Jason Kade

* Civilian
* Alter Ego

*"Living this life... well, it takes more than a mask. It takes discipline."*
—Jason Kade
**Jason Oliver Kade** is a vigilante and the ninja apprentice of Lance White. Along with the rest of the Rebels, they defend New Arcadia and Stonethrow.

## Biography

### Early Life

Jason was taken in by Lance White as his apprentice and eventual father figure. Having already trained extensively in martial arts, Lance took his skills to even greater heights.

## Personality

Jason possesses courage, resolve, and dedication to an ideal. He is sour, protective, stubborn, and stoic. He believes that while the world is governed by many rules, the most important rules are the ones that come from within; the rules that he places on himself.

## Physical Appearance

Jason is a Caucasian man of Northern Irish and Italian descent. He stands 5'11", weighs 185 pounds, has green eyes, dark short-length hair and light facial hair, although his hair grow slightly past his right eye with a faint, jagged scar below from an assassin's knife. He always wears his black sunglasses and his battle-scarred face is frequently seen with a determined expression. Jason has a mesomorphic swimmer's build with well-defined musculature.

His attire frequently consists of a black leather jacket, a white T-shirt, dark blue form-fitting jeans, and brown work boots. He wears a Shiro family heirloom necklace with the symbol "勇."

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"Rin. Pyo. Toh. Sha. Kai. Jin. Retsu. Zai. Zen. (臨兵闘者皆陣列在前)"*
—Jason Kade's mantra
* **Sei Manipulation:** Being at the edge of his life time and time again gave Jason a power that few martial artists can tap. Jason could already meditate to increase his strength, focus and expedite his healing process, but he has learned to summon his internal force, or spirit energy, for various abilities.
	+ **Wind Manipulation:** Jason can harness the air around him to unleash a blast of razor wind, the Seiken. He learned how to perform the technique unconsciously, and has trained to unleash multiple bursts at once to mimic shuriken.
	+ **Healing:** Jason can stimulate a person's white blood cells and accelerate their recovery process through a combination of hand signs and a mantra.
	+ **Flash Step:** *To be added*

### Abilities

*"I was trained by the best."*
—Jason Kade
* **Peak Human Condition:** Jason is one of the most skilled athletes in the world because he has undergone years of intense physical training to become a ninja. He is extremely healthy, and all his physical capabilities surpass the modern-day Olympic athlete.
	+ **Peak Human Strength:** Jason has abundant limb strength. He can lift twice his bodyweight (370 pounds/168 kilograms), punch harder than a heavyweight champion, his side kick is strong enough to lift a fully grown man completely off his feet and send him flying through the air, and the maximum force he can generate with his roundhouse kick is 2,296 pounds (1,043 kilograms/10.21 kilonewtons).
	+ **Peak Human Durability:** Jason's bones, muscles and skin are significantly tougher and harder than an ordinary man due to his arduous physical training. When he boxed in his youth, he rubbed coarse salt into his skin to make it resistant to cuts, and he has conditioned his hands by striking the makiwara post and bundled bamboo posts. As such, he has suffered countless dislocations and fractures, which have continuously healed over time to form harder bones through cortical remodeling. His muscle fibers have been countlessly overused, causing them to shred and grow back tougher and thicker each time. His experience in parkour allows him to fall from great heights without injuring himself, often by landing and rolling to lessen the impact.
	+ **Peak Human Speed:** Jason is very fast. He can run a mile in under four minutes (3:32:00), his top running speed is 26 miles per hour (77.54% faster than the average man), and his striking speed is 83.66 miles per hour. He is able to quickly freerun on rooftops without losing momentum and move quickly in a fight.
	+ **Peak Human Agility:** Jason is a very acrobatic man with high levels of agility, flexibility, dexterity and coordination. He is often seen employing intricate, complex flips in his fighting style, rapidly changing direction with a minimal loss of speed, and also avoiding or maneuvering through obstacles, all without losing balance and maintaining speed and direction. His greatest feat of agility is being able to run on walls, albeit briefly.
	+ **Peak Human Stamina:** Jason is highly accustomed to physical exertion and can push himself for extensive periods of time. He has a high anaerobic threshold, because his training has caused him to produce fewer fatigue toxins than the average athlete.
	+ **Peak Human Reflexes:** Jason has borderline superhuman reaction time. He is very focused and perceptive, being able to quickly react to danger mid-combat and even avoid rapid gunfire at close range.
	+ **Peak Human Senses:** Jason's senses were heightened during his ninja training. He was once administered the sakki test (殺気), which required him to sense an incoming wooden sword from behind and react to the danger. He thus has trained ears, as well as a great tactile and kinesthetic sense.
	+ **High Pain Tolerance:** The quality of Jason's body is generally scarred-over, due to being quite accustomed to a high level of pain and drugging, allowing him to continue fighting in or even survive near-death situations. Accompanied by his crimefighting suit, Jason is endurant enough to survive blows from opponents with superior strength and remain conscious and ready to battle.
* **Master Martial Artist:** Jason is an extraordinarily skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist. He is almost obsessed with training to fight, having obtained three black belts and being versatile in other styles. In addition to being highly trained in close-quarters combat, Jason can use a variety of weapons, primarily sticks, nunchaku, knives, and throwing blades.
* **Expert Marksman:** While he is not proficient with firearms, Jason is highly skilled in throwing blades and he is an archer.
* **Master Acrobat:** Jason is a master of parkour and his fighting style is very acrobatic.
* **Stealth:** Jason was trained in the art of stealth, allowing him to spy upon his enemies unseen and undetected.
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Jason is a very smart man, although he is not quite a genius.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Jason speaks fluent English, Spanish, Japanese and Russian. He has also mastered American Sign Language.
* **Indomitable Will:** Jason has a singular force of will and never gives up in the face of adversity. He is all about resolve; he is limited compared to some of the other heroes, but it never stops him from doing what has to be done in the pursuit of justice. His will of steel drives him to persevere against physically superior opponents.

## Weaknesses

* **Human Vulnerabilities:** Jason is still human despite his training, and while his body has been subjected to combat situations which ordinary people could not survive, he is ultimately mortal.

## Techniques

* Budō
* Seijutsu

* **Boxing:** Jason uses jabs, crosses, hooks, uppercuts, haymakers and shovel hooks for offense. He keeps his fists up and close by his face for defense. Jason also sways his head back and slips the jab to avoid being hit. While his cardio is impressive, Jason takes quick breaths between jabs to keep attacking. He frequently blends his boxing prowess with his training in Taekwondo, such as performing a corkscrew uppercut leading into a roundhouse kick to the head, or a snap roundhouse to the midsection followed up by a cross or a hook. Jason can be methodical with his technique, such as targeting his opponent's liver or spleen.
* **Taekwondo:** Jason's staple martial art involves him executing numerous kicks, e.g. the roundhouse kick, axe kick, side kick, jump spin hook kick, tornado kick, jump spin back kick, rear horse kick, 540 kick, and spinning hook kick. Jason also uses the inside block for defense, although he uses more karate techniques for blocking. One of his more advanced and favored techniques is the jump spin hook kick (also known as eedan dwi huryeo chagi or known by ninja as the "leaf hurricane"), by jumping and twisting into the air as he swings his leg out in a hook-like motion to strike with the sole of his foot. He can combine his weaponry with his kicks, such as when he throws a kunai to distract his opponent as he delivers a flying side kick (also known as twi-myo yeop chagi) to their chest.
* **Jujitsu:** Jason can overpower physically superior opponents through the use of proper technique, such as hyperextending his opponent's arm. He also uses chokeholds to incapacitate his enemies, the armbar, the flying armbar (tobi juji gatame), flying pendulum sweeps, triangle chokes (sankaku-jime), the reverse ude garami (Kimura lock), the yawara wrist-flip, and the okuri eri jime.
* **Gōjū-ryū Karate:** Jason uses techniques from Okinawan and modern Karate, including knifehand strikes, back fists, straight punches and the yubi hasami for offense, and blocks such as chudan uke/knifehand block, kakuto uke, or mawashi uke for defense. He also uses front kicks, wheel kicks, front sweeps, and back thrust kicks. For stealth, he can deliver brachial strikes to his enemies.
	+ **Crane Kick:** Jason stands on his right foot, lifts his left leg, opens his arms and takes balance. He jumps on his right foot and delivers a front kick with the same foot, his arms will go down on guard but his opponent will expect a left-foot kick.
	+ **Kiai:** Jason releases the power of his inner self with a noise, e.g. "kiai" or "aits."
* **Eskrima:** Jason is highly skilled in wielding batons and knives in combat. With batons, he can extend his reach in order to better strike his opponent, and block more effectively. He is also capable of various weapon disarming techniques based around ranges and relative body positions and their effects on joints. For example, Jason can twist one's wrist inward inward to get them to drop their firearm. His eskrima techniques include the Heaven Six Sinawali, the Abanico, and the Labai.
* **Professional Wrestling:** Jason uses pro wrestling techniques, namely drop kicks, headbutts, suplexes, Superman punches, Brogue kicks, chokeslams, the enzuigiri, the hip toss, the arm drag, the armbar, the hammerlock, and the Swanton bomb. Not dissimilar to lucha libre, Jason also uses the huracanrana, headscissor takedowns and the frankensteiner.
* **Muay Thai:** Jason uses Thai boxing techniques, including flying knees, elbow strikes, knee strikes, power angle kicks, question mark kicks, and the cartwheel kick. He also uses his shins to check kicks from his opponents.
* **Capoeira:** Jason showcases speed, balance, and constant movement in his attacks. He can conceal his strikes with techniques such as the martelo de negativa kick or the meia lua de compasso, where he places his hand on the ground and swings his heel around like a baseball bat. His other techniques include the inverted martelo de chao for sweeping, the au batido, and he also uses fluid, acrobatic dodges, such as the macaco em pe.
* **Kobudō:** Jason was trained by Lance in Okinawan weaponry, such as nunchaku and tonfa, but not sai. With his nunchaku, Jason can rapidly swing them around to compound force behind his strikes, trap his opponents' limbs and disarm them.
* **Wing Chun:** Jason was also trained by Lance in Wing Chun, a close combat style of Kung Fu from southern China. The style combines defense and attack; he attacks and fights to defeat his opponnet as quickly as possible with simultaneous defense and attack. The style specializes in dealing rapid-fire punches and trapping his opponents' limbs to counterattack. He practices on a muk yan jong. His techniques include rolling punches and the one-inch punch, but he is not familiar with the martial art's weapons, the butterfly sword and the dragon pole.
* **Wushu:** Jason was trained by Lance in another style of Kung Fu, which is very acrobatic and allows him to utilize his high levels of agility, flexibility and precision. Such moves include the butterfly kick, the b-twist, the inward 360 dive roll, and the full twist side kick.
* **Judo:** In addition to his black belt in jujutsu, Jason knows several judo maneuvers, the most frequent being one where he throws his opponent over his hip after linking arms and kicking the back of their leg. He chiefly uses the ippon seoi nage, as well as the ko-uchi-makikomi, the kosoto gari, the sumi gaeshi, the kata guruma, the tomoe nage, the kiri gaeshi, the osoto-gari, the ō goshi, the koshi guruma, the tai otoshi, the uki otoshi, and a flying backflip variation of the ude gatame.
* **Aikido**: Jason is also somewhat familiar with the art of blending with his attacker's force and redirecting it to neutralize his opponent. Some of his moves include the shihonage, the kotegaeshi and the occasional sumi otoshi. He considers the hiji kime to be reminiscient of the ude garami, and he also uses another hiji waza known as the hije shime.
* **Ninjutsu:** Jason is the apprentice of a shinobi. Hence, he was trained in the ancient Japanese battle art of Ninjutsu. He is versed in several of its disciplines, or "ninja juhachi kei," including Taijutsu (hand-to-hand combat), Kenjutsu (swordsmanship), Bōjutsu (staff and stick-fighting), Shurikenjutsu (throwing blades), Kayakujutsu (smoke bombs), Hensōjutsu (disguise and impersonation), Shinobi-iri (stealth and infiltration), Bajutsu (equestrianism), Sui-ren (water training), Bōryaku (tactics), Chōhō (espionage), Intonjutsu (escape and concealment), Chi-mon (geography) and Kuji-Kiri (hand seals). Hence, Jason is skilled in weapons, stealth, and hand-to-hand combat. He is also familiar with the deceptive attacks of kyūshojutsu nerve strikes; he can grip his opponent where their neck meets their shoulders, and deliver precise blows to their auxiliary nerves in their right armpits to temporarily paralyze them.
	+ **Taijutsu:** Jason is trained in ninja-hand-to-hand combat, which covers striking and grappling. Some of his taijutsu techniques include omote kote gyaku (outer wrist reversal) and koho tenkai (a backhandspring to escape such a submission).
		- **Koppōjutsu/Gōken:** Jason tends to concentrate on inflicting external damage. He uses crushing blows to raise contusions and break limbs, pounding his enemy. Not dissimilar to Tantōjutsu, he was also taught how to wield and disarm knives, such as with the "hamukai" technique.
		- **Konoha Senpū/Leaf Hurricane:** Jason's signature kicking technique is a jump spin hook kick, occasionally varied as 540-degree hook kick. He can use a stronger version of the kick known as Konoha Gōriki Senpū/Severe Leaf Hurricane.
		- **Shishi Rendan/Lions Barrage:** Jason does a front flip and slams the back of his heel into his opponent.
		- **Shōryūken/Rising Dragon Fist:** Jason performs a jumping, spinning uppercut on his opponent.
	+ **Kenjutsu:** Jason is trained in Japanese swordsmanship. When he does use a sword, his favored stances are hassō-no-kamae for defense and waki-gamae for offense. Jason trains in Japanese swordsmanship with a bokken.
	+ **Bōjutsu:** Jason is trained in wielding a staff, and he is most intuitive with stick-based weaponry. As such, he is not only highly skilled in wielding a staff, but also improvising other items of similar size and shape as a staff in combat, such as a hat rack or a museum's display regal scepter.
	+ **Shurikenjutsu:** Jason is trained in throwing small blades, specifically shuriken and kunai. He has practiced relentlessly to improve his accuracy in order to disarm his enemies as well as harm them in a less than lethal manner. He can also use his shuriken to disrupt his enemies' environment to his advantage, such as throwing them at garbage cans to distract them.

- **Seiken/聖剣:**
	* **Kamaitachi/かまいたち:**

- **Shunpo/瞬歩:**

## Equipment

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **Nunchaku:**
* **Shuriken:**
* **Kunai:**

## Relationships

* Lance White - Adoptive Father

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* Doug State/Bullet
* Leo Clarke
* Connor MacArthur/Ember
* Finn MacTavish/Shipwreck
* Jack Tapeti/Rabbit
* Natasha Chekhov
* Javelin Black
* Diamondback
* Malcolm Sinclair
* Yuri Richtov/Pestilence
* Eden
* Bora Kutishi