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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8527039" data-attributes="member: 30538">Kansho<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-ztWB4qh/0/82968501/M/Jake_Long_2-M.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />According to Aesop, a man and a satyr, having struck up an acquaintance, sat down together to eat. The day being wintry and cold, the man put his fingers to his mouth and blew upon them. "What's that for?" asked the satyr. "My hands are so cold," said the man, "I do it to warm them." In a little while some hot food was placed before them, and the man, raising the dish to his mouth, again blew upon it. "And what's the meaning of that?" said the satyr. "Oh," replied the man, "my porridge is so hot, I do it to cool it." "Well, then," said the satyr, "from this moment I renounce your friendship, for I will have nothing to do with one who blows hot and cold with the same mouth." Fables are not all deep and profound meditations on human nature, you see.When the True Believer "discovered" Joey Hayashida -- several weeks after the teenager first posted videos on YouTube of himself engaging in small-time heroics in Queens -- she naturally flew there to talk with him and his parents about enrolling in the school she was helping to put together. True was more than a bit surprised when his single mother turned out to have been expecting her and negotiated rather forcefully about the terms of his enrollment, notably insisting on a job for herself as a gym teacher at the new school. Once all the dealing was done, though, Mariko Hayashida explained her concerns and the source of the powers Joey now possessed.She herself had been born in the Shadow School, undergone the training and grown up to be a skilled and accomplished practitioner of their trad-- "You can just say ninja," interrupted True. -- fine, a ninja. And by the time she reached adulthood, the Shadow School had taken on many treacherous and dangerous jobs in order to survive. On one such assignment, which took her to Guangzhou in China, she met a superpowered renegade with whom she, after a long story made much shorter, fell in love and had Joey. As this was well outside her mission, and as news came that the School had begun to turn away from these criminal missions, she knew that she could never go back, and so she took her son and went into hiding, repeatedly, all over the world.Joey has been strongly influenced by all this, and is a rather boastful young man who frequently tells highly exaggerated tales of his exploits. He both figuratively and literally blows hot and cold air -- damagingly hot and cold, respectively -- from his mouth. (His "arts alias" derives from a word in Japanese that means "hot-and-cold".) On top of that, he has been carefully taught the basics of the Shadow School traditions, and is a trained unarmed combatant, if not quite the master of the martial arts that he imagines himself as being. Nevertheless, he has a good heart and desires to help people, if only to show off and add some excitement to his life.One thing that Joey does not know (but that his mother has passed on to the administration of the school) is that it seems likely that his father has become one of the members of the Sīfa Zhuānjiā, a group of largely heroic Chinese superpowers who operate in the shadows of their nation, feared and hated by those they try to protect. If this is the case, then he and his mother could act as go-betweens if the Howard School ever needs assistance from the other group ...Kansho -- PL 6Abilities:STR 0 | STA 2 | AGL 4 | DEX 3 | FGT 3 | INT 2 | AWE 1 | PRE 2Powers:Breath Weapons: Array (16 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Blows Cold: Line Area 2 Damage 5, Subtle (cold)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Blows Hot: Line Area 2 Damage 5, Subtle (heat)</li> </ul>Resistance: Immunity 10 (cold damage, heat damage) - 10 pointsAdvantages:Defensive Attack, Defensive Roll, Great Endurance, Improved Initiative, Language 2 (Japanese, Mandarin, others, [English is native].)Skills:Acrobatics 3 (+7), Athletics 5 (+5), Close Combat: Unarmed 5 (+8), Deception 5 (+7), Sleight of Hand 3 (+6), Stealth 3 (+7).Offense:Initiative +8Unarmed +8 (Close Damage 0)Blows Cold or Blows Hot -- (Line Area Damage 5)Defense:Dodge 8, Parry 7, Fortitude 4, Toughness 4/2, Will 5Totals:Abilities 34 + Powers 27 + Advantages 6 + Skills 11 + Defenses 16 = 94 pointsOffensive PL: 5Defensive PL: 6Resistance PL: 5Skill PL: 2Complications:Thrills--Motivation. Blustery. Family (mother.) Minor. Secret.</blockquote>

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