[hider=character][center][h3][b]Naja[/b][/h3]
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[b]Name:[/b] Nika Alea Jolanda Andres
[b]Alias:[/b] Naja
[b]Age:[/b] 28
[b]Nationality:[/b] Swiss
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Appearance:[/b] Naja is a decently tall woman at 178 cm, 5’10’’. Due to training her entire life she’s muscular and athletic, somewhat slim at her waist but with remarkable size of chest. Her hair is long and dark, typically tied behind her so it doesn’t get in the way of fighting. She likes simple and tight clothing that consists of t-shirts and shorts, anything else is busted while she’s fighting. Her arms and legs are mechanic, making her a cyborg, albeit except her limbs she’s human.

[b]History:[/b] Nika was born the daughter of a CEO of a super-cooperation capable of fantastic things stationed in Switzerland. However, Nika was not interested in corporate drivel, she had a big brother that was going to take over the company, anyway. She was going to live like a normal little girl. … That changed when she was kidnapped and held for ransom against her father. He paid it and the criminals held their word and let her go, but as she was hugged against her father’s chest, all Nika could think of was how her father had proved that holding her for ransom was an established way to earn money from him. She was his weakness… and damn it if she was going to be the damsel in distress again.

So she trained, in numerous different fighting styles. The one she proved the best in was savate, combining English boxing with graceful kicking techniques. Throughout her teens she proved to be an admirable combatant, winning numerous competitions and growing in aptitude. At some point she travelled to China to learn under a master of baji quan, combining the range of savate with the close-range explosive power of the chinese martial art. The same master also had her learn extensive meditative techniques so that she may one day master the arts of chi… but her master feared she was too violent a soul to ever truly learn the fine art, and should probably see a shrink instead.

Then, one day it happened. A team of villains intended on repeating the feat of kidnapping Nika and holding her for ransom against her father. It was the day she had been training for all along. Against five notorious villains, Nika managed to cripple two and snap the neck of one. Unfortunately, taking on all five at the same time proved too much and she was captured by the remaining two. Furious and vengeful, the villains mutilated her arms and legs, to prove to the world that nobody messes with them and their allies, before once again holding her for ransom. This time, however, her father hired experts to hunt down the villains and destroy them instead of paying the ransom.

However, someone had seen how capable Nika had been. How she had dealt with three out of five of those rather exceptional villains. Letting a talent like that go to waste would be a mighty shame, now, wouldn’t it? … So. In exchange for her doing their requests when they had them, they were willing to give Nika a boost. They developed cybernetic limbs for her, replacing her mutilated limbs and making cybernetic improvements where they could all across her natural body as well. They noticed her latent chi abilities, and gave her arms and legs that could use them. They then gave her missions, which she went on under a new name. Naja. … The new name is really just to disguise her past.

When she got of age she volunteered for the swiss army, went through their army training and then departed. Since then she’s been showing up at different places around the world, cleaning out towns for a combination of righteousness, money and the challenge, to see how far she can get. Occasionally she’s also acted bodyguard or assassin for the company which gave her the metal limbs she carries, but they’ve been intelligent enough to pick morally justified missions so she stayed loyal. Over the years she has garnered a reputation, one strong enough that Eva Roulette had heard of her and called upon her when New Carona needed cleaning up. Naja was more than willing to come help out.

[center][h3][b]Personality[/b][/h3][/center]
[b]Motivations:[/b] Pretty simple. Naja seeks a greater challenge, to beat the nerves into people who has it coming and to get paid for her work. Somewhere on her mind is a desire to break free of the debt she owes the company that made her limbs.
[b]Sexuality:[/b] Straight.
[b]Likes:[/b] [list][*]Exceptionally good food.
[*]Her own hair and body, she’s proud of it
[*]Guys as strong as her who’re “cool” about it
[*]Big brother, dad, her martial arts masters[/list]
[b]Dislikes:[/b] [list][*]Hot-shots, chads, that kind
[*]Machines, and her reliance on them
[*]Anger-issues and things that provoke her
[*]Most forms of entertainment (wastes of time used to pacify a population)
[*]People who thinks it’s okay to be five minutes late[/list]
[b]General:[/b] Stoic and cold, but not foolhardy. She knows the value of comrades when the going gets tough. Prone to anger, albeit she’s aware this is a problem and is trying to deal with it. Will attempt to get along with others well enough. Can find things funny and smile, though it isn’t really a motion she’s used to. She doesn’t normally seek social interaction, but when she does she does so confidently and doesn’t really care what others may think of her. A decent enough woman that occasionally enjoys mild flirting but often enough has her day way too busy trying to uproot criminals. She’s competitive and enjoys a good brawl. Yupp.

[center][h3][b]Fighting Arts[/b][/h3][/center]
[b]Skills:[/b] Partly because of her father’s company and partly because she now has metal limbs, Naja learned a decent amount of engineering as well as metal working. She could do maintenance on herself if something’s feeling off or damaged, and that also allows her to work on many other machines if so needed. Don’t expect her to pull off a miracle, but she’s competent.
She knows Swiss German, French and English.

[b]Fighting Style:[/b] Savate is a french martial art combining English boxing with kicks. Described as “fencing with hands and feet”, it combines western boxing with precision kicks to a body’s vital points. Naja uses street-level Savante du Rue, the street-fighting version not for competition, meaning she throws in knee and elbow strikes along with locks, sweeps, throws, headbutts, and takedowns where applicable. It’s a style developed for efficiency, it bolsters great self-defense, effective on a longer range than typical boxing. It strikes with combinations and feints, keeping the opponent off-guard with sophisticated footwork.

Baji Quan is a chinese martial art focusing on making use of the strongest parts of the body. When you hit, it is with your whole body, making for exceptionally strong strikes. It actively discourages moving backwards, you always either stop the enemy where you are or advancing at the enemy. It teaches stomping in a way to overwhelm enemies of larger mass. It is a close-range high-power art called the art of courage since you need to get so close as to hit with your elbow against their ribs, but it has an excellent array of disarming guards, grips and strategies to get in that close. It relies in the impact to take down the enemy.

So, Naja uses savate baji quan. It’s a hybrid martial art which uses the long kicks and punches of savate to keep an enemy at a distance and then, when they try to break through to where savate would be weaker she switches to the close-range power of the baji quan. Then, of course, there’s her cybernetic enhancement. While the base of her body remains human, her knees and elbows are mechanic and fueled by mechanic strength, powering her up with speed and ferocity. In addition, they serve as conduits of her chi, allowing them to shoot out her latent power for distant blasts or to propel her through the air.

As for how she fights. Naja’s an adaptive fighter that has no preference between reacting and counter-attacking or charging directly at the foe if she gauges that the best available move. She has plenty of savante plays to keep enemies at range or counter-attack and baji quan disabling grips should enemies attack first, but she also has significant speed and ability to charge in close for explosive baji quan hits to take out enemies in one shot if they’re too slow. 

As part of her baji quan training she got fairly accomplished using spears, swords, staffs and numerous other weapons, but she frankly prefers her fists and legs. She’s also capable with guns from her time in the army, though she’s no marksman. Naja’s waaaay more capable with her limbs than she is with any weapons.

[b]Weaknesses:[/b] If her enemies outrange her, are faster than her or plainly are more skilled, then it doesn’t matter how strong Naja’s cybernetic enhancements make her. She needs to close the range, and if she can’t do that then she’s forced to take attacks, and her torso is still human and takes damage as a human.

Furthermore, Naja’s prone to anger. She quickly gets frustrated, annoyed or ticked off by an enemy who proves to be stubborn or taunts her during the course of a battle. This can cause her to make rash and dangerous decisions which her enemies can take advantage of, despite her otherwise being relatively intelligent.

Also, the fact her limbs are metal is a long-term weakness. It means she cannot make them stronger by sheer training, though she trains what remains of her body extensively. They also don’t naturally heal if they’re damaged, and needs to be seen my an expert. 

[b]Special Techniques:[/b] [i]Bolstered Spear[/i] - A chi blast shot over a distance. It can also propel Naja herself in the opposite direction to attack an opponent with deadly ferocity using a baji quan technique. It takes the shape of a single burst of medium-range chi, range around a couple meters, after which the chi disperses. Doesn’t outrange an actual distance-attack, but it sure has longer range than a fist and can surprise people. Basically [url=https://www.ssbwiki.com/images/f/ff/Force_Palm_SSB4_WiiU.jpeg]Lucario’s side-B, Force Palm, as it’s used in Smash Bros[/url], though with longer range.

[i]Thunder Axe[/i] - A kick from above enhanced with the boost of chi blasted upwards while weight, recoil and muscle all cooperate to bring Naja’s leg into what’s under. An aura of chi surrounds her leg as she kicks down, making the <hitbox> way larger than just her leg. The impact-force is probably enough to crack whatever ground is immediately beneath Naja, though it doesn’t need to be used along gravity. It’s just the most effective.

[i]Blood Bomb[/i] - Naja reverses the chi in her limbs to charge back into her, causing a burst of chi which sends nearby enemies flying in the opposite direction. Does some damage to Naja as well, but it allows her to escape otherwise very painful situations if an enemy is about to commit to a combo on her. Also effective if she’s being surrounded, as the pulse goes in all directions. There is a delay before she can move again after the pulse, this is no combo move.

[b]Super Arts:[/b] [i]Surging Swords[/i] - Done at high speed. Naja surges forward at exceptional speed by bursting chi behind her, before slamming into the enemy with a kick or punch or so. Except, she hits with a controlled amount of force with constant acceleration that she constantly outpaces the speed she launched her foe, allowing her to deliver hit after hit after hit after hit after hit after hit, all while constantly accelerating both herself and the enemy. Finally, either by slamming them both against a wall or just passing above and slamming the enemy into the ground, she delivers the final blow against the enemy with the ultimate one-shot punch of baji quan, probably with significant pulse of chi amplifying it, bringing both herself and the enemy to a stop. A regular human has no place surviving a blow like that. Honestly, it damages Naja too, but Naja’s tough.

[b]Exp:[/b] 0

[b]Equipment:[/b] Her arms and legs are mechanical, starting just before her elbows and knees. They were created by some super-company on par with her father’s. They enhance her strength and speed, as well as contains a conduit for her chi, which she wasn’t able to properly use without them. They have engines powered by said chi allowing her to propel her limbs or herself for stronger attacks or greater speed.

[b]Other:[/b] I didn’t write much detail on the company that made her limbs or arms that she owes a debt. That’s because I invite it to potentially be the same organization that’s in ANY other backstory of any other character, doesn’t even need to be a company. If she and another character are linked by whatever people these are, I think that’d be cool. I can totally rewrite parts of her backstory to make that fit.

If any character is old enough, I also invite that they might be among the experts that saved her life after she had been captured by a couple villains, or perhaps THE expert. Would be cool to potentially recognize the one who saved her life that one time. Otherwise, it is totally likely that she has ran into the other characters on any other normal missions. After all, I did make her pretty well known.

I didn't play arcade games growing up, so listing a favorite one is kinda hard, the fighting-games I've played have been on consoles, but I'll go with Street Fighter II, because where would we have been without it?

[b]Sources:[/b] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajiquan
http://www.martialartsexplained.com/baji-quan/
https://blackbeltmag.com/arts/western-european-arts/savate-from-the-back-alleys-of-france-to-the-martial-arts-world

https://www.thelocal.ch/20120725/3726
Swiss are super happy to say hello (grüezi). Greeting people by kissing three times on the cheeks, starting with your right. Super-punctual, are annoyed if you are late in the slightest.[/hider]