Post by mugenginga on Jul 22, 2010 6:02:10 GMT -5
Full Name: Asim Kader
Nicknames: Obelisk, Guardian of the Gods
Age: 20
Height: 183 cm/~6”
Weight: 67 kg/~147 lbs
Gender: Male
Race: Human (Avatar)
Alliance: Neutral
Home: Cairo, Egypt
Franchise: Yu-Gi-Oh Original Character
Physical Description
Asim is rather tall for his ethnicity. While he does have the tan one might expect on a native Egyptian, it is on the lighter end of things. He’s got noticeably developed muscles, and while they aren’t ‘large’, per se, it is enough to make a lot of people think twice about messing with him.
His eyes are dark blue and fairly harsh. It almost seems like he’s judging you whenever he looks at you, and people have claimed his gaze seems to follow them even when he stares straight ahead. They are pronounced and tend to draw attention first due to his exaggerated eyelashes. They are not feminine, but they are more than would be considered standard for a guy.
Asim has short vivid blue hair. The bangs only fall about 3/4 down his forehead. They part to his left in well organized clumps. He has a long v-cut in the back, angling inwards and down from the base of his ears. The bottom tip of his hair reaches about halfway down his neck. The young man also has a narrow goatee that hangs down a small bit from his chin and two pointed sideburns. The latter are cut in a way that causes the points to face inwards.
The young man dresses in shades of blue and black. He is usually seen in a belt. He often wears sleeveless shirts and usually has his black leather jacket on. He is never seen outside of pants. Another common accessory are bracers, and he never wears them for show. Asim doesn’t have a favorite outfit, either, but they do tend to follow this theme. His outfit upon arrival to the Island is no exception.
Asim is wearing a sleeveless muted blue muscle shirt. Due to the purpose and design of the shirt, you can make out some of the muscles on his chest due to it. He is wearing a darker muted blue pair of pants that seem almost plastic, and they are lacking pockets. Over his shirt is his usual long sleeved black leather jacket. There are four silver metal spikes on the shoulders, two of them on either side. The innermost spike on either side is a bit larger. They have moderately sharp edges and could be used to cut.
The front of the jacket has a very pronounced collar. It is actually in two layers. The bottom two sides are larger and curve up and out. The two behind that are actually part of the piece that loops around the back of his neck. They are smaller but have the same basic pattern. The part of his jacket with the zipper is more of a dark grey than a black. The zipper is the same shade and hard to see. Three blue clasps come from the left side and snap on dark grey buttons on the other side. He tends to keep the jacket open.
Around his waist is a black leather belt, held closed with a silver oval buckle. The buckle is plain and smooth. Over each of his lower arms is a heavy duty shatter resistant plastic bracer. The border is blue and slightly raised, and the center is a muted blue. It is also slightly raised, creating a solid dip near the edge of the bracers. They are held on with muted blue belt straps put through silver buckles. The shield part is over the top of his arm and he is able to use them as shielding.
Asim has tall black leather boots. They button up the side with blue clasps identical to the ones on his jacket. The sole has cleats and is a darker shade of black than the rest of the boots. On the ankles is a muted blue leather strap, put through a silver buckle at the outer side of his ankles. The straps on none of his outfit are held down, but not enough sticks out to really create an issue.
Weapons
It could be said that Asim doesn’t carry weapons, but that wouldn’t be the total truth. His fighting skills aside, his jacket does have those spikes. He doesn’t make a point of keeping them sharpened, but they are capable of cutting and functioning as a sort of awkward blade.
In addition to that, Asim has a deck of forty Duel Monsters cards, although he lacks a side deck. His deck is a type known as “Beatdown”, a style made known by a famous Duelist in his home world, Seto Kaiba. Asim’s deck doesn’t have much of a focus beyond that, with little unity beyond strong monsters, support for said monsters, and disabling the opponent.
His cards are considered weapons due to how they function on the Island as well as his own abilities. Cards from his world function like portable versions of the stone tablets in Ancient Egypt while on the Island. He can summon the monsters displayed on them as Ka and use his Ba (life force) to use the spells and traps. He can use ones that wouldn't function in a real fight due to being tailored for a card game in a more natural format because of a greater understanding of the powers they represent. See Abilities/Powers for a full explanation.
Abilities/Powers
Asim is the avatar of the Nile river itself, taking position among the Ancient Egyptian pantheon as a force of protection and representation of the gods. He's not "controlled" by the froce so much as he is the force, and the separation of which is impossible to nail down. He has the potential to use the powers of the force he represents and the ability to call upon memories and knowledge as they are needed. He is generally a normal young man living his life as a normal human would.
He possesses a wide variety of powers as would be expected from a polytheistic divine force. He's not all powerful, with his powers centering around the protection and representation of the gods. They are not defined, and will be better developed in plot. His powers associate with protection and representation.
In relation to the Duel Monsters cards, he knows how to use spells, traps, and other effects in a way impossible to reflect in a simple card game. He has full understanding of such things due to being the avatar of a force most active when Ka were still being actively used. He has a natural Ka of immense powers that requires almost no effort to maintain, but it is linked to a card possessed by Atem. He is limited as a result of this, and they both can't use his Ka at the same time. However, the link exists in a way that Asim could interfere with and prevent Atem's ability to summon the God of Obelisk.
Skills
Asim is a bit of a brute in a fight. He hits like a stack of bricks and can be on the receiving end of as much as he can dish out. He functions more as a tank than an agile fighter, and he tends to let himself be hit. He's strong and tough even without his position as the guardian of the gods. The additional boost from those powers makes fighting him much like fighting a tank with your bare hands. It should be noted that he isn’t all that agile. He stings like a bee, but floats about as well as a dead butterfly.
His first language is Egyptian Arabic due to the dominant spoken language of his country, and he can read Standard Arabic as well for the same reason. He has conversational English, enough that he could get by despite the heavy accent. He is able to both speak and read Ancient Egyptian due to his status as an avatar of an Ancient Egyptian force.
Personality
Asim is a very serious individual. He seems to lack in the sense of humor department and has a fairly oppressing presence. He's already rather tall for his ethnicity, but he has the stance of a person who can take you down and isn't afraid to do so. He's not as violent or truly dangerous as he seems, although he has the potential and willingness to be both. He has his own code for who should be trusted and respected, and if he feels you are not treating people with the respect they deserve can get a bit... pushy.
He doesn't like forming relationships, tending to stick to who he knows and trusts. His serious and oppressing presence occurs in the presence of people he doesn't like, which means it is very hard for him to get that social shell off. He is often slow to decide who he trusts, but there is an opposite side to the coin. Once he decides to trust you, it is very hard for him to break it. He doesn't often get the idea of people betraying him, but one of the surest ways to piss him off is for him to realize you really have turned your back on him. When he is pissed, he tends to be a fair bit violent.
Asim is more likely to trust people in positions of authority. If someone he has befriended informs him he can trust another, it is another way to lessen the time it takes him to warm up. He's got an odd sense of values in regards to respect. He tends to take a follower position to those people, but he has his own ideas about them being safe. Asim is very protective of those he considers his friends, and if he decides they need protecting it can take some work to talk him down.
It can also sometimes be hard for him to give voice to when he disapproves of someone he respects, sometimes causing him to come across as a brown noser. It is more he doesn't like to say things unless he feels the need for them to be said, causing him to be a bit on the quiet side of things. Asim is very dedicated to his duty, which directly relates to matters such as his respect for authority and tendency to keep things to himself.
History
Asim Kader was born on January 6th in one of the newer parts of Cairo. Both of his parents were pure Egyptian for as far back as the family lines could be traced. His parents chose not to have any more children after he was born, a decision they managed to make good on.
As a child, Asim was a severe bully. He was a constant handful for his parents, and things got very bad when he managed to hospitalize a kid his age. He was informed that if he kept it up, he would be pulled from school but he didn't care. This behavior turned around at age fifteen when he tried to beat up a sixteen year old named Haytham Sultan. Haytham managed to avoid every attack Asim threw at him and ended up actually knocking Asim out using his environment cleverly. It was a case of brains defeating brawn.
When Asim woke up, he was completely baffled to be back at his house. What confused him even more was that Haytham was in the room with him. There was quite a bit of friction at first, but Haytham managed to calm the other teenager down with words alone. There was a whole speech about what Asim found truly important and he managed to get the other teenager to realize he was fighting so much because he was missing something. Asim began hanging out with Haytham a lot after that, and they ended up becoming very close friends.
A year or so ago, a card game known as Duel Monsters showed up in Egypt, replacing the less accurate Monsters and Wizards version. It came at the start of a tournament held by Duel Monsters' creator and was known as Duelist Kingdom. This meant that Egypt got their release of Duel Monsters after Japan did, which was different from who got Monsters and Wizards first.
Pegasus, the creator of the game, focused the marketing campaign on the idea of the cards returning to their origin, specifying that the inspiration for them had come from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Asim noted Haytham had an awful lot of interest in what seemed like a simple card game to him, and got into it as a result. Haytham was more than happy to Duel him, and with the other man's coaching became rather good at it.
About the time the final between the Japanese teenagers Mutou Yugi and Jyounouchi Katsuya (their names being displayed in English letters during the fight) came up, something clicked for Asim. He'd noted the pendant Yuugi wore in the various feeds of Duels and how Haytham seemed to focus on it. He asked Haytham about it even before the fight had finished and got confirmation. Haytham had known he was the god Ra and that Asim was a representation of the Nile for many years. Asim even got harassed by Haytham for not being upset at the information being kept from him. Asim did have a bit of worry regarding it, but Haytham helped him through it.
There was nothing much that changed between the two of them after that. Asim didn't need anything else explained to him by Haytham, as once the memories of who he really was had settled in, he knew about the "god cards" created by Pegasus. He respected and understood Haytham's respect towards the Pharaoh, who only had to regain his name for destiny to develop as it was fated to.
When a power brought forth Ka to the world, he helped defend Haytham. He did it well enough that his friend hardly had to lift a finger, a thing for which Haytham made sure to harass him about. When the Pharaoh had to call upon the power of the god cards to fight the evil sealed with Atlantis, both he and Haytham fell unconscious. Asim remained by Haytham's side until he recovered, but things were more or less normal.
Things became not normal when Asim felt part of himself leave the current dimension. It was the part of himself tied to the god card known most commonly as Obelisk. There was a constant drain on his spirit, and Haytham was insisting that things had developed in a way they shouldn't. Haytham, for the first time in the friendship, gave Asim a direct order. He was to go to the dimension the Pharaoh had gotten himself too and make sure to protect him. He would be following as soon as he could. Being an adult and on his own, Asim had no one to worry. He did as Haytham told him.
Other
OMIGOSH YOU SPELLED JOUNOUCHI AND YUUGI’S NAMES WRONG.
No, no I didn’t. It’s my way of dealing with “canon” romanizations. The Jyounouchi spelling shows up in the Japanese anime, and the “official” romanization for Yuugi’s name is Yugi. I would do the same thing with Raito vs Light in Death Note. If his name were to come up in ‘verse in English, I’d say it was spelled Light. In a fanfic I would spell it Raito given the Japanese name (that uses the “tsuki” kanji, if anyone is curious).
Asim was a bit tricky to manage since "Obelisk" is a type of structure, not a god. I chose to go with the protection factor obelisks are supposed to grant, and made a bit of a stretch to associate him with the Nile, which was treated as divine in Ancient Egypt. NN1 said the god cards made into characters would cout as OCs. Osiris and Ra are already ready, and will be showing up after Asim/Obelisk. Mixed canon usage.
Also, I’m aware of the ho yay between Haytham and Asim. They aren’t a couple nor will they be.
Pictures
Rough Reference: sheezyart.com/art/view/2265458/
Nicknames: Obelisk, Guardian of the Gods
Age: 20
Height: 183 cm/~6”
Weight: 67 kg/~147 lbs
Gender: Male
Race: Human (Avatar)
Alliance: Neutral
Home: Cairo, Egypt
Franchise: Yu-Gi-Oh Original Character
Physical Description
Asim is rather tall for his ethnicity. While he does have the tan one might expect on a native Egyptian, it is on the lighter end of things. He’s got noticeably developed muscles, and while they aren’t ‘large’, per se, it is enough to make a lot of people think twice about messing with him.
His eyes are dark blue and fairly harsh. It almost seems like he’s judging you whenever he looks at you, and people have claimed his gaze seems to follow them even when he stares straight ahead. They are pronounced and tend to draw attention first due to his exaggerated eyelashes. They are not feminine, but they are more than would be considered standard for a guy.
Asim has short vivid blue hair. The bangs only fall about 3/4 down his forehead. They part to his left in well organized clumps. He has a long v-cut in the back, angling inwards and down from the base of his ears. The bottom tip of his hair reaches about halfway down his neck. The young man also has a narrow goatee that hangs down a small bit from his chin and two pointed sideburns. The latter are cut in a way that causes the points to face inwards.
The young man dresses in shades of blue and black. He is usually seen in a belt. He often wears sleeveless shirts and usually has his black leather jacket on. He is never seen outside of pants. Another common accessory are bracers, and he never wears them for show. Asim doesn’t have a favorite outfit, either, but they do tend to follow this theme. His outfit upon arrival to the Island is no exception.
Asim is wearing a sleeveless muted blue muscle shirt. Due to the purpose and design of the shirt, you can make out some of the muscles on his chest due to it. He is wearing a darker muted blue pair of pants that seem almost plastic, and they are lacking pockets. Over his shirt is his usual long sleeved black leather jacket. There are four silver metal spikes on the shoulders, two of them on either side. The innermost spike on either side is a bit larger. They have moderately sharp edges and could be used to cut.
The front of the jacket has a very pronounced collar. It is actually in two layers. The bottom two sides are larger and curve up and out. The two behind that are actually part of the piece that loops around the back of his neck. They are smaller but have the same basic pattern. The part of his jacket with the zipper is more of a dark grey than a black. The zipper is the same shade and hard to see. Three blue clasps come from the left side and snap on dark grey buttons on the other side. He tends to keep the jacket open.
Around his waist is a black leather belt, held closed with a silver oval buckle. The buckle is plain and smooth. Over each of his lower arms is a heavy duty shatter resistant plastic bracer. The border is blue and slightly raised, and the center is a muted blue. It is also slightly raised, creating a solid dip near the edge of the bracers. They are held on with muted blue belt straps put through silver buckles. The shield part is over the top of his arm and he is able to use them as shielding.
Asim has tall black leather boots. They button up the side with blue clasps identical to the ones on his jacket. The sole has cleats and is a darker shade of black than the rest of the boots. On the ankles is a muted blue leather strap, put through a silver buckle at the outer side of his ankles. The straps on none of his outfit are held down, but not enough sticks out to really create an issue.
Weapons
It could be said that Asim doesn’t carry weapons, but that wouldn’t be the total truth. His fighting skills aside, his jacket does have those spikes. He doesn’t make a point of keeping them sharpened, but they are capable of cutting and functioning as a sort of awkward blade.
In addition to that, Asim has a deck of forty Duel Monsters cards, although he lacks a side deck. His deck is a type known as “Beatdown”, a style made known by a famous Duelist in his home world, Seto Kaiba. Asim’s deck doesn’t have much of a focus beyond that, with little unity beyond strong monsters, support for said monsters, and disabling the opponent.
His cards are considered weapons due to how they function on the Island as well as his own abilities. Cards from his world function like portable versions of the stone tablets in Ancient Egypt while on the Island. He can summon the monsters displayed on them as Ka and use his Ba (life force) to use the spells and traps. He can use ones that wouldn't function in a real fight due to being tailored for a card game in a more natural format because of a greater understanding of the powers they represent. See Abilities/Powers for a full explanation.
Abilities/Powers
Asim is the avatar of the Nile river itself, taking position among the Ancient Egyptian pantheon as a force of protection and representation of the gods. He's not "controlled" by the froce so much as he is the force, and the separation of which is impossible to nail down. He has the potential to use the powers of the force he represents and the ability to call upon memories and knowledge as they are needed. He is generally a normal young man living his life as a normal human would.
He possesses a wide variety of powers as would be expected from a polytheistic divine force. He's not all powerful, with his powers centering around the protection and representation of the gods. They are not defined, and will be better developed in plot. His powers associate with protection and representation.
In relation to the Duel Monsters cards, he knows how to use spells, traps, and other effects in a way impossible to reflect in a simple card game. He has full understanding of such things due to being the avatar of a force most active when Ka were still being actively used. He has a natural Ka of immense powers that requires almost no effort to maintain, but it is linked to a card possessed by Atem. He is limited as a result of this, and they both can't use his Ka at the same time. However, the link exists in a way that Asim could interfere with and prevent Atem's ability to summon the God of Obelisk.
Skills
Asim is a bit of a brute in a fight. He hits like a stack of bricks and can be on the receiving end of as much as he can dish out. He functions more as a tank than an agile fighter, and he tends to let himself be hit. He's strong and tough even without his position as the guardian of the gods. The additional boost from those powers makes fighting him much like fighting a tank with your bare hands. It should be noted that he isn’t all that agile. He stings like a bee, but floats about as well as a dead butterfly.
His first language is Egyptian Arabic due to the dominant spoken language of his country, and he can read Standard Arabic as well for the same reason. He has conversational English, enough that he could get by despite the heavy accent. He is able to both speak and read Ancient Egyptian due to his status as an avatar of an Ancient Egyptian force.
Personality
Asim is a very serious individual. He seems to lack in the sense of humor department and has a fairly oppressing presence. He's already rather tall for his ethnicity, but he has the stance of a person who can take you down and isn't afraid to do so. He's not as violent or truly dangerous as he seems, although he has the potential and willingness to be both. He has his own code for who should be trusted and respected, and if he feels you are not treating people with the respect they deserve can get a bit... pushy.
He doesn't like forming relationships, tending to stick to who he knows and trusts. His serious and oppressing presence occurs in the presence of people he doesn't like, which means it is very hard for him to get that social shell off. He is often slow to decide who he trusts, but there is an opposite side to the coin. Once he decides to trust you, it is very hard for him to break it. He doesn't often get the idea of people betraying him, but one of the surest ways to piss him off is for him to realize you really have turned your back on him. When he is pissed, he tends to be a fair bit violent.
Asim is more likely to trust people in positions of authority. If someone he has befriended informs him he can trust another, it is another way to lessen the time it takes him to warm up. He's got an odd sense of values in regards to respect. He tends to take a follower position to those people, but he has his own ideas about them being safe. Asim is very protective of those he considers his friends, and if he decides they need protecting it can take some work to talk him down.
It can also sometimes be hard for him to give voice to when he disapproves of someone he respects, sometimes causing him to come across as a brown noser. It is more he doesn't like to say things unless he feels the need for them to be said, causing him to be a bit on the quiet side of things. Asim is very dedicated to his duty, which directly relates to matters such as his respect for authority and tendency to keep things to himself.
History
Asim Kader was born on January 6th in one of the newer parts of Cairo. Both of his parents were pure Egyptian for as far back as the family lines could be traced. His parents chose not to have any more children after he was born, a decision they managed to make good on.
As a child, Asim was a severe bully. He was a constant handful for his parents, and things got very bad when he managed to hospitalize a kid his age. He was informed that if he kept it up, he would be pulled from school but he didn't care. This behavior turned around at age fifteen when he tried to beat up a sixteen year old named Haytham Sultan. Haytham managed to avoid every attack Asim threw at him and ended up actually knocking Asim out using his environment cleverly. It was a case of brains defeating brawn.
When Asim woke up, he was completely baffled to be back at his house. What confused him even more was that Haytham was in the room with him. There was quite a bit of friction at first, but Haytham managed to calm the other teenager down with words alone. There was a whole speech about what Asim found truly important and he managed to get the other teenager to realize he was fighting so much because he was missing something. Asim began hanging out with Haytham a lot after that, and they ended up becoming very close friends.
A year or so ago, a card game known as Duel Monsters showed up in Egypt, replacing the less accurate Monsters and Wizards version. It came at the start of a tournament held by Duel Monsters' creator and was known as Duelist Kingdom. This meant that Egypt got their release of Duel Monsters after Japan did, which was different from who got Monsters and Wizards first.
Pegasus, the creator of the game, focused the marketing campaign on the idea of the cards returning to their origin, specifying that the inspiration for them had come from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Asim noted Haytham had an awful lot of interest in what seemed like a simple card game to him, and got into it as a result. Haytham was more than happy to Duel him, and with the other man's coaching became rather good at it.
About the time the final between the Japanese teenagers Mutou Yugi and Jyounouchi Katsuya (their names being displayed in English letters during the fight) came up, something clicked for Asim. He'd noted the pendant Yuugi wore in the various feeds of Duels and how Haytham seemed to focus on it. He asked Haytham about it even before the fight had finished and got confirmation. Haytham had known he was the god Ra and that Asim was a representation of the Nile for many years. Asim even got harassed by Haytham for not being upset at the information being kept from him. Asim did have a bit of worry regarding it, but Haytham helped him through it.
There was nothing much that changed between the two of them after that. Asim didn't need anything else explained to him by Haytham, as once the memories of who he really was had settled in, he knew about the "god cards" created by Pegasus. He respected and understood Haytham's respect towards the Pharaoh, who only had to regain his name for destiny to develop as it was fated to.
When a power brought forth Ka to the world, he helped defend Haytham. He did it well enough that his friend hardly had to lift a finger, a thing for which Haytham made sure to harass him about. When the Pharaoh had to call upon the power of the god cards to fight the evil sealed with Atlantis, both he and Haytham fell unconscious. Asim remained by Haytham's side until he recovered, but things were more or less normal.
Things became not normal when Asim felt part of himself leave the current dimension. It was the part of himself tied to the god card known most commonly as Obelisk. There was a constant drain on his spirit, and Haytham was insisting that things had developed in a way they shouldn't. Haytham, for the first time in the friendship, gave Asim a direct order. He was to go to the dimension the Pharaoh had gotten himself too and make sure to protect him. He would be following as soon as he could. Being an adult and on his own, Asim had no one to worry. He did as Haytham told him.
Other
OMIGOSH YOU SPELLED JOUNOUCHI AND YUUGI’S NAMES WRONG.
No, no I didn’t. It’s my way of dealing with “canon” romanizations. The Jyounouchi spelling shows up in the Japanese anime, and the “official” romanization for Yuugi’s name is Yugi. I would do the same thing with Raito vs Light in Death Note. If his name were to come up in ‘verse in English, I’d say it was spelled Light. In a fanfic I would spell it Raito given the Japanese name (that uses the “tsuki” kanji, if anyone is curious).
Asim was a bit tricky to manage since "Obelisk" is a type of structure, not a god. I chose to go with the protection factor obelisks are supposed to grant, and made a bit of a stretch to associate him with the Nile, which was treated as divine in Ancient Egypt. NN1 said the god cards made into characters would cout as OCs. Osiris and Ra are already ready, and will be showing up after Asim/Obelisk. Mixed canon usage.
Also, I’m aware of the ho yay between Haytham and Asim. They aren’t a couple nor will they be.
Pictures
Rough Reference: sheezyart.com/art/view/2265458/
