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Rock the Wolf - Done - Rock - 04-28-2010 09:16 AM
Name:
Rock the Wolf
Age:
16
Sex:
M
Species:
Anthro
Faction:
Independent
Alignment:
Hero
Appearance:
He isn't very tall, only four feet and three inches, which is normal for a Mobian animal. His fur is dark blue and fluffy, and he has a white belly, with fur from the top showing from underneath his clothing. He wears an arm-band on his right leg and a glove on his left hand. Thanks to his wolf characteristics, he has sharp-end claws instead of regular toes, and wears sandals called geta on rough territory and regular territory. His tail is just as long as his body and he has medium-sized ears.
Rock wears a large yet sleeveless hakama pants, which are low enough to be over his knees but above his ankles. He also wears a gray kosode, sleeveless and is considered his shirt. He also wears black, finger-less gloves and sharpened nails. He has a large puffy tail.
His a bokken when he is sparring or just defending himself and his blade as a last resort when in serious combat, wearing a large black sash around his stomach called a haramaki, which holds them both tightly around his body for outside use. The real sword is a katana, shorter than a regular katana because he is actually shorter than humans. His bokken is made of a hard wood, which has great durability, however is not able to contend against another sharp weapon without help.
Personality:
Often very calm around others, Rock is a serious individual, he is a loner and hates when others try and talk to him constantly, usually ask politely for someone to be quiet. His eyes are often open and his senses are also top-notch allowing him to guess when "blood is boiling" as he likes to call it. He is also sensitive to being touched and can become very uncomfortable when touched by others. He has an air of arrogance to him, which made him hard to train.
Rock has a great amount of pride and confidence in his abilities and can be seen as calm throughout the entire battle. When fighting against someone of great strength, his eyes become focused and a small grin appears upon his face, showing his lust towards the battle, something that is rarely seen. He is often merciful, allowing an opponent to go away from him, unless they have done something he sees as unforgivable, and then holds the saying "an eye for an eye" within his mind.
Rock hates loud noises, or "screaming" and can be easily irritated. He is not one to judge somebody how they may seem and is always on full observation around himself. Rock cannot stand dependence, and as always, his blunt nature will easily come out from this. If he deems a person his friend, he shall help them while within trouble or harms way, but afterward keep his normal persona.
Rock is very patient and often while waiting will wear a dull look upon his face in order to wait. He also has a problem with talking with others, and is not keen on doing so, usually keeping to one word answers and a quiet sigh.
The reason why he is called Rock is because of his monotone face and expressions, which rarely change.
Family:
Refer to History
Transport:
His feet.
Weapons:
A katana, of which is three feet, four inches in length, because of Rock's short body, and because of it being redone to fit with him being an animal. This is his main weapon to use within a brutal and more exciting battle he sees fit, however, when not in a real battle, he will use the sheathe of his sword, with the blade still within it, much like a as it was made to be one. The sheathe is made of extremely hard wood, capable of defend with a sharp weapon for some time before Rock unsheathes his true sword. Thanks to its size, it is considered a wakizashi or a short sword.
Rock also carries a bokken, which is very hard, and made of the same wood that is made for his sheathe, it is the same length as his katana, and is used for battles he sees as self-defense or not serious only.
Biography:
His father and his grandfather, during times were known as samurai, providing themselves with lives as ronin, they would both live lives within the Great Forest, after Rock's father would meet his mother. Wanting to live separately from the world, in order to train the heir to their powerful swordsman styles after creating a dojo deep within the Great Forest, so deep they were within a mountainous region. Little surprise was seen as the boy would be born.
Rock was very hard to train, as his parents would often spoil him with trinkets and such. This made his grandfather angry mostly because it would be that much harder to train him within the style, however it would begin either way. It was seen that Rock had tremendous potential. This would also mean that since he was out of being a baby, he would have to become much more serious, which his grandfather would instill in both his parents, making them more serious about his training
Born in a mountainous region, Rock was trained by his grandfather and father, with the help of his mother as a nurse within the vicinity of the island. He was developed as a powerful swordsman, however, his less than dramatic will did not help him, yet he did have natural ability and skill. Though definitely not the easiest to train, he was often bribed by his mother to do so (she could be very very convincing... and sadistic.), something his father and grandfather couldn't accomplish.
After years of being trained and being pushed by his mother. He had gained the essential training skills of an acrobat, trained within his legs and arms, as well as his reflexes to a great extent. After a long training era for most of his life, he would want to go and see the world, in order to fight others and also experience new things, and asked his parents and grandfather could he, this would be a spark of anger in which the training sessions would become tougher, he would persevere and form a plan.
During one of his training sessions, and plans, which had been going on for at least three months, he had seen a bright light in the sky of the merging of worlds, he did not know what had taken place, but this only piqued his interest more so.
Through some shrewd planning he would escape. He would get anything that would help him with this adventure by "taking" it from his parents room, in which they had world maps and such. He would also take his fathers sword in order to defend himself if necessary. After this, he left a note, and went on his way, traversing through the extremely deep and large Great Forest.
Being within the mountains, there was little contact with the outside world, and so Rock would be headed into things, that he did not understand, as of yet.
Moves/Combat Style:
Combative
Thanks to agility and dynamic body, he is able to attack from close-range with surprising skill and agility, not to mention great leg strength. He also has great skill at judging weak spots on a users body over time, and figures out a way to use those attacks to end the battle once and for all. He however does not use his real sword, and uses his sheathe to defend himself. His swordsmanship seems to stem into using wind, but he does not control it, it is a secret form taught to him from his grandfather, which is incredibly powerful.
His weaknesses are his laziness, which gets him in a lot of trouble, as much as he hates to admit it, he hates doing anything, and including fighting, because it just makes a more stressful situation, using his great mind to solve things other than attacking an opponent with brute force.
Techniques
Wind Dragon's Form : Wind Fang Whirlwind
The user attacks with his sword around chest level giving out a spinning motion. Doing so they use the full motion of a body turn and swing to create a devastating cone like effect within their attack. This technique was taught to him by his grandfather while he was still training, and can be very damaging. However, it is a straight forward technique and takes focus to do for a moment, while he gets into the important stance of his swordsmanship.
It can be used for attack and defense and does medium to high amounts off damage. It is done at close-range as well and can not be done as a long range skill. The techniques range is two feet forward, making it a straight forward and simple to see technique, however its speed and power more than makes up for these flaws. The cooldown for this technique is "three posts" - a minute. Once the sword is fully swung, the energy is stationed as a hurricane would be, within that second the user would already have moved from the spot. He can do it so long a she goes through the cool-down period.
Skills:
Extraordinary Agility/Reflexes
Rock has incredible bodily agility and quickness, to the point that he can dodge and attack with great speed, percision and skill. His abilities in this include doing tricks and showing outstanding quickness and skill during acrobatic feats, one of which is the ability to run up walls for short periods of time and the ability to kick/jump-off walls with great ease in order to reach higher places.
Swordsmanship
Rock is a fantastic swordsman, and is able to do a number of things with his sword. He is able to quickly attack opponents with incredibly fast strikes and is also able to show great power within his strikes, and is good at posturing. He does have a true sword, but uses his sheathe, which is a wooden sword against organic opponents or opponents he feels don't have great strength. His swordsmanship seems to stem from use of effects such as controlling wind, however, this is not the case, and is only a form of using momentum to induce great effects upon opponents, thus why it is called Wind's Dragon From. He is also able to function well within a fight, and make up effective plans as he goes along.
Wilderness Survival
He was trained to be able to handle himself during situations in the wild. He knows many things to do within survival places, and is knowledgeable about different types of shelters, plants and the works, as it is important for a samurai to know how he may keep himself safe.
Strengths:
His greatest strengths are both his abilities of thought processing, and swordsmanship skill which he takes great pride in, although he hates to fight meaninglessly. He also has exceptional quickness and agility, can move his body at great speeds for short bursts only, and can run incredibly fast on his feet. He is also calm and tricky to get mentally, as he always has a straight face. He is also an amazing acrobat.
Weaknesses:
He is a loner, and thus is unable to accept help without extremely good reason, meaning that he shall always be by himself if not for good reason to stay with a group and after it is done he will immediately leave. Long-range is not his strongest attribute, as he was only trained in swordsmanship combat using his bokken/sword to expertly take down opponents. Thanks to his training and his parents "love" he has become arrogant, seeing some as beneath him while fighting, and using his bokken to symbolize this.
He doesn't have much pain tolerance, and is capable of dodging more than attacking. He needs a sword or some type of weapon similar to a sword to fully be able to fight. Being within a place outside of modern technology, he has trouble dealing with actual machines and technology, to the point that everything he touches that has to do with machines breaks.