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[b]Name:[/b] Issei Hamada, The Prodigy of the Takeda

[b]Nickname:[/b] The Grinning Demon 

[b]Age:[/b] 19 (Senior)


[b]Height:[/b] 5'11"


[b]Weight:[/b] 189 lbs.


[b]Personality:[/b] Issei is an odd assortment of personality 

traits. On the surface he gives off an air of being aloof and 

mysterious, never truly showing real anger or happiness instead 

keeping an eerie seeming smile. He tends to stand back from a crowd 

scanning for possible weakness in others, perhaps planning to 

prevent a tragedy before one starts, but more likely looking to 

exploit said weakness for his own gain. On the rare occasion that he 

does actually express the churning sea of emotions inside of him it 

is usually rather explosive and violent, on either side of the 

spectrum. 


[b]Fighting Style:[/b] Issei is by definition an endurance fighter. 

Believing that the fight can be determined through the unveiling of 

a fighters technique Issei almost always puts up a front as 

inexperience allowing him to takes a beating before taking his 

opponents to the ground. 


[b]Martial Arts:[/b]

[i]Daito-Ryu[/i]- Issei's preferred method of combat, is a 

traditional Japanese sharing similarity to both Jujitsu and 

Aikido. Where Aikido uses large circles and "gentleness" in its 

locks and throws Daito-Ryu uses small circles and explosive power to 

almost rend the affected limb from the body. A typical scene for 

someone on the receiving end of a Daito-Ryu are several finger 

shaped bruises all along the forearm. 


[b]History:[/b] Issei Hamada was born to a lower-middle class family 

in Tokyo, never needing anything but understanding the value of 

hard-work. Issei was always a little bit of an outcast, never really 

picked on or bullied he was never a social butterfly either. At the 

age of seven he started taking classes in classic karate and through 

those classes he finally began to thrive both socially and 

emotionally.


Over the next few years Issei began bouncing from school to school 

in search for the perfect style to fit him finding faults in 

everything that he attempted to study, until he found a Daito-Ryu 

school in Tokyo only a few blocks from his childhood home. It is 

unknown when or why Issei began acting the way he does now but what 

is known is during his middle school years he began systematically 

picking fights with people in what appeared to be a challenge system 

to prove he was the strongest. On his final day of middle school he 

received his invitation to Shinjuku Academy, something that he 

accepted gladly. 


In his sophomore year Issei had already earned a reputation as a 

powerful fighter. Without throwing a single punch he single handed

defeated most of his peerage with little to no effort, it was this 

that brought him to the attention of the Head of Disciplinary 

Committee. Issei's arrogance brought him to a face to face challenge 

with the Club chairman to which he lost astoundingly, in doing so he 

seemed to lose touch with himself. It wasn't until he began training 

himself in the spiritual aspects of martial arts that he finally 

began to regain some sort of control. 


It took the bulk of remainder of the year, but on the last day of 

his sophomore year he once again challenged the Disciplinary Head to a 

rematch. The match was intense with neither fighter backing down and 

both dealing serious blows in rapid succession, it was a long drawn 

out battle. After an extended bout it came down to a single mistake 

but the Disciplinary Head was downed and forced to surrender. Issei 

had become the Head of the Disciplinary Committee during his sophomore 

year and has been unbeaten since.  
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