Gouken

Art by julientainmont

History

Gouken studied the art of Ansatsuken under master Goutetsu, together with his younger brother, Akuma (Gouki in Japan). The martial art contains a element of murderous intent, known as the Satsui no Hadou. Gouken worked consciously to remove the Satsui no Hadou from his art, while his brother Akuma fully embraces it. Gouken left to open his own martial art school after Akuma, immersed in the aura of the Satsui no Hadou, killed their master.

Gouken had three students - Dan, Ryu, and Ken. One day, Akuma came to Gouken's school and attacked him using the Raging Demon move called the Shun Goku Satsu.  Gouken appeared to have died from the attack and went into coma, but he was able to remove all emotions from his soul and survived the Raging Demon.

Personality

Gouken is a stoic, calm, and peaceful practitioner of Ansatsuken. He detests the Satsui no Hadou within it, and refused to train Dan Hibiki after accepting him to his school, because he thought that Dan's thirst for revenge will lead him to embrace the Satsui no Hadou.

Gouken is also a humble master, as he treats his former students Ryu and Ken as rivals instead of eternal students who need his continuous tutelage. He believes that he has nothing else to teach Ryu and Ken, and lets them develop into their own formidable warriors.

Mastery 

While Gouken studied the martial art of Ansatsuken under master Goutetsu, he fully rejects the murderous intent or Satsui no Hadou within the art. He created his own version of Ansatsuken without the Satsui no Hadou, and taught it to his students. However, the Satsui no Hadou still lingers within his student Ryu. After surviving the Shun Goku Satsu attack from Akuma by emptying his own soul, Gouken developed the Power of Nothingness, which he used to seal the Satsui no Hadou in Ryu.

Journey

Gouken lives a righteous life, and seeks to promote martial arts as a peaceful endeavour. He rejects the Satsui no Hadou completely and strives to seal and remove it forever from the world. Even as his brother Akuma moved closer to the Satsui no Hadou and killed their master while immersed in it, Gouken is able to avoid the Satsui no Hadou completely.

His martial art has no murderous intent, and he survived the Shun Goku Satsu attack, a strong manifestation of the Satsui no Hadou, by developing an art that is completely opposite to it called the Power of Nothingness. It is his dream to remove the Satsui no Hadou from the world using the Power of Nothingness, and he has passed on the art to Ryu. With Akuma moving ever closer to the Satsui no Hadou and losing his humanity, the greatest challenge for Gouken is to use the Power of Nothingness to stop Akuma and seal off the Satsui no Hadou for good.