<strong>Name:</strong>Gentatsu Makashima<div class="floatright">(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x437/Nathaniel_Vernes/Characters/GentatsuMakashima.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Age:</strong>17<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Shoulder-Length Wild Black<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Purple<br/><strong>Description:</strong>Athletic and lithe, he is usually wearing the white robe-like vestments of his monastery.  If he is soft-spoken and polite, it is because he conscious that he is easily excitable, and the realisation that he is illiterate in a modern society is constantly a humbling and embarrassing experience for him.<br/><br/><strong>Martial Arts Style:</strong>Eight-Heavens Radiant Dragon-Fist Style<br/><strong>Element:</strong>Lightning<br/><strong>Special Technique:</strong><br/><strong><em>Ryuhasu-Raireiki</em></strong>(Dragon Lotus Lightning Aura) - Gentatsu's basic ability, he uses Ryuhasu-Raireiki to enhance his body to greater levels by electrifying it for a limited time.  Whilst in this state, his strikes have a disorientating effect on those who are hit by it, due the added shock of electricity he concentrates in his fist.  He can maintain this battle aura for a moderate amount of time.<br/><strong><em>Shinkuu-Raiken</em></strong>(Empty/Vacuum Lightning Fist) - If his Ryuhasu-Raireiki doesn't make him fast enough, Gentatsu resorts to this technique that allows him to use tremendous buffeting strikes to blow away his foes. Even if he misses his opponents by inches, his blows still connect from the vacuum created by the sheer speed of his strikes - but using it drastically reduces the time he can use his Ryuhasu-Raireiki, as well as draining his stamina.<br/><br/><strong>Strength</strong>4<br/><strong>Speed</strong>6<br/><strong>Durability</strong>6<br/><strong>Wisdom</strong>2<br/><strong>Knack</strong>5<br/><strong>Charm</strong>4<br/><br/><strong>Martial Arts Skill:</strong>Martial Arts x3<br/><br/><strong>Special Training:</strong>Jump x2,<em>Ki </em>Training x3<br/><br/><strong>Flaws:</strong>Illiterate, Human Lightning-Rod<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong>Gentatsu was formerly a disciple at Eight-Heavens Radiant Dragon school monastery and had set out for his final rite of cleansing where he would travel to the most remote parts of Japan for enlightenment.  It was whilst he was so engaged on this last part of his journey that he met a diminutive old man, who had apparently become lost in the woods.  Claiming to be a martial artist of no small skill, he challenged Gentatsu for a share of half his rations if he won a fight.  Save to say, Gentatsu lost to Happosai, though this was not the breaking point for the young aspiring martial artist.  Faced with depreciating drunken comments about his school and the consumption of<em>all</em>his rations, Gentatsu bit his pride, bowed down and apologised for being visibly angry before the old man who was the rightful victor, but by the time he had raised his head Happosai was gone, along with all his belongings - including the sacred relic his teacher had given to him for safe keeping.  Realising that unless he got it back, he would never be allowed back into his school, Gentatsu climbed to the highest point of the land to curse the thief and was promptly struck down by lightning whilst in the middle of his tirade.  The experience, however, did give the young disciple hard-bitten resolve and 'enlightened' him, almost literally, on how he could improve his martial style further, though it has likewise proven to be somewhat of a constant and electrifying bane in his life.  Having followed the thief for some time now, he has finally arrived in Nerima, Tokyo...