New Peaks Academy: Paradigm Shift (OOC/Signup)

[Kiro Akira]

The temptation is real right now i just need to figure shit out which is the pm

[Kiro Akira]

Spoiler: Keeping for the character sheet 

Name:
Zen Akero
I.D. Number:
93625316
Rank:
C1
Year:
2
Nationality:
Korean
Age:
15
Sex/Gender:
Male
Appearance:


Fighting Style:
Gwonbeop

Spoiler: IN PROGRESS Subject to change 

Power:Shadow Boxing
The shadow boxing ability takes on a copy stance. Zen can mimic attacks, the attacks are not as efficient or as fast as the opponents and Zen must keep eye contact with the opponent to keep the shadow movements going. If Zen loses eye contact then he is unable to continue mimicking the ability. If he maintains eye contact with an opponent for more then 5 minutes (3 posts) then Zen must break the eye contact and re focus the ability (3 minutes 2 posts) to begin it once more. When this transition time is occurring, his reaction time is slowed down.

Personality:

Spoiler: Year One 

Zen is against larger groups but he found a single group he enjoys being around for company and prefers them over being alone. He's cocky and tends to think he's a bit better then everyone. He knows his limits but tries his best to push them until it's at breaking point. Due to this he ends up making everything a joking matter rather then take it seriously. He enjoys fighting and would rather fight then pass regular classes, due to this his grades in classes are rather moderate then excelling in most cases. When Zen is alone, he is either training alone working on a few of his techniques or reading a book about paranormal things. Although, when he ends up getting around the group of friends. Zen ends up calming a bit and interacting with everyone trying to make him as well as everyone else either have a good time or even laugh a little bit.

Spoiler: Year Two 

Due to the way the first year ended with his fight against a cyborg, Zen's personality changed now having a slight fear towards any robotic humanoid. He stays clear of cybernetic humans and has kept more to himself around a larger crowd. He has vowed to only hang around regular humans or a parahuman of some sort. His preference to a crowd led closer to the parahumans seeing they were much more in touch with nature rather then science factor of life and experimentation. He could clearly see most humans enjoyed the science of life, the only science Zen enjoyed was television or basic electronics like a game console, computer, or phone. He spends his time with numerous people just getting to know each person as best as he could. When around a small crowd, Zen stays calm and collected and does what he can to keep peace between everyone. He sees himself more of a problem solver then one who causes the problems. While alone, Zen spends his time reading books in his room away from the rest of the world. If Zen decides to go out on his own accord, he heads to the closest cafe or even the school library to read a book. When Zen begins to fight his personality changes completely from the calm and collective state to a much more serious and focused state of mind. He keeps his eyes on his target and his mind focused on the goal at hand.

Background:

Spoiler: YEAR ONE 

Zen was born into a normal family. His father worked in a construction business as a Site manager for a construction company giving him a high income. His mother worked around the house and did a stay at home job as a book author so she could keep taking care of Zen and his younger brother while she worked. His mother made sure they had work done on time as well as homework finished before she would allow them to do anything they wished. The mother stayed on top of their grades, even went as far as making sure they didn't hang out with the wrong crowd. Zen and his brother's daily routine was, go to school, come home, do homework, play around for an hour, eat dinner, watch t.v., then go to bed.

Everything had been the same until Zen's father decided that Zen would be better off in a fighting school to learn self defense. So with this in mind, his father pushed towards the idea and started off by sending Zen to a martial arts class to learn Gwonbeop. It took Zen nearly half of an entire year before he finally became a novice at the Gwonbeop style. After learning the style, his father brought the idea to Zen and told him about his plans for Zen in a fighting based school. From there, he spent most of his time reading a book or practicing his abilities.
The final year of middle school went by pretty simply and quiet for Zen, a few fights here and there due to people wanting to test his ability in fighting but simple and easy. The next year Zen turned fourteen and his father sent him off to the New Peaks Academy to enhance his abilities and learn how to become a better fighter. Zen, being new to the school decided he would straighten up his grades and do his best to pass the first year of school so he could get out the academy quicker.

During his first year he achieved many things, ranked up in his fighting style, gained new friends, lost his new friends, gained others, etc. Biggest accomplishment of the year so far was winning twelve fights of his own. But at the down side his win/lose ratio was at a -1 where his stats show twelve wins in total and thirteen losses. But in the end, his favorite situation of them all was the tournament. Although he was thrown up against a cyborg or as he saw a battle bot who was made to kill on contact. He of course chose to not fight. Thanks to the judge on the other hand it was considered as an illness and a forfeit. To him, the fight was a loss but at least he walked away with his face still intact. The tournament to him ended well aside from the finals in the senior battle. Which to him, went terribly wrong.

Spoiler: Year Two 

The summer was a long one for Zen. His time at home was terribly spent and his moments of glory in the first year simply faded to the back of his mind. Zen didn't spend much time at the campus after the first year ended. Instead he went straight home and although it was a warm welcome he felt like he belonged here. The final fight to end the first year was a bust for him and although he wanted to see it as a sickness he knew himself there was no sickness. The fight was a forfeit not because he wasn't feeling well, not because he was unable to do it but because he was scared. He was terrified at the thought of fighting a robotic cyborg and being annihilated in his last fight. This whole concept in mind terrified him in the end. At first Zen paid no mind to it at all but it always came back to him. Sometimes it haunted his nights and his dreams even going as far as waking him in the midst of night just to see a metalic fist in his face. And this was just in the first week of summer break. It would only last longer throughout the summer and even the beginning of the year if he even went back.

The first week home was terrible, he thought about the entire situation long and hard. Eventually, questions probed his mind. What if he wasn't good enough for the school? What if next year there's more cybernetic humans or something even worse that followed up against him. He honestly couldn't believe in himself to fight against a whole new enemy in the next year. And even though he wanted to quit now with these thoughts he knew his father wouldn't approve of the situation. For him the following year would become a nightmare. But that was still months ahead and he had more time to think and convince his parents to let him miss the next year.

As the summer progressed Zen's daily routine slowly formed within the first month. His routine was to wake up around 6AM hit the gym for two hours, go to work at a small part time job he collected, come home, and spend the rest of his night reading or playing a game of some sort eating here and there in between. As the days went longer and longer, his routine slowly moved to a much more lazy one. He was beginning to staying home each day taking less and less hours at the part time job and more just spent doing nothing most of the day. Only working out here and there to keep his figure. Zen didn't even think of the following year in fight school and simply aimed towards just slacking off the rest of the summer. The situation with staying home would have to wait until later, he already had a grand scheme to just get expelled shortly after starting year two.

The summer was over and the second year had began. It was a very rough start with not wanting to be there to begin with and losing two fights in the first month. He really didn't feel at peace there and wanted to leave he just needed to wait a little longer to progress into the year before he hatched his 'plan' to get out. At this point he felt obligated to stay here for now just to ease his parents mind and make it seem as if he wanted to stay and the year just took a turn for the worse with him. He knew it would work, he really felt like he could pull it off. For now Zen knew he would just work his way through classes.

Two months time had pass he was starting to be pulled into the office with multiple faculty members as well as teachers each one speaking to him about his grades and fighting, he knew this would happen just didn't think much of it. The teachers would go to tell his parents about the situations. It wasn't until his parents had grown tired of the calls and came to the school themselves to speak to him about his situation. His mother had little to no effect on him after begging him to pick his grades up so he doesn't flunk the year and have to go back to regular schooling. She had told him how better off he would be here and yet he didn't seem to pay it much mind. When his father, like most fathers had spoken to him. He would put the impact on him during their conversation. The words continued to ring through his head from their conversation about how he didn't spend this much money for a lousy kid like him to just quit and give up on the school and return home to nothing not even honor and comfort of his family.

Zen hated the words from his father and it filled him with grief. The conversation with him and his father was long and depressing. Although to him he hated hearing the words he knew his father was right about the school and coming home to nothing. His family was all for glory and showing off when someone did something right. But when it came down to the bad and destroying something good they had, the entire family knew about it. When Zen had first practiced his fighting style he was enjoying it, he loved fighting. When he had first watched a match using Gwonbeop he nearly fell in love with it so why did it change now? There were many things about just that style had filled him with joy of fighting but did he want it now like he did before? What if he was matched against another one of those "things" that called themselves human.

Yet another month had passed his mind continued to press with the conversation with his father. He had thought about it long and hard throughout the month and finally came to a decision with himself. School was something he wanted to do, and this is probably where he fit most was some place where if he needed to let off steam it was simple as challenging someone to a fight, not to mention he had his own room. From that point, Zen had begun to actually work for his grades again, he picked up sparring with a few kids here and there to hone his skills back to where they belonged. He even began to improve his skills ever so slightly on accuracy as speed. Once again he was beginning to enjoy the fights and wanting more and more. It was year two so he knew he had plenty of time to jump back into the motion of Fight School with the only thing he was reminded of every day last year. The very first rule of Fight School, Don't fail Fight School. Followed by the second rule, You fail you lose your honor. Taught by his own father during the most recent conversation with him.

Spoiler: Jack Henry 

If you just completely reject this character and tell me no. I won't even be mad ._. I just thought this was a fun cool idea I'd play with.


Name:
Jack Henry

I.D. Number:
80001881

Rank:
B3

Year:
2nd

Nationality:
American

Age:
16

Sex/Gender:
Male

Appearance:

Only difference is in the eyes there is a honeycomb pattern showing his eyes to have a spiderlike appearance.


Fighting Style:
Byakuren Kaiken, Karate

Powers:
Due to being a parahuman, Jack has the ability to create a web like substance from the tips of his fingers. The web can hold up to 5Lbs. per strand, the web can be broken easily if it's a single strand but the more strands the more compact the web becomes and harder to break. The longest web he can create before it loses it's strength is 5ft.

Personality:
Jack came from a colorful family of Human and Parahumans mixed of all kinds. His direct family is filled with Parahuman Arachnids. He enjoys fighting and teasing others using his web like abilities. He also enjoys the circus family, he's often taken it as far as balancing on a web attached to two poles on the school grounds. The only thing Jack can't stand is being called Spiderman. He's not a super hero and he doesn't look anything like the guy. He tends to try and to pick a fight with anyone who calls him that.

Although he stands at a whole 5' 5'' tall he enjoys fighting people who are larger then him with pride, in Jack's mind, the bigger you are the harder you fall. He has a very hyper active personality and loves bugs and other small bug like creatures. Being a parahuman has no effect on him, he actually rather enjoys being part spider rather then a regular human it's much more unique and he knows not as many people have the same ability and body he has. His hobby is collecting spiders in little glass jars. When not collecting his other favorite hobby is taking pictures of different things getting as much scenery as well as people. He loves the differences in people as well as nature.

Parahuman abilities:
Due to being part spider, his bone structure is a bit lighter then a regular humans, his bones break easier and he is lighter then the average human of his height, his other parahuman ability is being extremely agile. He's not super fast and have lightning quick spider sense reflex. His is more of a slight enhancement then anything. He can also scale a flat wall as long as theres something for his finger tips to grip onto but this also is due to his circus training where he has learned to do more abnormal things then most.

Background:

At the grand young age of six, Jack was taught one of the most popular forms of Martial Arts in America. Having a personal Karate instructor, Jack woke up early in the morning to start his training with the instructor. It was a daily process he worked on each day for many years becoming a blue belt by the time he reached thirteen. From there it was where he learned of the New Peak Academy.

Due to home schooling Jack had little friends and often spent time with his siblings or cousins. He only picked a few friends up here and there on his travels only communicating through emails or a form of Instant Messenger. He spent his afternoons schooling before his family began there act. After schooling, Jack would watch most of his family form different acts becoming interested at this at a young age. He knew one day he would become a part of the family tree and join them in the shows.

Jack's family runs a large circus community around the various states of America, they run a successful business in the circus community putting on acts of all kinds with and without their spider like abilities. His family is based out of Arizona and they have spread to 45 of the 50 states across. His family is one of the main acts in the business, Jack being a part of the 'main' family he traveled to each act with his parents, younger twin sisters and his elder brother.

For Jack being laughed at is a joy. He thinks being picked on is a normal and funny thing he loves to laugh along with the humans and each time the look on their face makes it look better when he hears them call him something else. To Jack each show is a gift from the humans. They laugh at his 'deformed' body and he laughs back at the stupidity knowing they spent hundreds of dollars just to have a laugh for a day. This makes each show a bigger joy and he puts his all into it with his family.

Jack's main act has been performed with his siblings where they each do a spar match with Karate all while balancing on a large spider web being held up by other members of the family. The web varied throughout each show sometimes holding larger holes in the middle, sometimes being set ablaze in various spots weakening sections. This was one of his favorite acts. Another of Jack's favorite acts was the tight rope act he performed with his siblings as well using the webbing of his family. The shows performed without powers consisted of the basic acts like hi-wire walking, cannon shots, circus animals. At home Jack plays with one of the many spiders he owns at home and watches the channel Animal planet intrigued by the different creatures.

While traveling his family learned of New Peaks Academy through various sources, interested in the idea, Jack asked his parents if he could attend the school year. With the approval from them he paid his entry fee and began the first year. During the first year he made no notable moments and just faded into the school, but here was year 2 and he was ready to begin the year. This year he would make a difference, he would make a show. He would show the entire school even a parahuman like him could make a difference. His aim? It was to win the Final tournament at the end of the year and he would take no place but first. Jack was ready and prepared this year for anything that came his way. Over the summer he trained his abilities to the best of his nature so the following year he would be ready, starting off as a B1.

[Kiro Akira]

I think both posts are ready for review, just tell me what I need to fix and add and stuff.

[Kiro Akira]

Beta Why you no get on yesterday?

[Kiro Akira]

Read most of the IC to top everything off

[Salroka]

I was changing internet providers.

On an unpleasant note...

Cfavano is hereby banned from the RP due to gross mistreatment of others and blatant disregard for civil discourse. His character is forfeit and will be dealt with at my earliest convenience and in a manner that I see fit.

[Salroka]

Kiro. I will get to your review soon.

Everyone else, go make your posts. I would appreciate if you would each have a bit where your character is winding things down at the beach party, and then a bit where they are either waiting at ringside or preparing in the locker room while they wait for the tournament to start.

Edit: Kiro, I really like Jack's concept. If you dial him back to a B3 and choose a specific style of Karate (Shotokan, Shorin Ryu, Byakuren Kaiken, etc), I can approve him.

[Kiro Akira]

Fixed

[Salroka]

Went with Byakuren Kaiken, I see. I'm curious why you chose that one. Care to share?

Jack is approved. I will add him to the roster now.

[Organis]

Yaay new guy :3