------------------ Art of Fighting 2 ------------------ ------------------------------------------- A Word Before We Get Down To The Real Talk: ------------------------------------------- This faq is only for the character background and so. So if anybody have anything to add, please do so. Otherwise... do not bother. ======================================================= ----- Name: Ryo Sakazaki (The Wild Karate Guy) ----- Scion of the creator of "Kyoku Gen Karate", Takuma Sakazaki, he has been passing the previous year since the rescue of his cute kid sister Yuri in the Japanese Alps, bathing in the frigid streams and dancing on the sharp rocks of Mt. Yuwannafaito. Hearing of the mysterious "King Of Fighters" competition, he ventures once again to his old hunting grounds. ====================================================== ----- Name: Robert Garcia (The pretty-Boy Master Of Mayhem) ----- Son of the multi-zillionaire industrialist Albert Moralista Del Gusto De Braha Garcia. Robert has forsaken the wishes of his father, left the prestigious Emperor University, and has followed the pursuit of Kyoku Gen Karate mastership. The rival of Ryo, Robert is one fop who packs a wallop. ======================================================= ----- Name: Yuri Sakazaki (The Fabulous Karate Babe) ----- Ryo's beloved kid sister. Anxious to learn the ways of Kyoku Gen. She learns from her father, Takuma, she studies with her father while pretending to attend a fitness club to appease her brother, Ryo, who objects to Yuri's studies. Achieving momentous success in a brief period of training. Yuri joins the competition to show her big brother what she's really made of. ======================================================= ----- Name: Takuma Sakazaki (Karate Of Kyoku Gen And One Really Swell Dad) ----- Pioneer of the Kyoku Gen school of Karate, Takuma enters the competition with an uneasy sense that something is just not adding up, because of his superior Southtown organization but refused. Could this competition be the work of his old enemies? ====================================================== ----- Name: King (The Gorgeous, Kick-Boxing Lady) ----- The former bouncer of La Maison, defeated by Ryo and Robert one year ago, was rumored to have forsaken the world of the streets to make an honest living as a political consultant. Finding the trade perverse and inhuman, she has resurfaced on the streets, kick-boxing her way to a showdown with her old pals and hoping for the prize money. But for what and...? ===================================================== ----- Name: John Crawley (The supersonic Psycho Flyboy) ----- Once a pilot of unparalleled skill, the marine took a air-to-air missile to his eye. Unable to fly, the dejected pilot was driven to drinking and unsociable behavior. Years later, he was drummed out of the service after being implicated on gun running missions supplying the evil, Mr. Big. Insisting he was framed, the dejected, former ruler of skies now comes to Southtown to set history right. ===================================================== ----- Name: Jack Turner (The Muscle Devil From Dairyland) ----- Dreaded leader of the urban gang, the Neo Black Cats. Jack quests for the control of Southtown and its envirous. To reestablish his old group, he must first win them back from the evil clutches and shiny pate of Mr. Big. ====================================================== ----- Name: Mickey Rogers (The Tragic Champ From The Lower East Side) ----- To escape a life of abject poverty, Mickey sought the crown of heavyweight boxing. A freak accident sidelined his hopes, sending the Mickster back to the means treets. After paying his dues to the society that scorned him, Mickey looks for a new shot at the title and has entered the contest to polish his technique. ====================================================== ----- Name: Lee Pai Long (The Legendary, Taloned Acrobat) ----- The master Of Masters of Chinese Kempo. Well-versed in the mysterious ways of Chinese medicine, this fighter/doctor hides his identity with a hideous (some say ridiculous) mask of the monkey god, Who Hee Shiree. Planning to use the prize money from his contest to further his medical research, Lee looks to this battle as his final bolt in the arena of the boulevard battlers. ======================================================= ----- Name: Eiji Kisaragi (The Mysterious Manipulator Of Ninja Arts) ----- Master of the ancient ways of the ninja and sworn enemy of the Sakazaki clan whose devotion to the school of Kyoku Gen school of Karate is an insult to Kisaragi's being. An enigmatic soul who thirst for revenge, and a glance of his former love, lost to the arms of a long-haired blond guy. But such is life. ======================================================= ----- Name: Temjin (The Titan Of The Tundra) ----- The one and only Mongolian dock worker at the Southtown port, Tem resigned himself to a period of menial work as a manure loader. Finding the job 25 bucks and hour. Tem stayed on, earning money for the small school in Mongolia where he dreams of teaching one day. A pure heart who fights for the good of others. ====================================================== ----- Name: Mister Big (The Glittering Sultan Of Southtown) ----- The leader of the dreaded Southtown Boys Club, known for their terror and powers of persuasion. Sensing a threat to his rule, Big has polished his scalp and entered the seemingly sinister King Of Fighters contest. What fowl secret awaits him at the end of his battles? Will his ambition translate into his downfall? Hey! He is a bad guy. Who cares?!!! ====================================================== ----- Name: Geese Howard (The Kingpin Of Southtown) ----- He's a former champion of the National Martial Arts of America. Before he became a champion, people in the underground were afraid of him and he was nicknamed "Lone Wolf Killer Geese". Underhandedly, he achieved fame and authority in Southtown. He trained under every martial arts master around. He became a brutal killer and it is rumored that he is as strong as a demon! And now he is here to gather more and more young strong fighters for his plans. ---------- Last Word: ---------- There you have it. If anything is wrong, just send me an E-Mail. --------------- Special Thanks: --------------- 1)To SNK. 2)To Gamefaqs. 3)To all my friends for the encouragement. ======================================================= Art of Fighting 2 is Copyright SNK Crop. This document Copyright 2003 Basel If you need to contact me to add or ask me about anything, E-Mail me at Mr_Basel@yahoo.com or Mr_Geese@hotmail.com Credits for GameFAQs and SNK Crop.