Apollo

## Appearance

Apollo is extremely tan as a result of spending almost all of his waking hours in the sun. Additionally, he is bald, shaving his head every day just like he did in his monastery. Apollo stands at 6’0” and weighs in at 200 lbs. Apollo’s clothes usually consist of loose fitting yellow or orange robes which are traditionally worn in his monastery.

## Personality

Due to his upbringing, Apollo is not very outspoken. He is quiet, generally only speaking when spoken to or when he has something profound to add to a situation. Additionally, he is rarely the first person to act, preferring instead to wait and think through his options. While becoming a hunter forced him to depart from his pacifist ways, Apollo still tries to avoid fighting when possible, unless he is using his massive strength to destroy a great evil.

## Backstory

Apollo was born into a tribe of monks high in the mountains. For the first 20 years of his life, he spent the majority of his time meditating during the morning and evening, performing repetitive chores and practicing tai chi during the day to practice keeping his composure and maintaining a calm mind, and sleeping at night, when he no longer had the strength to keep going throughout the day.
At age 20, a hunter showed up at the monastery’s door and was allowed to enter. For the next few months, the hunter learned everything he could about this culture and shared stories of his own about the outside world. Apollo was inspired by these stories, growing very fond of this hunter and making it his new goal to become a hunter himself. Wanting to carve his own path, he left a month after the hunter did, and found his way to the exam.
The hunter exam proved to be quite a challenge for the young monk. Having practiced pacifism his whole life, when Apollo was forced to fight for his life, as well as those of his new companions he came across in the exam, he awoke his inner beast. Using the techniques he had quietly gained from practicing tai chi, he was able to force his way through the combat aspects of the exam and survive the rest, attaining the status of hunter.

At the exam, one of Apollo’s examiners took a particular liking to him: Buzz Whitaker. Taking him under his wing, Buzz taught Apollo everything their was to know about nen, training him into one of the strongest men in the world. Following the path of his teacher he became a blacklist hunter, taking down criminals to make the world a safer place.

Recently, at age 27, the news broke that the hunter he met back at his home was murdered by a rogue hunter, who had also been responsible for several other killings. Taking this very personally Apollo hunted down the murderer and defeated him, a feat that earned him his first star.

## Abilities

### Physical Stats

 Strength
 Speed
 Dexterity
 Aura
 Control
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### Fighting style

Though he prefers to avoid combat, Apollo’s fight style is based on tai chi, which he practiced every day in his early years. Focusing on his opponents movements and using them against them, he strikes when he has the opportunity, usually with an open hand with a jab or a palm thrust. When he absolutely needs to, he will resort to a more aggressive style, focusing on crushing his opponent with powerful palm thrusts.