>Name:
>
>Kailan Kanchestar
>
>
>Anime:
>
>Dragonball Z, sort of, plus elements of my own creation.
>
>
>Physical Characteristics:
>
>   I'm tallish, at around 5'11".  You couldn't call me muscular
>(Well, actually, you could.  It's not like I'd mind or anything.), rather, I'd
>be classified as wiry.  My hair is pretty long for a guy's, almost covering my
>ears entirely, and red-brown.  My eyes are a blue/gray ocean color.  I wear
>baggy forest green slacks, held fast by a brown sash at my waist, with a
>khaki vest and a matching (to the pants) green shirt.  My face is long and
>pretty angular.
>
>
>Personality:
>
>   I'm the kind of guy that everybody loves.  They do, I'm sure.  Some
>people just don't like to show it, is all.  Whatever...their loss.
>I'm quick-witted, humorous, and roughish.  At my age, I don't think I
>could possibly get any more charming.  All the ladies say so.  Well,
>eventually, they do.  Sure, sometimes they'll hide their affection under
>layers of scorn and disgust, but I can see right through that.  As you've
>probably gathered, I'm an optimist.
>
>
>Background:
>
>   My early life isn't something I care to remember much.  I was born
>on the planet Vegeta, among the Sayians.  However, I had no tail at birth, as
>my parents were horrified to discover.  They kept me around for a few years,
>to see if maybe I'd sprout one, but I didn't.  So they told me to leave,
>calling me a weakling mutant and saying I was a disgrace to the Sayian
>people.  I lived on the streets for several years after that, skulking in dark
>alleys and eating garbage.  There was a gang of Sayian kids in the
>neighborhood who liked to practice their fighting skills on me, the tail-less
>freak.  Sometimes, when I think back on that time, I'm surprised I lived
>through it at all.
>   But what can I say?  I'm lucky.  One day, a kind Meresstra female saw
>me sifting through the refuse and picked me up.  She was headed out on a
>passenger liner, traveling across the galaxy.  So I went with her, and she
>was my mother for the next seven years.
>   She died when I was eighteen (Meresstra have short life spans), and I
>found myself stranded on the backwater planet of Kanchestar.  See, she'd had
>the money and the appropriate licenses to get passage on a star ship.  I
>didn't have much of anything.  So I went to the nearest town and got a job
>sweeping up the general store.  The owner of the place was a guy named Lymon,
>who was nice enough and gave me a room and a little money for the work I did.
>So I lived that way for a year; peaceful, comfortable, and absolutely bored
>out of my skull.
>   One morning, however, all the citizens of the town were called to the
>town square.  The mayor had just received a notice from a pirate gang that we
>were to give all our surplus grain to them when they arrived in one week's
>time.  Now, that village didn't have anything but grain, so for these pirates
>to take it would ruin the place for at least the rest of the year.  I was
>pretty incensed at the thought of what I considered my hometown getting
>wrecked like that, and felt my Sayian warrior blood for the first time in my
>life.  I wanted to fight.
>   It turned out the rest of the town did too.  More surprisingly, it
>turned out that they were probably the finest pack of fighters I've ever
>seen.  They used spears, axes, and quarter staves, as well as martial arts.  I
>won't go into details about the fight when the pirates landed, but it will
>suffice to say they were lucky to take off again.
>   After the pirates left, I groaned inwardly and resigned myself to
>another numbingly dull year.  However, it was not to be.  Lymon was the town's
>fighting master, and he considered it a challenge to train a Sayian; even one
>without a tail.  So he taught me how to channel Ki (although I never became to
>good at it) and how to fight bare-handed and still wreak havoc on an enemy.
>After several months of this, he went back into his room and emerged with a
>short staff, about two feet long.  He told me it was called a "Power Pole" and
>could extend to any length I wished upon command.  With the pole, he also
>brought out an assortment of metal blades and spear heads and told me to
>construct the weapon I wanted.
>   I built myself a halberd; a sort of cross between a spear and an axe.
>Lymon seemed pleased, and showed me to a small spaceship he'd kept hidden
>from me for over a year.  I was surprised to see it; I was even more surprised
>when he gave it to me, along with enough money to keep me comfortable for a
>long time.  All he asked for in return was that I come back to visit sometime.
>I promised him I would.
>   So that's about it. With my halberd usually close at hand, I've
>traveled thither and yon, amusing myself however I chose.  Someday, when I'm
>rich and prosperous (and I will be, you know), I'm going back to Vegeta to
>show my parents what I've become. But that's a long way off, and there's
>still a lot of galaxy to see...
>
>
>Powers:
>
>   I'm terrible with Ki attacks.  My blasts are pretty strong, but my
>aim isn't worth beans, so I don't do those much.  I fancy myself a gymnast,
>and I enjoy flipping around in battles to dodge instead of just jumping out
>of the way (I mean, if you're going to do something anyway, you might as
>well make it look as good as possible.).  I'm a pretty good martial artist, and
>pretty strong, I guess.  Now when I really start dishing out a world of
>hurtin' to my opponent is when I get my halberd out.  The blade is hidden,
>retracted into the pole itself.  Most of the time, the pole's just a two-foot
>metal rod.  However, I can use command phrases make it change.  Saying "Blade
>open!" makes the blade spring out of the rod's head; "Blade retract!"
>withdraws it.  The halberd's more like an axe if I bring the blade out but
>don't lengthen the pole, and I can use it as such.  Saying "Power Pole
>extend!" causes the rod to grow in length to about six feet, where I can use
>it as either the halberd or a long staff, depending on whether or not the
>blade's out.  I don't use other weapons, and I can't do much of anything else.
>At least, I don't think I can…