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Name: Dragosani Kain - 'Kain'

Mode of Combat: Swordplay/w/dagger, Hand-to-Hand (Animalistic), Stave Weapons and Flail

Birthday: ???

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 223lbs

Measurements: ??? - ??? - ???

Birthplace: Infernal Abyss

Hobby: Drinking, Arithmetic, Lookin' good

Personal Treasure: A small chain bracelet

Favorite Food: Spicy Chicken, Apples, Coffee

Dislikes: Fish, Creatures of Light, Emotions

Forte in Sports: Offensive Defense

Other things worth mentioning: Originally Human turned Vampire by damnation from the Gods, he aspired to be liked through victories on the Battlefield.

Name: Rain Yupa

Mode of Combat: Combination of Jujitsu, Kenpo, Nan Chuan, and Brawling

Birthday: March 22nd, 1973

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 203 lbs

Measurements: ??? - ??? - ???

Birthplace: Unknown

Hobby: Scientific tinkering

Personal Treasure: His daughter

Favorite Food: Meat

Dislikes: Bullies and Tyrants

Forte in Sports: Sprinting/Track and Field, since Rain favors speed.

Other things worth mentioning:

-Due to classified self-experimentation, Rain needs regular injections to keep himself genetically stable. If under much duress or without taking this precaution, the effects it has on him can vary to beneficial to crippling.

Name: Fae Decker / Meria
Mode of Combat: Melee
Birthday: May 1st
Height: 4'9’’
Weight: 115
Measurements: 25 - 18 - 28

Abilities:

Spirit Based Abilities
-Communal Spirit
Fae can with effort, take part of her own energy and heal someone else. The more serious the wound, the more effort and energy it takes from Fae. Conversely, the stronger that connection between Fae and the person being healed, the easier it is to heal them. Fae can heal herself from almost any non-fatal wound as long as she is conscious, with ease. Depending on how long Fae has known someone or how close she is to him or her depends on how long it takes her to heal him or her to full capacity.

-Empathic Shield
This is a metaphysical shield created by the soul, both it’s dark and it’s light halves to protect the mind, including from Illusions. It shows no physical signs of its presence, and must be actively turned off.

Fae cannot receive telepathic messages or empathic manipulations from anyone unless she lets them within her shields. While the shield is always active, Fae can turn it off; leaving herself vulnerable to attacks of a soul attack nature in order to receive more general awareness and acceptability of telepathic messages. This also affects Illusions.

-Spiritual Manipulation
Items that have been infused with spirit energy are susceptible to Fae’s manipulations. She can halt their actions or cause them to act otherwise. This does not affect intelligent items but only those who have a spirit energy.

- Soul Shadows
Focused Spirit energy- Depending on whether Fae is in Dark form or Light, the power of this ability is different. For ‘Dark’ Fae, her favored energy is darkness, and she can manipulate shadows to a great extent, pouring energy into them to allow them to have interaction and manipulation of the physical world. In effect, playing with shadows as if she was a shadow elemental. But in this form, her healing is great decreased,in addition, this ability is not as strong as her light ability, due to not having used it often.

In her ‘Light’ form, Fae cannot manipulate shadows; she can absorb a quantity of shadows. After prolonged use of this ability, it weakens, and her body forces her into her dark form as it ‘corrupts’ her soul. However, in this ‘Light’ form, she is a Prime Ability Healer, capable of even resurrections with assistance, though it takes a lot of her own personal energy and leaves her incapacitated for a long period of time.


Earth Element Based Abilities
-Energy Filter
With this ability, Fae can ease the effect of any elemental ability upon her person. For this ability to work, she must be touching the ground in some manner by her skin. Whether foot, hand or face, if she is touching the ground, then it can be siphoned to the ground, sometimes with additional effects. If she were to siphon energy off of a lightening elemental on sand...it would have the affect of creating a sheet of glass.

-Elemental Control
As the guardian of Earth and Spirit, Fae has a command over earth energies that is incredible. Rarely exploiting this ability; She can still, if so desired, force energy into the earth and control where a jut of rock comes up, creating a prison of stone, despite being on a sandy beach, though far more commonly, she will simply create a prison of thick glass instead from the energy from Gaia’s core and the sand already there. It’s a matter of pressure and energy. Though her constructions are often less durable than that nature creates. She can do this manipulation with any mineral, vegetable, wood, or earth type product. Stone, plants, wood and metal all fall under this area, though the more processed it is, the less control she has over it.


Kitsuna Based Abilities

-Illusion Play
Fae can create master illusions of Light and Shadow, though for all intents and purposes, they seem real to the person they are cast on. They affect all basic senses, Sight, sound, taste and smell, though the touch is the easiest to break through.
-Shifting
Fae can shift into a fox form, that is the length of an average man’s tip of his hand to the edge of his elbow. It is quite tiny and capable of getting in and out of tight spots easily. This requires no effort on Fae’s part, but if she is knocked unconscious she will remain in whichever form until conscious again.

Weapon(s):

-Sword of Angels

Measuring exactly 33 inches in length, the Saif al-Malaikah or Sword of Angels is shorter than most Saifs or shamshirs‘. Its wickedly curved blade is only 28 inches long (along the curve) and was designed for one of shorter stature than most wielders. As such the blade tapers from solid 5/16ths of an inch in thickness at the cross guard to 3/16ths of an inch at the tip. The Blade is dual ground and is both machine and hand sharpened to near perfection its blade A false edge runs along the first quarter of the spine of the blade, with a fuller and expanded back run along the opposite 25% of the blade.

The blade of the Saif was forged in what could be considered an unusual manner, instead of simply forging and folding the sword. Dante folded the blade along its length first in order to expand the grain along the spine of the blade then folded it thirteen times to ensure proper grain and strength along the whole length of the blade. As such the edge is unfathomably strong being quite literally the result of folding a solid uniform grain pattern and compacting to form an extremely dense and strong edge. Tempering was done in the traditional Anchrish way of Clay and Blood cooling the result being that the sword is both resilient to impact but very strong even for its relatively thin profile. During its hand sharpening phase Dante s used a very specific process to enhance the blades cutting power. By using a triangular stone and a ‘stuttered’ wave pattern he left certain areas extremely sharp and others slightly duller. Though the whole blade is capable of cutting fiercely when used as designed in a proper slashing manner the swords ‘serrations’ are capable of easily cleaving many materials in twain with little hindrance to the blades relative thinness.

The handle is hand carved walnut for superior grip and fitting. A strong curve fit’s the hand well and supports the wrist while in use, The pommel is merely an extension of the grip and is craved in the shape of foxes head which aids in grip retention. Due to the curve and overall length of the handle the weapon can be used as a hand-and-a-half manner, highly unusual for a sword of the style. The Opposed cross guard is bronze as is the hand guard that runs through it. It is in this hand guard that lays the one potentially ‘different’ feature of the weapon (the only outwardly obvious feature that is) would be its ‘Trigger’ made of simple steel with light file work along the front to improve the users grip. Simply put the Trigger is the user interface for the weapons Variable Balance System or VBS. VBS is composed of three main parts.

*The Trigger, which acts as both the main operating device (it compresses the oil reservoir) and acts as the valve into the Blade Expansion.

*The Blade Expansion is little more than a metal tube that is forge welded into the blades length coming to a stop just before the mid point of the blade

* The Reservoir is again as simple as it sound a small rubber reservoir filled with a mixture of Oil and Mercury kept separate by their natural difference in density. Attacked to the reservoir is a thin tube holding the majority of the Mercury the tube is pinched shut by the valve controlled by the trigger.

Though very simple and compact its effect is fairly dramatic. When in passive mode, like almost every Saif in existence the balance is just ahead of the cross guard Being heavy enough to rear to encourage good handling and defensive parries. When the trigger is pulled the Valve leading to the Blade expansion is opened and the reservoir compressed, the Oil then forces the Mercury into the barrel expansion shifting the weapons balance forward to the blade improving the blades cutting ability by fairly modest 10% however this makes the weapon quicker to recover. Releasing the trigger the vacuum created by the reservoir expanding sucks the oil back the vacuum passing onto the Mercury which follows returning to the tube and reservoir shifting the balance back to the grip. This allows for a heft cutting power but the maneuverability of a grip balanced weapon. Simple but not cheap the VBS is essentially unheard of in most circles and is done via mechanical means compared to magical means improving its reliability and ease of repair in the field.

Overall the Saif is agile, and a fearsome weapon in the hands of a trained wielder. The fact that this weapon was destined for the wife of the forger shows the care and precision used in its construction.

-Ribbon Armor

Developed from plans originally developed by their creators, the Ankaa produced a set of rune armor unquestionably one of the most versatile of its kind ever developed. Simply speaking ‘Ribbon Armor’ as its become known is simply that a long ‘Ribbon’ comprising of multiple layers that together form an effective, flexible and comparatively lightweight. Composed of four layers a strip of elastic material, this material acts as the base allowing the armor to flex with the body as it moves. Behind this is a roll or cotton fiber to act as padding against blows. This elastic material secures hundreds of small metal discs. These disks are about the size of a common Gaian coin each coin contains a single rune engraved into the surface the result being a highly flexible ‘hard’ scaled armor. The outside of the ribbon is dyed polyester making the armor both vibrant and non abrasive outer surface that allows the ribbon to be wrapped around the wearers body with ease.

Using a special stab proof composite, padded plates along the spine, and lower abdomen with cut outs to help shape the ribbons wrap pattern along the body. Additional plates include the pelvic region, calves and forearms. These not only provide additional reinforcement, but also allow for the highest protection at the bodies vitals. While maintaining pressure on the wrappings thus ensuring the armor will not ‘unravel’ during combat. The final length of ribbon secured to the back plate with what is not to far off from a drywall anchor, it consists of a brass center pin, and a flanged securing ring, so that a strong pressure will force the inner pin down, and the outer flange outwards to lock the armor in place maintaining pressure and strength through its constant flex.

The strength of the armor when not worn is no greater than the sum of its parts, and can be easily cut, shaped or mended as needed. When worn however a bond between the wearer and armor is forged the material bonds through itself the coins feeling like they liquefy and flow through the ribbon an initially startling sensation as though the armor does not heat up, it feels like small snakes are flowing through the ribbon. When activated and the coins ‘settle’ the effect is much like a liquid plate armor, hardening at the point of impact and dispersing a large portion of the energy outwards. It is not foolproof however as just like any armor excessive force can and will overcome it. Because of the bond between wearer and armor the liquid has also occasionally shown some improvements to the wearers strength (if not speed) the liquid metal acting as artificial muscle mass as it flows through the ribbons.

Though Fae does not have access to the full functions of the armor (being not of Ankaa birth, and not possessing a defined knowledge of the Noble Anchrish language) she can still activate the suit and through the use of the headband (which controls the suits activation and functions) she is able to by brute force of will make the suit manifest some of the suits mid-level functions. Such as… the use of the liquid metal to summon sharpened and blunt objects, and primitive chain snakes. All items summon as such are to be treated like Anchrish steel (note, that this is not Arsenal steel, but the more primitive Anchrish Steel) and when summoned will reduce the protection available to the wearer. Though this will only be possible after familiarization and learning, it may manifest itself under times of extreme stress or endangerment. The armor can be easily removed once inactivated as it can be cut off, but it takes several hours with the assistance of another. The armor cannot be activated till the securing pin is locked and a broken pin can spell the end of the armors effectiveness.


-Tessen

Made for slashing and dancing, such as Fae’s style, the fan is deadly in trained hands. Often several moves can be made before one even realizes they are bleeding. The fan’s ribs are made of Arsenal steel blades, a light but strong alloy of Anchrish and Elven steel. Each of the 6 blades is 10 inches in length, with the final two inches sharpened to a point as sharp as a masterfully crafted sword. Each blade is secured via a ring brace at the bottom, each blade separated by a molybnium washer, with a small brass ring passing through this brace. Though the ring is merely to allow its attachment to a wrist strap the use of a ring brace and washers allows for a more uniform and quick unfurling, as well as overall strength and structural form.

Though it can also be used as a throwing weapon, it’s main purpose is defense, the length of the blades on the inside acting similar to sai’s in relation to defensive capabilities. Decorating the blades is a tattoo depiction of a golden phoenix spreading its wings. The material separating the blades and supporting them is a section of wing membrane from a Cloud Dragon (which is what gives the Tessen its royal purple color), which is very fireproof and extremely durable while remaining flexible and elastic. The use of wing membrane also gives the fan some structural elasticity allowing for its more organic and natural flexing and elasticity without compromising strength.

The Tessen was actually produced by Dante as a wedding gift for Fae, and though it was delivered prematurely (the conflict between Terfius and Fae) it was still designed for hard use. Because Dante knew that the weapon may one day find his wife at Harms door, he spared no time refining the weapons balance and finish, and though he deliberately choose not to augment the weapon, its presence is still very much so felt in every detail that went into the weapons construction.

-Fai Chi

Similar to the blade of the Tessen, and created from the same Arsenal steel blades, the twin blades are in fact, two inches shorter then the tessen’s blades, with both ends sharpened for maximum efficiency no matter what the circumstances of withdrawal. They are held in a holster that binds Fae’s hair away from her neck and face.

-Simple additional weapons

One large, body length pole arm
One dagger on the outside of her right thigh.

Name- Rain Yupa

Age- 33 yrs.

Birthday: March 22nd, 1973

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 203 lbs

Race- Human (albiet slightly genetically altered for enhanced abilities)

Description- I could describe Rain, but it'll be easier if I just show you:
Rain, as depicted in City of Heroes
Rain, as depicted on Gaia Online


POWERS and ABILITIES

Martial Arts: Rain has been trained in many styles of martial arts; however, his inability to stay in one place for very long means that he has never mastered any single style. His style is a mishmosh of many others. He's spent more time mastering defensive stances than offensive strikes, but in terms of ability, is not lacking in the former in any way.

Electric Synthesis: Rain's training in the Himilayas taught him to harness the electricity his body can produce, turning him into something of a battery or generator. This can help him enhance his reflexes, speed, and strength, but tires him out quickly. He can also manipulate electricity from both within himself and in the air to generate electrical "blasts", but this drains him even more than normal. He can't drain electricity to replace his own; only rest can help him recover completely.

Genetic Instability: Rain's experimentation with his own DNA has been both a blessing and a curse. Sometimes he can call upon the instability to enhance his abilities to those far beyond the dreams of any human being. Sometimes it can cause him crippling, agonizing pain. Sometimes it can do both. He tries to avoid stirring the metaphorical bee's nest if he can, but he's not opposed to turning to it if its already a matter of life or death.


WEAPONS-

Dual Chakrams
Rain doesn't use many conventional weapons, preferring his own combat expertise. However, he carries a pair of metallic chakrams with insulated rubber handles just in case. They help when dealing with supernatural opponents that need more than a fist to beat.

Circlet - Enchanted Item ((Note, for HoH: Rain will not be donning this circlet during the competition))
Besides the chakrams, Rain usually wears a strange, metallic circlet in his downtime (or in less important fights). Its an enhanced gravity generator, increasing the amount of gravity on his body, so he can train when he's not (or train harder when he is).

ARMOR

Rain does not wear armor of any sort, since it usually limits mobility, a weakness he deems that he cannot afford.