Post by Restkastel on Feb 7, 2016 18:05:06 GMT
HUMANS
BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Ametsuchi Katsumi
Aliases: Katie, if you have trouble with her name.
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Class: Ki Artist
Faction: The Martial Forest Coalition
Style: Conquering Lord
Rank: Student
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Appearance: Standing at 173cm and weighing 81kg, Katsumi is definitely taller and more muscular than your average Asian woman. She has long black hair that she sometimes ties up into a ponytail. She prefers lose clothing that's easy to move in, just in case she needs to fight at a moment's notice. She always carries her gloves on her, though she only wears them while fighting, mostly because she views them as tools of violence that aren't worn unless one intends to fight. Her typical outfit consists of a black sleeveless shirt with a high collar, a jacket hung loosely on her shoulders unless she is getting cold, a rather short skirt with spats underneath just in case the wind kicks it up. She wears kneesocks that are actually kneesocks, as in they go up to the knees, with black combat boots over them. She almost never leaves her house without her purse, given that's where she keeps her gloves among other things like her wallet.
Personality: Katsumi, as a rule, would count as Lawful Neutral. She believes in the balance espoused in her creed, and tries to keep herself from falling out of balance mentally.As such, she doesn't just devote herself to fighting and training, making sure to get rest and enjoyment as well. In her day to day life, she comes off as quite a bit off for a girl her age. She's not terribly feminine, mostly carrying a purse to make up for a lack of good pockets in what she usually wears, which she wears partly because its loose, and partly because she likes how it looks on her. When laying around at home she'll often dress less feminine. To go along with this, shes a lesbian, not having any interest in men romantically whatsoever, indeed her preferred thing to do with men is to fight them or do stuff guys do together, rather than anything else a girl her age might like to do with a man.
With women, however, she is quite the flirt, and often plays the role of a chivalrous man, holding doors open for women and always picking up the check. As far as she can remember shes always been like this, never having been interested in boys even when she was in her teens, and never having been too into girly things when she was younger, always preferring to hang out with the boys in her free time, and was often considered one of the guys. This was helped by the fact that when any boy tried to claim that she was just a weak girl, she would challenge them to a fight and show them just how wrong they were, and after that happening several times, only the transfer students were crazy enough to mess with her. She only really came out of the closet at around 18, but nobody who knew her was terribly surprised about it.
When it comes to fighting, nothing truly can beat it in her mind, though she does try to keep this battle lust in check. After all, while it can be good and drive her towards becoming stronger by striving to fight strong opponents who can give her that thrill of battle, if she were to let it slip further, she might end up an addict to it, fighting anyone and everyone for that simple cheap thrill. This is one of the many reasons she maintains her own day to day life outside martial arts, to help her stay grounded and not let the lust for battle consume her.
What she does in that daily life could either be looked at as fairly ordinary, at least comparatively to her training as a member of the MFC. She spends her days off mostly relaxing when not training, not needing to get a regular job thanks to the pay she gets from the MFC, plus that cuts of her earnings from the fights her school sends her to. As such, she often wanders around town for fun, always walking to her destinations as a light workout unless its far enough away that it is totally impractical to take any form of transport. In that case, she prefers a bike as a second choice, and only will take public transit as a last resort. Due to a bit of a high metabolism from her body creating ki as well as the physical activity she undergoes, she tends to eat a lot, so a larger than normal portion of her budget goes to food, since she eats out most of the time. This isn't to say she can't cook, she just prefers not to, partially because restaurants come with cute waitresses to flirt with. She especially likes themed restaurants with interesting uniforms, such as maid cafes. Other than that, her interests are rather varied, so she is as likely to be found in a casino as a karaoke stand, often depending on her choice in date.
History: Katsumi was born on April 20th, 1987 to Akio and Hitomi Ametsuchi. Akio, her father, was a member of the Martial Forest Coalition in Japan and specifically the Conquering Lord school. He was indeed one of the small amount, at least relatively, of practitioners of that style in Japan. Between that and wanting to spend time with his daughter, he started training her in the ways of the Conquering Lord from a young age. Her personality was actually quite suited for it from even a young age, as she was never interested in the things many girls of her age would have been, instead liking things more like boys would like. Her father, who had wanted a son, was fairly pleased with this, even if he thought it a bit strange that his daughter was acting like a boy. Her training started at age five, beginning the preliminary training she needed to become a ki artist, as well as learning the basics of Muay Thai, the style that Conquering Lord based itself on.
As a child, she would often get in fights, usually because some boys would challenge her on her strength and try to ostracize her from the male groups she hung out with, to which she responded by challenging them to a fight and winning, an telling them that if they wanted to complain about her being a girl, then they would need to man up enough to beat her first. Her father was a bit worried about her attitude, but hoped that age would even out her temper, and perhaps when she hit puberty she would become at least a tad more girlish. After all, he did want grandchildren. She remained like this through middle school, before her father realized that she would probably never become more girlish and that her need for fighting wouldn't go away, so instead of punishing her for it, which never seemed to work, he instead taught her to balance herself with other things to keep her love of fighting from destroying her.
Luckily, she took fairly well to this, and in high school she began to calm down a bit, picking less fights over trivial things like that, and hanging out with the guys of the martial arts clubs who she often sparred with, never using her ki when he did fight them. She considered it no fun to use it against an opponent who could not use it themselves or had something equivalent. She often still squarely won her matches, her training and aggressive style giving her quite the edge over the guys in the club. She often would hang outwith them outside of club as well, and she became seen as one of the guys by them. Of course, there were always illicit rumors going around the school, but none of them held any weight given the fact that any time a guy tried to confess to her, which happened on more than one occasion, she would turn them down citing that "they weren't her type". She came out in her last year of high school, and because of the other rumors that floated around school, nobody was surprised.
After high school, she joined the martial forest coalition proper, and she has been going place to place since then. She often engages in underground fights, as her school encourages and often themselves send her to like they do many students, but unless her opponent requires the use of her ki to defeat, she rarely uses it. She feels using her ki against an unworthy opponent is simply a waste of energy and makes the fight even less challenging than if she hadn't used it. However, she was often defeated when sparring with other ki artists, since while she wasmuch better than your average person or street fighter, she was at best on even ground with other ki artists, but anything more than a student was above her level. As a result of this, she has developed a greater urge to train herself to become stronger and rise in the ranks, so she can fight even more challenging opponents. In the end, she wishes to master her school and bring it to its utmost limits so she can challenge one of the ten sages and perhaps win and take their place. Recently she was stationed in Lakecrest City, and is on standby with the MFC to do whatever jobs they send her way, spending the rest of her time either training, living her normal daily life, or going to underground fights.
STYLE INFORMATION
Style Name: Conquering Lord
Specialties: Unrelenting Violence and Power, characterized by turning the body of the practitioner into a living weapon of war. Their hands become like swords to strike with precision, their elbows like heavy maces to strike their opponent with brute force, their legs like poleaxes to fell their enemies. Their shins are forearms, hardened by training, become like armor to shield themselves from the opponent's blows. Known as the "Art of the Eighth Limbs" this style combines all of these to act as a single cohesive unit dead set on destroying their opponent with a power that belies the control they must have to balance all of these things.
History: Has its roots in ancient Muay Thai. A violent style of unrelenting violence and power that hides great control and finesse. Like many Thailand martial arts, they are brutally efficient. Nevertheless, this style tends to send its practitioners to fight in underground fights. Thus, it is not that looked well upon by the rest of the Asian sphere of the Ki Artists. Yet, they acknowledge their prowess.
STATISTICS
Ki: E (20 units)
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: F
LOADOUT
Equipments:
Name: Studded Leather Gloves
Rank: E
Description: A pair of very well crafted and durable leather gloves with rather large studs on the hands emulating the pattern in which the hemp ropes were tied in khat chueak matches of muay thai. These gloves don't do much besides make her hits that much more painful.
Uniforms:
Name: Training Outfit
Description: Not really a uniform, per se, as her school doesn't have a formalized training outfit like many other Asian schools. It consists of a pair of boxing shorts, a black tank top, and sparring pads for Muay Thai, though she often forgoes the pads since she feels that they inhibit her ability to train.
CAPABILITIES
Skills:
Name: Unarmed Melee (Muay Thai)
Description: The capability to use his/her own body as a weapon. To attack using fists, feet, and other parts of the body in combat. Striking, grappling, and throwing are some of the three types of attacks the body is capable of using against others depending on what style that is being used. Rank E would be basic training, while rank D would be an expert – ranks above these are more akin to Hollywood martial arts heroes. Muay thai, often known as the art of eight limbs, is a style very much known for both its sheer overwhelming force and the control needed to handle it effectively. The style focuses on strikes with the knees and legs as well as the elbows moreso than punches, which makes it even more effective when in extreme close range, such as during a grapple, with an opponent.
Rank: E
Name: Martial Arts Literacy
Description: The understanding of martial techniques and tactics from drawing upon prior experience in combat and training that has been ingrained in the body. It allows a martial artist to analyze and comprehend the mechanics of other martial arts. This does not mean they can effectively counter the technique/tactic right away. At most it should be seen as a means to better deal against them. Ki Artists would be able to understand how Ki techniques work.
Rank: E
Name: Medical Knowledge
Description: The general knowledge of the body and the tools needed to ensure its health and longevity. The field of applied science focusing on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. E would be basic combat first aid with above-average medical knowledge, while D would be Knowledge of a trained doctor or physician; typically with a specialization of some kind. Beyond these ranks, a person’s medical skills are practically supernatural.
Rank: E
Name: Streetwise
Description: After having been to a few underground fights and having to make her way to them, she has learned how to navigate the underbelly of a city and glean a bit of information from shadier types of people.
Rank: E
Abilities:
Name: Ki Manipulation
Description: The ability to manipulate Ki. This is made possible through training and meditation to unlock a person's Ki Center. By doing so allows the practitioner to reach superhuman levels of fitness through the manipulation of Ki. Or even allowing a Ki Artist to infuse a weapon with Ki in order to enhance it to perform techniques.
Rank: E
Name: Ki Sense
Description: From being able to control the body's Ki, the user is now sensitive to Ki signatures around them. Through such sensitivity, the Artists can now sense people's presences by this and be able differentiate one signature against each person. The term "killing intent" comes from this as usually one's Ki rises with the intent to cause harm. All Artists have at least E rank at it and sometimes do not increase it as they are busy trying to perfect their fighting techniques. This is why some of them go to the I.A.C.S.B. for experience. Extremely high levels of this ability may even lead to a blind man being able to fight better than he could actually see if he had working eyes.
Rank: E
Name: Environmental Awareness
Description: The ability of heightened keen observation of one's own environment. It is gained from being involved in dangerous situations that may cause death or drastic injury. This capacity for sensing danger relies on increasing the sensitivity of all five senses.
Rank: E
Name: Bravery
Description: The resolve to function towards an intended goal despite the numerous mental interferences. This can range from fear, pressure, confusion, and so forth.
Rank: E
Name: Durable Skeleton
Description: Due to a genetic anomaly she has, her bones are far more durable than the average person's. This, combined with her style's rather demanding standards for toughness, have led her bones to be much harder to break than even a person with her level of toughness. Gives a + to endurance when dealing with attacks that could harm her skeletal system.
Rank: E
Techniques:
Name: Art of Many Limbs
Description: Channeling ki to her muscles to allow her to do a five attacks consecutively, she strings together a flurry of punches, elbows, knees, and kicks to bombard her opponent with an unrelenting stream of violence.
Rank: E
Cost: 5
Type: Consecutive Strikes, External Offensive
Name: Armor Body
Description: Running Ki to her shins and forearms, she toughens them to the point where they can stop E+ rank damage. She often uses this with Muay Thai blocking techniquesthat center around blocking with those parts of the body.
Rank: E
Cost: 4
Type: External Defensive
Name: Devastating Counter
Description: This technique allows her to unleash a devastating knee or elbow strike infused with ki,after blocking, the strike depending on which arm or leg she blocked with. This deals a total of E+ damage.
Rank: E
Cost: 5
Type: Counter, External Offensive