Yu the Red Panda

This is an article about Niko the Red Panda, the fursona of Agent-Kai. Yuniko "Niko" Sior is the third and final fursona of Agent-Kai. Being raised and brought up by a wealthy family, he would have been brought up to be a healthy, ignorant 13-year-old. That all changed when he became very aware of the world's terrors. Wars, prejudice on race and lifestyle, and much more made the young and naive red panda see that the world was beginning to collapse. He now prevents himself from being just like them.

Physical Appearance
Niko looks like a regular red panda. He has similar features to a regular red panda, including the mask (which the creator cannot draw) and small stature. He stands at 3'3" and weighs 72 pounds. He has brilliant electric blue eyes that seem like they're glowing (which is hinting the large amount of energy flowing through his body). He has flipped long hair that goes down to his chest. Strangely, one of his "eyebrows" is in three sections, as he requested.

Regular Attire
Niko wears a light black parka with a darker black undershirt, grey jeans, and black hi-top sneakers. He is seen wearing this most of the time, as these are the clothes he takes the most care of. As for accessories, he has a black necklace given to him by his father. On it is a super valuable item to him: his father's golden ring from when he and his biological father were still together.

Personality
Niko is somewhat courteous and kind towards strangers. He really hates talk to random people, but still does it anyways to get it over with. He has a small smile or a neutral face whenever he speaks strangers, and tries to to keep a good image and not act like he usually does: A bitter guy.

Niko is actually bitter and sarcastic towards sarcastic behind people's backs. He seems to fit the Deadpan Snarker bill, which leads him to be the Only Sane Man. He also seems pretty whimsical for a 13-year-old kid, as he usually points out the karmic rights and wrongs to people (despite being neutral himself).

Niko is actually quite manipulative and calculating. He can act from bitter to eccentric in seconds, and easily suck the information out of someone. His cuteness and humor also support this, as he can easily fit into any crowd anywhere. He uses this to get out of sticky situations, earns someone's trust for information, or manipulate someone to do his bidding.

Around his friends, he acts less bitter. He does keep his neutral nature, but he shows some signs of humor and happiness, but only rarely. If one does manage to become his friend, Niko would expect the person to not lie or betray him, put their complete trust in him, and respect and appreciate him. If said person does that, they shall receive the same treatment. Niko honestly wants to see his friends happy, and he wants to see them improve in whatever they're invested in.

Deep down, Niko wants peace. Not for himself, but for everyone and their mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, etc.. He hates seeing people fight (especially his family and friends), and he hates conflict in general. This is the main reason why he can't bring himself to fight physically or verbally. He hates how everyone insults and threatens each other. This one of the main reasons he keeps to himself and has very little trust in people.

For personal weaknesses, he overthinks. He tries so hard to not make any rash moves or be too nice, but he jumps the gun and screws himself over. This is one of the main reasons he's very silent, and doesn't talk to much people. Another one is him being self conscious about his behavior. Silent, somewhat untrustworthy, calculating. He also is self conscious of brushing people off, pushing them away, or insulting the idiocy of people. He knows that he can act better, but he just can't. He feels as if his heart is pulling on strings with his brain, puppetering his thoughts and emotions.

Birth and Childhood
"Red", born as Yuniko Leonard Sior, was born in a local military base in Yurashia. He was born to Asuka Minima-Sior and Akio Sior on April 27th, 2XX1. He was somewhat smaller than what the doctors expected and he came out not even shedding a tear or bawling. He weighed 5 lbs. that day. Many people said that Niko was born a special child due to a majority of his veins glowing from the large amount of energy coursing through him.

After draining the excess energy from him, which took a couple of days, he was given to his mother and father. He was praised by his whole family as he arrived to his grandmother's house. Everyone gave him kisses, hugs, raised him in the air, sang to him, and all that good stuff. After a few days of taking care of him, his mother and father were unfortunately not there for most of the time for them both being in the army. His grandparents, aunts, uncles and his older sister, Haruko were there most of his early years.

The little red panda was silent for most of his early years. He played with his elder's old toys often, and he didn't really seem to care if they were ripped, chewed up or not. He watched a lot of kids' shows of cartoons hitting each other on the head with hammers.. He also took an interest in reading children's book, such as tales of three goats or a thief who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Besides that, he didn't do anything else. He barely smiled nor frowned. He kept a blank face, no matter what he was doing. This made the adults concerned, as they wanted to see Niko laugh and smile while playing, but they were never given the opportunity.

By 3, his mother had resigned from the army and started finding a new job. Her and Niko's dad had starting forming issues with each other. They were constantly arguing, to the point where Asuka tried to cut her husband with a kitchen knife. As soon as Niko was involved in this, they decided it would be best for them to divorce and find new people. After the whole divorce, they decided that Asuka could take the children and Akio could see them any free time he gets. The last time Niko saw his father in real life, he gave Niko his small golden ring, which he had as a kid. He gave it to Niko, beforE going off.


 * This was the first time Niko had cried. Or, the very least, shed a tear.

Everything changed after that one shocking moment. His mother eventually found a man to marry: Daniel Wilson, a Mexican grey wolf. Together, they had a hybrid by the name of KeKe. Niko started to act happy to their eyes and that's all they saw. Honestly, deep down, Niko was suffering. He wanted to shout, but he had no outlet to. He had no one to go to for his problems. He felt.. alone. Suddenly, at the age of 10, Niko realized of something... Something that would alter the course of his life forever.

Realization of the World
At the age of 10, he has realized that the world is an evil place.

When Niko found out about the Internet, he was surfing information about random things he took an interest in. He was on a website of where you can post videos on, and saw something shocking happening on security camera footage: A echidna getting shot at by a human, just because he was a mangly animal.

Niko was shocked. He was about to hurl from the horrible scene he just watched. He looked at more information about it, and more cases. He found out about controversial topics and cases for them, and he realized that some of the stuff happening to those people is happening to young people like himself. It kept going and going, hitting Niko hard. Eventually, he shut the computer down. He put his hands over his face as he started thinking about those horrible things. Simple questions started branching off into much more complicated questions. Who would do this? What were they thinking when they did these horrible crimes? Why would they hurt others when they know they're consequences? How could someone do such a thing to a Mobian or human being?


 * Niko thought and realized the hard truth.

People were.. ignorant and incompetent. People didn't pay attention nor did they care. They didn't watch what they say and they didn't think about who would react and what. He saw kids, adults, even family fighting amongst each other because they were to ignorant to pay attention to one another. They were acting like children. Small six year olds, just... more immature, stupid, and older. He was utterly mad at the world. He was mad at the stupidity, the audacity to do such things.

He became unstable and he knew it. He acted bitter and sarcastic, more evil. He decided it would be best for himself to just walk away from it all. He left his family home and lived in an old abandoned army base (which apparently was a giant oak tree) and redesign it completely, with the help of the Internet and some friends of his father's (not knowing that he was gonna stay there for the rest of his life). The only person he kept in contact with was his older sister, Haruko, who kept his hidden place a secret.

Present
Yuniko has developed a small alter-ego for himself by the name of "Red". He uses the persona (fursona..?) to bust drug deals and gang meetings whilst the town is quiet and lowkey.

He has made a few friends. He is now good friends of Astraia "Astri" Winters and Kyle D.B., both wolves ages 15 and 17 respectively. He usually has wacky adventures with them, much to his dismay.

So far, life has been good for Niko, to his information. He hopes of improving his skills as a writer and a artist through the internet.

Relationships
- Bold means that they are close friends.

Friends
Little notes Niko made on his friends.

Astri Winters - "Well, I met a 15-year-old wolf along with another one, 17, a random day. We shared a table at a pizza place when it was packed. We were awkward at first, just quietly eating our pizza slices, and the older one decided to chat with us. To my amusement, I see they agreed with me on certain things, like the quality of now's music and the youth of today. I asked them their names. The girl, who eyes were VERY enchanting (I'm a sucker for silver eyes, okay?) was named Astraia, but she simply liked the nickname Astri. She was like me, except she showed more emotion and was a lot more.. entertaining. We talked more and more and eventually, here we are. I learned that she is a gyrokinetic, someone who could control gravity at will, and that she was an artist. I slightly wonder what she thinks of me, but I hide it well.

''I also know of her moodyness and her showing of emotions. I just let her do it, to get things off her mind. To be honest, she is a good person, and I don't want to lose her as a friend. She's like.. a second big sister to me, I guess. Not really sure how to explain it."''

Kyle D.B. - "Same time I met Astraia or Astri, I met the calm, but cool older wolf named Kyle. He seemed to have shown his like for Nintendo gaming consoles, such as the 3DS and Wii. He acts a lot calmer next to Astri, but he does seem to be hostile towards people who mean harm. He also seems to want to keep peace around like myself. I look up to him actually. He doesn't mind the troubles of the world, as long as his friends or family don't get affected by it. I found out that he is an hydrokinetic, a person who contols water, and he was a great writer.

''While being friends with him, I also notice that he is a really gentle spirit. I don't mind this, but he just looks.. so sad at time and I just want to use MY powers to defend him.. But I can't reveal my true powers or Red to anyone, not even my best friends. I'll just have to defend both him, Astri, and others another way.."''


 * "Even it means sacrificing myself."

Powers
====== Yuniko was born with the ability to manipulate multiple forms of energy. He mostly uses natural energy manipulation, due to it's balanced healing and combat purposes. Niko is "under-trained" with the power, as he said, and he claims that his power is "unstable". In truth, Niko has stable energy and actually knows how to use it.

When Niko uses his energy, it changes colors depending on what it's used for:
 * Cyan - This is the color it turns to when Niko is using energy attacks, such as concussion beams, ball projections, beam emissions, pillars, bolts, or blasts.
 * Pink - This is the color it turns when Niko heals another person. At a downside, he cannot heal himself, so he has to plan out and think carefully on how he attacks. This is also the color of Niko's bubble shield, which can block most attacks, but breaks if he doesn't provide enough willpower.
 * Green - This is the color he turns it to when he make energy constructs. He can make small platforms, weapons, duplicates of himself, restraints, energy golems, and he can make his claws more powerful (signified by green gauntlets surrounding his hands).
 * Yellow - This only shows when Niko is absorbing the natural energy out of an opponent. This is signified when Niko's hand is surrounded by yellow energy. When he absorbs the opponent's life force, it doesn't necessarily kill them, it just puts them in a "coma" or death-like stillness. Medical treatment could easily cure this, or the person being surrounded by wildlife/nature.
 * Red - The color that shows when Niko's "switch" has been flipped. He will shoot powerful red beams at opponents or try and cut them wide open with energy blades.

Niko is a guy you rarely see show any emotion. He always has a blank expression and barely smiles or frowns. To the unfortunate person that gets him angry... there is a huge chance of them getting critically injured.

Niko doesn't kid around when he gets mad. His veins glow a bright red out and his eye color goes from electric blue to a sparkling white. His energy attacks have a lot more effect, and he is effectively a lot stronger than he usually his, able to lift a car without any difficulty.

This also comes at a cost of Niko trying to kill everyone. He will try to kill acquaintances, enemies, allies and so forth, making him somewhat of a mindless monster. The only people he knows not to hurt is Astri and Kyle. Otherwise, he's gonna harm people.

The only way he will find his chill is when he is back to being secluded for hours. After that, he will resume going back to his rather odd, neutral nature.

Abilities
Being a Mobian, Niko has naturally good senses of sight, smell, and hearing. And due to him being a lesser panda, he is naturally flexible and agile as well. He also has the uncanny ability to climb trees due to his claws. He can also climb similar surfaces as well with ease.

He also has very good intuition when it comes to firearms and technology. The reason might be is that he comes from families who were in the G.U.N. and Marine Corps.

Skills
Niko is an extremely good writer, drawer, lyricist, and poet.

He prefers drawing things such as weapons and Mobians the most, but on a full blue moon, he does draw a pretty decent anime character. He is also an aspriring lyricist and poet, being able to write good lyrics and poetry that will usually earn him a compliment or two.

But writing is his biggest objective. He creates fan-characters and everything, along with the help of his friends. He works day and night on how to make brand new characters, and so far, he's getting pretty good at it. He also writes original stories, and his current project is "The Story Of Zion".

Niko is pretty good at athletics too. He plays basketball and football, as most of his friends play it daily. He is also, pretty strong and tall for a red panda, weighing 68 pounds and standing at about 3'01". He is taller than most of his online friends, some of them even being older.

And surprisingly, he is VERY intelligent. He is surprisingly manipulative and skilled at what he does. Combine this with his colorful imagination and you have a very powerful mind.

Weaknesses
Niko used to have very bad self-confidence and self esteem issues, and it still kind of haunts him. The fact that people could use his past or any of his experiences as an insult frightens him as well, as his "switch" may be flipped, and he may go on a rampage.

Niko is naturally weak to most diseases and poisons. Due to his small stature, the sicknesses affect him even worse. The worse case scenario that can happen is that he dies from a really powerful disease within a day without proper treatment.

Niko's emotional weaknesses are a problem, too. If someone takes advantage of him and gets him to do their bidding, they may possibly have a powerful ally, able to get as much information as they want with ease.

Niko is also very unskilled with his energy manipulation (or at least, acts like he doesn't). The only thing he does know how to do is beams and grenades. Besides, that he can't do anything else... Which is a pretty freaking huge lie.