Name: Tai Tsung

Age: 11054yrs

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 137 Pounds

Fighting
Styles:
Tae Kwan Do
Xing Yi
Double Bladed Staff

BIO:

Back when Shang Tsung and Goro won the 10th Mortal Kombat that would allow Shao Kahn to conquer Edenia, one of the first things that Shang Tsung did was take an Edenian woman named Traya and he used his dark sorcery to make her carry his demon offspring. Shang was not foolish, he knew that at some point in time, he would surley fall in battle. So he decided that he needed a son to continue his dark legacy. Nine months later Traya gave birth to a baby girl whom she named Tai. Shang was furious that Traya ended up with a girl, He scoffed at the idea of a girl taking his power. He left, but not before using his dark arts to infect Traya with a disease that would kill her painfully and slowly. Traya had to pay for her insult. So for a time life went on as usual. Being half Edenian, Tai inherited the extremely long lifespan of an Edenian. Soon after Tai's 11th birthday, Traya was finally killed by the disease. Tai had always seemed emotionally void and didn't really care that her mother had died. Probably due to the demon blood running through her vains. She did, however, want to know more about her father whom she heard was a powerful Demon Sorcerer. She was fascinated with that kind of life. Tai had known for a long time that she wasn't like other Edenians, she liked to be evil to people and had no desire to do any good at all. She viewed being "good" as being very weak. Being good didn't get you power or riches; and Tai wanted both. She decided to look up her father, with the intention of becomming his pupil.
When she turned 17, Tai began training in the arts of Tae Kwan Do and Xing Yi. She had quite an aptitude for the martial arts and quickly became a master of both styles. Tai also decided she needed to become skilled with a weapon; she chose the Double Bladed Staff and mastered it in an equally short amount of time. It wasn't until years later when Tai was 1458 years old, that she found Tsung. Shang Tsung denied having a daughter and didn't even acknowledge Traya. He threatend to kill her if she did not leave his sight immediately. Tai left, but at that same moment she made vow. She would take everything Tsung had for herself and see him beg at her feet. Tai secretly watched her father from then on, learning everything she could gather about sorcery and the dark arts. she followed her father's conquests, including the 10th tournament that Shang lost. She found it rather funny that of all the opponents that Shang and Goro have crushed over the centuries, a lowly mortal like Kang was the one to beat them both. She made a quick mental note not to underestimate Liu Kang if she ever came up against him.
On her 11023rd birthday, Tai went to spy on her father again and found that he was not home. Tai decided to take advantage of this and let herself into the palace. She made quick work of the guards and continued to his personal study. She searched through all drawers and closets trying to find someting useful. Tai came across a rather strange looking cloak. Along with the cloak she found a notebook. Appearently Shang knew the cloak had mystical properties, but had been unsuccessful in unlockin them. Tai couldn't shake the feeling she had seen the cloak before. Suddenly it came back to her; she had seen it before in one of her aunt Serenity's spell books. She wasted no time in gathering up the cloak and escaping the palace. She went to Serenity's house and found the book. She found out that the cloak acted as a link to the Dark Dimension giving the user power over dark matter and the ability to open doorways into the dark dimension. However the user must first have the sacred mark tattooed over the left eye. This is the piece of information that Tsung was missing, as well as the fact that the cloak only worked specifically for women. In the book there was a picture of the tattoo and Tai wasted no time in getting the mark on her face. She put on the cloak and immediately felt infused with power. She tried a few different tricks with it, including being able to mentally shift it from a cloak to an outfit more to her liking, and decided to keep practicing with it until she could use the cloak to it's full potential. When she had completed this task, she was finally ready. Ready to take down her father and claim all the power that was his to command. However, the Earth Warrior Kung Lao (For Tai's story I am taking Kung Lao's ending in DA to be true.) killed him before she could do so. Tai was not sorry her father was dead, nor did she desire any revenge. She felt Shang to be pathetic, beaten by two different Earth Warriors and even Killed by the second one. He was less than nothing. This changed her plan slightly. Tai decided she would make her father turn in his grave by accomplishing the one task he could not; she would crush the earth Warriors and take Earth Realm for herself.


Special Moves:

Return-To-Sender - Tai uses her power over dark matter to open up a portal to the Dark Dimension which swallows any projectile thrown at her and almost instantly a new portal opens up behind the opponent expelling the projectile (at about double speed) back at them. *This affects Scorpion and characters with projectiles similar to the spear differently. The projectiles will dissappear in the first portal, but will not return to sender.

Dark Force Shards - Tai motions with her hands at the opponent and fires 5 shards of dark matter energy at them. The shards fly through the air and barrage the opponent, one after the other, causing a 5 hit combo.

Shadow Port - Tai can step into one of her own Dark Dimension portals and reappear above, behind or to the side of her opponent.

Shadow Phase - Tai has the ability to make herself a living Shadow. In this mode she cannot be hit by any form of physical attack, excepting certain projectiles (gotta make it fair after all). Also her speed will increase dramatically while in shadow mode as she becomes virtually weightless. However this does have one major disadvantage (to again keep things fair) - while in shadow mode Tai may NOT use any of her other special moves (i.e...Return-To-Sender, Dark Force Shards, or Shadow Port) Shadow mode lasts approx. 8 seconds, and Tai may not use it again before at least 10 seconds have passed (to prevent abuse of this move.)

Fatalities:

Have Limbs Will Travel - Tai opens up five portals around the opponent's body. One at the head, one at each arm, and one at each leg. Tai then promplty closes these portals while the opponents limbs are still in the Dark Dimension, leaving only the bloody torso.

Dark Decapitation - Tai opens up one of her Dark Dimension portals in from of her and another deirectly behind the opponents head. She then takes out her Double Bladed Staff and Thrusts the end of it through her portal. It comes out at the opponents portal and stabs the back of the throat coming out the front, she then gives the staff a quick twist; taking the opponent's head off.

Hara-Kiri - Tai opens a portal near herself and steps half of her body through it and then immediately closes the portal leaving behind only half of her body.
Tai Standard Outfit
Tai Alternate Outfit Thanks for the links Tgrant.