CIVILIAN, YAMAMOTO, KURTIS

Kurtis Yamamoto

Stubborn. Honest. Upbeat.

Kurt. Flash Fist(stage name)

Twenty-two

01/20/1990

Male

Straight

Civilian

Fighter

Personality

Kurtis is, to say the least, confident about what he does. He might take some time to get to his decision, but when he does, he will always stick to it unless some way higher power tells him otherwise. We are talking like, fate or destiny. Or his girlfriend at the time. Ether or.

Kurtis is loyal to his Homies, and always will look out for them. He doesn't have many, but those close to him he will take more then a few blows for.

He's daring in the sense of He doesn't care if society thinks it's wrong or if it's rude, he'll say it or slug someone if they deserve it. In truth, it's that he's honest. He doesn't care if someone is in Denial, or just wants to pretend it's not real or even if they are just plain wrong, he's gonna tell it how it is and break the illusion with words, or if they have done something over the line and no one would do something, He is gonna kick your ass(history for example.)

While stubborn, he's also gentle around smaller things(like cats). His softer side shows up around certain things, or when he is just relaxing with someone he likes. Course, he usually messes it up.

Lineage

Kurtis is Native American/Japanese/Russian mix, going from his Father that was a Russian Japanese mix, and his mother that was a native american. Speaks only english though, with only an american accent(even though he does do a really good Japanese one)

History

Well, it started off with his grandfather taking a vacation into Japan and well, paid a hooker and didn't use a condom way back then. It wasn't until later when his grandfather had left back for his homeland that she realized she was pregnant. His grandmother didn't pay attention to the times, but still left the city of Tokyo to raise her son in with her parents on their country farm.

Back in the USA, Kurtis' mother was born around this same time, three years after Kurtis' father was born. It had been a very dangerous time back then due to the war, but life still went on in the tribe. His mother grew to be a rascal, always wondering away and exploring, giving everyone a head ache looking after her.

Kurtis's father Came to america when he was 8, in wonder of why they were coming here. His mother just said it was to get fresh air. In truth, he old pimp had found her and she had run. It was as safe a place to run from the gangster due to WW2 a decade ago. Kurtis grandmother started as a waitress while Kurtis' father started school there.

Sad to say, nothing eventful happened till the last year of Kurtis' father's High school year, where a strange Native american girl was on campus and causing an uproar. The father, never one to miss out, went to see and found Kurtis' mom shouting. Cupid's arrow found it's target that day as she ran away, The father chasing after.

The start was long, painful(to the father), and harsh for both of them, but after a week of asking her out and even adventuring onto her Reservation(nearly getting himself killed) She agreed to go out with him. Kurtis' stubborn streak discovered. While His father seemed to be having a time of his life, his mother thought he was a stupid Japanese pretty boy with no skills. Course, the prejudice was still against the Japanese, so you can sort of guess what happens next.

As the date was ending, A group from the father's school tried to jump him. To say the least, He got his ass handed to him. Course, Kurtis' father refused to let the mother punch them back, and took it all. She thought he was the stupidest person on the earth, but he now had her attention. She respected his strength enough to take the beating and not even let a single sob out, just so she wouldn't get hurt.

When he got out of the hospital, they started to date again. To put a long story short, After a lot of years of dating, She agreed to marry him. It was her own stubborn streak that prevented her from saying yes sooner.

When Kurtis was born, His father was opening up his own Sushi restaurant on a dare to his mother, saying he would. Kurtis grew up around fish, people, and his mother throwing people out the door when they tried to eat for free. It was a pretty good childhood, and it got better when His mom decided to make her son a fighter as well.

She took him to a local Dojo specializing in Karate and signed him up for a class. Now, Kurtis was no where near as tough. Heck, he was a cry baby as a child. His mother wasn't gonna have any of that. The roles were sort of reversed in his house hold(sightly). His mother brought down the hammer, and he ran to dad if he ever got her angry.

When Kurtis turned eleven, he was a Green belt in the adults class, surpassing the child's classes. They had to use different gloves when fighting him as to not hurt him to badly, but it worked out well, and his mother was proud how her son didn't cry when he took a punch anymore. His father would always chuckle when he watched Kurtis spar, saying," He's our son for sure. Your ferocity and my stubbornness." Kurtis lit up inside when he saw the pride in their eyes.

It all seemed to be going well, but then an incident started in his elementary school. he had been nearly twelve at the time. There was this bully going around, taking people's lunches and hurting them behind the teacher's backs. There was never any proof, and the kids were to scared of the bully to go to them. Kurtis saw it enough, and decided enough was enough. The next time he saw the Bully acting badly, Kurtis just tapped on his shoulder and asked him to stop. Politely at first. The kid spit in his face and said no.

Kurtis curled his small fist and Slammed it into the Bully's face, knocking one of his teeth out. The kid spun, but Kurtis was on him like a relentless hawk. First he kicked out his skins, a satisfying crunch as he fell, and then down and quickly struck the bully across the face, knocking the kid out.

He was expelled from the school the next day, as he broke the Bully's nose and leg. His parents furious, and his Sensei kicked him out of the Dojo, as he had broken the rule not to fight outside the walls expect in self-defense. It wasn't self defense, and all the teacher's said he should have gone to an adult, not put the kid in the hospital. It crushed him, but he had one silver lining. His parents said that they forgave him. He was still grounded, but they forgave him after the other boy the Bully had been picking on told his folks what Kurtis did. Made him feel better inside.

As he turned 15, he entered a different Dojo, this one a MMA style one. He wanted to continue to hone his skills, deciding that next time he would only knock the person out or take the first punch and then beat the crap out of him.

As he entered high school, he was amazed on how stupid everyone was acting. He never got why so many people cared about how popular someone was or why suddenly this fashion sense was better. He was like his father like that though, but he took it all in. It was all very amusing.

Even though he never really fit into the popular crowds, he never was downbeat. He had his own friends, good grades, and his fighting to go to after school was over. It was one of his best qualities. He never was down during those years, even during Midterms. He always has a smile for someone.

Though high school, love was in the air. He did get around the block a little, if you know what I mean, though no relationship lasted more then a year. He always seemed to screw it up some way or another.

While he enjoyed working for this father, he decided to get a different job as colleges started. He was going for a basic degree in Physical health when he turned 21. He started off working in a bar to pay through the local college fee's. His father wanted to pay the whole thing, having set up a second shop by then and was way in the black. Kurtis only allowed him to pay 1/2. He wanted to feel like he did some of it, and the local college wasn't that expensive. It was half way through the year that things got interesting.

It was about 3 months after he started working at the bar that he started to notice things going on behind the place. At first, he ignored it, but it grated on his nerves. Kurtis walked back there to see two guys fighting with a ring of people around them, taking bets and shots. He was sort of impressed, and his boss was taking the bets and that they had cleared the area and even put mats down to fight. He would have just went back to ignoring it, but his boss(drunk) saw him and called him over. Kurtis went, as they still had 3 more employs inside. His boss bet him that he couldn't win a match, and Kurtis almost refused to play, but the crowd caught on and started to dare him to. He sighed, taking his uniform apron off and got in the ring.

To say the match was quick is an understatement. The man he was facing was untrained, off balance and over confident. Kurtis dodged his punch, and landed a solid blow into his solar plexis, knocking the air out of him. His knee came up into the other guy's chin and he flew back, out cold. Quick match ever.

After a while, and the fact that his boss kept asking him to, he started to fight back there for fun, keeping his skills up really as he didn't have much time to go to his usual dojo and spar. Usually drunks, Kurtis didn't have much of a challenge. It wasn't until later that his boss set up a bigger fight behind his back that Kurtis was challenged. Kurtis thought he was being mugged, and got a black eye from it. He sent that guy to the hospital to though.

After a while, he started to enter the legal tournaments around LA, taking some good pleasure in going against people that challenged him. He stuck to MMA, as being stuck in one fighting style didn't suit him. One time, they asked for a stage name for him in a Boxing ring, he he went with Flash fist, an old name his mother called him one time when she saw him learning. It worked.

In two years time(he's 23 now) he got his associates degree and dropped out, figuring he likes the fighting more. He was still just local, but there were enough Legal areas to put on a fighting show to earn his dollar, and if he was in a pinch, Illegal ones to.

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