Post by theboulder on Aug 23, 2008 14:59:22 GMT -5
Name[/u]: “Raging Rock”
Age[/u]: 35 Years
Gender[/u]: Male
Group[/u]: Earth Kingdom Citizen
Nation[/u]: Earth Kingdom
Bender?[/u]: Yes
Physical Appearance[/u]: The physique of Raging Rock is impressive as much as freakish. Standing at a whopping 6 foot 6 inches and weighing in close to 300 lbs. His biggest distinctive feature was his muscle mass. With such a bulky yet muscular physique, Raging Rock looked like he lifted weights since he was four. Fleshy veins pulsate from his muscles as he flexes off for people or gets in his mood getting psyched up. His hands from the Earth Bending he does made them rough and dry in texture. His brown hair is quite long, reaching down to his shoulders and is very wild in appearance. The shape of his face is squared and his green eyes are more round than most Earth Kingdom citizens. His skin tone is tanned and covered with sweat most of the time. Perhaps his most disturbing feature is when he smiles. When he smiles, it's not a kind smile, but more like an unnerving smile that is full of mischief.
Clothing/Armor[/u]: Raging Rock hardy wears any clothing at all with the exception green trousers made from cotton. Most of the time, they look almost new due to his constant upkeep cost each time he goes to a new town or being in a town for a while. His trousers are multiple colors of green that is scattered all over, ranging from emerald green to jade green. The end of each leg gets tucked into his boot in a secure manner when he wears them. He carries multiples of these trousers. He never wears a shirt, instead would rather show off his impressive physique. He also wears leather fingerless gloves to lessen the scrapes and wear of lifting heavy objects such as rocks. Due to his excessive usage of them, they appear really worn and the black that use to be there looks more light a fading grey. He never goes "out of character", so he never changes his attire. Even though he is an Earth Bender, he will wear his travelling boots when going on long hikes from town to town. Because he must be "in character" at all times, he will always find time when resting to shine his boots, so they are at a constant glossy look like they were new. One in a while, they do get scuffed, but the black polish is enough to hide such flaws.
Weapons[/u]: He never uses any weapons. He only relies on his physical training, martial arts and wrestling prowess to fight in combat. On the rare occasion or during emergency cases, he will use his Earth Bending abilities.
Personality[/u]: Raging Rock is the poster boy of pure delusion. He believes that there are two types of people in the world: citizens and fighters. His entire goal in life is to find fighters and defeat them in mortal combat, whether it would be a soldier of the enemy or just a drunken brawler at a bar.
His personality always has a machismo attitude with it. He is completely masculine in nature and an adrenaline junkie to add with it makes him a very unpredictable man. Because of this, he is brutally honest and will not hide his opinion about anything if asked or provoked. He has it in his mond that even weaker men could have potential of being strong if they apply themselves. He also believes that women could be strong too and stray from the stereotype of the "typical woman". He is also really loud when he speaks because he wants everyone around him to hear what he has to say, and is boisterious about it.
He loves inspiring children to make themselves strong so he usually helps children by giving them adivce and sometimes even trains with them to help make them stronger and improve their self esteem. His reasoning is that if they are trained to be strong when they are young, then they will continue to train as they get older to become even stronger. One day, they might even be a warrior or a fighter of sorts.
On his spare time, in order to keep his physique, he would challenge himself by doing repetitions of heavy lifting such as lifting large logs or boulders and do reps with them. He would usually psyche himself up before he does them.
When in town, he would sate his vice of consuming large amounts of alcohol after a long journey and would frequent a tavern in a town. The alcohol makes him more obnoxious when he consumes enough of it and makes him more prone to fighting. To him, it was his "guilty pleasure". He fought many fights in taverns due to his drinking and his machismo nature. To him, he feels that the alcohol somehow awakens "inner potential" within and adds an additional challenge in a fight, so he tries to do it often if he goes to a tavern. His favorite drink at a tavern due to it's alcohol content is called "Dragonfire Lager", made in the Fire Nation about fifty years ago.
Background[/u]: Raging Rock went by the birth name of Guan Zhang. He was the only child in his family. Both of his parents were farmers. They all lived in Omashu in the outer area where most of the farming took place. At the time when Guan was seven years old, his parents couldn’t afford for him to get an education. They could only teach him to read,write, and simple math. In the meantime, little Guan Zhang would help his parents at the modest merchant stand as well as the farmstead. They mostly produced grain type of foods, mostly rice. The family didn't make as much money as the other merchant stands due to they sold a different grade of rice, which wasn't as tasty as the jasmine rice and was sold cheaper. However, not many people save the poorer folk bought it. Both his parents were in their late 30’s when he was helping them, so they had him do most of the hard labor that they couldn’t handle. He had to lift heavy bags of food as well as jugs of water. On occasion, he would have to hold the cart up when one of the cart wheels were broken and needed repair. He was close to his family. They all loved each other and always worked together to get around any type of family troubles.
During his teen years, since he never went to school, he never made many friends. The friends he did make however were quite loyal to him. His best friend, Xiang Zhu, was a girl that hung out with him. She was almost like a little sister to her, for she was only a year younger than he. She was always an optimistic child. One quality he enjoyed from her is that she acted like more of a boy than most of the other school children. Her parents wanted to change her into a more cultured like lady, but are failing miserably. On occasion, she would get out of school early if the classed bored her enough and help Guan with some of the merchant stand work like lifting some of the lighter bags of rice and stuff. Guan's parents were quite fond of her help and are glad she is around to at least keep Guan company when they are busy with work. When she grew up, she signed up for the military in the Earth Kingdom. It broke his heart to see her leave. It was last time he ever saw Xiang again.
He continued to help them with their merchant stand until he was the age of twenty. When he was helping his father lift back one of the heavier crates back to the stand, a crowd was in the streets watching a performance. From what he saw, it looked like two performers. However, when he got closer, he knew what it was. It was two large men demonstrating the art of wrestling to the crowd. They showed off their showmanship by bulging their large muscles and monologue to the crowd. The crowd was somewhat impressed. They announced that they were opening a wrestling theatre school nearby where Guan worked. Guan was so enthralled. He wanted to join. He’s been working with his parents for so long that he built an impressive figure of himself at his age. At first, his father wanted him to reconsider his pleading. However, since Guan started working for him, he never asked for anything in return for all those hard years of working, so his father felt that he owed him. They scrounged up the surplus of money that they saved to bring Guan to the school.
The wrestling theatre was pretty much a theatre group with a bunch of men with good physiques who would make some sort of storyline that would work along their wrestling matches. The daily regiment for Guan Zhang was that in the morning, he would do some warm-up exercises, then afterwards he would get a few lessons with the more experienced wrestlers on grappling moves as well as some Earth Kingdom martial arts. After that, they would have a lunch for an hour. Once lunch is done, the school would get a lecture on the more theatrical studies of the school, such as story play, creative concepts as well as vignettes. After that, they had two hours for weight training. Once the weight training is complete, Guan would go back to the merchant stand and the farm to help his parents out. He done this since the age of 12 and have done it for the last 20 years of his life. During that time, he has grown quite much from his training at the theatre. He now possessed an impressive physique, equivalent to some of the instructors. During that time period, both of his parents passed on to the next life from old age, and Guan closed the merchant stand in order to continue with his studies. During that time, he worked around the merchant quarter to gain at least enough money to live off of humbly since he now lives at the theatre.
By the time he was 32 years old, he was one of the senior members of the theatre. He leads the younger generation of wrestlers by example. One day, he was going to mentor the students during a live act in the market place with a character that was randomly created by the other seniors of the theatre. They called this character “Raging Rock”, an adrenaline pumping hyperactive and boisterous wrestlers that thinks that the spirits and ancestors are the reasons for his powers. Guan went into character and faced off against his opponent, an Earth Kingdom warrior by the name of “Mountain King”. They fought with the use of earth bending to make it more theatrical. During the performance, the Mountain King character put too much power in one of the boulder throws and ended up hitting Guan in the head, knocking him unconscious.
He was rendered unconscious for nearly two weeks. After he recovered, everything changed about him. He was still in character upon waking up, and believes that he IS Raging Rock in real life. The accident ended up knocking Guan into the character role permanently. After many freakish performances on Guan’s part, the theatre decided to let him go. It was a heartbreaker for everyone in the theatre to see him leave, but at this rate, he would more likely scare the audience away with his erratic behavior. Upon leaving, Raging Rock made it a quest to travel around the world to commence battle with many great warriors and fighters he could find. He felt that it was the ancestor’s will that he does so.
So with his new persona, Raging Rock traveled around the world, searching for great fighters to challenge while remaining oblivious to the current events around him.
Sample RP[/u]: “In my final meeting with the spirits and ancestors around me, I have spoken to them, they have told me ‘You were a great warrior’, so I am now here to face you. You are going to be my newest challenge. The people around me have spoken. I have been developed for one purpose: to attack and keep coming! This freak of nature is beginning to grown, and when I grow big enough brother, there will not be room big enough except for me and all the warriors flowing in my soul. The people have summoned Raging Rock to this place to commence combat. The people that I fight for only breathes the air that smells of combat. I got the power that makes the skies rumble and the earth shake. With the power of the spirits, I raise the level of the warriors to one that can’t be reproduced. You will now accept the challenge fighter, for you are fighting RAGING ROCK!”
The drunken man looked in awe as the bar decided to clear out from this rather large man pointing at him that spat out this nonsense to combat. He didn’t even do anything, just drinking away.
“Umm,” the drunken man said. It was followed by a scream as Raging Rock charged forward, lifted the man into the air and slammed him down onto a table which broke upon impact. Raging Rock looked down in disappointment as he shook his head.
“You are no fighter,” Raging Rock replied.
“I tried to tell you that from the beginning, the drunk replied in pain. Raging Rock stormed out of the bar, screaming like a feral animal while his fists and arms up and down with intensity.
“I MUST FIND MORE WARRIORS!” Raging Rock yelled as he charged down the street aimlessly, finding his next challenge.
Age[/u]: 35 Years
Gender[/u]: Male
Group[/u]: Earth Kingdom Citizen
Nation[/u]: Earth Kingdom
Bender?[/u]: Yes
Physical Appearance[/u]: The physique of Raging Rock is impressive as much as freakish. Standing at a whopping 6 foot 6 inches and weighing in close to 300 lbs. His biggest distinctive feature was his muscle mass. With such a bulky yet muscular physique, Raging Rock looked like he lifted weights since he was four. Fleshy veins pulsate from his muscles as he flexes off for people or gets in his mood getting psyched up. His hands from the Earth Bending he does made them rough and dry in texture. His brown hair is quite long, reaching down to his shoulders and is very wild in appearance. The shape of his face is squared and his green eyes are more round than most Earth Kingdom citizens. His skin tone is tanned and covered with sweat most of the time. Perhaps his most disturbing feature is when he smiles. When he smiles, it's not a kind smile, but more like an unnerving smile that is full of mischief.
Clothing/Armor[/u]: Raging Rock hardy wears any clothing at all with the exception green trousers made from cotton. Most of the time, they look almost new due to his constant upkeep cost each time he goes to a new town or being in a town for a while. His trousers are multiple colors of green that is scattered all over, ranging from emerald green to jade green. The end of each leg gets tucked into his boot in a secure manner when he wears them. He carries multiples of these trousers. He never wears a shirt, instead would rather show off his impressive physique. He also wears leather fingerless gloves to lessen the scrapes and wear of lifting heavy objects such as rocks. Due to his excessive usage of them, they appear really worn and the black that use to be there looks more light a fading grey. He never goes "out of character", so he never changes his attire. Even though he is an Earth Bender, he will wear his travelling boots when going on long hikes from town to town. Because he must be "in character" at all times, he will always find time when resting to shine his boots, so they are at a constant glossy look like they were new. One in a while, they do get scuffed, but the black polish is enough to hide such flaws.
Weapons[/u]: He never uses any weapons. He only relies on his physical training, martial arts and wrestling prowess to fight in combat. On the rare occasion or during emergency cases, he will use his Earth Bending abilities.
Personality[/u]: Raging Rock is the poster boy of pure delusion. He believes that there are two types of people in the world: citizens and fighters. His entire goal in life is to find fighters and defeat them in mortal combat, whether it would be a soldier of the enemy or just a drunken brawler at a bar.
His personality always has a machismo attitude with it. He is completely masculine in nature and an adrenaline junkie to add with it makes him a very unpredictable man. Because of this, he is brutally honest and will not hide his opinion about anything if asked or provoked. He has it in his mond that even weaker men could have potential of being strong if they apply themselves. He also believes that women could be strong too and stray from the stereotype of the "typical woman". He is also really loud when he speaks because he wants everyone around him to hear what he has to say, and is boisterious about it.
He loves inspiring children to make themselves strong so he usually helps children by giving them adivce and sometimes even trains with them to help make them stronger and improve their self esteem. His reasoning is that if they are trained to be strong when they are young, then they will continue to train as they get older to become even stronger. One day, they might even be a warrior or a fighter of sorts.
On his spare time, in order to keep his physique, he would challenge himself by doing repetitions of heavy lifting such as lifting large logs or boulders and do reps with them. He would usually psyche himself up before he does them.
When in town, he would sate his vice of consuming large amounts of alcohol after a long journey and would frequent a tavern in a town. The alcohol makes him more obnoxious when he consumes enough of it and makes him more prone to fighting. To him, it was his "guilty pleasure". He fought many fights in taverns due to his drinking and his machismo nature. To him, he feels that the alcohol somehow awakens "inner potential" within and adds an additional challenge in a fight, so he tries to do it often if he goes to a tavern. His favorite drink at a tavern due to it's alcohol content is called "Dragonfire Lager", made in the Fire Nation about fifty years ago.
Background[/u]: Raging Rock went by the birth name of Guan Zhang. He was the only child in his family. Both of his parents were farmers. They all lived in Omashu in the outer area where most of the farming took place. At the time when Guan was seven years old, his parents couldn’t afford for him to get an education. They could only teach him to read,write, and simple math. In the meantime, little Guan Zhang would help his parents at the modest merchant stand as well as the farmstead. They mostly produced grain type of foods, mostly rice. The family didn't make as much money as the other merchant stands due to they sold a different grade of rice, which wasn't as tasty as the jasmine rice and was sold cheaper. However, not many people save the poorer folk bought it. Both his parents were in their late 30’s when he was helping them, so they had him do most of the hard labor that they couldn’t handle. He had to lift heavy bags of food as well as jugs of water. On occasion, he would have to hold the cart up when one of the cart wheels were broken and needed repair. He was close to his family. They all loved each other and always worked together to get around any type of family troubles.
During his teen years, since he never went to school, he never made many friends. The friends he did make however were quite loyal to him. His best friend, Xiang Zhu, was a girl that hung out with him. She was almost like a little sister to her, for she was only a year younger than he. She was always an optimistic child. One quality he enjoyed from her is that she acted like more of a boy than most of the other school children. Her parents wanted to change her into a more cultured like lady, but are failing miserably. On occasion, she would get out of school early if the classed bored her enough and help Guan with some of the merchant stand work like lifting some of the lighter bags of rice and stuff. Guan's parents were quite fond of her help and are glad she is around to at least keep Guan company when they are busy with work. When she grew up, she signed up for the military in the Earth Kingdom. It broke his heart to see her leave. It was last time he ever saw Xiang again.
He continued to help them with their merchant stand until he was the age of twenty. When he was helping his father lift back one of the heavier crates back to the stand, a crowd was in the streets watching a performance. From what he saw, it looked like two performers. However, when he got closer, he knew what it was. It was two large men demonstrating the art of wrestling to the crowd. They showed off their showmanship by bulging their large muscles and monologue to the crowd. The crowd was somewhat impressed. They announced that they were opening a wrestling theatre school nearby where Guan worked. Guan was so enthralled. He wanted to join. He’s been working with his parents for so long that he built an impressive figure of himself at his age. At first, his father wanted him to reconsider his pleading. However, since Guan started working for him, he never asked for anything in return for all those hard years of working, so his father felt that he owed him. They scrounged up the surplus of money that they saved to bring Guan to the school.
The wrestling theatre was pretty much a theatre group with a bunch of men with good physiques who would make some sort of storyline that would work along their wrestling matches. The daily regiment for Guan Zhang was that in the morning, he would do some warm-up exercises, then afterwards he would get a few lessons with the more experienced wrestlers on grappling moves as well as some Earth Kingdom martial arts. After that, they would have a lunch for an hour. Once lunch is done, the school would get a lecture on the more theatrical studies of the school, such as story play, creative concepts as well as vignettes. After that, they had two hours for weight training. Once the weight training is complete, Guan would go back to the merchant stand and the farm to help his parents out. He done this since the age of 12 and have done it for the last 20 years of his life. During that time, he has grown quite much from his training at the theatre. He now possessed an impressive physique, equivalent to some of the instructors. During that time period, both of his parents passed on to the next life from old age, and Guan closed the merchant stand in order to continue with his studies. During that time, he worked around the merchant quarter to gain at least enough money to live off of humbly since he now lives at the theatre.
By the time he was 32 years old, he was one of the senior members of the theatre. He leads the younger generation of wrestlers by example. One day, he was going to mentor the students during a live act in the market place with a character that was randomly created by the other seniors of the theatre. They called this character “Raging Rock”, an adrenaline pumping hyperactive and boisterous wrestlers that thinks that the spirits and ancestors are the reasons for his powers. Guan went into character and faced off against his opponent, an Earth Kingdom warrior by the name of “Mountain King”. They fought with the use of earth bending to make it more theatrical. During the performance, the Mountain King character put too much power in one of the boulder throws and ended up hitting Guan in the head, knocking him unconscious.
He was rendered unconscious for nearly two weeks. After he recovered, everything changed about him. He was still in character upon waking up, and believes that he IS Raging Rock in real life. The accident ended up knocking Guan into the character role permanently. After many freakish performances on Guan’s part, the theatre decided to let him go. It was a heartbreaker for everyone in the theatre to see him leave, but at this rate, he would more likely scare the audience away with his erratic behavior. Upon leaving, Raging Rock made it a quest to travel around the world to commence battle with many great warriors and fighters he could find. He felt that it was the ancestor’s will that he does so.
So with his new persona, Raging Rock traveled around the world, searching for great fighters to challenge while remaining oblivious to the current events around him.
Sample RP[/u]: “In my final meeting with the spirits and ancestors around me, I have spoken to them, they have told me ‘You were a great warrior’, so I am now here to face you. You are going to be my newest challenge. The people around me have spoken. I have been developed for one purpose: to attack and keep coming! This freak of nature is beginning to grown, and when I grow big enough brother, there will not be room big enough except for me and all the warriors flowing in my soul. The people have summoned Raging Rock to this place to commence combat. The people that I fight for only breathes the air that smells of combat. I got the power that makes the skies rumble and the earth shake. With the power of the spirits, I raise the level of the warriors to one that can’t be reproduced. You will now accept the challenge fighter, for you are fighting RAGING ROCK!”
The drunken man looked in awe as the bar decided to clear out from this rather large man pointing at him that spat out this nonsense to combat. He didn’t even do anything, just drinking away.
“Umm,” the drunken man said. It was followed by a scream as Raging Rock charged forward, lifted the man into the air and slammed him down onto a table which broke upon impact. Raging Rock looked down in disappointment as he shook his head.
“You are no fighter,” Raging Rock replied.
“I tried to tell you that from the beginning, the drunk replied in pain. Raging Rock stormed out of the bar, screaming like a feral animal while his fists and arms up and down with intensity.
“I MUST FIND MORE WARRIORS!” Raging Rock yelled as he charged down the street aimlessly, finding his next challenge.