💥Rock Howard (Barefoot Style)💥

Name: Rock Howard

Age: 20

Date Of Birth: June 24th

Zodiac Sign: Cancer the Crab

Birthstone: Pearl

Birthplace: United States of America

Height: 178 cm (5'10")

Weight: 70 kg (154 lbs)

Blood type: B

Job/Occupation: Martial arts student

Likes: The hat Terry gave him, his Honda bike that he bought with his earnings, driver gloves[1]

Dislikes: People who boast all the time, his biological father, being compared and mentioned to Geese Howard

Hobbies: Touring, playing the bass (he can perfectly copy any song he hears once)

Favorite food: Jambalaya (he doesn't like the andouille sausages)

Forte in sports: Street Basketball A.K.A. Streetball (3 on 3)

Special skill: Cooking

Favorite music: Hard Rock[1]

Fighting style: Martial Arts, Hakkyokuseiken (learned with Terry)

Appearance

Attire: He sports his classic red, black, and white leather jacket with dynamic physics and jacket animations during combat, a black short-sleeved t-shirt underneath, black gloves, black leather pants, and black shoes.

Physical Traits: He has medium-length spiky blond hair and striking red eyes.

Personality Rock is a shy young man with an inner struggle. Usually as a bit of a gag, he's often nervous around women, especially those older than him. He is also a childhood friend of Kim Kaphwan's sons, Kim Jae Hoon and Kim Dong Hwan.

He is shy with women as aforementioned due to being around men throughout most of his early life as Terry was raising him, though in a more serious case of his insecurities, every day Rock fights off his evil side in order not to succumb to it, and tries to get out of the shadow of his father. He often decries the evil blood in him, which intensifies whenever he uses stronger energy-based attacks, which in some cases causes him pain. He is not proud of his heritage and refuses to refer to Geese as his father, stating him to be "that man" or "that person". Deep inside however, he still had the feeling that his father wasn't as evil as he remembered, which would be explored in City of the Wolves. Eventually, he softens up to the memories of his father, especially with Marie later being alive- just as Kain claimed.

He is the "middle ground" between Geese's excessive evil and Terry's excessive festive personality, still being someone who when in his groove and comfort zone, is eager to prove himself to others and at times is cool-headed when in combat.

Powers Gather Chi - Rock can gather chi energy. Sense - Rock can sense the presence of people nearby. Energy Projectile - Rock can fire a projectile of energy called Reppuuken, just like his father's. He can even use the Double Reppuuken. Energy Attack - Rock can use chi to increase the damage of his normal attacks (punches, kicks and so forth). He uses this power in a similar fashion Terry does and, sometimes, the energy takes the form of wings. Energy Geyser - By touching the ground with his hands, Rock can make a geyser of energy come from below the ground. He called this attack Raging Storm. Rock's Raging Storm differs from Geese because Rock's version is weaker (as well as resembling a gust of wind more so than Geese's). In City of the Wolves, he is also shown capable of making energy geysers more akin to Terry's Power Geyser as well.

Skills Acrobatics - Taught by Terry, Rock is proficient in acrobatics. His move Rising Tackle is an example of this. Basketball - Having played basketball with Terry since a young age, he has become a very proficient player. Cooking - Having learnt to live by himself since a young age under Terry's tutelage, Rock is very proficient at cooking, as he knows how to cook and prepare several kinds of different culinary recipes. Motorcycle Driving - Rock likes to drive around Second Southtown with the Honda Motorcycle he purchased with his earnings, mainly from fights. Musical Instrument - Rock is a very skillful bass player. Musical Mimicry - Rock can recall and replay a musical melody he hears.

Fighting Style Much of Rock's fighting style came from Terry and Geese. Terry taught him the arts of Boxing, Karate, Kung Fu, Kickboxing and Street Fighting, while he instinctively uses aikijutsu moves derived from his father, Geese Howard. A combination of both of these sides tends to be his Crack Counter technique, a counter/reversal move that is a combination of aikijutsu's reversal-techniques (via Geese's Atemi Nage) and Terry's form of basketball-motif kickboxing (via Terry's Crack Shoot). Rock also uses a version of Terry's Buster Wolf known as the Shining Knuckle.

The techniques Rock directly lifts from his father are so far, the Reppuken, Shippuken, Raging Storm, Shinkuu Nage and Deadly Rave (known instead as the Deadly Rave Neo). Via Terry's influence, Rock uses a variation of his Power Dunk during his Rage Run: Type "Dunk" (with his Type "Shift" variation being named after the over-shift term), though the only shared technique between them is the Rising Tackle. Later on however, he also has his own version of the famed Power Geyser.

Even so, by mixing all these arts, Rock uses a unique fighting style, with agility, street-fighting, martial arts and energy control in mind. However, this comes with trading both Geese's power and Terry's simplicity in favor of versatility and speed, which still leaves gaps he must try hard to make up for.