Post by Kazane on Jan 20, 2018 7:32:08 GMT -5
Watanabe, Kazane
Storm-Kicker
[ AT A GLANCE ]
Age / Apparent Age: 22
Gender: Female
Height & Weight: 5'3" & 115 lbs
Hair & Eye Color: Black & Brown.
Positive Traits: Ambitious. Energetic. Honest. Proud. Carefree.
Negative Traits: Stubborn. Overconfident. Tactless. Vain. Irreverent.
Loyalties: She is loyal to herself above all others, those she considers friends or rivals, and to the pursuit of martial arts mastery.
Snapshots:
Winter of 2000; Her mother, Kanon, and father, Habiki, are wed.
Summer of 2001; Kazane is born in a small Japanese town.
Spring of 2003; Kazane watches her father train for the first time.
Summer of 2005; Kazane begins learning the basics of general fitness and martial arts.
Spring of 2007; Kazane enters elementary school and her status as a Tomboy begins.
Fall of 2009; The Watanabe family moves to another Japanese town.
Summer of 2010; Kazane participates in her first children's martial arts competition, ranks 1st.
Spring of 2011; The Watanabe family moves again to yet another Japanese town.
Summer of 2016; Her father uses his connections to kickstart her future kickboxing career.
Summer of 2019; Kazane manages a win against her father in a sparring session for the first time.
Fall of 2019; Kazane officially enters the kickboxing profession.
Summer of 2020; Kazane moves out into an apartment in Tokyo by herself.
Spring of 2023; Kazane awakens her Fullbringer power during a Hollow attack while on a training trip.
Spring of 2023; Kazane decides to combat hollows and seek out other supernaturally aware people.
[ ON THE SURFACE ]
Physical Description: At a glance, Kazane is a sporty, fit young woman with a tomboyish appearance. Her black hair is short and styled in a side-swept pixie cut, and her most common outfits are athletic wear. All of her outfits put her legs on full display, and she has a fondness for pairing shorts with longer sleeved tops or jackets. While her build is slender and modest by nature, years of training have padded it out with muscle. In particular, though of average height for a Japanese woman, she has relatively long, shapely and strong legs.
Furthering her 'tomboy' appearance is how she carries herself with a casual confidence, and the blunt, simple manner in which she speaks. She rarely makes an effort to disguise her feelings on a subject, speaking her mind and expressing herself openly and without hesitation or uncertainty. She has a tendency to ignore decorum, most often reflected in her demeanor and speech. Often she puts her feet up when sitting, or thoughtlessly intrudes on the personal space of others. When talking she uses the simplest words she can, putting no effort into proper pronunciation and giving the impression of being uneducated or crude.
In seemingly stark contrast to the more obvious things about her appearance, Kazane very clearly puts a lot of time and effort into her looks. Her skin is smooth, nails kept trim and even, teeth the definition of 'pearly white', and she rarely leaves a hair out of place for long. She often smells of scented soaps, lotions and shampoos of the fruity or flowery variety. Most telling is the minimal scarring, callouses and other signs of wear and tear common to heavy practitioners of martial arts or other demanding physical sports. While her clothes often favor functionality, they are always stylish and flattering to her figure.
Spiritual Description: Her reiatsu is a soft, pale yellow, and has a light, airy quality. It swirls about and moves with the flow of her body, giving the appearance of trails of wind. When she is calm it is gentle, invoking feelings of something quietly regal. In moments of great anger or excitement, it is fierce and gives a feeling akin to a dangerous storm.
[ BEHIND THE EYES ]
Personality: In her day to day life, Kazane takes each day as it comes and strives to take steps towards her goals whenever she can. She believes enough hard work can accomplish anything, and aims to become the best martial artist in the world. She thinks people overly complicate their own lives, and doesn't let many of the things that stress other people out bother her. To her it is important to simply take life for what it is and roll with it as best you can, and that complaining about it won't accomplish anything. She meets challenges head on, and considers many justifications for not doing so to simply be excuses. However, she believes in her own ways of thinking and her own abilities to an excessive degree. While many things roll off of her without impact, bringing her abilities, beliefs or appearance into doubt are some of the few things that will get under her skin with ease. This is to the point that she refuses to back down from a perceived challenge, and will go to great lengths to prove herself both superior and correct.
While she understands the basic dangers a Hollow possesses, she mistakenly considers them to simply be challenges to overcome and nothing more than supernatural predators. She has a great interest in the supernatural not for it's own sake, but for how it can relate to her continued growth as a martial artist. Everything is a potential tool for her to increase her skills and better herself, and she fully believes that her Fullbringer powers are a manifestation of her hard work and dedication to the martial arts. She feels no qualms with engaging in to-the-death battles with Hollows, especially when it saves the lives of others. However, she does find it regrettable that they seem too dangerous to leave hanging around, as she would much rather rivals that could come back stronger than before and challenge her again. While she cares little for fame and glory, she is disappointed that others are unaware of the supernatural and can't appreciate how truly amazing a martial artist she is and greatly enjoys any opportunity to prove it.
Goals & Achievements: Largely due to training from a young age and her drive and passion for it, Kazane has ranked well in numerous martial arts tournaments and contests throughout her life. From less serious ones as a child, to professional ones as a young adult. Of those tournaments and contests, she has come away with impressive rankings nearly every time, and claimed more than one first and second place results. Professionally, she is a young up-and-comer that has a small amount of popularity and fans within the community but has yet to really build a reputation beyond that. Her profession however is just a means to make a living, and her ultimate goal is to be the single best martial artist in the world, mortal or otherwise.
[ GUARDIAN ANGEL ]
Weapon of Choice: Hand to hand is all Kazane will use, with a near exclusive special preference towards kicking in particular.
Power: For Kazane her legs are everything, and so her Fullbringer abilities manifest through them. With the power of her legs she can produce gusts of wind and bursts of air with offensive, defensive and maneuverability applications.
[ LEGACY CREATED ]
Origin: A bit over twenty-two years ago, a well-mannered young woman by the name of Kanon married a rough and tumble young man called Habiki. Very shortly after, Kazane was born. Raised primarily by her mother, who took to a traditional housewife role, they both were supported financially by her father's work as a professional kickboxer. Both parents did as well as could be expected in their roles for such a mismatched pair, but it became clear early on that Kazane looked more to her father as a role model than her mother. She was always fascinated by watching him train, even when she was too young to really comprehend it. This fascination would develop into a genuine interest in the sport, and though it was unconventional, her father was overjoyed enough by her interest in following his footsteps that her began to teach her the basics of general fitness and martial arts.
This caused some conflicts with her mother early on in her childhood, and she would always express some irritation and frustration with her daughter as she continued to adopt more and more of her father's mannerisms. She did, however, manage to impart the importance of responsibility, looking ones best, and taking pride in oneself. Meanwhile, her father's crude speech patterns and general disregard for decorum would make up the bulk of her social behavior. One consequence of this is that she always found herself more inclined to hang around with boys than other girls her age, and from that tendency arose her longtime status as a tomboy. Another consequence was that her general performance in school was mediocre, due to a lack of interest and her own father disregarding the subjects as being of any value. This more than anything was a great source of conflict with her mother, teachers, other students, and even neighbors at times, but it was ultimately decided as unimportant given she was on track to become a professional kickboxer like her father.
Despite the social crudeness inherited from her father, she had more or less as many friends growing up as any other child did. However, her family often moved about Japan and as a sad side effect many of her childhood friendships fell by the wayside. Her continued participation in martial arts classes and other physical sports and activities always found her new friends, however, and to her it more importantly brought about fresh rivals to compete with. This competitive spirit would see her through numerous tournaments, many of which she performed admirably well and a few of which she managed to claim first or second place. When she was in her mid-teens, her father began to take steps to make use of his connection to the professional kickboxing industry to set up her future kickboxing career. It was also around her time that her admiration towards her father and other professional practitioners of the martial arts turned aggressively competitive.
The drive to overcome and prove herself against the older generation was met with a lot of humor and good will from the older generation, but also scorn and disdain. Some assumed she was simply riding on her father's coattails, but the truth was her competitive drive against him and his friends proved to be a significant contribution to the development of her abilities as a fighter. Though she was capable of winning matches and earning a living, only a few years of this lifestyle left her feeling as if she might be stagnating as a fighter. There were still those more skilled than she was, but she had little agency when it came to fighting who she wanted when she wanted, and had to follow the whims of the industry. Further, while she had her 'wins' in sparring sessions, her father remained a hurdle she could not surpass entirely. At this point in time she began to consider setting out on a 'fiction-style' adventure around the world in pursuit of martial arts mastery.
Rise to Power: It was during a 'test run' of her plan to travel the world that she would awaken her Fullbringer powers. Not a believer of the supernatural and only barely more spiritually sensitive than most, she none the less always held a fondness for stories about the martial artist's journey to self-mastery and enlightenment through their art. So, to see if there was any merit to the idea, she decided to take a 'training trip' for a week in one of the forests of Japan. Many myths and superstitious beliefs were associated with these forests, but she was certain there was no danger of such outlandish things as that being true. This carelessness would nearly lead to her death, were it not for the power sleeping inside her.
Only a few days into her trip, in the midst of a training routine she had devised for herself, a Hollow attacked. At the time all she could see was trees and rocks being smashed and shattered and tossed about, with only a vague presence she could barely make out as the source. This slight spiritual awareness and her physical fitness saved her life, allowing her to attempt to flee and defend herself. Unfortunately it was to minimal success, and she soon found herself in a 'do or die' moment. Unable to run and refusing to simply be killed by a mysterious 'ghost' in the middle of the woods, she relied on the skills and strength she had honed through years of effort and training. Her Fullbringer power awoke in that moment, transforming the legs she prided herself on into weapons of elemental power.
When she kicked at the 'ghost', the arc of her leg brought with it the fury and force of a storm. Her continued attacks forced the Hollow on the defensive, though she found that the creature could heal itself from her attacks. It was only with on well placed, powerful axe-kick that generated a cleaving wave of wind that she claimed victory. Exhausted from her ordeal, and her awakened power spent, Kazane collapsed soon after. When she awoke and found that it was not some strange dream, she found herself filled with an unexpected feeling; a revelation about her talents as a martial artist, the existence of the supernatural, and a reaffirmation of her life goal to become the single best martial artist in the world. As a result, rather than cut her trip short, she used the remainder of it to try and discover how to call upon her power at will and begin to learn how to properly use it. In her eyes the trip was an unquestionable success, and cemented her desire to travel the world, now with a newfound addition of wishing to seek out other supernatural beings and people like herself.
Call to Action: After her encounter with the Hollow in the forest, a return to her normal life would have been impossible for her. With new heights and possibilities revealed to her, that she had only previously considered the realm of fiction and myth, she felt drawn and obligated to pursue them. She attempted to showcase her new abilities to her father, but when he demonstrated no capacity to see these abilities and dismissed her demonstration as a practical joke, she found herself briefly disappointed. This disappointment would quickly vanish however, when she came to the conclusion that only those who had a certain level of martial mastery could obtain these abilities and awareness. This belief led her to conclude that she really and truly had surpassed her father and the rest of those around her as a martial artist, and that if she was going to continue to improve she would need to seek out new and greater challenges.
So, she began making plans to seek out the 'secret masters' of the world that could teach her more about the supernatural world, to find new rivals and perhaps even defeat more monsters like the one that had attacked her. Unwilling to wait around to save up money or travel in the 'slow and proper' way, her profession took a backseat as she invested all of her time into seeking out more supernatural beings and training her own powers as best she could. Starting in Japan as she was already there, her unreliability as a professional fighter put a strain on her career. To compensate she began to make due with more 'underground' venues that suited her purposes better. At times, she was accused of cheating or otherwise rigging a match if she used her powers against human opponents. However, she was unwilling to fully handicap herself when many of her opponents had advantages in size or strength, so instead she adapted to make more subtle uses of it. Throughout these months of fairly scattered wandering and travel, she came into contact with hollows several more times. Though dangerous and filled with risky moments, she has managed to defeat the ones she has so far encountered.
Storm-Kicker
[ AT A GLANCE ]
Age / Apparent Age: 22
Gender: Female
Height & Weight: 5'3" & 115 lbs
Hair & Eye Color: Black & Brown.
Positive Traits: Ambitious. Energetic. Honest. Proud. Carefree.
Negative Traits: Stubborn. Overconfident. Tactless. Vain. Irreverent.
Loyalties: She is loyal to herself above all others, those she considers friends or rivals, and to the pursuit of martial arts mastery.
Snapshots:
Winter of 2000; Her mother, Kanon, and father, Habiki, are wed.
Summer of 2001; Kazane is born in a small Japanese town.
Spring of 2003; Kazane watches her father train for the first time.
Summer of 2005; Kazane begins learning the basics of general fitness and martial arts.
Spring of 2007; Kazane enters elementary school and her status as a Tomboy begins.
Fall of 2009; The Watanabe family moves to another Japanese town.
Summer of 2010; Kazane participates in her first children's martial arts competition, ranks 1st.
Spring of 2011; The Watanabe family moves again to yet another Japanese town.
Summer of 2016; Her father uses his connections to kickstart her future kickboxing career.
Summer of 2019; Kazane manages a win against her father in a sparring session for the first time.
Fall of 2019; Kazane officially enters the kickboxing profession.
Summer of 2020; Kazane moves out into an apartment in Tokyo by herself.
Spring of 2023; Kazane awakens her Fullbringer power during a Hollow attack while on a training trip.
Spring of 2023; Kazane decides to combat hollows and seek out other supernaturally aware people.
[ ON THE SURFACE ]
Physical Description: At a glance, Kazane is a sporty, fit young woman with a tomboyish appearance. Her black hair is short and styled in a side-swept pixie cut, and her most common outfits are athletic wear. All of her outfits put her legs on full display, and she has a fondness for pairing shorts with longer sleeved tops or jackets. While her build is slender and modest by nature, years of training have padded it out with muscle. In particular, though of average height for a Japanese woman, she has relatively long, shapely and strong legs.
Furthering her 'tomboy' appearance is how she carries herself with a casual confidence, and the blunt, simple manner in which she speaks. She rarely makes an effort to disguise her feelings on a subject, speaking her mind and expressing herself openly and without hesitation or uncertainty. She has a tendency to ignore decorum, most often reflected in her demeanor and speech. Often she puts her feet up when sitting, or thoughtlessly intrudes on the personal space of others. When talking she uses the simplest words she can, putting no effort into proper pronunciation and giving the impression of being uneducated or crude.
In seemingly stark contrast to the more obvious things about her appearance, Kazane very clearly puts a lot of time and effort into her looks. Her skin is smooth, nails kept trim and even, teeth the definition of 'pearly white', and she rarely leaves a hair out of place for long. She often smells of scented soaps, lotions and shampoos of the fruity or flowery variety. Most telling is the minimal scarring, callouses and other signs of wear and tear common to heavy practitioners of martial arts or other demanding physical sports. While her clothes often favor functionality, they are always stylish and flattering to her figure.
Spiritual Description: Her reiatsu is a soft, pale yellow, and has a light, airy quality. It swirls about and moves with the flow of her body, giving the appearance of trails of wind. When she is calm it is gentle, invoking feelings of something quietly regal. In moments of great anger or excitement, it is fierce and gives a feeling akin to a dangerous storm.
[ BEHIND THE EYES ]
Personality: In her day to day life, Kazane takes each day as it comes and strives to take steps towards her goals whenever she can. She believes enough hard work can accomplish anything, and aims to become the best martial artist in the world. She thinks people overly complicate their own lives, and doesn't let many of the things that stress other people out bother her. To her it is important to simply take life for what it is and roll with it as best you can, and that complaining about it won't accomplish anything. She meets challenges head on, and considers many justifications for not doing so to simply be excuses. However, she believes in her own ways of thinking and her own abilities to an excessive degree. While many things roll off of her without impact, bringing her abilities, beliefs or appearance into doubt are some of the few things that will get under her skin with ease. This is to the point that she refuses to back down from a perceived challenge, and will go to great lengths to prove herself both superior and correct.
While she understands the basic dangers a Hollow possesses, she mistakenly considers them to simply be challenges to overcome and nothing more than supernatural predators. She has a great interest in the supernatural not for it's own sake, but for how it can relate to her continued growth as a martial artist. Everything is a potential tool for her to increase her skills and better herself, and she fully believes that her Fullbringer powers are a manifestation of her hard work and dedication to the martial arts. She feels no qualms with engaging in to-the-death battles with Hollows, especially when it saves the lives of others. However, she does find it regrettable that they seem too dangerous to leave hanging around, as she would much rather rivals that could come back stronger than before and challenge her again. While she cares little for fame and glory, she is disappointed that others are unaware of the supernatural and can't appreciate how truly amazing a martial artist she is and greatly enjoys any opportunity to prove it.
Goals & Achievements: Largely due to training from a young age and her drive and passion for it, Kazane has ranked well in numerous martial arts tournaments and contests throughout her life. From less serious ones as a child, to professional ones as a young adult. Of those tournaments and contests, she has come away with impressive rankings nearly every time, and claimed more than one first and second place results. Professionally, she is a young up-and-comer that has a small amount of popularity and fans within the community but has yet to really build a reputation beyond that. Her profession however is just a means to make a living, and her ultimate goal is to be the single best martial artist in the world, mortal or otherwise.
[ GUARDIAN ANGEL ]
Weapon of Choice: Hand to hand is all Kazane will use, with a near exclusive special preference towards kicking in particular.
Power: For Kazane her legs are everything, and so her Fullbringer abilities manifest through them. With the power of her legs she can produce gusts of wind and bursts of air with offensive, defensive and maneuverability applications.
[ LEGACY CREATED ]
Origin: A bit over twenty-two years ago, a well-mannered young woman by the name of Kanon married a rough and tumble young man called Habiki. Very shortly after, Kazane was born. Raised primarily by her mother, who took to a traditional housewife role, they both were supported financially by her father's work as a professional kickboxer. Both parents did as well as could be expected in their roles for such a mismatched pair, but it became clear early on that Kazane looked more to her father as a role model than her mother. She was always fascinated by watching him train, even when she was too young to really comprehend it. This fascination would develop into a genuine interest in the sport, and though it was unconventional, her father was overjoyed enough by her interest in following his footsteps that her began to teach her the basics of general fitness and martial arts.
This caused some conflicts with her mother early on in her childhood, and she would always express some irritation and frustration with her daughter as she continued to adopt more and more of her father's mannerisms. She did, however, manage to impart the importance of responsibility, looking ones best, and taking pride in oneself. Meanwhile, her father's crude speech patterns and general disregard for decorum would make up the bulk of her social behavior. One consequence of this is that she always found herself more inclined to hang around with boys than other girls her age, and from that tendency arose her longtime status as a tomboy. Another consequence was that her general performance in school was mediocre, due to a lack of interest and her own father disregarding the subjects as being of any value. This more than anything was a great source of conflict with her mother, teachers, other students, and even neighbors at times, but it was ultimately decided as unimportant given she was on track to become a professional kickboxer like her father.
Despite the social crudeness inherited from her father, she had more or less as many friends growing up as any other child did. However, her family often moved about Japan and as a sad side effect many of her childhood friendships fell by the wayside. Her continued participation in martial arts classes and other physical sports and activities always found her new friends, however, and to her it more importantly brought about fresh rivals to compete with. This competitive spirit would see her through numerous tournaments, many of which she performed admirably well and a few of which she managed to claim first or second place. When she was in her mid-teens, her father began to take steps to make use of his connection to the professional kickboxing industry to set up her future kickboxing career. It was also around her time that her admiration towards her father and other professional practitioners of the martial arts turned aggressively competitive.
The drive to overcome and prove herself against the older generation was met with a lot of humor and good will from the older generation, but also scorn and disdain. Some assumed she was simply riding on her father's coattails, but the truth was her competitive drive against him and his friends proved to be a significant contribution to the development of her abilities as a fighter. Though she was capable of winning matches and earning a living, only a few years of this lifestyle left her feeling as if she might be stagnating as a fighter. There were still those more skilled than she was, but she had little agency when it came to fighting who she wanted when she wanted, and had to follow the whims of the industry. Further, while she had her 'wins' in sparring sessions, her father remained a hurdle she could not surpass entirely. At this point in time she began to consider setting out on a 'fiction-style' adventure around the world in pursuit of martial arts mastery.
Rise to Power: It was during a 'test run' of her plan to travel the world that she would awaken her Fullbringer powers. Not a believer of the supernatural and only barely more spiritually sensitive than most, she none the less always held a fondness for stories about the martial artist's journey to self-mastery and enlightenment through their art. So, to see if there was any merit to the idea, she decided to take a 'training trip' for a week in one of the forests of Japan. Many myths and superstitious beliefs were associated with these forests, but she was certain there was no danger of such outlandish things as that being true. This carelessness would nearly lead to her death, were it not for the power sleeping inside her.
Only a few days into her trip, in the midst of a training routine she had devised for herself, a Hollow attacked. At the time all she could see was trees and rocks being smashed and shattered and tossed about, with only a vague presence she could barely make out as the source. This slight spiritual awareness and her physical fitness saved her life, allowing her to attempt to flee and defend herself. Unfortunately it was to minimal success, and she soon found herself in a 'do or die' moment. Unable to run and refusing to simply be killed by a mysterious 'ghost' in the middle of the woods, she relied on the skills and strength she had honed through years of effort and training. Her Fullbringer power awoke in that moment, transforming the legs she prided herself on into weapons of elemental power.
When she kicked at the 'ghost', the arc of her leg brought with it the fury and force of a storm. Her continued attacks forced the Hollow on the defensive, though she found that the creature could heal itself from her attacks. It was only with on well placed, powerful axe-kick that generated a cleaving wave of wind that she claimed victory. Exhausted from her ordeal, and her awakened power spent, Kazane collapsed soon after. When she awoke and found that it was not some strange dream, she found herself filled with an unexpected feeling; a revelation about her talents as a martial artist, the existence of the supernatural, and a reaffirmation of her life goal to become the single best martial artist in the world. As a result, rather than cut her trip short, she used the remainder of it to try and discover how to call upon her power at will and begin to learn how to properly use it. In her eyes the trip was an unquestionable success, and cemented her desire to travel the world, now with a newfound addition of wishing to seek out other supernatural beings and people like herself.
Call to Action: After her encounter with the Hollow in the forest, a return to her normal life would have been impossible for her. With new heights and possibilities revealed to her, that she had only previously considered the realm of fiction and myth, she felt drawn and obligated to pursue them. She attempted to showcase her new abilities to her father, but when he demonstrated no capacity to see these abilities and dismissed her demonstration as a practical joke, she found herself briefly disappointed. This disappointment would quickly vanish however, when she came to the conclusion that only those who had a certain level of martial mastery could obtain these abilities and awareness. This belief led her to conclude that she really and truly had surpassed her father and the rest of those around her as a martial artist, and that if she was going to continue to improve she would need to seek out new and greater challenges.
So, she began making plans to seek out the 'secret masters' of the world that could teach her more about the supernatural world, to find new rivals and perhaps even defeat more monsters like the one that had attacked her. Unwilling to wait around to save up money or travel in the 'slow and proper' way, her profession took a backseat as she invested all of her time into seeking out more supernatural beings and training her own powers as best she could. Starting in Japan as she was already there, her unreliability as a professional fighter put a strain on her career. To compensate she began to make due with more 'underground' venues that suited her purposes better. At times, she was accused of cheating or otherwise rigging a match if she used her powers against human opponents. However, she was unwilling to fully handicap herself when many of her opponents had advantages in size or strength, so instead she adapted to make more subtle uses of it. Throughout these months of fairly scattered wandering and travel, she came into contact with hollows several more times. Though dangerous and filled with risky moments, she has managed to defeat the ones she has so far encountered.
