C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T
C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________ (FC: Tony Jaa; Dialogue: Green)_________________________________________________________ S U M M A R Y
S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________Ken "Rock" Chaw
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February 12th | 20s
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Single | Male | Bisexual_________________________________________________________Height | 5' 8"
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Hair Color | Black
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Eye Color | Brown
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Hometown | Calder City
- | H I S T O R Y
H I S T O R Y
The Mountain was one of Calder City’s most distinguished heroes, a living legend. A master of Lethwei, The Mountain was able to turn his very body into a weapon against Calder City’s evils. The Mountain had an incredible healing factor, allowing him to push his body far beyond its limits and always get back up again. This is where he got his name, he was said to be as enduring and unbreakable as the mountains themselves.
The Mountain's real name was Saw Chaw, and he was a fixture among the Vanguard, in and out of costume. A social worker by trade, Saw fought to keep the Vanguard fair, inclusive, and invested in the communities it sought to protect. He created community outreach programs, food and clothing drives for the homeless, and charity fundraisers. Even as The Mountain, Saw advocated for better protections for heroes' privacy and compensation for their appearances and likeness in media. Perhaps his biggest contribution was his fight against the practice of child sidekicks, striving to create protections for the youngest superhumans and prohibitions against their presence in the Vanguard.
This crusade made it all the more surprising when The Mountain debuted his own child sidekick: Rock. Not one of Saw’s four biological children, but an adopted child, not from the local Saint Dymphna’s, but from parts unknown. Despite the pressures from Vanguard to return the child to civilian life, from colleagues and friends alike, Saw grinned and bore it. He seemed to know something everyone else didn’t.
Persevering through the disapproval and the dangers of superheroics, Rock proved himself more than a capable student. He lacked The Mountain’s remarkable durability and healing, but made up for it in agility and martial prowess, demonstrating phenomenal mastery of Lethwei and Muay Thai for a boy his age. With every ounce of power his small body could muster, he could just stand alongside The Mountain as a worthy sidekick.
But as Rock grew larger and his blows fell harder, The Mountain’s expectations grew. Rock had to be better: not just a better martial artist, but a better man, a better hero. It wasn’t long before their paths diverged. As The Mountain dedicated himself to his community, Rock found himself drawn into the world of combat sports. Enchanted by the depth and breadth of technique available to him, Rock found a way to better himself the same way he always had, straightforward training and mastery, free of The Mountain’s sensitivities.
Growing into a young man, Rock travelled the world, training under a dozen masters and learning scores of moves, kata, forms, and more. He had, to his mind, nearly perfected his style. He competed in underground tournaments and took the hidden world of martial arts by storm. Yet, for every victory under his belt, every challenge overcome, each of his masters would insist he was not ready. He was not ‘complete’. He felt as though he was still the same sidekick, wasting away under the vanishingly little The Mountain had left to teach him.
Until one week ago. Front page news: THE MOUNTAIN, SLAIN.
Who could have done it? A hero of his adoptive father’s stature would have enemies, to be sure, but it was hard to imagine one that could cause The Mountain to crumble. How do you kill a man that can’t be killed? That can bounce back from almost anything?
The only thing left for Rock to do is return to Calder City and find out.
A B I L I T I E S
A B I L I T I E S
- Belu Cortex - Saw thought of the name of Rock's ‘power’, evoking the indomitable ogres of Myanmar's folklore. The Belu were monstrously powerful man eaters, and Rock's talent allows him to defeat his opponents just as easily. Saw said that Rock could ‘devour’ the techniques of his enemies.
It toes the line between human skill and superhuman ability. With a unique cortical structure, Rock's brain is optimized for hand to hand combat. He has spent his life immersed and training in all manner of martial arts, and his upbringing has produced a kinesthetic genius. He can duplicate most movements he observes with a handful of repetitions, especially those movements used against him in combat. The ability is distinct from other superhuman's Adoptive Muscle Memory in that he is not simply copying what he sees by rote, but rather developing complex understandings of movement and combat systems on the fly. This allows him to further iterate and produce variations of what he sees, rather than being locked into a cloned motion.
This ability has allowed him to master dozens of combat systems at a stunning rate. Among others, he is a master of Lethwei, Muay Thai, BJJ, Judo, American Kenpo, Okinawan Karate, and Taekwondo.
M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S
M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S
Rock wants to find the one who killed his mentor and break them. Despite the years of distance between himself and Saw, the man was still the closest thing he had to a father.
More broadly, Rock has always wanted to be the best. It was what Saw wanted, too. For Saw, being the best meant being the best at helping others, whether through the might of his muscles or the strength of his arguments. For Rock, it has only ever meant growing more knowledgeable, more powerful, for an end that seems less and less clear. |
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