Journal created:
on 12 November 2009 (#23986788)
Updated:
on 5 March 2011
Name:
Shin Jin-Ho
Location:
United Kingdom
OOC Information:
Name: Malicious Insect, but I am also known as Mal, Mally, Insy, Cect, Doctor Badtouch and Notorious W.R.O.N.G
AIM: malicious insect
MSN: malicousinsect@hotmail.co.uk
Y!M: malicious insect
E-MAIL: malicousinsect@hotmail.co.uk
IC Information:
Name: Shin Jin-Ho
Fandom: Change Guy/ Quantum Mistake (same series, name changed)
Timeline: After the end
Age: Never said exactly-he was said to be ‘the same age’ as the main character, who was 17 at the canon’s start, and about a year passed from that point. So he’s 17-18.
Appearance: Have an entire photobucket folder of images.
As you can see, Shin Jin-Ho has a body has been finely painstakingly honed to near perfection. But this contrasts with his body language massively. His body is generally slouched, his arms hanging loosely, often his knees half bent. Generally, he looks quite lazy, as if he’s barely awake, shuffling his feet and often with his hands in his pockets. His hair has a slight purple tint, and his face is generally in always showing an expression of boredom. His eyes are usually slightly hooded, and he is almost always frowning.
Abilities: Shin Jin-Ho is a normal human, but as his canon says, he ‘does not have the hands of a human anymore’. Through endless and exhaustive training, his body has become finely tuned beyond the limits of normal human strength. He is capable of feats of speed such as moving too fast for human eyes to see and throwing thirteen punches in a second. His motions need to be recorded and replayed in slow motion to be seen. He is strong enough to knock out an experienced and hardy martial artist in one punch, and completely destroy sandbags with his punches alone. On weaker opponents, a punch from him can cause the body to go into shock, stopping the heart. His hands are described as being ‘able to cut like daggers’, and it seems quite accurate as with handblades (the position a hand is held for a karate chop) he is able to slice open a sandbag and cause deep cuts on the arms of an opponent. It’s said by the same opponent that if he hadn’t guarded, Shin Jin-Ho could have punctured his organs. His eyesight is very sharp, and he is capable of quickly analysing and predicting movements. Shin Jin-Ho’s true has massive willpower and endurance. When he says he can endure anything that will not kill him, he is being entirely accurate. No amount of pain or suffering can overcome his willpower-he is capable of dislocating and relocating his shoulder without even grunting in pain, and on several occasions he stands up to continue fighting far beyond the limits of a normal human, and even on two occasions stands up after being knocked unconscious. He has beaten his movements so deeply into his body they can be performed without thought-even when the nerves in his arms are disrupted by acupuncture he is capable of performing his signature ’13 hit rush.’ Despite his young age, Shin Jin-Ho’s constant practice means that he has more experience with martial arts and his own body than others of the same age, and usually more than adults who have dedicated their lives to martial arts. As a result of this, he never makes any unnecessary movements and all his conscious bodily functions are perfectly regulated-which is why he appears to be half asleep most of the time. Also, because of his clear mind, at most times it is impossible to predict his movements based on his body language or facial expression.
His two signature techniques are the ’13 hit rush’, which, as the name suggests, is 13 punches in a single second, and the far more lethal ‘Hyper Rush’, 13 handblade strikes in a second. In both cases, the strikes have been forged by his extensive experience into attacks which strike at all the vital points of the body.
Whilst ‘chi’ or ‘ki’ or ‘aura’ (it’s called all three) isn’t a key concept in his canon, Shin Jin-Ho is fully aware and in control of his life energy. He is able to detect people by their aura, and whilst he has no aura based attacks of his own, he can see and understand when others use them. His aura is one of the more powerful in the series, and when not kept maintained by his self control, it can actually cause damage to his surroundings-the combined aura of Shin Jin-Ho and Kwon Shin (another owner of a powerful aura) damaged a lighting fixture. Unique of all the Change Guy characters, Shin Jin-Ho’s self control is so complete that he can 100% contain his aura in his body with some focus, making it impossible to predict his movements or detect him.
Personality:
Shin Jin-Ho is one of the best examples of the ‘strong silent type.’ He very rarely puts himself forward in any social situation, but he is not anti-social as such. He simply has very little understanding of conversation and interaction of people outside of fighting them. At the canon’s beginning, he has only one friend, an energetic young man who went out of his way to spend time with Jin-Ho. As such, Jin-Ho is very much a reactive force in conversation. He is always polite and wants to be friendly, but he never really knows what to say, making him extremely quiet and slightly awkward if not speaking to someone who will actively try to be friendly and draw him into conversation. His lack of experience often makes him oblivious to things that would be obvious to others. His politeness is supreme, even by the standards of his country, and will refer to everyone by their full name or title at all times-even his best friend he would die for.
Shin Jin-Ho believes himself to be talentless, and to an extent this is true. He finds it difficult to grasp new ideas and it takes him considerable effort to learn anything new. Nothing comes naturally to him. However, Shin Jin-Ho more than makes up for his lack of intelligence and talent by having advanced knowledge and skill-that is to say that through dedication and effort, he has overcome his difficulties. As such, he is quite knowledgeable on the subjects he studies with great detail, mostly school subjects as he has few personal interests, and through constant practice has developed highly complicated and impressive skills, mostly in the area of martial arts. It is his endless drive to work as hard as possible that is likely his most defining feature-he maintains the belief that there is no barrier that cannot be overcome with enough effort and the will to endure the pain of breaking that barrier. He strives then to be a talentless man at the top, and always puts as much effort as he can into everything he chooses to do. He is proud of the countless hours he has spent working, and proud of the results.
Shin Jin-Ho is ultimately a kindly and calm person, but he does have his moments of uncontrollable rage, and he is not a forgiving person in the slightest. He only really gets angry over a few topics in canon- harming his friends and insulting his skill, in particular. He also hates people who flaunt talent, and believe that there is something special about themselves which allows them to succeed without effort. His anger is deeply disturbing when contrasted to his usual calm. Even with a transgressor on his hands and knees begging for mercy before him, Shin Jin-Ho still attacked him, possibly killing him, and he refuses to accept apologies. Also, despite his ultimately quiet and peaceful nature, he does greatly enjoy combat-he searches for fulfilling and honourable fights against strong opponents, and holds no grudges against those that he loses to as long as he fought until he could not move at all.
History:
Shin Jin-Ho started life in Gaung-Ju, a Korean city. Almost nothing is known about his home life. All that is known is that from roughly the day he could walk, he began to practice the basic kick and punch over a thousand times a day. He himself claims that he has no idea for why he did this-he just felt that a time would come when he would need the skills he was creating. Not once did he miss a day’s practice, constantly enduring the pain of fatigue until his body could handle all of his practice without suffering at all. As he grew older, his training became more and more intense and varied, flashbacks showing him breaking piles of bricks, destroying sandbags, jogging and so on. Despite this, he also studied hard for his school work, and was never low on the test scores tables.
During this period of his life, he had only one friend, a boy named Sun Woo-Hyuk. Woo-Hyuk was friendly and outgoing, but got into trouble often. As a result, Shin Jin-Ho would have to be the one to save him from the various gangs and thugs of Gaung-Ju. He gained a reputation as time when on for being unbeatable in combat, known as ‘the man you must not fight’ and ‘The Imortal.’
However, Woo-Hyuk upset the local mafia, and once more Shin Jin-Ho had to protect him. He managed to defeat the entire local branch in one night so soundly that all members retired. But that was not the end of what would prove to be a cruel story. A leader from another branch of the mafia captured Sun Woo-Hyuk, and lured Shin Jin-Ho to his base. When he refused to work for them, they revealed Sun Woo-Hyuk, and thus Jin-Ho could not fight back without putting his friend in danger. When the boss went to break Shin Jin-Ho’s arm, Sun Woo Hyuk tackled him out of a window, and onto the car of Tak Hyun, a wealthy teenager who had come to Gaung Ju to recruit Shin Jin-Ho. Taking advantage of the situation, Tak Hyun manipulated both Sun Woo-Hyuk and Shin Jin-Ho. By promising to protect Sun Woo-Hyuk, he forced Shin Jin-Ho to become his enforcer, moving to Seoul. At the same time, Sun Woo-Hyuk was left in Gaung-Ju to operate as Tak Hyun’s informant. Both were told the other was being hidden.
Shin Jin-Ho became Tak Hyun’s slave, taking revenge on Tak Hyun’s enemies. Later, he was forced to take part in an underground fighting ring. Shin Jin-Ho quickly became as famous in Seoul as he was in Gaung Ju. But it was a fight with another legend, Kang Too-Jee that would lead to his freedom. The hype from their fight was so massive that Sun Woo-Hyuk heard of it in Gaung Ju, and so he saw through Tak Hyun’s manipulations.
In the battle between Kang Too-Jee and Shin Jin-Ho, a deep respect was forged on both sides, and even though Shin Jin-Ho was handed his first defeat, he had fought until he couldn’t move a single muscle more, and fell unconscious whilst still standing. From that respect, Shin Jin-Ho gained his second friend, returning to Gaung Ju with his first.
He remained there for the most part of the year. In that time, the mafia returned once more, hospitalising Sun Woo-Hyuk in order to draw out Shin Jin-Ho. Willingly facing them again, he completely destroyed the leaders of the group and their strongest enforcers all at once. However, on his way home, he encountered a martial arts master who had also been drawn to their meeting place by the mafia. Provoking Shin Jin-Ho into attacking him, the master explained that letting his anger control his actions would only lead to failure, and Shin Jin-Ho struggled against him until he had no energy left to throw a punch or even stand-the master simply walked away, having never launched a single attack. Shin Jin-Ho would keep that lesson in mind from then on.
Later on, he was targeted as one of the strongest young men in Korea by the shadowy ‘Hell Academies’, organizations which gathered the strongest delinquents of Korea into secret prison schools. However, Shin Jin-Ho wasn’t targeted to be kidnapped, but to be used as a competition to decide which gang in the Hell Academies was the strongest. He willingly joined the tournament, winning the first match, by using his 13 hit rush despite the nerves in his arms being disrupted by acupuncture.
In the second round, he fought the strongest of the five gang leaders, although they fought unofficially, unable to wait for the rain that had halted the tournament to stop. Shin Jin-Ho fought until he couldn’t move any more at all-and then, when unconscious, got up to fight some more. His opponent recognised he couldn’t fight any further, and left him, passed out on his feet.
He later appeared to fight off the enforcers of the organization that ran the Hell Academies, and had come to take the assembled strong teenagers to Siberia to mine Uranium, the true purpose of the Hell Academies. After escaping the Hell Academy the tournament was taking place at, he became a part of the army of teenage martial artists who assembled to defeat the organization that ran the Hell Academies-And then the series ended.
Name: Malicious Insect, but I am also known as Mal, Mally, Insy, Cect, Doctor Badtouch and Notorious W.R.O.N.G
AIM: malicious insect
MSN: malicousinsect@hotmail.co.uk
Y!M: malicious insect
E-MAIL: malicousinsect@hotmail.co.uk
IC Information:
Name: Shin Jin-Ho
Fandom: Change Guy/ Quantum Mistake (same series, name changed)
Timeline: After the end
Age: Never said exactly-he was said to be ‘the same age’ as the main character, who was 17 at the canon’s start, and about a year passed from that point. So he’s 17-18.
Appearance: Have an entire photobucket folder of images.
As you can see, Shin Jin-Ho has a body has been finely painstakingly honed to near perfection. But this contrasts with his body language massively. His body is generally slouched, his arms hanging loosely, often his knees half bent. Generally, he looks quite lazy, as if he’s barely awake, shuffling his feet and often with his hands in his pockets. His hair has a slight purple tint, and his face is generally in always showing an expression of boredom. His eyes are usually slightly hooded, and he is almost always frowning.
Abilities: Shin Jin-Ho is a normal human, but as his canon says, he ‘does not have the hands of a human anymore’. Through endless and exhaustive training, his body has become finely tuned beyond the limits of normal human strength. He is capable of feats of speed such as moving too fast for human eyes to see and throwing thirteen punches in a second. His motions need to be recorded and replayed in slow motion to be seen. He is strong enough to knock out an experienced and hardy martial artist in one punch, and completely destroy sandbags with his punches alone. On weaker opponents, a punch from him can cause the body to go into shock, stopping the heart. His hands are described as being ‘able to cut like daggers’, and it seems quite accurate as with handblades (the position a hand is held for a karate chop) he is able to slice open a sandbag and cause deep cuts on the arms of an opponent. It’s said by the same opponent that if he hadn’t guarded, Shin Jin-Ho could have punctured his organs. His eyesight is very sharp, and he is capable of quickly analysing and predicting movements. Shin Jin-Ho’s true has massive willpower and endurance. When he says he can endure anything that will not kill him, he is being entirely accurate. No amount of pain or suffering can overcome his willpower-he is capable of dislocating and relocating his shoulder without even grunting in pain, and on several occasions he stands up to continue fighting far beyond the limits of a normal human, and even on two occasions stands up after being knocked unconscious. He has beaten his movements so deeply into his body they can be performed without thought-even when the nerves in his arms are disrupted by acupuncture he is capable of performing his signature ’13 hit rush.’ Despite his young age, Shin Jin-Ho’s constant practice means that he has more experience with martial arts and his own body than others of the same age, and usually more than adults who have dedicated their lives to martial arts. As a result of this, he never makes any unnecessary movements and all his conscious bodily functions are perfectly regulated-which is why he appears to be half asleep most of the time. Also, because of his clear mind, at most times it is impossible to predict his movements based on his body language or facial expression.
His two signature techniques are the ’13 hit rush’, which, as the name suggests, is 13 punches in a single second, and the far more lethal ‘Hyper Rush’, 13 handblade strikes in a second. In both cases, the strikes have been forged by his extensive experience into attacks which strike at all the vital points of the body.
Whilst ‘chi’ or ‘ki’ or ‘aura’ (it’s called all three) isn’t a key concept in his canon, Shin Jin-Ho is fully aware and in control of his life energy. He is able to detect people by their aura, and whilst he has no aura based attacks of his own, he can see and understand when others use them. His aura is one of the more powerful in the series, and when not kept maintained by his self control, it can actually cause damage to his surroundings-the combined aura of Shin Jin-Ho and Kwon Shin (another owner of a powerful aura) damaged a lighting fixture. Unique of all the Change Guy characters, Shin Jin-Ho’s self control is so complete that he can 100% contain his aura in his body with some focus, making it impossible to predict his movements or detect him.
Personality:
Shin Jin-Ho is one of the best examples of the ‘strong silent type.’ He very rarely puts himself forward in any social situation, but he is not anti-social as such. He simply has very little understanding of conversation and interaction of people outside of fighting them. At the canon’s beginning, he has only one friend, an energetic young man who went out of his way to spend time with Jin-Ho. As such, Jin-Ho is very much a reactive force in conversation. He is always polite and wants to be friendly, but he never really knows what to say, making him extremely quiet and slightly awkward if not speaking to someone who will actively try to be friendly and draw him into conversation. His lack of experience often makes him oblivious to things that would be obvious to others. His politeness is supreme, even by the standards of his country, and will refer to everyone by their full name or title at all times-even his best friend he would die for.
Shin Jin-Ho believes himself to be talentless, and to an extent this is true. He finds it difficult to grasp new ideas and it takes him considerable effort to learn anything new. Nothing comes naturally to him. However, Shin Jin-Ho more than makes up for his lack of intelligence and talent by having advanced knowledge and skill-that is to say that through dedication and effort, he has overcome his difficulties. As such, he is quite knowledgeable on the subjects he studies with great detail, mostly school subjects as he has few personal interests, and through constant practice has developed highly complicated and impressive skills, mostly in the area of martial arts. It is his endless drive to work as hard as possible that is likely his most defining feature-he maintains the belief that there is no barrier that cannot be overcome with enough effort and the will to endure the pain of breaking that barrier. He strives then to be a talentless man at the top, and always puts as much effort as he can into everything he chooses to do. He is proud of the countless hours he has spent working, and proud of the results.
Shin Jin-Ho is ultimately a kindly and calm person, but he does have his moments of uncontrollable rage, and he is not a forgiving person in the slightest. He only really gets angry over a few topics in canon- harming his friends and insulting his skill, in particular. He also hates people who flaunt talent, and believe that there is something special about themselves which allows them to succeed without effort. His anger is deeply disturbing when contrasted to his usual calm. Even with a transgressor on his hands and knees begging for mercy before him, Shin Jin-Ho still attacked him, possibly killing him, and he refuses to accept apologies. Also, despite his ultimately quiet and peaceful nature, he does greatly enjoy combat-he searches for fulfilling and honourable fights against strong opponents, and holds no grudges against those that he loses to as long as he fought until he could not move at all.
History:
Shin Jin-Ho started life in Gaung-Ju, a Korean city. Almost nothing is known about his home life. All that is known is that from roughly the day he could walk, he began to practice the basic kick and punch over a thousand times a day. He himself claims that he has no idea for why he did this-he just felt that a time would come when he would need the skills he was creating. Not once did he miss a day’s practice, constantly enduring the pain of fatigue until his body could handle all of his practice without suffering at all. As he grew older, his training became more and more intense and varied, flashbacks showing him breaking piles of bricks, destroying sandbags, jogging and so on. Despite this, he also studied hard for his school work, and was never low on the test scores tables.
During this period of his life, he had only one friend, a boy named Sun Woo-Hyuk. Woo-Hyuk was friendly and outgoing, but got into trouble often. As a result, Shin Jin-Ho would have to be the one to save him from the various gangs and thugs of Gaung-Ju. He gained a reputation as time when on for being unbeatable in combat, known as ‘the man you must not fight’ and ‘The Imortal.’
However, Woo-Hyuk upset the local mafia, and once more Shin Jin-Ho had to protect him. He managed to defeat the entire local branch in one night so soundly that all members retired. But that was not the end of what would prove to be a cruel story. A leader from another branch of the mafia captured Sun Woo-Hyuk, and lured Shin Jin-Ho to his base. When he refused to work for them, they revealed Sun Woo-Hyuk, and thus Jin-Ho could not fight back without putting his friend in danger. When the boss went to break Shin Jin-Ho’s arm, Sun Woo Hyuk tackled him out of a window, and onto the car of Tak Hyun, a wealthy teenager who had come to Gaung Ju to recruit Shin Jin-Ho. Taking advantage of the situation, Tak Hyun manipulated both Sun Woo-Hyuk and Shin Jin-Ho. By promising to protect Sun Woo-Hyuk, he forced Shin Jin-Ho to become his enforcer, moving to Seoul. At the same time, Sun Woo-Hyuk was left in Gaung-Ju to operate as Tak Hyun’s informant. Both were told the other was being hidden.
Shin Jin-Ho became Tak Hyun’s slave, taking revenge on Tak Hyun’s enemies. Later, he was forced to take part in an underground fighting ring. Shin Jin-Ho quickly became as famous in Seoul as he was in Gaung Ju. But it was a fight with another legend, Kang Too-Jee that would lead to his freedom. The hype from their fight was so massive that Sun Woo-Hyuk heard of it in Gaung Ju, and so he saw through Tak Hyun’s manipulations.
In the battle between Kang Too-Jee and Shin Jin-Ho, a deep respect was forged on both sides, and even though Shin Jin-Ho was handed his first defeat, he had fought until he couldn’t move a single muscle more, and fell unconscious whilst still standing. From that respect, Shin Jin-Ho gained his second friend, returning to Gaung Ju with his first.
He remained there for the most part of the year. In that time, the mafia returned once more, hospitalising Sun Woo-Hyuk in order to draw out Shin Jin-Ho. Willingly facing them again, he completely destroyed the leaders of the group and their strongest enforcers all at once. However, on his way home, he encountered a martial arts master who had also been drawn to their meeting place by the mafia. Provoking Shin Jin-Ho into attacking him, the master explained that letting his anger control his actions would only lead to failure, and Shin Jin-Ho struggled against him until he had no energy left to throw a punch or even stand-the master simply walked away, having never launched a single attack. Shin Jin-Ho would keep that lesson in mind from then on.
Later on, he was targeted as one of the strongest young men in Korea by the shadowy ‘Hell Academies’, organizations which gathered the strongest delinquents of Korea into secret prison schools. However, Shin Jin-Ho wasn’t targeted to be kidnapped, but to be used as a competition to decide which gang in the Hell Academies was the strongest. He willingly joined the tournament, winning the first match, by using his 13 hit rush despite the nerves in his arms being disrupted by acupuncture.
In the second round, he fought the strongest of the five gang leaders, although they fought unofficially, unable to wait for the rain that had halted the tournament to stop. Shin Jin-Ho fought until he couldn’t move any more at all-and then, when unconscious, got up to fight some more. His opponent recognised he couldn’t fight any further, and left him, passed out on his feet.
He later appeared to fight off the enforcers of the organization that ran the Hell Academies, and had come to take the assembled strong teenagers to Siberia to mine Uranium, the true purpose of the Hell Academies. After escaping the Hell Academy the tournament was taking place at, he became a part of the army of teenage martial artists who assembled to defeat the organization that ran the Hell Academies-And then the series ended.