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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#1: Sep 12th 2011 at 9:56:30 PM

The setting: Three months before the World Tournament 2010, the event to end all events in the martial arts world. Everyone is getting ready to participate, ever since the invitations were sent out by Ruben Bernstein, the rich and mysterious sponsor of the tournament.

However, as the preparations begin, several masters of many of the younger participants begin to vanish, and the young apprentice of the "Fist of Justice", Ban Kuroda, was rumored to have gone bad and was unleashing vicious attacks on seemingly random people.

And to make matters worse still, two ninja have been trying to kill random apprentices too, and seem to be taking orders from some powerful people.

Open up the secrets and find out what's going on. Are you a bad enough dude to not only win the tournament, but solve the secrets abounding?

  • Name:
  • Age: (Probably rather young.)
  • Family:
  • Appearance:
  • Fighting Style:
  • Abilities: (Yes, Ki Attacks are capable of being used, and encouraged. Including Playing with Fire and other possible attacks.)
  • Master:
  • Personality:
  • Bio:
  • Other Info:

Bitterman Since: Apr, 2011
#2: Sep 13th 2011 at 9:15:46 AM

Interested. MAYBE

Mad as a hatter
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#3: Sep 13th 2011 at 4:29:32 PM

Possibly interested; I'm a big Fighting Game fan.

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#4: Sep 13th 2011 at 6:19:30 PM

  • Name: Ban Kuroda
  • Age: 16
  • Family: He has a Disappeared Dad, and he lives with his "neurotic" mother, helping to take care of her.
  • Appearance: Ban is a rather muscular young man with naturally occurring golden hair that could make one think he is a delinquent. He has dark brown eyes and is quite handsome. He has a scar on his lower jaw that he got from a stray Ki Attack from his rival. He likes to wear a white jacket, a blue sleeveless shirt, black khaki pants, and sneakers.
  • Fighting Style: His family actually has a history of learning multiple martial arts and incorporating a number of the moves into one unified familial style: Chiryu no Kaku. His father drilled it into him at age 10 before disappearing two years later.
  • Abilities: He can create powerful flames using his Ki, all of them bright red. He is a Lightning Bruiser fighter.
  • Master: The "Fist of Justice" Gen Hakoda
  • Personality: Hot-Blooded and a type who loves a good fight so as to improve his fighting ability, Ban is, despite his appearances, very intelligent and resourceful in a fight. He often puts up the front of Obfuscating Stupidity while making his plan in a fight. However, he is still an Idiot Hero when it comes to women. Ban very much values what other people think of him, so this doppelganger running around sullying his name has him really pissed off. Ban never gives up in a fight, even when someone heavily wounds him, he will try to get back up to keep the fight going. Ban wants to, no matter what, protect the people precious to him, even if it means getting himself hurt to do so. He will never hurt a friend and so, due to the danger posed by this doppelganger, he is now working with his old rival to clear his name. When there is free time on weekends and he's done training, he likes video games and reading manga.
  • Bio: Ban is the son of Takuji Kuroda, the now disappeared father he only barely knew. When he was little, his father never paid any attention to him, he was never home, and only started when Ban took interest in martial arts at ten in order to defeat a school bully. Takuji viciously trained his son, but Ban never lost his real motivations. After defeating the bully, he refuses to finish the guy off. This was the time his flames first manifested. His father kept training him for two years until he disappeared and left Ban in the care of his mother, who often had strange visions and seemed neurotic. Now, four years later, Ban is involved in the plot after his rival reported that he fought someone who was imitating Ban's style, but who used blue flames rather than red ones.
  • Other Info: Ban's favorite food is insanely spicy curry.


  • Name: Kouji Shikoku
  • Age: 17
  • Family: He has to hold his family together, as both of his parents were killed by "a certain person." He has two younger twin sisters and a little brother.
  • Appearance: A black haired young man with blue eyes, he is more muscular and is slightly taller than Ban. He wears a white shirt with the sleeves torn off, black pants, and steel toed boots. He usually takes the shirt off before a fight. He has a scar on shoulder from when he and Ban attacked each other in one of their earlier matches. He is a perpetual frowner...except when a woman enters the picture. Like Ban, he never gives up.
  • Fighting Style: He doesn't really have one, he just put together some nice moves from living on the street. Helps that he has natural fighting talent.
  • Abilities: His Ki has Shock and Awe characteristics. He seems to be able to more easily work around an attack if he has already seen it once.
  • Master: Kouji had been training with Shinjiro Gouda in Karate. The man had been also sheltering his family. Shinjiro and the kids had all vanished too.
  • Personality: Kouji is a more cynical and dark person than Ban, but he believes that, no matter how dark the situation is, with strength and determination, he can change the outcome. He tends to get annoyed when people act strange around him, so he could be an Only Sane Man. He is determined to find his family and his master, and make whoever took them away pay for what they did. Kouji is a shameless flirt, but is uncomfortable if women flirt with him first. He does not believe in fate, saying that it is the lazy man's way to deny having to do something painful.
  • Bio: Kouji started out as the heir to a powerful Yakuza gang, but then somebody went in alone and killed everyone in the gang, including his parents. This was a ruthless act done for no good reason, as the person had not even contacted the police or tried to set up a sting or such. Kouji vowed from that day on to find whoever did that to his family and kill "that person with the red eyes". He is looked up to by his siblings as a big brother figure, and when they vanished, he became convinced that, somehow, the two incidents were somehow connected.
  • Other Info: Kouji's favorite food is garlic seasoned bread.

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#5: Sep 13th 2011 at 6:19:53 PM

okay, thanks for telling me, guys.

Bitterman Since: Apr, 2011
#6: Sep 13th 2011 at 7:18:56 PM

Name: D. Donovan Age: 21

Family: No known living relatives, since he was born an orphan.

Appearance:5'7, Has short black hair, piercing dark brown eyes, and a fairly muscular build.

Fighting Style: He has no real fighting style, as he prefers the challenge of making it up as he goes.

Abilities: He uses the power of Darkness, (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CastingAShadow)

Personality: He is cruel, Sadistic, and very nasty in combat. However, he is not a completely terrible person, he just likes to keep his nice side under lock and key. Outside of fights he is typically found researching his opponents fighting styles, so he can know how to beat them.

Bio: Donovan, as he prefers to be called, lost his parents as an infant. He can not remember if they were killed, or if they abandoned him, either way they are not held fondly in his memory. He spent most of his young life bouncing around from foster home to foster home, until he reached the age of 15, when he finally ran away. He spent five years of his life developing the powers that had begun to eat away at his mind. He has since, become a master to his power, and feels the constant need to fight. The tournament provides a perfect chance to satisfy his urge.

Other Info: Has a soft spot for: Children, animals, and chocolate.

Mad as a hatter
Bitterman Since: Apr, 2011
#8: Sep 15th 2011 at 4:51:11 PM

Hoping this picks up quickly, I love fighting games, and tournament arcs.

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#9: Sep 15th 2011 at 5:34:47 PM

What do you think of Ban and Kouji?

Bitterman Since: Apr, 2011
#10: Sep 15th 2011 at 6:14:04 PM

There going to be fun to fight, btw should i go back and add in the little fact that during a match D. can become a bit of Nut case, or should I just let everyone figure that out themselves

Mad as a hatter
NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#11: Sep 15th 2011 at 6:41:45 PM

You can just show that during the fights.

Bitterman Since: Apr, 2011
#12: Sep 15th 2011 at 7:46:18 PM

Yeah, I figure it is for the best. Ok, now is there a rule against him using shadows to form some what stable extra arms, and eclipses

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#13: Sep 15th 2011 at 8:07:12 PM

eclipses, no. Shadow arms, yes.

Bitterman Since: Apr, 2011
#14: Sep 15th 2011 at 8:13:44 PM

That will work.

Mad as a hatter
goodisgood214 AMEN! Since: Nov, 2010
AMEN!
#15: Sep 15th 2011 at 8:26:44 PM

Name: Abdul Matim

Age: 24

Family: Father was a immigrant from Kuwait, estranged. Mothers an American, also estranged.

Appearance: Tall, around 6;7 , and a mountainous build to match. Extremely dark skin, but with red hair, and golden eyes.

Fighting style: Boxing. Takes massive strength and uncanny speed, and applies it simply, more practically than all of these fancy martial arts.

Abilities: Doesnt utilize them. Would'nt even if he could. If he closes the distance inbetween himself and the opponent-and he will'-he'll hit like rocks, make you face burn like fire, stay as swift as the wind, and send water dripping down your face till you choke in it.

Trainer: Benny Carlton.

Personality: Lives for what he does, sports a chip on his shoulder on and off the ring. He'll find that fight he's looking for, whether it comes to trading fists, or preferences on how to do so. If others dont share his obsession, too bad for them. They can enjoy their 'sanity' behind their cramped cublicles and comfy chairs. It's never failed him before, and damn it if he's gonna let these BASTARDS keep him from it now.

Bio: Growing up in a very conservative household, Abdul's penchant for violence, especially for the sake of sport, rather than immediate necessity, remained a constant source of conflict ever since he was young. At first a firm spanking did the trick, but Adul got too big for that way before he had any business to. When he reached seven, his parents decided that a vent for this rage was in order. They set him to boxing lessons, daily. This helped slightly, but also gave Adul a more efficient format to beat anyone who wronged him even slightly. Then came the actual arguing, as if it'd help. The years and years and years of arguing. Noise complaints became a weekly ritual at the Matims and their elderly neighbors. Damned if Adul's disposition wasnt partially genetic! The fighting reached it's climax when Adul was seventeen years old. After a particularly ferocious session, Adul decided to take his frustrations out on his bedroom walls. The aftermath would cost thousands. Enough was enough; Adul was shown the door.

Fortunately, or unfortunatley, Adul made quite a name for himself in the boxing community, and could atleast afford a place too live and enough to sustain himself if he worked a job or two on the side. After a few years of a blemish free record, he didnt even need those exta jobs. That's when he first caught the attention of Ben Carlton, a big time coach. A bit of paperwork, along with a manager to die for, and Adul found himself fighting the big names in no time, and beating them into a pulp. Kuwait Death Wait, they called him. It was good times, for a while. One hot summer night, Adul walked in on the bruised and broken corpse of the man who'd been no less than a second dad to him, with a note lying on his chest. An invitation to the world tournament.

"I'll play that game," the boxer said. "Then they'll die. All of them." A grand funeral service was held for the prestigious trainer, funded exclusively by Adul. The moment it was over, he was off. "It'll be quick, Ben."

edited 15th Sep '11 8:27:01 PM by goodisgood214

I kick arse for the Lord!
Bitterman Since: Apr, 2011
#17: Sep 16th 2011 at 8:34:13 AM

Oh, and Donovan's name means something

Mad as a hatter
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