Takuma Tsurugi

Takuma Tsurugi was born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother in 1939. In 1944, Tsurugi received martial arts training from his father at age 5, who had perfected his own unique martial art based on Karate and Shaolin Kung-Fu during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tsurigi's father was tried and convicted of treason by the Japanese government due to his marriage to a Chinese woman, a charge based solely on racial prejudice. Despite his oaths of loyalty to the Japanese Empire, Tsurugi's father was executed by firing squad, an event that Tsurugi witnessed. The traumatic event proved to be the formative moment of Tsurugi's young life, causing him to grow up as a distrustful, amoral mercenary living only to prove his own fighting abilities which is from there on thirty years later in his life in 1974. Tsurugi has little in the way of a moral code, and will resort to any means necessary to collect on debts owed to him, including selling his debtors' family into sexual slavery.

Like his father, Takuma is a black-belt of the traditional arts of Karate and Chinese Boxing. As a skilled assassin, he possesses intense fighting abilities who ferociously dispense brutal and deadly bodily harm towards his enemies. However, he has no qualms about fighting dirty either, hence his given title The Street Fighter. He has poked peoples eyes, cracked their necks by stomping on them with side of his shoe and even castrating an assailant with his bare hands. He also has strength, agility, and reflexes that Bruce Lee's abilities almost matches with. On multiple occasions, he has fractured skulls from a single punch to the victim's head and has killed a man by ripping out his throat. He holds an incredible resilience to inflicted injuries, capable of withstanding from a bullet shot to his back and a stab wound in the abdomen all together. While he tends to engage in hand-to-hand combat with his enemies, he is also proficient in many Japanese weaponry arts including the Sai and throwing knives. On the field, he distinctly dons a black karategi; a bronze leather belt wrapped around the jacket of his gi, rather than a traditional obi (belt); completed with a pair of white socks inside of black hard jump boots; his regular weapon of choice is his pair of black han kote (samurai gauntlets) with steel armor to ward off blade-wielding foes, deliver fatal forearm blows, and to conceal several kunais. He may also use disguises to infiltrate and reach his target undetected. He is usually wearing a black M-1965 field jacket.

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