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Only a few years ago, the underground society of Street Fighters was shocked by the appearance of Blanka on the fighting circuit. Rumors spread like wildfire about this bestial warrior. Blanka soon proved himself one of the most formidable World Warriors. With his amazing aerial rolls and his ability to channel his body's Chi into deadly electrical charges, Blanka has firmly established that any would-be World Champion must pass through the jungles of Brazil before claiming top honors.
Blanka's origin is no less strange than the ones created by his fans. Many years ago, a young boy named Jimmy was flying to visit relatives in Brazil. The plane experienced engine trouble and crashed into the rainforest below.
Miraculously, Jimmy survived the crash and was discovered by a mother jaguar. The jaguar adopted the strange little human child and raised it as best she could. Jimmy quickly forgot his old identity; a wave of amnesia blocked out the pain and fear of the plane crash. He became known only as Blanka, a named he coined from the coughing roar of his adopted mother. From his jaguar mother, Jimmy learned the predatory skills of the rainforest's fiercest hunter. He became agile and strong at an early age.
As Blanka grew, he became familiar with other animals as well. He developed his amazing agility and acrobatics through playing with spider monkeys. However, Blanka also caught a strange virus from the spider monkeys. Though he eventually recovered from the virus, it caused a mutagenic transformation in Blanka's body, changing him into a green-skinned, orange-maned monster. He remembers little of this, though, because of the fever he suffered.
After his disease, Blanka's musculature began to develop even faster, reaching superhuman levels. Blanka also began to suffer strange fluctuations in his body's natural electric field, experiencing electric attacks that would leave him knocked unconscious for hours. He finally found relief from these attacks when he was swimming for fish and encountered electric eels. By studying these eels, Blanka intuitively learned how to use his body's Chi to focus the electrical discharges of his mutated body.
Blanka's history entered its last chapter when he encountered his first human being. This unknown man was a slave who had escaped from a secret plantation where Shadoloo grew and harvested illegal drugs. The man had escaped using his Capoeira skills to defeat the prison plantation's guards.
When Blanka met the Capoeira master, the man was on the run from his former masters and had partaken of neither food nor drink for days. Blanka befriended the man and showed him how to get food and drink from the land. In return, the man taught Blanka Capoeira.
Eventually, Blanka's slave friend left to seek his own family, prompting Blanka to search for his own real origin. He revealed himself to a nearby fishing village. Initially, the villagers feared Blanka, but they came to accept him as a noble warrior when a bounty hunter came to the fishing village with a stable of Street Fighters to make a film of a man fighting beast, Blanka obliged him by demolishing the entire stable of Street Fighters single-handedly. Word quickly spread, and soon Blanka became revered among Street Fighters as a true World Warrior.
Playing Blanka: You survived alone in the wild; that is why you are one of the best World Warriors. You are sometimes naive about human society, but are quickly learning the ways of the world. You are fascinated by the outside world, but need the serenity of the jungle from time to time. The destruction of the rainforest angers you beyond control, and you go out of your way to protect the environment. In the depths of your heart and mind, you remember your former life and yearn to learn more about your past.
Appearance: Blanka wears nothing but ripped jeans and the anklets he's had since he was young (now stretched to fit around is thick ankles). He wears his wild, orange hair in one long mane.
