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[b]Name:[/b] Ismael Helstein

[hider=Personality]

Ismael is a lively person with a jovial spirit. His true love is to the world and watching people happy and lively. He is a man of the world and has very few worldly possessions, he has the bare minimum to keep himself going and to do what he does and wants. He can always crack a joke or tell a story to get someone to laugh. Yet above all others, he likes to be amusing to himself. Even if it is in or out of fighting. As he is a very talkative man in a fight, while still always taking any fight seriously. Yet with all of that, all he wants to do in the end is live a life with no regrets, and help those he can along the way.[/hider]
[hider=Skills]
[u][b]Street fighting-[/b][/u] 
Ismael's constant veritable situations had led him to learn how to fight smarter and without much form. Having a more wide skill set rather than a very focused style of fighting. Giving him an edge in many different scenarios and giving him proficiency with improvised/blunt weapons, and improvised thrown weapons. This made him a very dangerous person to fight in a bar as he is in a weapon rich environment to throw objects and smash them into the opponent. Yet having him be at a disadvantage against others at his level with focus as he has no style and nothing truly honed down as a true 'Martial art'.

[u][b]Expert Mechanic-[/b] [/u]
After years of working on vehicles and even making plenty of his own, he has now become an expert in maintaining and creating vehicles, as that is the reason why he is able to upkeep and maintain his very upgraded car.

[u][b]Linguistic Genius-[/b][/u] 
After years of learning different languages and traveling, Ismael has learned to pick up on languages quickly, yet he has quite a few languages in his repertoire as 

[u][b]Expert Driver-[/b][/u]
After years of street racing and driving, Ismael knows how to push his machine to the limit. Dipping and weaving with ease, as he has the utmost confidence in his skill as he is more than willing to put in all forms of high-speed maneuvers.[/hider]
[Hider=Backstory]

Being raised in a loving home, Ismael was very friendly and very active as a child. He was a very rambunctious yet sweet kid. Always smiling and happy as he followed his parents like he was glued to their hip. Yet as he grew he had become more adventurous, leaving to play outside, as he traveled further and further. Wishing to see more of his city, and eventually the world. 

As when he hit the age where he was needing to go to school he started taking very serious care into his studies, with his favorite subjects being languages and literature. As he grew his father began taking him under his wing to start learning his family's business, an old mechanic shop. There he learned the love of vehicles and even began using it to closer with his father, as eventually, it came with a wish to make his own ride to travel the world.

Now reaching his teenage years, he had gained a bit of an adventurous heart to him, taking the vehicles they worked on and started to take them on joy rides. This fostered a love to go to remote areas, may if be in abandoned buildings, parks, and even the Grand Canyon if he could get away with it. He used the freedom to do as he wished. To travel to climb and to do as he pleases, making him more and more daring and more willing to explore, even if it ends up with him in a bad situation. 

He normally found himself at the bad end of someone's list, yet after years of this, he learned how to defend himself with some less than standard fighting. He fought like those he gets caught by, like a thug and a gangster. Originally he learned to street fight out of necessity because he didn't want to die, yet he found joy and love to fight. He thought it was fun and exhilarating to fight. So he began being more daring, not fearing those around him, and even took it as a way to clean up some of the streets around his neighborhood.

Years later into his growth he had now reached a point in his life to strike out on his own for his own adventure. Yet first, he needed a vehicle, something he can call his own, so he set to work. Having his father help him with getting the parts, Ismael made a car with enough aftermarket parts to be a pure custom project, all within a very simplistic frame. Yet it has enough power to outrun any on market vehicles, even able to outrun many sports cars with ease.

With his newly built ride, he left to travel the US and put it through its paces, finding the most fun in life to travel. He traveled in his vehicle, slept in it, and ate in it, yet he always took care of it. As he made both friends and enemies along his adventure, he always held a smile. 

Soon he left for Europe doing much the same there as he did in the US learning the cultures, making friends, and having fun. Soon he continued to the south, then the east, learning more and more as he travels. He took to learning their language and culture as he made friends there. Fought those he found at ends with, and then moved on to find more adventure.

Wishing to continue his adventure he found himself in Japan, the land of the rising sun. He has spent a year in Japan so far, learning the language, adapting to the culture, and getting into the occasional street race. Sure his vehicle is very strange, as the steering wheel is on the left side of the car instead of the right, but no laws don't stop him from using his vehicle. Yet, one day he woke up with a strange tattoo on his hand and a stranger laying with him in his car, he doesn't even remember drinking the night prior.[/hider]
[hider=Appearance]
[img]https://i.pinimg.com/236x/41/ba/ca/41bacae9d084b44ac66865456cdaacc1.jpg[/img]
[img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a1/43/0e/a1430eff6adbe6f730211c6fc5489c88.jpg[/img]
Standing at 6'2 Ismael is a tall man, and being 185 lbs as well as being well-built means he is no weak man. He has bright blue eyes with short dark black hair.
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[hider=Extra Stuff]
[b]Alignment[/b]: Chaotic Good, the individual is more important than the law.
[b]Age[/b]: 24
[b]Birthday[/b]: June 20th
[b]Blood type[/b]: O-
[b]Place of Birth[/b]: North America, Arizona
[b]Languages[/b]: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, and Chinese. In all of these languages, he is fluent in both speaking and reading.

[b]Education[/b]: He had a very good education from his family and also him being apart of a good charter school. Here he loved Language as he wished to learn as many as he can so he could go traveling.

[b]{Habits & Quirks}[/b]
- While in pain he will whistle.
- Always fires finger guns when trying to cheer up someone or when he feels awkward.
- When he is in the middle of training or fighting he can sometimes be seen humming. Why? To keep focused. Another reason, so he can feel cooler.
- He will talk while fighting as it is quite fun for him as it also keeps him concentrated.

[b]{Hobbies}[/b]
- Playing guitar.
- He loves to explore abandoned buildings.
- Working on vehicles.
- Watching action movies.
- Playing board games.
- Trying to solve puzzles and riddles.

[b]{Likes}[/b]
- Pizza, Hawaiian style or Barbecue Chicken.
- Gatherings: like the happy kind, parties and stuff.
- Music: Rock, Classic rock, Nu metal, Rap Rock, alternative metal, and Jpop (He doesn't want anyone to know though).
- Movies: The Matrix trilogy and Boondock saints.
- Riding in his car.
- People being happy.

[b]{Dislikes}[/b]
- Being told what to do.
- Rude people.
- Complacency.
- Arrogance.

[b]{Fears}[/b]
- Losing a limb. Specifically his arms.
- Death.
- Spiders.

[b]{Talents}[/b]
- He is able to pick up on combat skills quickly and easily, having the ability to see the move and understand how and why it works. 
- He is a talented Mechanic, wherewith the bare minimum he is able to upkeep and maintain his car.
- Ismael has been known to be a good cook.
- Is a decent singer and able to play these instruments: Guitar, piano, and harmonica.[/hider]

[hider=His Car: Delilah]
[img]https://247wallst.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/jaguar-xj-series-xjr-lwb-sedan-4d.jpg[/img]

A good looking car, it looks very nice and well kept, yet it does not tell the full story of what this car can truly do.

A 4 door sedan, it has all the natural comforts that a car can have, except quite a few extras:

- The back seats can drop back into the trunk of the car to make a large bed to either store large things, or to sleep on with comfort.

- There are false bottoms to give increase storage space, like a spare tire, his clothing, bathing, and living supplies, and almost an entire workshop of tools he would need to maintain his vehicle or other vehicles.

Yet that is not where the end of the customization, as everything under the hood, is monstrous. 

- Clocking in at with an impressive 0-60 of under 2 seconds. 

- And a maximum speed of 200 miles per hour.

- With high traction control, the car is able to be switched between high precision control, to loose traction, for both tight control to loose drifting.[/hider][/hider]