[OOC] The 20th World Martial Arts Tournament! - A Dragon Ball Roleplay

[AtomicNut]

Name: Chai
Sex: -insert trite joke here- Male
Age:14
Race: Human (sort of)

Physical Appearance:

(Little shit personified)

Personality: Chai is annoying, and he enjoys every single moment of it. Never tired of acting like a brat, he usually lives his life by travelling the land, pulling pranks, doing dine and dash, and ocassionally trying to woo the hot woman only to be dismissed (he is still a scrawny little brat). Still for all his vices, Chai is not an evil person, just a happy-go-luck rogue, and he has no hesitation in playing hardball against party poopers. Admittedly he doesn't like to fight directly, and prefers to win by subterfuge. He is also extremely weak versus women charms (funnily enough). He also doesn't like frogs (due to an incident with a rival girl shapeshifter) and will be reduced to a catatonic screaming pile in the presence of one.

History: Chai was born lucky. He was also abandoned as he was born... near the Southern Transformation Kindergarten. He learned shapeshift from an early age, among many peers, but he never felt truly at home there. His lack of actual parents turned him into a bit of a rotten brat, but Chai kept his urges steady. Shapeshifting was waaay too useful and getting kicked was not an option. Still, after his graduation, he then started his then reign of terror wandering around the earth. But then he noticed something. No matter what he did, he never got the riches or the girl. That was what heroes or martial artists usually got. And swinging a sword wasn't to his liking, so he chose to try martial artists.

Now he heard about a place called Turtle School in the middle of nowhere. Really, there was just an old man, who kept refusing to train him. Still, he shared his tastes... as Chai found soon enough. He eventually was accepted, although parading around as a perky girl of the magazines in a bunny suit for an entire month was quite the chore. It paled in comparison to what followed after, what with the turtle shells and Milk runs and what not. Still, Chai... grew fond of that old man. He even didn't bother to steal his dirty magazines when he left, as he tried his luck in the World Martial arts for fun and profit.

Really, it was getting a little boring with that old guy at times.

Common Techniques

• Shapeshifting: Duh. He can turn into whatever he wants, with no time limit, although a shapeshifted's form strength depends on the shapeshifter, so well, no tanking stone-demolishing punches to the face effortlessly.
• Turtle Hermit Body Training: Still, he's helluva strong and fast, what with having hauled milk in a hellish trip and wore a turtle shell. Which brings to his next technique.
• Afterimage Technique: He can perfom this technique aswell, moving so fast he leaves an after image. Still he can only produce one,
  as he's still a student.
• (Toy)Kamehameha: While his master didn't teach him this move, he learnt on his own in secret. A truly trumph card only used in the most dire situations, his version doesn't have as much bite as the Turtle Hermit, and firing it once will leave him so winded he would not be able to fight any longer.

Other: Oolong meets Krillin. God forbid. Worth noting Chai almost never uses the three last techniques unless he's seriously fired up and there's a solar eclipse or fishes walk on land. (Ie, very rarely).

[BCTheEntity]

The Triclops Sage

Name: Hikari Kiyoshi
Sex: Male
Age: 24
Race: Three-Eyed Human

Physical Appearance: Not gonna lie, I looked for any good triclops image, and the only one that even vaguely looked like a fighter was... Tien Shinhan. So, slightly limited as far as images go, but I'll provide a "close enough" image if somebody can figure out what basis I went with for the description. In any case, Kiyoshi is light-skinned and black-haired, keeping the latter in a short chonmage topknot, and has the same central forehead eye as any other Three-Eyed Person, or human hybrid descendant thereof, accompanying sterner eyes in the regular positions on a face that could be described as "square-jawed". Covering a lean and well-built physique of around 1.75m in height is a long white gi trimmed in grey, tied round his waist with a white obi, and wooden geta sandals on his feet; beneath this are white cloth strips tightly binding his lower body down to his shins, essentially keeping him decent even if his robe is removed. He also tends to wear a straw jingasa, tied under his chin to keep it on, though this is often removed in a proper fight such as what he believes he will encounter in the WMAT.

Personality: Kiyoshi could certainly be considered the strong, silent type. He is stoic and solitary in general, yet unfailingly polite when he speaks to others, and quite generous on top of this, dispatching sage-like wisdom to those who require guidance, and assistance to those in need even at his own expense. He is typically patient and calm, maintaining his wits and a rational outlook even in bizarre circumstances, and clever enough to strategise, plan, or improvise around most situations. Despite this, it is not completely impossible to rile or confuse him, flaws in his persona that he seeks to eliminate as soon as he can, and oddly enough, he maintains a poor understanding of more advanced technology, whether through reluctance or simple inability to use most of it properly.

History: Kiyoshi's birth into a small town of three-eyed humans was not particularly notable. Indeed, most of his early years were not particularly notable other than as stepping stones for his general personality traits. Yet were it not for his father, he may not have been born at all - for a powerful demon had menaced the town shortly before he was born, threatening to destroy it had the elder Hikari not stepped forward. As the tale was related to him at the age of ten, Kiyoshi's father defeated the demon, but could not finish it off, and so sacrificed much of his energy to trap it in the town's sacred temple, weakening himself greatly in the process. Even then, it struggled to escape, and Kiyoshi's father feared his own death would mean the demon's release, and his town's destruction.

Kiyoshi refused to allow that to happen. Then and there, he vowed to the world and his parents that he would grow strong, strong enough to destroy the demon, even before his father left this life. The seriousness of such a vow was not lost to his parents, and within a week, he began his martial arts training. For the next five years, he trained, almost to the exclusion of other forms of education, and in the process developed a strong sense of martial honour, though as with any teenager, he was wont to rashness and rapid irritability. Many times, he insisted he was powerful enough to destroy it, only to be rebuffed for his haste, and though he respected his family's wishes, he frequently considered going to the temple and breaking the demon's seal himself, an act that in hindsight would have spelled doom for himself and everybody else. He reached the age of fifteen with martial knowledge at about the limits of what the town's best fighters could grant him, and frustratingly, his mother and father still insisted he was too weak to destroy the demon alone.

The solution, they explained, must come from outside sources. They proposed that Kiyoshi head into the wider world, to learn and grow stronger beyond what his home could provide. Though unpleased with the notion- if his father died whilst he was gone, who would destroy the demon?- Kiyoshi ultimately agreed, and set out on a journey of almost a decade. In search of other masters to learn from, he fought many a foe, good and evil, with both victories and losses under his obi... in time, he learned a number of martial arts moves and stances from various sources, and grew far more selfless and patient than he had been, for he had come to understand in his newfound worldliness that there would always be others who needed saving: his own desires weren't always most important, even with regards to his hometown's survival.

And yet, though his father's death was unlikely to happen any time soon, the prospect of the demon breaking free constantly niggled away at Kiyoshi. Was he strong enough to defeat it, if the time came? He couldn't say, for he had never sensed its energy personally... but, he could test his strength. He'd recently heard that a major fighting tournament would be starting shortly, the 20th iteration of the World Martial Arts Tournament, sometimes named "Strongest Under The Heavens" for deciding who in the world was currently the strongest alive. Though the monetary prize and title of Champion didn't mean much to him, he felt that success here would prove that he was, so to speak, as powerful as he could hope to be when it came to demon-slaying. And, well, the Heavens themselves supposedly acknowledging the victor was as good an omen as any in his favour.

Common Techniques

• True Seeing - The third eye of Kiyoshi's race provides a wide range of perceptive abilities, at least when unclouded by evil. Its presence alone, available even to the evil-blinded of his kind, allows the bearer to observe movement far more efficiently than any human could, each of his eyes moving separately to see through the afterimage an opponent might create. In its fullest state, as Kiyoshi possesses, it allows the bearer to look past the falsehoods of his foe, tearing away illusions and alternate forms alike; detect ki via a rudimentary visual "image", which Kiyoshi has long since developed into true ki sensing; mimic the techniques of others after seeing them used even once; and with enough focus, even grants split-second glimpses of potential futures, which the bearer can act upon or try to avoid as they deem fit, though Kiyoshi himself is only barely capable of utilising this ability, almost considering it dishonourable to do so.
• Ki-Matter Conversion - A throwback to their alien ancestors, the unique physiology of three-eyed humans grants them access to techniques based around temporarily converting their ki into physical matter, which are, to say the least, extraordinarily difficult for normal humans to mimic. The two most common abilities of this sort are the Four Witches Technique, where the user grows two extra arms from their back to fight with, and the Multi-Form Technique, a complex power that creates up to three additional bodies that the user can control alongside their original body, at the cost of dividing their energy equally between each body. In addition to these, Kiyoshi can also use this technique to briefly stretch his limbs out for longer-range attacks, quickly heal less severe injuries, or even increase his size to greater proportions than usual, though this last technique and the Multi-Form Technique are both very taxing for him to perform and maintain at his present power level.
• Kiai - A very basic ki technique, barely counting as an attack in its own right, Kiyoshi channels his energy into either his voice or his hands, emitting it in a pulse of physical force that can nullify weaker energy techniques, and perhaps deflect or redirect more powerful attacks depending on how he manipulates his power.
• Disrobe - Though it isn't obvious to an onlooker, most of Kiyoshi's clothing is fairly heavily weighted, something he has gotten used to over time. By removing everything he is wearing other than the cloth binding his lower body, he also removes this extra weight, giving him the option of even greater speed and strength than he already possessed.
• Solar Flare - An old but effective technique known to quite a few martial artists, but not something Kiyoshi particularly enjoys using for reasons of personal honour, thereby making it a last-ditch attack in his case. By placing his hands close to his face with his fingers spread toward his eyes, he can emit in all directions a glaring white light that blinds everybody watching him, save those with some form of eye protection such as sunglasses. Consequently, an opponent becomes far less able to react to whatever Kiyoshi has planned, be it a hasty retreat or a cheap attack made whilst the victim is unable to see.

Other: Kiyoshi can't truly fly through the air, but he can jump rather well, and to some extent slow and direct his fall through the use of kiais.

[Todd Howard]

@DepressedSoviet

Sorry, I'm stepping out.

[AtomicNut]

@RaddumIf it is because i overdid the submission, please do tell.

[Todd Howard]

@AtomicNut

If I had a problem with someone here, I'd state it.

I simply have less time than expected. I'm not going to lessen the quality of any of my writing or possibly delay the roleplay at some point in order to push myself into more roleplays than I can handle in my usual timeframe, regardless of how much I like them, simple as that.

[AtomicNut]

@AtomicNut

If I had a problem with someone here, I'd state it.

I simply have less time than expected. I'm not going to lessen the quality of any of my writing or possibly delay the roleplay at some point in order to push myself into more roleplays than I can handle in my usual timeframe, regardless of how much I like them, simple as that.

@Raddum

Sorry for making the assumption. Its just that you never know with DB. Hope it turns out okay!

[DepressedSoviet]

@RaddumI'm sorry to hear that, that throws a big wrench in getting this started.

@AtomicNutSo, my biggest issue with this is the ties to Master Roshi and the Turtle Hermit school. The reason I set this as the 20th World Martial Arts tournament, was specifically to avoid overlap with any of the main characters. This RP is NOT an AU in the normal sense of the word. It DOES take place prior to the events of the show, but it's kind-of an AU in that we're using OCs in a pre-existing setting. So if you can rework the character to remove the ties to any canon characters, then it'll be accepted.

[BCTheEntity]

@DepressedSoviet Kiyoshi's sheet is complete. Any changes you want me to make, please bring them up. I may or may not be compelled to justify certain aspects of the character if they are mentioned.

[DepressedSoviet]

@BCTheEntityHe looks fine to me. I'm not seeing anything that stands out as too concerning, so go ahead and throw him on over into the character's tab.

[BCTheEntity]

@DepressedSoviet ...well, okay, then. That's neat.

[DepressedSoviet]

@BCTheEntityWell, given how we've previously agreed on how to settle match results(via a random tournament bracket, and a coin flip for each map, with the winner of the flip being the winner, and the actual fight RP'd out to the random result) Power levels and balance don't really exist, and powers listed on the character are more for knowing HOW they could beat their opponent, more than if they will or not. Now, if we get a really ridiculous result, I may fudge it for the sake of the story(assuming everyone involved is okay with that), but overall the skills list is more to act as an index for the roleplaying segments, rather than a system of balance.

[BCTheEntity]

@DepressedSoviet Right... I mean, yes. I've already stated my distaste for the method you're planning on using to decide victors, but since we're on the topic again, I'd like to make the point that if each fight is decided randomly, you might as well just flip every coin in advance and turn this into a fanfic story. Hence my suggestion that fights be decided by some system that compares each participant's writing capability - that way, there's at least one person considering the posts properly, even if it's just you.

[DepressedSoviet]

@BCTheEntityPersonally, I want to avoid anything based on writing ability, because that just seems wrong and insulting, to tell someone their character lost because their writing wasn't good enough. I also proposed a method where the two participants in a match, as well as myself, would converse to reach an agreement on the final outcome of the match, based on character abilities, however people seemed to disagree with that idea. If you or anyone else can come up with another alternative, and enough people agree to it, I'm fine using that, but until then, the random outcome seems to be the most-favored method of doing the tournament.

[BCTheEntity]

@DepressedSoviet Well, I also proposed a similar method to what The Crucible is using, by having two fighters write a "round" of fighting in a match, having the players vote for their favourite version, and then continuing to the next "round" from the winner's post. First to three wins the match, and the tournament advances based on that. It's democratic, ergo as fair a decision as possible, and since characters nominally aren't dying anyway, they still get to participate in the game as bystanders, whether or not they're involved in some form of plot beyond the tournament itself.

[AtomicNut]

Name: Chai
Sex: -insert trite joke here- Male
Age:14
Race: Human (sort of)

Physical Appearance:

(Little shit personified)

Personality: Chai is annoying, and he enjoys every single moment of it. Never tired of acting like a brat, he usually lives his life by travelling the land, pulling pranks, doing dine and dash, and ocassionally trying to woo the hot woman only to be dismissed (he is still a scrawny little brat). Still for all his vices, Chai is not an evil person, just a happy-go-luck rogue, and he has no hesitation in playing hardball against party poopers. Admittedly he doesn't like to fight directly, and prefers to win by subterfuge. He is also extremely weak versus women charms (funnily enough). He also doesn't like frogs (due to an incident with a rival girl shapeshifter) and will be reduced to a catatonic screaming pile in the presence of one. The sole mention of his master will also have the same effect.

History: Chai was born lucky. He was also abandoned as he was born... near the Southern Transformation Kindergarten. He learned shapeshift from an early age, among many peers, but he never felt truly at home there. His lack of actual parents turned him into a bit of a rotten brat, but Chai kept his urges steady. Shapeshifting was waaay too useful and getting kicked was not an option. Still, after his graduation, he then started his then reign of terror wandering around the earth. But then he noticed something. No matter what he did, he never got the riches or the girl. That was what heroes or martial artists usually got. And swinging a sword wasn't to his liking, so he chose to try martial arts.

Of course, he never lasted too long in one school, as people would grow irritated at his mischievous attitude, and he would be kicked out of martial schools just before learning the appropiate techniques. Eventually he resorted to the drastic measure of go train in the mountains. He nearly died, but was found by a heavenly sent angel. A woman of incredible beauty rescued him from a deep gorge he had fallen into, and amused at his antics, offered to train him. Chai accepted, thinking he was fooling a hermit into giving her martial arts knowledge to an scoundrel, but soon was proven wrong. The woman, named Latte, was rotten. In truth, she was much older than her appearance suggested, but she had done something like drinking an eternal youth potion or asking some Shen Rum to make her immortal. It didn't matter. She was also incredible sadistic and always wanted Chai to wear a cute butler outfit. Or a maid outfit when she was really in the mood. Chai did receive his training though, by constantly being threatened to be beaten into death. He just picked techniques along the way. Such was the way of the Mountain Dragon School, as she called it.

There wasn't really a martial school, but one could get the idea. Still, Chai managed to survive and learn techniques along the way, although one day he broke one of his master's prized flower vases. Livid, he fled from that place and tried his luck in the World Martial Arts tournament, so he could buy something to appease his master.

Common Techniques

• Shapeshifting: Duh. He can turn into whatever he wants, with no time limit, although a shapeshifted's form strength depends on the shapeshifter, so well, no tanking stone-demolishing punches to the face effortlessly.
• Hellish Body Training: Still, he's helluva strong and fast, what with having being on the receiving end of the thinly veiled attempts to kill him that his master called "training". Which brings to his next technique.
• Afterimage Technique: He can perfom this technique aswell, a result of trying to constantly dodge his master's killer moves, moving so fast he leaves an after image. Still he can only produce one, as he's still improving.
• (Latte)Kamehameha: While his master didn't teach him this move (in fact she even refused to tell where she had learnt it), he learnt on his own in secret. A truly trumph card only used in the most dire situations, his version doesn't have as much bite as his teacher, and firing it once will leave him so winded he would not be able to fight any longer.

Other: Oolong meets Krillin. Also an hilariously abusive master.