Name: Bao
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Stands in at around 175 cm and weighs 75 kg.
Personality:
Bao is quiet and reserved, not at all one to emit any unnecessary attention. He has a subtle air about him, and he is rather laconic in his manner of speech. When he does speak, he often stumbles around in his wordings, weaving circular meanings that are somewhat difficult to decipher. Most of the time, he seems rather removed from his surroundings. He does not seem to be focused at any given time, and his face constantly dons a carefree smile. He has difficulty in connecting with others emotionally, but at the same time possesses a keen instinct regarding more physical facets of human interaction.
Skills:
-Cooking: Everyone else has it so why not
-Pragmatic
-Used to wild surroundings and living with few resources
Abilities:
Circuitry
Circuit Quantity Rank: C
Circuit Quality Rank: C
General Magecraft
Learned from Shaolin monks. The basic know how of magi, but even then applied at very low levels.
Breathing and Walking
Due to the effects of inhuman training in physical practices relevant to the ideals of taiji, Bao has attained a refined level of breathing and walking where none of his movements are wasted. A side effect of the intense and brutal training that he endured in order to achieve this skill has led Bao's physical abilities to also be refined to the point of seeming to be inhuman. Though not at all at the level of Dead Apostles, Bao can physically match trained Executors that are specialized for close combat.
Leopard
Something that should be called a regular skill or martial arts, but now has become practiced and refined to such a ridiculous extent that it might as well be called an ability on par with the mysteries of magi. Trained in an assassination school in China that held similar conditions to that which trained Kuzuki, Bao mastered the art of assassination through close quarters combat. The sublimation of his training to become an absolutely efficient killing conduit is his "martial arts", which is called Leopard.
This cannot really be called a martial arts in the truest sense of Chinese ideology. There is no internal understanding or fancy philosophy behind it. It is meant only to kill, and to kill as fast and efficiently as possible. Even calling it a fighting "style" stretches the definition of a style. In effect, this fighting method is more like a technique that is taken to absurd extremes. Leopard style consists entirely of powerful, concise and unpredictable movements of exceptional agility that are designed to lethally wound at every given opportunity.
Using clawed palms and powerful, grounded movements that draw energy from the earth much like Bajiquan, Leopard seeks to overwhelm a single target in a flurry of slicing strikes aimed at vital areas of the body with unerring efficiency. The sheer unpredictability of the style comes not from the movement of its blows as is characteristic of the Snake style, but rather in the movement of the practitioner's body.
Acrobatic and agile movements that involve nigh inhuman contortions of the body are freely used to slice and strike at the oddest of angles. Such is the unpredictability of this style that even massive physical differences between a practitioner and opponent can be overcome if only from the moment of surprise. There is no concept of blocking or defense in this style. Either the practitioner quickly overwhelms a target in lethal strikes that are practically impossible to predict, or the practitioner is rebuffed and killed. An all or nothing method of assassination.
Brief Backstory:
Bao's childhood consisted of being raised in an organization that existed to breed assassins of the finest caliber. His life consisted of being penned in a "home", which was merely a four by four box in a deserted forest. He along with many other children were trained as much as possible to become the perfect assassins with mere fists alone. Those that failed were turned into live experiments and paraded around the surviving children as warnings to stave off future failure. In this manner of life, Bao attained and refined his Leopard method of assassination. When he was of fifteen years of age, he was sent to assassinate a high profile target, and succeeded. His next act was to commit suicide or be killed, as assassins produced by the organization, much like that in Japan, were one time use only, having their existences solely revolve around the completion of a singular mission. Bao, however, was saved by a monk, who took him in. From there, he learned the ways of the monks, and now seeks the grail for personal wishes.
