Name: Rao Jay

Age: 18

Gender:Male

Appearance: Rao has slightly lengthy black hair and subtly almond-shaped jade green eyes along with an olive-skinned complexion and the build and full body muscle tone of someone who's spent their entire life harshly training to be the greatest martial artist in the world. He's only about 5'3" in height and 136 pounds despite this. In his costume as The Dragonfist he wears a crimson bandana mask with gold outlines around the eyes, a black undershirt under a red gi of sorts with a golden dragon design emblazoned on it along with black outlines and gold boots while his belt is also black. .

Personality: Rao is fairly out of touch with the modern world, having spent the majority of his life in the hidden city of Tian Yu in the Himalayas, where time has fairly little meaning. Currently he's intensely driven by the need to find the person or persons responsible for his parents deaths and despite his mentors attempts to raise him to follow a path towards enlightenment and inner peace his main motivations are anger and revenge. He does not trust easily given his history of betrayal from a young age, and at the moment his quest for vengeance makes him feel less than inclined to trust others. In ordinary circumstances he takes pride in his abilities in the martial arts and normally enjoys fighting not for the sake of violence but more out of a desire to test his skills and for the fun of friendly competition. Despite his currently being clouded by negative emotions, some of his teachers wisdom has rubbed off on him and he'll often pretend to sound wise and drop proverbs in friendly mockery of and homage to them along with displaying a slightly dry sense of humor. He possesses a strong sense of honor in combat, though he's not above thinking tactically if he has to and is actually fairly clever. Above all he has a burning sense of justice and belief that no innocent, especially young innocents, should have to suffer.

Skills: 

Martial Arts-Rao has spent over a decade training in martial arts under the Eternal Lords of Tian Yu, immortals with far more experience than any human master. Due to honing his skills with them nearly every day since the age of seven in order to master their own style of martial arts as well as many mundane ones, Rao is quite possibly one of the most skilled martial artists on Earth. He has mastered multiple styles of both unarmed combat and armed combat with traditional weaponry. Aside from Tian Yu's martial arts he's mastered styles ranging from aikido and Jiujitsu to Muay Thai and Kali, among many others.

Acrobatics, free-running, climbing: As part of his training in Tian Yu, Rao became a highly skilled acrobat and free-runner, equally adept at moving freely whether he's hopping rooftops, traversing treacherous mountain terrain or bounding his way through forests or jungles, if necessary.

Abilities:
Bodily control-As part of his training with the Eternal Masters, Rao is in near complete control of his body, making him capable of feats like deadening pain from his injuries, existing comfortably in extreme environments or even slowing his breathing and heartbeat down to achieve things like slowing the effects of poisons, going without oxygen for extended periods or even entering a state nearly indistinguishable from death.

near-peak-human abilities-Rao is about as fit as a human being can possibly be without actually being superhuman. His speed, reflexes, stamina, senses and strength are all close to human maximum without being superhuman.

The Dragon's Chi-As the last step to becoming the Dragon Fist Rao defeated Lao Gong the Ever-Burning, a powerful and ancient dragon, with his bare hands. As it was the only way to defeat the beast, Rao plunged his fists into its molten heart again and again until it was subdued. The process bathed his fists in the immortal serpent's chi, permanently linking it to Rao. Now he can draw upon its' chi at will. At the moment, the process tires him greatly and he can only use it to imbue his hands with temporary near invulnerability and massive concussive force a few times a day. However there are legends of previous bearers of the Dragon Fist who could use the fiery energy to do things like power themselves to superhuman physical levels temporarily, heal others, imbue projectiles and weapons with great power and heat, and tap into a sort of empathic oneness with the universe. If such powers lie within the Dragon's Chi, Rao has no idea as of yet.

Equipment: At the moment Rao has nothing but himself and the Dragon Fist costume. He is technically the sole heir and rightful majority shareholder in the influential Jay Corporation, but due to spending so long out of touch with society he currently neither knows nor cares.

Brief Backstory: Rao Jay was the son of multi-billionaire and captain of industry Robert D.Jay and Mako Ryuugamine, heiress to the powerful Ryuugamine [i]zaibatsu[/i]. Though marriage between the two resulted in a corporate merger of legendary proportions, they preferred as quiet a life as possible with their son. Unfortunately for all of them, while on a private flight to vacation in China, their pilot revealed himself as a member of a strange organization bent on kidnapping the family and exploiting Jaycorp's wealth for their own ends. The plane went down in the resulting struggle and crashed in the Himalayas with Rao as the only survivor. 

By sheer coincidence he made his way to the hidden city of Tian Yu. The immortal mystics who are masters of the city took pity upon the lost and injured child and took him in. After months of persistence on his part they also granted his wish to be trained in every way of combat they could possibly teach him, hoping the discipline would calm his wild heart though his wish was always for personal vengeance. They eventually grew to see his potential as a martial artist, and at the age of eighteen, he took the test held once in a generation to try and find the next Dragonfist, protector of the secret city and the hand of Tian Yu in the outside world. Rao was able to pass the many tests and even defeat the dragon Lao Gong, earning the title and power for himself. With his training complete, he denied all offers to give up on the path of revenge and live happily in Tian Yu, along with the possibility of one day gaining immortality for himself. Instead he set out into the modern world, promising to take up the duties of the Dragonfist should the need arise but otherwise pursue his own goals.