Post by Mr. Moon on Jul 18, 2020 2:41:31 GMT -5
<Michael Gladio>
Other Names:– Jonathan Campbell
Epithet:– Weeping Sword
Height:– 190 cm
Build:– Athletic
Age:– 31 years
Gender:– Male
Race:– Human
Occupation:– Lawyer
Bounty/Rank:– None
Total X-Poinz:– 300
{Earned Points}
+ 300 (Starting Points)
+ 300 (Starting Points)
Used X-Poinz:– 250
{Spend Points}
Regular Points
Sorrow (Rank II Weapon) - 250
Sorrow Rebate (125)
Rank II Weapon + 125 Points
Regular Points
Sorrow (Rank II Weapon) - 250
Sorrow Rebate (125)
Rank II Weapon + 125 Points
Personality
Tired Gentleman
Usually, when among other people, Michael acts like a true gentleman. Noble, polite and kind to others, he keeps his language clean and always treats others with respect and dignity, even if they are trying to provoke him. However, people who knows him better can see that behind his mild smile, there is great tiredness and sorrow. He walks and speak slowly and often seems to be absentminded as someone who went through burnout and lost his drive.
Silent Genius
Despite him looking always tired and absentminded, Michael actually possess very sharp intellect and great emotional intelligence. Hidden behind his disconsolate expression lays mind equipped with surprisingly high level of empathy, self control and social awareness. Thanks to that, Michael is actually very good listener, capable of quickly pick on social cues and communicate with others well. Quick on his feet during conversations he is able to quickly figure out how his counterparts feels and what is important to them. As a lawyer he uses this abilities well in his line of work as he can easily confuse the witnesses of the counterparty and let them twist their story in a way that suits his own agenda, or to present the jury with the right arguments that convince them most.
Monster behind Rain
When the rain comes Michael changes completely. His back straighten, his face become calm and focused and his eyes starts to reflect his energy and strong will. Even his voice becomes different, turning from whispering into strong and energetic baritone. This change is so profound that even people who knows him rather well have problems recognizing him in the streets. However it isn´t only his look but also his demeanor. From a quiet and kind man he changes into brooding, ruthless calculating and stoic man with fairly violent streak that doesn´t hesitate to use any means necessary to achieve his goals, including violence. The common misconception of the few people who are aware of his state is that this transformation is a result of split personality or some rain inducted psychosis, however nothing could be farther from the real state of things. The truth however scary is actually pretty simple. This monster behind the rain curtain is Michael, his true nature and personality. However thanks to his fairly high emotional intelligence he quickly realized that his true self will never be accepted by the society around him and so hi started to create different personas to hid it from public eyes, with tired gentleman being the latest one. The only time when he allows himself to release some steam is when the rain starts to fall down. Mainly because he likes the rain.
Dangerous Idealist
Despite his stoic and calculating personality, Michael is also deep inside idealist who strongly believes in concepts as greater good, true love, unbreakable friendships and sacred vows. There wouldn´ be anything wrong with this unless he took their violation too personally. Breaking ones promises, betraying friends, cheating on wife, witnessing all this things can easily push Michael over the edge, sending him on his crusade for an achieving greater good, especially when it´s raining.
Appearance
Physical Description Michael is tall man in his early thirties, who usually walks around with his back slightly hunched so he look somehow shorter than he really is. Despite this he has fairly athletic build coupled with firm, wiry muscles and nice aristocratic looking face. Despite his usually tired expression, Michael takes a good care about his look, keeping his black hair cut on appropriate length and his face shaved. As mentioned above, his face has usually tired expression, that is reflected even in his dark brown eyes. However when he let himself loose the tired mask will make a place for a grim smile and focused gaze.
Outfit and Accessories
To stay true to his status and occupation, Michael almost always wears a quality two piece suit together with a dark shirt, tie and perfectly maintained formal shoes. When necessary he puts a black coat over his jacket as he doesn´t recognize any lighter color than black and it´s shadows. When being outside he also frequently uses leather gloves together with a his sword cane carried for a self defense reasons. At least usually.
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Traits
Inhuman Swiftness
E-class
Being born with natural affinity for quickness over brute strength, Michael trained his movement and combat abilities until his natural swiftness surpassed the limits of normal human body. Of course he can not move with a “blinding speed” but still fast enough to be able to catch regular fighters of guard or swiftly dodge their attacks.
Inhuman Precision
E-class
Gifted with steady hands and excellent hand to eye coordination Michael reached inhuman levels of precision that allows him to exploit even the tinniest opportunities for counterattack and attack from uncommon and unpredictable positions and angles with great accuracy.
Fighting Styles
Name:- Fist of Imperial Dragon
Focus:- “Locks and Throws”; “Counterattacks”;
Class:- E
Description:- Almost esoteric style, that he learned from his half-brother Gabriel. It´s focused on stable, low stances and flow like movements, centered around circular arm movements that are used to intercept and redirect the incoming attack. The style itself currently lack any real offensive capabilities and is concentrated only around deflection of the opponent´s attack and counterattacking via grappling, throwing and locking techniques, that are using the enemy´s strength against them .
Name:- Fist of Imperial Tiger
Focus:- “Mixed boxing”; “Power Attacks”;
Class:- E
Description:- Hard style of mixed boxing, that he studied with his brother Gabriel. It´s focused on straightforward, fast footwork, which main goal is ot get the user as close to their opponent, as possible, to maximize the effectiveness of knee, elbows and shoulder strikes that are the true specialty of this style. Once the user is inside their opponent´s zone, they start to use short stomping footwork to limit their movements combined with staggering strikes to the vital parts of their body, mainly solar plexus, neck, chin, temple and groins. As a close quarter boxing style, the Imperial Tiger doesn´t contain any kicks (with the exception of few low kicks and it´s characteristic stomping footwork) and no grappling or wrestling techniques.
Name:- Sword of Imperial Phoenix
Focus:- “Sword”; “High speed movement”;
Class:- E
Description:- Michael studied basics of this style together with his brother Gabrie. This style is focused on circular footwork, together with constant flow like movement of the user´s sword. The practitioners are employing whole body movements with coiling and uncoiling action that allows them quickly maneuver around the opponent and flow in or out of object´s way. However once the time to take an action comes, Michael swiftly switches into more direct footwork, unleashing very aggressive, rapid fire of attack in the form of thrusts and cuts, mixed with some basic grapples and throws with the intention to finish off any opponent, before pulling back again into the circular footwork. This swift switching between circular, evasive and fast, direct techniques makes the Imperial Phoenix into ideal style for fights with bigger number of opponents.
Techniques
- None
Equipment
Name:- Sorrow
Fighting Style:- Sword of Imperial Phoenix
Rank:- 2
Description:- Sorrow is a cane sword. In it´s sheathed form, Sorrow looks like elegant walking cane with black wooden varnished shaft and spherical handle made from pure silver and decorated with elegant ornaments. However as in the case of all cane sword, in times of need, Gabriel can draw a slender steel blade from it, that is around one meter long, double edged, with a sharp tip adapted to both thrusting and cutting attacks. The quality of the blade´s craftsmanship is such, that it can be comparable with Wazamo blades although it doesn´t officially belongs to this category.
- Weeping Blade:- Aside of being well crafted blade, Sorrow has special ability of it´s own as the blade itself is made from special steel-like alloy that can, during it´s movement, capture humidity from the air and condense it into the form of small droplets of water. Giving the impression of the sword itself crying when used.
Background
Childhood
Michael was born in the North Blue as a son illegitimate son of local noble and a blacksmith´s daughter. His father never cared about him enough to visit him even once however if nothing else he paid his mother enough so that the two of them could live pretty comfortable life. Since his mother cared about him only because he was steady source of money for her he was basically raised by their various neighbours who took care about his proper education and socialization. It was from Irene, young washerwoman, who was living next to them, that he learned about how dangerous his tendencies can be and so he began to hid them away behind a mask of carefree, yet kind child. At the age of six he also met a young boy, only year older than him, named Gabriel Moon as the two boys quickly discovered they were in fact half brothers which turned them into best friends almost overnight. In the following years the two of them were almost inseparable. And since he was the younger one, Michael was easily impressionable by Gabriel´s decisions and so when his older brother told him that his mother is giving away money for his future studies, Michael decided to steal money from his mother to save for his future studies as well.
College Years
Although his mother suspected him, Michael´s natural talents and intellect prevent her from ever realizing that it´s really him who is taking her money. Thanks to this he managed to save enough funds for university to which he signed up as fast as he could, cutting all connection he had with his mother. At firs the wanted to study meteorology and cartography to become navigator and leave his birth island on some merchant ship, but his brother talked him into picking law instead. The study was hard, but he still managed to graduate with very good marks despite being forced to take on a regular job to cover his expanse a his mother wouldn´t pay him single Beli and asking Gabriel for help would me too much for his dignity. He also picked up fencing during his studies. Not because he would be particularly interested in swordplay, but because everyone was doing it and he didn´t want to stand out too much.
First murder
After his graduation Michael started to work for a small law office as an assistant and he did pretty good job until one of his superiors framed him from embezzlement of money from their company. It was even worse because few days earlier Michael found out that this colleague of his was taking the money, however chose not to report him because he fell for his story about difficult family situation and promise, that he will return the money as soon as possible. Kicked from his job with ruined reputation, Michael for the first time in his life snapped. That day it was strong thunderstorm above their city with heavy rain and he was aimlessly walking through the streets when he noticed hi former superior walking out from a random bar. Following him on his way home, Michael pushed him into side allay and killed him with a sword. Shocked by the fact how little he felt afterwards he choose to leave the island as he would be the first suspect anyway. For few next years he traveled randomly through the North Blue until he by an accident met Gabriel once again. Joining him on one of his many expeditions, Michael studied some martial arts with him in an attempt to find inner peace through their exercises. Despite ultimately failing in his attempt he at least let Gabriel to talk him into settling once again.
Building career
Changing his name to a Jonathan Campbell, Michael moved to the Loguetown, where he started small legal office quickly raising in a renown and prestige as his unique skills helped him to win case after case. However despite all his career success he never felt really fulfilled. On Gabriel´s request he was suppressing his nature, even when the rain came to keep himself clean and out of any suspicion. To keep himself in check he started visiting a local therapist, eccentric yet very knowledgeable man named Samael Moore, who taugh him how to control his stress better. It helped a bit, especially when he combined it with the technique he learned from his brother with whom Michael kept regular contact via letters. However lately he started questioning whatever it was right decision or not, especially with all that injustice and evil he meets everyday.
