» PLAYER INFORMATIONPlayer NAME: Jami
Current AGE: 23
Personal JOURNAL: thegogglesdonothing
IM & SERVICE: AIM: Jamadadayo
Player PLURK: golgothas
Current CHARACTERS: NA
» CHARACTER INFORMATIONCharacter NAME: Raimundo Pedrosa
Canon & MEDIUM: Xiaolin Showdown; Cartoon
Canon PULL-POINT: End of season three.
Character AGE: I had to do some guessing, but I've basically figured that the entire series takes place over at least two years. So thirteen at the start of the series and fifteen, almost sixteen at the end is what I'm going with.
Character ABILITIES: Rai is been trained the last few years as a Xiaolin warrior. As such he's an exceptional martial artist. His style and movement are a mix between flying trapeze and breakdancing which amounts to:
Good luck catching him. Currently he is the highest ranking among his team.
As a Xioalin Dragon in training, Rai also has power over the element of wind. With this he can do a great number of things such as unleash Wind-based attacks, summon whirlwinds, and even fly. Combining these abilities with certain Shen Gong Wu his power is upped exponentially.
In addition to all the chosen one stuff and the intense training Rai is also a very clever kid. Not only does he have a great deal of street smarts from growing up in Rio behind him, but he's also recently shown to have great talent in strategics and leading. Before he was promoted to team leader and a Shoku warrior, he was shown to be able to come up with successful battle plans completely on the spot.
Character HISTORY: Wiki has a pretty good section.
Character PERSONALITY: Rai is a pretty complex dude. Over the course of the series he is one of the characters that's grown the most in terms of maturity and skill.
At first Rai was the usual teenager. He was a bit lazy, materialistic and kind of a jerk. He was the sort to find a shortcut through chores or training or complain about how small his room was at the temple. He was also the one to de-pants Omi upon first meeting him for a couple of laughs and pick fun at Clay because he didn't have a fast martial arts style. He has a very sarcastic sense of humor and can be quite underhanded too when he wants to be. Growing up in Rio made him very street smart and one of the least naive of the group.
But a lot of that is just surface. Under all the joking around and snarkiness Rai is determined and a serious fighter. He's someone who hates backing down from a challenge and hates anyone getting the better of him. He's headstrong and stubborn and that often has him biting off more than he can chew. He also easily butts heads with authority and he'll often go against orders if he feels that doing so will be for the greater good. He is someone who wants to do his best and prove he's good enough to be one of the Xiaolin Dragons.
For a long time Rai battled against a lot of his own insecurities and it was one of the leading things holding him back from the others. He didn't take well to anyone belittling him no matter the circumstance and often seriously lashed out at others for giving him sympathy (or whatever it was Omi called 'helping'.) His inferiority complex was one of the things that caused him to switch over to the Heylin side for a short time, for example. But in very recent episodes it's shown that he's been able to admit and come to terms with this side of himself and because of that, Rai was really able to improve and step up.
So much so that he was elected team leader of the group in the final episode and promoted to the next level of Xiaolin Warrior first above the others. Rai was shown to have a huge talent in strategy and planning that wasn't shown much in the rest of the series. (Though it was revealed he played chess and played well.) That combined with some new found confidence in his own fighting ability impressed Master Fung so much that he was given leadership and surpassed even Omi.
A lot of the old!Rai is still there so to speak, but not to the extent that it was at the beginning. His confidence being boosted with his new title and abilities irons a lot of his laziness and impatience out but that doesn't mean he won't still yank down Omi's pants from time to time.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATIONChosen WEAPON: While Rai does have a signature weapon, I want to be difficult and give him something new to work with while not straying overly far from what he's shown to use in canon. So he'd pick up a nunchuck. Which, seeing as his previous weapon was a sword that could basically turn into the same weapon with windy perks, isn't really that far off. (He seems to be a fan of swords most of the time but he never uses them in a way that swords are used. His other favorite weapon is easily the sword of the storm which when spun around, it creates whirlwinds, so there you go. He likes to come off intimidating, but when you get down to it, he doesn't seem to be a fan of lethal weapons.)
So, starting off normal nunchucks, which are hard on their own to master, and then evolving to like say having an extendable chain lengh, making them a long range weapon (like a flail) as well as a good way to create whirlwinds (by spinning them around fast enough). I also kind of like the image of him using it like a makeshift grappling hook so he can be batman and sneak around everywhere.
Chosen SKILLSET: Rai is a fighter through and through. Even if he has leadership going for him, he'd much rather be on the field getting his own hands dirty than sitting back and letting someone else do it. He stubborn and determined and he's got the skill and muscle to back himself up.
» SAMPLESFirst PERSON: [It's a video post. Really, like Rai was going to bother taking the time to type shit out when talking was so much more productive.]So this seems like the thing to do here.
[he pokes and prods a bit at the netbook] Look, I appreciate that you think I'm cool enough to be dragged into your war or whatever, and I'm all for helping if this place is really in serious trouble. I'm not about to diss a call for help, yo.
But I've got a team back home and they kind of need me.
[And you know, he needs them.]So let's be fair here, I'm not askin' for much. Lemme make a call home or something. I mean you pulled me here with temporal time shenanigans, I'm sure you can conjure a magical time-space cellphone no problemo, right?
Unless you've got them already here. In which case, we're straight.
Omi? Kimiko? Clay?
Third PERSON: It was one thing to be thrust into a situation where he would have to go through the motions of saving the world from an impending doom. He did it all the time. It was apart of his job description.
It was another enitrely to be dragged here alone, without his team, into a world where there were NO shen gong wu and none of the evil doers were familiar. At least, he could take comfort in that he could still feel his element. He still had some kind of weapon, and that these people, whoever they were, they needed his help. Help, he could do. If he was putting the beat down on something foul and nefarious, he could deal.
It was a distraction at least, until he figured out what he was going to do. He'd yet to see his friends, and- while he wasn't about to go and turn tail on these people, he also wanted to make sure he knew he was working for the right side. He wasn't gullible like say, Omi. He wasn't going to assume everything was as they've said. He knew better than that, and he'd had enough of side flipping to last him a life time.
Well, there you have it Rai. Your first big freaking test as team leader and you're all alone. That would just figure. Nervous? Oh yes, but if it was one thing he decided on since everything went down back home, is that he wouldn't dare give them a reason to doubt Master Fung's decision.
He'd regained their trust finally. He was going to make them proud.
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