Benjamin Rand

## History

### Origins

Growing up after the Battle of Earth was different, people missed out on five years of their life yet never aged. Benjamin didn’t know about the attack and his family's legacy until he was 15. His father (Danny Rand) sat him down and explained how he and his father (Wendell Rand) were trained by a group of monks in a realm called K’un-Lun. After hearing his father’s life story Ben started to train hoping one day he too would fight the dragon his father and grandfather had fought.
At the age of 18 Ben would pack up his things and would take his fathers private jet to Tibet and made his way up the mountains to the top where he saw the open gate to the grand city where people seemed to never age. Walking in he fell to the ground. He was cold and he thought he was sick. A group of monks ran over to him and would then give him shelter until he was healthy and able to be trained. He endured the same training as his father and grandfather.

### Becoming The Iron Fist

By the age of 20, after two years he had become the immortal iron fist and one day after the fight which left him with a scar of a dragon on his chest which had been a mark of the fist from Shao Lou The Undying himself he had been offered to stay in the city, and respectfully declining he decided to return home where he found his father dead with bullet wounds all over his body.

## Personality

Stranded in K'un-Lun for fifteen years, Ben Rand has suppressed his emotions most of his life and trained as a living weapon among his strict teachers at K'un-Lun. This has led him to never fully understand his emotions which he is now fully feeling with his return to New York. Despite obtaining the prestige title of the Iron Fist and his own tremendous martial art abilities, he feels bound to his duty to protect and serve K'un-Lun as previous Iron Fist's have done before him. After two and a half years of being thought dead, Rand did not see the illogic that by returning to New York and his home being unshaven before seeing his fathers death which caused him to be filled with fury and anger, yet also saddened. Despite, or maybe because of his naïveté, Rand is extremely compassionate, he proved this when he came across people that needed food, so he donated all the money he had in his wallet.

## Power And Abilities:

### Powers:

**Chi Manipulation-** Under the tutelage of the Order of the Crane Mother, Ben gain deep knowledge and understanding of chi. After gaining the power of the Iron Fist, he can harness his own chi to augment his physical and mental capabilities. Through the use of his chi, Rand is capable of generating an "internal force" that removes the need for charging momentum. The special chi of the Iron Fist bestowed by Shou-Lao also grants Rand many abilities that he has not yet learned as well as his ancestors before him.

**Chi-Augmentation-** Studying the ancient scrolls of the ritual, Ben learned how to absorb chi. While he has not used the technique on anyone yet, he has enough understanding to teach others on how to use it.

**(Basically anything else having to do with chi, he learned this all while be trained in K’un-Lun by his masters and the other monks.)**

### Abilities:

**Master Martial Artist-** Under Lei Kung's tutelage, Ben has underwent rigorous training in ancient Chinese martial arts since childhood, thus he has exceptional mastery of Kung Fu. His martial arts prowess, combined with his mystical power of the Iron Fist, allows him to overpower most of his enemies effortlessly.

**Master Acrobat-** Benjamin is extremely agile and has great skill in parkour and free-running, which are combined with his chi to give him the ability to perform stunts that should be impossible for a human. As such, Rand demonstrated being able to climb and leap onto the 1st floor of a building.

**Multilingualism-** Rand is fluent both in his native English and Chinese Mandarin. In addition, he was able to read an ancient Tibetan language that is considered dead to the rest of the world outside K'un-Lun.

**Meditation-** Ben was taught a special meditative technique to recharge his chi and calm his mind, increasing his proficiency in battle.

## Weaknesses

**Mental State-** By being trained with the monks he had to lock away any emotion he had causing him to feel normal before fighting Shou Lou. Returning to New York caused those emotions to free themselves and he has yet to understand them fully.

While in K’un Lun Rand wasn’t trained in combat with Nunchucks (**Nunchaku),** or to be a master in sword combat leaving him weak to most attacks that he can’t see coming.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment:

Like his father, Ben had taken the idea of using a green hoodie, green pants, and a yellow mask.

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