[Center][img]http://www.antsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/portrait-photography-6.jpg[/img] [sub][i]29 | 22nd of December | 197 cm | First Class.[/i][/sub] [sub][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVEK5lcM6uc]theme.[/url][/sub] [h3][color=CC5229]Ka[/color][color=CC6633]in[/color] [color=CC5229]Br[/color][color=CC3D1F]ad[/color][color=CC2914]we[/color][color=CC140A]l[/color][color=CC0000]l[/color][/h3][/center] [indent][sub]A P P E A R A N C E.[/sub][hr][/indent][indent][indent]Kain is built like a locomotive from hell. He stands 6'4, 220 lb of muscle and grit. This towering specimen of a man is the ideal SOLDIER in some ways. He is physically powerful, athletic and with a a cut figure that was made for recruitment posters. Kain does his best to ruin this illusion by wearing the most unflattering of clothes. All that hard work to keep his body in tip top shape is wasted on ill fitting combat fatigues and what ever he find comfortable to wear. His eyes are a dark almond color, his skin is weather bitten and scarred in many places. His hair is cut short, and he keeps his beard trimmed to a neat, manageable 5'o'clock shadow. [/indent][/indent] [indent][sub]P S Y C H E.[/sub][hr][/indent][indent][indent] Kain is the living embodiment of a locomotive. He has been known to wade trough brawls flinging people aside in persuit of a single target. Coming from a background where toughness is survival, wit is a asset and grudges are kept for far to long, he carry that mindset with him everywhere. He does not let go of a grudge, he do not easily forget mistakes, even if he forgive them. He has a almost feral way to him, that is carried in everything from the way his eyes flicker and his gait is that of rugged street predator. A boy from the slums, he is quick to violence as well. Kains time with the gangs was one of abuse and abusing. It left deep scars with him, making him naturally mistrust humans just as mcuh as monsters. But he also learned to consider other then blood, family. And he becomes protective of this "Family". So protective in fact, that has spent time behind bars for assaulting a particularly offensive and abusive officer. His temper is nothing impressive for a big man who spent so much of his life fighting, he flies of the handle far to easily to be considered entirely stable and has been described as nearly feral. However, despite his size and thuggish appearance, Kain is very keen and surprisingly intelligent. He is no way a gentle giant but he has good heart beneath all those scars.[/indent][/indent] [indent][sub]B A C K G R O U N D.[/sub][hr][/indent][indent][indent] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/9rOJ6ts.png [/img][/center] [b]To live is to fight, to fight is to survive. Surviving isn't living, but it is close enough.[/b] [i]- Kain, SOLDIER psych evaluation interview. [/i] Kain has suffered the cruelty of being a outsider his entire life. Born in the slums, he was on the street by the age of five. His parents, a junkie mother and a father he never met, werer hardly rolemodels. He didn't have a family, as far as he knew and before the streets he had lived a life in squalor with his parents. They had to scrape for food, and Kain was a fast growing kid who needed more then what ever meager meals they could acquire. His mother spent what little they had on fast fixes and so Kain ended up on the streets, pennyless when his mother died of an overdose. It was these desperate years that would help shape him to become what he is today. A ferocius, focused fighter and a survivor. HIs salvation would come in the form of Ortega Maurice Santiago, or Wits as he was called by the miscreant of a alley gang that he belonged to. Part of the Slums considerable underground with its gangs, thieves and hustler, Ortega came across a 11 year old Kain fighting a dog over a scrap of food. When the dog bit Kains leg, he punched it to death, eyes wild a snarl on his lips. Ortega, 13 years of age at the time, was terrified and amazed. He approached Kain, and with some coaxing, the poorly fed but still rather large boy followed to meet with the others. But a tall, big boy such as Kain was a prime target for the smaller but more vicious who saw a big dumb kid to bully. His first year was spent being pushed around, becoming a beating bag for older boys who wanted to put the feral kid in place.But Kain, as it happened, had a limit. Not sure what to do, he bottled his anger until it overflowed and he beat one of the kids half to death. This impressed the leader of the gang, Merciulos. Mercioulos, also known simply as Merc, declared his newfound foot soldier off limits and began to teach him how to really fight. He also made sure Kain ate well and had Wit teach him to read, write and the basic of math. Kain and Wit grew close. Really close. Two were all but inseprable, with Kain as the wild muscle and Wit as.. well the wit. Not that Kain wasn't intelligent, he was hound for information and read as much as he could, partly to atleast pretend he could keep up with wit. When they were 15 Wit tried to make a move on Mercs position as a leader. Merc killed him, brutally and in front of everybody else. Kain, knowing he could not take on Merc surrounded by all his goons, would spend the next to years targetting them on their lonesome seeing how he knew all their local haunts and hangouts. Sometimes, he would sustain severe damage, yet he would come out on top. After two years of a systematic fight, Kain finally saw the futility of his actions. Having little skills but fighting, Kain was picked up by the army. At first he only trained and helped with logistics, but soon he began gearing up. As soon as he hit 18 he started participate in patrols under a particulary abusive Officer. After assaulting said superior officer after the man had berated and verbally abused his comrades, Kain was put in a detention cell. It was then SOLDIER approached him. They considered that due to his passionate nature and his strong will, he was a prime specimen for the project and he was chosen to carry Balils genes. As a soldier, he found a outlet for his rage, and his feral nature and wild fighting styled was honed and sharpened into a form of shock trooper. He rose in rank fairly quickly, but once he reached 1st class, he was barred from reaching commander due to his short fuse, his inability to let go of personal grudges and his quite problematic tendency to lose himself in combat. He was an exellent battleram and inspiration on the battlfield, just not commander material. [/indent][/indent] [indent][sub]R E G A I L I A.[/sub][hr][/indent][indent][indent]What comes to mind when you see the human behemoth of a man is not the fast and agile type. And in some ways, you would be right. But far from slow, Kains style is all about the pursuit of a single threat or target. A true berserker, his solution is to put a end to the threat even at the cost of his own health and well being. Something of a human stampede, you aim him at the target watch everything around him either get out of the way or get trampled underfoot.[/indent][/indent] [indent][indent][sub][color=Red]S H R O U D O F F L A M E S[/color] [Punishing, Protective, Passion] Wrapping his fist of fire, the flames climb up his arms to eventually encompass all of his massive frame. The flames sear and latch onto anyone he hits, causing continues burning damage if not put out. The flames eventually start hurting him, but this takes a while to happen. But it still acts as a effective limiter to the power.[/sub][/indent][/indent] [indent][indent][sub][color=Red]I N N E R F L A M E[/color] [Vengeful, Rage, Destruction]. For each blow he takes in a fight, for all the damage he sustains, the power in his fists grow and the more determined he grows. His power grows exponentially the closer to death he is. This means that trading blows with him is a losing battle as his punches don't grow weaker by wearing him down, they grow more powerful. However, he doesn't have any means of keeping himself healthy, so while he does grow more powerfully offense wise, he is in fact still being beat down or dying. [/sub][/indent][/indent] [indent][indent][sub][color=Red]C O M E T R U S H[/color] [explosive. Relentless. Destruction.] A single target, single focus, single purpose attack. The searing rush is aptly names, as he shoots forward like a great ball of fire, leaving burning trail in his path an knocking aside allies and enemies that are in the way of him and his target.[/sub][/indent][/indent] [indent][sub]C O R E.[/sub][hr][/indent][indent][indent][i]Berserker[/i][/indent][/indent] [indent][sub]A E O N.[/sub][hr][/indent][indent][indent][sub][url=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/43/8c/56/438c56bdc8fb16041befe4da009e7642.jpg]Balil, The Fire of Retribution[/url] White and Red┊ Destruction, Justice, Temperamental[/sub] [indent] Best described as a temperamental embodiment of justice, Gibil does not care about collateral in the quest for punishing those it deem wicked. Balil is described as a massive, towering demon with a charred black carapace with endless fires burning inside it. Possessing six arms and a burning maw it makes for a intimidating sight. Scienstists have complained that it is hard to harvest dna from a creature constantly on fire. [/indent][/indent][/indent] [indent][sub]O V E R D R I V E.[/sub][hr][/indent][indent][indent][color=ea1c24]J U S T I C A I N F E R N A L I S: [/color][sub]When pushed to near death, a overwhelming urge to pull his offender down into the fiery pits of hell with him emerges. It manifests as four extra arm, made out of molten fire charred black metal. HIs own actual arms are also covered in molted flames and metal as well. HIs breath comes out as scorching steam and his body seem to glow from the inside. Each of his punches are delivered with devestating force and sends shockwaves of scorching flames.[/sub][/indent][/indent] [hr] [b]Trivia[/b] [quote]Kain has tried to give up smoking 4 times in his life. Each time his life as gotten worse shortly after. He is now convinced there is something supernatural going on Kain doens't know it, but his Aeon cells burn the toxic and tar of cigarettes. And also light his cigarette for him. Scientists believes this is part of of his powers manifesting subconciusly. Kain has the current SOLDIER record for bench press, dead lift and squats. The SOLDIER program also use him as the theoretical outlier for their cost and efficiency protocols regarding food. Or as a certain Sentinel Commander said: "If all Soldiers ate like Kain, we'd be bancrupt in two months."[/quote] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/Iy8KcUv.jpg[/img][/center] The old sheet. will update as needed. WIP