Terrence Knight -The Escaped Gladiator-

[T.K.]

~Et Exterminates Aetarnam~/~Death Crops General~

Character Name:Terrence Knight

Planet Affiliation:N/A

Alignment:Neutral Good with leaning towards Chaotic good.

Disposition:Fairly serious but good natured and humorous when the situation allows for it, not afraid to joke or be on the butt of jokes around people he's comfortable with.

<-- Civilian Information -->

Name:Terrence Knight

Name meaning: tender, gracious, good

Age:22 (Its his best guess, lack of certainty due to living by a different calender and months trapped as a gladiator)

Height:5'10

Weight:210 with deceptively dense musculature

Eye Color:Dark Green

Hair Color:Dark Brown

Birthday:Oct 10

Zodiac:Libra

Blood type:A

Strengths:

Fearless-as a result of mental tempering by an arch-demon Terrence is incapable of feeling fear, instead its converted into anger which was used to fuel certain abilities in the past.

Broken limitations on physical strength, endurance and resilience attained through life endangering training to force the body to go past its limits as a necessary means to survive. As such his physical might is in the multi ton range baseline along with muscles and bones that can handle the strain of such weights and stamina to persist in strenuous activity for long periods of time.

Primal Instinct-Able to accurately react without thought to danger that is happening or will occur moments before it does giving the appearance of being able to see the future. Will get a gut feeling when something or someone is watching him and a general direction of said observer. Instinctively understand just how much or how little force might be required for a task which is crucial when in conjunction of his chi based abilities. Furthermore often intuition allows him to feel when something or someone is off even if he can't pinpoint why. If unconscious his body will react of its own accord to protect its well-being with a simplistic order of operation being:Escape if possible, evade/defend until the danger has lessened or immediate kill shots to put a threat down without regard to what he might do consciously.

Life Energy/Chi savant:Able to sense living entities within a radius and generate and manipulate prodigious amounts of life force through extensive use to produce different effects. Capable of drawing in more from the environment to recharge his reserves or add extra power to an attack.

Shaped blasts and beams which typically do not have any named linked to them as he just envisions a chi blast and the shape/intensity he needs and unleashes it which depending on the shape of the blast will either do kinetic impact to knock someone away , cut if a thin blade like projection or if the situation calls for it disintegrate with a higher intensity blast.

Self Reinforcement:From body hardening to attribute boosting he can enhance physical characteristics and to a lesser extent consciously enhance his perception and reaction speeds. This enhancement can be transferred to objects he's holding to reinforce them making them sturdier so long as he's in contact with it.

Anchoring:Much like how he can link himself to an object to strengthen it he can spread his life force aura into the ground over a wide area to effectively anchor himself to his location and displace his weight over a larger area. This was born from the need to prevent himself from being knocked around by larger foes or in the case of dealing with giant enemies or lifting heavy objects keep himself from being driven into the ground because it couldn't support the pressure.

DRAGON CORE (Dormant):During and concluding the battle with the dragon he consumed its soul and part of its heart to instinctively replenish what his body had burned up during his rage, this would have long term consequences as an immensely powerful magical core would form within his soul and some of the dragon's dna remained within him dormant waiting for the right trigger to call to it and awake this new power which would share similarities to the Crimson Sky Emperor Valcorsorax from the dimension Terrence had resided in before.

Currently while dormant the core and dna have a couple passive effects:
-A growing resistance to any source of heat/fire will gradually evolve into immunity once the core activates
-A strong resonance with 'Dragon' type creatures or familiars which he might share a feeling of kinship with, they might scent or feel the presence of dragon from him.

-Draconic instincts will develop over time making him more inclined towards certain actions like collecting objects or treasure including treasuring people close to him which will cause powerful reaction out of him if harmed in some way.

Granted abilities from Entity:
Able to understand any spoken language and speak any that can be emulated by human vocal chords

Cannot be affected by diseases/illness/sickness regardless of source

Extra dimensional storage accessible to him alone-currently filled with a multitude of objects from the dimension he lived in previously including a large supply of food as a result of his travels

Weaknesses:

Fearless/TEMPER:Flipside to his inability to feel fear is the fact his anger will spike faster if subjected to fear effects which can cloud his judgment or be more violent than necessary.

Asides diseases he is capable of being harmed through sufficient force or psychic assaults the latter potentially coming with instinctive violent retaliation on the user. Doesn't possess any other immunities so poisons can work.

Due to his strong moral compass and integrity he's vulnerable to certain tactics and will take attacks for downed or injured allies regardless of risk to self so can cause him to accumulate more damage at a faster rate.

With how heavily he's attuned to his instincts certain effects work better against him that tend to play off of them like desire/lust based effects that play on reproductive instincts are particular effective on him as a means to distract or influence him.

Misdirection:effects that play against his messed up directional sense work well so long as he is distracted and can't home in on allies life energies, further effective if he's defending some location or object as there is nothing to try and home in on.

Nightmares:On many occasion has life dealt him terrible hands and those have left a mark on his psyche leaving Terrence with nightmares of incidents past occasionally waking up trembling with anger, however as he's conscious of this issue he knows well enough to simply keep still for several moments forcing himself steady until he calms but it does leave him restless and unable to sleep well some nights leading to mental exhaustion some days.

-Inactive at the moment post Cygnarian escape-

  Pseudo-Curse: 'Longest Step'

--'Random' Teleportation in the form of vanishing mid-step,often rounding a corner of a building to only see himself in another city, passing through a doorway into an entirely different room in the same city or elsewhere. It wouldn't actively put him in any immediately hostile to life environments..hostile stronghold? Yep. Lava? Not so much. Must be moving under his own power to potentially trigger.

--Corrupted sense of direction: He's effectively got the Ryouga Hibiki direction sense. Navigation aids by magic or otherwise tend to act..odd when used for him. Between this and teleportation he quickly learned the necessity for self sufficiency and to try and avoid making bonds with others, not always successful but he got very used to being on his own.

--Where the Pseudo comes in: Teleportation can potentially trigger when someone whom he has a bond with is in risk of immanent death or might end up wandering right to exactly where he needs to be if there is a dangerous situation arising.

Favorite Food:Most meat heavy dishes, hamburgers and spicy foods

Least Favorite Food:seafood of most varieties never agreed with his taste pallet. 

Hobbies:Training his life force, working out, learning fighting techniques, taking hikes and relaxing in nature.

Favorite Color:Deep blue

Phobia:Detests the thought of being made a gladiator again, wary of traveling in solitude once more.



<-- Personality -->

Reserved at first, seemingly showing little desire to interact with most people for extended periods of time and shows comfort when in solitude or around animal life. However get past the aloof personal and one would find a surprisingly warm and kind young man who while wanting to make friends finds himself at odds with himself to do so given his circumstances. Intentionally tryin to give the impression he doesn't want to get attached to anything nor get involved with the affairs of the world for the most part. He doesn't come off as rude or dismissive, just detached for the most part but will warm up to persistent individuals whom mean well. Generally talking about his home or family will leave him feeling fairly unhappy and seems fairly reserved and unwilling to talk much bout his past where he had just lived.

  In possession of a strong moral compass and a sense of justice he cannot abide wrongdoings or actions that trample on the free will or well being of civilians trying to live their lives, will intervene even if it means being at odds with authorities if he feels it is unjust. With his last name being what it is he's in possession of a strong personal code and will honor his word when given and strive to be a decent person as much as possible.

<-- Appearance -->
 

Fairly average in height but powerful in build with a muscular defined physique from intense and often over the top physical training he absolutely stands out when not wearing somewhat baggy clothes, under which numerous faded scars could be found over his torso and on his limbs with an experienced eye being able to tell most are wounds from battles. His expression is often fairly cheerful but occasionally one might catch glimpses of melancholy when he drops his guard. Generally has a preference for simple long sleeved shirts and loose fitting pants as he prefers to not draw attention to himself. Hair is a messy curly brown mop that looks uncut for quite a long time reaching down to the base of his neck.

 One of the most notable things is a set of curiously large albit faded scars, on around his chest and upper abdominal area  along his back in a somewhat similar location are almost circular jagged marks, almost as if some kind of enormous animal of some sort had tried to bite into him.

<-- Formal Training -->

Skills:

Wilderness survival-Between his experiences of being forced to survive a year in a forest and his instinct he's developed a strong sense of survival skills and can live off the land in a number of environments able to make knots for traps and create primitive tools out of objects from the environment and able to determine what plants and berries are edible and avoid poisonous ones.

Cooking:as someone who's traveled a great deal on his own and has had to fend for himself he's learned how to cook anything he can gather up or hunt to an acceptable level through trial and error (lots of error). Now at a level where he'd not be embarrassed to cook and serve food to friends and companions, tends to favor dishes with meat as a focus.

 Sewing:Similar to how he's had to fend for himself with cooking he's needed to repair his own damaged clothes and tents made out of hide so he's got basic sewing skills and can repair damaged clothes and other cloths to a functional level but it won't be pretty.

  Information gathering:Working as a bounty hunter meant he had to get good at gathering information, primarily through listening to others conversation and being able to pick out relevant bits of information in busy locations, always has his ears open to any bits of juicy intel that someone might slip be it a person, or a location or some incident. 

Weapon skill:

Weapons training:Highly competent with most standard melee weapons through basic training in the past then developed and refined further through experiences in battlefields, further accelerated as a necessity in the Cygnarian battle arenas to survive. This includes swords, axes, polearms with his natural instincts helping him adapt with them.

Hand to hand:Similar to melee weapons he's developed unarmed combat skills in the past through training then refinement in battle and tournaments learning through experience what works in real battle, further pushed ahead during his several month captivity in the Cygnarian arenas

<-- Career Information -->

Occupation:Employee at 'Tip Your Hat'

Job Title:Bouncer

Position:Security Guard

History:Currently a temporary bouncer for Shidane's brothel in return for a debt he owned her for releasing him of the shackles he still had when he escaped the Cygnarian arena. Works diligently as a man of his word.


<-- Background -->
Once a pretty average teenager just going into high school Terrence was chosen at seemingly random by a high level entity to be somewhat of a pawn..for its entertainment by dropping off a mortal in another world and watching it try to survive in a new environment which happened to be a dimension that would be classified as fantasy, of course he wasn't dropped off without something to help ease the transition slightly, given the ability to converse with the natives regardless of race, protection from illnesses and diseases so he wasn't struck down by something he couldn't see or react against like a airborn disease or the such. Finally a storage space that only he could access but that along with his disease immunity were both unknown to him for quite some time though he did quickly learn that he could converse with most sentient things. This however did not help him much when he first arrived as it was in a forest inhabited by monstrous humanoids that he was forced to hide from and escape.

A few days later after an incident at the first inn he stumbled across in a delirious state he was knocked out and taken away by a person whom took interest in him, which led to him being taken away to a secluded village in a ancient primal forest which had been around since the earliest times of the world. He was forced to survive on his own in the forest by any means necessary thus had to develop survival skills and gained the beginning of his Primal Instinct skill there along with Life force sensing. After a year of survival training he was forced back to the village and went through a very cruel ritual and training to unlock the ability to weaponize his soul for a price.

  He was eventually released and made to wander the world for the next several years rarely staying in one place long and frequently did mercenary work and take jobs as a bounty hunter to make ends meet as he further developed his Lifeforce/Chi skills and honed his instincts. A hobby he developed over his travels is seeking out ruins and delve labrynths for the sake of curiosity and rumors of treasure, such excursions helped further hone certain abilities considerably along with leaving him more wealthy over time.

Finally near the end of his stay there was a particularly violent incident he got involved with that left him over the deceased body of a dragon he was forced to slay, With the method of how he slew Valcorsorax and how certain rules of that universe worked he was made the inheritor of all that was Valcorsorax, treasure and abilities to an extent however he was entirely unaware of those particular consequences as it would take time for the magical core within his soul to develop and related dna wouldn't activate without its magical energy so he ended up believing he just earned the dragon's hoard.

A few months later things take a turn for the unexpected and worse..

  The entity observing what was about to happen to his pawn decided against pulling him out early instead opted to allow the following events to happen, taking a more hands off approach as it had to this point as it would be a valuable experience for his pawn. However using foresight it did leave a little surprise in Terrence's curse to trigger at a certain point down the line. After all the entity wasn't entirely happy with what would be the end result.

  Discovering this world Cygnarian scouts ended up calling down Archivists to collect 'samples' from the world to bring them back for lab studies, however finding Terrence caused them to trigger a protocol to summon down a low level purifier to pacify him, however he ended up being an anomaly especially compared to other inhabitants showing far more battle proficiency and adaptation than anticipated causing the purifier to put forth more power than calculated to put the organic down. As such he was designated to the Cygnarian battle arenas on mars for further battle testing.

  Once he awakened his heart sank as he realized he was now captured and fast learned his purpose, as a gladiator in some grand arena, and after a spirited attempt to escape ended up shackled with gauntlets that were bonded to him and turned his own life force against him to suppress any usage and weighted enough that he couldn't move easily thus culling any further escape attempts. Surprisingly however was the fact outside of the arena while he was confined to a room he was well taken care of both food and comfortable resting and recovery after every battle, but the constant intensity of each battle along with consistent attempts to convince him to willingly convert by Cygnus Prime herself gradually started to wear away at his psyche. However he didn't have much option but to keep going forward and surviving while unwillingly giving Cygnarians more battle data.

   Not really fully comprehending how big of a deal it was to have such an offer to join the collective he pushed on, day by day but it wasn't getting any easier to refuse the offer as the months passed, certainly being synthetic gave Prime all the time in the world for him to wear down and yield. Thankfully however his perseverance was finally rewarded as he was nearing the end of his proverbial rope. During his escort out of the arena to be recovered once more the long dormant curse of his flared up in that one moment to burn itself out as the Entity's surprise triggered and caused Terrence to vanish midstep and away from Mars to a distant planet of Jallelus, reappearing near some town but wasn't in much condition to approach as he all but collapsed, still shackled and worn out but for the moment..free.