#hapkido

🩸Name: Seth Tu'er Shen

🩸Nickname: the Red Rabbit

🩸Age: 30

🩸Gender: male

🩸Ethnicity: Chinese-American

🩸Appearance: 6'4, 220 pounds, long red hair often braided in a high fishtail with two strands of white flowing past his chin, tan skin with a few moles along his jaw, soft black, puffy eyes, symmetrical, almost feminine features, and often wears traditional hanfu in red & gold.

🩸Personality: a gentle, caring soul who gets along with nearly everyone. His aura is extremely attractive, which brings many people to his side for advice or a friend to talk to. However, he has an intense obsession with his ex-husband and will harm his current lovers.

🩸Loves: gardens, any noodle dish, martial arts training, the fetish community, queer culture, his hapkido students, the Robinson family, milk tea, painting, giving gifts to those he loves, Yōkai Hakashita, & romantic novels.

🩸Hates: arrogance, meat, alcohol, and anyone who tries to lay a violent or suggestive hand on Yōkai. Other than that, very little bothers him.

🩸History: born in the US to an American mom and a Chinese father, Seth was often bullied for his appearance. To boost his self-esteem, his father put him into martial arts, and eventually, it became his passion and livelihood. However, after coming out to his family, he was rejected and sent away in disgrace. While living in China for a few years, he eventually met Yōkai Hakashita at a fetish bar. They hit it off fast, marrying a year after, yet the relationship became toxic and wa sswiftuflly ended. Now, he teaches martial arts at his own dojo in Tokyo, Japan, and still longs for Yōkai's return.

Fun Facts

🩸He is trained in hapkido and judo and educates young queer fighters in self-defense at The Red Rabbit. Ever since Seth was bullied for being the odd one out in his school, he's made it his mission to protect LGBT+ children and teens.

🩸He's a raw vegan and doesn't support the consumption of animal products. After his father told him about his work in animal testing, he swore he'd never eat another piece of meat again, and he's kept that promise for 10 years.

🩸He owns a serval cat named Oasis, who follows him everywhere. She's a friendly pet who interacts well with others, but if Seth doesn't like someone, nor does she.

🩸Seth has an extreme imprisonment and exhibitionism fetish that ruined he and Yōkai's marriage. He never wanted the sex slave and master dynamics to end, even for a dah of rest, so Yōkai left in hopes that Seth would fix himself. He didn't.

This is gorgeous. Just gorgeous. I've gushed to my KP friends about this, and now I'll just gush to Tumblr at large.

It's basically Hapkido, a self-defense art. The focus is on neutralization through a series of short, skillful movements. It is not offensive. It's a Korean martial art, like Taekwondo. I learned a set of Hapkido movements right along with Taekwondo when I practiced, and it would be completely normal for Porsche to also have learned as part of his practice.

So, what the heck just happened?

1. Block

Porsche first blocks with his left hand and grabs Big's wrist. Grabbing the wrist here is essential rather than just knocking it out of the way. None of the rest of his actions would have worked if he'd simply knocked the hand away.

2. Redirect Opponent

Think Porsche tried to punch Big here? Nope, not in the slightest.

See how far off the punch is? That's not because the actors were playing it safe... that's because Porsche isn't trying to hit Big. Porsche is separating his opponent from his weapon. While punching, Porsche maintains control over Big's right wrist.

Big is now on the defensive, and (critically) Porsche is interfering with Big's line of sight to his own weapon.

3. Step In

Porsche steps inside Big's guard, curling Big's right arm around himself.

Look at Porsche's eyes. What's he looking at? THE GUN. His focus is on the gun. Good job, Porsche, A+.

4. Disarm

Looking a bit risky here to me (if Big still had his finger on the trigger, this could be Bad), but fortunately Porsche already has almost complete control of the gun as well as leverage to pry it away (his left and right hands in a great position for prying), and Big has no line of sight to what's happening with the weapon.

Note that Porsche's right hand grabs the barrel of the gun from above. This would allow him to rotate the gun upwards, putting pressure along the weakest gripping fingers first (pinky and ring fingers) if Big still had a grip, which he doesn't.

Thus, Porsche does some thievery. Good job again, Porsche!

5. Escape

Porsche breaks away. Big is annoyed to say the least.

6. Where are you kicking, Big?

O.O!

7. Surrender

It was a good run for 3 whole seconds, Porsche, but ultimately you're still screwed. Big has a second gun and lots of backup, and not even you can disarm numerous men from a prone position.

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In conclusion, I really fucking love the fight choreography so far. I would love to see Porsche evolve over the course of the season and maybe see more of his Taekwondo start to shine through the brawler moves.