Rider Shadow:
Kitsune
Road: Flame Road | Apollon Road
Type: Speed
Team: Sleeping Forest
Other:
Emperor Eye - The Emperor Eye is Kurama's signature ability. He developed this due to his long-term observation of the first generation and their tricks. Kurama uses his eyes as a base to develop other skills such as ankle break, but also to strengthen his other tricks. His ankle break is a move in which Kurama moves about with high speed at close range, to make the opponent fall on the ground, strengthening his image of an emperor. Kurama uses the Emperor Eye to see the weak points in the opposing riders' movements and body posture in order to make them fall to the ground. Due to being awakened to its full ability early, Kurama has become the rider who has the most experience and knowledge on how to use his Emperor Eye, making full use of it. When Kurama enters the Zone, his Emperor Eye's prediction ability increase greatly, allowing him to stop even Zone tricks of other riders. Kurama's eyes are capable of observing every movement of his opponent, thus predicting the opponent's next move. When activated, his right eye turns red, and a glowing ring manifests in between his eyes. The Emperor Eye when used at its maximum potential, displays a glowing ring around the iris of the eye. Even without the glowing ring, Kurama is seen to still have Emperor Eye active so long as his right eye is red. According to Mukuro of the second generation, his Emperor Eye can see the smallest details of a person's movements, including their breathing, heartbeat, sweat, muscle contractions, etc. With this, he can time his actions perfectly to nullify the opponent's movements, sabotaging whatever tactics the opponent tries to execute. In short, he can
"see the future of his opponent's moves."
Wide Field of Vision: Kurama can easily see openings in defenses when using his Emperor Eye, allowing him to discern the best pattern of attack when facing someone.
Ankle Break: Kurama can perform the Ankle Break, a high-level speed movement that disrupts his opponent's balance and makes them stumble to the ground. This situation occurs when the opponent's center of gravity is on their pivot leg while they're turning. Riders collapsing due to this rarely occurs under normal circumstances. However, with his Emperor Eye, Kurama can predict the moment his opponent is unbalanced, allowing him to perform this technique with little difficulty.
R.E.A.D. Level: 777
Rider Class: Special A-Class
Regalia:
Flame Regalia: Key Mother - The core appears to be the wheels, and is decorated by a nine-tailed fox with flames at the end of each of its tails. Because fire is considered to be the creator of everything these Regalia are able to imitate the power of other Roads when fully awakened.
Key Mother can be called a very fickle Regalia, as it will only activate when Kurama's flames exceed 3,000 degrees Celsius. When this happens, the wheels open and space around the ATs on each side, and wheels made of flames take their place.
Infinity Atmosphere:
Infinite Inferno - The Infinity Atmosphere of the Flame Road. It uses wind to further fuel the Kurama's flames, increasing their potency many times over and allowing Kurama to produce massive amounts of flames with little to no effort whatsoever. When using the Infinity Atmosphere, Kurama's body is virtually engulfed by the flames, and it even appears as if his hair is in flames as well.
Tricks:
Flame Road: After Burner - Using the same principle behind a jet engine's afterburners, Kurama accelerates to supersonic speeds, creating a sonic boom and leaving tongues of flame where he made footfall.
Clones of Flame - Kazu creates "clones", which are actually the afterimages produced by his run. These clones carry the flames of his run, and explode into flames when full contact is made.
Platform of Flames - Using the rising air current from the "Flames" his ATs create, Kurama can use them as platforms, allowing him to stay in the air.
Wildfire Magatama - A trick that uses flames shaped by the wind, which can consist of a single magatama to several bound together through their respective centers by a thread of fire. Due to this structure, the tools act in a similar manner to that of a shuriken when thrown by Kurama - rapidly spinning towards the intended target - and result in a powerful collision upon impact. The size of the created projectiles are dependent upon Kurama's intent and situation, with smaller variations often used when fighting in close quarters or confined spaces. Kurama mentions that the Magatama is his strongest ranged technique, as the compression of flames used to form the trick gives it far greater speed and travel distance than his other projectiles.
Crimson Hell Burning - A trick initially developed for the sake of attacking those who managed to gain a speed advantage over Kurama. Following the normal principles of flame creation, Kurama extends a grind for an amount of time that is barely noticeable to the naked eye, but has just enough additional speed, pressure, and resistance applied to take the Flame Road to new heights. This single movement creates a rapidly growing tongue of flames ahead of Kurama, which thrashes its way toward an enemy he is facing before ultimately encasing them from its tip. The flames continue to move as they close in on the target, as if they had become a constrictor snake large enough to form a sphere around its prey when going for the kill.
Trick: Hole Nine Heaven's Door [Ęttir] - This trick enables the wielder of the Flame Regalia to perfectly replicate other riders' tricks and roads. This is made possible by the Regalia's connection with Skylink: it opens the "door" that seals the room containing the data file of every rider, and therefore the memory of their runs. However, the user needs experience and technique to able to use this technique perfectly, otherwise he will risk his life.
Time - Kurama's signature technique. His mastery of this ability earned him the nickname Time Lord. The first causes an "over rev" phenomenon, where the victim's brain is using its resources solely to process vision, and cannot respond to an imminent strike, creating the illusion of Kurama being able to stop time.
Flames of Time - This technique implements more Flame Road principles into Kurama's Time tricks. With it, he can fire numerous blasts of energy at his enemies, inflicting serious damage.
Cloak of Time - A Time trick which bends light around Kurama, making him and those he wants to be made invisible for the duration of the trick.
Overtime - The penultimate technique of the Apollon Road, and one Kurama has previously used to burn another Flame King to a crisp. Kurama creates exactly eleven Clones of Flame, and positions them and himself around the opponent like hours on a clock face, placing himself at the twelfth hour. Kurama and all eleven clones then use "Time" simultaneously, creating an area inside the circle where the over rev phenomenon is powerful enough to petrify the opponent's body. Starting with the clone to his immediate left, Kurama sends his clones crashing into the opponent one at a time. When all clones have been used, Kurama dashes past the opponent to assault them with one final tongue of flames.
Zone Trick :: Burial Ranks of the Fire Dead - The ultimate trick of the Apollon Road, in which Kurama "rewinds" time by using burning embers and smoldering ashes with the Flames of Time to create hard copies of other riders who died in flames, or were cremated by them. This trick is usable only when Kurama is in the Zone, as he must use the ability of his Hole Nine Heaven's Door trick, in combination with the memories of their movements gained from his Emperor Eye, to give the copies the runs and tricks of the original riders.
