Post by Daredevil on Aug 24, 2009 8:19:23 GMT -5
Worlds At War
The Basics:
Brand:Marvel
Name:Daniel Rand
Alias:Iron Fist. Currently masquerading as Daredevil
Affiliation:Anti-Registration, Heroes for Hire, New Avengers
Age: 23
Gender:Male
Sexuality:Heterosexual
The Cameras Are Easy To Fool
Appearance
Standing at five feet eleven inches Daniel Rand's stature is one that demands respect. Coming in at one hundred and seventy five pounds Rand's body is toned and disciplined as that of a old martial artist. Rand has blue eyes, his blonde hair is always under control, and is on occasion accompanied by that of a brief showing of facial hair. Rand requires no glasses and only bares one scar which was given to him during his battle with Shou-Lao which is the serpents mark. His fists are hardened and for the most part are covered with the shining light when in battle and not pretending to be Daredevil.
Appearance
Standing at five feet eleven inches Daniel Rand's stature is one that demands respect. Coming in at one hundred and seventy five pounds Rand's body is toned and disciplined as that of a old martial artist. Rand has blue eyes, his blonde hair is always under control, and is on occasion accompanied by that of a brief showing of facial hair. Rand requires no glasses and only bares one scar which was given to him during his battle with Shou-Lao which is the serpents mark. His fists are hardened and for the most part are covered with the shining light when in battle and not pretending to be Daredevil.
Avengers Assemble!
Strengths
Master Martial Artist
Tactically smart
Leadership skills
Healing Ability
Cool-headed in battle
Strengths
Master Martial Artist
Tactically smart
Leadership skills
Healing Ability
Cool-headed in battle
Tell them they're already dead, they just haven't fallen down yet!
Weaknesses
Currently unable to display his true fighting capabilities
Too Forgiving
Money Motivated
Too willing to help
Doesn't know when to quit.
Weaknesses
Currently unable to display his true fighting capabilities
Too Forgiving
Money Motivated
Too willing to help
Doesn't know when to quit.
It'll all come out in the wash Cap.
Personality
Daniel Rand to say the least is a rather complex creature. While able to sustain anger and seek out vengeance for any wrongs that have been committed towards him, he is however unable to ever follow through. Rand has great discipline and will do whatever it takes to make himself the best and get a job done. With that discipline comes the aforementioned self restraint that prevents him from ever going to far with his powers and intentions. Smart and proficient tactician Daniel does have his faults like any other person.
The biggest flaw is in fact that he cares too much in some cases. While able to heal others with his ability he will attempt to do so to the point that it will in fact cause harm to himself. A man of the people Rand is more then willing to lend a helping hand when possible and prefers to be in the middle of the action going on around him. While there is no real showing of overconfidence in his abilities only time will tell if this will possibly lead to the end of Daniel Rand.
Personality
Daniel Rand to say the least is a rather complex creature. While able to sustain anger and seek out vengeance for any wrongs that have been committed towards him, he is however unable to ever follow through. Rand has great discipline and will do whatever it takes to make himself the best and get a job done. With that discipline comes the aforementioned self restraint that prevents him from ever going to far with his powers and intentions. Smart and proficient tactician Daniel does have his faults like any other person.
The biggest flaw is in fact that he cares too much in some cases. While able to heal others with his ability he will attempt to do so to the point that it will in fact cause harm to himself. A man of the people Rand is more then willing to lend a helping hand when possible and prefers to be in the middle of the action going on around him. While there is no real showing of overconfidence in his abilities only time will tell if this will possibly lead to the end of Daniel Rand.
Old Ghosts
History
The second child of Wendell Rand, Daniel was born after his father was forced from K'un-L'un. The trip to find the nexus which would transport him to the dimension in which the fabled city of K'un-L'un existed would prove to be his final trip as his business partner would let him fall to his death. Daniel, age nine at the time, and his mother Heather declined Meachum's, who had just let Wendell fall, offers for help and tried to make their way back to the camp on their own. It was here that Heather would die also as she held off a pack of wolves so that Daniel could run to safety. Daniel was the only member of the Rand family to make it out alive after the trip.
Both parents dead Daniel was found and taken to K'un-L'un by denizens of the city. Brought before the man who was his father's brother and had forced his father out of the city Daniel is apprenticed to Lei Kung the Thunderer who was a martial arts master. Training under Kung was treacherous to say the least but ultimately at age sixteen Daniel would garner the Crown of Fu-Hsi, king of the vipers, vanquished four foes in the ritualistic Challenge of the Many, and defeated Shu-Hu. At nineteen Rand was given the opportunity to gain the power of the Iron Fist. Battling against a large fire-breathing serpent named Shou-Lao the Undying Rand would ultimately defeat it by slaying the serpent momentarily and then crushing its heart which now lay unprotected in the brazier it had been guarding. By doing so Rand's hands now glowed with a quasi mystical force and gained the title "Iron Fist" as the force allowed him to reinforce the power of his strikes.
Rand declined to stay in K'un-L'un intent on returning to avenge his father's death. Upon arriving on earth and tracking down Meachum, Daniel ultimately took pity on the man as he was now an invalid due to frost bite he had secured on the trip to the Himalayas. Leaving him Daniel as Iron Fist would be framed for the death of Meachum after another ninja murdered him. Iron Fist now with a new mission and purpose successfully cleared his name and took out the ninja who had really killed Meachum. Making peace with Meachum's daughter Joy shortly after this Daniel claimed his inheritance as a partner in Rand-Meachum Inc. but allowed Joy to continue to run the company. This was mainly due to Rand starting his partnership with Luke Cage in their own small business called Heroes For Hire. The purpose of the business was for Cage and Rand to act as body guards or private investigators for anyone who would in fact hire them.
After a bout with cancer, which Rand cured himself after being trapped in H'ylthri by alien enemies of K'un-L'un, Daniel reclaimed his title of Iron Fist. Up until this point he had in fact been replaced by two clones the first being from the H'ylthri aliens and the others from the Skrulls. Returning though Heroes for Hire was once again reunited and in high demand due to the lack of other heroes at the moment. Having jobs lined up by Jim Hammond and the Human Torch Rand and Cage merged with Oracle Inc which was owned by Prince Namor. to handle any problems that may arise. Rand acted as field commander but ultimately the team disbanded when Namor ended Oracle Inc.
After teaming up with Black Panther to take out a common foe in Nightshade, Rand continued to work with Luke Cage outside of Heroes For Hire and both became members of the New Avengers. Since then though Rand has taken up the mantle of Daredevil for Matt Murdock. After Murdock was jailed for being accused of in fact being Daredevil; Daniel, believing he was hired by Foggy Nelson, began to guard Hell's Kitchen to convince the public that Murdock was in fact not Daredevil. Now though Daniel opposes the Super Human Registration Act and fights alongside Captain America all the while still pretending that he is in fact the Daredevil. The only question is how much longer he can keep this up before he is in fact revealed in some way shape or form?
History
The second child of Wendell Rand, Daniel was born after his father was forced from K'un-L'un. The trip to find the nexus which would transport him to the dimension in which the fabled city of K'un-L'un existed would prove to be his final trip as his business partner would let him fall to his death. Daniel, age nine at the time, and his mother Heather declined Meachum's, who had just let Wendell fall, offers for help and tried to make their way back to the camp on their own. It was here that Heather would die also as she held off a pack of wolves so that Daniel could run to safety. Daniel was the only member of the Rand family to make it out alive after the trip.
Both parents dead Daniel was found and taken to K'un-L'un by denizens of the city. Brought before the man who was his father's brother and had forced his father out of the city Daniel is apprenticed to Lei Kung the Thunderer who was a martial arts master. Training under Kung was treacherous to say the least but ultimately at age sixteen Daniel would garner the Crown of Fu-Hsi, king of the vipers, vanquished four foes in the ritualistic Challenge of the Many, and defeated Shu-Hu. At nineteen Rand was given the opportunity to gain the power of the Iron Fist. Battling against a large fire-breathing serpent named Shou-Lao the Undying Rand would ultimately defeat it by slaying the serpent momentarily and then crushing its heart which now lay unprotected in the brazier it had been guarding. By doing so Rand's hands now glowed with a quasi mystical force and gained the title "Iron Fist" as the force allowed him to reinforce the power of his strikes.
Rand declined to stay in K'un-L'un intent on returning to avenge his father's death. Upon arriving on earth and tracking down Meachum, Daniel ultimately took pity on the man as he was now an invalid due to frost bite he had secured on the trip to the Himalayas. Leaving him Daniel as Iron Fist would be framed for the death of Meachum after another ninja murdered him. Iron Fist now with a new mission and purpose successfully cleared his name and took out the ninja who had really killed Meachum. Making peace with Meachum's daughter Joy shortly after this Daniel claimed his inheritance as a partner in Rand-Meachum Inc. but allowed Joy to continue to run the company. This was mainly due to Rand starting his partnership with Luke Cage in their own small business called Heroes For Hire. The purpose of the business was for Cage and Rand to act as body guards or private investigators for anyone who would in fact hire them.
After a bout with cancer, which Rand cured himself after being trapped in H'ylthri by alien enemies of K'un-L'un, Daniel reclaimed his title of Iron Fist. Up until this point he had in fact been replaced by two clones the first being from the H'ylthri aliens and the others from the Skrulls. Returning though Heroes for Hire was once again reunited and in high demand due to the lack of other heroes at the moment. Having jobs lined up by Jim Hammond and the Human Torch Rand and Cage merged with Oracle Inc which was owned by Prince Namor. to handle any problems that may arise. Rand acted as field commander but ultimately the team disbanded when Namor ended Oracle Inc.
After teaming up with Black Panther to take out a common foe in Nightshade, Rand continued to work with Luke Cage outside of Heroes For Hire and both became members of the New Avengers. Since then though Rand has taken up the mantle of Daredevil for Matt Murdock. After Murdock was jailed for being accused of in fact being Daredevil; Daniel, believing he was hired by Foggy Nelson, began to guard Hell's Kitchen to convince the public that Murdock was in fact not Daredevil. Now though Daniel opposes the Super Human Registration Act and fights alongside Captain America all the while still pretending that he is in fact the Daredevil. The only question is how much longer he can keep this up before he is in fact revealed in some way shape or form?
Yeah well at least I know I'd pick Superman as a running buddy instead of my bullet-riddled ass.
Powers, abilities, skills, and etc.
Powers
Chi Augmentation: Plunging his fists into the molten heart of Shou-Lao the Undying gave Rand the power of the Iron Fist, allowing him to focus his chi and enhance his natural abilities to extraordinary levels. Through concentration, Iron Fist can harness his spiritual energy, or chi, to augment his physical and mental capabilities to even super human levels.
* Peak Human Strength: Typically, Iron Fist possesses the pinnacle physical strength a human man of his particular age, height, and build that engages in intense regular exercise. He possesses the peak level of strength a human can reach without being considered superhuman. With the use of his spiritual energy, Iron Fist is capable of augmenting his strength to incredible superhuman levels which limits are unknown.
* Peak Human Speed: Iron Fist is capable of running and moving at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete.
* Peak Human Stamina: Iron Fist's musculature is enhanced to generate less fatigue toxins than the musculature of humans. He can exert himself physically at peak capacity for over an hour before fatigue begins to impair him.
* Peak Human Agility: Iron Fist's natural agility, balance, and bodily coordination are superior to those of any Olympic athlete that has ever competed, and is agile as it is humanly possible.
* Peak Human Reflexes: Iron Fist's reaction time if superior to that of any Olympic athlete that has ever competed, and are enhanced to the point where they could be considered superhuman. He has been trained to the point where he can dodge point blank gun fire, catch arrows in mid flight, and has even been capable off snatch and tag bullets out of the air etc.
* Peak Human Durability: The tissues of Iron Fist's body are harder than those of humans. While he is still vulnerable to physical injury, his ability to withstand physical trauma is superior to humans.
* Chi Enhanced Healing: If he sustains injury or illness, Iron Fist can focus his chi for the purposes of healing the damage much more efficiently than humans are capable of. He is also capable of channeling this energy into other people, allowing them to heal with more efficiency as well.
* Iron Fist Punch: By summoning his chi and focusing it into his hand, he can draw upon the superhuman energy derived from the heart of the mystic serpent Shou-Lao and make his fist inhumanly powerful and super humanly resistant to injury and pain. This "iron fist" technique does not involve a physical transformation of any kind, simply a psychic channeling of concentrated natural energy. With his fist in this state, Iron Fist can shatter wood and brick, rip through steel, and punch his opponents with extraordinary concussive force without sustaining injury to himself. He can hit with such vast force that he has knocked out incredibly durable Super humans such as the likes of Colossus with his Iron Fist. The act of summoning and using his chi for the Iron Fist technique mentally drains him after long periods of use.
* Mind Meld: Iron Fist can use his power to temporarily fuse his consciousness with another person, resulting in a sharing of knowledge, emotions, and memories.
* Energy Absorption: At times, he has absorbed energy directed at himself and channeled it to augment his own power.
* Enhanced Sight: He has unusually keen eyesight, but it is unclear if it extends to superhuman level.
* Environmental Adaptation: His entire body is oriented to combat, enabling him to adapt to any environment with minimal exposure.
Chi Manipulation:The Iron Fist grants Danny with many abilities that he has possibly not yet learned, such as channeling the Shou-Lao chi into a ranged weapon, such as a gun or bow, to increase its striking capabilities; this technique is used both by Orson Randall and Wu Ao-Shi. Also another ability demonstrated by Orson Randall is hypnosis, Danny has mastered this ability according to himself after being shown it.
Abilities
Master Martial Artist: Danny is a master of all of K'un-Lun's martial arts and most of Earth's martial arts such as Northern Eagle Claw, Shaolin, Kung fu, Karate and so on. Danny is one of the greatest martial artists who has ever walked the earth.
Weapons Master: He has been trained in the use of virtually all martial arts weapons.
Nervous System Control: He has near-complete control over his nervous system, enabling him to deaden himself to pain and pass lie detector tests.
Skilled Acrobat: Danny is a master acrobat and gymnast capable of many difficult feats.
Multilingual: He can speak fluent English, Chinese and Japanese.
Powers, abilities, skills, and etc.
Powers
Chi Augmentation: Plunging his fists into the molten heart of Shou-Lao the Undying gave Rand the power of the Iron Fist, allowing him to focus his chi and enhance his natural abilities to extraordinary levels. Through concentration, Iron Fist can harness his spiritual energy, or chi, to augment his physical and mental capabilities to even super human levels.
* Peak Human Strength: Typically, Iron Fist possesses the pinnacle physical strength a human man of his particular age, height, and build that engages in intense regular exercise. He possesses the peak level of strength a human can reach without being considered superhuman. With the use of his spiritual energy, Iron Fist is capable of augmenting his strength to incredible superhuman levels which limits are unknown.
* Peak Human Speed: Iron Fist is capable of running and moving at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete.
* Peak Human Stamina: Iron Fist's musculature is enhanced to generate less fatigue toxins than the musculature of humans. He can exert himself physically at peak capacity for over an hour before fatigue begins to impair him.
* Peak Human Agility: Iron Fist's natural agility, balance, and bodily coordination are superior to those of any Olympic athlete that has ever competed, and is agile as it is humanly possible.
* Peak Human Reflexes: Iron Fist's reaction time if superior to that of any Olympic athlete that has ever competed, and are enhanced to the point where they could be considered superhuman. He has been trained to the point where he can dodge point blank gun fire, catch arrows in mid flight, and has even been capable off snatch and tag bullets out of the air etc.
* Peak Human Durability: The tissues of Iron Fist's body are harder than those of humans. While he is still vulnerable to physical injury, his ability to withstand physical trauma is superior to humans.
* Chi Enhanced Healing: If he sustains injury or illness, Iron Fist can focus his chi for the purposes of healing the damage much more efficiently than humans are capable of. He is also capable of channeling this energy into other people, allowing them to heal with more efficiency as well.
* Iron Fist Punch: By summoning his chi and focusing it into his hand, he can draw upon the superhuman energy derived from the heart of the mystic serpent Shou-Lao and make his fist inhumanly powerful and super humanly resistant to injury and pain. This "iron fist" technique does not involve a physical transformation of any kind, simply a psychic channeling of concentrated natural energy. With his fist in this state, Iron Fist can shatter wood and brick, rip through steel, and punch his opponents with extraordinary concussive force without sustaining injury to himself. He can hit with such vast force that he has knocked out incredibly durable Super humans such as the likes of Colossus with his Iron Fist. The act of summoning and using his chi for the Iron Fist technique mentally drains him after long periods of use.
* Mind Meld: Iron Fist can use his power to temporarily fuse his consciousness with another person, resulting in a sharing of knowledge, emotions, and memories.
* Energy Absorption: At times, he has absorbed energy directed at himself and channeled it to augment his own power.
* Enhanced Sight: He has unusually keen eyesight, but it is unclear if it extends to superhuman level.
* Environmental Adaptation: His entire body is oriented to combat, enabling him to adapt to any environment with minimal exposure.
Chi Manipulation:The Iron Fist grants Danny with many abilities that he has possibly not yet learned, such as channeling the Shou-Lao chi into a ranged weapon, such as a gun or bow, to increase its striking capabilities; this technique is used both by Orson Randall and Wu Ao-Shi. Also another ability demonstrated by Orson Randall is hypnosis, Danny has mastered this ability according to himself after being shown it.
Abilities
Master Martial Artist: Danny is a master of all of K'un-Lun's martial arts and most of Earth's martial arts such as Northern Eagle Claw, Shaolin, Kung fu, Karate and so on. Danny is one of the greatest martial artists who has ever walked the earth.
Weapons Master: He has been trained in the use of virtually all martial arts weapons.
Nervous System Control: He has near-complete control over his nervous system, enabling him to deaden himself to pain and pass lie detector tests.
Skilled Acrobat: Danny is a master acrobat and gymnast capable of many difficult feats.
Multilingual: He can speak fluent English, Chinese and Japanese.
I swear after midnight New York turns into a bad Joel Silver movie.
RP Sample:
None of this was right. Really on no plane of reality did any of this make sense. This stupid Superhuman Registration Act was so unnecessary it wasn't even funny. It was all some load of bullshit because some kids didn't know what they were doing and had gone and got themselves in too deep. Still it didn't matter though they'd wanted to do this forever it seemed and quite frankly this was bullshit. What good did they think would come of this? Danny could see none from his perspective and that was why he was opposing this stupid act. It was all one big excuse to round them all up and know who was doing what at all times. Besides who was to say that it would honestly stop there? This was just the tip of the iceberg in his opinion and it was only a matter of time before their identities went public and all hell broke lose. That was after all exactly what had happened with Matt and was why he was where he was now. Well not exactly but it was the same general principle, wasn't it?
The whole reason that Danny was even in the mess that he was currently in was because Matt Murdock had been accused of being Daredevil. Well he was in fact Daredevil that was beyond the point but the blind lawyer from Hell's Kitch had been thrown in jail for it. What was to stop them from doing the same thing to some of the other heroes once they made their identities known to the government? The whole reason he was putting on this suit night after night was to convince people that Matt wasn't Daredevil and you could tell how well that was going. Still the Registration Act made doing things like that even harder. Just because they wanted to get everyone to join the rank and file didn't mean that crime was going to stop or for that matter slow down. If anything it would be quite the opposite. What self-respecting villain wouldn't want to take advantage of this opportunity that the government was handing to them gift wrapped? Well not only the government Stark was playing ball with them to of course and had it not been for him and Spiderman maybe this wouldn't be as bad as it was.
It seemed that they didn't even know what they were doing by forcing this all upon them though. They had no idea the consequences that were going to come along with their actions and they didn't seem to care. Cap was never going to give up and neither was he. Still he had a job to do and with that in mind Danny began to leap from roof top to roof top making sure to stay in the shadows as he went along. Getting caught or for that matter simply being seen was not an option at the moment. He needed to do his job quietly and efficiently which was really nothing new but still something that he had to make sure he did even more thoroughly in these times. Really they had always operated in the shadows, well not Cap and The Avengers, but people like him, Cage, and Matt had never been ones for the limelight. This wasn't a change of pace if anything it was simply a return home for him one that he had to admit was welcome. While the Daredevil costume still felt foreign at least how he went about doing his business didn't. With that in mind Daniel Rand disappeared into the night.
RP Sample:
None of this was right. Really on no plane of reality did any of this make sense. This stupid Superhuman Registration Act was so unnecessary it wasn't even funny. It was all some load of bullshit because some kids didn't know what they were doing and had gone and got themselves in too deep. Still it didn't matter though they'd wanted to do this forever it seemed and quite frankly this was bullshit. What good did they think would come of this? Danny could see none from his perspective and that was why he was opposing this stupid act. It was all one big excuse to round them all up and know who was doing what at all times. Besides who was to say that it would honestly stop there? This was just the tip of the iceberg in his opinion and it was only a matter of time before their identities went public and all hell broke lose. That was after all exactly what had happened with Matt and was why he was where he was now. Well not exactly but it was the same general principle, wasn't it?
The whole reason that Danny was even in the mess that he was currently in was because Matt Murdock had been accused of being Daredevil. Well he was in fact Daredevil that was beyond the point but the blind lawyer from Hell's Kitch had been thrown in jail for it. What was to stop them from doing the same thing to some of the other heroes once they made their identities known to the government? The whole reason he was putting on this suit night after night was to convince people that Matt wasn't Daredevil and you could tell how well that was going. Still the Registration Act made doing things like that even harder. Just because they wanted to get everyone to join the rank and file didn't mean that crime was going to stop or for that matter slow down. If anything it would be quite the opposite. What self-respecting villain wouldn't want to take advantage of this opportunity that the government was handing to them gift wrapped? Well not only the government Stark was playing ball with them to of course and had it not been for him and Spiderman maybe this wouldn't be as bad as it was.
It seemed that they didn't even know what they were doing by forcing this all upon them though. They had no idea the consequences that were going to come along with their actions and they didn't seem to care. Cap was never going to give up and neither was he. Still he had a job to do and with that in mind Danny began to leap from roof top to roof top making sure to stay in the shadows as he went along. Getting caught or for that matter simply being seen was not an option at the moment. He needed to do his job quietly and efficiently which was really nothing new but still something that he had to make sure he did even more thoroughly in these times. Really they had always operated in the shadows, well not Cap and The Avengers, but people like him, Cage, and Matt had never been ones for the limelight. This wasn't a change of pace if anything it was simply a return home for him one that he had to admit was welcome. While the Daredevil costume still felt foreign at least how he went about doing his business didn't. With that in mind Daniel Rand disappeared into the night.
The Rest:
Name/Alias:Roy
Years Rping:8
Best way to contact:Pm, Msn
Other:Nada