Profile of  Ryu Hoshi                                                                                                                         Back to contents

 

Age: 24 years of age

Gender: Male

Eye colour: Dark brown

Size: 5” 11’

Occupation: Student of the Redland Educational system, student of a form of Karate, second Dan.

 

Known immediate family: None

Children: None

Status: Single

 

Description:

Ryu is a quiet and simple young man. Whilst he wears basic clothing to classes and to any work he undertakes, whenever he can Ryu dons his white karate gi, black belt and red headband. Forever the warrior, his interest lies in being at peace with his surroundings and yet seeking the ultimate quest, the final fight, the greatest victory life has to offer. Physically he is much like other men save one thing; his muscles are incredibly hard, toughened with years of training. He moves always with a mean to battle anything that comes into his path; always ready to hop into a stance and block powerfully. His odd gait is often mistaken for a gormless wandering. Ryu’s eyes are dim but passionate in a way. He is just waiting for the fight to ‘switch him on’! His hair is usually roughly styled and not terribly attractive. Ryu is clean though and doesn’t believe it is acceptable to be unclean.

 

Skills:

The once Street Fighter champion has one skill above all else; his patience. He is without doubt the exact opposite of his great friend Ken Masters in this aspect, although like Ken, his primary gift and skill is that of outstanding karate. Ryu can get by on very little and is quite content living the simple life of training, eating and sleep, drinking and working to get his keep. He reguards study as work for his country’s future and so generally does well in classes; although he is no scientific, nor artistic genius.

Ryu’s weakness is that the power than enables him to perform such things as the Hadoken (fireball) also has a dark side, the dark Hadou. Ryu fears it, as it is unknown for the most part. He has never served it yet – although he has been tempted strongly and it has ‘used him’ for very limited periods of time.

Ryu’s only defence against those wielding powerful weaponry, intelligence or such forces as psycho power is the hadou & his lighting quick feet.

 

Most noted achievements (in time order):

Unknown for the most part…

All Karate tournaments entered have been won (except a few losses to Ken Masters)

of which there have been sparse entrances (Ryu doesn’t care for trophy or glory)

Crowed Street Fighter Champion.

Survived the giant swoop on a Higalan base during the apprehension of M.Bison despite serious injury during battle.

Reigning world kata champion.