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Name: Danae Stryker
Original: Yes
Origin: None
Age: 22
Height: 5'10"
Weight: *garbled transmission*
Hair: Black, shoulder length
Eyes: Pale green
Strengths:
Danae is a self proclaimed expert in martial arts. She is not a student of any particular school. Rather, she takes useful moves from a variety of sources and molds them into an efficient street fighting style all her own. She is and always has been brawns over brains. When it comes to punching, kicking and choking - she's your girl. From years of fighting she has acquired above average stamina and endurance. Her strength is excellent for a female, but obviously pales in comparison to some of her burlier male opponents. Long legs and superior agility carry her quickly out of harm's way.
Her weapons mainly include a set of combat gloves with retractable blades on her palm. She prefers hand-to-hand fighting, but is capable of using a throwing knife with fairly decent accuracy. She technically knows how to use a gun, and is an all right shot, but seldom uses firearms.
Quicklist
- MMA fighter, primarily drawing moves from Savate, Jiujitsu and Judo.
- Attacks intensified by her palm-blade combat gloves.
- Capable of throwing knives. Has one tucked away in her boot or jacket.
- Familiar with firearms.
- Excellent stamina and agility.
If you need help with a Sudoku puzzle, please seek help elsewhere. While not a complete idiot, strategy and plans are not her strong suit. Danae is a perpetual 'wing it' person. She runs blindly into a situation and adapts as needed... if she can. Many a time has Danae been sent to a hospital from her sheer stupidity and lack of foresight. Who knew that you couldn't pummel a tank to death? I mean really. Obviously, her admirable physicality is evened out by her lackluster brain.
Coupled with her erratic behavior is a strong shot of 'stubborn,' which makes for a horrible cocktail. Even if someone knowledgable tells her how to do something, dammit, she's still going to do things her way. She has an intolerable personality, and her only company is usually people who possess the same assholish behavior. She drinks, she sometimes smokes, she swears like a sailor, she's a bit of a whore, and she picks fights with others just because she can. A nun would want to punch her in about five minutes.
Long range engagements leave her incredibly vulnerable because she is only comfortable with close range combat. Anyone with a gun or similar long range weapon will have her pinned down before she can even hope to deal with it. If she doesn't have the element of surprise in those situations, she is more or less a meatshield for whomever is behind her. Lucky them.
Quicklist
- Lacks foresight and planning.
- Too aggressive and strong willed.
- More stubborn than an actual ass.
- Incorrigible behavior that might get her kicked out of any place remotely civilized.
- Limited/no long range combat abilities.
Bio:
She is the first of three daughters born to Christine and Keith Stryker, both of whom have a long criminal record of their own. A new world Bonnie and Clyde, the pair have been on the run since they themselves were teenagers. Danae and her sisters, Dierdre and August, were brought into a chaotic world of robberies, hold ups and happy depravity. The three sisters spent most of their childhoods as pickpockets and petty thieves, building up their skills by preying upon storeclerks and clueless old women. After the girls got home from school and 'work,' a young Danae could often be found playing poker with her parents' thug friends. She was often accused of cheating. She usually was.
As a teenager, her crimes became more and more severe. Stealing chips from a store down the street? That was child's play. She had moved on to grand theft auto and other associated crimes. Cars were stripped and sold to friends of the family that owned a chop shop. She broke into houses and looted whatever she could carry, all of which was soon sold to shady contacts that she had been familiar with for years. Throughout high school she worked directly with family. Her parents were mentors and her sisters were accomplices. Yet, she had to break away. At nineteen, she left her family behind and started to commit crimes with a few other streetwise kids she'd grown up with.
With them, she honed her skills even further. She became adept at street fighting, learning her moves from old kung-fu movies and from first hand experience. A few friends who'd run on the streets longer than she had were willing to take her to the gym and give her lessons. The other first hand lessons came from not-so-much-friends who she owed money. While she was forced to mend her wounds from such encounters, she observed their moves and learned from them. She gradually molded herself into a genuine street fighter, and soon began to get into fights simply to prove her superiority. Not many want to mess with her... and those that do are generally tall and big enough to where Danae knows to avoid them.
Eventually, a falling out amongst her friends over money acquired from a job caused Danae to go solo. She now works alone, but is not hindered by that fact. Emotional attachment has never been her strong suit, and she couldn't care less about who works with her or not. The only people she ever cared about were family members, and they remain the only people she keeps in moderately close contact with. Her sisters still occasionally team up with her on big projects. Tender family bonding moments, those. Usually followed by a catfight over who gets the looted car stereo.
She's a mild sociopath, and because of her upbringing she sees nothing wrong with a little social injustice. She thrives on conflict and dissonance. She'd rather kill herself than live a normal 9-to-5 life, or a life dedicated to the betterment of society. How fun could that be? People who stand for truth and honor piss her off. The second someone starts acting like the bastion of virtue, she ends up trying to kick their ass.
For however hectic her life is, and no matter how screwed up she may seem, she couldn't be happier.
