APPEARANCE Jabin doesn't don the usual armor a regular MAVERICK agent wears, but does look like he belongs in MAVERICK. He stands at an imposing 6'5" with a moderately muscular build and is one of the larger members of the Nomad Division he is in. He isn't normally clean-shaven, but keeps a well trimmed beard and has shaved his head. Furthermore, Jabin also exudes an aura of professionalism mixed in with a discerning gaze.
When it comes to his attire, he has the usual MAVERICK markings on both of his shoulder-pads while donning a red bodysuit and black combat pants. The outfit wouldn't be complete without his reinforced Kevlar vest, which has been heavily modified by MAVERICK with experimental fabric and plating to reinforce him against bullets, as well as Ki-based assaults. Jabin also has four gun holsters strapped to the sides of his legs. While red knee-pads and jet black combat boots could easily close out his duds, he also sports a black and red monoscope on his right eye, which allows him to assess his opponents weak points.
BACKSTORY & MOTIVATION Before he was Jabin Miyamoto, a MAVERICK agent in the Intelligence and Nomadic Division, he was Jabin Santos.
Born in Rio, Brazil, Jabin came into the world in a relatively normal family that was situated in a rather bad neighborhood. Before they were known as the O Massacre de Soldados, they were a bunch of goons and small-time thugs that often caused trouble around Jabins neighborhood and some other parts of Rio. Sure, it was safe to play during most of the day... sometimes. If you were a Nomad that could take care of yourself, sure, these were nothing but small-fry to you. However, there was a neighborhood curfew that was always imposed on the children to avoid falling into these circles.
Unlike Jabins uncle, who was in a better side of town without all these troubles, Jabin always had the same mundane, dangerous routine. Go to school, have fun with his friends, cower in the insides of your home and pray one of those ruffians didn't decide to break in and destroy their property. It was a tiring and infuriating life that sometimes result in some families disappearing entirely while these gangsters managed to somehow get access to more dangerous weapons, as well as began to increase their clout. It didn't take a rocket scientist, let alone Jabin to connect the dots and honestly, he had grown to despise these thugs. In his childlike mind, he was going to try and be a hero and hatched a plan to try and take down and potentially expose these crooks for what they were.
It went as well as you might expect, resulting in most of these children getting beaten, bruised, and kidnapped, Jabin included amongst the rabble. If not for a passing Nomad making mincemeat of these hooligans, causing them to flee with their tail in-between their legs, it is unknown what his final fate would be. The Nomad, despite looking like a gruff, older gentleman displayed kindness by escorting each of the children home, Jabin included. He got scolded for his actions harshly, and the family attempted to figure out how much to pay the Nomad for his actions. Much to their shock, he turned them down and with a smile, departed from their abode.
The following day was a normal one, just school with a couple of them entering with band-aids, bruises, and dirty looks directed at Jabin. Besides that, the day nearly played out like a regular day, save for one anomaly after he finished school for the day - that one Nomad that saved them was in their house. As he entered, he saw the man chatting with one of his parents, as well as someone else on the phone before introducing himself to the young man as Conrad Miyamoto, the current head of House Miyamoto. He stated his intentions to the young man, as well as the offer he was willing to give him and his family - a chance to move out of this neighborhood and come to the U.S.
The catch? Jabin would train with other children much like himself under his family's guidance as a Miyamoto, not as a Santos. Jabin, honestly didn't know how to feel with this, as this seemed a bit out of the blue and almost too good to be true, remained quiet and skeptical, not giving a direct answer before heading to his room, but not before eavesdropping on the rest of the conversation. Apparently, this Conrad man saw potential in him as a Nomad and something about him having a high amount of Ki? While Jabin did know about Nomads, he didn't completely understand all this lingo and merely listened to the rest of the conversation.
While Conrad didn't demand an answer right now, he left them with a choice, stating that he understood if they weren't comfortable taking up the offer and absconded, but not before leaving his number and stating he would be leaving Rio in about a week. That was their time-frame. Jabin didn't know what to feel about this whole situation and his parents were equally conflicted as well due to this offer, as well as being suspicious about this man being a Miyamoto.
However, the conditions were ripe and ready to be taken with what would follow. The gangs around the neighborhood, despite hearing about what transpired the other night began to grow bolder these next following days, even breaking into houses in the middle of the day from time to time. They were, perhaps, a little too bold, but nevertheless, that boldness did make Jabin's parents rethink the decision. On the other, most of the kids began to stay away from him after that little stunt and grew to fear the gangs were coming for them next due to how they were acting up, which made Jabin think that, maybe getting out of here wasn't such as bad call.
And so, contacting Conrad, they took the man up on his offer, though not after discussing certain terms, what type of job the breadwinner of the family had, etc. It wasn't long before Conrad was paying for their tickets and giving Jabin's father a position in one of the subsidiary company's under House Miyamoto. And so began Jabins new life.
Living away from his parents was difficult for the young Jabin, namely because despite the offer and lodgings that was bigger than his old house, it felt weird walking around this mansion of mansions. It also was a bit strange seeing so many different types of kids, despite being one of the older ones there, and felt awkward around them. He wasn't like some of the more outgoing kids, so he kept mostly to himself during this time of familiarization.
What followed a month later was some of the harshest training he would have to undergo for his childhood, which put both a physical and mental strain on him each day. Of course, some of the other children seemed to either have similar issues as him or seemed to glide through this issue easily. They also had some sparring sessions, as well as Ki manipulation sessions to gauge how they were all performing; for sparring sessions, he was often one of the worst at it, but when it came to manipulating Ki? He pretty much topped everyone.
Over time, he began to open up to his other 'siblings,' namely thanks to the help of one familiar face he saw early on that seemed to be getting along with others - Jonas. He was a bit of a spunky kid, usually had to be reigned in by Jae, one of their sisters who was well disciplined and considered a traditionalist by Jonas, whatever that meant. It was a strange but fruitful friendship, having to break up some of their squabbles to having to watch over them at times, to even spending time watching movies or playing video games with them.
Thanks to the both of them, he grew to be a bit more empathetic and began to developing a bit of a more discerning gaze when it came to each of them all, ranging from realizing when Jae was genuinely happy in spite of her stoic demeanor to the worry in Jonas' eyes after one night of breaking curfew whilst holding some papers.
As time pass, they would all grow to bond with the other siblings, but always managed to maintain a close connection with one another. Eventually they would all begin to go their separate ways, and thanks to how they were taught, would easily breeze through the rest of their education. He couldn't remember what Jae went into, but she did work part time at a library while going on to teaching the next generation of Miyamotos, as well as students from rich families who paid to be taught here. Jonas, on the other hand, breezed through it all and got a Ph.D., as well as seemingly straightened himself out, nice!
Jabin would go on to get a Law Enforcement degree and managed to find a job at MAVERICK, thanks to his surrogate parents connections. While he did have to go through strenuous training to determine if he could handle the tasks and work at hand, it was more of a formality for him than anything thanks to the Miyamoto's physical conditioning. He was able to find a job within the Nomadic Division and would eventually also come to work in the Intelligence Division as well after a couple of years.
The jobs he went on were relatively easy to do, at least to him. These types of jobs would often range from suppressing Nomad terrorists that threatened the livelihood of people to exposing a conglomerate for their actions and raid one of their facilities to destroy bio-weapons, the works. He probably wouldn't tell you this, but he was mildly disturbed and a bit regretful for the latter one due to said facility housing a show his kid loved. Oh yeah, he also got married during around his time in MAVERICK to a woman working at one of the House Miyamoto's subsidiary companies and had a kid with them, and they have a second on the way.
Regardless, life would go on for Jabin, though he wasn't blind to the seemingly innocuous changes within the company. After a relatively simple change in leadership when he was twenty-six, years before the raid on a P&S facility, everything felt a bit off. Maybe it had to do with their new, mysterious faceless leader, or the way most of the regular soldiers were acting completely loyal to this person, despite never meeting them before.
He has been doing his best to discreetly look into these matters but has been constantly distracted by the bombardment of multiple missions, a couple of reassignments to different areas, as well as having to handle his family life. Despite all this, Jabin was going to get to the bottom of this, one way or another.
SKILLS & ABILITIES Despite being trained in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Jabin very seldom utilizes this fighting style and primarily relies on his four specialty crafted pistols to deal damage. Thanks to MAVERICK and their studies, they were able to created a few weapons that become empowered even further when acting as a 'medium' for said Nomads to enhance their Ki techniques.
Like most of his other adoptive siblings, Jabin possesses a large amount of Ki, but unlike them he is much more adept at Ki manipulation. He can transfer his Ki into the gun, allowing them to form Ki-bullets which he can then manipulate to have myriads of different properties, ranging from giving a bullet its own gravitational pull to making the bullet inherently bouncy to even turning it into an explosive round. Essentially, he has multiple tricks up his sleeve with the amount of specialty bullets he can craft from his own Ki, which he can then integrate into his own ranged combos. Of course, there's also the fact that he has to reload the guns. When that happens, both the bullets themselves and their properties vanish due to being connected to that set of ammo.
It also helps that he is a pretty damn good shot, though being damn good doesn't help when an opponent is up close and personal. Again, while he does know various Brazilian Jiu Jitsu techniques, he would preferably stay at range; thankfully he can warp said techniques in a way to work in his favor and get back to a favorable position.
SIGNATURE MOVES ■ Bullet TimeJabin taps into his guns and Ki reserves, changing the properties of each bullet as he sees fit. Alone, they aren't much to write about, but combining the properties of one bullet with another can lead to unique and potentially devastating effects.
■ Attribute: BindingBinding basically allows the user to freeze the bullet in place and any other non-living object that isn't connected to a living person that goes through its small area of effect will be frozen in place as well. If an object if frozen in place and a person touches it, they will find themselves unable to move it.
■ Attribute: ExplosiveExplosive is what it says on the tin. The main caveat of this move is that the user can choose when to detonate the bullet instead of exploding upon contact. This gives the user a degree of control with this attribute.
■ Attribute: GravityGravity is an attribute that functions similarly to the Binding attribute, in which the user can freeze the bullet in place. Unlike Binding, objects that enter the bullets vicinity will begin to orbit it. The user can activate the bullet again, taking the object with said bullet until the user wills the item to stop orbiting.
■ Attribute: RicochetRicochet is one of the most non-lethal out of all the attributes, primarily since it acts like a very bouncy rubber ball. Should this bullet hit something, it will instead bounce off of it and will continue bouncing all over the place. If in an enclosed space, the bullet will pick up velocity very quickly.
■ Attribute: SplitSplit causes the bullet to fracture into tiny needles upon being shot and are especially sharp. While they are weak individually, they are the only bullets that can pierce through a Nomads Ki shields, giving them a piercing property against most materials. Will probably sting like hell on the receiving end of this.
■ Attribute: StalkStalk causes any other bullets fired from Jabins guns to follow after it; this attribute is also extremely weak, boasting around the same power as the Ricochet attribute. Furthermore, it it makes contact with a living creature, the bullet will not only vanish, but the other bullets that he fires will not follow after it. If this bullet makes contact with a non-living creature or object, it will stick to it and go invisible. Until the gun is reloaded, any other bullets shot after this one will follow after it. When they come into contact with the Stalking bullet, they will go invisible as well.
■ Attribute: VelocityVelocity, simply put, just makes the bullet go really, really fast. The main trade-off for this damage for speed, as well as potentially staggering or tripping up an opponent. There are ways to increase the damage of this bullet, but it requires the user to increase its speed to deal more damage.
■ DeadeyeJabin pauses for a moment and taps something on the side of his monoscope, causing the device to scan the opponent for a weak spot. Depending on what bullet he follows up with after this will either cause the opponent to stagger for a couple of seconds with a couple of exceptions. Split will cause the opponent to bleed, causing a little damage over time; Explosive will always knock the opponent to the ground after this and slow down their recovery time; Velocity will simply have Jabin fire off two shots that deal increased damage but will not stagger the opponent.
■ Drop StrikeJabin does a power slide before firing off a bullet at his opponents legs. Should he hold the shot while being close enough, he can follow up by simultaneously rolling backwards and firing a bullet or two at them.
■ Shock'n'LockJabin tosses a Ki-infused flashbang into the air and shoots the pin off of it, causing it to instantly detonate, blinding the opponent and potentially Jabin himself for a minute. While this is largely ineffective against Technological Nomads and blind people, it can be used to great effect against regular Nomads and Mythics.
■ Compressing RetreatShould an enemy get too close to Jabin, he can grab their arms and swing them both around, putting them in front of the gunslinger. He then follows up by getting the opponent into a chokehold. He can follow up by either throwing them forward and rolling backwards, throwing them behind him before rolling forward, or squeezing their neck to do a minimal amount of damage before doing one of the former two. Doing the latter is potentially risky since they can still break out of this time. The throw itself doesn't exactly do a lot of damage.
■ Ghost Amidst the AshesJaben has an incredible amount of control over his Ki, to the point where he can even control the how much of his Ki another Nomad can sense. As a result of his mastery, he can appear as if he's some upstart Nomad with an average amount of Ki to completely suppressing the amount of Ki he exudes, making him invisible to anyone attempting to detect him by Ki sensing.
SUPER MOVES ■ Point Blank ShotJabin jumps up and divekicks the opponent, slamming his foot square on their stomach before either quickly reloading or just going straight to firing a Binding bullet at their chest. Just before the bullet makes contact, he freezes it precisely before it makes contact. He then proceeds to imbue the rest of his shots with the Explosive attribute before unload the contents of both guns into the Binding bullets area of effect. He then slams his heel into their face before hopping off and unfreezing the Binding bullet, triggering an explosion from the multiple bullets he fired into their chest.
■ Sex PistolsJabin instantly reloads his bullets before firing off a combination of Gravity and Ricochet bullets. If the Ricochet bullets hit the opponent, they will be left staggering as the bullets continue to build up speed bouncing back into the Gravity bullets, building up more speed as they deal scratch damage that slowly begins to build up. Seeking his chance, Jabin runs and kicks the opponent in the chest, knocking them back before firing a Velocity bullet at them. Due to the precise timing, the Ricochet bullets will hit the butt of the Velocity bullet, causing it to fly at incredible speeds towards the opponent.
■ Trigger Happy HavocJabin reloads his guns and overcharges a Stalking bullet before firing it at his opponent. Wherever the bullet hits will result in the bullet not only disappearing, but will also result in a weakening of Ki shielding around that area. As a result, the opponent will take increased damage from that area, and depending on where Jabin shoots them, it may cripple them for the rest of the battle should he damage them there. Uniquely, bullets will not home in on where he shot them, so it's up to Jabin to precisely land those shots.
WEAKNESSES & LIMITS Jabin, while he can fight up close, is primarily a ranged fighter and relies on keeping his opponent away to build up damage. While he is decently bulky due to his high Ki reserves, he struggles to get opponents away from him, only having really only one move that can get them away from him and even that can easily be broken out of.
Furthermore, while he can use regular guns to pull off most of his attacks, they will deal considerably less damage than the specialty pistols crafted for him due to not being able to properly focus his Ki. Speaking of guns, if he doesn't have a firearm on him, he loses access to Bullet Time, his strongest Specialty Move, as well as other sets of moves, severely limiting what he can do in a fight. While Jabin can rely on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, he isn't as effective with it as his siblings.
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