New Peaks Academy: Fight School (OOC/Signup)

[TheDoctor]

Spoiler: Ayame Mizuki 

Name: Ayame Mizuki
I.D. Number: 8831369
Rank: B1
Year: Second Year
Nationality: Japanese
Age: 17
Sex/Gender: Female
Appearance:


Ayame stands at approximately 5'6" with a lustful, curvaceous figure. She is often admired for her beauty with shoulder-length velvet black hair that delicately frames her sapphire blue eyes and alluring lips. She frequently wears kimonos like the one pictured above (although a little less suggestively. Just a little.)

Fighting Style: Muay Thai. She is centered around being able to take/block blows and returning them tenfold. Known as "the art of eight limbs," Muay Thai utilizes fists, elbows, knees, shins, feet, and basically anything else that Ayame can use (along with clinches and takedowns). It requires serious physical and mental discipline to retain form during a fight, especially considering her smaller stature.

Powers: Aura redistribution. This enables her to absorb aura that is delivered to her--usually through blows delivered by an enemy/enemies--and then store it and redistribute it into a physical blow. This has no cost to her physical state (with the exception being whatever damage the blow dealt to her does).

This aura redistribution also allows her to consolidate her own aura into a cluster and deliver it in any physical attack she pleases. This, however, does have a cost. She becomes much more tired if she delivers a single high-aura blow using her own aura, or multiple low-aura blows.

Because of this, she eats a bunch of food and sleeps a lot the day/half day before her important fights so that she'll have more energy to deal to opponents.

Personality: Because of her lessons on etiquette and courtly behavior, Ayame knows how to act and dress properly in public. She understands how to keep face in social situations, and yet nothing can entirely suppress her extremely fiery personality (if anything, her repression has made it worse). Ayame's honest personality is narcissistic and self-centered, driven by internal motives which she subtly weaves into her outwardly friendly character. Occasionally, however, her narcissism and ego breaks forth--whether through snide remark or her fists--and it's never pretty.

Background: Ayame was born in a very traditional yet wealthy Japanese family--the Mizukis. She was homeschooled most of her childhood by her parents, who taught her proper etiquette for a Japanese woman at a very early age along with scholarly subjects. Ayame, however, found no love for the lady life. Instead, she found her love in combat.

At the age of seven, Ayame's parents reluctantly placed her in a basic martial arts school where she gained fundamental strength and understanding of fighting. After a few years, her teachers began to understand that she had something special...not just a natural talent for the art of combat, but a hidden ability as well.

Ayame had been introduced to many different forms of martial arts, Japanese and otherwise, but the ones which she thrived in the most were the more aggressive contact ones, like boxing, kickboxing, and, particularly, Muay Thai. After her teachers realized she was different, she was recommended to a particular sensei in the area, Sensei Kume. Although Muay Thai was originally from Thailand, this sensei knew the art to the fullest degree.

Training under Sensei Kume was an entirely different experience than in the martial arts school. He worked her as hard as possible every day she attended his lessons, and she absorbed the material like a sponge. Her hidden ability, aura redistribution, began to flourish under the sensei's teachings, and he helped her include the power into her technique and strategy. He warned her not to depend upon it; power or not, the better fighter will always win.

As her skills and power developed under the sensei, Ayame found herself developing--physically and otherwise--into a woman. Before she knew it, she was sixteen years old and displaying proudly the curves provided to her. She had matured under her parents' guidance into a polite young woman, and her social skills had become quite exceptional.

At the age of sixteen, her sensei sent a recommendation to New Peaks Academy, and, after an acceptance letter and a lengthy talk with her parents, she decided to attend. Although traditional Muay Thai held no form of ranking, Sensei Kume saw her as fit for the challenge. He claimed that the only way for her to continue learning was through personal experience and exploration, and she should return to him when she felt she was ready. With a smile on her face and a couple of tears in her eyes, she said goodbye and boarded the train.

Her first year at New Peaks, or, as the students called it, Fight School, was another period of growth for her. She was placed in classes with other fighters of the same style, but they weren't able to soar like she could. Because of her size, on the smaller side for a Muay Thai fighter, many underestimated her. After evading and trading a few blows, Ayame utilized her ability to take down (and frequently knock out) her opponents. No matter what the masters threw against her, she almost always came out victorious. She became a C1 rank by the end of the year.

She also joined the Janissaries, which parallels with her social image. She represents them highly during social events and while helping freshmen out, so she's well-known amongst other underclassmen. It benefits her social image quite well and portrays the Mizuki name as she was always taught to. Her primary reason, for joining the Janissaries, however, was to wipe the smirks off Imperius Gloria faces...for fun, of course.

This year, the masters pinned her against fighters of many different styles to test her ability to adjust. As a second year and now a B1, Ayame is ready to step in the ring once again for the Summer Tournament.

First Rule of Fight School, don't fucking fail Fight School

Spoiler: Isabella Bergmann 

Name: Isabella Bergmann
I.D. Number: 25425499
Rank: D3
Year: First year
Nationality: German
Age: 15
Sex/Gender: Female
Appearance:

Isabella is a petit girl with pale skin and snow white hair that is cut evenly just past her neck, frequently with two thick braids on each side at the front that fall to the center of her chest. She has deep blue eyes and full lips, and her small frame stands only around 5'3". She wears very plain clothing most of the time, black t-shirts and slim tan knee-high capris with sandals when warm, and heavy layers with scarves when cold.

Fighting Style: Wing Chun. No ranking

Powers: Leglock. Isabella's ability strengthens her legs and body, providing increased stability to keep herself in proper form. It adds extra strength to her hits as well, since her strikes are delivered through her whole body. Her ability provides control over her body's give-and-take, which permits her to keep her center of balance under her command. It keeps her constantly on her feet and makes it extremely difficult to knock her legs out.

Personality: Isabella is calm, quiet, collected, yet content. She's satisfied with the hand that life dealt her, and so she broods with a cold curiosity quite unlike other girls her age. Her genuine tone is well-intentioned, yet brutally honest, and while her distant personality appears haughty and snooty, she hardly means to be (in fact, quite the opposite).

Past that outer shell, however, Isabella is a lonely and sad individual, a face she only shows when she's alone and frequently denies. She wants to have people to rely on, but she refuses to be a burden on others. Torn between her two internal desires, she acts on neither, and remains unattached from others.

Background: Isabella grew up in a North German household, her family lower-middle class. For as long as she could remember, she grew up with secondhand clothes and secondhand toys, and she always had to help her parents run the household because they were too busy with their jobs. Her older brother, Claus, was born with cerebral palsy, which caused verbal and motor disabilities, and most of her parents' income was spent taking care of him. Therefore, Isabella always saw herself as the secondhand child.

At a young age, she learned to accept it. She never complained about her older brother receiving more attention because she knew he needed it due to his disability. Her brother always treated her with love and affection when her parents couldn't, and that inspired Isabella to ignore her internal troubles and deal with her emotions herself. Because of this, she was never like the other girls in her younger schooldays, which caused her to be ostracized. Yes, she was lonely, but that was okay.

Denial was what she learned; repression was who she was.

Isabella finally found a way to express herself when she became nine: through Wing Chun. While she initially wanted to learn to protect her brother, she slowly found herself enjoying it, and she developed an early mental discipline. Chain punches increased from ten per set to one hundred, then one thousand. Her forms grew longer, slower, and more refined while her Horse stance strengthened with time. She trained in drills with her sifu and the other students, learning to feel how the opponent moved while in contact with them. Closing the gap became the instinctual goal, and opening their center line became elementary. Attack and defense were one in the same for her.

When her sifu approached her about New Peaks Academy, she initially declined, knowing that her parents could never pay for it. Scholarships, however, were available per application, and after countless sleepless nights of hard work on her application, she sent it in. Months later, she was delighted by an envelope in the mail that spoke of her acceptance into the school with a scholarship.

At the beginning of her first year, Isabella ranked as an E2. Her examiners were not impressed by the plainness of her Wing Chun demonstrations, despite its adaptability and efficiency. Isabella was not affected by her low rank, deciding instead to let the outcome of her fights demonstrate her proficiency. She wasn't there to impress; she was there to learn. However, she found it difficult to implement other martial arts with Wing Chun, for she saw clear alternatives within Wing Chun to combat her opponents.

Overall, Isabella learned that she was there to discover what she wanted.

With the Summer Tournament approaching, Isabella decided to apply herself more seriously to preparing for it. She didn't put much effort into tournaments or participate in many fights in the school, and a change of pace was exactly what she wanted.

Second Rule of Fight School, don't fucking fail Fight School

[Detective Zero]

First Rule of Fight School, don't fail Fight School



Name: Kairi Hisane
I.D. Number: 23407812
Rank: C3
Year: 1st Year; Transfer
Nationality: Japanese
Age: 15
Sex/Gender: Female

Spoiler: appearance 

Fighting Style: Keysi Fighting Method

Powers: Keratin Pincushion - Kairi has a large number of short keratin spikes embedded in her skin. If she desires, she may extend these up to 2cm outward as a means of defending herself from attack. While one might think this injures her, the spikes are sheathed within her skin and covered by a thin flap of tissue when not in use. As such, when they are not extended, she appears perfectly normal. These spikes cover her body at a density of one per square inch except in sensitive areas such as the inside of the elbow, back of the knee, and private regions.

Spoiler: Example (This is exaggerated) 

Personality: Far from an average lady, Kairi has a rough, tomboyish behavior. It shows itself more through things she enjoys, including a good fight. She's one of those types of girls you'll either enjoy having around or feel she's an annoyance at times likely. Invasive and uncaring for some personal security, she can be blunt but she'll always have something to smile about in the end. Overall she can be as kind and honorable as anyone else but pique her interest in a good or bad way, that can change from person to person.

Background: Of Japanese descent, Kairi grew up in the States, more exactly in New York. Living in a decently well-off middle-class family, her mother worked as a lawyer as her father was a chef. While she did alright in school, socially there seemed to be an issue. As plenty of schools, a social hierarchy usually stems into existence around middle school. Because she didn't seem to click with most girls, she was eventually shunned as unpopular despite her lively attitude. Though, after a fight with a boy, that all changed rather swiftly. She was 11 when it happened, during 6th grade in school. She was defending a rather timid and shy girl from a bully that wouldn't back off and being a young kid as they were, their first notion was to throw a punch.

She only knew how to fight because she found herself in awe of what she saw in the recent Batman movies Christian Bale had starred in. With some convincing of her parents and the fact she had plenty free time after school, her parents set her up for lessons with whomever instructor they could hire for a set time. Through all that would happen, Kairi kept up with it up until present day, 3-4 years of experience.

Back to her fight with the young boy, it was her first fight ever, but it'd soon look to change how things went afterwards. It was during that fight she learned of her power. After rubbing her own jaw from taking the hit, she saw the boy standing still in a frozen shock, holding his hand like he hurt himself. She could see in his eyes that it was fear, and he wasn't the only one. Two others that were with him were gawking like a bunch of dopes before they started calling her names, screaming out. Freak was the most common.

The utter rejection she'd eventually deal with for being so different from everyone eventually changed her. She'd actively look for a fight if she could, usually targeting anyone that was an ass of themselves. Though, with how things turned out, she'd usually be the one to become at fault, even if in her own eyes it was for an understandable cause. Still, it didn't change the point that she was becoming a delinquent in the eyes of society, let alone a so-called 'freak.'

After graduating 8th grade to head into high school, her parents were worried how things would pan out in High school. High school was one of the more impressionable years that delinquent activity and other factors can come into play that would make it harder on Kairi to adjust to, let alone being a teenager. Doing some research, her parents eventually came across New Peaks Academy. The concept of it looked promising to help their daughter and they did whatever they could to set up her transfer to it. Being of a middle-class family, it was difficult but through plans and explanation, Kairi obtained a scholarship to attend with the 'Talented Teens' program. With what her parents explained to her, Kairi agreed and actually found it pretty interesting. Maybe there she could fit in and fight without any trouble.

[Salroka]

@TheDoctor: You're approved for both characters once you make a small edit to Isabella. Tournaments are not optional. Since she was a student at the beginning of the year, she would have been eliminated in the preliminary rounds and not been a part of the final sixteen.

@Detective Zero: You're approved.

Adding everyone to the roster.

[TheDoctor]

Got it, Mr. Beta sir. I'll fix that right up

Also...is Troy pretty much a Luchidor?

Please make Troy a Luchidor.

[Iwazuma]

Aw to heck with it, why not.

Name: Ilya Dyatchkina
I.D. Number: 04191775
Rank: B-1
Year: Sophomore
Nationality: Czechoslovakian
Age: 16
Sex/Gender: Female
Theme song: Fourarms-Broughton

Spoiler: Bear with me... 

Blame the Internet for lack of good concept art. I'll fill in the missing details. Ilya will ALWAYS wear baggy hoodies, no matter the temperature outside. It is very rare that you will see her in anything else; this way, she can keep her extra set of arms hidden. Her hair is a flaming red, and her eyes a soft verdant green. She cares little about makeup, preferring the au natural look. Her body is slender, with a thin line of musculature on her body. Her arms and legs are powerfully built.

Fighting Style: Boxing-8 years experience

Powers: Four Arms-not a power per se, but a unique 'deformity' she carries. This extra pair of arms function just as well as her normal ones, and can be used seamlessly in combat. She can use two arms to block and two arms to attack constantly, meaning the punches never cease around this girl.

Personality: Ilya has little experience with interacting with others. In fact, it was her choice to join New Peaks in order to come out of her shell more. A sheltered life simply is not for her. Still, she doesn't know much about making friends, and is extremely self-conscious about her extra appendages. She keeps them hidden as much as she can, but can only do it so much. When she has to have them out, she gets extremely nervous and can have a hard time focusing.

In combat, she becomes no-nonsense. Combat has always been her way of relieving frustration and tension, and pulls no punches (no pun intended). She fights fairly but brutally; from opening bell to the final blow, she is all-out, all the time. She doesn't believe in pulling one's punches, even in sparring matches; bruises build character, after all. But after a fight, she is always more than willing to help her partner get better, so long as they will help her as well. And keep in mind...the times she has to improvise, watch out for her legs. She knows people focus on her pythons when she fights...and just in case, she NEVER skips leg day.

Background: Birthed as the last attempt to salvage a marriage between a Czech man and a Slovak woman, Ilya Dyatchkina was a spoiled child from the word go. Her father was determined not to allow her birth defect to impede her ability to succeed in life, nor did he want her to be sad; as such, he showered her with praise and gifts for everything she did. Her mother, a more level-headed, frugal sort, knew the key to her social success was confidence.

Her mother noted Ilya could use her four arms to her advantage in sports, so at the tender age of 8 she sighed Ilya up for a peewee boxing club that took place down at the local gym. Ilya excelled at the sport, finding a natural talent beyond her...natural talent. She was quick to improve; by age 11, most of her opponents weren't much of a challenge. Granted, she DID have a somewhat unfair advantage. Ilya took great pride in her ability, but never showed it; Ilya had frustrations to work out, and boxing was her outlet.

What frustrations, you may ask? At age 6, the marriage could last no longer. Fed up with her husband's spendthrift ways, Olga Dyatchkina divorced her husband, moving back to Slovakia. The courts were a mess, awarding joint custody, trading off every three months. With such an awful ruling, Ilya was forced to be homeschooled, losing what little contact she had with other children her age.

With more frustrations than ever, Ilya put all her heart into her training. By age 13, she had won the Czech/Slovak Junior Boxing tournament and found acclaim in the fighting community, and her future was in question. Was she going to focus entirely on boxing, or try to have a career? And what of her family? She had two private tutors, one in the Czech Republic, one in Slovakia, giving her the same advice: Go for broke, join the professional circuit. But Ilya felt sheltered. She knew very little of social interactions, and wanted to try and make friends that weren't just trying to latch onto her sports success.

With this in mind, she asked her dad to send her to New Peaks. There, she couldn't be coddled by her family or pressured by the media. She would just be another (four-armed) body in the crowd, and she could just be herself. Her father, an oil tycoon, easily paid the high tuition, and Ilya soon found herself on her way, ready to make her own life for herself.

[Salroka]

Ilya has been added to the roster.

[Dawscombine]

Name:
Cyst "Mudd" Voltromvskey

I.D. Number:
58375967

Rank:
D1

Year:
1st

Nationality:
Nationalized Russian

Age:
14

Sex/Gender:
Female

Appearance:
Darcy 2.jpg

Fighting Style:
Krav Maga, informally trained with the skills of a Brown Belt

Powers:
None

Theme Song:
Remedy - Seether

Personality:
Cyst is what many consider to be an enigma. Because of her inability to speak, she very rarely expresses her intentions or feelings to anyone outside of her fighting. To what little people actually do know her on a personal level, she is curious and rather shameless, not caring about social standards or attempts at fitting in. She wants to know the world around her as well as she knows herself, and is willing to go to great lengths to do so. She can come of as a bit brusque, and that's because she is. Even with her little quirks, she really does try to be friendly. Nothing excites her like meeting new people, with the possible exception of fighting new people.

Spoiler: The Story so Far 

After a first day consisting of training, running into a man named Vince, making a new friend, and somehow acquiring a new phone in the process, Cyst fought in the holiday tournament. She tried her hardest, but was forced to concede due to complications with her lungs, finishing with nothing to show for it but some money.

Now she's preparing for her personal shot at redemption, training her skills to prove to her late master that she can protect herself from anyone and anything, including her own past

Background:
Cyst didn't live in luxury. In fact, she was poor. Her family was incredibly poor before she was born, and her coming along didn't change that. When it was discovered his wife was pregnant, her father almost immediately stole all his wife's money and fled to america. Cyst lived most of her life without a name. She was unregistered, hidden from the government to keep rent cheaper. Shortly after her mother turned to alcoholism, she was named Cyst because that's what she was, to her mother. A cancer.

She lived on meager scraps and small amounts of water, never leaving the house for fear of punishment. One day, her mother finally snapped. She set fire to the house and trapped Cyst inside. The girl was eventually able to make her way outside, breaking open a window and falling into the cold snow. But unfortunately, her lungs were heavily damaged as a result, making her unable to speak. She was eventually able to mostly recover, but her voice never returned to her.

She soon found treatment. A free clinic that helped her to live through the smoke inhalation. She had problems keeping her stamina up at first, but soon learned to work through it. She lived in the streets with the rest of the unwanted children, figuring out how to survive off of nothing but her wit and her intuition. She was discovered by an aging ex-soldier who took her under his wing. He taught her how to fight off those who wished to harm her, giving her the basis for the Krav Maga she would learn to master.

After that she earned her money by participating in illegal fight clubs, perfecting her fighting skills and her natural speed. It also helped her with her stamina, as the exercises she had to do to participate in these fights were great physical therapy. Soon she was well known enough that the Fight School was contacting her about attending their school on an outreach program. She took the offer, of course, but wanted to say goodbye to the man who originally taught her to fight, first.

She left Russia with her last memory being his corpse slumped over in an alleyway, dead from the cold that claimed so many others. Another faceless victim. She didn't cry for him. She knew it would happen, some day. What she had to focus on was what was in front of her. Now, attending this school, she didn't only have the weight of her future on her shoulders. She had the weight of his spirit.

She would be damned if she let him down.

Also, “First Rule of Fight School, don't fail Fight School”​

[Waarnemen]

I might join in soon. Might want to make an NPC, as I never really got into a fighting thing.

[Salroka]

I never really got into a fighting thing.

Then this is the RP for you. It can be just as much a school for the players as it is for the characters they make. I am no stranger to helping out those not familiar with RP Combat, and I am sure at least one or two of my more experienced players would also be more than happy to help you learn the ropes. We won't beat your character down mercilessly because you're unfamiliar with fights in RPs. Quite the opposite, in fact.

As such, I encourage you to give us a shot. If you decide it isn't for you and choose to take your leave, there won't be any hard feelings... but as Wayne Gretsky once said: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

[Dawscombine]

Name:
Amaltheia Stavros

I.D. Number:
19964053

Rank:
B-1

Year:
3

Nationality:
Greek

Age:
16

Sex/Gender:
Female

Appearance:


Fighting Style:
Pankration

Theme:
Here We Go - Theory Hazit

Powers:
The Shield of Aegis - Creates a wall of energy that will take one strike from an enemy before collapsing. Can be created to cover the entire frame of Amaltheia's body, but will not bend. She can move it at will and her own strikes will not collapse the wall.

Personality:
Amaltheia has always been a proud girl, both of her natural prowess and of her family, as well as her people's history. No matter the current state of Greece, she will always talk about it's past with the utmost respect and pride. She's jolly and fun-loving, never really down on anyone, least of all herself. She always tries to be supportive to her peers, but her pride will not let her forgive a shameful display of combat. She will always prioritize honor to friendship, and friendship to duty or service. She will not stand any insult to her honor, the honor of her family, or the honor of her people. What exactly such an insult is, however, is determined by her and her alone.

Background:
Amaltheia was always better off than her peers. Her father was a master of Pankration and had several dozen tournament wins under his belt (or lack of one). As such, he made much of his money teaching others the ancient art of combat. She was taught from her father at a young age, catching men larger than her in Achilles holds at the age of twelve.

When it was discovered she could manipulate the earthly energies around her, her parents were delighted. They knew that she could bring their family much success, out in the world. They knew that her place wasn't training in their basement with her father. It was out on the world stage, fighting for the glory of Greece. They sent her to New Peaks without regret or second thought, and she went without any such thoughts, as well.

On her first day, she got into three unsanctioned fights with three different sophomores over three different insults to her family and her heritage. She won two of the fights. The third was with Shotaro. After beating her beyond a reasonable doubt, he introduced her to the Imperius Gloria, and started a friendship that would last for years to come.

Today, she stands as an officer of the Imperius Gloria, as well as one of the best Pankration practitioners at New Peaks (by default). She lives at the school full time and writes to her parents frequently, often exaggerating her good fights and downplaying the few bad ones she has. She is known and respected, held in high regard by her teachers and peers, and is proud that she can say that nobody has insulted her honor quite yet.