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CHIN GENTSAI
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Birthplace: China
Birthdate: April 27, 1908 (91 years old)
Height: 1.64 m (5'4")
Weight: 53 kg (115 lbs)
Blood type: A
Hobbies: Mah-jong
Favorite food: Sake (alcohol in general)
Favorite sport: A walk in the park, skipping
Most valuable: Alcohol
Hates the most: Panda
Fighting style: Kung Fu and Suiken (drunk-style martial art)
Chin was reknown many years ago as a very skilled warrior and an expert
martial artist. However, during the pass of the years, Chin's physique has
deteriorated, and from being a well-built warrior, Chin became a midget,
disaligned old man. Chin now enjoys the company of his wife, and is constantly
submerged into smoking his pipe and drinking "sake" (Japanese alcohol drink
based on rice). However, Chin's fashion for "sake" is so high, that Chin has the
bad habit of getting drunk very often...even when it's time to fight!
While enjoying a moment of peace and tranquility, Chin was met by a little
boy. The boy had heard much about Chin, and he would feel honored if Chin would
teach him. Under the dizzying effects of the "sake", Chin accepts the boy as his
student, and when Chin finally realized what he did, he had no other choice but
to keep his promise. Chin then teaches the boy named Sie Kensou, and is
surprised that Kensou is a host of incredible psychic powers, while Chin himself
masters himself in the art of the Drunken Monkey, a fighting style which tends
to be very confused and mortal, since the opponent is lead into believing that
the fighter is drunk, and is then nailed by several martial arts moves.
Kensou grew to be a spirited young man, and Chin was so revitalized by the
attitude of Kensou, that he found spirit once again to keep on fighting. Much
like the son he never had, Kensou and Chin always wandered together around China
and other countries around the Asian area, in order to keep their training
constant. One day, both traveled to Japan in a training journey. They soon found
a competitor in a form of a bulky man. While Chin just sat by and smoked his
pipe, Kensou had to deal with the strongman alone. However, both did not count
on the help of a ceratin somebody, who blew the big bully away. Both turned
around to see a girl in a Japanese school uniform. She introduced herself as
Athena Asamiya, fighter of justice! Athena wanted both Kensou and Chin to help
her against the crime in town, and both accepted, but Chin was reluctant until
he saw Kensou's inmediate interest in Athena. Seeing how his boy became a young
man, Chin considered it to be fun, and that he would tag along awhile.
The trio, quickly to be known as the Psycho Soldiers (mostly, because
Athena and Kensou possesed psychic powers), made a lot of remarkable feats
around Japan, thwarting crime wherever it would surge. Chin, however, did not
participate too much in the fights: he was happy just training the both
youngsters, and was proud of their evolution as fighters. Being a follower of
the old rules of fighting, Chin induced Athena and Kensou the principles of the
true meaning of fight, and what can somebody take from the fights.
In 1994, the team was invited to the first King of Fighters tournament
which introduced the team battle concept. Chin once again accompanied the
youngsters, and demostrated his skillful fighting style. However, sometimes, the
"sake" reached up to Chin's head, and then you really wouldn't know if Chin was
fighting seriously, or if he was just fooling around! However, Chin was never
blind at the evil at work in every tournament, so that's why before every
tournament, Chin always trains Athena and Kensou, as well as himself, very hard
to be able to face the evil forces. Chin soon recognized the power of Orochi at
work, and warned the teenagers. All three proposed to fight the evil power to
the end.
However, since the fights of the Psycho Soldiers have become so popular,
thousands of fans gathered around the group. Seeing this, Chin feared the young
children would stray from the real sense of battle. So, told them not to enter
the King of Fighters tournament in 1997. However, a fan letter from a certain
Kaori to Athena cheered the two young fighters very much, and Chin had no other
option but to accept to enter as well, but admiring the spirit of the two
youngsters. They would fight together for mankind...until the end!
Almost right after the final battle with Orochi, and after peace settled
somewhat, Chin encountered a little kid named Bao. He was very young...perhaps even
younger than Kensou the first time he met him. Feeling pity for the child, he
decided to bring him to his home with his wife, and give him shelter for awhile.
However, as of late, Chin had noticed two very exceptional cases: the impressive
psychic powers of Bao, and the loss of such powers from Kensou. Both curious and
worried, Chin decides to train Bao in the basics of martial arts, while he tries to
train Kensou in new techniques that no longer require Psycho Power. The results
would soon be appreciated at the fifth King of Fighters tournament....
Always aware of the evil at work behind the curtains of the tournament, Chin
keeps silent, not to distract the youngsters during the battles. However, the evil
deeds of Krizalid becomes more and more evident by the hour as the tournament
advances, so Chin has no other choice but to lead his disciples to the location of
the evil source. However, the explosion of the base obligates the Psycho Soldiers
to escape. Chin and Bao manage to escape, but Athena and Kensou lag behind...Chin
refuses to believe that the two teenagers died beneath the ruins of the underground
base. As if the heavens would have heard him, a super-psycho charged Kensou emerges
from the ruins, Athena in his arms. Just in that moment, both Bao and Kensou pass
out. Chin is surprised by this fact, as he begins to investigate the bond between
the two powers of his two adoptive students....which leads to a certain term..."the
worst day in history".
Chin is sometimes very distracted, and once in awhile, he gets so dead
drunk, nobody can tell what he'll do next. However, Chin is a jolly man, and
since he always takes fighting as a sort of game (thanks in part to all that
"sake"), he is always so cheerful, dancing, smoking, and most of all, drinking!
However, he uses all resources possible, such as using his own sake jug, and
igniting the sake with his inner power so that he becomes a walking
flamethrower! Chin also likes to accompany Athena's singing with his drums, in
which he is also very skillful at.
*Fun fact = The way how Chin fights won't seem likely that he has began very
powerful in the lastest versions! I mean, when you see that old man lying on the
ground all of a sudden, wobbling in his place, or inducing his opponent to drink
from his sake jug, won't you feel humilliated?
*Cloth changes = In KOF '94 to '98, he wears a brown vest with no shirt (showing
off that big belly of his), white pants, sandals, and that wacky hat. In KOF '99,
he now wears a traditional Chinese karate garb (green shirt with sleeves, red belt,
green pants, much like Tung Fu Rue of the Fatal Fury series).
Apperances: The King of Fighters '94, The King of Fighters '95, The King of
Fighters '96, The King of Fighters '97, The King of Fighters '98, The King of
Fighters '99
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