Lowdown
| Lowdown | ||||||||||
| Player: @Pyrophoria | ||||||||||
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| Gravity Guy was taken! | ||||||||||
| Biographical Data | ||||||||||
| Real Name: | Salen Abiza | |||||||||
| Known Aliases: | Lowdown | |||||||||
| Gender: | Male | |||||||||
| Species: | Lyrax | |||||||||
| Ethnicity: | N/A | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Cardoa, Lyra | |||||||||
| Base of Operations: | Earth's Moon | |||||||||
| Relatives: | Brother (Zez), Sister (Dara) | |||||||||
| Characteristics | ||||||||||
| Age: | 38 (Earth) | |||||||||
| Height: | 6'0 | |||||||||
| Weight: | N/A | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Royal Purple (Glow) | |||||||||
| Hair: | Black with Purple Bioluminescent Stripes | |||||||||
| Complexion: | Fair | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Athletic | |||||||||
| Physical Features: | Customary Lyrax Facial Hair | |||||||||
| Status | ||||||||||
| Alignment: |
Lawful Neutral | |||||||||
| Reputation: |
Exalted | |||||||||
| Identity: | Known | |||||||||
| Years Active: | 22 (Gladiator), 1 (Earth Hero) | |||||||||
| Citizenship: | Lyran | |||||||||
| Occupation: | Full-time Hero | |||||||||
| Education: | Lyrian Education Pods | |||||||||
| Marital Status: | Single | |||||||||
| Known Powers and Abilities | ||||||||||
| Gravitational Manipulation (Added Kinetics) | ||||||||||
| Equipment and Paraphernalia | ||||||||||
| Heavy Duty Lyrian Combat Suit, Sirallian Grubworm Silk Tights with Lyrian Plating, and Lyrian Translation Device | ||||||||||
| ReldinBoxMini Template | ||||||||||
Lyra Populations
The Lyrax are a humanoid race of aliens with innate gravitational manipulation, due to their planet's intense gravitational field. This natural occurance of superpowers came from centuries of evolution for their kind, which for most species would have been perhaps months or years, due to the planet's pull effecting time itself. The Lyrax and Lyrian populations of Lyra cooperated in a symbiotic relationship. The Lyrax protected the Lyrians from being crushed by the gravity, where the Lyrians developed mass intellect to develop scientific breakthroughs for the planet in general, resulting in reaching out to nearby star systems for trade and all that came with extraterrestrial contact. The Lyrian subspecies, very closely resembling Earth's cats, rival that of many super geniuses among the stars, able to develop technology that could easily be mistaken for Earthly magic, such as the translation devices and FTL modules.
The Lyrax are typically a peaceful people, using their abilities for games and simple survival on their planet, where other species would visit Lyra and proposition them for many different reasons, the most common of which was fighting. The Malvans sought out the Lyrax for their special abilities and recruited many of them for the Malvan Gladitorial Arenas, one of whom, being the most well known, was Salen aka Lowdown.
Lowdown's Beginning
Salen, born a typical Lyrax baby, along with a sister and a brother, started as average as any other Lyrax. Below average ability with gravitational manipulation, it was harder for him to move about his home planet of Lyra, nothing special about him at all. All that changed once he hit maturity, his abilities shifted into something more than the typical Lyrax, which even stunned the scientific, feline-like subspecies Lyrians. He developed a pseudo-kinetic manipulation as well, able to increase the density of his sparring partners, speed up his allies and steal the inertia of objects in motion. This sudden addition to his ability attracted the ever watchful eyes of the Malvans, who sent a representative AI to Lyra to recruit him to their arena.
Salen's mother died during his birth, where his father was murdered several lunar cycles before that by a trophy hunter who was promptly executed by the Lyrians. This only left his older brother Zez in charge of his little brother and sister. Zez met with the Malvan AI to negotiate his brother Salen's future as a gladiator. Salen was ever so happy to go out and see the stars like the Lyrians did, even meet all the hundreds if not thousands of other species that roamed the cosmos, which was quite the tipping point in the negotiations. Salen was only to compete in non-lethal fights until he became an adult by Lyrax standards, which wouldn't occur for another three Earth years, which was perfectly fine, the Malvans would start him in the Lightweight category and such, due to his lack of experience and young age.
Two years had passed, Salen had gone undefeated in his group, fighting with his customized 'dance fighting', which stunned his brother and many professional gamblers who thought ill of the young boy. The gamblers, however, didn't appreciate losing money on him, so they hired an associate of his father's killer to infiltrate his room after-hours to murder the boy in his sleep, unfortunately for him, the boy slept in a pod under constant Lyrian guard. The watchful Lyrian quickly released the latch on the pod and unleashed the awoken Salen on the assassin, which obviously didn't end well at all. The assassin was easily crushed under the boy's ability, never standing a chance at a force not many could combat. The fight was recorded on his room's video camera and quickly circulated among the Malvans, one of which in particular, Tateklys The Fashionable One.
Tateklys The Fashionable One approached Salen personally to invite him to compete in the big leagues, fighting for real money and fame, and not in the "child's play" league. Such a proposition left him stunned as he was simply a teen for his kind, so had no idea such an opportunity even existed for him, so he consulted his brother, who was just as stunned as Salen was. But after a very long convincing process, it was settled that Salen would be allowed to fight for real, testing himself alongside some of the strongest fighters in the galaxy.
And so began Salen's run as Lowdown, his newly taken gladiatorial name. He wasn't all that happy with the name at first, as he wanted something silly like 'Gravity Guy', but that wouldn't stand in his position and would be quickly made fun of. Everyone wanted to make money on the boy, so wanted a name that would stand up to the big titles already standing. Upon his promotion to the big leagues, he was assigned a new Lyrian gear specialist, which would later become his greatest ally, 'Dave.' Dave was a brilliant mind in Lyrian technology, and easily proved it time and time again, first and foremost, with Salen's Sirallian silk tights, which are typically nigh impossible to craft outside of Sirallian culture, let alone fused with Lyrian metal plating for reinforcement. The suit would become his signature suit for his combat in the various arenas around the galaxy, unless he would be paired against something that could cancel his gravitational abilities, in which case, a heavy duty suit of armor was developed for him to stand up to such threats, but he didn't like it much, since he couldn't dance fight in it. Sad right? But luckily for him, he's only had to use it twice. His tights would later become his heroing suit on Earth.
Welcome to the Moon
Salen was brought around the galaxy so much, he had forgotten where in the galaxy his homeplanet was, and wasn't given much time to do research, but was reassured that there would be time for such visits when he was done fighting. Dave would always tell him to remember his family and homeworld of Lyra, so he wouldn't forget where much of his earnings was going. It's been close to twenty years since he left Lyra and wished so much to return home to spend time with his close-to-forgotten friends and family. His family visited the arenas to cheer on their brother from time to time, but never got much time to actually visit him personally, so it was best left to watch on display back home until Salen's return home, which was sooner than they had anticipated. He had competed for the vast majority of his life, most of which was spent winning and dealing with oh-so-many annoying people wanting to sponsor him and take him to petty commercial shoots and such that typically leads to self-destruction. Sad, I know, but thankfully he stuck to his training, took only a very select few of sponsors to upgrade his living quarters for himself and 'Dave' so they could be more relaxed inbetween fights and social gatherings.
The best part of it all, since his sponsors started taking over his expenses, he could visit back home to Lyra more often, which he did after every fight from then on. His brother and sister would always meet him at him outside their childhood home, ready with makeshift banners and holo-displays of Salen's recent win above the doorways so the locals knew he was coming home, so they could celebrate his return.
With his constant returns to Lyra, his fights became more and more spread apart, per his request to be with his family more, the matchmakers would set him up on tougher and tougher fights to make up for the spread, which lead to many of Salen's losses, which after his entire career, wasn't all that many. After Salen's long run of Two-hundred and thirty-seven wins and fifteen losses, he was truly a force to be reckoned with in the ring. This lead to many more opportunities for him in the galaxy, among which was to help train future Lyrax to be fighters as well, instead of just another race in the universe. He soon after retired from the arena to become a teacher on Lyra, often visiting Earth's Moon to help out around the place, even visit 'Dave'. He had made many more friends out of the fighters than he ever had on Lyra, so aside from his family on Lyra, he had become a brother to the other fighters stationed there. He moved there after awhile to live on the surface on the Moon with 'Dave' as his roommate, which he was super happy about, since 'Dave' is often referred to as his cat, which to great disdain, he accepts.
Now at the ripe age of 38 (Earth), he has taken to visit the planet below his home, which until recently he had only seen from afar, fascinated by the humans below, having seen many many movies and television programs from his room between fights. He's transferred his name from the ring into becoming a hero, he's gone from a warrior to a hero.. Not a bad change. He's happy.
