AirBender

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

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Haha, you know, I was about to say "Are you sure you're not a bit biased because Shaolin Kempo is the style you train in?" before that last paragraph. You seem reasonable, though, so I'll put faith in your ability to be objective. Since the style is tailored for the individual, however, I'm not sure how I would go about talking about it if it came up. I don't know what exactly she would know and/or be capable of, or even how I would speak of the style in very broad strokes. Her ideal and my own would be that the skill doesn't get used at all, but it might nonetheless.

I wouldn't want to impose on you and ask for a crash course, because as you said, it would take a while to type up even if you were just giving me the gist. I suppose I could try looking up some videos on Youtube to get a rough idea just in case, but I also suppose I could just not worry about it at all unless a fight becomes unavoidable. That may be for the best, in the end.

All that said, if it's a good style to take on multiple attackers with, and if it's the best that money can buy, that's very likely the style for her.

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The most important thing is being able to fight and get away however possible, and if multiple styles would put her at a profound disadvantage against someone who had trained in one well, I'll just go with one style.

I haven't thought of when she started, though. It would definitely be important to start early, but you probably don't see a 5-year-old training in Shaolin Kempo. Seven or eight is probably a fairly good age, though. That would give her about eight years of the best possible training that money could buy, which is probably sufficient to at least be decent. She's still training, of course, but it's good to know. Thanks for the input!

@Octo

Actually, you do see a lot of five year olds practicing Shaolin Kempo. We start as young as four. At my dojo we have a little girl who just turned eight, and man is she a fighter. So if you want her to have started at the age of five, then that would be very realistic. Which would give her about ten years of training. Because she started so young, she probably wouldn't be a black belt yet, but she's probably be a brown belt, or getting very close to testing for her brown belt.

Unfortunately, due to company policy, you won't find much for Shaolin Kempo on Youtube. If it does come down to her having to use her self defense in the RP, I'm more than willing to help you design a fight scene. In fact, I love writing fight scenes, so it wouldn't be a bother in the slighting.

Or you could go with a vague thing like you mentioned above but I missed because I was writing this... But the offer still stands if you want some realism to any fight scenes there may be. I extend that to everyone actually.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

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Ah, well, it's more that I wanted a cool title for the skill that I called it "Self-Defense Mastery". I didn't mean to imply that she would be considered a master at all three styles. That would be absurd. It's my fault for labeling it as such, however. That said, I will plead ignorance to the subject of the martial arts. I don't personally have much knowledge of those things, but I found it hard to imagine that the single daughter of a hugely rich man would go without the best self-defense training money could buy, so I made sure to add something in.

As for the styles picked, I tried to go for the most straightforward items of which I knew in regards to the goal "Turn attempted attacks back onto the opponent, take advantage of openings, and end the fight quickly". I thought that Aikido was good at the defensive portion, I thought that the purpose of Krav Maga was ending a fight quickly however possible, and I thought that a general knowledge of MMA would help with holds and blending techniques.

If it's more practical and reasonable to just concentrate on one style, though, which do you think would be the best fit? I think that the biggest thing to consider is adaptability to multiple attackers, since we're assuming a kidnapping attempt as the most likely scenario. Any of the three I mentioned, or even a fourth style I may not have considered that fits the goal better. I'm open to editing.

@Octo

Okay fair enough, a lot of the times people go a little crazy with martial arts in their characters, that's why I ranted the way I did.

I can't say much about Krav Maga and Aikido, as I don't know much about those styles, but I can tell you that MMA is a sport style and is pretty much useless for self defense. There's too many rules. There aren't rules in a street fight.

Honestly if you want a good self defense style, I'd go with the one I mentioned I take, Shaolin Chuan Fa, or as most people know it as, Shaolin Kempo. That style has a little bit of everything, we have the punches and the kicks, we have forms, we have throws and grabs, everything. The best part is that its tailor fit to the individual, I'm five feet tall, I'm not going to do stuff the same as a big, muscular guy is going to, so I don't learn things the same as them. We deal with a lot of different scenarios too, like how to fight multiple opponents, even things like how to fight after you've been pepper sprayed and things like that.

And, to be honest, it's the best self defense training money can buy. And I'm not just saying that because it's the style I take. I could say a lot more about it, but to even touch on the history of the art or what we do in it would take a long time to type up.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

Hail to the King?

Name: Octavia King

Gender: Female

Age: 15

Appearance: Octavia has the fair porcelain skin, gleaming blue eyes, and spectacular blonde hair that comes to mind when imagining an ideal foreigner. She is slim and somewhat tall for her age at 5’6”, and only wears the most beautiful, expensive, and detailed dresses she can find when not in school. Her naturally wavy, long hair reaches about halfway down her back, and she often adorns it with ribbons and other ornaments.

Personality: Octavia has had quite the sheltered upbringing, and thus tends to conduct herself with a degree of naivety uncommon in girls who are 15 years of age. Although she used to be kind and sweet thanks to her good-natured father bringing her up, Octavia has recently become somewhat jaded and withdrawn. Her kindness and sweetness are still there, but those traits have become muddled in a mire of cynicism after having spent so long watching people trip over themselves to appease her, as if they were animals performing tricks. She lives in a boring world without conflict, problems, or criticism, which is only exacerbated by her own physical and mental excellence.

History: Octavia was raised mostly by her father, as her mother passed away when she was very young. Her father, Richard, was depressed for a while afterwards, but he put on a handsome smile every time Octavia walked into the room. He knew that she deserved kind and loving parenting, and that was what she got. Perhaps it was a bit too kind and loving, however, because Octavia never wanted for anything. If she needed something done, there were people to do it. If she wanted something in a store, it was hers. Richard was the CEO of King Communications (an American cell phone network that merged with a Japanese network to become among the most popular providers in the nation) and her mother Ida was the head designer of the insanely-big-in-Japan clothing brand Kleidungekauft (From which they still receive money even after her passing). Thus, Octavia never really had to worry about anything but school work, which was easy for her because she was naturally smart and athletic. She had friends, too, until the end of middle school. When she entered a private high school, she lost all contact with her middle school friends who, as she had found out after some blunt messages, only really hung out with her because their parents told them to. When it became clear that her father wasn’t giving out bags of money to people who befriended his daughter, they just stopped being her friend. Devastated, Octavia withdrew from the private school and society and shut herself inside her home for a long while. Due to its strict attendance policy, she was kicked out of the private high school and forced into a public school which her father pushed her to try. He’d also told her to try joining a club so that she could make some new friends, as if it was just that easy. Well Octavia knew how people were now, and she didn’t want in on any of this fake friendship business. She cared deeply for her father, however, and for him she supposed she could at the very least join a club to make him happy.

Skills:

#1 in the School: Octavia is incredibly smart, and can pick up just about any subject quickly. She’s always been the #1 test-taker for a reason, and knows just about everything from the main high school curriculum. Due to her upbringing, however, this generally doesn’t leak over into any practical skills whatsoever. She can solve for X, but her cooking skills are awful and she can’t operate a washing machine.

Self-Defense Mastery: When it comes to self-defense, Octavia has been taught by the best of the best. The daughter of an insanely rich and powerful man needs to know how to defend herself, after all. She’s got Krav Maga, Aikido, and Mixed Martial Arts under her belt, although she doesn’t like the idea of fighting at all and will avoid doing so at all costs.

Athletic: Well of course she’s athletic. Maybe not the first in the school, but she’s quite good at just about any athletic feat she tries her hand at. Self-defense doesn’t mean much when you don’t have the athletic ability to apply it well, so working out with a trainer is just a part of her average day. She is oddly terrible at sports, however, because they require the knowledge of rules and techniques that she has no interest in.

Money: All of it.

Guns: Some of her favorite outings with daddy were to the shooting range. She is American, after all, and thus needs practice with guns of all sorts. Not that she’ll ever get any use out of this skill other than stress relief, right?

Horseback Riding: Side saddle. A gigantic white stallion named John is her father’s preferred transport, so she’s learned to ride a horse quite well.

Languages: She speaks both English and Japanese fluently. Her mother was German, but she passed away before Octavia learned any.

Other:

-After being a hikikomori for the past few months, Octavia has grown somewhat enamored with otaku culture at the expense of her now atrophied social skills

-Romantic perception of a harem protagonist played straight

-Has a sweet tooth, which she has the habit of secretly rewarding after exercise

-No occult knowledge, joined the club because it sounded the least boring and she liked Ghostbusters

-Not here to make friends

-Secretly here to make friends

Alright, I've finished. I do feel that she is perhaps a bit too skilled, but I've tried to give her an amount of limitations and drawbacks to balance things out. Not to mention, I don't think she'll end up getting any real use out of most of them (Though I could be wrong, because I don't know what you have planned). I hope this is alright.

@Octo

You're right. She is too skilled. At fifteen she can't be a self defense master, especially considering she's taking three different styles. Trying to split her focus between the three would mean she'd be even less skilled at each one. Because every style is different, what she does in one won't for the other. She can be good for her age, but she can't be a master. I've been taking one style (Shaolin Chuan Fa) for over ten years and I'm no where near a master yet.

Okay, rant over. For now.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

Hey I was just throwing an idea out. If we want to go with the miss thing we can do that too. It'll be a few more posts before I'll be able to post again, so it's pretty much up to the people who are posting next.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

Alright so who/what is going to get hit by the stapler? Should I have Makoto step in the way of it to protect someone?

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

Uh, sorry if I've missed anything, but isn't that sort of auto-hitting?

@Mr_pink

I asked Kaiju here in the OOC about hitting his character. But if he's uncomfortable/unhappy with it, I'll change it. I just got a little excited.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

God, it felt good just writing that post.

Oh and, everything it said about knocking the wind out of somebody is true. I'm a martial artist, I know what I'm talking about when it comes to fighting.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

Makoto listened to the club leader answer her question with a small frown on her face. It wasn't exactly what she wanted to hear, but at least there was a chance that her grandmother was at peace now. Makoto made a mental note to tell the club leader about her interaction with a ghost later. But when less people were around. It could be important to her theories and research. She wasn't one for academic stuff, but it was still exciting to be able to help further paranormal investigation stuff. If they could find out why ghosts were there, maybe they could help them be at peace.

She listened to punk ass bitch trying a act tough and intimidate her with nothing but words. All she could do was snort at that, he was all bark and no bite, everything he said was probably just an empty threat. A devilish grin appeared on her face when he said the last part about not making a witty comeback. He was practically begging her to nail him. "Okay." She said, slowly standing up. "I won't make a witty comeback." She simply walked over to his chair without saying a word. Then proceeded to slam her fist directly into his solar plexus. People thought you hit someone in the stomach to knock the wind out of them, but if you wanted them to really stay down, you went for the solar plexus.

Makoto could literally feel the breath leave punk ass bitch's lungs. It was incredibly satisfying. "You think you can intimidate me? Nothing scares me, especially not little punks like yourself. Go ahead, turn everyone against me, try and get people to attack me. I don't care, whatever you throw at me, I'll throw right back in your face ten times harder. Soon You'll learn to fear a name, and that's Captain America." Makoto was a former football player and got into fights on a weekly basis protecting people, pain didn't scare her. In fact she welcomed it. Pain was weakness leaving the body.

Feeling incredibly satisfied and exhilarated, Makoto returned to her seat. "I just knocked the wind out of him, hard. So we should have a few minutes of him actually being quiet. I would apologize for the interruption, but I'm not sorry so it would be a complete lie." She said, grinning like an idiot as she did. The thought of going ghost hunting was super cool, and Makoto already promised herself not to hint any ghost they came across. Unless, like the club leader mentioned, it got violent towards them. A midnight ghost hunt and punching somebody who deserved it? This day was just getting better and better.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

After this post, I think Charles is going to have a punch from Makoto incoming.

@KaijuBaragon

You would be correct. What do you think Charles would prefer, his nose smashed in or to have the wind knocked out of him so badly that he has to sit there sucking air for a good minute or two?

Personally, I like the latter. Cause then he'll shut up for a while.

Yurei High: Spooks Versus Students (Ghost Hunting)

Posted again! Gonna try and keep up with this. We'll see if I can manage.

I can tone down on the swearing if you guys aren't comfortable about it. It just felt appropriate.