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[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqTx-w6KPyw][color=00a651][h2][b][b][i]"It is all a part of life."[/i][/b][/b][/h2][/color][/url]
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[h3][color=ed1c24][b]Uzumati/Mati || Male || 3.3[/b][/color][/h3]

[color=ed1c24][b]Name[/b][/color]
[color=00a651]Uzumati Ahanu Degotoga[/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]Birthdate and Age[/b][/color]
[color=00a651]June, 4th, 1997
Nineteen Years Old[/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]Physical Appearance[/b][/color]
[color=00a651]Mati has been described as a living mountain, and that is not that far off from the truth. Standing at a staggering 6'6" and weighting a whopping 235 pounds Mati is a real giant. He has a incredibly burly body build that many find intimidating, and makes fitting into small spaces hard for Mati. His skin is a light caramel color and is decorated with tattoos going from his left pectoral down his left arm. He has oak brown hair that is paired with light brown eyes. He has a wide nose that goes with his rather full lips. His eyebrows are rather thick and bushy. He also has a small heart shaped birthmark on a rather intimate part of his body... [sub]don't get too excited, it's just on his backside.[/sub]

His clothes are rather simple. Consisting of a old brown hooded denim jacket over a series of T-shirts, jeans and boots. The only time he wears something else is when he is in his team uniform. He always wears a small wooden rosary around his neck at all times, a gift from his dad.[/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]Personality[/b][/color]
[color=00a651]A big man with a bigger heart, Mati is the stereotypical gentle giant, or teddy bear as a lot of people have taken to calling him. He is a real bleeding heart, often finding himself going out his way to help others even when they don't really deserve it. Mati is a rather spiritual guy, finding a lot of comfort in both nature and religion.

Despite what a lot of people think Mati isn't naïve, he is in fact a pretty smart guy, and is able to see through most of the bullshit some people try to feed him. It takes a lot to actually set Mati off and even when he is triggered he's most likely to walk off and try to find a way to cool off.

He takes his studies pretty seriously, he sees how much of an opportunity that he has been given to come here and will do everything in his power to make sure he uses it. So when the rest of the team goes out and parties Mati I usually back in the library getting ahead of any classwork he has.

Mati has a real appreciation for hard work, feeling that it is the only way to really understand and value what you want. He finds people who don't earn their way in the world don't really know what it really means to live in the real world.

When it comes to romance Mati is kind of a rock, he just doesn't get it. It isn't like he becomes a stammering mess when someone of the opposite sex shows interest in him, it is just that he can never tell when someone is expressing interest in him. You are gonna have to practically smack him in the face with your affection if you want him to notice.[/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]Biography[/b][/color]
[color=00a651][i]"Where to start uhhh... oh I guess with my parents. Dad is pretty simple, he was a medic in the army and got moved around a lot, but besides from that he is a pretty upstanding guy. He eventually got stationed at FT. Lewis up in Washington, that's where he met mom. Mom was a uhhh... [u]'free spirit'[/u] so to speak. One of those real go with the flow and do whoever uh I mean do whatever they want type of person. They had a fling and I guess I was the result. Yeah dad tried his best to stick around, but you know duty calls and he had to move off. Mom on the other hand... she said she couldn't be tied down, even to her kid. So she handed me off to her mother, my grandma, and went off somewhere to find herself and to paint with the colors of the wind.

I grew up on the reservation with my grandma. Tough one she is, did her best to raise me and make sure that I had my head on straight so I wouldn't end up like... well point is she is a great woman. Things were pretty cool growing up, great family and friends, bunch of things to kill time, amazing woods to play in, hell dad even managed to make it back from time to time to visit me.

Probably one of my favorite things when I was growing up was rugby, the game was my life. I would play it from sun up to sun down some days, even joined the school team. I never really thought much of it, well that was until a scout saw one of my games and offered me a scholarship to Blackwell Academy, catch was I had to join the school's football team. Football isn't really my sport, but there was no way I could turn down Blackwell! So with some convincing my grandma let me attend Blackwell. I promised her I would come here and make something of myself and there is nothing on this earth that will keep me from keeping that promise.[/i][/color]
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[color=ed1c24][b]Dorm Room[/b][/color]
[color=00a651][i][u]105[/u][/i]
There are three aspects of Mati's life right now; school, the football team, and his tribe, or as he says his mind, his body, and his spirit. They are pretty well reflected in his dorm too. He has a whole wall dedicated to photos of his friends and family back home as well as a few trinkets that his grandma and a few of the other tribe elders gave him before he left. His desk is flooded with textbooks, notebooks, and his laptop nestled in the center. His closet is filled with the brim of sports equipment; his uniform, pads, balls, helmets, and even a few lacrosse sticks. Aside from his bed Mati has a futon and a bean bag chair in his room to serve as furniture.[/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]Powers[/b][/color]
[url=http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Exoskeleton][color=00a651][I][u]Protective Aura Generation[/u][/I][/color][/url]
[color=00a651]Mati is able to generate a protective field around himself and others. He cannot hold these fields for too long, the current limit being thirty seconds, likewise the larger the field the shorter amount of time he can keep it up.[/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]Elective Class[/b][/color]
[color=00a651]Additional Sports Class[/color]

[color=ed1c24][b]Activities[/b][/color]
[color=00a651][i]Football Team[/i]
Current Fullback
[i]Bible Study Group[/i]
Has been leading it for a while, a few of the group members have started calling him Rev, [sub]short for reverend.[/sub][/color]

[hider=Little Scrap Book][img]http://i.imgur.com/gATbKJ5.jpg[/img]
[color=00a651][i]"Quick Pic."[/i][/color]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/j3aN9cX.jpg[/img]
[color=00a651][i]"Me And Grams."[/i][/color]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/g0kqn9Z.jpg[/img]
[color=00a651][i]"Getting Ready For The Game."[/i][/color]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/ugekPlg.jpg[/img]
[color=00a651][i]"Gotta Go Fast."[/i][/color]
[color=00a651][sub]Oh and just because I wanted to let everyone now Mati is half African American and half Native American[/sub][/color]
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