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[quote] "Blah blah blah, save all that shit about what honor demands for someone else. I'm not here because of honor or because it's what tradition dictates, I'm just here to crush your fucking skull."[/quote]

[quote]"Look, I sympathize with your cause and I understand why you are so angry. Trust me I have no love for the traditions of the Empire or the high status of my birth, I couldn't care less about what I'm supposed to be like as a high caste woman. But you fucked up when you went after the princess. Regardless of my views she is under my protection, and beyond that I honestly care about her. So don't take this the wrong way, I'm not about to fight you in support of what happened to you or in some blind devotion to the Empire. This shit is personal and you'll get all the pain that comes with it."[/quote]

[i]Rani Ibeshi is the daughter of legendary warrior Dokura Ibeshi, and like her mother she is an Rak-Zanu specifically serving the princess and heir to the Imperial throne. She is a great warrior just like her mother before her, but that is where the similarities end. Much to societies annoyance she holds things like honor and tradition in contempt, instead ignoring them to focus on her own blood-lust/violent behavior as well as a tendency to spend a lot of time around the lower castes and more thuggish members of society. When not protecting the Empress she is often seen hanging around bars and similar places often getting into brawls with gangsters, or insulting ego driven martial artists. She likes fighting, more particularly she likes hurting people and tends to use her position as an excuse to do so, though trying her best to not kill people unless they really piss her off or she can come up with a good enough excuse. She is an all around trouble maker and considered by other wealthy members of society to be little more than a thug protected by noble blood, and unworthy of her station; but she is loyal where it counts. She may not have the social graces people expect of her position and family, but she cares about the princess and she has the strength needed for such feelings to matter. As such despite the claims of the various lesser nobles, Rani isn't going anywhere. [/i]



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Rani is a very accomplished fighter, having been trained from a very young age by her mother Dokura in a variation of the same martial art. Her style is similar to some hard kung fu forms such as Hung Gar with aspects that could be seen as having a karate influence. Unlike her mother's more fluid and graceful movements, Rani is more erratic and undisciplined her martial arts more wild and done in a brutish way as if she was just some brawler half the time and she is unafraid to use tactics considered dishonorable. While not the nicest looking fighter her aggression/ferocity are a good ally to her speed and strength allowing her to overwhelm most of her foes; her training being a nice base to direct her body towards more proper technique. Against lesser foes she sometimes purposely takes hits to show her superiority as her deep stances and make her hard for enemies to move in combat and her tough body make her difficult to hurt. She is renown across the Empire for her skill/ability and has won several tournaments as well as beating every personal challenger who has faced her. Her fighting ability extends to weaponry with her favored weapon being a personalized staff that can break in two which she can then use as batons.

[b]Natural Abilities:[/b] While more known for her raw might, her speed is nothing to sneeze at: much faster than the average Zhuni she has easily evaded and caught bullets from various low lives she fights, and has kept pace with several masters. She is extremely tough to injure, her natural defenses standing up to attacks that would kill normal people such as warhammers across the face, cannons to the gut and skin resistant to all manner of blades. Her most notable trait however is her great strength, regarded as the strongest person of her generation Rani has wrestled down giant war beasts and halted warship devouring demons bare handed. A single punch is normally all it takes to kill foes and she has been seen playfully tossing around 50 foot boulders for the fun of it.

[b]Ra Qi-Zan:[/b] The Ra Qi-Zan is an ancient variant of the racial technique known as the Qizan, it is a powerful ability that converts all of energy into weaponized chi and greatly enhances all of her abilities and attributes. Doing so also makes her highly aggressive and consumed by a desire to release the energy on the target. She becomes incredibly hard to reason with in this state her mind consumed by aggressive thoughts and desires and only people she has a deep connection with can easily snap her out, anyone else takes a concentrated use of chi to slow down her energy flow. Under this state a foe who would otherwise easily kill her, can be forced on the defensive as she shrugs off blows that would otherwise cripple her.

[b]Chi abilities:[/b] Rani's most common chi power is an ability that supports her natural toughness by quickly shifting chi to an area of the body to further increase its defense; combined with her already tough body this allows her to completely laugh off otherwise powerful blows. Next to that is her healing ability, despite her toughness she does take damage normally due to simply how often she fights and her attitude about it. By focusing her chi she can heal small cuts in seconds and larger wounds such as stabs in a few minutes, with more extensive body damage taking up to a few hours. She knows more basic chi techniques as well such as charging objects and making simple constructs such as claws.

[b]Mysterious ability:[/b] Rani has an ability of unknown origin, the strange power to generate and manipulate something can only be described as weaponized light. While seemingly mystical in nature it is unaffected by anti magic techniques and doesn't show up as chi, all that is known is that it is connected to her mother's shadow powers. In a general sense she is capable of producing blasts and beams of light that produce both heat and concussive force. These can be used short range as a sudden explosion, long range as a beam/projectile blast, or even held on her hands to add a new form of damage to her punches. Much like her mother this power is affected by contrast and is most powerful when done in darkness allowing her to go from simply destroying a building to destroying into city blocks with single attacks. While mostly a supplement to her brawling, it is a handy tool against foes more resistant to her punches and chi due to its unique properties.

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Making their home in arid Galkahr region of the planet Ternu Si, are the race known as Ethera. They are one of the younger Zhu races, one of the last few to be created and the most recent to be reintegrated. Their appearance is that of humans with very rich solid red and pink skin tones and often glowing chi points across their body. They tend to be heavier than most other Zhu races, their bones being very dense and their muscles capable of growing at a moment's notice. They are the most naturally gifted of the Zhu races in terms of power both physical and magical, quickly coming upon more potent applications of their abilities with little to no training. They are capable of boosting their abilities even more by going into a berserker state where their chi pushes itself into overdrive their bodies becoming harder to damage and all of their abilities vastly increasing as their mind does nothing but pump the energy out at whatever is before it. The ability is very powerful and hardwired into their genes, occurring on its own both when stressed and randomly until they learn to control it. During the state they have difficulty stopping themselves until they run out of energy and fall asleep, or are incapacitated. While various objects and methods arose to snap them out of this, the only reliable way was through special signals sent from chi of other Zhu races. The most effective and reliable method was through the dancing of talented or powerful Xerin, the dance calming them back to normal rather quickly in most cases.

When the Zhu races were split apart tens of thousands of years ago, the Ethera handled the isolation the worst. Their natural aggression and uneasy mental state made them quickly become enemies with other intelligent species on the planet their home ended up forming on. Eventually they ended up the only species of any intelligence left on the planet, resulting in a society that was only stable long enough to rebuild after it destroyed its cities fighting itself. When they were found by the rest of Zhu and their world reconnected to the Empire they were immensely grateful, and have reformed their actual Zhu society with the help of their sister races keeping them calm.[/collapse]

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[b]Note:[/b] By default she is part of a martial arts based fantasy setting where she serves as bodyguard for the Empress's daughter. I'm willing to play alt versions of her serving other leaders outside of her canon or even in things such as gangs.