Skull Rider / Taki Ryusuke

The Basics
Name: Taki Ryusuke
Age: Physically, about 25, still in the height of youth, Chronologically, about 35 or so.
Sex: Male
Species: Kaizo-Ningen / Remodeled Human
Date Of Birth: 05/14/1977
Nationality: Japanese - American
Hometown Tokyo
Occupation: Interpol Agent.
Alignment: Chaotic Good.
Theme Song:

Outer Stuff
Face Claim: Masaki Kyomoto
Height: 5' 8"
Weight 160 pounds.
Hair color: Dark Brown
Hair style: Well-kept, with class.
Eye color: Brown
Skin color: Somewhat of a tan Japanese color.
Posture: A varied posture, he can be critical and alert, or he can be easygoing and social, with no external portrayal that anything's wrong.
Scars/ Tattoo’s/ Other markings: Scars around his stomach, though these are only picked up by attentive eyes, the six-pack making up for them.
Accessories: Active passports for a number of countries, his Interpol Badge and identification, with a special notation that means nothing to anyone untrained, but otherwise meaning that he has a License to Kill. Carries a briefcase with him, with manila folders, notepads, etc. Also a normal cellphone that talks and texts, with free international calling, and a professional camera.
Clothes: A master of disguise, though he will generally have a pressed black suit and tie on his entrance into a country or place.
Anything Else? He's a bit old-fashioned...not too much into technology, though he isn't closed to that kind of thing. Is also the master of the Dragon Shot, a soccer ball technique.

Inner Stuff
Likes:

• Soccer (Football outside the US)
  
• Travel and Adventure
  
• Protecting others
  
• Fine wine, since he is mostly immune to getting drunk. Still, out of old superstition, he limits his drinking to mostly off-duty, if he does at all.
  
• Women.
  
• Building or tinkering with things...and boats.
  

Dislikes:

• Evildoing
  
• Law-breaking, though he can be reasonable.
  
• Bribes.
  
• Corruption
  
• Disrespect of women and children.
  

Strengths:

• His body.
  
• His mind, to an extent.
  
• His confidence and wit.
  

Weaknesses:

• Sometimes gets in over his head
  
• Loud rock or metal music.
  
• Long technical explanations.
  

Goal(s):

• To keep doing as he has done, and continue being an Interpol Agent.
  

Habits/ Quirks:

• Sometimes he makes dramatic entrances.
  

Relationships:

• Other Interpol Agents - co-workers.
  
• Damien Rassilon - A friend and contact in the UK
  
• Quentin Avernier - Another contact in France, shares stories, and he likes the wine.
  
• Kyle Cross - The agent he works with more often than the others.
  
• "Rookie" Nuyar - Friend and person he turns to for technical advice.
  
• Banba Soukichi - the former Captain of the JAKQ team, they ran a few cases together.
  
• Shigeru Jo - Interpol Agent and co-worker
  

Overview: Taki is one of the classic agents, a Bond type in a way, suave and debonaire when he needs to be, but ruthless in battle. He can profile those people he meets just from looking at them, and more often than not be right. Cool and professional at work, he treats people well usually, especially women. Though if women treat him badly, or insult him, he won't hesitate to tell them what he thinks about that. He's a cool hand with weaponry.

Hero Stuff
Name: "Skull Rider" (What other people call his form, he hasn't named it)
Type Of Hero: Kamen Rider
Henshin Device: Rider Belt.
Henshin Sequence: He lifts up his shirt, exposing the belt and equipping his black leather looking armor. Puts on the skull helmet and snaps on the face guard. A small gust of wind exposes his scarf.

• Form Name: Skull Rider
  Image/ Description: Skull Rider
  Motif: Black, Skull.
  Color Scheme: Black.
  Transformation: See above.
  Fighting Style: Quick, Brutal, Effective, synchronizing power, speed, defense and agility.
  Weapons: Shotgun - narrow spread, good for close quarters combat, loaded with prototype anti-kaijin rounds that hit better than the G series. Slung over his back, or stored in a special briefcase.
  Assault Rifle - M16 looking weapon, with undermounted grenade launcher. Loads longer banana clips of anti-kaijin ammunition that can harm Riders as well. The undermounted launcher fires a high explosive charge that is often a finishing manuever. Rests on his right thigh, or in a special briefcase.
  Magnum - A long barreled pistol, it can retract or extend, also loaded with anti-kaijin rounds and doubles as an accurate long range weapon due to his abilities and the removable scope. Rests on his left hip, or a special container.
  
  Electro Dagger - Starts as a dagger, can lengthen to be a katana like sword.
  
  Electro Knuckle - A simple knuckleduster that hits harder than a normal punch would, and is the catalyst for the Rider Punch finisher.
  
  Abilities: Increased stats on all senses and abilities, per his Kaizo Ningen ability
  
  Attacks:Rider Shoot - The high explosive charge from the grenade launcher, explodes on impact with the target, and can tear through a lot of things. Sometimes a set up for a higher finisher.
  
  Rider Blast - A close range, high-powered shotgun shell blast that tears through enemy defenses. Sometimes a setup for a higher finisher.
  
  Rider Chop - A simple chop that can cut through steel. Powered ones can build up for higher finishers.
  Finisher(s): He hasn't named them, but they are.
  1. Rider Punch - Second strongest finisher.
  2. Rider Kick - Strongest finisher.
  

Other Equipment:

• His bike
  
• His weaponry.
  

His childhood was mixed, a good home, but being provoked into fights at school and outside it. Despite that, he did well enough to continue his studies, his Japanese father and American mother supporting him all the way, teaching him to cook, do household things, along with things pertaining to the outdoors. In high school, he continued his love of football (soccer), and was on that team primarily, though also in physical education and track.

A shooting would happen near the school one day after he walked, a small glimpse into a larger way of life. An international criminal had been on the run, but Interpol agents had shot him and were taking him away. It was watching all of that, that sparked what he wished to be...to rise above what he was, and become someone who could make a difference.

Graduating from high school with good grades, he took his earthly things, and bid his parents farewell at 18, heading out into the world, searching for Interpol. His travels would take him through Tokyo, and across the sea to America...where he finally stumbled across an agent in a diner...they got to talking, since the man understood Japanese, and he saw potential, bringing him back to their Headquarters. Then he went through the process of becoming an agent, learning English, four years of college, martial arts training, and any other things necessary.

It was about the turn of the century that he became a full Interpol agent, with the license to kill. He ended up running a lot of cases over the next couple of years...until a big one came. They had lost contact with an operative inside the terrorist organization Shocker...and he was selected to go in. He chose the guise of a weapons dealer, and delivered his shipment to the Shocker base. But they would find out his identity, thanks to the operative was a double-agent scientist...and he was taken captive.

They tortured him, he wouldn't reveal anything...so instead they knocked him out and after reviewing his vitals...he was determined to be a candidate for becoming a remodeled human. It fell to the double-agent to do it....but this woman held remorse for having done what she did...and she conducted the process in her own way....completing it later, and being there when he woke up, filling him in on what happened quickly before sending him on his way to sneak out of the base...and so he did, until he got outside. There, his first battle would be.

After that, he'd continue on, watching as the world unfolded into a new age...an age of technology, and an age of kaijin attacks increasing. More cases would happen through the years. And he still works as an agent in the present day, though he has taken steps to start learning about technology... he's also worked with and met other Interpol agents and other contacts...but those are stories for another time.

OOC Stuff
Anything Else: None.
OOC Name: Rei
Name Color #000000
Number Of Stars Two
Color Of Stars Red
Sample RP: Taki whirled on his boot, adrenaline rushing through him, blocking out the pain as two Shocker monsters and a number of minions confronted him. "It's time to see if what she did worked." he said simply, charging in and dispatching each minion with a well placed kick, in human form.
Ducking under a strike, and a kick, he pulled up his shirt, exposing his belt and forming his armor, holding his helmet in his hands as he kicked the two kaijin back, snapping on the helmet and faceguard, forming a pose of his own.

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"Rider Kick!"

Would be heard, instinctively, from him later, as he destroyed the final Kaijin...and went to the hiding place that he'd been instructed to. Finding the sleek black bike there that she had told him about, he started up, revved up, and accelerated away.