[b]Name and/or Alias(es):[/b] Ken Ikeda "The Swift Sword"

[b]Age:[/b] 32

[b]Sex:[/b] Male

[b]Occupation:[/b] None. Former professional mixed martial arts fighter.

[b]Race and Origin:[/b] Human. Was born in America and currently resides in Japan.

[b]Appearance:[/b] Standing at six foot flat and weighing 185 pounds, Ken certainly doesn’t look like somebody the average person would mess with, at least not in hand to hand combat. Despite his size, he isn’t bulky by any means. He is built lean, which he has consciously shaped himself to be to maintain agility. Silky, short black hair lays flat on his head, with very little maintenance necessary. His face retains the youth of a man in his early twenties, with no facial hair to speak of. In addition to his lack of manly beard and mustache, he has a small nose, thin lips, soft skin and small hands, making him oddly pretty for a professional fighter, especially one that used to be a champion in his division. However, his dark brown eyes often do more talking that his mouth does, with the natural inclination to give people they look upon the declaration of a challenge or the unwillingness to surrender.

[b]Equipment:[/b] None

[b]Abilities/Talents:[/b] Having trained in manipulating his own spirit energy since he was 18, Ken has become quite proficient in doubling, sometimes tripling his natural physical strength. He can also utilize his energy to increase speed. Combined with his many years of professional MMA fighting, his strength is matched by his fighting skill and his spirit energy increases with every day he puts it to the test. Since he has trained under Iraltiphos, he has learned how to detect the spiritual presence of others and where their energy is flowing, suppress his own presence and temporarily hinder the flow of energy in his opponents through targeting pressure points.

[b]History:[/b] Although he was born in America, both his parents were Japanese. Although a poet had caused the deaths of the entire population of Japan when he was young, he grew up to be indifferent toward poets, occasionally sympathetic to the fact that they are the only magic users to be discriminated against. The discovery of magic had changed the world of professional MMA fighting forever, which captured Ken’s interested very early on. He learned to manipulate his spirit energy on his own and honed his abilities through fighting. He quickly rose to the top and became a middle weight champion at the age of 25. His stage name became “The Swift Sword” due to often using a deadly fast karate chop, a move so basic that the idea of using it in a serious fight was comical. However, every single time he landed the blow, the fight would shortly end in his favor.

At the age of 30, he moved to Japan to help rebuild and repopulate the broken country, where he found Iraltiphos, self-proclaimed “the most powerful being in the universe” (which was also stated on the advertisement), and trained under him for 2 years. Within the first year, he was challenged to an MMA fight for the championship belt, to which he declined and subsequently retired from the sport, planning to train for the rest of his life.

[b]Misc:[/b] Likes bananas.