Post by KENTO on Dec 23, 2019 6:35:42 GMT
NAME: Ibuki Kento
GENDER: Male
CHARACTER THEME: Claymore by Takanori Nishikawa and Hiroyuki Sawano
QUIRK: QUIRKLESS
EXPERTISE:
-Shin Kakutogi: Make no mistake, despite his punk looks The Natural is, well, a natural when it comes to fighting. An obsessive enthusiast who’s trained at least in passing in various methods from an early age, Kento sports his own peculiar personal style of mixed martial arts, with his hallmarks being a deceptively relaxed, shifting stance and smooth-flowing movements used to generate sudden, explosively forceful power. Sporting a surprisingly slick counter-grappling game based around Judo with some catch wrestling holds, he is above all else an eclectic and spectacular striker, combining pure western boxing fundamentals with a wide array of techniques from full contact japanese martial arts.
Specifically, Kento can be defined as a pressuring, switch-hitting “boxer-puncher”, an ambidextrous, technical fighter with tools across all phases of an engagement, who focuses on dismantling opponents with precision, less given to extensive combinations in favor of delivering lightning fast and thunderously hard-hitting attacks. Heavily grounded in effective defense, use of footwork and simple but practical techniques, he is excellent at suddenly closing distances and cutting angles with devastating bursts of offense as well as stopping enemies with crushing counters, using his grappling as a supplementary control measure and occasionally breaking out unorthodox moves to surprise opponents.
-Allrounder: He might not have an enhancement quirk, but it is demonstrable that those are not the only way to gain a prodigious or even downright superhuman physical acumen. Equally gifted in general athletics as he is in the martial arts, a comprehensive training program has developed Kento into a monstrous specimen displaying enviably well balanced strength, speed, agility, flexibility, stamina, the whole package one expects from a world class fighter. His durability is particularly noteworthy, inborn thick-headed toughness developed through painstaking traditional martial arts conditioning, giving him an enormous tolerance for punishment and ailments as well as rock-hard striking surfaces.
-The IQ Fighter: If you think fistfights are only for meatheads then you’re quite right, but there’s a big mental aspect to them as well at an elite level. Reading opponents and situations moment to moment, constructing strategies and adapting them on the fly as needed, picking what moves to use when and where and how, Ibuki is right on top of that. There’s also elements that are less about structured thought and more about instinct: a capacity to react reflexively without conscious thought, being able to work on feeling rather than any given visual cue or logical process, and especially an unbreakable willpower to always bring the fight no matter what and break the will of others in turn.
Kento is an absolute unit. No two ways about it. Blessed with sharp, boyish good looks toughened up by his fistic pursuits, with bright brown eyes, striking jawline and cheekbones, perfect pearly whites, and an aquiline nose, the boy is definitely photogenic, while his dyed red punk pompadour, scuffed up ears and hard and rough fists, elbows, shins and feet separate him from your average prettyboy. Especially when you take into account that he stands at a considerable 6ft2 and that he sports a wiry superstar physique, some 200 pounds of rock hard, shredded muscle spread across an enviable inverted triangle build, a broad upper body leading to a naturally slim waist and core and sporting long, sinewy limbs.
BACKGROUND:
In another time and another place, Ibuki Kento would’ve likely been hailed as one of the great prospects of Japan’s athletic future, an olympic medallist candidate should he follow that path and certainly expected to become a world champion of some sort. Today’s world, however, has seen it fit to brand him with a single word: quirkless. A quirkless boy looked down on with a mixture of pity and hostility, born of quirkless parents from quirkless families made by those seeking community living outside of the new normal. The thing is, as far as he is concerned and for as long as he can remember, that has always been the world’s problem, not his, and not ever something that’s stopped him.
In fact, life has been decent to Kento all told. Loving, fairly attentive parents with decent jobs, a family that stuck to other quirkless groups yes but was never rabidly anti-quirk, a proper education with the general population. But the stigma against his birth was always there, and dealing with it quickly became second nature. It helped that as far as his family was concerned, they were as good as anyone else and no one should tell him otherwise. When other kids tried bullying him Kento never took it lying down, powers or no powers did not matter to him in the slightest and if you were mean and picked a fight he’d fight back. Looking back, that might’ve been what instilled in him a burning need to “be strong”.
Without a quirk of his own, a budding interest in martial arts became an obsession, his way of approaching strength and being more like the heroes everyone admired. Especially when he found a local gym that often taught police officers and pro heroes on request, and he positively latched on to it, standing outside by the window and watching the practice every day. His parents were not altogether convinced. Introducing their son to a violent pursuit did not sit well with them and, while they never told him he couldn’t do it, they weren’t comfortable with encouraging likely impossible dreams of being a hero, but the civil servant presence put their minds at ease and they agreed it was something he needed.
It was the start of something marvelous. Very quickly it became evident that Kento had a talent. A real talent, and the drive and passion to match. He took to the training like few others and blossomed into an outstanding practitioner for his young age, with even greater promise for the future. And as he grew and developed he was encouraged to expand his horizons in what was clearly his calling, and suddenly others were less keen on trying to tell him what he could and couldn’t do, less keen on looking down on him and trying to pick fights, and instead came praise and interest in his abilities. And as high school approached, the sky was the limit in the young man’s mind. And if it wasn’t, he’d make it so.
Particularly because very few career paths called to him. No-quirk sports had seen a consistent decline for years and were now a fairly limited, sparsely populated field. Fighting was his calling, he didn’t want to turn it into just a hobby, or something on the side that he wasn’t actually supposed to use while working as a policeman. So he decided to apply for a professional hero course. There were initial concerns of course, his parents were worried sick and tried to gently dissuade him, but ultimately support and encouragement came easy. All the major hero schools accepted students of all kinds, and those he trained with and those that’d tried fighting him knew his skills measured up. Wouldn’t hurt to try.
And so it was that Ibuki Kento enrolled in the highly prestigious Shiketsu Academy. To be put on the general education course, with probationary status for heroics. For a few months. It was a bust. The school’s rigid verticalist structure and insistence on observing proper forms did not gel well with the youth’s love for personal freedoms and enormous confidence in his own worth, and tensions built up until it all came to a head in The Incident, of which no official account remains. All that’s known is that three second years were quietly expelled and Ibuki himself was suspended for six months, effectively rendering his entire school year void and forcing him to be held back. A sterling start it was not.
Taking it on the chin, Kento decided to worry about his studies later and spent the time in an intensive training camp sponsored by his gym. It was while he was busy with this that Shiketsu arranged for him to be discreetly transferred over to UA, feeling that the school’s non-standard methods and policies would be a better fit.
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CODE NAME: KENTO (拳闘)
ALIGNMENT: Student
ALIGNMENT: Student
TITLE: The Natural
AGE: 17GENDER: Male
CHARACTER THEME: Claymore by Takanori Nishikawa and Hiroyuki Sawano
QUIRK: QUIRKLESS
EXPERTISE:
-Shin Kakutogi: Make no mistake, despite his punk looks The Natural is, well, a natural when it comes to fighting. An obsessive enthusiast who’s trained at least in passing in various methods from an early age, Kento sports his own peculiar personal style of mixed martial arts, with his hallmarks being a deceptively relaxed, shifting stance and smooth-flowing movements used to generate sudden, explosively forceful power. Sporting a surprisingly slick counter-grappling game based around Judo with some catch wrestling holds, he is above all else an eclectic and spectacular striker, combining pure western boxing fundamentals with a wide array of techniques from full contact japanese martial arts.
Specifically, Kento can be defined as a pressuring, switch-hitting “boxer-puncher”, an ambidextrous, technical fighter with tools across all phases of an engagement, who focuses on dismantling opponents with precision, less given to extensive combinations in favor of delivering lightning fast and thunderously hard-hitting attacks. Heavily grounded in effective defense, use of footwork and simple but practical techniques, he is excellent at suddenly closing distances and cutting angles with devastating bursts of offense as well as stopping enemies with crushing counters, using his grappling as a supplementary control measure and occasionally breaking out unorthodox moves to surprise opponents.
-Allrounder: He might not have an enhancement quirk, but it is demonstrable that those are not the only way to gain a prodigious or even downright superhuman physical acumen. Equally gifted in general athletics as he is in the martial arts, a comprehensive training program has developed Kento into a monstrous specimen displaying enviably well balanced strength, speed, agility, flexibility, stamina, the whole package one expects from a world class fighter. His durability is particularly noteworthy, inborn thick-headed toughness developed through painstaking traditional martial arts conditioning, giving him an enormous tolerance for punishment and ailments as well as rock-hard striking surfaces.
-The IQ Fighter: If you think fistfights are only for meatheads then you’re quite right, but there’s a big mental aspect to them as well at an elite level. Reading opponents and situations moment to moment, constructing strategies and adapting them on the fly as needed, picking what moves to use when and where and how, Ibuki is right on top of that. There’s also elements that are less about structured thought and more about instinct: a capacity to react reflexively without conscious thought, being able to work on feeling rather than any given visual cue or logical process, and especially an unbreakable willpower to always bring the fight no matter what and break the will of others in turn.
SUPER MOVE:
-ICHIGEKI: Some of the finer points of combat strategy expressed through the japanese martial arts concept of “ippon”, one point, a swordsmanship-derived mentality and ideal of deciding a match through a single, clean move that leaves an opponent no room to recover or counterattack, Ichigeki is Kento’s most polished application of technique based around his core fundamentals: a single, perfectly executed and thus singularly destructive attack, thrown with full body coordination to maximize power generation at an instant and point where the opponent’s guard is lax akin to an Iaido strike.
COSTUME:
-ICHIGEKI: Some of the finer points of combat strategy expressed through the japanese martial arts concept of “ippon”, one point, a swordsmanship-derived mentality and ideal of deciding a match through a single, clean move that leaves an opponent no room to recover or counterattack, Ichigeki is Kento’s most polished application of technique based around his core fundamentals: a single, perfectly executed and thus singularly destructive attack, thrown with full body coordination to maximize power generation at an instant and point where the opponent’s guard is lax akin to an Iaido strike.
COSTUME:
All black with red and gunmetal grey highlights, Kento’s costume is a pastiche of martial elements. A pair of form-fitting pants matched with tall boots and kneepads, equal parts pro wrestling and biker gear, combined with a long sleeved, high neck skintight rashguard akin to what’s worn in MMA practice give him a decidedly modern look. To add a traditional touch, the boots are styled after tabi and along with the pads they’re evocative of japanese armor, matched by similar full-finger gloves and a militaristic, thigh-length coat typical of japanese biker uniforms (popularized by Crimson Riot) patterned after a samurai’s jinbaori surcoat and closed at the waist by a red obi sash.
The ensemble’s special function is its specifically insulating design. All the parts fit properly with the others to form a body glove and the entire costume is reinforced via interwoven nanopolymers, developments in materials akin to kevlar, that are sufficiently breathable and help keep the wearer protected from environmental hazards.
FLAW: Aside from being quirkless, an obvious limitation in a world where everyone has something they can do that may well transcend all common sense and change or define the dynamics of any given situation, Kento is actually rather hung up on that fact and has a strong need to stand out and prove himself. He’s quick to seek attention and glory often to his detriment, and while not antisocial or resentful of quirks he greatly enjoys proving that he doesn’t need one and that many are crutches for people who would otherwise not be on his level. And given his demanding, energy-draining lifestyle he also requires a considerable regular caloric intake to really sustain himself.
APPEARANCE:
The ensemble’s special function is its specifically insulating design. All the parts fit properly with the others to form a body glove and the entire costume is reinforced via interwoven nanopolymers, developments in materials akin to kevlar, that are sufficiently breathable and help keep the wearer protected from environmental hazards.
FLAW: Aside from being quirkless, an obvious limitation in a world where everyone has something they can do that may well transcend all common sense and change or define the dynamics of any given situation, Kento is actually rather hung up on that fact and has a strong need to stand out and prove himself. He’s quick to seek attention and glory often to his detriment, and while not antisocial or resentful of quirks he greatly enjoys proving that he doesn’t need one and that many are crutches for people who would otherwise not be on his level. And given his demanding, energy-draining lifestyle he also requires a considerable regular caloric intake to really sustain himself.
APPEARANCE:
Kento is an absolute unit. No two ways about it. Blessed with sharp, boyish good looks toughened up by his fistic pursuits, with bright brown eyes, striking jawline and cheekbones, perfect pearly whites, and an aquiline nose, the boy is definitely photogenic, while his dyed red punk pompadour, scuffed up ears and hard and rough fists, elbows, shins and feet separate him from your average prettyboy. Especially when you take into account that he stands at a considerable 6ft2 and that he sports a wiry superstar physique, some 200 pounds of rock hard, shredded muscle spread across an enviable inverted triangle build, a broad upper body leading to a naturally slim waist and core and sporting long, sinewy limbs.
BACKGROUND:
In another time and another place, Ibuki Kento would’ve likely been hailed as one of the great prospects of Japan’s athletic future, an olympic medallist candidate should he follow that path and certainly expected to become a world champion of some sort. Today’s world, however, has seen it fit to brand him with a single word: quirkless. A quirkless boy looked down on with a mixture of pity and hostility, born of quirkless parents from quirkless families made by those seeking community living outside of the new normal. The thing is, as far as he is concerned and for as long as he can remember, that has always been the world’s problem, not his, and not ever something that’s stopped him.
In fact, life has been decent to Kento all told. Loving, fairly attentive parents with decent jobs, a family that stuck to other quirkless groups yes but was never rabidly anti-quirk, a proper education with the general population. But the stigma against his birth was always there, and dealing with it quickly became second nature. It helped that as far as his family was concerned, they were as good as anyone else and no one should tell him otherwise. When other kids tried bullying him Kento never took it lying down, powers or no powers did not matter to him in the slightest and if you were mean and picked a fight he’d fight back. Looking back, that might’ve been what instilled in him a burning need to “be strong”.
Without a quirk of his own, a budding interest in martial arts became an obsession, his way of approaching strength and being more like the heroes everyone admired. Especially when he found a local gym that often taught police officers and pro heroes on request, and he positively latched on to it, standing outside by the window and watching the practice every day. His parents were not altogether convinced. Introducing their son to a violent pursuit did not sit well with them and, while they never told him he couldn’t do it, they weren’t comfortable with encouraging likely impossible dreams of being a hero, but the civil servant presence put their minds at ease and they agreed it was something he needed.
It was the start of something marvelous. Very quickly it became evident that Kento had a talent. A real talent, and the drive and passion to match. He took to the training like few others and blossomed into an outstanding practitioner for his young age, with even greater promise for the future. And as he grew and developed he was encouraged to expand his horizons in what was clearly his calling, and suddenly others were less keen on trying to tell him what he could and couldn’t do, less keen on looking down on him and trying to pick fights, and instead came praise and interest in his abilities. And as high school approached, the sky was the limit in the young man’s mind. And if it wasn’t, he’d make it so.
Particularly because very few career paths called to him. No-quirk sports had seen a consistent decline for years and were now a fairly limited, sparsely populated field. Fighting was his calling, he didn’t want to turn it into just a hobby, or something on the side that he wasn’t actually supposed to use while working as a policeman. So he decided to apply for a professional hero course. There were initial concerns of course, his parents were worried sick and tried to gently dissuade him, but ultimately support and encouragement came easy. All the major hero schools accepted students of all kinds, and those he trained with and those that’d tried fighting him knew his skills measured up. Wouldn’t hurt to try.
And so it was that Ibuki Kento enrolled in the highly prestigious Shiketsu Academy. To be put on the general education course, with probationary status for heroics. For a few months. It was a bust. The school’s rigid verticalist structure and insistence on observing proper forms did not gel well with the youth’s love for personal freedoms and enormous confidence in his own worth, and tensions built up until it all came to a head in The Incident, of which no official account remains. All that’s known is that three second years were quietly expelled and Ibuki himself was suspended for six months, effectively rendering his entire school year void and forcing him to be held back. A sterling start it was not.
Taking it on the chin, Kento decided to worry about his studies later and spent the time in an intensive training camp sponsored by his gym. It was while he was busy with this that Shiketsu arranged for him to be discreetly transferred over to UA, feeling that the school’s non-standard methods and policies would be a better fit.
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