Post by Mr. Moon on Nov 12, 2019 10:26:27 GMT -5
<Michael Gladio>
Epithet:– Red Phoenix
Height:– 190 cm
Build:– Athletic
Age:– 27
Gender:– Male
Race:– Human
Occupation:– Navigator / Swordsman
Bounty/Rank:– None
Class:– C
Allied With:– Eric Irongate (Slayers )
Personality:–
On the first glance, Michael is very charismatic, well spoken gentleman, who honors all of the old knights virtues. He is confident, noble and classy. Always ready to protect damsel in distress, or use his sword for the good of weak and poor. Thanks to this qualities girls tend to be drawn to him, but Michael doesn´t care much about them as all of this is just a facade. Mask, that he created to hide his true self. Ruthless, calculating, stoic, emotionless, brooding and cold-blooded monster, that kills without the slightest remorse and do whatever it takes to accomplish his goals. This completely different nature isn´t product of split personalities or something like that. Actually its much more simple. He created his chivalrous self to fit more into the modern society. Its a role he is playing when there are peoples watching him. But in times of distress, or when he is angry, Michael gladly reverts himself into his old true self.
Appearance:–
Michael is tall, handsome looking man with athletic build, medium-long black hairs, perfectly shaved face and kind smile, which is in direct contrast to his cold distanced eyes. He usually wears quality black suit, with dark shirt and tie, that he keeps in perfect shape despite circumstances. In cold environment, he usually add a black trench coat to his suit. Michael´s weapon of choice is Gothic long sword, which he keeps in a scabbard at his waist. Despite being heavier and little outdated, he prefers his long sword over much more popular katana or saber.
Traits
Inhuman Swiftness
Starting human trait
As someone who was born without any particular traits, Michael trained himself hard to obtain inhuman level of speed and swiftness. Thanks to this training, he is able to move much faster than any other regular human.
Ambidextrous
Starting human trait
During his life, Michael trained both of his hands extensively to the point, that there is basically no difference between his dominant and non-dominant hand. This allows him not only to switch his sword hand as necessary, but also gives him the ability of limited multitasking, as he can use both of his hands independently of each other.
Inhuman Reflexes
D - class
To match his incredible speed, Michael´s body gradually developed his reflexes until they reached inhuman level. Thanks to it, he can easily seize initiative as he can react much faster than regular person, even in confusing situations, or when surprised.
Inhuman Strength
C - class
As a one of the Slayer´s main combatants, Michael got into many dangerous fights during the several month he spend with the crew. During this fights he realized that being fastest member of the crew isn´t enough, as he lacked the sufficient strength to finish off his opponents quickly. Because of that, he started training regularly with Ferrus and Eric, until he obtained superhuman level of strength, comparable with these two monsters.
Fighting Style
Name: Red Phoenix Style
Focus: "Long sword"; "Grappling"; "Fast attacks"
Class: D
Description: Self taught fighting style, that is revolving around use of a long sword and accompanied bare hand striking and grappling techniques typical for medieval swordsmen. Despite being longer and heavier then typical katana or saber, Michael wields his sword only in one hand and use the other one only to give more force to some of his attacks, or when he wants to switch hands and confuse his opponent. The most basic stance of this style is open stance, with sword in right or left hand, pointing down at 45° angle. The unarmed side is slightly turned to the enemy, so the sword is behind the body. This style relies more on speed than power, with the aim to intercept enemy´s movements and overcome his defense with a flurry of fast slashes and stabs. If this doesn´t work, he can quickly switch to close range fight, where he keeps enemy weapon busy with his own sword, while he tried to catch and grapple his enemy with the free hand.
- Invisible Blade: Despite using quite heavy blade, Michael managed to develop skills that allows him to wield his blade with incredible speed. Thanks to his ability to swiftly switch between complete relaxation and tension of his muscles, he can slash so fast, that his blade will become practically invisible for those incapable of tracking high speed movements.
- Spirit Blade: Thanks to his extensive training and accumulated martial experiences, Michael discovered the secret of cutting through the very resilient materials. Preferring technique over brute force, he learned how to attack with such speed and precision, that he can cut even through a hardened steel.
Techniques
Name:- Step
Fighting Style:- Red Phoenix Style
Rank:- 2
Description:- Michael´s own makeshift version of the Soru technique from Rokushiki. By pushing his inhuman swiftness to the extremes for a short period of time, he can kick the ground more than ten times in the blink of eye which gives him an ability to move with such speed, that he become practically invisible to those incapable of tracking high speed movement, making him seem to disappear and reappear moment later on different place.
- Name:- First Step: Silver Flame
Original:- Step
Rank:- 3 (+Invisible Blade)
Description:- Improved version of the original Step technique. From his signature stance, Michael charges against his target with a blinding speed, using his Step technique. As he is passing by he slash his target without even slowing down, making it exceptionally powerful technique for a surprise attacks. Unfortunately, the incredible speed of this technique is also it´s greatest weakness as it makes impossible even for Michael to precisely aim his slash forcing him to attack big targets such as opponents limbs or torso instead of his weak points like a throat, eyes or arteries.
Name:- Death
Fighting Style:- Red Phoenix Style
Rank:- 2 (Invisible Blade)
Description:- Deceptively simple technique. Michael raises his sword to an overhead position and performs seemingly regular vertical slash, that is accelerated to the level of “blinding speed” to bypass defense of his enemy.
Weapons
Name: Long sword
Fighting Style: Red Phoenix Style
Rank: 0
Description: European long sword, with long, straight double edged blade, which can be used for both, cutting and stabbing attacks. The hilt is slightly longer, allowing for both one handed and two handed grip, with a simple pommel at the end. The guard is straight and cross shaped. Whole sword is 110 cm long with weight of 1,5 kg.
Background
- Born as an illegitimate son of an East Blue nobleman and town girl. His father covered his expenses, but outside of that he didn´t cared.
- In very young age, Michael learned how to hide his true nature, so he was very popular in his neighborhood
- Studied meteorology and cartography at naval academy but never entered the Marines instead he start working as navigator on merchant ship.
- After few months he survived his first pirate attack, during which he obtained his long sword, which he quickly mastered.
- Accidentally killed his own captain during a sparring mach and was forced to run away from their ship.
- After that incident, he started to work as mercenary and navigator more shady clients who doesn´t care about his past.
- As a mercenary he work together with Eric Irongate several times and the two of them became friends and stayed in contact even after their ways parted.
- He has half brother (same father), with whom he grew up, but they aren´t really fond of each other.