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~.Yamato Trystan.~; The Inter-Realm Semi-Constant Existance
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Basic Information
 
Character Name: Yamato Trystan
Gender:Male
Age:21
Height:5’9”
Weight:220 lbs
Alignment: Neutral

Occupation: Current Grandmaster of Ryoushou-Ryuu Kobudo, occasional vigilante
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Ryoushou-Ryuu Kobudo (Pure Mist Style 凌霄流古武道)
 

A martial art that was first developed in China before being brought over to Japan by visiting monks, Ryoushou-Ryuu kobujutsu is a highly adaptive and customizable form of self-defense that is best characterized as a harmonized mixture of external and internal. A critical part in mastering this martial art is not to memorize forms and placement of body and limbs, but to understand the purpose behind each and every movement. As such, there will always be variations in how a practitioner goes about using this style due to interpretative expression, but will always have methods that accomplish the same goals. Ryoushou-Ryuu kobujutsu encompasses many different aspects of self defense, as martial arts were indeed meant for, and only meant for, self defense at the time Ryoushou-Ryuu kobujutsu was developed. These disciplines include ground work, standing grappling and joint manipulation, open and closed hand striking, kicking, weapons training, and etc.

Separating Ryoushou-Ryuu combat from pure fist-fighting is their ability to project one’s Qi. This allows one to use their Qi as a direct weapon to either attack meridian crossroads via “tapping” (點穴 / dian xue) to cause temporary paralysis and numbness through nervous overloads. Qi can also be used as an extension of the body to cause both long distance cutting/piercing (無形劍氣 / wu xing jian qi) damage and/or blunt physical trauma (掌氣 / zhang qi) at a closer distance from the hands while unarmed. Additionally, Qi can be channeled into objects to make them and/or parts of the user’s body to enhance them into formidable makeshift weapons/armor, while still connected to the body, in their own right (运氣 / yun qi). ((Details and mechanics of both Qi and Tapping are described in the spoiler tag at the bottom of this section.))

However, these offensive applications of Qi are really all secondary effects that were originally not meant to be the main application. This style, as most Asian martial arts do, also trains the practitioner in vital, multi-purpose breathing techniques (呼吸吐納 / hu xi tu na) and health instruction. The breathing techniques not only help promote growth, maintain, and balance the reservoirs of Qi within the body, it also allows the practitioner to learn how to channel this Qi to various other areas within their body in particular sequences to achieve a desired effect (內氣導引 / nei qi dao ying). Eventually, the practitioner begins to utilize these exercises to guide their Qi automatically, as all these exercises are doing is adjusting ones own breathing pattern to achieve a maximal benefit. As the body itself finds this a desirable result, it “learns” the exercises and runs through them out of habit, like a second nature. As a result, one’s meridian paths and reservoirs of Qi are constantly open and ready to be expelled or channeled, thus allowing one the ability to achieve the desired effects nearly instantaneously. The results of these exercises range from trivial and mundane, such as warming and calming the body in order to sleep through cold weather with minimal protection from the elements, to the more commonly showcased feats of amplified strength, physical fortitude – all marks of a healthy individual. These exercises also eventually allow the user to perform “lightness” techniques (輕功 / qing gong), which “lightens” one’s body, allowing one to run faster as well as jump higher and further than normal people. However, running on water is still an ability that even the best of the best continue to dream of.

To counter the risks one undertakes as a martial art practitioner, one must be able to take care of the body needs in order to keep oneself, as well as others, in optimal condition. As such, Ryoushou-Ryuu kobujutsu also actively instructs the practitioner in massaging and relaxation techniques (擒/推拿 / qin/tui na), forcible poison excretion from the bloodstream using Qi (逼毒 / bi du), acupuncture, methods of mixing and obtaining traditional herbal medicines, as well as the other healing aspects and applications of Qi alongside the martial aspects. As a side note, Ryoushou-Ryuu kobujutsu is also perhaps one of the few, if not only, martial arts that teaches culinary skills that any normal restaurant would be grateful to have in their kitchen. This has been attributed to a popular story that says that the reason why the monks were “visiting” in the first place was because they had been excommunicated from their order for their sinful love of the pleasures of the flesh.

~.Details and Mechanics.~
Qi in Detail
 

This form of Qi projection is different from the typical presentation of Qi from anime in three ways, as described below.
  • It only takes several milliseconds for Qi projections to reach their target(s), due to the technique’s own theoretical maximum effective operational range of just over three arm lengths past the practitioner’s own fingertips. 劍氣 is used for long distance attacks within a radius of 5 arm lengths, measured starting from the base of the user’s shoulder; 掌氣 is used within a radius of 3½ arm lengths, measured starting from the base of the user’s shoulder. Both types of these attacks can easily blast away rocks and concrete

  • When Qi is channeled into objects, even normal sticks and pebbles can become deadly blades and projectiles. The Qi channeled within strengthens the structure of the object, and can create Qi “edges”, forming makeshift blades where blades are normally not present; weapons that already have sharpened edges become that much sharper, leading to faster and more devastating armed assaults. Qi can also be channeled into multiple body parts at once, enhancing these portions, effectively transforming them into formidable makeshift weapons/armor as well as giving the user a noticeable performance boost. The weapons formed this way can have up to 4 hand lengths of extra striking range, depending on the amount of Qi infused into said object. It is possible to damage only armor and other such barriers without harming the person behind by allowing the Qi to flow through the person, and expelling the force outside of their body. However, one must also keep in mind the individual strength of the object or body part, for channeling in too much Qi can actually break the object from within.

    Non-physical attacks, such as elemental magic and psychic attacks, are not effected by armor enhanced by Qi, including bare skin, and will pass right through. On the other hand, physical attacks are repulsed by an opposing force, thus reducing, or even negating completely said attack. While blades are not stopped by the Qi enhanced armor, the user is able to use the Qi armor to temporarily “bandage” the wounds caused, forcibly realigning torn organs temporarily and directing their blood to flow along its normal path. However, doing so tires out the user immensely quickly on large wounds, and is mostly used as a last resort to allow a chance to flee the situation in order to seek medical attention.

  • Qi projections are seen only as something akin to a mid-air mirage and always travel along a linear path, regardless of gravitational fields. Once shot out, the projections are beyond the control of the source, and exist as separate entities. Skilled practitioners of other variations of Qi, such as Ki or Chi (excluding Magic users and other, pure fist-fighting styles), are thus able to catch, redirect, and return said projection with their own added energies if their reactions are fast enough. However, given the distances at which these techniques are used at, the chances of being able to do so are highly unlikely, even among the more skilled practitioners.

  • The most critical difference is that Qi can, but does not have to, be projected past and through barriers as a projectile-like weapon. As Qi flows through and connects all things that are alive, this connection thus allows high-leveled Qi practitioners to project their Qi from a distance and affect their target directly through inanimate barriers that stand in the way between the practitioner and their actual target(s), such as body armor or magical barriers, without necessarily having to damage said barriers. See next point to avoid conflicting definitions of what is alive. On the flip side, such projectile-like attacks have absolutely no effect on targets that are already dead or were never alive to begin with, such as zombies/demons/spirits and robots. On a side note, as rain falls into a puddle and remains completely unchanged, Qi projections will pass through defensive barriers of Qi/Chi/Ki completely unaffected.

  • Alive or not? Check the following List! List may be subject to change, but only by an Admin upon request.
    Criterion
     
    • If the character in question is a spirit possessed person, the human body/shell/medium will be harmed, but the spirit itself will not, as it is already “dead”.
    • If the character in question is a Demon, Zombie, etc, your character will not be affected by the projectile Qi attacks. However, internal organs and the physical body itself can still be damaged by Qi enhanced attacks, as at that point in time, the target is considered something akin to part of the destructible environment (such as a random boulder or tree).
    • If the character in question has even a teensy bit of anything considered “alive” in this list, your character will be still be affected by the projectile Qi attacks, though with much lesser effect, as the amount of “alive-ness” has diminished.
    • If the character in question is a mythical beast/species, (such as dragons, phoenixes, elves, fairies, etc), you will be affected by Qi attacks.
    • Acting without a soul does not make the character in question immune to Qi projectile attacks. Unless the character in question is killed off and is irreversibly dead, said character will still be considered “alive”. If said character is revived as a zombie, or possessed by a demon to act as a medium, see above point about zombies and demons.
    • If the character in question is wearing air-tight, kinetic force dispelling armor, said character will still be affected by Qi projectile attacks. However, said characters will also still be affected by Qi enhanced physical attacks, due to the connections between all existences that are alive. However, the effects will only be the result of being harmed by the Qi, and not by the force of the blow itself.


    Qi enhanced attacks are the result of Qi being channeled and held within an object (运氣), as apposed to 劍氣 and/or 掌氣, which are considered Qi projectile attacks.


點穴 (Tapping) Mechanics Explained
 

  • 1 successful “tap” leads to slight numbing of the sense of touch and taste for 5 rounds, slowing and impeding movements slightly, but noticeably.
  • If the target is “tapped” a second time before the 5 rounds are up, the target suffers from weakness of the limbs for 1 round.
  • If the target is “tapped” a third time before the initial 5 rounds are up, the target suffers from full body paralysis for 2 rounds.
  • If the target is “tapped” a fourth time before the initial 5 rounds are up, the target is KOd.
  • If the target is “tapped” a fifth time before the initial 5 rounds are up, the target is fatally wounded.
  • A practitioner who is also versed in the art of pressure point manipulation can “un-tap” one point per round. The “tapper” can only attempt to “tap” once per round.

    All of the above is stated with the rules listed under the Rules section in mind.
”Sakki” Perception
 

As a prerequisite to becoming a successful practitioner of Ryoushou-Ryu Kobujutsu, one must first be able to naturally tell when someone in your surroundings is focusing upon you with malicious intent (Sakki, 殺氣 / sha qi). This perception is an innate sort of sixth sense – something that one is born with, but can be learned with enough effort. When this perceptiion skill is fine-tuned, not only can one identify from which direction and at what distance the source of malice is from you, but can also identify other emotions as well. In short, it is a primal, but highly accurate form of emotion reading and short-term action prediction based upon not only the slightest details in body positioning, but also on a highly attuned gut instinct.

However, this seemingly miraculous homing system is not without its drawbacks; upon noticing the Sakki, Trystan starts to feel nauseous, and will eventually have a hard time breathing and pass out from the mixed feelings of fear and disgust if the killing intent becomes strong enough. Since this is not a skill that can be activated and deactivated at will, the potential hazards of this ability are great as well. When polished, this skill allows not only one to tolerate higher levels of Sakki, but also emit and direct great amounts of focused hostility towards multiple specific targets within a certain range.

Those who can not naturally sense Sakki, who are, naturally, mostly civilians raised in peace throughout their entire lives, perceive being targeted as only somewhat discomforting; the more sensitive ones may perceive that the area has suddenly appeared to have decreased in size or has suddenly become much colder due to their own subconscious reactions to the malicious intent.

Equipment
 
Bare Essentials
 

As a long-time practitioner of Ryoushou-Ryuu Kobudo, Trystan has been trained to be able to use most anything that he can grab from around him as a weapon. However, he is still most proficient, while armed, with typical Chinese double-edged straight swords and Miao Dao. Thus he carries around a plain, inauspicious reinforced metal pointer rod with a neatly wrapped plastic grip, which really is just a thicker pointer like those used in presentation, with him in his pocket. This pointer can extend to an oblong-tubed rod of roughly 3.6 feet in length, and is completely dull in all respects. However, Trystan prefers to engage with opponents unarmed, as the risk of unnecessarily injuring the opponent is much less. Aside from the pointer, Trystan only has a pair of heavy duty, heat resistant, and anti-conductive gloves and boots to protect his hands and feet when needed, a battered but reliable rucksack, and a plain white headband. Apart from his school uniform and some casual wear Nina bought for him from a nearby store, his clothes all consist of typical dress from where he trained with his Laoshi. He also carries a small, almost uselessly blunt Swiss Army knife. The knife itself is barely able to cut through vegetables, and is mostly used for the fork and spoon hidden ingeniously into the design.
Rift Fuse
 

The Rift Fuse was the result of being at a junction point of one of the dimensional splinters at the wrong time. The forces at work in the surrounding area induced an unexplainable phenomenon, initiating a painful process that fused multiple alternative versions of Trystan together into one being, effectively combining their existences to the degree that all personas were obliterated and combined into one. Bombarded with radiation, as well as his physical body being forced to undergo and get accustomed to what amounted to several lifetimes’ worth of experience in an instance caused a partially organic reaction to take place, forming the Rift Fuse in order to compensate for this stress and inter-dimensional instability. When inactive, the Rift Fuse seems to recede towards the base of Trystan’s neck, snaking out and taking shape nearly instantaneously when called upon.

During times of great mental or physical stress, usually during combat, Trystan may subconsciously revert to this primal state, losing most logical and higher mental processes in exchange for further heightened physical abilities. As the Rift Fuse is solidified primal material, which was blasted into a sub-dimensional pocket during the Creation, it is highly sensitive to latent potentials, and can actually amplify Trystan’s abilities, serving as a stabilizing catalyst of sorts. It is in tune with the mental processes of its host, and, as such, will respond accordingly to Trystan’s emotions, sometimes causing it go berserk.

However, this is not to say that the Rift Fuse can not be controlled. Trystan has managed to harness this ability somewhat, due to a combination of his now layered mental fortitude and the fact that his very existence would cease to be if he does not “cocoon” himself within the Rift Fuse periodically. At this moment in time, Trystan has managed to pull out only 20/75 levels of the Rift Fuse’s catalyzing potential without losing his higher mental capacities. Prolonged use of the Rift Fuse for combat purposes is not only highly impractical, but also life threatening, as by doing so, the stabilizing effect that the Rift Fuse has on Trystan’s existence is weakened. However, at higher levels of ability, one should be able to further optimize the energy spent, in effect lengthening bit by bit the safe operation time limit.
Rift Fuse Mechanics
 
Levels have no bearing on physical appearance. All levels appear as in the picture posted under appearance. Level increases with use will be decided by Admins, as per the process of deciding when another RPer aligned with the dark/light raises a level.

  • Cocoon Mode (Level 0): Maintenance mode. An egg-shaped apparatus formed by stretching the Rift Fuse material over and around the user, who is curled in a fetal position. A necessary daily ritual, at least 4 hours a day in one go. Can accommodate 1 other person inside, usually occupied by Nina. Beware her jealous wrath if she finds you inside without her consent. Relatively delicate, if disturbed with a hard blow, could inflict disastrous effects on the ones inside. Is also around 80 to 90% transparent, so the casual observer will not be able to spot the Cocoon. Even if you were purposely looking for it, it would still take you some time to find.

  • Gathering Fuse (Level 1-15): The user needs to use verbal cues in order to raise the fusion performance to this level. Allows the user slight physical boosts and endurance. Serves and appears as a layer of light armor, able to withstand most normal melee attacks. The fusion accomplishes this, and all other protective abilities, by harnessing a counter-Creative force equal to that of the destructive incoming force. Has no special abilities beyond what the user already knows.

  • Opening Fuse (Level 16-30): Necessity of verbal activation are now eliminated. Allows for constant transvection of at most a foot off the ground. Serves as a layer of stronger armor, able to withstand most standard small arms ammunition and low level energy blasts. Arm blades protrude from the elbows, allowing for enhanced melee attacks; high speed vibration allows it to cut through nearly all solid objects. Can be coated with extra Rift particles to allow limited cutting through non-physical barriers. Amplifies user’s abilities by approximately 5%.

    New Skill: Focus Point. Can plant up to 5 “Points” at a time, marking a coordinate on the inter-dimensional plane. Will cause a small inter-dimensional implosion, inflicting damage to those within the 15 meter radius. Due to the risky nature of these implosions, they are very short in duration, even after achieving Final Fuse. As such, though their raw destructive power is very high, because of the short exposure period of just a few milliseconds, damage is roughly equated to a hand grenade. Can be remotely detonated, but due to signal transition lag, detonation only occurs several seconds after the signal is sent (requires 1 post by every opponent mentioned to be affected). Can also be thrown by hand, and will explode upon contact. As a side note, they are hard to see, but absolutely not invisible; they are marked by a suspicious darkness which differs from that the Heartless generates.

  • Revolving Fuse (Level 31-50): Transvection of a maximum height of around 5 stories is now possible. Serves as a layer of stronger armor, capable of withstanding most explosive devices, larger caliber hand-held projectile weapons, and medium level energy blasts. Weight is greatly increased, making moving difficult for the user. Amplifies user’s abilities by approximately 10%, but cuts movement speed by 5%, without affecting agility. Explosive power of Points are enhanced, increasing explosive range to 20 meters and damage to about a land mine.

    New Skill: Batou Kanon. Long ranged void-based piercing attack. “Arms” Can home in on any Point within 100 meters, causing instant detonation, or be aimed at any other target within 45 meters. Appears in the form of drills erupting from the back of the Rift Fuse. At most 5 separate targets at once.

  • Raising Fuse (Level 51-74): Transvection capabilities are increased, with full atmospheric transvection achievable with some effort. Protective abilities are also increased, able to withstand even multiple assaults with anti-tank equipment, though such action is highly recommended against. Weight is significantly decreased, making the user move much faster than normal due to the sudden lack of mass to heave around. Amplifies user’s abilities and parameters by approximately 20%. Explosive power of Points are increased, enhancing explosive range to 25 meters and damage to about an anti-tank mine. Number of Points and Arms (reach 200 meters for Points, 60 meters for other targets) that can be utilized at once increased to 10 each.

  • Berserk Fuse (Level 75): No higher mental functions are possible at this point in time; survival is paramount, and anything deemed a threat will be taken out at full force. Primal survival instincts drive this fusion at this level; brute force the weapon of choice. A limit barrier that theoretically can be broken and surpassed. The realization of the primal brain that brute force simply isn’t enough with the user’s life on the line is key in surpassing this trial. Amplifies user’s abilities by approximately 50% and capable of ensuring survival for a decent period of time even in voids. Arm blades can extend to 15 meters, maximum number of Points (radius 35 meters, explosive power 2/3 of Oath of Wand) and Arms (range 400 meters for Points, 100 meters any other target) raised to 30. Fusion serves as a very strong armor, rivaling, but not surpassing a Light Aligned level 4 Oath of the Shield (3/4 of OoS strength).

  • Final Fuse (Level 75*): The theoretical perfect coexistence and mastery of utilizing Rift Fuse. Allows full higher mental processes as well as the peak boosts that the fusion allows upon the user. The best of both worlds.

    New Skill: Big-Bang Overload. All-range attack with an effective radius of 1500 meters. Gathers as much Creative energy as the Rift Fuse can handle (2 posts charge), then releases all of it at once. Devastating damage if charged all the way. Can be released prematurely, but effect would be drastically reduced.

Personality
 

~Laughing in the face of the world’s troubles, he proudly moves onwards…~

If anything, Trystan is a mix of contradicting statements. Having been ingrained with the sayings and philosophies of the Ryoushou-Ryuu since he could remember, he lives by, often quotes, and is truly convinced of their motto.

There is a thing known as Justice;
有一種東西叫正義
To grasp and protect great Justice, one must possess great Kung Fu.
要高強正義, 就要有高強功夫


An inherently unclear and paradoxical philosophy, this philosophy intentionally allows their students to follow their own sense of great Justice. Stripped down to its basics, the philosophy states that for better or for worse, only the strong are able to enforce Justice. Thus, one trains in order to allow Justice the freedom to spread throughout the world. This may seem like a form of absolute Darwinism, but this is not the case. Like the free expression within the art itself, all practitioners eventually make their way back out into the world, most of whom never pick up the path of the sword again. However, life is a never-ending battle; shore up one’s own defenses with hard work and the torrents will never sweep you away. The sense of Justice is never the same with two different people, nor is the entirety ever forced upon others – it is a way of life. To be able to truly grasp Justice, both physically and spiritually, is to grasp one’s own life within one’s own hands; to be in control of one’s own life is the greatest form of empowerment – the greatest form that Justice could ever take.

As such, he is highly compassionate, and chooses to put hard work, devotion to a cause, honor, relationships (not limited to just romance), and loyalty high up on his priority list. Unless you do something absolutely unforgivable by his books, it is next to impossible for Trystan to truly despise a person; even then, he is quick to forgive if a desire for repentance is shown. With a quirky sense of humor, formed upon years of seclusion, along with a helpful and innocently curious attitude, he remains an easily approachable person despite the brutal ease with which he can take a life. On the other hand, he is commonly seen as the gentle incompetent due to his normally relaxed and unassumingly pleasant expression, as he is still a high school freshman despite being nearly 20 years of age. However, few know that he had been uneducated by the modern educational institution until he had been 17 years of age. Thus, he just accepts his character tag and moves onwards.

The result of years of training, his mental fortitude truly shines when put into trying circumstances. When fighting becomes unavoidable, he remains calm and collected, and will become exponentially colder, efficient, and merciless as his opponent(s) become more and more of a threat to both the general public and the people he holds dear to him. With a high level of intuition, a focused mind, 14 years of live combat experience and counting, along with his polished skills, there are few who can truly face off with him in serious physical combat. However, in the end, Trystan is still one who prefers harmony over bloodshed, and will favor avoiding combat and giving opponents a chance for reconsideration rather than fighting, and possibly killing whenever possible.

Personal History
 
Pre-Hyakuji
 
The Child was the son of an impoverished farming couple living in a secluded Chinese country village. After begging a visiting monk to raise their Child, despite of the monk’s crippled left leg, so that he would have a better life, the monk finally outright refused, rebuking them soundly for running away from their circumstances. However, not giving up, the couple left the Child in a basket, along with a single talisman for luck, outside of their village entrance. Finally relenting, as he saw clearly that the couple had already decided that this was to be the fate of their Child, brought the Child along with him for his travels.

The monk took excellent care of the Child from the start, feeding and raising him on various softer foods before moving onto firmer foods. Thus, the Child grew up not knowing of his own past, believing truly that the old man in front of him was his real father. The two got along well, and before long, the monk began to feel quite protective of his foster son. One day, while the monk was away, the Child overheard several town drunks dismissing the elderly monk as nothing more than a crippled beggar. This sort of blatant dismissal of the one and only family in his entire life was more than enough to provoke the young Child into a rage. With a howl of anger, the five year old flew towards the drunks as fast as his little legs could carry him, and started pummeling them with his arms windmilling about. Without hesitation, the drunks grabbed some fist-sized rocks and began hitting back. As to be expected, the Child was beaten to a bloody pulp. Soon after the drunks left, the monk came hobbling towards the Child as fast as his feet would carry him. Pulling up the Child gently, he embraced the crying Child. However, the Child was not crying from his wounds – it was the mental anguish from innocence lost that was burning and magnifying all the pain he felt from his wounds that was torturing him so.

“Father…Why…? How should I…Was I wrong?”

It was then that it happened. Suddenly, the Child seized up, as if in tremendous fear. Pupils dilated, his sobbing immediately stopped. Instead, he started shivering uncontrollably. At the same time, the monk felt the sakki in the air. A Chilling laughter like the winter wind itself whistled gently past their ears, echoing around the area. It would be the first of three times that the Child would witness the monk fight, and would also be the first time that he beheld the monk’s sworn enemy – the one named Seigyoku, named after his sapphire blue eyes. With a flash, the monk jumped up onto the roof towards the Demon, throwing a palm out, knocking down and blowing a palm-shaped hole into the bricks. The Demon laughed with genuine mirth, commenting on how he was pleased that the monk had improved since last time. The two fought for several minutes, with both sending waves of deadly Qi towards the other’s body in an attempt to finish the fight. No punches were pulled, but the two were still evenly matched. The Child could only look on in fearful awe at the scene of brutal grace in front of him. Sweeping kicks, hooks, counters, palms, jabs, stabs, elbows, chops, and a myriad of other attacks that he could not make out were exchanged, each missing the other by only a hair’s breadth. Eventually, as the crowd began to gather, the Demon broke off their furious exchange, then disappeared into the darkness. With the disappearance of the source of his fear, the Child finally collapsed onto the ground, falling onto a small puddle of urine that had gathered beneath his feet. Making his way down, the monk slowly made his way back down the battered roof, a tired expression on his face. Extending a hand to pick the Child up, the monk’s familiar smile slowly lit up on his face. His voice still shaky, the Child accepted the hand, then spoke to the monk.

“Father, teach me.”

“Teach you what, my son?”

“Justice.”

In that instant, the Child had grown up, throwing away his Childhood for good, and embraced the path that few adults would readily take upon themselves. After careful observation and testing, the monk concluded that the Child was indeed determined to take up the path of the Apprentice. The monk revealed himself to be the last practitioner, from his own knowledge, of an old martial style, Ryoushou-Ryu Kobudo. From then on, the monk was called Laoshi by the Disciple, who dedicated every minute of his time to training. Four years later, the Demon paid them another visit. At the time, the two were in the middle of a meditation session when the wave of sakki hit them. Vomiting from his nausea at the chillingly familiar feeling of malice emitted from Seigyoku, the Disciple had scrambled backwards, desperately trying to grab hold of anything he could use as a weapon, and shrieking aloud in fear. Soon after, he fainted from his own mind shutting down to salvage what remained of his sanity. The last image he saw before passing out was the back of his Laoshi as he charged towards the demon. The Disciple awoke to the bloody, but quite alive figure of his Laoshi. Breaking down in tears, the Disciple hugged his Father close, apologizing for his cowardice. Smiling sadly, the monk returned the embrace.

“You have finally understood, my son. To know your own fear – that is the first step in acquiring your own Justice.”

The Disciple went through and completed the acceptance ceremony with the monk once more, this time understanding fully the words that he had repeated those four years ago…
Quote:
 
To grasp and protect great Justice, one must possess great Kung Fu!

Once again, the Disciple threw himself into the training, pushing ahead with an even greater enthusiasm and determination than more. As the minutes turned to hours, the hours to days, and days to weeks, months, and years, the Disciple eventually became the officially recognized heir to the Ryoushou-Ryu Kobudo six years later at the age of 15. Three days before the official passing ceremony, the Demon showed up once more. Despite the ailments plaguing their bodies, the events that had dragged these two Masters together into the maelstrom of revenge and mutual hatred had progressed too far already – there was no other path for them to trod on. Their fight, was what defined their entire lives. The Disciple looked on in awe as the two Old Ones dragged their battered bodies towards each other, readying one last blow – a lifetime’s worth of hatred and sworn vengeance culminated in that one moment. In a split-second, it was over; the Demon had shredded the Laoshi’s heart with a well-aimed Empty Sword Qi Thrust, while the Laoshi had blown out and pulverized the Demon’s spine with an all out double-palm to the chest. With his dying breaths, the Father unbuckled the belt marking him as the Grandmaster, and whispered out his congratulations to the Disciple on becoming the 37th Grandmaster. With a tremendous cough, the Father breathed his last amidst a mix of bloodied bodily fluids, as the he and the Demon fell into the puddles of their own blood. As the Disciple nodded, holding back his tears, the Disciple burned the scene that he had witnessed first-hand into his memory. Getting on his knees and bringing his head onto the ground, the Disciple once again bowed the six kowtows that had sealed the monk as his Laoshi, acknowledging his acceptance of the title. Cremating and burying their ashes next to the other, the Disciple set up a tombstone, carving into it a simple six-word sentence with his fingers until his blood stained the words permanently crimson.

“Great Justice, Until the Very End.”

With that, the Disciple left his life behind, and took up the mantle of the Wanderer. Leaving behind only whispers and rumors of a young man who was like a Wuxia character made real, the Wander helped those in need as he worked his way towards the Yellow Sea. Hitching a ride on an illegal immigrant boat, the Wanderer eventually left China, and made his way over through Korea to Japan, the motherland of his Laoshi, at the age of 16. It was there that, after some ordeals, he met his companion and maid, Nina. Eventually, having been somewhat coerced into it by Nina, the Wanderer took up the name of Yamato Trystan, and began his life as an intellectual student. After studying in a nearby elementary school for half a year, Trystan moved on to study at a public junior high, while Nina and him worked as a paid employees for the school itself to pay for his tuition. He garnered many more strange looks and a fairly large repertoire of nicknames and rumors for not only his unusual age, but also for having a personal maid. After two more years of diligent study, Trystan graduated from the junior high then applied to, and was accepted by Hyakuji High School, as well as taking up odd jobs here and there in order to pay for his tuition once more.

Hyakuji Period
 
By some sheer incidence of debatable luck, Trystan was always away and training in solitude when major events erupted in Hyakuji. As such, there is not much to say here save that he was an average student with average grades. He was not a troublemaker, and surprisingly did not get into too many fights. Known to some, but not particularly popular, he was your standard Average Joe fodder material. As such, he had a very uneventful, and almost laughably normal high school career at Hyakuji, up until the day the Heartless came.

Post-Hyakuji to Present
 
Due to his nature, the day that the Heartless came through the tear, Trystan had already set off at full pace towards the general location of the source. What he saw simply left him at a loss of words. Never before had he seen such a chaotic scene. The sky above him was being torn asunder, with hordes upon hordes of dark somethings rushing through. Worse of all, the entire area was filled with sakki. It was pure malice directed not at any one thing, but at this world on a whole. Collapsing onto the ground on his knees, Trystan began to vomit uncontrollably, until there was nothing left in his bowels to eject, leaving him a gagging and teary mess.

Though she had been ordered to stay behind, Nina had followed on her own, her gut telling her that the gathering darkness would not just pass without incidence. Rushing to his side, she supported his body as well as she could, rubbing his back in an attempt to soothe the reaction. Though she couldn’t do much when he was rushing headlong into battle, it was only in moments like this when her Master was weak; she would protect him with all that she had, as he had for her when they had first met. However, his convulsions did not stop. They only grew stronger as more and more of the Heartless came out of the sky. Eventually, his convulsions got to the point that it almost seemed as if he were trying to break free of Nina’s embrace. Suddenly, things took a turn for the worse. As Nina tried to embrace him tighter to keep him from hurting himself, her arms suddenly collapsed through his chest; she couldn’t touch his body any longer. He thrashed around on the ground, his very form starting to become like an image on a television with bad reception. This limbs would no longer interact with the world around them, passing right through the foliage and failing to stir up even a few leaves off the ground. His voice would not come through, even though his face was marked with pain. He could not even attempt to end himself of this misery once and for all, for he could not even touch himself.

Silent tears of anguish rolled down her face as she watched her worse nightmare unfolding in front of her. She started to scream at the top of her lungs, her grief punctuating each sob enough to punch a hole through the heart of even the most hardened criminal. The Heartless were not blind, and seeing another so close to becoming one of their own, a horde changed their course, heading towards the two. Her only thought as she saw them closing in was that despite their imminent doom, she only wished for the safety for her Master. Crawling over to him, she lay herself down on top of him, vainly hugging the space he occupied. Closing her eyes, she resigned herself to her fate. Gradually, a feeling of warmth enveloped her. Was this the feeling of death? If so, it wasn’t as bad as they had made it out to be. Opening her eyes, she was surrounded by a muted darkness, warm, but at the same time, cold. She had no idea where she was, but one thing was certain – she could touch her Master again. Satisfied with just this, she closed her eyes, drifting off into an easy sleep.

When Trystan opened his eyes, all he saw before him was a darkness. The darkness had protected him, saving him from the massive onslaught of mental images and physical reconstruction. It was a comfortable sort of darkness, akin to the kind that one would see if you woke up after an afternoon nap in a room with the shades down. All of a sudden, images flashed before his eyes, illuminating the world as it was. All of it flashed by much too quickly, and though he had seen what was, what is, and what was to come, none of it stayed in his head. However, one thing that he knew now was his dependence upon whatever it was that showed him these images, and the fact that the Heartless had come. The darkness rapidly sheathed itself around his body, covering him in a burning chill that quickly disappeared. Before his eyes were countless numbers of Heartless Shadows. Roaring a battlecry that sounded like a metallic screech, he curled up Nina’s unconscious body as well as he could against himself, then threw a punch, nailing the front most Shadow in the face, blowing it into a puff of smoke. Dashing away from the school, Trystan held out his free hand, materializing several spherical objects, tossing them back into the crowd. A round of explosions took place, sending at least a dozen more into oblivion.

And so the chase was on.

While he wandered, Trystan discovered more and more of the abilities and restrictions of the Rift Fuse, as he would later call it. However, while mastery of this stabilization device was a priority, his own brand of Justice still called out to him, leading him along a path of ceaseless wandering, dealing with situations as they came.
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