[OOC] World Warriors: The Nomadic Fist (Quirky Fighting Game Influenced Roleplay)

[Megsychan]

I would like to keep the title as is. I was interested in this RP primarily because it was, in many ways, a Street Fighter AU. "The Nomadic Fist", as you said, just sounds like a wuxia title, which isn't bad in itself, but it doesn't clearly articulate the fighting game tournament vibe.

[KaiserElectric]

It seems the consensus ranges from Neutral to Keep. :P

[Crosswire]

I think we should keep the title as is. Nomadic Fist might seem shorter and snappier, but World Warriors: THE NOMADIC FIST sounds cooler. Like some cheesy arcade fighting game. It fits with the feel of things to be honest :D

[Drag]

I think it's cool as is honestly, like what Cross said about the arcade-y aspect of it. Even still if you feel like it needs to be changed then I don't think anyone will see an issue with it.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Okay, so I think we decided on keeping the title. Good. That means less work.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

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@redbaron1234@lavulman@Crosswire@Dojo@Drag@Megsychan@KaiserElectric@Holy Soldier@wxps350@dragonmancer@Savo@The book of bad juju

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After waaaaaay too fucking long, I managed to kick everyone's ass into gear and finish those collabs we were doing. I promise no more hold ups or w/e. We are finally starting the main event in the tournament.

But, I promise there won't be anymore snags, and everything will flow.

[Indy Cooper]

Is there...is there still room for peeps in this? Because this sounds like fun.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Is there...is there still room for peeps in this? Because this sounds like fun.

@Indy Cooper

It's always gonna be open, baby!

[Indy Cooper]

Are you going to be terribly offended if I go to fill out an old anime trope?

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Are you going to be terribly offended if I go to fill out an old anime trope?

@Indy Cooper

Nah.

I'll only be triggered if the character is really bad.

[Indy Cooper]

Lieu Hue Thi Yen

Liễu Huệ Thi Yên

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⦋ 22 || Vietnamese || Female ⦌

APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY

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APPEARANCE

Tall and willowy, Yen moves gracefully despite her handicap, though not all the scars on her long limbs are from training. Though they don't work physically, her eyes still retain their colour, and since she knows how un-nerving it is for her opponents, she likes to fix her "gaze" on them. She dresses in her homeland's tradition, keeping to simple, streamlined robes, though she wears no shoes. What people assume is a sword on her back is actually a giant fan, which she can wield much more quickly than one would assume. When open, the fan is beautifully painted with the image of a dragon and phoenix fighting in the mountains above a harbour.

PERSONALITY TRAITS

-Self-assured
-Serene
-Clever
-Mischievous
-Good-humoured
-Proud
-Frugal
-Kind
-Generous
-Trusting
-Strategic

BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION

Born without sight, Yen seemed to be destined to stay humble and lowly for her life. Her parents did not have much money, and with a fourth child who was disabled, their resources were stretched to their limit, and they had no idea how to care for a blind child. Her mother made do, though, by taking Yen with her everywhere. It was during a shopping trip when Yen was five that her true destiny was revealed.

A middle-aged man calling himself the Dragon visited their village one day, looking for someone with talents he could teach his martial art so he could retire to monkhood. He spent several days there, and then he spotted little Yen, following behind her mother with very little trouble despite the obliviousness of her eyes. He sensed her using her ki to feel her way around without even knowing she was doing it, and he recognized that here was his long-sought student.

It only took a little bargaining, promising she would be looked out for beyond what they could do, before her parents said their farewells to Yen and sent her off to meet her fate. Yen spent the next fifteen years studying under The Dragon, who affectionately called her Phoenix. He not only taught her all he knew, but also sent for a few other teachers who could help with special techniques that either overcame or utilised her blindness, including the use of her fan. Two years ago, Dragon announced her training complete and sent her out into the world. He challenged her to only ever improve, and to prove to every fighter out there that she was more capable, not less, than any one of them.

Since then she has taken up the Nomad life, going from small town to small town and tournament to tournament. She lost many fights due to the sheer number of strange abilities she didn't realise existed, but now she has adjusted, and is ready to prove once and for all that the blind fighter is the one who sees the most.

FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES

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FIGHTING STYLE

Yen's fighting style involves most long ranged attacks, using the very tips of her fingers and toes or pushing "hardened" wind with her ki. Defensive in nature, it centers around dodging and avoiding the enemy, frustrating them with their inability to connect blows until they are exhausted. All normal strikes are very light in damage, though they are almost exclusive aimed at high damage areas like joints and nerve clusters.
The training was brutally efficient in increasing speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes, but not so much at toughening either her or her blows. As a result, Yen can fight for literal hours, but isn't that great at taking blows.
Her fan is a giant, two-handed affair, which has blades on the rib-ends. She can use it as a club, spear, or in it's fan form to control the wind she puts out.
She "sees" her opponents through a combination of basic ki-sensing and reading the air currents as they move. Unhindered by normal vision, she can even see her opponents weapons, connected as they are to the fighters themselves.

SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES

■ Bến cảng (Harbor Wind)

Yen dodges to the side of an incoming blow, sweeping her arms in a tight circle and drawing in wind from behind her opponent to throw them past her and onto the ground, or at the very least off balance.

■ Cần cẩu (Crane Leap)

Yen shoves down against the ground with her ki-hardened wind, launching herself into the air and over the opponent in a neat flip, moving fifteen feet up and twenty feet forward. Landing involves another burst of wind to slow her descent just enough to not damage herself.

■ Bẻ sóng (Bend the Wave)

Pulling her fan in towards her knees and away from the opponent, Yen creates a high force wind under the opponent's feet, tripping them and send them flying across the battle field.

■ Thay đổi dòng chảy (Alter the Flow)

While using Bend the Wave, Yen can switch the direction of the throw, either to avoid or send her target into obstacles, smash them into the ground, or even fling them high into the air.

■ Lưỡi vô hình (Invisible Blades)

Whipping her hands out in fast, chopping motions, Yen sends out waves of ki-hardened wind, about the width of a sword's length, speeding towards her opponent. These hit about as hard as a good blow from a staff.

■ Bùng nổ khoe khoang (Battering Breeze)

Yen swings her fan out in a wide arc, sending out a gale-force wind into the area in front of her. She can "harden" this, turning it into a brutal slam attack that hits with as much force as a battering ram, or leave it as simple wind, sending opponents tumbling and taking projectiles out of the air.

SUPER MOVES

■ Bão (Storm)

Spinning her fan around in a wild, twisting pattern, Yen surrounds her opponent with narrow, sweeping blades of wind, inflicting hundreds of tiny cuts on them. The speed and force of these is enough to charge their leading edge slightly, making them visible to everyone as glinting blade of static electricity.

■ Khủng bố (Terror)

Yen speeds herself up by pushing herself along with wind. She then uses this to fling herself around her opponent, bending and twisting much like a ballet dancer, and almost impossible to hit, fast enough to blur. Once the opponent is disoriented, she strikes with a series of rapid kicks at the knees, elbows, and neck, landing a total of seven blows on each point, then kicks one final time into the opponents solar plexus and launching herself back to a safe distance.

■ Đau chia sẻ (Shared Pain)

Yen slams her fan, in spear form, into the ground, then opens the fan . Standing next to it, she plucks out two specific blades from the end and hurls them at her opponent. Guided by wind for unerring accuracy, these are aimed straight at the eyes.
Normally she would never use this. This move is specifically to punish evil and dishonourable fighter

WEAKNESSES & LIMITS

Well, she is blind. While she can compensate for this in a fight to a degree with ki sensing, that only helps with the fighters and their weapons. Even simple rocks near her feet can trip her up, and while she recovers fairly well, if she can't "feel" it, she can't avoid it.
She's also proud of her skills, enough to be a little cocky about it. After a defeat she falls into a fit of self-doubt and worry.
She also has a habit of playing pranks and tricking people, enough to make her a little annoying to be friends with.
She loves her family and her heritage very much, making frequent trips home when she can afford it. Any insult against either of these is very much capable of getting her angry enough to make mistakes, or drop her normal fighting pattern to simply hurt the other person.
She's a dodger, not a tank. A couple of heavy blows could down her pretty effectively.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Indy Cooper Very good, I like her. Accepted.

[Kamen Evie]

Hey, @KaiserElectric, I'm still waiting on you for a snake lady post, right? Don't get me wrong, I can wait as long as you need, but if I was supposed to be doing something all this time I'd feel kind of stupid if I wasn't feeling absolutely amazing today.

_{I finally found a copy of Haunting Ground. I feel so luckyyyy}

[KaiserElectric]

@lavulman Very sorry, things are crazy with me right now and I'm trying to make time to do some writing in between final projects. I'll try to get my first snake post up tonight though and stop slowing us down :P

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I'm also going to try and post very soon.

[Oddsbod]

I'd love to join in if you're still taking players.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I'd love to join in if you're still taking players.

@Oddsbod

Of course.

[Oddsbod]

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Of course.

@Mr Allen J

Yo, totally wizard.

I haven't RPed on this forum before so I might not be up to gear on the technical getting-things-started side of things. Do I just PM you my charry sheet draft, or post it here in spoiler tags, then whenever it gets the okay I post it up in the Characters tab? Or is character building usually more collaborative here, and we're supposed to hash around ideas in the main OOC thread?

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Oddsbod You can PM it to me if it's an incomplete idea, but yeah, if it gets accepted, it can be posted in the character tab.

Buuuuuuuuut that isn't to say that the latter wouldn't be a good idea. It's just not required. lol

[Oddsbod]

Coolio. I've got a solid plan for name, personality, and backstory, but couldn't really tell you what his powers/fighting style is. Though I'm pretty sure I want him to be a shitty fighter.

Below is just all the ideas I threw around, then when I wrote them all down, realized I should probably hide it all in spoiler tags to not take up too much space.

My Hider

I had the idea of a Chosen One from ages and ages ago who gets told as a kid, hey, Chosen One, guess what, you get to go on an adventure to become the Chosen One who'll defeat the Dark Sorcerer and save our Ancient City! So he goes off, but it turns out it's kind of a bad idea to leave Chosen Oneing to a child, and he spends the next 9 or so years getting sidetracked by sidequests and, not really thinking things through, when he's about 17 gets stuck in a magic lamp by some evil spirit or maybe just a hobo or something. Then he spends the next thousand years on a small, lotus-eater type island in the middle of an endless ocean at the bottom of the lamp, not really doing much, completely misses his Chosen One deadline, then finally gets let loose in modern times.

I'm thinking personality-wise, you get this guy who's honest-to-god sweet as a button, had about a thousand years to mellow out, but is extremely susceptible to praise, is a little easily manipulated, will fall in love at the drop of a hat. Probably more of a follower than a leader. And when he gets out of that lamp, suddenly, for the first time, absolutely no one is expecting anything from him, no one really cares who he is or what he does, so he's really just having a blast with life, y'know? Hey, why don't I do this tournament thing, I bet I might meet some Cool New Friends wouldn't that be just the darndest thing? But also in a lot of ways he's a bit of a useless potato, and is mostly good at dumb sidequest related things, like tracking down lost pets, filing taxes, things that are normally just really grueling and frustrating to finish off.

For fighting, I liked the idea of him figuring out the basic process for the lamp's ability to trap things inside, like, being able to temporarily seal away things like pain, or injuries, or even an entire attack inside little vases and jars, can open it back up again if he wants, ot it just busts out naturally within a few minutes. Totally just spitballing here though.

(Drew this up as a quick design sketch too.)

My Hider