Character Name (Last, First): Melvishka, Sivara
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Age: 682 Looks 24
Race: Vampire
Gender: Female
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
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Abilities: Can learn any weapon except guns and small throwing weapons, manipulate cold water and ice
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Fighting Style Description:
- .Arnis/Escrima- A Philippine self-defense art, also known as Kali, Tagalog, Escrima, Estogue or Fraile (depending on the region) employing unarmed and armed (using stick/blade) techniques
.Bojitsu- Meaning "art of the staff." A collective term referring to martial systems employing a bo, or long staff (over five feet in length), that developed in Japan, Okinawa, China and elsewhere. The use of the bo dates back to times of legend and is as old as man himself. In Japan hard wood was plentiful and even the poorest individual could easily arm himself. A whole arsenal of poles, staffs, spiked staffs, and long iron clubs were developed. The bo was sometimes tipped in iron and sometimes totally covered by iron. In modern times its practice is an inherent part of many styles of karate and aikido.
.Silambam- The art of staff fighting has a long history in India. In the Vedic age, young men were routinely trained to defend themselves with staffs and experts in their use were known to give them names, perhaps in much the same fashion that Samurai named katana (swords). The long staff was already highly organized as both a method of self-defense and competitive sport in the State of Tamil as early as the first century A.D., and accounts in the second century (Silapathiharam Tamil literature) abound with tales of the sale of Silambam staffs, swords and armor to foreigners. Greeks, Romans and Egyptians as well as the Dravidian kings (kingdoms in southern India and Northern Ceylon that shared a common family of languages) frequented the Madurai trading center where the Silambam staff was considered a commodity. It is believed that the Silambum staff of Tamil was transported to Malaysia where its practice as a self-defense form flourished. The Silambam staff two hand technique makes use of swift and agile footwork allowing precision and momentum to be channeled into thrusting, cutting and sweeping strokes. The Silambam student develops defensive skills by learning to deflect stones thrown by groups of fellow practitioners with techniques called such things as the Monkey Strike, and the Hawk Strike, the Snake Strike.
.Wing Chung- "Beautiful Springtime." A southern Chinese fighting discipline that avoids "hard style" techniques and alternate blocking and striking in favor of techniques that flow with the opponent's actions instead of trying to stop or overpower them. The discipline was popularized in the late 1960's and early 1970's through its association with Bruce Lee. The discipline is characterized by aggressive close in fighting where hands and arms are able to sense and control the opponents limbs through deflection, trapping and pulling called "sticky hands" (Chi Sao)
Literacy Rating* : Literate but usually does Semi-Lit
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