Cooper Wise
Firewhirls
Mo-Tzu Fa
Li-Hai of the Akashic Brotherhood
Advanced Adept of the Misty Gates Chantry
Head Instructor of Wise Isshinryu Karate Academy (WIKA)
Description
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 204 lb.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Short buzzcut brown
Clothing: Gray or navy-blue business casual
Comportment/Cadence: Confident
Distinctions: Broad-shouldered, rock-hard mature man clearly devoting his physical and spiritual mastery; he is reserved yet calm, thoughtful, and commanding; some would recognize him from both TV commercials for his karate studio and the tournament circuit
Supernatural Qualities: His modesty does credit for masking the unnatural force of even common movements, as if always wound up and tensed to unleash; he is well-known and respected among most mages in the city
Accoutrements: none
Traits: Appearance 2; Style 1; Arcane 1, Fame 1; Reputation
“Did you come here to train or do you just want instant gratification? Because we don't sell any of that here.”
History
Date of Birth: January 28th, 1967
Home: Fresno, California, United States
Family: Henry (Hank) and Anne Wise (parents), Bridget (younger sister)
Awakening: Preordainment (grew up in a middle class home in California, dad had a good union factory job; Cooper was a Bruce Lee fanatic as a child and devoted himself to [Isshinryu] karate as soon as he could start going to a school; he Awakened when he learned and performed a special chi-developing meditation technique), 1982
Mentor: Mike Harding, Tobe Hirayasu, Su Wen
The Test: Trial by Combat (his sensei actually ran his studio as a "gate" school for the Tenshi Arashi Ryu sect of the Akashic Brotherhood and sensed Cooper's stirring Avatar, so arranged for the young man to travel to Naha and study as an exchange student; there he studied and trained hard under Okinawan masters, especially Master Tobe, and learned more truths of the Hidden World)
Comrades: Su Wen, Clyde Narrows, Rochana Pradchaphet, Wong Ru-Yuan, Xin Kunmao, Asari Wazuka, Hori Tamiyo, Matsuno Isaki, Ouji Eitsu, Rokuda Rie
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (Cooper loved his sensei but could not stay in the Vajrapani and he traveled to China in search of the historical kempo ancestor of karate, and there he found Sifu Su Wen, who taught him the heroic universal love beliefs of the Mo-Tzu Fa)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (Cooper spent years in Okinawa, China, Japan, and Tibet, training and studying all over for its own sake, maintaining his efficient style's purity except to master the ancient roots of all martial arts: Do)
Key Event #3: War (in Lhasa, his final stop abroad, he witnessed Technocrats mow down his fellow martial artists who were student protestors in the streets; he battled a few Union agents to save who he could, but then fled the country into Nepal, swearing to teach the next generation how to defend itself against such tyranny)
Key Event #4: War (he returned to California but knowing his original sensei's irritation, opted to start in San Francisco: however, knowing he needed seed money, he reluctantly participated in MMA tournaments for the prize money, creaming the competition handily for years while refusing contract offers)
Key Event #5: Treachery (he pretended to have a public revelation that MMA was efficient for self-defense and retired from the UFC circuits to open a dojo)
Key Event #6: Awe & Wonder (he specialized his school's self-defense program against armed opponents, also becoming a "gate" school for potential Awakenings, though he still had to occasionally send a MMA challenger trying to embarrass him in his own school packing, bloodied and bruised)
Key Event #7: War (not all visitors could be smacked around: a pushy Man in Black began sniffing around his dojo, seeking "reality deviance" and "superstitionism" as seen in the Isshinryu patch; he managed to pass as mundane but the agent wouldn't give up, and finally brought in a team of "cleaners", so Cooper called his chantry friends and the Akashics cleaned the Technocrats out, bodies buried secretly to this day)
Transition: Victory (with the Union off his back at least, Cooper continued to successfully run his academy while keeping a weather eye for other supernatural problems, expecting vampires and ghouls next; instead, he got the seductive Joshikosei instead...)
WIKA (Sanctum)
Location: Japantown, San Francisco, California, United States
Structure: House
Stock: Wall to wall paneling and mirrors, floor mats, weapon racks, style and nationality flags and banners, trophy case (own trophies only)
Traits: Arcane 4
Significant Others
Names: Asari Wazuka, Hori Tamiyo, Matsuno Isaki, Ouji Eitsu, Rokuda Rie (Joshikosei); 2012
Nature: Erotic
Wazuka
Tamiyo
Isaki
Eitsu
Rie
Weakness
Role Modeled
Cooper is such a stand-up guy, an icon and hero to so many, that he's been put up a pedestal by Sleepers and the Awakened alike. He prefers staying out of the lime light lest it become a hot seat, but the choice has been made.
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
Wisdom and virtue have long guided this Mohist martial arts master.
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