[CHAR] [RANKED] DJ vs Skallagrim - East versus West

[DJAtomika]

Two-Step

"You may have swag, but I've got swing."

Vitals

Name: Jonathan "Johnny Two-Step" Clarke Gable

Title: Maestro

Age: 29

Sex: Male

Date of birth: 26th July, 1986

Lineage: -

Class/Major: Pugilist

Class/Minor: Mage

Occupation: Wandering Pugilist

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Marital Status: Single

Birthplace: Basin, Caesura

Blood Type: A+

Eye Color: Blue

Height: 6' 4"

Weight: 166 lbs

Hair Color/Style: Short brown hair, well kept in a left side parting.

General Appearance: A lean, lanky individual, Jonathan is also impeccably dressed at every occasion he can afford to. His main dress is a navy blue suit ensemble, consisting of a navy blue suit jacket with thin white pinstripes, a darker navy inner waistcoat, a stark white cuffed shirt and a navy blue tie, along with slacks and his signature black leather tap-dancing shoes. He also sports plain white dress gloves and a simple, thin watch on his right wrist, and a nice, blue fedora with a white band around the body of the hat.

Skin Tone/Condition: Normal Caucasian skin tone, slightly tan.

Markings: -

Combat Stats

Dominant Hand: Right

Equipment:

-Upper Body: -

-Lower Body: -

Weapons

• Basin Street - A pair of tap-dancing shoes fortified with specially enchanted metal plates on the toes, soles and heels. The shoes are always paired with a pair of white, cotton socks that are also enchanted with magic. The spells on the shoes grant Johnny's legs with the powers of speed and air manipulation, also known as sound. The spells on the socks are strengthening spells that grant his legs, feet and hips with enhanced endurance and strength to accompany the power of his shoes.
  
  Johnny fights using a style comprised of a few things, that was taught to him by the masters of old in his home city of Basin. This fighting style mainly uses the feet, with the addition of the hands as pivot points or supports, similar to that of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira. However, the main difference is that this style also incorporates many elements of Tae Kwon Do in it, specifically the many low to high standing and crouching kicks, along with the intricate footwork of tap-dancing to confuse and distract opponents.

Abilities

• Enhanced Endurance, Speed and Strength (Lower Body) - This ability allows Johnny to kick with increased strength and power, and also being able to block and withstand blows of a similar power using only his legs and feet. The speed aspect lets him essentially kick at the speed of sound or over, effectively letting him kick with the power of a sonic boom at maximum efficiency.
• Enhanced Agility

Magic

• Beat - Johnny uses his sound power and stomps hard down on the ground once. The impact, combined with one good, strong push of air vibrations, results in an extremely large shockwave that expands from his foot and dissipates over distance, to a maximum effective range of twenty feet. Multiple Beats strung together in sequence can create a devastating earthquake that can destroy small structures, more detail in the section on Staccato below.
• Scratch - Manipulating the air around the toe and heel of his shoes, Johnny is able to create blades of compressed air by kicking in a short arc either from left to right or vice versa. The length, speed and strength of the air blades are directly determined by his kicks. Short, fast kicks produce many smaller blades that are easily blocked but are overwhelming in number, while longer, slower kicks result in bigger, stronger blades that take a fair bit of strength to overcome, akin to trying to stop a MLB batter's home-run swing.
• Crash - If Beat is the starter, Crash is the coup de grace. By hopping into the air a short distance, drawing his feet in and then kicking downwards upon landing with the force of a jet plane fly-by, Johnny is able to stamp a humongous shockwave into the ground that ripples and explodes the earth in circles around him. Each explosion increases in intensity the further it gets from him, to a maximum of three explosions in three perfect circles around him.
• Staccato - By tap-dancing on the ground, imbuing each hit with Beat, Johnny enters Staccato mode, Beating an earthquake into the ground that he controls. The intensity and strength of it is determined by how fast and how strong the Beats are, to a maximum of a 8 or 9 on the Richter scale, an extremely devastating earthquake that he can only maintain for several seconds before he has to stop and move to avoid being harmed by his own attack.
• Accent - With a high or low straight kick, powered by air, Johnny is able to shoot bullets of compressed air at impressive speeds of up to the speed of sound. These bullets, or Accents, are aimed simply by way of the direction he kicks in, up in the air or down low at the ground, so as long as it's a straight kick and not a curved kick.

Bio

Voice: Deep, smooth basso.

Personality: Johnny is a very laid back and suave fellow, one you would see leaned up against a wall or a bar counter, drink in one hand, a woman in the other. He's smooth and slick, cunning and feisty, yet kind spirited and gentle to boot, in stark contrast to his fighting style. A ladies man all the way, he is the most gentlemanly to those of the fairer gender, going out of his way to make sure they receive the utmost respect that befits them. With other guys, he's very chummy, the bro amongst other bros, and you'll never see him without a smile on his face unless something's very, very wrong, because Johnny is also very optimistic and cheerful, something that's helepd him all through his life.

Backstory: Johnny hails from the tribe of the Swing people; collectively known as the Oldies of Oldtown, his tribe are one of the oldest in the whole of the land. The music they practice and play is also one of the oldest forms of music in the land, as attested to by their elders. Eons ago, Jazz, Swing and Blues were formed from the hearts and souls of the early Caesurans during their trials and tribulations of terraforming their unstable land into their homes. Their blood, sweat and tears distilled through their emotions and into their voices and song, and thus the Trifecta of Trials were born. Jazz, Swing and Blues make up this trio, and Johnny's tribe were the first of the Swingsters in Caesura. He is of their current generation, when the music has reached new levels of ingenuity and excellence yet they dream higher and greater, and he carries these hopes and dreams of his people with him.

Being a current generation Swingster brings along its share of troubles, and for Johnny, nothing was more troubling than being the sole heir to their style of self defense. All Swingsters knew how to fight to defend themselves, that was true, but Johnathan Twostep was the upcoming heir to the title of Maestro of Swing, something that he didn't quite fancy. Sure, he was the best fighter they had, but he simply didn't want the high life. He enjoyed his time spent in the dives and bars of his home town, Basin, and the relevant dangers that posed to his health. He loved the adrenaline and the adventure of it all. Being the Maestro meant that he'd spend the rest of his days cooped up in some boring school, teaching all the young Swingsters how to fight and to defend themselves. Not a life for him. He left Basin a week before he was to inherit the mantle, and as such his whole town got into an uproar.

Now he wanders the multiverse, having fallen into a portal while running from those that pursue him. Still with no real idea of where he's going or how he travels, he wanders in search of a good challenge.

Others

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[Skallagrim]

An Gan Xu
Age: 22
Sex: Male
Height: 6 feet
Weight: 187 lbs.
Reach: 77.2 in

Physical Description: An Gan Xu is a tall man with a lean muscled body; broad shoulders, thick sinewy arms and narrow-hips, with solid muscular thighs and legs. With hazelnut brown eyes and shaggy black hair, An looks like any other young Muay Thai fighter wearing loose pants and tee-shirts. Around his neck, he wears the necklace of Mali Warat, considering it his most valuable possession.

Skills:
An is a deadly Muay Thai fighter having been trained by Mali Warat, learning how to incorporate his mutant ability to control gravity with his strikes. An’s muscles provided the force, but it is his uncanny speed of hand and foot that make him deadly. An is a supremely well rounded athlete with extreme conditioning. His shins and forearms are toughened to the point where he can break several thick bamboo rods in two with a single strike. An has learned to control his mutant gravity powers to the point he can incorporate them with his martial mastery making him a potent supernatural opponent.

Powers:
Gravity Control- An is a master of gravity. He is able to lift and move objects, fly by manipulating gravitational forces and otherwise control gravity. He has mastered several feats utilizing gravity.

(A) Gravity Blast- By manipulating micropockets of intense gravity using his strikes, he can bash and batter a target by increasing the kinetic power. He has battered buildings into rubble, damage armored cars and destroyed vehicles with a single kick. His punches measure well over 2,550 lbs. of force, and his kicks registered 3,777 lbs. of force normally. When using this power his punches equal 5,780 lbs. of force and his kicks are 8,565 lbs. of force. Note that he cannot physically strike these objects or he will break his hand or foot. Rather he stops an inch from contact transferring the action into a micropocket of gravity that transfer the blow to the object/person he is striking.

(B) Gravitational Field- An can alter the gravity in a given area. He can alter the gravitational pull up or down by .5 g’s. (Earth normal gravity is 1g). He can increase or reduce gravity by a maximum of 4 g’s (.5gs per prep) The weight of objects in the field, which ranges out to 30 yards (90 feet) is affected either increasing or decreasing by an equal amount. (A 100 kg/220.46 pound object in a 1.5g field weighs 150 kg/330.69 pounds. That same object in a 4g field weighs 500kg.or 1102.31 pounds). Something in a zero-g field weighs nothing, while something in a negative g-field fall upwards until out of the zone of influence and fall back. An can be selective in this ability, increasing the mass of some objects, decreasing others and leaving others alone. A creature or object that becomes too heavy cannot move or be moved and may collapse under its own weight if it becomes heavy enough.

(C) Gravitational shield- An can project waves of gravity around himself. Doing so provides an excellent defense against incoming projectiles and deflects hand-to-hand physical attacks by either having them drop or rise away from him. This shield does not affect pure energy attacks like flame or electricity.

(D) Gravitational flight- An can fly in a limited and slow manner at a rate of around 40 m/s (90 mph) maximum.

History:
An is a young man, tall and muscular in stature, the lean body curved and shaped by the years working his family’s farm during his youth. The small village became the target of the South Thailand Insurgency fighters, who came burning and slaughtering the people, taking the young girls and woman. The boys and men slain where they stood, well not exactly, they were offered a chance to fight first, yet none of the farmers had experience as a fighter. When they refused to take the weapons offered, the insurgents murdered the men where they stood.

An fled from the village, hiding in the hills having seen the convoy approach while he had been working the sugar cane fields. As the insurgents made their way from the carnage and fire, their minds bent on rape and other sports they reserved for the woman they captured. In an anguished cry An watched his sisters dragged away and his mother shot down. This was too much, An in a rage somehow made the large truck the men had come in lift up then sudden smash down on the gunmen.

Terrified at what he had seen, unaware that he was the cause of the truck killing the men, An made his way from the horrific scene. Turning one last time to see the place he grew up, burn to ash. Running during the night and hiding during the day, An, lost and confused, found a ruined temple complex in the forests along the Malay border. For the nine-year-old boy it was truly traumatic experience and one that shaped the next few years of his life.

Upon waking from his fitful slumber, An explored the ruins, finding a small antechamber under the main floor. Inside he found a small statue made of pristine jade holding a gold and jade necklace. Upon closer inspection An realized he had stumbled upon a statue to Mali Warat – the God of Justice. Falling to his knees, he begged for assistance from the God. As he pleaded, the necklace fell off the outstretched hands and landed before him. Putting the necklace around his neck An found himself transported to another time and place. Before the mighty God Mali Warat stood before him, his stern scowl told An all he needed to know; Mali Warat would teach him to exact justice.

For the next thirteen years An learned the arts of Muay Thai and Silat from Mali Warat, additionally he slowly mastered his control over gravity with the guidance of the God.

Now An, at twenty-two is older and much . . . much wiser, having mastered his gravity control as well as his martials arts during the rigorous training under Mali Warat’s stern eye. An is fast and has strength that is often hidden by the baggy clothes he wears, couple that with his gravity control he has begun exacting vengeance and administering justice to those who bring undue suffering to those unable to defend themselves.