Kyo Kusanagi
Kyo Kusanagi' is a male video game character who features in The King of Fighters.
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Biography
Kyo Kusanagi (Japanese: 草薙 京, Hepburn: Kusanagi Kyō)
Kyo surpassed his father at the age of fifteen and was designated as the clan's leader. Shortly after the completion of his training, Kyo competes in a preliminary held in Japan to determine the members of the country's representative team in the King of Fighters tournament. He bests Goro Daimon and Benimaru Nikaido to become the leader of the team, the two becoming his teammates and eventual friends. They reach the finals, where they met the host of the tournament, a powerful fighter named Rugal Bernstein. Rugal boasts his desire to fight powerful opponents and challenges them. After his defeat, he self-destructs his ship in attempt to bring them with him, but the team escapes unharmed. Afterwards, Kyo decides to travel abroad in order to train.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Kyo Kusanagi was a young adult Japanese male with an athletic physique and a brown parted haircut. He had the official nickname of Scion of the Flame (炎ほのおの貴公子きこうし) and as The Cleansing Exorcising Flame (火炎かえん 祓はらう 濯ゆす).
His extreme disinterest in studies has led to his chronic inability to graduate from high school.
Kyo takes his clan's responsibilities on a more personal level, disregarding ancient legends and predestined events as any reason for his actions. His strong sense of justice and his zeal to fight stronger opponents are what he believes to drive him to carry out his destiny.
Powers and abilities
Due to his Kusanagi heritage, Kyo can control fire. He can create fire from thin air, create fire balls, deliver punches of fire, create pillars of fire and put his own body on fire. However, he is neither immune to other types of fire nor able to control other fires that he didn't create. Also, the flames he wields are nothing more than just ordinary fire: it does not have the mystical 'trapping' ability of Iori's purple holy flames.
He fought using the Kusanagi style of ancient martial arts, a Japanese style of empty-handed combat taught only to the Kusanagi clan members.
His family's treasure was the Kusanagi Sword (草薙くさなぎの剣つるぎ), and his family crest is the sun, represented in a stylized halo of fire.
Notes
- Kyo Kusanagi was created by Yuichiro Hiraki and Shinichi Morioka where he featured in the setting of The King of Fighters.
In other media
Television
Films
Appearances
- The King of Fighters '94: (1994)
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