Name: Angela "Angel" Piers

Age: 19

Species: Human

Max Health / Power Level: 121

Focus: Attack>Speed>Defense

Appearance:


Angela typically wears a gray training hoodie on top of a sleeveless shirt, dark slacks, and white sneakers. She usually wraps her fists in bandages when training or sparring. Height: 5'4". Weight: 110 lbs. She has a light, muscular appearance that doesn't really show when she's wearing her hoodie.

Biography: Angela grew up in a small town with her mother, father, and little sister. For the most part, she had a rough life, on account that her father was constantly gambling their money away. This lead to a lot stress and abuse from her father, and when her little sister was born, it just made things worse for her. To keep her little sister safe, Angela had to practically take double the abuse from her father and would have to look after her little sister alone as her mother had turned to alcohol to escape the constant trauma from Angela's father.

One day, when Angela was out getting food with her little sister, she saw something that immediately caught her attention. On a TV in the store, she saw a live tournament finals match happening on screen. She watched as a skilled fighter took down his opponent and won the whole tournament. Her eyes glowed with excitement as a mental lightbulb lit up in her head. Ever since that day, she had been mentally and physically training herself, using any materials and junk she could find to make a makeshift training set. She worked herself, day and night, usually going to bed drenched in sweat. Training for the day that she could enter a World Tournament as a true martial artist.

Angela's main reason for joining the tournament is for the prize money. She hopes that the prize money she earns would allow her to get her mother and little sister to a better home in the city, away from her abusive father. By doing this, she hopes to give her family a little well deserved happiness for once.

Special Techniques: All-Out Stand - Defense Boost

Name: Niko Renzo

Alias: Eclipse

Age: 20

Species: Human

Max Health / Power Level: 700

Focuses: Speed > Attack > Defense

Appearance:


Niko stands at about 5'8" and looks to have had physical training to the tune of more an athletic approach than bulk strength. He is a wiry sort, rather flexible in terms of build. Generally seen in collared shirts and jeans, gloves or not. Usually in darker colors out of preference, but he has others in his wardrobe. Also, he has a tendency to stare, like he's either people-watching or lost in thought. Sometimes, it looks more like he's trying to figure something out, specifically in a combat-related sense.

Biography:

Even in the future, things go wrong, sometimes. We may have increased scientific advancements in technology, medicine, and so on...but we can't cure things like human greed. That's taken willingly by anybody who ever did something crazy to make a buck. For instance, let's talk about that colonization of Mars. Not many people live there, but certainly you could mine there for new sources of material, fuels, chemicals, etc. When the door slammed open to allow access to all that Mars had to offer, the top company to make it big was the all-in and somewhat-dubious Martian Mining Corporation (MMC), staying only a small margin ahead of Resource and Management Incorporated (RAMI). This was due to the company somewat gambling its future, and also because of an incident that's been in litigation hell for a while now, the supposed sabotage and destruction of a vessel containing mining equipment and employees...including the parents of Niko Renzo.

Niko and his brother lost their parents at about the high school age. They had gone to Mars to oversee equipment personally and get more money for the boys' upcoming college years and...died in space, owing to what many believe was a deliberate act against the company, but could never be proven. With priorities changing towards a powerful need to support their lives, the two of them lived off of what their parents' deaths provided for them until they could join the armed services and train up to something useful. They were both naturally very sharp, and took to armed and unarmed combat training well. Niko managed especially well in his training, but accelerated in fighting in the dark or blind, and was a natural in sniping and gunplay. So, in his time, he was sometimes called upon to take out dangerous targets, spot for other soldiers, and essentially work in stealth when he had to get up-close-and-personal.

This all seemed to work in the act of supporting oneself, but for Niko it wasn't enough for two important reasons. First, although he was good at it, Niko didn't enjoy sniping. He performed his tasks because they were necessary, not because they might somehow amuse him. And the second was that his never heard anything about whether or not the MMC was responsible for the explosion in space. It could have been an accident, but it was the information was too scarce to really tell, or had been obsfucated. He wanted to do something about this, but how? This was a company. He couldn't just shoot them. He needed to find some way to re-open the case, locate new data, and so on. That was going to cost money, money he didn't have. Except...there WAS this martial arts tournament coming up, and there could be no doubt that he could fight as well as he could shoot a gun. What could he lose by trying?

Special Techniques: Tatsumaki-Ken (Tornado Fist) - Attack Boost

Theme!: For the heck of it.

Name:
Bakuto
Age:
18
Species:
Human
Max Health / Power Level:
110

Appearance:


Bakuto is a well tone athletically built person. From constant training he built his body to its shape that it is in now. He is five eleven and weighs somewhere at two hundred and five pounds. Bakuto is bald and has brown eyes. He wears a golden dark yellow GI like robes and black GI pants.

Biography:
Bakuto grew up in an impoverished village. Where living was just survival of the fittest. Bakuto grew up having to fight to survive. Fighting others just so he could get something to eat and/or drink. As Bakuto grew up there was a small fighting group in his village. The strongest people in these fights would have tournaments deciding which families got more food and who got less. Bakuto fought in this small village local tournaments. He fought hard, to become the strongest villager in his village. Bakuto soon learned of a greater tournament, the World Martial Arts Tournament. A way he could earn a lot of money that he could take back to his village so he could afford food to aid the rest of his village that aren't strong enough to compete for their own food like he could. So he set out to head to the World Martial Arts Tournament to hopefully win and save his village from being poor anymore.
Special Techniques:
Secret Technique: Afterimage: Speed Boost

Focus

speed- attack - defense

Name: Wu Han
Age: 20
Species: Human
Max Health / Power Level: 700
Focuses: Defense > Speed > Attack


He keeps to his Gi more often than not, though it often has the effect of making people nervous around him. Probably has something to do with the "God of Death" kanji etched on the back of the Gi. If asked, his only real explanation was that it was the kanji used by an ancient clan that no longer exists. Outside of that, he's not above dressing more casually in t-shirts or jeans if he has no plans to train or get into any battles.

Biography:
Long ago, there existed a clan of deadly assassins. They were skilled martial artists, having created an entire school of the art that specialized in assassination techniques. They were feared during their time, also wearing the kanji for "God of Death" on their attire, thus earning them a reputation for being like grim reapers on the battlefield. But people like this tend to have enemies, and they have an even more common tendency to dwindle in number over time. Eventually, all but a small handful of their descendants died off as wars became less common and a need for such assassins became even less common.

One such descendant was a man named Wu Laoguai. He trained alongside his cousins underneath their grandfather, who taught them the deadly arts of the Shinigami Style if for no other reason than to ensure their secrets and techniques could live on in some form. Laoguai, unlike his cousins, took the training to heart. He started out taking on contracts independently, but became successful enough that he eventually ran his own syndicate of assassins, the Wuye-ying, also known as the Midnight Shadows. He never taught any of his underlings anything beyond the bare basics, both because he wanted to keep the true techniques within the family and because he didn't want any of his men to ever pose a threat to him. Eventually he did have a son of his own, named Wu Han.

In Han, the man saw his true legacy, and unlike the underlings he had trained before, Laoguai held nothing back in the training of his son. Han learned everything his father could teach him, and this swiftly made him a far more capable fighter than anyone else in the syndicate. Sure, there were occasionally some that held resentment and jealousy, but they didn't usually last long. But it quickly became apparent that Han was not quite the hardened killer his father was. In fact he more often than not thought himself as a martial artist first and an assassin second. As such, he never took any contracts he found to be dirty or "unclean", instead only bringing death to those who actually deserved it. This hasn't been too pleasing for Laoguai, who wants Han to eventually take over the syndicate, and the two aren't exactly on speaking terms at present. They haven't come to blows, at least not yet, but that doesn't mean a father-son feud doesn't potentially loom over their minds as a possibility.

Special Techniques:
Taiyoken (Solar Flare): Speed Debuff

Theme Song:

Name: Jack "Ashe" Riptor.
Age: 29 years old.
Species: Human.
Max Health / Power Level: 100.
Focuses: Speed > Attack > Defense.

Appearance: Headshot
Height: 5,9" / 1.80 metres
Weight: 152 pounds / 69 kilograms
Hair Color and Style: Blonde hair, reaching his shoulders, with a tail on top.
Scar(s): Jack has a scarred line on his right cheek.

Biography: Jack was born in Glastonbury, England. A town famous for it's legends and myths. His father and mother were both teaching at the local school when Jack was born. He was a good and healthy baby. The small town boy was raised to believe anything is possible and can be created with faith.

As a teenager Jack was already a famous musician in Glastonbury and surroundings, after he inherited a guitar, a harp and a tin whistle. He played in a band called "The Merlins", mostly in pubs and inns. The band fell apart after a few years later and Jack decided to go live at his hometown once again. At that moment his parents were thinking about retiring and becoming globetrotters. When Jack heard this he decided to built his own home just outside Glastonbury. Jack needed some cash to build his house, so he sollicitated for the vacancy of District Keeper. Jack got the job when he had offered himself.

As a keeper however it was important to know how to well defend himself and the district's area. This was the reason for Jack to move into his uncle Frasier's house. Frasier and Jack had a close connection since Jack's birth and his uncle would always call Jack by his nickname 'Ashe'. His uncle Frasier served the army as a soldier and as a commander-in-chief. Jack learned earned basic martial arts and swordfighting technics thanks to his uncle.

Jack started to love the arts of fighting and self-defense, even more than his love for swordfighting. He learned about the World Martial Arts Tournament from his uncle. Jack decided to give it a go and see how far he would come and the prize money would come in handy for the construction of his house. Unfortunately Jack didn't qualify for the knockout matches of the tournament, he lost in the last qualification round.

Special Techniques: ¿¿secret??