Post by Kainus Maximus on Mar 16, 2008 22:08:48 GMT -5
( A Few notes before the character profile:
1. Things are still being decided on, so things may change for the character, nothing is 100% set in stone yet.
2. I would like to note, that I try and use Spanish somewhat frequently with this character, a language with which for the most part I am unfamiliar with. I do not have on hand someone who is 100% fluent in writing spanish to it's full extent, nor am I really interested for that matter. I use a free translation service over the internet, but IT IS NOT PERFECT and THERE WILL BE MISTAKES. Some very minute, some very general. I ask that you simply let it slide when it is seen, but if you absolutely cannot ignore the mistakes, send me a PM, if you try and correct me through posts, I will simply ignore it and move on. This warning will go up here, and for every RP that I enter him into.)
3. For the reccord, I'm stealing True's character sheet layout. Because I can!)
Name: El Grande
Age: unknown
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Neutral Good
Power Level: 7 (can be lowered down to 6 if need be)
Timeline: Modern
Appearance:
Hair: Unknown, wears a mask.
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Deep tan
Build: Huge, muscle toned.
Attire: Luchador clothing, the major color being green with numerous red highlights throught. This includes green pants with red lighting running down the sides to red boots, red gloves, and most importantly, the mask. Which unlike most Luchadore masks, is not made out of cloth, but a powerful metal, that seems neigh indestructible. The Metal mask has been painted to match the color scheme of the rest of his uniform. This mask seems to have been permanently attached to his head, or locked down in such a fashion that it cannot be easily removed.
Height: 7'3"
Weight: Unknown, assumed to be over 300 lbs.
Personality: Vibrant and colorful. Often speaking loudly in mix of both English and Spanish, he often announces who he is and his intentions before making his move. Such a personality will often make him appear to be brutish and a bit of a muscle head. However, it is unknown if it is his true personality, or a simple façade used to lower his opponents defenses. A strong sense of right and wrong, and will go out of his way to save lives, even if it means letting the villain get away, the cliché super hero. Often times, he fights for different causes, often gaining different titles in the process. He’ll often fight in the name of the children, the poor, the abused, as well as against many injustices.
History: El Grande’s history for the most part, is unknown, completely. As is with tradition of most Luchadores, they keep their identities secret from the public, as to be unmasked, is to suffer one of the greatest dishonors. All documents of him before donning the mask, along with all his wrestling contracts have completely, and mysteriously disappeared. What is known is that he started off in the ring as a Técnico, or rather a good guy of the ring. Most of the live tournament fights, were usually staged for entertainment. except for one underground tournament which El Grande seriously fought in, where he reigned for a long time as grand champion.
At one point however he was dethroned by his rival, El Chacal Negro, to whom he was soundly beaten. El Grande went into solitude, to train by himself, to prep himself up to gain enough power to defeat Chacal in the underground tournament. After the hardcore training, he was able to work his way back up, to challenge Chacal for the championship. For most of their battle, they were equals, until Chacal began using underhanded tactics to gain the upper hand. El Grande was almost defeated, when he was by chance, able to tap a foreign source of power (to which he would later call El Alma de Lucha, or The Soul of Wrestling), this power gave him enough strength to overcome and defeat Chacal in a climactic finish.
Chacal swore to get revenge and to truly defeat El Grande on that day, before mysteriously disappearing from the underground circuits entirely. Upon discovering El Alma de Lucha, El Grande also disappeared entirely, to find a use and meaning for his new found strength. Many, many years later, El Grande reappeared, though not into the wrestling scene. Sightings have begun to occur all over the world of a masked Luchador, confronting criminals and villains, defeating them and thwarting their plans. Though just as quickly as he appears, he quickly disappears…
Combat: El Grande uses various fighting styles when engaged with opponents, the main focus of his fighting style draws from that of Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, and Vale Tudo. El Grande is a huge fighter, however, do not think of him as slow and clumsy. On the contrary, he is incredibly quick and agile often performing various acrobatic maneuvers in combat, including low rolls, high leaps, and hand to hand flips as he closes in on his opponents. He uses El Alma de Lucha as his main power source during fights.
Powers:
El Alma de Lucha: El Alma de Lucha, or The Soul of Wrestling, is a mysterious power source that El Grande uses during his fights to give him special abilities and accent his attacks. El Alma de Lucha, in essence, seems to function on a very similar grounds to how the application of ki works with other characters, as it’s functions are multi purpose. Through Channeling this power, he gains various powers.
Super Strength: El Grande’s strength is immense, and unmeasured. He is known to pick up and effortlessly toss cars around, rumors say he has gone as far as using his strength to lift up a cement truck, or to topple over a train. These are unfounded however, and no proof exists of such things. Sights other people have seen is using his super strength to leap to extreme heights.
Super Endurance: El Grande is tougher than nails. Through rigorous body training and the channeling of El Alma de Lucha, El Grande can shrug off all but the most crippling blows from enemies, and even then they are like a normal punch. That is not to say he will sit there and take it like a steel pole, he can still be knocked back a ways and even dazed, but he is soon able to get back up, and continue the fight. The extent of his super endurance, like his super strength, is mostly unfounded, the most extravagant extent is what predates the rumor of lifting a full cement truck. Before he was rumored to lift it, it was rumored that it was thrown on top of him first. The super endurance allows him to shrug off bullet wounds to a degree as well (depending on the bullet size, gun power, and Rate of bullet fire)
Mild Energy Manipulation: Much like how some characters are able to channel and convert ki into a physical force, so to can El Grande, however at an extremely limited amount. He is only able to channel the energy in physical form, and only in certain trademark attacks.
Canon Boost: El Grande can give himself quick bursts of high speed, traveling as fast as a canon ball shot while airborn. This power can accent various slams and wrestling moves he makes, making them even more dangerous than before. However, he cannot control his ability to stop, thus this reckless ability is rarely used in risky situations, such as when civilians may get in the way.
Psychic immunity: El Grande has a high resistance to mind affecting abilities and powers, however, it is unknown if this is related to El Alma de Lucha, it is speculated that his metallic mask, is what provides this protection.
Weakness: El Grande lacks a very important function that even lower level characters possess, that being ranged attacks. The most El Grande can do is utilize his super strength and slam into the ground, causing a small earthquake, perhaps even a small rupture, but that is the extent of his ranged attacks. He also refuses to use weapons when they are not absolutely critical, preferring to fight by the rules. He will also NEVER unmask a villain, though that may be more of a tidbit than a weakness.
1. Things are still being decided on, so things may change for the character, nothing is 100% set in stone yet.
2. I would like to note, that I try and use Spanish somewhat frequently with this character, a language with which for the most part I am unfamiliar with. I do not have on hand someone who is 100% fluent in writing spanish to it's full extent, nor am I really interested for that matter. I use a free translation service over the internet, but IT IS NOT PERFECT and THERE WILL BE MISTAKES. Some very minute, some very general. I ask that you simply let it slide when it is seen, but if you absolutely cannot ignore the mistakes, send me a PM, if you try and correct me through posts, I will simply ignore it and move on. This warning will go up here, and for every RP that I enter him into.)
3. For the reccord, I'm stealing True's character sheet layout. Because I can!)
Name: El Grande
Age: unknown
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Neutral Good
Power Level: 7 (can be lowered down to 6 if need be)
Timeline: Modern
Appearance:
Hair: Unknown, wears a mask.
Eyes: Brown
Skin: Deep tan
Build: Huge, muscle toned.
Attire: Luchador clothing, the major color being green with numerous red highlights throught. This includes green pants with red lighting running down the sides to red boots, red gloves, and most importantly, the mask. Which unlike most Luchadore masks, is not made out of cloth, but a powerful metal, that seems neigh indestructible. The Metal mask has been painted to match the color scheme of the rest of his uniform. This mask seems to have been permanently attached to his head, or locked down in such a fashion that it cannot be easily removed.
Height: 7'3"
Weight: Unknown, assumed to be over 300 lbs.
Personality: Vibrant and colorful. Often speaking loudly in mix of both English and Spanish, he often announces who he is and his intentions before making his move. Such a personality will often make him appear to be brutish and a bit of a muscle head. However, it is unknown if it is his true personality, or a simple façade used to lower his opponents defenses. A strong sense of right and wrong, and will go out of his way to save lives, even if it means letting the villain get away, the cliché super hero. Often times, he fights for different causes, often gaining different titles in the process. He’ll often fight in the name of the children, the poor, the abused, as well as against many injustices.
History: El Grande’s history for the most part, is unknown, completely. As is with tradition of most Luchadores, they keep their identities secret from the public, as to be unmasked, is to suffer one of the greatest dishonors. All documents of him before donning the mask, along with all his wrestling contracts have completely, and mysteriously disappeared. What is known is that he started off in the ring as a Técnico, or rather a good guy of the ring. Most of the live tournament fights, were usually staged for entertainment. except for one underground tournament which El Grande seriously fought in, where he reigned for a long time as grand champion.
At one point however he was dethroned by his rival, El Chacal Negro, to whom he was soundly beaten. El Grande went into solitude, to train by himself, to prep himself up to gain enough power to defeat Chacal in the underground tournament. After the hardcore training, he was able to work his way back up, to challenge Chacal for the championship. For most of their battle, they were equals, until Chacal began using underhanded tactics to gain the upper hand. El Grande was almost defeated, when he was by chance, able to tap a foreign source of power (to which he would later call El Alma de Lucha, or The Soul of Wrestling), this power gave him enough strength to overcome and defeat Chacal in a climactic finish.
Chacal swore to get revenge and to truly defeat El Grande on that day, before mysteriously disappearing from the underground circuits entirely. Upon discovering El Alma de Lucha, El Grande also disappeared entirely, to find a use and meaning for his new found strength. Many, many years later, El Grande reappeared, though not into the wrestling scene. Sightings have begun to occur all over the world of a masked Luchador, confronting criminals and villains, defeating them and thwarting their plans. Though just as quickly as he appears, he quickly disappears…
Combat: El Grande uses various fighting styles when engaged with opponents, the main focus of his fighting style draws from that of Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, and Vale Tudo. El Grande is a huge fighter, however, do not think of him as slow and clumsy. On the contrary, he is incredibly quick and agile often performing various acrobatic maneuvers in combat, including low rolls, high leaps, and hand to hand flips as he closes in on his opponents. He uses El Alma de Lucha as his main power source during fights.
Powers:
El Alma de Lucha: El Alma de Lucha, or The Soul of Wrestling, is a mysterious power source that El Grande uses during his fights to give him special abilities and accent his attacks. El Alma de Lucha, in essence, seems to function on a very similar grounds to how the application of ki works with other characters, as it’s functions are multi purpose. Through Channeling this power, he gains various powers.
Super Strength: El Grande’s strength is immense, and unmeasured. He is known to pick up and effortlessly toss cars around, rumors say he has gone as far as using his strength to lift up a cement truck, or to topple over a train. These are unfounded however, and no proof exists of such things. Sights other people have seen is using his super strength to leap to extreme heights.
Super Endurance: El Grande is tougher than nails. Through rigorous body training and the channeling of El Alma de Lucha, El Grande can shrug off all but the most crippling blows from enemies, and even then they are like a normal punch. That is not to say he will sit there and take it like a steel pole, he can still be knocked back a ways and even dazed, but he is soon able to get back up, and continue the fight. The extent of his super endurance, like his super strength, is mostly unfounded, the most extravagant extent is what predates the rumor of lifting a full cement truck. Before he was rumored to lift it, it was rumored that it was thrown on top of him first. The super endurance allows him to shrug off bullet wounds to a degree as well (depending on the bullet size, gun power, and Rate of bullet fire)
Mild Energy Manipulation: Much like how some characters are able to channel and convert ki into a physical force, so to can El Grande, however at an extremely limited amount. He is only able to channel the energy in physical form, and only in certain trademark attacks.
Canon Boost: El Grande can give himself quick bursts of high speed, traveling as fast as a canon ball shot while airborn. This power can accent various slams and wrestling moves he makes, making them even more dangerous than before. However, he cannot control his ability to stop, thus this reckless ability is rarely used in risky situations, such as when civilians may get in the way.
Psychic immunity: El Grande has a high resistance to mind affecting abilities and powers, however, it is unknown if this is related to El Alma de Lucha, it is speculated that his metallic mask, is what provides this protection.
Weakness: El Grande lacks a very important function that even lower level characters possess, that being ranged attacks. The most El Grande can do is utilize his super strength and slam into the ground, causing a small earthquake, perhaps even a small rupture, but that is the extent of his ranged attacks. He also refuses to use weapons when they are not absolutely critical, preferring to fight by the rules. He will also NEVER unmask a villain, though that may be more of a tidbit than a weakness.
