooked it for Jellal,once after a particularly harsh training session in winter.

Master Physician: Taught by his Ninjutsu mentor Kasumi who is a master herbalist and also his sister, Issei is extremely knowledgeable in Japanese Kampo herbalism, skilled in using herbs to create traditional medicine that can cure cold, relief pain, heal bruises, ease digestive problems. He is also well-versed in acupressure. Issei also has deep knowledge of modern medical science particularly on nutritional science.

Equipment
Boosted Gear

Ryujin Rekka (龍刃烈火,Dragon Blade Raging Flame):Issei's personalized Spirit Sword, it takes the form of a Shinogi-Zukuri Style Katana with a vermilion tsuka and a squarish tsuba handguard with motifs of an eastern dragon. Sheated in a black saya engraved with the an eastern dragon.
 * Primary Release:Ryujin Rekka's invocation command is Burn Heaven and Earth. Its primary release form takes the form of a tachi with a hilt covered in blue green scales, reminscent of a dragon.
 * Fire Manipulation:Reflecting the combine spiritual powers and personalities of Issei and Ddraig within the Boosted Gear, Ryujin Rekka is one of the most powerful Fire type Spirit Swords