Post by Long Hou "Howie" on Apr 21, 2013 8:03:42 GMT -5
Long Hou_____"Howie"_____Li
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Code name
N/A
Nickname
Howie
Hero/Villain/Civilian
Hero
Present or Future
Future
Age
16
Powers and or Abilities
Monkey-like Physiology: Howie has many traits you would find in monkies such a prehensile tail, claws, hands instead of feet, four large pointed teeth, large ears, and a large amount of body hair.
Skilled Melee Combatant: Howie is capable of taking on thugs with relative ease, and can deflect thrown objects if he's aware of them. He has trained to use weapons such as tonfa, nunchaku, and a staff. He's entirely self taught though, and it shows.
Master Acrobat: A lifetime of climbing, running, jumping, flipping, balancing, and tumbling has made this teen able to climb, jump, and land on and off of just about anything.
Strength: Li Long Hou is a little over twice as strong as a human his age and build. While he looks thin and lanky he can lift 350lbs over his head and easily pull himself around by just his tail. He could become much stronger though if he entered training.
Grease Monkey: Long Hou is capable of building, maintaining, and repairing machinery. He's a mechanic, don't mistake him for a scientist or engineer.
Pick-pocket: While no master thief, lifting a wallet or a watch from an unsuspecting person isn't too difficult for the teen.
Multi-lingual: Having grown up on a space colony, Howie knows enough of many languages to communicate and understand basic ideas, as well as curse fluently in them.
Relationships
N/A
Personality
Long Hou is a very expressive, and excitable individual. When he's happy he's grinning like an idiot, and when he's angry he scowls and curses in several languages. Its easy to figure out what sort of mood he's in, and it's hard for him to hide it. Generally he's a good guy with high spirits and hard to offend for long. Long Hou is naturally friendly to the point of being a little too trusting of strangers, but also fiercely loyal to his companions. The three things that make him happiest are food, friends, and fun.
Having grown up in a bad neighborhood he has a strong dislike for bullies and those that try to get what they want through fear and violence. While he doesn't consider himself a hero he'll readily go beat up street thugs that are causing trouble.
Having grown up in a bad neighborhood he has a strong dislike for bullies and those that try to get what they want through fear and violence. While he doesn't consider himself a hero he'll readily go beat up street thugs that are causing trouble.
History
Long Hou, or Howie as he's known to friends, is from a sub-race of humans that was specifically created to have monkey-like traits in his time. Humans from his era had genetically altered groups of themselves to adapt to various conditions they could find on other planets and in space. The Svalbard Vault Ark, or "Svaurk" 15 was space colony designed to float in space, and if needed, land on a planet and immediately start colonizing the area. It was here Howie was born.
Long Hou was the third child born into the Li family, and grew up in a run-down neighborhood. Instead of attending any formal schooling he was taught by his family and began to help out with the family business from a young age. While advertised as a repair business able to fix anything "from power loaders to relationships" they would take on any odd jobs that came their way. Howie frequently took on delivery jobs, and since their family live in an area with low gravity he was frequently seen leaping from place to place.
He wasn't blind to his environment as he grew up. He knew he was in a bad neighborhood, and there were better places out there on the colony. Leaving the colony and finding work on a space ship was a common dream. Joining one of the local gangs had also been a tempting thing to do. His family's shop had been harassed more than once by a local gang, and the rumors held that if you joined whoever claimed territory to your area, your family got protection from their activities. Rumors also floated around that if you did well on the street level it was possible to get noticed by higher crime bosses.
Joining a gang to make sure your family would be safe seemed like a good decision to Howie when he was younger, until his older sister had been attacked. She had been roughed up and scared, but thankfully nothing serious had been done to her. That night changed his life. Now that the conflict was personal his older brother got several people together who weren't going to put up with things anymore, and slowly the neighborhood began to fight back. Yes the neighborhood had been bad, but it was mostly due to unorganized thugs and street punks who were left to roam unchecked.
Long Hou and his brother added protection services to the family business, and they didn't charge a cent for it. The Li brothers and a few of their friends banded together to actively combat crime in their neighborhood. Instead of turning a blind eye to noises in an alley, or standing around after a store was robbed they'd go looking for trouble and punching it with a "righteous fist of justice" Its on the streets and in the alleys where Howie learned how to fight, and his natural agility combined with the lower gravity of the area made him a tough person to fight.
Long Hou didn't fight super villains, giant robots, or save the world. All he did was do his best to make his neighborhood a better place. It took several months, but his neighborhood did improve. Thieves knew they would get roughed up if they were caught, and shop keepers were more likely to resist robbery attempts. Shop owners stopped having paying extortion money. A handful of people standing up against what was wrong lead to a neighborhood doing it. Howie never thought of himself as a hero, just someone who was doing the right thing... but if he somehow got a larger portion of food at a restaurant, he wouldn't complain.
Since things had gotten better he took a job for himself working for the colony. Long Hou became a dock worker moving cargo on and off of ships, and occasionally using his mechanical knowledge to fix some machinery. It was honest work, but his commute had him going through unsavory territories, and he new had a reputation as a street fighter. On the way home from a long day at work he had been confronted by a group of thugs when the temporal distortion took him. One moment he was staring down three guys built like gorillas, and the next he was on the ground in a foreign location where everything was heavier and his head and stomach felt like they had been turned inside how. His trip through time and space hadn't been a smooth one.
Long Hou was the third child born into the Li family, and grew up in a run-down neighborhood. Instead of attending any formal schooling he was taught by his family and began to help out with the family business from a young age. While advertised as a repair business able to fix anything "from power loaders to relationships" they would take on any odd jobs that came their way. Howie frequently took on delivery jobs, and since their family live in an area with low gravity he was frequently seen leaping from place to place.
He wasn't blind to his environment as he grew up. He knew he was in a bad neighborhood, and there were better places out there on the colony. Leaving the colony and finding work on a space ship was a common dream. Joining one of the local gangs had also been a tempting thing to do. His family's shop had been harassed more than once by a local gang, and the rumors held that if you joined whoever claimed territory to your area, your family got protection from their activities. Rumors also floated around that if you did well on the street level it was possible to get noticed by higher crime bosses.
Joining a gang to make sure your family would be safe seemed like a good decision to Howie when he was younger, until his older sister had been attacked. She had been roughed up and scared, but thankfully nothing serious had been done to her. That night changed his life. Now that the conflict was personal his older brother got several people together who weren't going to put up with things anymore, and slowly the neighborhood began to fight back. Yes the neighborhood had been bad, but it was mostly due to unorganized thugs and street punks who were left to roam unchecked.
Long Hou and his brother added protection services to the family business, and they didn't charge a cent for it. The Li brothers and a few of their friends banded together to actively combat crime in their neighborhood. Instead of turning a blind eye to noises in an alley, or standing around after a store was robbed they'd go looking for trouble and punching it with a "righteous fist of justice" Its on the streets and in the alleys where Howie learned how to fight, and his natural agility combined with the lower gravity of the area made him a tough person to fight.
Long Hou didn't fight super villains, giant robots, or save the world. All he did was do his best to make his neighborhood a better place. It took several months, but his neighborhood did improve. Thieves knew they would get roughed up if they were caught, and shop keepers were more likely to resist robbery attempts. Shop owners stopped having paying extortion money. A handful of people standing up against what was wrong lead to a neighborhood doing it. Howie never thought of himself as a hero, just someone who was doing the right thing... but if he somehow got a larger portion of food at a restaurant, he wouldn't complain.
Since things had gotten better he took a job for himself working for the colony. Long Hou became a dock worker moving cargo on and off of ships, and occasionally using his mechanical knowledge to fix some machinery. It was honest work, but his commute had him going through unsavory territories, and he new had a reputation as a street fighter. On the way home from a long day at work he had been confronted by a group of thugs when the temporal distortion took him. One moment he was staring down three guys built like gorillas, and the next he was on the ground in a foreign location where everything was heavier and his head and stomach felt like they had been turned inside how. His trip through time and space hadn't been a smooth one.
Sample Roleplay
Long Hou's sense came back to him in a sudden and unpleasant manner. The last thing he remembered was being confronted by some ne'er-do-wells looking for some trouble, and then blacking out. His head was pounding, and his stomach felt like it had been spun around in a centrifuge. Everything felt heavy like a wet quilt had been thrown over him. The weight was familiar to his senses, but there were plenty of new things.
The first wrong sense that he picked up on was how the ground felt. He had spent his entire life on a space station under artificial gravity, and while he knew what this level of gravity was, the ground beneath him felt wrong. The air tasted and smelled different to what he had been used to as well, like the air filters needed changing. When his sense of hearing was finally got through to him that there were new noises and a lack of the background noise he had grown up with he finally stirred.
Howie opened his eyes and carefully got to his feet as his groggy mind was nearly done rebooting. The first thing he noticed was he was standing on something large, spherical, and made of metal. The second thing he noticed was the sea of buildings all around him that he didn't recognize. When he looked up he saw the most shocking thing, something he hadn't seen before. A blue sky, and a warm circular yellow sun in the middle of it. The site was awe inspiring and terrifying at the same time.
Atop the globe that topped the Daily Planet stood a very lost, rail thin,0 monkey-man in a dark green jumpsuit. Luckily, or perhaps sadly (depending on your viewpoint) this wasn't the oddest thing to have happened in Metropolis.
The first wrong sense that he picked up on was how the ground felt. He had spent his entire life on a space station under artificial gravity, and while he knew what this level of gravity was, the ground beneath him felt wrong. The air tasted and smelled different to what he had been used to as well, like the air filters needed changing. When his sense of hearing was finally got through to him that there were new noises and a lack of the background noise he had grown up with he finally stirred.
Howie opened his eyes and carefully got to his feet as his groggy mind was nearly done rebooting. The first thing he noticed was he was standing on something large, spherical, and made of metal. The second thing he noticed was the sea of buildings all around him that he didn't recognize. When he looked up he saw the most shocking thing, something he hadn't seen before. A blue sky, and a warm circular yellow sun in the middle of it. The site was awe inspiring and terrifying at the same time.
Atop the globe that topped the Daily Planet stood a very lost, rail thin,0 monkey-man in a dark green jumpsuit. Luckily, or perhaps sadly (depending on your viewpoint) this wasn't the oddest thing to have happened in Metropolis.
What other characters do you play
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Other Name you go by
Space Monkey
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