[b]Name:[/b] Boar [b]Age:[/b] 25 [b]Race:[/b] Orc [b]Appearance:[/b] [img]https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5291/5415322140_58e32a7dab_b.jpg[/img] [b]School:[/b] Smiling fist [b]Fighting Style:[/b] Power through might, and like the wild pig, to close the distance even if it means running up the spear in your gut. Lots of step-in or step-through power blows and two step charge feeding into to lunges. For a style based on closing in, there is no emphasis on grapples but rather delivering enough power to knock the opponent back and close in all over again. Boar was taught how to direct his Chi inward, to promote healing and regeneration for surviving such a reckless style of combat. [b]Weaknesses:[/b] Like the boar, it is meant to finish the fight quickly, not meant for long battles or wars. Ranged weapons are limited to whatever they can get their hands on to throw ahead of them. No emphasis on grapples and constant charging leaves windows for throw exploitation. [b]Weapons:[/b] Due to the sheer power and might, more-so when in orc hands, weapons are all considered 'disposable' and so take the position of 'escrima stick-staff-tetsubo' based on their size and weight. [b]History:[/b] Twenty years ago, Venerable Boar of the smiling fist was not so venerable. A beastman of the porcine blood, he once came upon an Orc village destroyed by a raid. He gathered up the few survivors and brought them back to the Smiling fist temple to treat their wounds and help them get back on their feet. One boy, moved by the strangers kindness, threw himself at the masters feet in order to pay the debt of his village. Three times the master tried to sent the boy home with his parents, and three times he refused. He sat at the top of the stairs for three days, he was kicked down the stairs three times by other students, lastly, the boy grew so ferocious he broke three bones trying to break the door down to get back in. He was brought back in to have his wounds tented to, and while Master Boar would not train him, a young master Nightoak saw something in the boy to be cultivated. For fifteen years he was broken and bled all over the temple stones. For ten years he got back up and knocked back down again. For five years he knocked back. After a decade and a half, he earned the right to leave the temple walls and he took up a new name for the one who had saved his people. He would now be "Boar" in name of the Venerable master with quite a self imposed legend to live up to. His first time traveling the lands, he came upon a human who claimed to be a disciple of the smiling fist. Not knowing him from the temple, he challenged the smaller one to a match. It was a glorious fight and clearly they were of the same root, but their teachers had each made a different emphasis. Boar spent so much time getting knocked around that he never developed any counterattacks for grappling maneuvers, like he did direct strikes, and that was his downfall. Loosing to someone half his weight was humbling, but also a moment of insight, he had so much more to learn and a whole world to teach him. [b]My relation to Lee Mitas[/b] Also a student of the smiling fist, they were the first of the same school to face each other in the real world. but different teachers emphasized different aspects and racial anatomy leans to other focuses more. As such, even thought they both are of smiling fist, every time they meet makes for an amazing scene.