Notes

Knight of Rage: One who Exploits with Rage or Exploits Rage

Knights hide a fear of a perceived fundamental failure with their Aspect behind a shield of confidence and obsessive effort. Their challenge is to learn to take it down a notch and to understand that they are skilled enough

A Knight of Rage would be extremely skilled at using their own reactive rage, panic or fear to their advantage. They are probably almost never caught off guard due to their paranoia and anger making them highly reactive, as if their flight or fight response was on constant overdrive. Their reactive impulses matched with the Knight’s skill makes them great warriors, having great fighting instincts and even greater reflexes. They would be able to antagonize and dominate their opponents with their pure fighting ability or their ability to exploit the blind anger, fear, despair or doubts of their opponent. They definitely are ones to taunt their enemies while fighting like “haha missed me missed now you gotta kiss me!” *high pitched screams while flinch dodging angry attack* “haha missed me again wow you suck!”

A Knight of Rage though is always afraid that one day they might be caught off guard or get too angry or too afraid to do anything, and they exploit their anxious paranoia, fears, anger or doubts to fuel their twitchy reflexes. Tap them on the shoulder without warning when they are in a bad mood and they liable to punch you in the face just on pure reflex. The Knight’s fears of uselessness or not just trying hard enough mixed with Rage’s tendencies to criticize and doubt can make for a serious case of low inner self esteem caused by internally kicking themselves when they’re down and making it worse.

They tend not to dwell on it much though, being more focused on the general adrenaline rush they are almost constantly on. The Knight may even use that a shield they hide behind like instead of dealing with insecurities just drown them in the adrenaline rush. Their challenge is a difficult one, because it involves coming out from behind the shield and really facing their fears, not through a battle of avoidant reflexes, but by stubbornly holding their ground and refusing to back down or flinch away. Media Example: Pretty sure but not 100% Jack Spicer from Xaolin Showdown (Original Series, haven’t seen new Jack Spicer so can’t say)