Psymon Stark is a rider in SSX Tricky, a surrealistic tripped-out snowboarding game released in 2001 by EA Sports BIG for the Playstation 2, and subsequently for the GameCube and the Xbox. He's a psychotic maniac with a passion for daredevilry, pranks, spear fishing and raspberry jelly-coated deep-fried candy bars. His conscience on the mountain is his dead friend, whom Psymon channels through the tattoo of him somewhere on his body. He loves to intimidate, alienate and otherwise scare the s**t out of the other riders on the circuit, especially Kaori, the kawaii Orange Explosion Fun Girl, and even sometimes his only SSX "friend," the riot grrl Zoe.
Psymon, who's from Canada, is a tough b*****d, taking the hits and delivering them back fiercely. He enjoys a nice trick landing and a stunning wipeout equally. His dream date is Sheila Burgess, a hulkingly ugly bodybuilder (think Arnold Schwarzenegger in a bikini, or better yet, don't) from Vancouver (I'm thinking Psymon has a skewed sense of what to look for in a girl, much like he has skewed sense of everything in general). His favorite movie is Ride to the Hills, a mountain biking highlight video, his favorite piece of literature is Tattoo, and he loves to rampage in his padded room to Slayer and Napalm Death.
Psymon is 5'9" and 185 pounds of rippling muscle, most of it emblazoned with chains encircling his body. He has thick, blunt spikes of hair about six inches long that are mostly neon brown but have black roots, dark rings around his freaky I-will-murder-you-with-a-spoon-Just-Kidding! eyes and a splash of dark, shadowy facial hair, manifesting itself mainly in spiked curved sideburns and a thin goatee, with a few days' stubble over the rest of his face. The silver lip ring and matching soul patch stud finish off the vision of strangeness.
Psymon is a balanced rider, with base (minus the boosts given by boards) stats of 6, 15, 12 and 11 to start and maximums of 36, 35, 35 and 34 (Edging, Speed, Stability and Tricks). To match, he mainly rides BX boards, which are balanced between boosting speed and trick skill.
In SSX Tricky (and in SSX, I assume) there are Übertricks, which are insane and usually physically impossible displays of contortionism and board manipulation. Psymon's personal Übertrick is called the Guillotine, in which he grabs the board and swings it around his neck, with the nexus of rotation somehow seemingly located a little bit inward from his Adam's apple...after which he collects the board and sticks it back under his feet. Hopefully he lands it. When landed by itself (with no rotations, other grabs or additional Übertricks) the Guillotine scores 20,750 points, making it the 9th most valuable personal Übertrick (of 12, : P).
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