Character's real name: Matthew James Tyson
Codename: Stryder

Gender: Male
Age: 23
Nationality/Ethnicity: American/Canadian
Birthplace: Unknown

Personality: Matthew James Tyson is a very sweet, smart, funny, proud, out going, easy to talk to kind of guy. Stryder is a calm, intellectual, very cautious and secure kind of guy who thinks twice before he reacts.

Notes (hobbies, phobias, worries, ect.): Matt likes to go out running, weight lift, practice martial arts, play football, basketball, and soccer, play video games, go to parties and clubs, and hang out with his friends. Matt/Stryder is NOT* a Mutant, he obtained his abilities by a mystic gem that has merged with him.

Side (good, bad, or neutral): Good

Everyday clothing: Matthew wears haggar shirts/t-shirts, Levi jeans, leather jacket, Nike shoes most of the time.
Stryder wears a technologically advanced dark purple ninjitsu gi. *Stryder also has another suit in the making*

Uniform (optional; if you become an X-Man, your uniform will receive an X-Men logo): IF Stryder would like to be a part of the X-Men; he would have the same Stryder costume, however he would have X-Men logos on the ends of his martial arts belt.
Pajamas: None

Hair color and style: Matthew’s hair is light brown spiked at the front at the front and down at the back.

Eye color: Green
Height: 6’1”
Build: 172lbs

Scars: N/A
Tattoos: N/A
Piercing: N/A

Weapons and Equipment: Stryder’s ninjitsu gi has thermal Night vision, Thermal vision, EMP vision (causing him to see Electro Magnetic Waves), built in breathing mask, 1 grappling hook, 6 smoke pellets, and 6 kunai’s on each leg, and a glider. Stryder also has one one-handed adamantium katana with the sheaf on his back.

Description of ability (ies): Stryder can increase his own personal gravity so that he is pulled towards large objects, and can therefore walk up walls and buildings. He can also focus gravity inwards to increase the energy of his muscles, and boost his strength and speed to superhuman levels, or lower gravity around himself to jump much higher than a normal human can.

Cons (weaknesses) of ability (ies): Stryder sometimes loses control of his abilities by unknown means (i.e. If he uses his power to pull himself on a surface, he might either lose his power entirely and fall, or he might just be stuck on that surface, unable to change his gravity back to normal.)

Fighting style (if any): Matthew is ambidextrous, and has mastered all 127 Major combat styles.

History of your character: Matthew James Tyson is the son of recently deceased multi-billionaire Gordon James Tyson of the JTA; James Tyson Association. Matthew is a very talented young man, spending most of his years growing up; training as a martial artist. Matt is a University Graduate, and a multi-billionaire bad boy who usually gets himself into a lot of trouble.
Matthew’s father Gordon James Tyson recently died of murder when he was found in his office shot in his heart, and left Matt 51% control over his father’s life time work. Matt was heart broken for several months, intensely training himself out while thinking about the murderer of his father’s death. One day, Matthew received a package from a man known as Mr. Stranger, opening the package Matthew found a very small gem that began to float and flew and struck Matthew in the heart causing him to fall unconscious. Matthew awoke realizing about his strange power to control gravity in and around him (listed above). Matthew grew with his martial arts training and his new power and soon made a team of technological experts to create him a very light suit of advanced weaponairy and technology to protect and find and kill the murderer of his father as...Stryder!

Sample RP: Lands smoothing on a rooftop of a building, clears his mind, and all the sudden he hears a woman screaming a block away from him.
“Let go, please, let go, I promise anyone, please!!!”
Stryder dives off the building opens his gliders and glides through the foggy streets and lands as he sees two thugs trying to abuse the woman while stealing her things.
“Well, looky looky what we got here, its some punk in a ghetto gear…Yo Chief, lets stomp this fool” as thug1 steps forward wielding a club as Stryder stands there looking at the thugs eyes, the thug takes a swing at him as Stryder moves aside and takes out his katana and slices through the thug’s leg,
“Ahhhhh!!!!” the thug that tried to hit Stryder screams in agony, the other thug trys to run away as Stryder throws one of his kunai’s at the other thugs leg, the thug trips on his head and falls unconscious.
The woman standing there as her clothing half ripped and her money stuffed in the thug’s pocket peacefully looks at Stryder and says
“Thank you so much…” as a tear drips down her chin, Stryder nods at the woman and jumps straight up, lost in the fog.





(Editing my profile shortly, just wanted you guys to see what my character looks like, thanks to Talon)

Ok so he's 23, and hes a partier, hangs out with friends, plays sports and video games. and somehow, he learned 127 combat styles and mastered them all.... <_< >_> -_-;; okay.... I could understand maybe like 5 or 10..if ALL he did was train, but not 127, thats crazy. How bulky is his ninjitsu gi? It would be extreamly hard to effectively pull a katana from its sheath from your back.

He has trained all his life with all the teachers money can buy, he's a billionaire, I know its a bit unrealistic, but pretty much all of Marvel is unrealistic.

Put plainly, you don't need 127 fighting styles. There's no way that you will ever use them all in an RP anyways. Besides that, the reason there is a lot of marvel unrealism is because it is explained through mutation, but you are claiming that he learned them all in 23 years (including his entire childhood). I could see if his mutation somehow had him learn them all, but I don't see that here...

I just don't think its plausible. Maybe I'm wrong and I'm not trying to be to critical here... but I'm just wondering how money buys knowledge. I have to agree with Eldwyn on this one.

"Aaaand heres the third vote, and its a thumbs down.. oo sorry folks"

Yep, might be a good idea to tweak your character. Unrealistic doesn't look good.

Eldwyn, here is your answer about the ninjitsu gi:





It's kinda like that.

Eldwyn, Glare, and Iratio here are your answers:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Claw

I kinda barrowed the idea from there.

So, what was his motivation to learn all of those martial arts? Dark Claw had a motivation, just like Bruce Wyane. Doesn't seem like Stryder does. Oh, if thats basicly the idea, does he wear goggles to have all of those 'vision' enchancements? cuz otherwise doesn't look like it would work. Also, a glider? Quite bulky on the back, and it would interfear with the katana, or vice-versa. Batman and Dark Claw push it, even if both of them are geniuses, its extreamly improbably taht they MASTERED all of those martial arts. Besides, unlike Batman, who really left everything behind, and came back when he was what, like 27? He travled east and immursed himself into the martial arts. 24/7/365, unlike Stryder, who acts like a normal teenager.

*sigh*....Ok...I'm a very dedicated person in what I do, and I wanted to create a marvel character to be dedicated in what he does, but in a Marvel sense (not very realistic). I can go on forever about Marvel and how the mutations, technology, and sources are not very realistic, HOWEVER, I don’t, because I KNOW what Marvel is and what it stands for. About 5% of the marvel characters are realistic to the core, trust me, I've researched, and MOST importantly; I came here to have fun and chat nicely with people and have a great time RPing. I didn't come here to be perfect, I didn't come here to give anyone a hard time, or give negative attitude towards anyone, I came here to be me put the things *I* want into *MY* character. So don't give me hard time, and a good and wise friend of mine once said: "Don't hate the player, hate the game".

What I'm saying is it doesn't fit the character. Doesn't flow. Nearly all the characters have backgrounds that fit their character, and so their tallents as well. Yours seems to be two DIFFERENT characters, that clash. I wasn't trying to give you a hard time, just pointing out things. I never said the marvel characters weren't unrealistic, but even they have motivation and things that fit their characters and personalities and abilities, that make it work. It seems Stryder has the characteristics of one person but the abilities of a different person, with VERY little connection. When I say abilities, I'm not talking about your mutation, thats a thing all on its own, where a pacifist never in a fight could have a mutation that gives him all the capabilities to cause great harm and whoop anyone's ass.

Alright, Eldwyn, I'll tweak my character a bit when I have time...