Josie Rizal

• Character Name: Josie Rizal
• Fighting Style: Eskrima-based Kickboxing combined with Muay Thai
• Origin: Philippines
• Eyes: Brown
• Hair: Dark brown
• Likes: her family, her country, Tekken Force
• Dislikes: Large typhoons, her past, bears (at first)
• Species: human
• Gender: Female
• birthday: May 19th
• Occupation: Kickboxer, Model
• Hobby: Running
• Biography: Ever since she was very young, Josie had a reputation for being a crybaby. Josie's parents, who were big fans of martial arts, insisted that she begin training. Despite her reluctance at first, Josie was eager to live up to her parents' expectations, and became a top-notch kick-boxer - however, her fighting prowess did not rid her of her sensitive disposition.

Josie made a living through modeling and kickboxing, but, one day, a large typhoon hit the Philippines and left widespread damage in its wake. The Mishima Zaibatsu's Tekken Force quickly arrived to provide aid to the stricken country. Josie admired the devoted work of the Tekken Force, and is looking to participate in the recruitment exam to become a member of the organization herself.

One day, while out running on her usual training course, Josie came across a bear and had to overcome her fear in order to confront the animal.

• Personality: Josie is bright, cheerful, and quite energetic, though she cries easily because of something that happened in her past. From a young age, she was easily brought to tears and frightened by many things, and was encouraged by her parents to take up martial arts to boost her confidence. Although more confident now, she still scares and cries easily, as shown in her confrontation with Kuma, where she fled in tears from him, and fainted when he tried to interrogate her. She seems to be trying to be brave, however, and wants to help people, as shown by her desire to join Tekken Force after seeing the typhoon relief they provided to The Philippines.
• Appearance: Josie is a slight young woman with short, dark brown hair and and brown eyes.
• Attire: Josie wears a yellow, bell-sleeved, rounded v-neck midriff with a white floral design along the edge of the sleeves and neckline, and a red bikini top underneath. Paired with this are a light blue and red skirt with a red rope belt tied into flower-shaped knots. The belt meets at the front in a gold, sun-shaped buckle and have two white flowers at the hips designed after the "Sampaguita", the national flower of the Philippines, which is also the inspiration for the floral designs on her top. Her shoes are brown warrior sandals with sun designs at the knee and ankles. She also wears blue short shorts underneath the light blue skirt.

Josie also wears a golden sun necklace, matching golden sun earrings, and golden bracelets on both of her wrists.

• Fighting style: Josie fights using Eskrima-based Kickboxing (エスクリマをベースとしたキックボクシング, Esukurima wo Bēsu to shita Kikkubokushingu?). Eskrima is a style of combat that emphasizes on weapon-based combat that generally involves sticks and knives. Eskrima is officially called Arnis, the formalized umbrella name of the style in the Philippines, though this name and Kali are also used. Josie uses the unarmed variant of the style that focuses more on defensive techniques, grappling and weapon disarming as opposed to the more offensive armed variant.

Unarmed Eskrima focuses much more on reacting to and countering an attack rather than offensive striking. However, vicious strikes and kicks are still used. Her take of Eskrima with boxing makes her style more similar to a real-life Eskrima variant called Yaw-Yan also known as the Dance of Death or Sayaw ng Kamatayan in Filipino. She also uses various elbow and knee techniques along with various combinations that are reminiscent of Muay Thai.

Example Dialogue:

• "I got this!"
• "Oh gosh... I'm getting nervous." She starts to sob
• "(To herself) I gotta focus!"
• "I can't believe I won!" *She starts to sob
• "Yes! Yeah, I did it!"
• "I'm still ready to fight!"