The Player Characters

(Descriptions written by the players. Stats may eventually find their way online.)

Name: Alexi Martin
Style: Sambo
Age: 22 (in '95)
Birthplace: America
Home: Sacramento, CA
Height: 6'2"
Signature:Stepping Around
Hobbies: Acting, Grandstanding, Wisecracking
Likes: The spotlight, tylenol (It helps make the pain go away), playing the hero
Dislikes: Being smashed through hospital beds, Having large demons fall on him, Getting smacked up-side the head by Canadians, Being thrown through plate glass windows onto hot beds of coals, Getting shot at point-blank range from a shot gun loaded with phosphorus rounds, Being shoved off tall buildings onto concrete, Being set on fire, Being Kicked down flights of stairs, Being hit by trucks, People who blow up his apartment, His perpetual state of borderline poverty, His overwhelming hospital bills, His landlord, Things that cause him copious amounts of pain, Pain in general, Spanish Ninjas and mushrooms; and recently: having his head driven into a concrete wall by green-haired ladies.

Known: A former professonal wrestler with the WWF, he was downsized and since began his entry into the street fighter arena. For a student of Sanbo, he is amazingly quick. Alexi almost always seems to be down on his luck, and trouble and pain never seem to ever be far away. He never lets this put a dampener on his boisterous spirit, except for the few occasions when he is in a full body cast. That bums him out a bit. He supplements his meager income by working as a stuntman in a stuntshow at a Sacramento area theme park, and by working at a small pizzeria. He detests working at the pizza parlor especially because of how he has to kowtow to his boss there, but his debts vastly outnumber and overwhelm his paychecks so he has little choice. He hopes that if he can preform well in the Street Fighter circuts, he might make enough money to break even one day.

Name: Barahime Hino
Style: Suzakuken Kung Fu
Birthdate: December 15th, 1976 (17 at start of campaign)
Birthplace: Japan
Home:Family mansion outside Tokyo
Height: 5'4"
Signature:Tosses a rose that burns up in midair
Motivation: Self-improvement
Most valuable: Her skill
Hates the most: Spiders

Bio: The only daughter of the Hino Heavy Industries CEO, Hino had an assured bright future ahead of her. However, she decided to pursue fighting tournaments ('94) rather than leap into immediate training for her future inheritance (the company). "I want to be strong in more things than just finance." She considers her family's martial art to be a great tradition. By using it to become a World Warrior, Hino feels she can discover how to wield power properly. She began attending college in early '96.

History: The Hino family has passed down Suzakuken for generations. In a tradition set in the aftermath of the shogun's deposal, men who marry into the family take the Hino family name and it falls onto the women to pass on the traditions and power. In the present day, Barahime's mother was content to let the fighting style die, having only interest in the company. However, her mother's father, Barahime's grandfather, taught the style to his granddaughter whose curiosity and tomboyish attitude could not be quelled.

According to her grandfather, their family must not forget that they have always stood against evil so truth and justice must come first. Becoming a ruler must not come at the cost of compassion for the subjects. Instead, compassion must be what drives your desire to rule, not thirst for power or riches. Unfortunately, Barahime started on the path to becoming a demon in order to fulfill her grandfather's teachings. A demon whom she fought for control of her future inside the Kagura Mirror, leaving her with the fragments of three personalities: what she was, what she wants to be, and what she could be. Can she reconcile them?

Staff: Her father was in military service, allowing him the contacts to meet Hans and Hirohito.
Hans (driver), born 1936. Hired 1977. Mercenary. Father a war criminal; mother died in the war.
Hirohito (bodyguard), born 1967, was in government security. Hired 1991. Lured with higher pay.

Name: Kagero Ten'oh
Style: Kazeshiken (wind-death fist) ninjitsu
Age: 21 (in '95)
Birthplace: Osaka, Japan
Home: Tokyo, Japan
Height: 5'4"
Hair: Short Black, Eyes: Green
Signature: A swirl of peach blossoms in the wind
Motivation: Self-improvement
Dislikes: Men who try to grope her, Men who make obscene comments about her, men who try to do a heel spin while standing on her face, giant demons, being blasted with lava, anchovies

Known: Kagero was born in Osaka, Japan. Her mother died when she was five years old, so she spent most of her childhood living alone with her father in their ancestral home (been in the family for over a thousand years). Kagero spent most of her summers with her grandfather, a master of Kazeshiken style ninjitsu who lived in the rugged mountainous region of central Japan. After graduating high school, she moved to Tokyo where she found a useful application for her ninjitsu skills as a small-time cat burglar. Although recently, she has entered the ranks of streetfighting by participating in tournaments.

Name: Roy Shiryu O'Bannon
Style: Special Forces
Age:23 (in '95)
Height: 5'9'
Weight: 150 lbs
Hair: dark red
Eyes: green
Nationality: American (Irish/Japanese)
Home: Yakima Washington
Style: special forces

Known:
Born the third child of Dale and Shinoda O'Bannonon March 21 1972. Older sister Susan (32)(Aug 16) currently working as a computer programer in Silicon valley. Older brother Kyle (28)(Feb 20) Air force pilot stationed in Arizona.
Parents met in postwar Japan where Dale was stationed, they were married in Japan and their first child was born there before Dale was transfered stateside and stationed in Washington where they have stayed.
Roy takes after his mother in stature, complexion and somwhat in features always the smallest in school he was constantly teased and is somewhat touchy about his height.

The "Where are they now?" Section:

Name: Daniel Higgs
Style: Aura Combat
Age: 26 (in '95)
Birthplace: Sault Marie MI, USA
Home: Hidden Training Island on Lake Nipigan Ontario, Canada
Height: 6'3/4", Build: medium
Hair: Short Black, Eyes: Brown
Clothes: Almost always wears flannel and cold weather hats with the floppy ears.
Signature: Stands rigid and takes a moment to close out the world and clear his mind.
Hobbies: Log Rolling, Meditative Sensory Exercises in new places.
Motivation: Ending of all Chi defilement.
Most valuable:
Hates the most: Past (Chi defilers), Current (Ravenna), Secondary hate (Rick the Dark Helmet version of M. Bison)

Persona: Outgoing in the cause. Overtly helpful with a high regard for what's just. Uses "eh" and "Don't you know" to a point of current mythological stereotype. Due to a recent life twisting event grimmer changes may take hold.

History: Born a Canadian American Dan lived the first fourteen years of his life along the border areas with two older twin sisters. He always had strong Chi, but at puberty, a magnification occurred. Without direction, the uncontrolled soul energy subconsciously affected those about, causing ever surmounting stressed relations at school and home. Then finally on his fourteenth birthday, a psychic episode resulted in a messy permanent divorce of Dan's parents. In that moment of turmoil, a mysterious enigmatic man appeared. In a situation that can only be described as bizarre, he convinced both parents he should be taking care of Dan. Master Hawkins would train Dan for the next decade on a secluded island. Gaining control of his Chi, Dan took not only the fighting style of Aura Combat but also the core beliefs.

Contemporary: For about 7 months Dan has followed the cause without much fan fair. That is until a strange need to visit Japan. Since arriving in Japan the Chi defender has had multiple encounters and has made several allies (friends?). Dedicated (friends/allies might say blindly) to his chosen cause a fare amount of good has been achieved. Not too long ago a fellow Aura user from Britain named Alandra teamed up with the group. Regrettably the night before her UK flight, a women (creature?) Ravenna killed Alandra with some kind of supernatural decapitation bite. This had a devastating demoralizing effect on Dan's view on life. Before, action was based on a code of Honor and striving to do good on the moral high ground. Things have changed and the future direction seems impermeable.

Relations: Hawkins a Master of Aura Combat brought sanity to a chaotic crashing Dan. Ted Higgs (father) resides somewhere in Michigan. Becky Higgs (mother) currently in the city of Toronto (Canada). Linda and Laura Higgs are his older (by four years) twin sisters.

Name: Guy Roy
Style: Hockey

Name: Sebastian Crow
Style: Rising Storm Crow
Known: Runs a bar/arena called the Raven's Nest.