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Name: Ari Junayd Wasim Haswari Alias: Senka Nationality: Israeli Ethnicity: Israeli and Iraqi Attended School: Henry Knox Academy D.O.B: March 20th, 1992 Age: 17 Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel Height: 5'10 Weight: 168 Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual Blood Type: AB Positive Religious Persuasion: Raised to know both Jewish and Muslim Spoken Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English
Appearance
Physical:
Head: Ari has a well formed jawline that forms neatly into the rest of his face, unpronounced cheek bones, a straight-ridged nose with a slight dip at the end. His ears are average in size, and framed with a well groomed black hair, cropped shorter after it was used against him in a fight. His neck bears a small amount of corded muscle, but is neither bulky nor strained by it.
Eye color: His iris' are a striking gray and the white of his eyes stand out quite handsomely considering his slightly darker completion.
Hair: Black, cut shorter once moved into Knox, usually a few inches of length, usually just tousled and ignored. Ari has a thin mustache, near goatee, with a thin train from his bottom lip down to his chin. Will grow black stubble across his jaw if he neglects shaving.
Torso: Toned and trim, no real real bulk. He has prominent pectorals and a well defined stomach. The muscles pulled tight around his ribs have been built ore for accepting the strain of quick twists of the upper body rather than blows. His collarbones and shoulders are defined, muscle from the neck to the shoulder are clearly visible, as well for his back, as rigorously worked trimmed his body to be highly fit. Has a foot long scar along his back, a straight forty five degree scar in the middle of his back.
Arms: Slim, slightly toned. His muscles are usually described as wiry, even though the muscles are clearly visible. But as he's not as bulked or toned as a body builder his arm strength remains deceptive. The ridges of muscle are dense, and as a result of conditioning is clearly built for speed. He has built callouses on his elbows through frequent strikes.
Hands: Calloused on the knuckles and the heel of his palms, with appropriate sized digits. His knuckles are pronounced more than average, making his impacts feel much more like bone rather than the meat of the hand when he strikes. There is a scar across the back of his fingers, old enough that it is no longer gruesome.
Legs: Ari's legs are built uniquely because of his training. Needing both speed and endurance he followed training in such a way that he can perform explosive bursts of speed in short distances, but in any long distance situations he will rely more on his endurance. His knees have become callous due to various knee strikes he's practiced thousands of times.
Feet: Average in size, no outstanding markings. The soles of his feet have built up thick layers of skin due to barefoot training, and has deadened the nerves by walking over thorns, conditioning himself to the pain.
Personality: Ari is quite the intriguing individual even to his enemies. He can be seen as something of a ladies man, as he is quite charming, calm, and soft spoke around women. Even with enemies he will apply a charm and humor to his speech, no matter what situation he finds himself in. This can make him quite unpredictable, as he has no large change of mood between anger and happiness, cold and warm, it will all be displayed the same. Even his handler is unsure if it is a mask, or his real personality.
Just image for a moment that you see Ari, someone you have fought against fiercely in your recent past, sitting down at outside a cafe quietly reading. He invites you to sit, smiles and talks about your history, no matter how brief, and without so much as a facial twitch or change of tone informs you that there is a bomb strapped under one of the seven tables around him and that you cannot move or the bomb will explode within thirty seconds and you would be responsible for the deaths of ten men and women. Ari stands and turns to leave, and casually mentions as he walks away that he was joking.
Life and death, do you see humor, manipulation, a warning? Or do you run from what could be an impending explosion? This is the dilemma he has become quite adept at placing people around him in.
Ari feels trapped, crushed between two unmovable objects that he is chained to. If he tries to lean too far in either direction he will be torn in half and never be the same again. He has decided that he will reject both, float in the middle until he can crush his change, and proceed to destroy the walls. Meanwhile he needs to feel free, and he does this by placing himself in unnecessary danger, living on the edge as much as he can.
Other Information
Grades: Strength: D Dexterity: B Constitution: D Wisdom: B
Style: Ari's Krav Maga training was to prepare him for situations where losing would be fatal. His attack and defense maneuvers aim to neutralize the threat. These include a variety of fast and fluid crippling attacks to vulnerable body parts through various efficient and often brutal strikes. The improvised use of any available aids was encouraged.
Employing pre-emptive defensive techniques, changing quickly from defensive into offensive techniques,. respond to an attack with overwhelming force in the quickest time possible, using the most natural, quickest, reflexes of the body. Exploit the opponent's vulnerabilities to their extreme, employ the aid of any available objects.
His training was extreme and brutal, pushing his body to the point of exhaustion for weeks at a time, struggling for survival every day. Taking bruises, breaking bones, and then learning how to compensate to continue fighting. Not only hand to hand techniques but also weaponry training, including improvised weapons and tools, leading him to be anything but a clean fighter. If you fight Ari, be prepared to take permanent damage and risk your life.
Weaknesses: His build does not have the strength of heavier fighters with more striking muscle, leaving regular strikes such as punches to the chest or head acceptable. Ari's conditioning is extensive, but he is still recovering from the stress it put on his body, and his ability to take damage is reduced. With his personality he will risk fights and maneuvers that could cost him his life.
Strengths: Simple and brutal blows to areas most would cringe at striking, without the slightest hint of hesitation. His speed and aim is used to strike fast and accurately, using his opportunities he creates and openings his target will leave for him and he will exploit. If a fight isn't going his way he has feels no shame in relocating and resetting.
History: Ari was born to Dr. Benjamin Weinstein, a Mossad agent, and Hasmia Haswari, an Iraqi woman, while they worked at a hospital in Jerusalem. It was not a matter of love, nor lust, but planning. Being a Mossad agent Dr. Weinstein wanted a son who could become an agent to infiltrate various terrorists cells and organizations.
Expecting the worst Hasmia ran back to her homeland to raise her son in her own culture, unaware that she was allowed to do this soley so young Ari would be better able to understand the culture he would immerse himself in as an adult. But Ari had no idea what was happening, he was just a child who enjoyed spending time with his half-siblings, being very close with his family as he spent the first ten years of his life with them, while they subtly taught him to hate his Israeli heritage in hopes to turn him against Mossad.
On his tenth birthday this became a futile effort as he was captured in the dead of night and returned to his father, where his intense training in Krav Maga and improvised weaponry was engraved in his body and mind. During these years are when he grew hateful of both his father and mother. He was shown the brutality of both sides of his family. From brutally effective assassinations on one side, to stoning, public executions, and suicide bombing.
Being taught both cultures, religions, values, he found that one was brutally attacking out of hatred, and the other was lashing back with a more subtle brutality out of fear. He found that he felt sympathy for neither, and was all to glad to be given the opportunity to escape the war torn countries in exchange for the relative safety of America after nine years of intense training in both the hands of his Mother and Father.
Having been sent for training, tactics, language, and culture of the American people he integrated quickly, as it was hardly his first time. Each day he felt more distant from their influence, and now he has the freedom from them. They would soon be grateful for their distance from him. Those around him wouldn't be quite so lucky.