Name: Troy F. Duncan
I.D. Number: 81247359
Rank: E2
Year: 1st year
Nationality: American
Age: 15
Sex/Gender: Male
Appearance: [spoili]
[/spoili] Troy often gives people the first impression that he's kind of a grumpy guy because he's usually thinking of new jokes or acts, and his thinking expression makes him look moderately pissed off. However, he'll always smile when he realizes someone's watching. Though not really ugly, he's not exactly got charming good looks, and displays thin but noticeable rings under his eyes -- implying a lack of sleep, likely staying up thinking of scenes. He's known to wear the same rarely-washed light orange hoodie pretty much at all times, along with the most comfortable pants he could find that weren't too horribly digustingly dirty. In contrast, his blonde hair is always neatly combed and parted, and he tends to look as if he just got out of a morning shower; clean and refreshed, if not fully awake. He stands a solid 6"1, but his jocular demeanor makes him look smaller even to short people.
Fighting Style: Troy likes to tell opponents he's a master of the ancient art of Phŏ-kĕ, which is actually just a stupid way to pronounce "fake", as in "not real". Troy has no training, formal or informal, in any actual fighting style, meaning that should he find his way into a fight, he would literally have to make things up and improvise. That's not to say that he's utterly incompetent, just that he doesn't actually know any real fighting style -- he's still a fast thinker, and knows how to thoroughly read an opponent, much alike reading an audience.
Powers: In a similar manner, Troy likes to tell opponents he can see in slow motion, or predict the future, or any number of other things. This is also untrue. Troy has absolutely no powers of any kind, ki-based or otherwise. Of course, there's no solid way for most people to actually prove that, and he knows it, so in a sense, one could say he has the power of the unknown. But that's just a metaphorical power, not a real one.
Personality: Troy is an exceptional actor with a flair for the dramatic. It's rumored that he's more interested in riling up a crowd than actually winning a fight, and he's good at it -- the boy can change his outwards personality almost seamlessly to adapt to a given situation, based on how he thinks he needs to act to get people excited. For this reason, most of his fights look like something out of a movie, with him usually playing the villain -- he only wins occasionally, and not many people want to see the good guy lose. He's exceptionally good at making up cool lines on the spot and cracking jokes when pretending not to take an enemy seriously, even when they're clearly winning by far.
Outside of that, his real personality is something close to a comedian that maybe tries a little too hard. He thinks he's funnier than he is, but it can come off as endearing if you understand his intentions. Troy merely wants people to have a good time, and as such doesn't worry too much about being an exceptional fighter so much as making sure people are satisfied with a given course of events. He doesn't act all that smart, and his grades are average at best, but he is exceptionally clever as someone skilled at improv would be, which suits his untrained fighting style. As such, he is able to put up enough of a fight to make things interesting, if not to win particularly often.
Though he has a good number of fans who turn up to watch his fights, Troy does have a harder time making actual friends. His constant attempts to satisfy make him seem fake, and can come off as a desperate call for attention, which can be offputting. As such, he tends to only make friends with people observant enough to see the meaning behind his behavior; the exact same sort of people he'd never be able to fool.
Background: Troy was born closest to fighting nobility that you can get in the US -- both his parents well-known champions in the US and most of the world. Like Troy himself, they didn't actually practice a real fighting style; they just made it up on the spot, and it worked. Their ad-libbed style was famous for its uncharacteristic effectiveness, and they were both exceptional users of ki-based powers, possessing a wide variety of useful abilities rather than a small set of powerful ones. Of course, the sort of people who'd have such lust for battle would obviously be eager to pass their knowledge onto their children, which made it a bit harder on them when their firstborn turned out to be less of a fighter and more of an actor.
Troy was always a fan of superhero movies, the sort where the bad guys came up with evil schemes and the good guys came along to save the day. As a toddler, that sort of plot was all he understood. His parents figured he'd be a natural; superheroes did nothing
but fight, after all. In the end, however, it turned out he was more a fan of the drama than the actual fighting. He admired the unique styles of every prominent character, hero or villain, and found it fascinating how they'd interact in such a way that made the show so much more interesting than just a couple random guys hitting each other. Eventually, he moved onto action movies with gritty protagonists, and became increasingly fond of their badass catchphrases and wit in the face of danger. For a while, he found himself baffled by how the villain would do something stupid and illogical -- why not just kill the hero with a bullet to the head, instead of a slowly moving laser to the crotch and an evil plan-explaining monologue? -- but eventually he realized that it was because the show would be boring if they were smarter, if they simply defeated their foe on the spot and moved on. Who'd want to watch that?
Troy, of course, still received the best "training" he could be given by parents who didn't practice a real style, and it was for the first time that they cursed themselves for not learning something specifically teachable. They'd always assumed their children would simply have the genetics to catch on easily. In addition, Troy displayed little ability with Ki, unable to mould it into any usable form, if only for a lack of effort. Everytime they'd tell him to practice, they'd simply discover him watching movies again, or catching up on hero cartoons. Though he did come out a pretty competent fighter(he had to have gotten
some good genes, after all), he was nowhere near the world champion they were sure he'd turn out to be.
It was Troy's idea to be enrolled in New Peaks Academy. His parents weren't going to make him attend a combat school if he didn't want to, but he insisted on it. They thought, rather naively, that perhaps he'd turned over a new leaf and wanted to take on the family name, when in reality he merely wanted to test what TV had taught him. Nevertheless, it was a good deal for all parties. His parents were certain he'd manage to at least
pass, if not with flying colors, and he got to act with an audience to show off to, people to make smile. After all, isn't that the point of show biz?
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First rule of fight school, don't fail fight school.
