While I have to question the practicality of heavily limiting starting abilities when one considers how often RPs die without any significant amount of progress being achieved, I've a CS for you. I tried to do hiders within hiders but it didn't work because I suck, so have a bunch of paragraphs about my chosen manga series. [hider=Chuck Ford] [b]Name:[/b] Charlie "Chuck" Ford [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Age:[/b] 17 [b]Appearance:[/b] A man of about average height but a heavy, muscular build, Chuck looks so rugged and haggard he appears to actually be at least 25 years old or so. A scarred right cheek and short, dark red hair with thick, manly sideburns and a seemingly perpetual stubble do not help this impression at all. His clothes, however, do not fit his image of a grown man since they're a japanese high school uniform known as a gakuran. Chuck always wears this combo of a navy blue long coat with nothing underneath along with matching pants and shoes. Truth be told, he doesn't really like wearing the uniform everywhere and he used to be much plainer and fatter, but he gained his current looks when he was accepted into the men's private school known as Otokojuku. [b]History:[/b] Chuck wasn't into anime much. Or anything of the sort for that matter. Sure, he'd read a comic book here or there or seen movies based off them or caught a few cartoons on occasion, he didn't hate the stuff but no one could really say he was into it like some other people he knew. Of course, this all matters only because of the current situation. He was a regular, average high school student who didn't stand out much save for his red hair, his enthusiasm for any combat sports such as boxing or mixed martial arts and his obsession with manliness. While his own athleticism was rather lacking, it never stopped him from sticking to his ideals of manliness even if it got him a beating more often than not. His latest addition to the martial arts lineup was strange for his friends and family. After all, sumo wrestling wasn't really a legitimate combat sport nor a very effective martial art. In fact, sumo wrestlers take to MMA and kickboxing matches like a diabetic to pixie sticks. Chuck, however, was enthralled with its links to Japanese tradition and Shinto rituals and, perhaps more than anything else, at the thought of a sport where fat men could excel and be looked upon with respect. Without telling anyone, he began to practice what little he knew of Sumo on his own, ignoring its very strict rules and incorporating a variety of concepts from other martial arts into a sumo framework. It was these strange obsession with manliness and martial arts that got him into his current situation. After all, the private school known as Otokojuku is always in search of new students to fill the vacancies created by untimely, violent death throughout the year. And since Otokojuku is open to both foreign students and those who are not quite manly but want to be, Chuck was a perfect fit and his transfer immediately approved by the school's principal, Edajma Heihachi. Chuck has no idea that he's dead. He won't recognize the new universe he's stepped into and nothing in his life could possibly prepare him for what's coming. Thankfully, just being accepted into Otokojuku seems to have a positive effect on one's masculinity... [b]Personality:[/b] Chuck is generally calm and friendly, an easygoing guy who has no real issues talking to people. He's extremely passionate about combat sports and has well defined ideas of manliness that he'll stick to no matter the situation. Despite his easygoing nature, he can be provoked into rages and was never afraid to come to blows to defend himself or others, even as a pudgy kid who lost the fight more often than not. [b]Rank:[/b] E (Otokojuku first year. Like a lump of rock to be beaten into shape by seniors and instructors alike, but with the potential to become something much greater) [b]Abilities: -Spirit of Otokojuku:[/b] In Otokojuku's dictionaries there's an entry for death but none for surrender, or so the saying goes. Students in this school are, if nothing else, famous for their extreme stamina. They can exert themselves to tremendous levels, keep on going after receiving abnormal amounts of punishment and successfully recover from the worst kinds of injuries and ailments under proper care. [b]Skills:[/b] Stemming from his own interest in them, Chuck is fairly knowledgeable about a variety of martial arts even if he's never really practiced them himself. He is particularly knowledgeable about sumo wrestling. Other than this he had no real outstanding skills, being almost agressively average. Thanks to the Otokojuku Instant Manliness effect, he is now quite physically capable. [b]Inventory:[/b] Nothing of note currently. Even if stuff like a phone somehow crossed over with him to the other life it would be confiscated at Otokojuku so he doesn't have anything on him. [b]Favorite Manga[/b] (for the purposes of this roleplay at the very least, though they are all manga I've read and enjoy, and they don't really apply to my character): -Sakigake!! Otokojuku: A private highschool for men ran by a memetically badass WW2 survivor which is focused on taking hardass delinquents and turning them into useful members of society by teaching them the path of manliness, mostly through absurd, torturous methods and lots of fighting. To start with the negatives, it wants to be Hokuto no Ken so very badly it's funny if you've read HnK, it adds up way too many characters to the main group so people just get lost in the shuffle and it never wants to kill anyone in the cast. Worst of all, the series drags on for way too long and essentially has an entirely superfluous arc that is like a crappier version of the previous arc and is abruptly cut off in an almost schizophrenic manner so the manga can move to its admittedly alright final chapter which also feels hurried and cut short. Having said this, I still think it's worth a read and a lot of fun because of how it mixes admittedly comical shenanigans with manly man fighting, the absolutely insane and not at all normal highschool setting, the entertaining if a bit two dimensional cast and the sheer absurdity of some of the given fighting styles. The manga shamelessly creates martial art styles based around golf, pogo sticks, motorcycles, controlling one's moustache, using bladed tops and so on and so forth and does it all in such a way that you're not sure whether the author is serious or fucking with you. It's not as good as shonen classics like Hokuto no Ken or even other series about delinquents, manliness and fighting like Rokudenashi Blues, but it's a lot of dumb, shameless fun, the school itself just works quite well for a shonen-centric setting and Edajima Heihachi is so ridiculously badass it's worth the read just to experience the man. -Kinnikuman: A series about an incompetent superhero who, as it turns out, is the crown prince of a planet known for producing the greatest supermen ever, and his struggles to rise from his status as the worst superhuman ever and become worthy of his title. Started out as a tongue-in-cheek Ultraman parody then shifted its focus towards serious fighting in the guise of super powered pro wrestling. Because why not, pro wrestling is awesome. It has an endearing main character who actually grows throughout the story, an incredibly strong cast of allies and adversaries with very distinctive designs who always gets a chance to shine and also grow as the story goes on and fun match stipulations to keep things from getting too static. It came out in 1979, predating Dragon Ball by 5 years and Hokuto no Ken by 4 and helping to mold the genre. You might be more familiar with its inferior sequel, Kinnikuman Nisei, which was broadcast in the States as Ultimate Muscle. -Hajime no Ippo: The reason why I'll cite Hajime no Ippo as one of my favorite manga despite it dragging on and the lesser quality of the more recent chapters is that, for the longest time, it was a spectacular example of a sort of magic realism of boxing. I also haven't read Ashita no Joe since it wasn't fully translated till recently. Anyway, Hajime no Ippo just got boxing and its techniques and methods extremely well, and while aspects were obviously romanticized or exagerated (real boxing matches are rarely as entertaining as the stuff that goes down in this manga), it just struck a really good middle ground between stylized action and actual boxing and I wish more martial arts manga had this kind of balance. That this aspect's been, in my opinion, gradually lost in the latest releases bothers me to no end, but I still think quite highly of this work. I'd use other examples of this kind of balance but they're all classified as seinen apparently. If you're interested check out All Rounder Meguru, Holyland or Garouden by Keisuke Itagaki.[/hider]