The Noble Commander
~Judo~

Name: Judo
Age: 32, but appears to be a couple years older
Gender: Male
Race: Hylian
Hair Color: Light brown
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 180 lbs (he's muscular, so that accounts for some weight. This also doesn’t include the armor, but with it, Judo is about 210 lbs)

Relationship Status: Married to a woman named Kelli.

Family: Mira (mother), Semus (father), Kelli (wife), Mayula (daughter)

Weapon: Judo's only main weapon is the sword Arion (Ah-ree-in), the hidden treasure of the Hyrulean Royal Knights. It’s a golden and blue-gray hilted one-hand sword that has a blade longer than that of the average normal sword. A dagger is Judo's second weapon, which he carries all the time, even when he leaves his sword behind. He treats the dagger as a back up weapon or uses it for sneak attacks just as my character Ceto does with his.

Armor: Being a knight of Hyrule, Judo wears some armor. His armor covers him from his shoulders down to his knees, but not his arms and is light weight to enable him to jump. He doesn't have a shield, because he prefers to counter attacks with his sword rather than simply block them. In addition to being light, it was also upgraded after awhile to protect against pierce weapons such as arrows and spears.

Strengths: If Judo is strong in anything, it's defense. Not only is he superb at using his sword to block and counter attacks, but his armor also provides a boost. Judo is also quite strong against archers. His armor covers his front side, leaving archers with no way to hit him except from behind, unless they were to aim for his arms. Judo also takes secret martial arts lessons, and his higher than average physical strength still makes him a danger even when he's unarmed. In fact, Judo is so strong, he has been known to match the strength of Link's Silver Gauntlets (which give Link power in his arms).

Weaknesses: Although Judo seems to be the ultimate defense machine, there are still ways to get around him for damage. For starters, he's vulnerable to attacks from behind, as he has no way to counter them. He is very weak against magic attacks due to the fact that he pretty much cannot block them in any way whatsoever. In fact, the only way he could is if a ball of magic was fired at him (then he could deflect it with Arion). Judo is also not very good at dodging moves because he prefers to block against them. That makes magic an even greater weakness to him. And although Judo's armor is lighter than normal armor, it is still heavy enough to slow him down when he runs or walks, and that poses a problem against faster opponents.

Skills/Magic: Judo has five main sword techniques, four of which he created himself as well as others. These four are the ones he came up with himself.

• Sword Kick: The only move that doesn’t actually use the sword to attack. Judo runs, thrusts his blade down into the ground, uses it to flip himself over it, and kick his enemy. Since Judo cannot completely see where he’s going while doing so, this move has the least amount of accuracy.
  
• Air Slash: Slightly similar to TP Link’s hidden skill Jump Strike, except Judo flips forwards or backwards once and then comes down with a blow instead of just jumping forward. Actually, this is more like a cross between Jump Strike and Ike's Aether.
  
• Shield Draw: Despite its name, this move doesn’t need a shield. Judo blocks his opponent’s attack, holds their weapon down on the ground with his sword, and lastly, he quickly brings his sword back up for a strike.
  
• Blade Storm: Judo’s signature move and the most powerful one he knows. He wraps his cape around his enemy with his sword pointed away from him and spins while striking. Judo delivers a lethal blow to his target after he finishes one spin. The strikes he delivers during the spinning, however, can hit multiple opponents. It’s also the most accurate move in addition to being the most powerful. The only downsides are that delivering the last blow may cause some recoil and Judo cannot use the move against opponents larger than himself.
  
• Hurricane: This is a well powered up version of Blade Storm, as well as Judo's most powerful move. In fact, it is so strong, it rarely can ever be used at all. Certain power is needed to fuel Judo's sword in order for this move to activate, and it seemed to be stimulated by the bitter rage and hunger for revenge that occurred within him the first time he ever used it. Now in order to use it, the full power of Judo's will to go on as well as the courage in his heart must be exposed to the enemy, which means he must be pushed to his very limit in battle. For awhile, it was unknown why Judo was the only one who could wield this kind of power. Now only Judo himself knows the answer. This hidden power used to come randomly whenever Judo was pushed to his limit in battle, but now he has full control over it. He can activate it any time he wants as long as he is faced with a great challenge and never gives up.

In addition to these, he knows Link’s Ending Blow (jumping up and then thrusting the sword downward into the ground), Mortal Draw (sheathing the sword and then sneak attacking with it once the enemy approaches), and Helm Splitter (leaping into the air, and striking the opponent in the head while front flipping). Sometimes he’ll combo the Helm Splitter with Sword Kick by doing the HS first with a SK following up immediately after, but usually when there’s more than one enemy at a time.

Appearance: Judo is a rather tall and quite handsome man. He also has muscles that look very similar in strength to Ike’s from FE10. His light dusty brown hair isn’t very long at all, but is slightly messy. He wears dark blue and gold armor along with a blue, white, and gold cape. Judo has armor on his shoulders, arms, chest, and legs. He wears a pair of brown boots, has a gold medal with a Triforce symbol in front of two crossed swords inscribed on it (which is attached to his cape), and wears a belt. He has his sheath attached to the belt. The sheath hangs over Judo’s leg armor. His pants are dark brown while his shirt is red-brown. The sheath that holds his dagger is attached to his right leg underneath the armor.

Personality: The core of Judo’s personality is the fact that he loves telling jokes. He has a great sense of humor and makes up his own jokes as well as tell the ones he’s heard from others. Judo is also a kind and caring man, but also tends to be a bit clumsy and lazy. He also has a knack for wanting revenge on any seriously bad thing done to him or involving him and when he is determined and angry enough, he has a tendency to do something reckless by accident. Although he cares about all his friends as well, Judo’s first priorities are always protecting his wife, Kelli (who is 31), and 13-year-old daughter, Mayula.

Bio: There is a hidden legend told by the Royal Family in the land of Mayia. It tells of four powerful ancient warriors who together vanquished darkness and evil. They were known as the Gifted Four. One was a princess who possessed a pure heart and great wisdom as well as a talent with the bow. Another was a hero possessing the power of the moon and was capable of using weapons of all kinds, as well as great courage to no limit. The third was a woman who possessed the power of healing tears and the power of the sun. The fourth was a knight whose inner strength and powerful might was unleashed whenever he was met with very difficult challenges. Judo is the reincarnation of this very same knight and a member of the current Gifted Four himself.

Judo was born to couple Mira and Semus in Kakariko Village during the fierce war in the land of Hyrule. The first five years of his life were some of the happiest times he can barely remember. His father had been a merchant who traded goods of all sorts between Hyrule and its allied neighbor, Mayia. One year just two weeks after Judo had turned five years old, his father had disappeared while at work. An enemy kingdom of Mayia's had declared war on them, and Semus had gone missing during a surprise ambush. A group of Mayian soldiers found pieces of his packed up goods and pieces of bloody clothing. Due to the evidence, Semus was declared dead.

When Mira and Judo had heard the news, they had never cried more in their entire lives. Judo had been very close to his father as a young child, and grieved for him for quite some time. He became so depressed over the next two years that he nearly became suicidal, and lost his friend, Yaku, over his problems. Yaku had simply gotten tired of Judo’s changed ways and gave up on him. This made Judo’s depression worsen, and he was about to go attempt suicide until he saw a young blonde girl who looked about his age sitting on the well in the village. The girl happened to be Kelli, a runaway from the Kokiri Forest.

Judo went up to her and asked her if she was alright and then asked to play. Kelli had agreed, and in no time at all, their bond grew closer and stronger, and were soon best friends. Every day they played together and did many activities. Mira was very happy to see her son enjoying himself again after losing his father. Two years later, however, when both Kelli and Judo were ten years old, they discovered a secret shrine just north of Kakariko barely outside of Hyrule. Inside was the legendary Sun Sword, the blade forged to thwart the evil of the sun monsters. Kelli felt as though she should take the sword, and she did. Judo wanted to stop her, but once he saw the mark of the sun appear on the back of her left hand, he figured she was right after all.

Kelli then said she needed to leave Hyrule and find out more. She didn’t want to accidentally hurt anybody, she said, and Judo was reluctant to agree with the plan. He was able to abide by his best friend’s wishes, and the two bid their goodbyes. Seven years went by as Judo continued to think of Kelli. When he was 16 years old, he was inspired by what Kelli’s goals were and became a Royal Knight of Hyrule. It was then his gift in swordsmanship was discovered. He learned faster than the other new recruits, including Yaku, causing him to grow jealous. Yaku, although he was training to be a castle guard and lance/spear user, still grew even more hateful of Judo.

Judo soon heard of an adventure Kelli had gone on and saved Mayia from the Dragon Lord, Notu. A sun monster of great power, the humanoid dragon was looking for something that apparently was not in Mayia. Given even greater inspiration, Judo trained day and night and became one of General Arion’s top soldiers in the span of just months. Although still doubtful that he would ever surpass his leader, Judo continued to train. Soon Arion began putting Judo in charge of certain missions. Judo was unsure why, but he complied and led a group of knights to several victories. Arion grew ever proud of him and knew exactly what he wanted Judo to do in the future.

One day, however, just a few weeks after Judo’s 17th birthday, while the knights were aiding Mayia against Tyrania once more, Arion challenged one of the Tyranian generals. Judo, who was again assigned to be in charge of a few missions, had just rejoined him. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of the enemy general’s blade get driven into Arion’s stomach flesh. The well-respected general soon fell off his horse and collapsed on the ground. Judo rushed to his aid, but he knew Arion wouldn’t make it if he were to try getting him medical care in time. Arion instead struggled to talk to his top knight.

“J-Judo…listen…go see his majesty…” he mumbled. “After…this is…all over..”

“Alright…what do I have to talk to him about?” Judo asked, trying hard not to let tears come to his eyes.

“Tr-treasure…sword…ugggh.” Arion couldn’t finish his sentence and died soon after. Unsure what the general meant by his final words, Judo and the deputy commander ended the battle as soon as possible and fled back to Hyrule Castle. A funeral was held for General Arion, and Judo went to see the King immediately afterward, the general’s words still floating through his mind. The King explained why Judo had been put in charge of several missions and said Arion wished for Judo to succeed him as the new general when the time came.

Judo was unsure he could handle the job, but to honor his leader, he accepted and was granted his cape and blue and gold armor along with the medal worn by the general at all times to show his rank. After Judo asked the King about Arion’s mention of a treasure and a sword, the King asked the newly made General Judo to follow him. He led Judo to a hidden room downstairs in the weapons area and showed him a golden and gray-blue hilted sword stuck into a royal pedestal.

“This is the hidden treasure of the Royal Knights. Arion wanted you to take this sword as well, Judo,” the King said.

“He did?” Judo asked.

The King went on to say that the sword had been forged by Arion’s ancestors and was only wielded by those dubbed worthy. Arion believed Judo was worthy and the King couldn’t agree more. Judo then pulled the sword from the pedestal and put away his old sword back in the other room holding unused or extra weapons. Despite being around for quite sometime, the sword had no name, the King said. Judo suggested it be called Arion after the departed general. The King found it to be a splendid idea and agreed that the sword would from now on be called Arion.

A few more months passed, and the support of Judo’s men only grew. One day while they were training, Judo heard the roar of monsters in the courtyard and went to investigate. He found monsters there, and cornered against the wall was none other than Kelli, who was now grown up and more beautiful than ever. For whatever reason Judo didn’t know, she was unarmed, and Judo fought the monsters for her. She thanked him, but didn’t recognize him at first. When he told her who he was, Kelli was more happy than ever to see him again.

Time went by, and when the two were caught in an adventure that led them to Mayia again, their relationship began to change. The two were falling deeply in love. However, as their romance slowly blossomed, so did evil. When the evil plot to resurrect Notu after he was again defeated by Kelli (but along with the Hero of Time, Link, this time) in Hyrule just two weeks before was revealed, the two, along with Link and Princess Zelda of Hyrule, stopped it from happening. It was also at this time that all four discovered they were the reincarnated members of the Gifted Four. Semus had also been found, turning out that he had been captured by Tyranian forces and imprisoned all those years. He could not escape for a long time. However, It was a month after this adventure that Judo and Kelli were finally married. They had a baby girl a year later, Judo at age 19 and Kelli 18 (she was months younger than Judo).

Many years went by and their daughter, Mayula (named after Mayia and Hyrule), grew up into a girl of 13. She was at age 12 when Kelli and Judo began training her in the way of the sword, however. Although he had now been general of the Hyrulean Royal Knights for at least 13 years now, 32-year-old Judo still thought of General Arion and continued to lead the knights in his honor. He soon decided to begin traveling outside of Hyrule, not just to Mayia, but other lands as well while still doing his work as a knight at the side.

Theme Song: Royal Knights of Hyrule (though I call it that for my Zelda fic and Judo, it's a TP trailer song I think fits perfectly)

BA Battles:
Searching For it, Finding it (Lady Ranny) - Complete
Nocturnal Sightings (Shadow Samus) - Stopped
The Mysterious Fortress (3 Others) - Stopped

Crossroads RPs:
Weird Land (Anybody) - Stopped
False Knight - Complete

Character Fiction:
Days of the Hyrulean Royal Knights - In Progress