Ten years ago the man known as Master Yang, founder of the Ginryu Martial Arts School, was cut down in a back alley while his students participated in an underground martial arts tournaments in the Hong Kong underground. His students were fighting for the honor of their master and his school against three rival schools, and while they won the tournament, they lost their master, and soon after their school. Ginryu was situated on an unmarked island, and with Master Yang gone, it was taken with force by the rival school of Kintora.

Now one of Master Yang's students, a man by the name of Romeo Margrave, is starting his own school to pass on both the physical and spiritual arts taught to him. Before his death Master Yang taught Romeo the secrets of combining one's spiritual and physical energy, creating an entirely new fighting style. Over the last decade Romeo has practiced, and mastered his own version of this art. Now he is looking for students, however, because he has come out of hiding to do so, he is being hunted.

Long Fang, owner of the Kintora Fighting Academy, the rival and murderer of Master Yang, is trying to capture Romeo so that he can force the man to divulge the secrets of this new fighting technique. To do so he is sending out his best fighters in an attempt to bring him, and any of his students, back to his secret island school, the former home of Ginryu.
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Okay, so this is basically a combination of 2 ideas I had. It's part Street Fighter and part of an old roleplay of mine that died a while back. Anyone who was a part of that old rp will automatically be accepted if you choose to join. Basically my character Romeo, will be traveling around, looking for students to teach his fighting style to, while trying not to get captured and to not let any potential students get captured either.

80% of this will be a basic, normal martial arts roleplay. Weapons can be used, but should your character become a student of Romeo they'll have to give up using their weapons while learning his style, though they can still use them otherwise. There will be moves like the hadoken, not sure if I spelled that right, and any fighter in this rp can eventually gain such a technique.

If you're interested, please feel free to fill out the following character sheet. If you want to ask anything then do so either in the OOC or in a PM to me.

Name:
Age:
Fighting Style: (if your character knows a fighting style already then list it here)
Appearance: (pics are fine but please add a small written description as well)
Personality: (optional, can let this be shown in the rp)
Equipment: (as I said this is mostly a weaponless martial arts rp, but weapons and anything else your character carries should be listed here)
History: (basic character background, tell why they got into the martial arts or why they fight, etc.)
Other: (anything else you'd like to add goes here)

RULES-
Basic rules
If you're going to leave the rp, let us know
If you won't be able to post for a little while, let us know
I expect anyone who joins to be able to write a decent paragraph every post
Please post often
Try to let everyone post before you post again, unless it's special circumstances, like a fight or a 1v1 conversation

Other than that, have fun with it. I want this rp to be taken seriously by all those who join, but it doesn't have to be about a bunch of coldhearted bastards who do nothing but fight to be the best.