Character's real name: Ricardo Aguiar
Codename/Alias: Zenaku (As a tribute to his Master)
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Nationality/Ethnicity: Portuguese. He has Eastern Indian and Italian descent.
Birthplace: Barreiro, Portugal
Personality: Rick is a strong minded individual. Although he as shown to be unable fully control his powers he doesn't hesitate to help anyone in need no matter how hard it gets.
UPDATE: After training with Master Zenaku, Rick became a more calm and collected than before. His Master said that he needed to be ‘‘Tranquil like a forest and yet on fire within.’’ and that he had to be ‘‘ as swift as the coursing river with all the might of the great Typhoon’’ in order to find his center and gain control over his powers. So, after some intense training. that’s what he became.
Allegiance: X-Men
Everyday clothing: Regular sleeveless martial artist uniform with the Taoist Ying Yang symbol in it’s chest and his old fingerless gloves.
Uniform: Same as above but the X symbol is on the back of his gloves..
Pajamas: Usually sleeps in the clothes he is wearing.
Hair color and style: Black, Long hair (half way across his back) w/ ponytail.
Eye color: Dark Brown
Height: around 6'2
Build: Average, slightly muscular
Scars: A diagonal scar that goes from his left hip up to his right shoulder. He got this scar while sword fighting.
Tattoos: A Dragon tattoo which is similar to the one that Master Zenaku has on his back only instead of the dragon looking to the right it is looking to it’s left. It is the symbol for Master Zenaku’s most advanced students although only few have actually received it. It also symbolizes that the bearer as gone through Master Zenaku’s Dragon Quest (Series of several hard tests that one must complete in order to be considered a Master of Seika Ryuu Styles.
Description of ability (ies): Ricardo has the ability to mimic other powers. Whenever he is within the vicinity of someone with special ability, his body automatically duplicates it. Also the longer he stays with a person the stronger the mimicked version of the power will become and the easier it will become to recall the power. Usually he prefers to see the benefactor of the power use the ability before trying to mimic it.
UPDATE: Rick can now recall powers he has been in contact with before. At the moment he can only recall 2 powers which are
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(Bold=Main Mimicked Power)
(Italic=Sub-power linked to the main power)
Aerokinesis (His mother): the equilibrium of others with compressed air, lift himself off the ground for flight, and create directed blasts of high pressure air control and manipulate the movement of air. He can create winds of strengths ranging up to hurricane force. At times, Rick has used this ability to manipulate wind in a manner that resembles telekinesis, lifting massive objects like cars and hurling them against opponents, and stop projectiles like bullets.
-Enhanced hearing: Allows him to amplify small vibrations in the air and draw far-off sounds to his ears.
- Flight: Rick can fly through the air by causing himself to be supported and propelled by wind currents. Rick can thus travel as fast as any wind can, and has reached speeds of 300 miles per hour (Up to 800 miles per hour but can cause draining affects after a long time period). While flying he creates a shield of wind around him that enables him to breathe at any speed, protects him from air friction, and protects him from cold. Rick can carry only carry himself and another person (granted the person his near his weight) while flying.-----------------------------------
Pyrokinesis: (Master Zenaku): This is the ability to telekinetically control and manipulate any fire or flame, even ones the he did not create. He also seems to possess complete and precise control over their shape, size, intensity, density, temperature, and even color. He can alter its size and intensity from a mere candlestick flame, to an immeasurable inferno. He can manipulate any fire or flame to do whatever hee desires. He are some way he uses his powers:
• Fire Projectiles: He can create forms out of flame (fireballs being the most common) and hurl them at opponents. Also includes shooting a steady stream of fire from the hands
• Spontaneous Combustion: He can spontaneously combust or engulf any portion of or all of oneself in fiery plamsa without harm to oneself whatsoever. Usually he just engulfs his arms in flames to avoid excessive loss of energy.
• Burning: He can burn, scald, singe, scorch, vaporize, evaporate, and incinerate virtually any being or object by touch.
• Fire Extinguishing: He can extinguish any fire in his vicinity mentally
• Flares: He project blazing bolts, destructive, incinerating long-range beams of fire from any part of his body at will. They are able to blow reinforced, solid titanium walls without effort.
• Flight: Rick’s body and plasma posses a high hydrogen content, and is surrounded by an exuded cloud of mono-atomic hydrogen atoms. This hot cloud allows him float.. By forming a jet from his/her feet, directed behind him/her, one could achieve supersonic speeds of up to at least 300 miles per hour. He only uses this type of flight in combat as it is much easier to control than Aero kinetic flight.
Cons (weaknesses) of ability (ies):
UPDATE: Altough he is now able to re-call powers he can only recall one power at a time or it will tire him to the point where he will be unable to continue fighting. He tends to lose control of his powers if he is overwhelmed by his emotions (rage and grief tend to be the most powerful triggers).
Fighting style: He uses a rather distinct form of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu which he learned when he mimicked a mutant's muscle memory, although when the mutant walked out of his range Rick lost the power but he, noticed, could still remember the kung fu style. He uses this, at times, with his dormant air wave generating ability. He is good in Battojutsu and Iaido.
UPDATE: He now knows Master Zenaku’s Seika Ryuu Style (Sacred Fire Dragon Style). This focuses on attacking with swift moves while keeping a safe distance from the opponent. It also incorporates Pyrokinesis into it. There is a sword-wielding variation in which Rick lights his Katana on fire. He mostly uses the Seika Ryuu while fighting as opposed to Northern Shaolin Kung Fu..
History of your character:
Ricardo was born in Barreiro, Portugal. He never knew his father as he left his mother when she told him that she was a mutant. He led a pretty normal life he went trough school with reasonable grades. He got a degree in Law.
He never really noticed his powers until he started to notice he could expel air in the form of shock waves from his body when he was around 12 years old. When he told his mother she decided that she should teach him how to control the ability so she started training him. Her trainings included Tai Chi Chuan exercises to control his emotions and many other relaxation and mental balancing exercises to keep his shockwave power under control. After 4 years he decided to try using the power by himself but as much as he tried it didn't work. After hours of trying he quit and went home. His mother was sitting on the couch looking in horror at a piece of paper. He approached her quietly and asked what was going on. Rick looked at the letter she was holding it said she had tested positive for lung cancer. After years of going in and out of hospitals she ultimately died leaving Rick alone.
He never got the chance to tell his mother about not being able to use his power when she wasn't around so he didn't know what was going on. As soon as he finished school he left for New York to find other mutants that shared his abilities. A few months after arriving he started to notice that he could mimic other powers when he was able to learn an obscure martial art just by watching a mutant perform it (The mutant explained he could copy any move he had seen before automatically which was what Rick did while around him)
Sample RP: (This is an R/P I did with the character I used to play.)
Its night, the streets are empty apart from some homeless people wandering around and the occasional police officer. Asmodai sits on the top of a rooftop watching the street a gentle breeze passes trough. He opens his eyes to see a young woman, run near the base of the building Asmodai's sitting on. She leans against the wall of the building as if hiding from a chaser. Asmodai looked around from the top of the building only to see someone emerging from the shadows behind the woman; this new person grabbed the woman and threw her against the wall. She screamed but there was no one around, Asmodai just stood enjoying the show.
Suddenly another man came from the alley depths; this one seemed to be a partner to the other. They had a short dialogue with the women apparently pleading. The first men ignores the pleas and throws the woman against the wall pinning her against it.
Asmodai came down from the building slowly descending the fire ladder.
- ''Haven't you ever heard don't hit a lady?'' - Asmodai said attracting attention towards him, away from the woman. One of the men
grabbed an iron tube and swung it at Asmodai who moved out of the way without much effort and, making a quick hand motion, used his powers to throw the tube away.- ''I'm sensing a bit of hostility here, maybe you should some relaxation exercises no?''-
Then using his powers he took control of the iron molecules in the men's blood lifting him by the air causing excruciating pain to him. He started to slowly bend his fingers as if he was trying to squeeze juice out of a hard orange, suddenly the iron made the men's chest implode releasing blood. Asmodai let go of his hold on the men and turned his attention to his partner who pointed a gun at him. Asmodai grinned and slowly approached the men who started shooting at Asmodai. The bullet stopped in mid-air just in front of Asmodai and, grabbing one of them, he threw them back at the men hitting him in the shoulder and chest. The woman was still pinned against the wall with a look of terror in her face.
- ''Are you okay? - Asmodai asked approaching the woman.
- ''Stay AWAY'' - she screamed grabbing the fallen gun and shooting Asmodai repeatedly in the chest. She then dropped the gun and run away. The wounds in a Asmodai's body became covered by a metal substance that quickly switched to be the colors of his skin.
- ''That's what you get for helping humans...'' - Asmodai said adjusting his jacket and leaving the alley as if nothing had happened.
UPDATE: After leaving the Mansion Rick left for China to try to find the man that his mother talked so vehemently about. Upon locating the man, Rick passes a series of tests in order to gain the right to train under Master Zenaku (Whose name literally means Good/Evil). He train hard and long with Master until he finally gained control of his mimicking abilities when a young woman he had befriended was put in Mortal danger by Master Zenalku to ‘‘Forced the dragon out of his hiding’’ this resulted in Rick being able to fly after the falling girl using Master Zenaku’s Pyrokinetic flight even after he had already fallen so deep that Master Zenaku was already out of his range. After saving the girl he was finally accepted as a true student of the Way of the Sacred Fire Dragon. After completing the several Trials Master Zenaku put him through he received the school’s uniform and the dragon tattoo on his back.
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