Name: Arie Saotome
Creator: Sing Song
Age: 17
Gender: Male

Eyes: Blue-gray (Just like my father.)
Hair: Blue-black (Just like my mother)
Other: Very pale skin.Wears glasses though he doesn't need them. (It makes me look more intelligent.)

Skills: (I've kind of been in a running argument about this with my dad for the past ten years. He wants me to follow in his footsteps but I don't want to…He forced me to learn martial arts so in return I refused to let him know that I was actually learning his and mom's special attacks.) Just like his father Arie has the ability to learn moves if he watches them enough. He knows every special attack in both the Saotome and Tendo schools of martial arts, except for cat-fu. (What kind of demented person could do that to his own son…Oops, I forgot about Grandpa.)
Because of his argument with his father Arie will not fight if there is even a remote possibility that his father will discover his talent with the martial arts. This is not to say that he won't fight at all though. In Tokyo he developed a secret identity and entered the street fighting circuit, to make money for college. (It's a cool cross between Zorro, Jacky Chan, and Don Juan del Marco, real suave and gentlemanly.) Arie will do anything to protect this identity, and purposely acts the opposite of it in his day-to-day life. His aunt Nabiki discovered this and used the information to solicit his skills as a computer programmer to get him to build and maintain her web server.
At college Arie also learned how to play the piano, work a Mixer, (a DJ's turntable.) and origami. Every one knows about his ability as a DJ, but no one knows about the piano. (I've made it a part of my secret identity.)

Curse: None (Wait, let me get this strait…. You want me to sneak away, not tell mom where we are going, swim across the sea of JAPAN, only to travel to a place in china with no showers, no bathrooms, no restaurants, and NO OUTLETS FOR MY COMPUTER! AND YOU DON'T SPEEK A WORD OF CHINESE?!? MOM! - quoted on the eve of Ranma and Arie's would be training trip to Jusenkyo.)

Friends: Ookoobo Tofu (He's aunt Kasumi's son…it wouldn't be right not to like him.)
Enemies: N/A (Haven't had a chance to make any yet…. Give me time.)
Love Interests: Matoko Hibiki (I've loved her since we were both five… about the same time that dad and Mr. Hibiki started joking about an arranged marriage between me and Matoko to unite the families. I've never seen mom and Mrs. Hibiki so angry in my entire life. To tell the truth though I wish they hadn't been joking. She doesn't know how I feel about her though, and she only considers me as a friend, she calls me A-chan and I call her Mat-chan. That's all about to change though. I've been gone to college for the past four years now. There wasn't a day that went by I didn't think about her… I just can't tell her that, what if she turns me down? But if I can use my secrets identity to make her fall in love with me first, then maybe I can get her to love for whom I am. Without our friendship getting in the way.)
Loved By: No one yet (Don't say that… Mat-chan does love me she just doesn't know it yet!)

Temperament: As Arie he is very much like his aunt Nabiki… However, when he is in his fighting persona he has a very roguish/romantic nature about him.

History: Arie was blessed with his father's ability to learn quickly and his mother's book smarts. Needless to say the boy is a genius. Unfortunately he also got his mother's stubborn streak and his father's foot in mouth disease. Which is the true reason for his fight with his father. When he was five he told his father that he would never be like him in anger. Now at the age of 17 his pride still forces him to keep that promise. Arie has thrown himself at his studies and as such he has already graduated from college with two degree's.
After being blackmailed into working for his favorite aunt for the past 6 months Arie is returning home on both personal business and as a favor to Nabiki. It seems that with all of the property damage done over the past few months she now has an interest in the real estate market in Neriema. (Market prices are really cheep right now.) However, the real reason that Arie is back at home can be explained with one word…. Matoko.