Sean

Art by SemperII

History

Sean Matsuda comes from a Brazillian martial arts family led by his paternal grandfather, Kinjiro Matsuda, who is the master of the Matsuda Jiu-Jitsu fighting style. He taught the style to his three grandchildren, including Sean. While his siblings Fabio and Laura inherits their grandfather's style and practise it proudly, Sean has more interest in pursuing the Ansatsuken style of Ken Masters. He is an avid basketball player, and uses a basketball as a weapon in his fights.

Personality

Sean is a lively and hopeful fighter who strives to be as good as Ken. While he may be inexperienced, he abhors weakness, and detests being compared to Dan Hibiki. He can be very focused in his training to be a greater fighter after an embarrassing defeat. Sean is a warrior who never gives up.

Mastery 

Sean started off as a practitioner of Matsuda Jiu-Jitsu but switched to the Ansatsuken style after watching an online course called Masters Online Karate by Ken Masters. He has not formally trained with Ken, and learned all  his Ansatsuken moves by imitation. His techniques are far from perfect, however, with intense focus, he can perform a special Shoryuken super move that can match the strength of Ken's original super move, the Shoryu Reppa.

Journey

Sean comes from the Matsuda Jiu-jitsu martial arts family, but his interest and admiration of Ken brought him in close contact with the murderous art of Ansatsuken.

His knowledge of Ansatsuken is mainly self-taught, and he once challenged Ken but he lost. He was asked by Ken to search for Ryu and challenge him to a fight. Sean lost badly, but being a determined warrior who does not give up easily, he went to intense solitary training for one full year.

After his training, he went to join the US Martial Arts Championship. However, he did not win and Ken told him that he did not train properly and should train harder next time. Ken went on to win the championship and offered him the trophy. Sean refuses, as it is against his pride to just accept a reward that he did not earn. He vows to be a much stronger fighter, and aims to win the trophy using his own strength in the next tournament.