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⫸ B A S I C I N F O R M A T I O N ⫷
"What a terrible day to be you."
▼ | BIRTH NAME : |
▼ | ALSO KNOWN AS: |
▼ | GENDER : |
▼ | AGE : |
Malik Kamari Walker
▼ | ALSO KNOWN AS: |
Tutu
Buck
Big Mo
Leak
Buck
Big Mo
Leak
▼ | GENDER : |
Male.
▼ | AGE : |
26.
⫸ A P P E A R A N C E ⫷
"I heard I was a bad guy--but I look good don't I?"."
▼ | P H Y S I C AL S T A T S : |
▼ | PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : |
▼ | ATTIRE : |
▸ HEIGHT : | 5’10
▸ WEIGHT : | 190
▸ ETHNICITY: | African American
▸ HAIR COLOR : | Black.
▸ EYE COLOR : | Brown.
▸ WEIGHT : | 190
▸ ETHNICITY: | African American
▸ HAIR COLOR : | Black.
▸ EYE COLOR : | Brown.
▼ | PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : |
Malik is o average build and in terms of muscle he is lean but not bulky. He prefers to keep his hair nicely trimmed and tends to wear it in either mini-afros or tapered caesars. He has one gold incisor tooth in his bottom row. On the back of his neck he has a crown tilted to the right to denote his gang affiliation. He keeps a scrubble on his face or he is clean shaven. There is a tinge of a Cuban accent to his speech given how much time he spends with the Hispanic members of the Red Crowns, but it is not thick and only seeps through unconscious.
▼ | ATTIRE : |
Malik fashions himself a new age gangbanger: suits, rings, watches, and designer glasses instead of baggy pants, bandanas, and oversized shirts and jerseys. If he is not wearing a suit, he is probably wearing a collared shirt and some slacks or a collared shirt and some jeans if he is dressing down. If he fancies himself especially bummy one day then he may wear a turtleneck and some jeans. Otherwise, one will find him dressed ‘proper.’
⫸ P S Y C H O L O G Y ⫷
"It’s about money, baby. That’s all, that’s it."
▼ | PERSONALITY TRAITS : |
▼ | SKILLS : |
▼ | BACK STORY : |
Ruthless | Savvy | Violent | Perceptive | Arrogant | Charismatic | Stubborn | Ingenuitive
▼ | SKILLS : |
CRIMINAL || Malik is a refined mastermind; he understands how other criminals speak, exploit, and talk. He knows how to swindle and is good with words and Faustian conduct.
MANIPULATIVE || Malik has a way of getting someone to see things his way, but he does it through listening. Waiting and watching and getting close to someone, letting them feel safe around him that they will unveil parts of themselves so that he can exploit them later to his advantage.
MAGNATE || Malik understands numbers, percentages, stocks, LLCs; in short, Malik knows how business works. He knows when to buy and sell and when to defraud ad invest. He owns one small business in Charity Beach similar to a Jamba Juice.
STREET SMART || He knows how to navigate the ‘streets’: drug deals, lingo, who calls what shots in what neighborhood, who the connects are, etc.
BILINGUAL || Malik isn’t fluid in Spanish, but he knows enough that he can deal with the Cuban and other Latin American kingpins in Florida.
MANIPULATIVE || Malik has a way of getting someone to see things his way, but he does it through listening. Waiting and watching and getting close to someone, letting them feel safe around him that they will unveil parts of themselves so that he can exploit them later to his advantage.
MAGNATE || Malik understands numbers, percentages, stocks, LLCs; in short, Malik knows how business works. He knows when to buy and sell and when to defraud ad invest. He owns one small business in Charity Beach similar to a Jamba Juice.
STREET SMART || He knows how to navigate the ‘streets’: drug deals, lingo, who calls what shots in what neighborhood, who the connects are, etc.
BILINGUAL || Malik isn’t fluid in Spanish, but he knows enough that he can deal with the Cuban and other Latin American kingpins in Florida.
▼ | BACK STORY : |
Born and raised in Opa Locka, Miami, Florida, Malik doesn’t grow up rich nor poor. But his parents work hard, his mother at any one time holding no less than two jobs and his father spends much of his life in the business sector as middle management. Eventually, Malik’s parents find he comeuppance they desire for themselves and their trio of sons and move up the socioeconomic ladder as per the facets of the prototypical American Dream.
Yet, with it all--or with as much as two slightly more than exceptional black folks can buy--Malik finds solace in his neighborhood and the kids in his neighborhood. He falls in with a group of kids who call themselves a ‘gang’, but they are just delinquents who commit petty crimes. Eventually, Malik and his friends’ gang is absorbed by one of the many branches of the Red Crowns.
Malik’s new peers know his upbringing and know that he is not a born-and-bred latchkey child; for this, he is ridiculed and often left out of many of his new gang’s early major plays. That, and he is underage; but time is not so kind to the kids and young men who are above him and many end up dead or in jail. Malik’s parents intervene and try to re-direct their sons’ wonton behavior and as many expected, it was to no avail. His parents, aging and knowing of no other way to help their son, put aside a trust fund of his own. All of this is worsened when Malik’s Exposure Event happens during his eighteenth birthday.
It was branded a home invasion. Uptown rivals made Malik’s parents’ murders look like a robbery. Florida PD came and got Malik from school. He wouldn’t see the bodies until the funeral, and Malik and his brothers were sent to live with his grandfather. Malik’s trauma manifested in the form of the Delta energy he had been unknowingly accumulating over the years while living with his parents. He woke up at his grandfather’s house seeing nothing but crimson red; more, the world around him was made of flat, geometric shapes.
He cried, he screamed. Then he ran. He ran back to the same kind of people who killed his parents but the same people who made him feel like he belonged (even if marginal). This time, though, he was older and he was different. An older, retired Red Crown took Malik under his wing and taught him the finer ways of how to survive the streets and high society. Left an inheritance, Malik invests his money and while he is not wealthy, he uses what he has learned to funnel money into businesses and fronts for the Red Crowns in Charity Beach where he has recently moved.
Yet, with it all--or with as much as two slightly more than exceptional black folks can buy--Malik finds solace in his neighborhood and the kids in his neighborhood. He falls in with a group of kids who call themselves a ‘gang’, but they are just delinquents who commit petty crimes. Eventually, Malik and his friends’ gang is absorbed by one of the many branches of the Red Crowns.
Malik’s new peers know his upbringing and know that he is not a born-and-bred latchkey child; for this, he is ridiculed and often left out of many of his new gang’s early major plays. That, and he is underage; but time is not so kind to the kids and young men who are above him and many end up dead or in jail. Malik’s parents intervene and try to re-direct their sons’ wonton behavior and as many expected, it was to no avail. His parents, aging and knowing of no other way to help their son, put aside a trust fund of his own. All of this is worsened when Malik’s Exposure Event happens during his eighteenth birthday.
It was branded a home invasion. Uptown rivals made Malik’s parents’ murders look like a robbery. Florida PD came and got Malik from school. He wouldn’t see the bodies until the funeral, and Malik and his brothers were sent to live with his grandfather. Malik’s trauma manifested in the form of the Delta energy he had been unknowingly accumulating over the years while living with his parents. He woke up at his grandfather’s house seeing nothing but crimson red; more, the world around him was made of flat, geometric shapes.
He cried, he screamed. Then he ran. He ran back to the same kind of people who killed his parents but the same people who made him feel like he belonged (even if marginal). This time, though, he was older and he was different. An older, retired Red Crown took Malik under his wing and taught him the finer ways of how to survive the streets and high society. Left an inheritance, Malik invests his money and while he is not wealthy, he uses what he has learned to funnel money into businesses and fronts for the Red Crowns in Charity Beach where he has recently moved.
⫸ P O W E R I N F O R M A T I O N ⫷
"I see it all."
▼ | POWER CLASSIFICATION : |
▼ | POWER DESCRIPTION : |
▼ | LIMITS : |
▼ | WEAKNESSES : |
Type-Chromatic (Red, Blue)
▼ | POWER DESCRIPTION : |
Optic Energy Emission
Malik was turned into a conduit for UV rays; he can absorb a steady amount of UV light and transmit it into hard-light through his eyes. It is usually channeled in red or blue, much like the crystal energy he absorbed leading up to his Exposure. When he activates his power, he sees everything through either a red or blue spectrum. These beams can be either concussive or they can cut through objects and flesh.
Whether these beams cut through physical objects or simply concuss is dependent on Malik’s intent. He can bounce these beams off of most kinds of surface if angled correctly and cause ricochet. Alternating his beams with a single eye is also something he is learning to do (though has not mastered); they can get large (but no larger than the size of his eyeballs) or small as garrote wire depending on what Malik requires. They can cut through and bend nothing tougher than steel.
360 Vision
Because Malik’s world now lacks three dimensional depth and functions entirely in 2D, Malik’s brain has adapted and pushed his occipital lobe beyond normal human capacity. The rays which reflect off of buildings Malik passively manipulates so he can see all around himself. Where there is no light source, he loses this ability.
Superhumanly Acute Spatial Awareness
Malik has an almost unnatural grasp on how much space is in a given room: how many tiles, how much distance exactly is between one tile on the ceiling and another, how far and how close someone is to himself. Though he lacks extra depth perception, he is also not hindered by it and is not so easily confused by sleight of hand.
Malik was turned into a conduit for UV rays; he can absorb a steady amount of UV light and transmit it into hard-light through his eyes. It is usually channeled in red or blue, much like the crystal energy he absorbed leading up to his Exposure. When he activates his power, he sees everything through either a red or blue spectrum. These beams can be either concussive or they can cut through objects and flesh.
Whether these beams cut through physical objects or simply concuss is dependent on Malik’s intent. He can bounce these beams off of most kinds of surface if angled correctly and cause ricochet. Alternating his beams with a single eye is also something he is learning to do (though has not mastered); they can get large (but no larger than the size of his eyeballs) or small as garrote wire depending on what Malik requires. They can cut through and bend nothing tougher than steel.
360 Vision
Because Malik’s world now lacks three dimensional depth and functions entirely in 2D, Malik’s brain has adapted and pushed his occipital lobe beyond normal human capacity. The rays which reflect off of buildings Malik passively manipulates so he can see all around himself. Where there is no light source, he loses this ability.
Superhumanly Acute Spatial Awareness
Malik has an almost unnatural grasp on how much space is in a given room: how many tiles, how much distance exactly is between one tile on the ceiling and another, how far and how close someone is to himself. Though he lacks extra depth perception, he is also not hindered by it and is not so easily confused by sleight of hand.
▼ | LIMITS : |
There is a limit to how much energy he can store in himself before he must release it. Unbeknownst to Malik, his beams are actually weaker the closer they are to a target; they become stronger the further a target is away from him. When his beams are set to cut someone or something, the effect may be negated by sufficient metallic armor.
▼ | WEAKNESSES : |
Malik has little physical combat training and relies heavily on his gifts to keep him alive. Should his powers fail him, he is generally at a loss as to how he is going to defend himself. Even with his powers, Malik is best when fighting at a distance and if someone manages to remove said space from him, he is handily defeated by someone with more skill than himself. He is also just a human and is killed in any way sufficient to kill an otherwise regular man.
When he is firing his beams, he is technically 'blind' so he keeps his emissions short and purposeful.
His 360 vision relies on a constant source of light and in shadows it is obsolete.
When he is firing his beams, he is technically 'blind' so he keeps his emissions short and purposeful.
His 360 vision relies on a constant source of light and in shadows it is obsolete.
⫸ O T H E R ⫷
"We all under one law."
Nah.
Name: Hui Liu
Title(s): Jiangjun (General)
Age: 39
Origin: Taunak Empire, Southern Kingdoms
Appearance:
Hui is slightly above national average height and beneath the armor she is usually in she has a body befitting more a mesomorph. She is toned and sturdy even though her build is more lithe. Her hair is jet black and long, but she keeps it wrapped when she is not on duty or in a bun when she is.
Personality: Her outlook on this new world is somewhat grim, but she is not a cynic. She accepts the reality of the hordes of undead--or in her case, nagaraja--and is grateful to have survived another day when she wakes up in the morning. Her station as one of Taunak’s generals requires her patience, and it is a virtue upon which she has good grasp. Her position also requires her to be stern and compassionate, and she is both in (typically) equal parts.
But she is also prone to anger and frustration comes easy when her plans go awry or people do not listen to her. Attentive to minutia, she desires order and abhors the slightest dissidence. The men in her charge say she has streaks of arrogance and is, deep down, a fool; she finds those men incompetent.
Sacred Weapon: A qiang or ancient chinese spear which possesses the soul of her sister. The long wooden handle is a blood red, the blade part of the spear is an off white.
Mundane weapons: She carries a traditional jian (chinese straight sword) as a secondary weapon.
Equipment: She tends to wear light armor with padding beneath when she is preparing her army for a horde of nagaraja; when she knows there will be tougher enemies about, she wears heavy black scale armor and a helmet.
Background Story: Born to Taunak natives, Hiu grew up in a city of grey fortresses and forts; from her earliest days, she has trained to fight the impending blight whether that menace be the nagaraja or the Jiang Ji. Her mother was a jinzhou or lieutenant in the Twin Empereses’ army and her father was a captain. Cheng, Hui’s younger sister, served as her only true friend as they grew up and trained together.
Hui and her sister were closer than most siblings; they were almost inextricably linked: they finished each other’s sentences, could sometimes predict how the other would start a sentence, and some say they could feel one another’s pain. It was not until they became adults that their paths diverged. Chen became ill from what doctors described as ‘tumors’ and could not join her sister in her fight against the undead or the nagaraja. When word spreads of the miracle ritual in Najin, Hui pleads for an audience with Empress Khiem that she may teach Hui how to save her sister. She does not offer Hui such salvation, but she does show her how to conduct the very same ceremony which Khiem conducted with her own sibling.
Some years pass, and where Hui carries on the fight against the nagaraja--for both her and her sister--and rises through the ranks of the Empress’ army, Cheng’s illness does not improve. Nearing her final days, Hui convinces her sister to conduct the ceremony and completes the soul binding ritual. In her despair, Hui nearly quits her command, but is called into battle once more when new snake-people and more hordes of the undead slowly swarm the enclosed city.
Hui leads her forces against the hordes of snake people and undead and forges a legend for herself within the city walls as a leader and warrior. When Empress Khiem calls for the southern providences’ finest warriors, Hui is one of many to answer the call and she brings with her a few men of her own to aid in the fight.
Title(s): Jiangjun (General)
Age: 39
Origin: Taunak Empire, Southern Kingdoms
Appearance:
Hui is slightly above national average height and beneath the armor she is usually in she has a body befitting more a mesomorph. She is toned and sturdy even though her build is more lithe. Her hair is jet black and long, but she keeps it wrapped when she is not on duty or in a bun when she is.
Personality: Her outlook on this new world is somewhat grim, but she is not a cynic. She accepts the reality of the hordes of undead--or in her case, nagaraja--and is grateful to have survived another day when she wakes up in the morning. Her station as one of Taunak’s generals requires her patience, and it is a virtue upon which she has good grasp. Her position also requires her to be stern and compassionate, and she is both in (typically) equal parts.
But she is also prone to anger and frustration comes easy when her plans go awry or people do not listen to her. Attentive to minutia, she desires order and abhors the slightest dissidence. The men in her charge say she has streaks of arrogance and is, deep down, a fool; she finds those men incompetent.
Sacred Weapon: A qiang or ancient chinese spear which possesses the soul of her sister. The long wooden handle is a blood red, the blade part of the spear is an off white.
Mundane weapons: She carries a traditional jian (chinese straight sword) as a secondary weapon.
Equipment: She tends to wear light armor with padding beneath when she is preparing her army for a horde of nagaraja; when she knows there will be tougher enemies about, she wears heavy black scale armor and a helmet.
Background Story: Born to Taunak natives, Hiu grew up in a city of grey fortresses and forts; from her earliest days, she has trained to fight the impending blight whether that menace be the nagaraja or the Jiang Ji. Her mother was a jinzhou or lieutenant in the Twin Empereses’ army and her father was a captain. Cheng, Hui’s younger sister, served as her only true friend as they grew up and trained together.
Hui and her sister were closer than most siblings; they were almost inextricably linked: they finished each other’s sentences, could sometimes predict how the other would start a sentence, and some say they could feel one another’s pain. It was not until they became adults that their paths diverged. Chen became ill from what doctors described as ‘tumors’ and could not join her sister in her fight against the undead or the nagaraja. When word spreads of the miracle ritual in Najin, Hui pleads for an audience with Empress Khiem that she may teach Hui how to save her sister. She does not offer Hui such salvation, but she does show her how to conduct the very same ceremony which Khiem conducted with her own sibling.
Some years pass, and where Hui carries on the fight against the nagaraja--for both her and her sister--and rises through the ranks of the Empress’ army, Cheng’s illness does not improve. Nearing her final days, Hui convinces her sister to conduct the ceremony and completes the soul binding ritual. In her despair, Hui nearly quits her command, but is called into battle once more when new snake-people and more hordes of the undead slowly swarm the enclosed city.
Hui leads her forces against the hordes of snake people and undead and forges a legend for herself within the city walls as a leader and warrior. When Empress Khiem calls for the southern providences’ finest warriors, Hui is one of many to answer the call and she brings with her a few men of her own to aid in the fight.
⫸ B A S I C I N F O R M A T I O N ⫷
"What a terrible day to be you."
▼ | BIRTH NAME : |
▼ | ALSO KNOWN AS: |
▼ | GENDER : |
▼ | AGE : |
Malik Kamari Walker
▼ | ALSO KNOWN AS: |
Tutu
Buck
Big Mo
Leak
Buck
Big Mo
Leak
▼ | GENDER : |
Male.
▼ | AGE : |
26.
⫸ A P P E A R A N C E ⫷
"I heard I was a bad guy--but I look good don't I?"."
▼ | P H Y S I C AL S T A T S : |
▼ | PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : |
▼ | ATTIRE : |
▸ HEIGHT : | 5’10
▸ WEIGHT : | 190
▸ ETHNICITY: | African American
▸ HAIR COLOR : | Black.
▸ EYE COLOR : | Brown.
▸ WEIGHT : | 190
▸ ETHNICITY: | African American
▸ HAIR COLOR : | Black.
▸ EYE COLOR : | Brown.
▼ | PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION : |
Malik is o average build and in terms of muscle he is lean but not bulky. He prefers to keep his hair nicely trimmed and tends to wear it in either mini-afros or tapered caesars. He has one gold incisor tooth in his bottom row. On the back of his neck he has a crown tilted to the right to denote his gang affiliation. He keeps a scrubble on his face or he is clean shaven. There is a tinge of a Cuban accent to his speech given how much time he spends with the Hispanic members of the Red Crowns, but it is not thick and only seeps through unconscious.
▼ | ATTIRE : |
Malik fashions himself a new age gangbanger: suits, rings, watches, and designer glasses instead of baggy pants, bandanas, and oversized shirts and jerseys. If he is not wearing a suit, he is probably wearing a collared shirt and some slacks or a collared shirt and some jeans if he is dressing down. If he fancies himself especially bummy one day then he may wear a turtleneck and some jeans. Otherwise, one will find him dressed ‘proper.’
⫸ P S Y C H O L O G Y ⫷
"It’s about money, baby. That’s all, that’s it."
▼ | PERSONALITY TRAITS : |
▼ | SKILLS : |
▼ | BACK STORY : |
Ruthless | Savvy | Violent | Perceptive | Arrogant | Charismatic | Stubborn | Ingenuitive
▼ | SKILLS : |
CRIMINAL || Malik is a refined mastermind; he understands how other criminals speak, exploit, and talk. He knows how to swindle and is good with words and Faustian conduct.
MANIPULATIVE || Malik has a way of getting someone to see things his way, but he does it through listening. Waiting and watching and getting close to someone, letting them feel safe around him that they will unveil parts of themselves so that he can exploit them later to his advantage.
MAGNATE || Malik understands numbers, percentages, stocks, LLCs; in short, Malik knows how business works. He knows when to buy and sell and when to defraud ad invest. He owns one small business in Charity Beach similar to a Jamba Juice.
STREET SMART || He knows how to navigate the ‘streets’: drug deals, lingo, who calls what shots in what neighborhood, who the connects are, etc.
BILINGUAL || Malik isn’t fluid in Spanish, but he knows enough that he can deal with the Cuban and other Latin American kingpins in Florida.
MANIPULATIVE || Malik has a way of getting someone to see things his way, but he does it through listening. Waiting and watching and getting close to someone, letting them feel safe around him that they will unveil parts of themselves so that he can exploit them later to his advantage.
MAGNATE || Malik understands numbers, percentages, stocks, LLCs; in short, Malik knows how business works. He knows when to buy and sell and when to defraud ad invest. He owns one small business in Charity Beach similar to a Jamba Juice.
STREET SMART || He knows how to navigate the ‘streets’: drug deals, lingo, who calls what shots in what neighborhood, who the connects are, etc.
BILINGUAL || Malik isn’t fluid in Spanish, but he knows enough that he can deal with the Cuban and other Latin American kingpins in Florida.
▼ | BACK STORY : |
Born and raised in Opa Locka, Miami, Florida, Malik doesn’t grow up rich nor poor. But his parents work hard, his mother at any one time holding no less than two jobs and his father spends much of his life in the business sector as middle management. Eventually, Malik’s parents find he comeuppance they desire for themselves and their trio of sons and move up the socioeconomic ladder as per the facets of the prototypical American Dream.
Yet, with it all--or with as much as two slightly more than exceptional black folks can buy--Malik finds solace in his neighborhood and the kids in his neighborhood. He falls in with a group of kids who call themselves a ‘gang’, but they are just delinquents who commit petty crimes. Eventually, Malik and his friends’ gang is absorbed by one of the many branches of the Red Crowns.
Malik’s new peers know his upbringing and know that he is not a born-and-bred latchkey child; for this, he is ridiculed and often left out of many of his new gang’s early major plays. That, and he is underage; but time is not so kind to the kids and young men who are above him and many end up dead or in jail. Malik’s parents intervene and try to re-direct their sons’ wonton behavior and as many expected, it was to no avail. His parents, aging and knowing of no other way to help their son, put aside a trust fund of his own. All of this is worsened when Malik’s Exposure Event happens during his eighteenth birthday.
It was branded a home invasion. Uptown rivals made Malik’s parents’ murders look like a robbery. Florida PD came and got Malik from school. He wouldn’t see the bodies until the funeral, and Malik and his brothers were sent to live with his grandfather. Malik’s trauma manifested in the form of the Delta energy he had been unknowingly accumulating over the years while living with his parents. He woke up at his grandfather’s house seeing nothing but crimson red; more, the world around him was made of flat, geometric shapes.
He cried, he screamed. Then he ran. He ran back to the same kind of people who killed his parents but the same people who made him feel like he belonged (even if marginal). This time, though, he was older and he was different. An older, retired Red Crown took Malik under his wing and taught him the finer ways of how to survive the streets and high society. Left an inheritance, Malik invests his money and while he is not wealthy, he uses what he has learned to funnel money into businesses and fronts for the Red Crowns in Charity Beach where he has recently moved.
Yet, with it all--or with as much as two slightly more than exceptional black folks can buy--Malik finds solace in his neighborhood and the kids in his neighborhood. He falls in with a group of kids who call themselves a ‘gang’, but they are just delinquents who commit petty crimes. Eventually, Malik and his friends’ gang is absorbed by one of the many branches of the Red Crowns.
Malik’s new peers know his upbringing and know that he is not a born-and-bred latchkey child; for this, he is ridiculed and often left out of many of his new gang’s early major plays. That, and he is underage; but time is not so kind to the kids and young men who are above him and many end up dead or in jail. Malik’s parents intervene and try to re-direct their sons’ wonton behavior and as many expected, it was to no avail. His parents, aging and knowing of no other way to help their son, put aside a trust fund of his own. All of this is worsened when Malik’s Exposure Event happens during his eighteenth birthday.
It was branded a home invasion. Uptown rivals made Malik’s parents’ murders look like a robbery. Florida PD came and got Malik from school. He wouldn’t see the bodies until the funeral, and Malik and his brothers were sent to live with his grandfather. Malik’s trauma manifested in the form of the Delta energy he had been unknowingly accumulating over the years while living with his parents. He woke up at his grandfather’s house seeing nothing but crimson red; more, the world around him was made of flat, geometric shapes.
He cried, he screamed. Then he ran. He ran back to the same kind of people who killed his parents but the same people who made him feel like he belonged (even if marginal). This time, though, he was older and he was different. An older, retired Red Crown took Malik under his wing and taught him the finer ways of how to survive the streets and high society. Left an inheritance, Malik invests his money and while he is not wealthy, he uses what he has learned to funnel money into businesses and fronts for the Red Crowns in Charity Beach where he has recently moved.
⫸ P O W E R I N F O R M A T I O N ⫷
"I see it all."
▼ | POWER CLASSIFICATION : |
▼ | POWER DESCRIPTION : |
▼ | LIMITS : |
▼ | WEAKNESSES : |
Type-Chromatic (Red, Blue)
▼ | POWER DESCRIPTION : |
Optic Energy Emission
Malik was turned into a conduit for UV rays; he can absorb a steady amount of UV light and transmit it into hard-light through his eyes. It is usually channeled in red or blue, much like the crystal energy he absorbed leading up to his Exposure. When he activates his power, he sees everything through either a red or blue spectrum. These beams can be either concussive or they can cut through objects and flesh.
Whether these beams cut through physical objects or simply concuss is dependent on Malik’s intent. He can bounce these beams off of most kinds of surface if angled correctly and cause ricochet. Alternating his beams with a single eye is also something he is learning to do (though has not mastered); they can get large (but no larger than the size of his eyeballs) or small as garrote wire depending on what Malik requires. They can cut through and bend nothing tougher than steel.
360 Vision
Because Malik’s world now lacks three dimensional depth and functions entirely in 2D, Malik’s brain has adapted and pushed his occipital lobe beyond normal human capacity. The rays which reflect off of buildings Malik passively manipulates so he can see all around himself. Where there is no light source, he loses this ability.
Superhumanly Acute Spatial Awareness
Malik has an almost unnatural grasp on how much space is in a given room: how many tiles, how much distance exactly is between one tile on the ceiling and another, how far and how close someone is to himself. Though he lacks extra depth perception, he is also not hindered by it and is not so easily confused by sleight of hand.
Malik was turned into a conduit for UV rays; he can absorb a steady amount of UV light and transmit it into hard-light through his eyes. It is usually channeled in red or blue, much like the crystal energy he absorbed leading up to his Exposure. When he activates his power, he sees everything through either a red or blue spectrum. These beams can be either concussive or they can cut through objects and flesh.
Whether these beams cut through physical objects or simply concuss is dependent on Malik’s intent. He can bounce these beams off of most kinds of surface if angled correctly and cause ricochet. Alternating his beams with a single eye is also something he is learning to do (though has not mastered); they can get large (but no larger than the size of his eyeballs) or small as garrote wire depending on what Malik requires. They can cut through and bend nothing tougher than steel.
360 Vision
Because Malik’s world now lacks three dimensional depth and functions entirely in 2D, Malik’s brain has adapted and pushed his occipital lobe beyond normal human capacity. The rays which reflect off of buildings Malik passively manipulates so he can see all around himself. Where there is no light source, he loses this ability.
Superhumanly Acute Spatial Awareness
Malik has an almost unnatural grasp on how much space is in a given room: how many tiles, how much distance exactly is between one tile on the ceiling and another, how far and how close someone is to himself. Though he lacks extra depth perception, he is also not hindered by it and is not so easily confused by sleight of hand.
▼ | LIMITS : |
There is a limit to how much energy he can store in himself before he must release it. Unbeknownst to Malik, his beams are actually weaker the closer they are to a target; they become stronger the further a target is away from him. When his beams are set to cut someone or something, the effect may be negated by sufficient metallic armor.
▼ | WEAKNESSES : |
Malik has little physical combat training and relies heavily on his gifts to keep him alive. Should his powers fail him, he is generally at a loss as to how he is going to defend himself. Even with his powers, Malik is best when fighting at a distance and if someone manages to remove said space from him, he is handily defeated by someone with more skill than himself. He is also just a human and is killed in any way sufficient to kill an otherwise regular man.
When he is firing his beams, he is technically 'blind' so he keeps his emissions short and purposeful.
His 360 vision relies on a constant source of light and in shadows it is obsolete.
When he is firing his beams, he is technically 'blind' so he keeps his emissions short and purposeful.
His 360 vision relies on a constant source of light and in shadows it is obsolete.
⫸ O T H E R ⫷
"We all under one law."
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King Gamba
⦋ Ancient || Beninese || Egun Who Presents Male ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
Gamba’s inhabited body is exceedingly muscular and strong, chosen by his former subjects amidst a sea of others, King Gamba’s body is not his own as Gamba himself is a disembodied egun. The body Gamba possesses no unique non-human qualities itself and functions like any other body It does have several veve’s of Ogoun scrawled across it.
Said body is centuries old, as is Gamba, and over time Gamba’s inhabited body has turned him into a volatile and arrogant spirit. Believing his body indestructible, Gamba will not hesitate to engage anyone who challenges him and will sometimes engage those he perceives as much weaker than himself. When brought to reason--whether through words or defeat--he is not prone to continuous antagonizing of one who he saw as a victim.
Fiery as he is, centuries as an egunn--venerated ancestor and watcher and protector over practitioners of the Santeria religion--also make him loyal and compassionate toward those he considers allies.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Said body is centuries old, as is Gamba, and over time Gamba’s inhabited body has turned him into a volatile and arrogant spirit. Believing his body indestructible, Gamba will not hesitate to engage anyone who challenges him and will sometimes engage those he perceives as much weaker than himself. When brought to reason--whether through words or defeat--he is not prone to continuous antagonizing of one who he saw as a victim.
Fiery as he is, centuries as an egunn--venerated ancestor and watcher and protector over practitioners of the Santeria religion--also make him loyal and compassionate toward those he considers allies.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
Brave
Arrogant
Wise
Stubborn
Traditional
Brazen
Likes mentoring people
Protective
Arrogant
Wise
Stubborn
Traditional
Brazen
Likes mentoring people
Protective
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Some several hundred years ago, there existed a Dahomey king named Chibueze Baako; Baako was regent of many regents of the Dahomey people of West Africa and was among the nation’s first kings. He attains his throne in reaction to one of the founders of the nation. Adebayo was greedy and selfish; Baako, though he ruled a much smaller portion of the land, was quite opposite. Under king Adebayo, Dahomey conquers and spreads among the neighboring nations, but Adebayo conscripts men for war, breaks up families, and hoards the growing wealth of his people.
Young Chibueze Baako, son of advisor to king Adebayo, begins--alongside his father--plotting against the Adebayo. It takes many decades, and in that time Chibueze joins Adebayo’s army and with his father’s military training, Baako becomes a formidable warrior and strategist. He and his father spend close to ten years gathering allies to battle the massive Dahomey army and overthrow the king.
With the backing of the largest sect of Fon nationals and the aid of the smaller Adja and and Bariba tribes, Baako leads a revolt against the Dahomey king and his men. Baako and many of the Fon people are killed as well as the Adja and the Bariba; though, and the revolt is ultimately a failure. Baako and his men are hailed as heroes and deal a great blow to Abedayo and his power base..Unfortunately for Baako, his failure means he is tortured and killed alongside his father. He is hailed as a hero by the local population, and his legend grows in the coming centuries. As the true details of Baako’s rebellion are lost to time and fact becomes folklore and folklore becomes national myth, Baako’s spirit awakens after centuries of dissonance and wandering.
When the transatlantic slave trade begins and many West Africans are sold or captured and brought to the Carribean en masse like never before, they bring their folklore and myths with them. Among those is Baako’s rebellion. When Carribean slaves are denied religious practice, they form their own syncretic religions--African belief systems coded in and as Catholic Christian practices--and Baako becomes a patron saint alongside many other African folk heroes.
And so, when Santeria forms in the Carribean and migrates to Cuba during the latter half of the 19th century, Baako’s followers and worshippers appraise him a deity and conduct a ritual to bring Baako’s spirit back to life. It is sacrificial and--during that time--untested; in Santa Clara, Cuba, its strongest warrior offers himself as tribute. Baako’s spirit is evoked and possesses the body of the warrior. Reborn, Baako assumes control of this new vessel and--with some convincing of who he once was--Baako is elected the nation’s leader and establishes his own kingdom once again. He takes on a new moniker as well--Gamba, or, ‘warrior’ in Shona.
Gamba, indebted to the Santeria religion, travels the world proselytizing and spreading the word of its miracles. As an egun, or venerated ancestor, Gamba uplifts the powers and wonders of fellow egun (dead humans whose spirits were guides for the living in the Santeria religion) and along the way he encounters resistance. Resistance which he crushes with the might of his fists and his newfound mysterious power.
To this day, Gamba travels the world preaching the word of the Santeria and bringing enlightenment to heathens. And, as an egun himself, has sworn to protect the defenseless and the weak and (if he can) convert them. It is in his travels between the continents that he picks up more technical fighting styles, primarily Kipura and Nubian Wrestling.
Young Chibueze Baako, son of advisor to king Adebayo, begins--alongside his father--plotting against the Adebayo. It takes many decades, and in that time Chibueze joins Adebayo’s army and with his father’s military training, Baako becomes a formidable warrior and strategist. He and his father spend close to ten years gathering allies to battle the massive Dahomey army and overthrow the king.
With the backing of the largest sect of Fon nationals and the aid of the smaller Adja and and Bariba tribes, Baako leads a revolt against the Dahomey king and his men. Baako and many of the Fon people are killed as well as the Adja and the Bariba; though, and the revolt is ultimately a failure. Baako and his men are hailed as heroes and deal a great blow to Abedayo and his power base..Unfortunately for Baako, his failure means he is tortured and killed alongside his father. He is hailed as a hero by the local population, and his legend grows in the coming centuries. As the true details of Baako’s rebellion are lost to time and fact becomes folklore and folklore becomes national myth, Baako’s spirit awakens after centuries of dissonance and wandering.
When the transatlantic slave trade begins and many West Africans are sold or captured and brought to the Carribean en masse like never before, they bring their folklore and myths with them. Among those is Baako’s rebellion. When Carribean slaves are denied religious practice, they form their own syncretic religions--African belief systems coded in and as Catholic Christian practices--and Baako becomes a patron saint alongside many other African folk heroes.
And so, when Santeria forms in the Carribean and migrates to Cuba during the latter half of the 19th century, Baako’s followers and worshippers appraise him a deity and conduct a ritual to bring Baako’s spirit back to life. It is sacrificial and--during that time--untested; in Santa Clara, Cuba, its strongest warrior offers himself as tribute. Baako’s spirit is evoked and possesses the body of the warrior. Reborn, Baako assumes control of this new vessel and--with some convincing of who he once was--Baako is elected the nation’s leader and establishes his own kingdom once again. He takes on a new moniker as well--Gamba, or, ‘warrior’ in Shona.
Gamba, indebted to the Santeria religion, travels the world proselytizing and spreading the word of its miracles. As an egun, or venerated ancestor, Gamba uplifts the powers and wonders of fellow egun (dead humans whose spirits were guides for the living in the Santeria religion) and along the way he encounters resistance. Resistance which he crushes with the might of his fists and his newfound mysterious power.
To this day, Gamba travels the world preaching the word of the Santeria and bringing enlightenment to heathens. And, as an egun himself, has sworn to protect the defenseless and the weak and (if he can) convert them. It is in his travels between the continents that he picks up more technical fighting styles, primarily Kipura and Nubian Wrestling.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
He is raw power manifest and refined through centuries of training. While he has some competence in the ‘western’ martial arts (western boxing, greco-roman wrestling), he prefers the catches, grappling, and throws of Nuba Wrestling in combination with the more contact-oriented Kipura father branch of Brazilian Capoeira.
Nuba wrestling has all the locks, grapples, and slams of greco-roman wrestling, but is far less formal and Gamba uses its freeform to chain kicks into sudden grapples or headlocks or slams, etc. The Kipura African dance art is predecessor to the one found in Brazil and focuses less on rhythmic dance and camaraderie and more on the use of one’s legs as modes of debilitating an opponent’s joints (knees, ankles, etc). It maintains the same dance-style found in Capoeira.
King Gamba prefers to use use his Kipura and wrestling in combination and is at his best when he is able to juggle an opponent for sustained periods of time and chain--or end--his combos with devastating kicks and throws. Lending to the nature of his offense, he uses unorthodox angles and fight patterns to try and freeze or outright confuse his opponent.
He is raw power manifest and refined through centuries of training. While he has some competence in the ‘western’ martial arts (western boxing, greco-roman wrestling), he prefers the catches, grappling, and throws of Nuba Wrestling in combination with the more contact-oriented Kipura father branch of Brazilian Capoeira.
Nuba wrestling has all the locks, grapples, and slams of greco-roman wrestling, but is far less formal and Gamba uses its freeform to chain kicks into sudden grapples or headlocks or slams, etc. The Kipura African dance art is predecessor to the one found in Brazil and focuses less on rhythmic dance and camaraderie and more on the use of one’s legs as modes of debilitating an opponent’s joints (knees, ankles, etc). It maintains the same dance-style found in Capoeira.
King Gamba prefers to use use his Kipura and wrestling in combination and is at his best when he is able to juggle an opponent for sustained periods of time and chain--or end--his combos with devastating kicks and throws. Lending to the nature of his offense, he uses unorthodox angles and fight patterns to try and freeze or outright confuse his opponent.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■Ougun’s Offering
Subtle pulses of ki radiate from Gamba’s legs--and the kicks in this chain hit like steel--as he exits the opening stance of Kipura dance, and he glides across the ground in a flurry of spins and twists while on his hands. If/when he reaches his opponent, he first goes to sweep their legs and if they jump, he chains into his next move. If the opponent does not jump, Gamba evades sideways.
■Ougun’s Wish
From a sweep, if the opponent has left their feet, Gamba transitions into a standing spinning kick similar to that of a horeskick, aimed at the opponent’s unprotected legs after they have leapt. If successful, the opponent should be leaning slightly forward and--if they do not brace themselves--about to land face first into the ground. From here, he transitions into his next move.
■ Ougun’s Command
With the twisting motion complete, and his opponent still in mid air, Gamba grabs his opponent’s head and drives it crown-first into the ground with a devastating smash. He does it hard enough for their bodies to bounce back up, where he will finish the chain.
■Ougun’s Might
Both of Gamba’s feet cease flashing ki subtly and glow bright and hot; he flips backwards, ki-infused feet smashing into his bouncing opponent and sending them skyward--or backward, depending on how well he connects. It is a devastating move which can crack face plate armor and, if one is unprotected, bruise some bones.
■Rising Toss
Gamba closes the distance on an opponent with some subtle aid from his ki and boosts his speed; he is hoping to get the opponent to move or use a high-ranged attack so he can slip beneath it and slide on his back toward them, where he will twist up and onto his hands, plunging his feet into their chest to send them flying.
■Damballah’s Grip
Gamba goes about working his way toward the opponent using his Kipura and suddenly takes the fight to its feet; he stands and blocks and feints until he can catch one of his opponent’s extended limbs; he grabs that limb (if an arm, he takes control of the wrist and pulls his opponent toward him; if a leg, Gamba slips his shoulder beneath the back of his opponent’s knee while he still has control of the leg and hoists his opponent into the air and then slams his opponent on his back).
■Damballah’s Coil
After slamming his opponent from Damballah’s grip, he flips on one hand and drops both knees into his opponent’s gut. From this quasi-side control position, Gamba reigns elbows onto his opponent’s head or a series of knees into his opponent’s side.
■Sango Suplex
Gamba uses a series of Kipura kicks and transitions while on his hands to slither his way behind his opponent where he hops to his feet and wraps his arms around his opponent’s waist. He lifts his opponent and bridges himself so that he can slam the opponent head first into the ground in a traditional suplex. It can cause someone to be dazed. This starts a Slam chain.
■Sango’s Song
Gamba, with his hips still bridged, pushes off of his feet and uses a burst of ki to help himself tighten his grip on his opponent’s waist while they are dazed, he flips himself over his opponent so the two are shaped like a ball; Gamba plants his feet and uses another burst of ki to snatch his suplexed adversary from the ground and into the air again; Gamba then tosses his opponent skyward and catches his opponent’s feet--Gamba slams his opponent face-first into the ground again. This leads into a juggle which will allow him to end the Slam chain.
■Sango’s Savagery
Gamba leaps into the air and lights his right foot with ki; Gamba then performs a quexada and smashes his foot into his opponent’s skull while his opponent is in mid air.
■Lucumi Dance
Gamba feints several esquival or side-escapes and uses this to set up chains, slams, or takedowns.
■The Man With the Steel Limbs
The one time where Gamba constantly uses his ki; it hardens his hands and feet to that of steel, and they hit with the same ferocity. This only lasts a few minutes each time he uses it and has a moderate cooldown.
SUPER MOVES
■Hail the King
The Ougoun veve on King Gamba’s back grows, its tendrils spreading down his arms and across his chest. Gamba’s eyes glow white, and for the next minute, he is able to Planewalk; that is, allow his true nature to take over and become untraceable to the human eye. When he attacks his opponent, however, they will be able to see his disembodied being, but in the form of their worst nightmare.
■The Stone the Builder Set
Gamba’s egun essence pulls itself from its body and covers Gamba with it; for the short time this is active, he automatically deflects ranged attacks using the tendrils of his veve (but for each ranged attack deflected, the time which this super is active is shortened) and takes half-damage from a physical barrage.
■Egun Blessed: The Soul Cleanser
Gamba digs both feet into the ground, its surface cracking beneath his weight; the Ougun veve stretches and covers his body from head to toe. His eyes turn white once more and so does the actual Ougun veve on his back. For the duration of the Special, Gamba gains the strength and defense of Ougun himself; even punching the air will cause bursts of wind to feel like bludgeoning hammers as they travel toward his opponent from up close or at a distance. He becomes highly resistant to other demonic, shadow, and angelic attacks, and is able to cause great harm to ghosts, demons, imps, angels, and other forms of ethereal being.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Against long range fighters he struggles a lot. Even fighters who can keep him at mid-range can prove difficult as he does not stop moving and is always looking for a way to get to his opponent and may tire. Many of his moves also require a great deal of set up to execute and against someone who does not need so much time, Gamba will also strain.
OTHER
He sometimes carries a machete.
Name: Hui Liu
Title(s): Jiangjun (General)
Age: 39
Origin: Taunak Empire, Southern Kingdoms
Appearance:
Hui is slightly above national average height and beneath the armor she is usually in she has a body befitting more a mesomorph. She is toned and sturdy even though her build is more lithe. Her hair is jet black and long, but she keeps it wrapped when she is not on duty or in a bun when she is.
Personality: Her outlook on this new world is somewhat grim, but she is not a cynic. She accepts the reality of the hordes of undead--or in her case, nagaraja--and is grateful to have survived another day when she wakes up in the morning. Her station as one of Taunak’s generals requires her patience, and it is a virtue upon which she has good grasp. Her position also requires her to be stern and compassionate, and she is both in (typically) equal parts.
But she is also prone to anger and frustration comes easy when her plans go awry or people do not listen to her. Attentive to minutia, she desires order and abhors the slightest dissidence. The men in her charge say she has streaks of arrogance and is, deep down, a fool; she finds those men incompetent.
Sacred Weapon: A qiang or ancient chinese spear which possesses the soul of her sister. The long wooden handle is a blood red, the blade part of the spear is an off white.
Mundane weapons: She carries a traditional jian (chinese straight sword) as a secondary weapon.
Equipment: She tends to wear light armor with padding beneath when she is preparing her army for a horde of nagaraja; when she knows there will be tougher enemies about, she wears heavy black scale armor and a helmet.
Background Story: Born to Taunak natives, Hiu grew up in a city of grey fortresses and forts; from her earliest days, she has trained to fight the impending blight whether that menace be the nagaraja or the Jiang Ji. Her mother was a jinzhou or lieutenant in the Twin Empereses’ army and her father was a captain. Cheng, Hui’s younger sister, served as her only true friend as they grew up and trained together.
Hui and her sister were closer than most siblings; they were almost inextricably linked: they finished each other’s sentences, could sometimes predict how the other would start a sentence, and some say they could feel one another’s pain. It was not until they became adults that their paths diverged. Chen became ill from what doctors described as ‘tumors’ and could not join her sister in her fight against the undead or the nagaraja. When word spreads of the miracle ritual in Najin, Hui pleads for an audience with Empress Khiem that she may teach Hui how to save her sister. She does not offer Hui such salvation, but she does show her how to conduct the very same ceremony which Khiem conducted with her own sibling.
Some years pass, and where Hui carries on the fight against the nagaraja--for both her and her sister--and rises through the ranks of the Empress’ army, Cheng’s illness does not improve. Nearing her final days, Hui convinces her sister to conduct the ceremony and completes the soul binding ritual. In her despair, Hui nearly quits her command, but is called into battle once more when new snake-people and more hordes of the undead slowly swarm the enclosed city.
Hui leads her forces against the hordes of snake people and undead and forges a legend for herself within the city walls as a leader and warrior. When Empress Khiem calls for the southern providences’ finest warriors, Hui is one of many to answer the call and she brings with her a few men of her own to aid in the fight.
Title(s): Jiangjun (General)
Age: 39
Origin: Taunak Empire, Southern Kingdoms
Appearance:
Hui is slightly above national average height and beneath the armor she is usually in she has a body befitting more a mesomorph. She is toned and sturdy even though her build is more lithe. Her hair is jet black and long, but she keeps it wrapped when she is not on duty or in a bun when she is.
Personality: Her outlook on this new world is somewhat grim, but she is not a cynic. She accepts the reality of the hordes of undead--or in her case, nagaraja--and is grateful to have survived another day when she wakes up in the morning. Her station as one of Taunak’s generals requires her patience, and it is a virtue upon which she has good grasp. Her position also requires her to be stern and compassionate, and she is both in (typically) equal parts.
But she is also prone to anger and frustration comes easy when her plans go awry or people do not listen to her. Attentive to minutia, she desires order and abhors the slightest dissidence. The men in her charge say she has streaks of arrogance and is, deep down, a fool; she finds those men incompetent.
Sacred Weapon: A qiang or ancient chinese spear which possesses the soul of her sister. The long wooden handle is a blood red, the blade part of the spear is an off white.
Mundane weapons: She carries a traditional jian (chinese straight sword) as a secondary weapon.
Equipment: She tends to wear light armor with padding beneath when she is preparing her army for a horde of nagaraja; when she knows there will be tougher enemies about, she wears heavy black scale armor and a helmet.
Background Story: Born to Taunak natives, Hiu grew up in a city of grey fortresses and forts; from her earliest days, she has trained to fight the impending blight whether that menace be the nagaraja or the Jiang Ji. Her mother was a jinzhou or lieutenant in the Twin Empereses’ army and her father was a captain. Cheng, Hui’s younger sister, served as her only true friend as they grew up and trained together.
Hui and her sister were closer than most siblings; they were almost inextricably linked: they finished each other’s sentences, could sometimes predict how the other would start a sentence, and some say they could feel one another’s pain. It was not until they became adults that their paths diverged. Chen became ill from what doctors described as ‘tumors’ and could not join her sister in her fight against the undead or the nagaraja. When word spreads of the miracle ritual in Najin, Hui pleads for an audience with Empress Khiem that she may teach Hui how to save her sister. She does not offer Hui such salvation, but she does show her how to conduct the very same ceremony which Khiem conducted with her own sibling.
Some years pass, and where Hui carries on the fight against the nagaraja--for both her and her sister--and rises through the ranks of the Empress’ army, Cheng’s illness does not improve. Nearing her final days, Hui convinces her sister to conduct the ceremony and completes the soul binding ritual. In her despair, Hui nearly quits her command, but is called into battle once more when new snake-people and more hordes of the undead slowly swarm the enclosed city.
Hui leads her forces against the hordes of snake people and undead and forges a legend for herself within the city walls as a leader and warrior. When Empress Khiem calls for the southern providences’ finest warriors, Hui is one of many to answer the call and she brings with her a few men of her own to aid in the fight.
King Gamba
⦋ Ancient || Beninese || Egun Who Presents Male ⦌
APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY
Gamba’s inhabited body is exceedingly muscular and strong, chosen by his former subjects amidst a sea of others, King Gamba’s body is not his own as Gamba himself is a disembodied egun. The body Gamba possesses no unique non-human qualities itself and functions like any other body It does have several veve’s of Ogoun scrawled across it.
Said body is centuries old, as is Gamba, and over time Gamba’s inhabited body has turned him into a volatile and arrogant spirit. Believing his body indestructible, Gamba will not hesitate to engage anyone who challenges him and will sometimes engage those he perceives as much weaker than himself. When brought to reason--whether through words or defeat--he is not prone to continuous antagonizing of one who he saw as a victim.
Fiery as he is, centuries as an egunn--venerated ancestor and watcher and protector over practitioners of the Santeria religion--also make him loyal and compassionate toward those he considers allies.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Said body is centuries old, as is Gamba, and over time Gamba’s inhabited body has turned him into a volatile and arrogant spirit. Believing his body indestructible, Gamba will not hesitate to engage anyone who challenges him and will sometimes engage those he perceives as much weaker than himself. When brought to reason--whether through words or defeat--he is not prone to continuous antagonizing of one who he saw as a victim.
Fiery as he is, centuries as an egunn--venerated ancestor and watcher and protector over practitioners of the Santeria religion--also make him loyal and compassionate toward those he considers allies.
PERSONALITY TRAITS
Brave
Arrogant
Wise
Stubborn
Traditional
Brazen
Likes mentoring people
Protective
Arrogant
Wise
Stubborn
Traditional
Brazen
Likes mentoring people
Protective
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION
Some several hundred years ago, there existed a Dahomey king named Chibueze Baako; Baako was regent of many regents of the Dahomey people of West Africa and was among the nation’s first kings. He attains his throne in reaction to one of the founders of the nation. Adebayo was greedy and selfish; Baako, though he ruled a much smaller portion of the land, was quite opposite. Under king Adebayo, Dahomey conquers and spreads among the neighboring nations, but Adebayo conscripts men for war, breaks up families, and hoards the growing wealth of his people.
Young Chibueze Baako, son of advisor to king Adebayo, begins--alongside his father--plotting against the Adebayo. It takes many decades, and in that time Chibueze joins Adebayo’s army and with his father’s military training, Baako becomes a formidable warrior and strategist. He and his father spend close to ten years gathering allies to battle the massive Dahomey army and overthrow the king.
With the backing of the largest sect of Fon nationals and the aid of the smaller Adja and and Bariba tribes, Baako leads a revolt against the Dahomey king and his men. Baako and many of the Fon people are killed as well as the Adja and the Bariba; though, and the revolt is ultimately a failure. Baako and his men are hailed as heroes and deal a great blow to Abedayo and his power base..Unfortunately for Baako, his failure means he is tortured and killed alongside his father. He is hailed as a hero by the local population, and his legend grows in the coming centuries. As the true details of Baako’s rebellion are lost to time and fact becomes folklore and folklore becomes national myth, Baako’s spirit awakens after centuries of dissonance and wandering.
When the transatlantic slave trade begins and many West Africans are sold or captured and brought to the Carribean en masse like never before, they bring their folklore and myths with them. Among those is Baako’s rebellion. When Carribean slaves are denied religious practice, they form their own syncretic religions--African belief systems coded in and as Catholic Christian practices--and Baako becomes a patron saint alongside many other African folk heroes.
And so, when Santeria forms in the Carribean and migrates to Cuba during the latter half of the 19th century, Baako’s followers and worshippers appraise him a deity and conduct a ritual to bring Baako’s spirit back to life. It is sacrificial and--during that time--untested; in Santa Clara, Cuba, its strongest warrior offers himself as tribute. Baako’s spirit is evoked and possesses the body of the warrior. Reborn, Baako assumes control of this new vessel and--with some convincing of who he once was--Baako is elected the nation’s leader and establishes his own kingdom once again. He takes on a new moniker as well--Gamba, or, ‘warrior’ in Shona.
Gamba, indebted to the Santeria religion, travels the world proselytizing and spreading the word of its miracles. As an egun, or venerated ancestor, Gamba uplifts the powers and wonders of fellow egun (dead humans whose spirits were guides for the living in the Santeria religion) and along the way he encounters resistance. Resistance which he crushes with the might of his fists and his newfound mysterious power.
To this day, Gamba travels the world preaching the word of the Santeria and bringing enlightenment to heathens. And, as an egun himself, has sworn to protect the defenseless and the weak and (if he can) convert them. It is in his travels between the continents that he picks up more technical fighting styles, primarily Kipura and Nubian Wrestling.
Young Chibueze Baako, son of advisor to king Adebayo, begins--alongside his father--plotting against the Adebayo. It takes many decades, and in that time Chibueze joins Adebayo’s army and with his father’s military training, Baako becomes a formidable warrior and strategist. He and his father spend close to ten years gathering allies to battle the massive Dahomey army and overthrow the king.
With the backing of the largest sect of Fon nationals and the aid of the smaller Adja and and Bariba tribes, Baako leads a revolt against the Dahomey king and his men. Baako and many of the Fon people are killed as well as the Adja and the Bariba; though, and the revolt is ultimately a failure. Baako and his men are hailed as heroes and deal a great blow to Abedayo and his power base..Unfortunately for Baako, his failure means he is tortured and killed alongside his father. He is hailed as a hero by the local population, and his legend grows in the coming centuries. As the true details of Baako’s rebellion are lost to time and fact becomes folklore and folklore becomes national myth, Baako’s spirit awakens after centuries of dissonance and wandering.
When the transatlantic slave trade begins and many West Africans are sold or captured and brought to the Carribean en masse like never before, they bring their folklore and myths with them. Among those is Baako’s rebellion. When Carribean slaves are denied religious practice, they form their own syncretic religions--African belief systems coded in and as Catholic Christian practices--and Baako becomes a patron saint alongside many other African folk heroes.
And so, when Santeria forms in the Carribean and migrates to Cuba during the latter half of the 19th century, Baako’s followers and worshippers appraise him a deity and conduct a ritual to bring Baako’s spirit back to life. It is sacrificial and--during that time--untested; in Santa Clara, Cuba, its strongest warrior offers himself as tribute. Baako’s spirit is evoked and possesses the body of the warrior. Reborn, Baako assumes control of this new vessel and--with some convincing of who he once was--Baako is elected the nation’s leader and establishes his own kingdom once again. He takes on a new moniker as well--Gamba, or, ‘warrior’ in Shona.
Gamba, indebted to the Santeria religion, travels the world proselytizing and spreading the word of its miracles. As an egun, or venerated ancestor, Gamba uplifts the powers and wonders of fellow egun (dead humans whose spirits were guides for the living in the Santeria religion) and along the way he encounters resistance. Resistance which he crushes with the might of his fists and his newfound mysterious power.
To this day, Gamba travels the world preaching the word of the Santeria and bringing enlightenment to heathens. And, as an egun himself, has sworn to protect the defenseless and the weak and (if he can) convert them. It is in his travels between the continents that he picks up more technical fighting styles, primarily Kipura and Nubian Wrestling.
FIGHTING STYLE & ABILITIES
FIGHTING STYLE
He is raw power manifest and refined through centuries of training. While he has some competence in the ‘western’ martial arts (western boxing, greco-roman wrestling), he prefers the catches, grappling, and throws of Nuba Wrestling in combination with the more contact-oriented Kipura father branch of Brazilian Capoeira.
Nuba wrestling has all the locks, grapples, and slams of greco-roman wrestling, but is far less formal and Gamba uses its freeform to chain kicks into sudden grapples or headlocks or slams, etc. The Kipura African dance art is predecessor to the one found in Brazil and focuses less on rhythmic dance and camaraderie and more on the use of one’s legs as modes of debilitating an opponent’s joints (knees, ankles, etc). It maintains the same dance-style found in Capoeira.
King Gamba prefers to use use his Kipura and wrestling in combination and is at his best when he is able to juggle an opponent for sustained periods of time and chain--or end--his combos with devastating kicks and throws. Lending to the nature of his offense, he uses unorthodox angles and fight patterns to try and freeze or outright confuse his opponent.
He is raw power manifest and refined through centuries of training. While he has some competence in the ‘western’ martial arts (western boxing, greco-roman wrestling), he prefers the catches, grappling, and throws of Nuba Wrestling in combination with the more contact-oriented Kipura father branch of Brazilian Capoeira.
Nuba wrestling has all the locks, grapples, and slams of greco-roman wrestling, but is far less formal and Gamba uses its freeform to chain kicks into sudden grapples or headlocks or slams, etc. The Kipura African dance art is predecessor to the one found in Brazil and focuses less on rhythmic dance and camaraderie and more on the use of one’s legs as modes of debilitating an opponent’s joints (knees, ankles, etc). It maintains the same dance-style found in Capoeira.
King Gamba prefers to use use his Kipura and wrestling in combination and is at his best when he is able to juggle an opponent for sustained periods of time and chain--or end--his combos with devastating kicks and throws. Lending to the nature of his offense, he uses unorthodox angles and fight patterns to try and freeze or outright confuse his opponent.
SPECIAL MOVES & TECHNIQUES
■Ougun’s Offering
Subtle pulses of ki radiate from Gamba’s legs--and the kicks in this chain hit like steel--as he exits the opening stance of Kipura dance, and he glides across the ground in a flurry of spins and twists while on his hands. If/when he reaches his opponent, he first goes to sweep their legs and if they jump, he chains into his next move. If the opponent does not jump, Gamba evades sideways.
■Ougun’s Wish
From a sweep, if the opponent has left their feet, Gamba transitions into a standing spinning kick similar to that of a horeskick, aimed at the opponent’s unprotected legs after they have leapt. If successful, the opponent should be leaning slightly forward and--if they do not brace themselves--about to land face first into the ground. From here, he transitions into his next move.
■ Ougun’s Command
With the twisting motion complete, and his opponent still in mid air, Gamba grabs his opponent’s head and drives it crown-first into the ground with a devastating smash. He does it hard enough for their bodies to bounce back up, where he will finish the chain.
■Ougun’s Might
Both of Gamba’s feet cease flashing ki subtly and glow bright and hot; he flips backwards, ki-infused feet smashing into his bouncing opponent and sending them skyward--or backward, depending on how well he connects. It is a devastating move which can crack face plate armor and, if one is unprotected, bruise some bones.
■Rising Toss
Gamba closes the distance on an opponent with some subtle aid from his ki and boosts his speed; he is hoping to get the opponent to move or use a high-ranged attack so he can slip beneath it and slide on his back toward them, where he will twist up and onto his hands, plunging his feet into their chest to send them flying.
■Damballah’s Grip
Gamba goes about working his way toward the opponent using his Kipura and suddenly takes the fight to its feet; he stands and blocks and feints until he can catch one of his opponent’s extended limbs; he grabs that limb (if an arm, he takes control of the wrist and pulls his opponent toward him; if a leg, Gamba slips his shoulder beneath the back of his opponent’s knee while he still has control of the leg and hoists his opponent into the air and then slams his opponent on his back).
■Damballah’s Coil
After slamming his opponent from Damballah’s grip, he flips on one hand and drops both knees into his opponent’s gut. From this quasi-side control position, Gamba reigns elbows onto his opponent’s head or a series of knees into his opponent’s side.
■Sango Suplex
Gamba uses a series of Kipura kicks and transitions while on his hands to slither his way behind his opponent where he hops to his feet and wraps his arms around his opponent’s waist. He lifts his opponent and bridges himself so that he can slam the opponent head first into the ground in a traditional suplex. It can cause someone to be dazed. This starts a Slam chain.
■Sango’s Song
Gamba, with his hips still bridged, pushes off of his feet and uses a burst of ki to help himself tighten his grip on his opponent’s waist while they are dazed, he flips himself over his opponent so the two are shaped like a ball; Gamba plants his feet and uses another burst of ki to snatch his suplexed adversary from the ground and into the air again; Gamba then tosses his opponent skyward and catches his opponent’s feet--Gamba slams his opponent face-first into the ground again. This leads into a juggle which will allow him to end the Slam chain.
■Sango’s Savagery
Gamba leaps into the air and lights his right foot with ki; Gamba then performs a quexada and smashes his foot into his opponent’s skull while his opponent is in mid air.
■Lucumi Dance
Gamba feints several esquival or side-escapes and uses this to set up chains, slams, or takedowns.
■The Man With the Steel Limbs
The one time where Gamba constantly uses his ki; it hardens his hands and feet to that of steel, and they hit with the same ferocity. This only lasts a few minutes each time he uses it and has a moderate cooldown.
SUPER MOVES
■Hail the King
The Ougoun veve on King Gamba’s back grows, its tendrils spreading down his arms and across his chest. Gamba’s eyes glow white, and for the next minute, he is able to Planewalk; that is, allow his true nature to take over and become untraceable to the human eye. When he attacks his opponent, however, they will be able to see his disembodied being, but in the form of their worst nightmare.
■The Stone the Builder Set
Gamba’s egun essence pulls itself from its body and covers Gamba with it; for the short time this is active, he automatically deflects ranged attacks using the tendrils of his veve (but for each ranged attack deflected, the time which this super is active is shortened) and takes half-damage from a physical barrage.
■Egun Blessed: The Soul Cleanser
Gamba digs both feet into the ground, its surface cracking beneath his weight; the Ougun veve stretches and covers his body from head to toe. His eyes turn white once more and so does the actual Ougun veve on his back. For the duration of the Special, Gamba gains the strength and defense of Ougun himself; even punching the air will cause bursts of wind to feel like bludgeoning hammers as they travel toward his opponent from up close or at a distance. He becomes highly resistant to other demonic, shadow, and angelic attacks, and is able to cause great harm to ghosts, demons, imps, angels, and other forms of ethereal being.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS
Against long range fighters he struggles a lot. Even fighters who can keep him at mid-range can prove difficult as he does not stop moving and is always looking for a way to get to his opponent and may tire. Many of his moves also require a great deal of set up to execute and against someone who does not need so much time, Gamba will also strain.
OTHER
He sometimes carries a machete.
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