[hider=Iron Fist]
[hider=Civilian Appearance] [img]http://i.imgur.com/I7aOrQU.jpg[/img][/hider]

[hider=In Costume Appearance][img]http://i.imgur.com/0aDTQtM.jpg[/img][/hider]

[b]Name:[/b] Daniel Thomas Rand-K'ai

[b]Codename:[/b] Iron Fist

[b]Age:[/b] 22

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Power(s):[/b] [hider=Chi Manipulation] 
[img]http://www.4thletter.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ironfist-jmt-02.jpg[/img]
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[*]Chi Augmentation: Through concentration, Daniel can harness his mystical chi to augment his physical and mental capabilities to superhuman levels. Additionally Daniel is able to channel the Shou-Lao chi into a ranged weapon, such as a gun or bow, increasing its striking capabilities.
[*]Iron Fist Punch: By summoning his chi and focusing it into his hand, Luke can draw upon the superhuman energy derived from the heart of the mystic serpent Shou-Lao and make his fist extremely powerful and resistant to injury and pain on a superhuman scale. This "iron fist" technique does not involve a physical transformation of any kind, simply a psychic channeling of concentrated natural energy. With his fist in this state, Rand can shatter wood and brick, rip through steel, and punch his opponents with extraordinary concussive force without sustaining injury to himself.
[*]Energy Generation: Iron Fist can project his Chi into a ranged attack, sort of like an energy blast, though this can drain his Chi quickly
[*]Enhanced Healing: If he sustains injury or illness, Rand can focus his chi for the purposes of healing his injuries. Rand can also channel this energy into other people.
[*]Environmental Adaptation: Through focus and meditation, Danny can sustain himself for extended periods of time in extreme temperature environments. [/list] [/hider]


[b]Skills:[/b] [list][*]Acrobatics: Due to his training involving martial arts, Daniel can preform extraordinary feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination
[*]Marksmanship: Daniel is proficiently skilled in precision shooting, using projectile weapons such as bows and guns, with incredible accuracy.
[*]Master Martial Artist: Daniel is trained in K’un-L’un’s martial arts and is proficient in many of Earth’s, including but not limited to; Kunlunquan, Shaolinquan, Judo, Aikido, Ninjutsu, Karate, Boxing and even loose street fighting tactics. He also has access to the knowledge, experience and skills of all Iron Fists before him.[/list]

[b]Equipment:[/b] Aside from his ceremonial robe - which doesn't provide Daniel with any mystical or superhuman properties - he also carries two FN Five-Sevens, which provides additional firepower in case of emergencies, while also allowing him to continue with his acrobatics.

Personality:  Inhumanly persistent, once Daniel chooses a course of action, nothing on Heaven or Earth can hinder him. Daniel is also mentally focused, as his power of Chi manipulation requires a calm, centralised mindset to control. Though his tenaciousness may seem rash to some, in actuality, he knows when to back down and try again with a different approach.

History: Daniel Rand was raised from birth to be his father's successor; An Iron Fist of K'un-Lun, an Assassin prepared to strike at the Heavenly City's enemies when K'un-Lun approached its decennial alignment with the Earthly realm.

Wendell Rand apprenticed his son to the martial arts master Lei Kung the Thunderer. Lei-Kung was the immortal martial arts master of K'un-Lun, charged by the ruler of K'un-Lun to train all the males of the city in hand-to-hand combat. He was an unparalleled master of K'un-Lun's martial arts, and trained generations of its inhabitants. Among his students were Daniel's father (Wendell, the previous Iron Fist) and all of Daniel's immediate predecessors. Lei-Kung trained every man and woman to ever bear the title Iron Fist.

Daniel's training under Lei Kung was rigorous - and at times harsh. At age sixteen, he earned the Crown of Fu-Hsi, King of the Vipers, vanquished four foes in the ritualistic Challenge of the Many, which was one less than his father when he went through the same cruel and grueling gauntlet, and defeated Shu-Hu, a mechanical being whose name means "Lightning". Daniel diligently conditioned his hands by thrusting them into tubs of hot sand, then gravel, and finally rock.

At age eighteen Daniel was given the privileged opportunity to gain the power of the Iron Fist. He was sent to battle the enormous fire-breathing serpent that all previous Iron Fists had to kill named Shou-Lao the Undying which lived in a cave outside the city and ferociously guarded a brazier containing its heart, which had mystically been removed from its body. In their battle Daniel used all his martial arts training he knew to distract Shou-Lao so he could jump onto its chest. Seeing his opening he grabbed the serpent's body, which bore a black scar resembling a dragon. Killing the serpent by thrusting both of his fists into the scar, it somehow imprinted itself upon Daniel's chest, Shou-Lao had now experienced his 67th death. After he made sure Shou-Lao was dead, Daniel plunged his hands into the now unguarded brazier containing the serpent's molten heart and his palms shone with a quasi-mystical force and earned the title "Iron Fist."

Wishing to see his father's home on Earth, but unable to due the fact that K'un-Lun only phases onto Earth every 10 years, Daniel was forced to wait another 8 months until he could leave. Hours before K'un-Lun was due to arrive on Earth, Wendell Rand was brutally killed by his rogues gallery led by the son of Lie Kung, Davos. Who had smuggled himself and the other villains into K'un-Lun 10 years earlier in a conspiracy and waited all these years, preparing to murder their old foe and his son to take Shou-Lao's power for himself. After assassinating Wendell they attempted to kill Daniel, before being attacked themselves by Lie Kung who along with an enraged Daniel chased them off back onto Earth. By now K'un-Lun had fully phased in Earth's dimension, Daniel immediately grabbed the ceremonial garb of Iron Fist that belonged to his father and gave chase to Davos, the trail had already run cold.

Ending up in the harsh environment of Tibet, Daniel was forced to endure freezing temperatures as he searched for any sign of Davos. There was no way that he was going to let this man get away with everything he had done. The freezing atmosphere calloused his body, but he soldiered on, his impossibly strong will allowing him to slave through the ice and snow without a single step of hesitation. He searched far and wide, ignoring colds, frostbitten feet, and hail-pelted skin...but it was all in vain. SHIELD found Daniel, collapsed in a snowy outcropping, still attempting to crawl forward through the sloshed ice. A heli-carrier's grappling hook dropped down, wrapping it's metal claws around his semi-frozen form, before bringing him into the warm helipad, the pilot ignoring his weak protest on orders of Nick Fury.

As he recovered, his robes draped over his shoulders, Daniel pondered over the offer. Thunderbolts...Fury had promised that it would eventually end with a lead towards Davos, and no matter how long it took, he would find that lead. [/hider]