| “ | I'm Rashid of the Turbulent Wind! Remember the name well! | „ |
| ~ Rashid in Street Fighter V |
| “ | Welcome to the stream! | „ |
| ~ Rashid in Street Fighter 6 |
Rashid is a hero in the Street Fighter series, first appeared as one of the core playable characters in Street Fighter V, the 5th entry of the main Street Fighter series of fighting video games by Capcom. He was originally unveiled at 2015 Dubai game show and was the second entry of the 4 characters confirmed to be their first appearances for the game itself. Rashid is also the third Middle Eastern fighter within the series after Hakan, representing the first male character originated from Turkey, and Pullum Purna, the first Arabian fighter.
Biography[]
Rashid is a fighter from the Middle East who can harness the power of the wind. He has a keen interest in technology and the latest gadgets on the market, some of which he uses in his fighting style. He is the eldest son of a wealthy Middle Eastern family. His servant, Azam, accompanies him in many of his battles. Rashid's fighting style is based on his unique brand of Parkour and his ability to control the wind.
Appearance[]
Rashid has short black hair, light brown eyes, and a well-groomed beard. He also has a yellow-green eyepiece on his left eye which flashes briefly when he activates his V-Trigger. His head is adorned with a short white shemagh and a black agal. His outfit consists of a long white sleeveless trench coat with black straps at the center, tucked into a black sash. Underneath is a black sleeveless shirt, white military pants and black open-toed combat boots. He also wears black and dark grey battle wristbands on both of his hands.
In Street Fighter 6, Rashid's white shemagh is now showing as a half-hat, revealing his short black hair in a wavy style with two long single fringe in each sides as his black agal now have gold designs.
He wears nothing beneath his short, black, silk robe with gold trim and gold embroidery along the opening and the baggy sleeves that reaches to his elbow. He also retains the black cross belt on his chest. His white sleeveless tunic has been worn loose and being tied in a black obi around his waist, Rashid also wears a pair of white, loose-fitting sirwal pants that stop at his mid-calf, and black and gold leather boots with sky blue designs on his soles. He also wears a matching black and gold leather fingerless gloves.
Abilities[]
Rashid shows off his parkour moves in Street Fighter 6.
Rashid uses his own unique fighting style derived from parkour and his ability to control winds. Likewise, he is a nimble fighter who uses acrobatic kicks, somewhat similar to Street Fighter EX character Hokuto, and can create small tornadoes similar to Cody's Criminal Upper when utilizing some of his special attacks. His V-Trigger, Ysaar, summons a giant tornado which can be used as a barrier for mixups, similar to Urien's Aegis Reflector traps. His Critical Art, Altair, enables him to be engulfed in a giant tornado that damages the opponent multiple times before dealing two final kicks.
Personality[]
Rashid appears to be an eager one with a laid-black conduct. He has an affinity for any kind of useful, modern technology especially the internet and many new things to experience.
Similar to Elena, he is also friendly to likely make friends with other people he meets, unlike most Street Fighters he is not fussed about fighting and will rarely take battles seriously unless it's against a great master like Dhalsim. Besides, Rashid can mistake certain people as his respective relatives and Zangief for his grandfather and his servant named Azam. He is always like to be with Azam in during his planned travels.
Rashid can be very goofy almost to the behavioral level of Dan Hibiki. He referred to Ryu as "That guy from Twitter" and his encounters with Zangief and R. Mika are very humorous. Rashid's joking manner extends to the main story mode where he serves as main comic relief, making exaggerated poses and exclamations. He also hates to be ignored by other fighters when they are facing against their opponents and complains about it to Azam in joke-manner.
Despite showing himself a bit of a goofy side, Rashid is genuinely a very kind and incredibly heroic person, jumping on to rescue Li-Fen from two guards despite the girl being in no danger. Even when operating for the suspect Illuminati Rashid states to Karin and the other world warriors, that he needs the chess pieces to help find his friend and not for evil purposes. Likewise, Rashid proves to be very selfless as he stops Urien from trying to kill Charlie and incurs the disciple's wrath. Later he meets Charlie again and restores Charlie's calm behavior and conscience by explaining his quest to find his kidnapped friend.
Rashid is very intelligent, not only a whizz at computers and other technology but also when it comes to important matters like Illuminati. He correctly assumed Helen (Kolin) was not in charge, by asking who she really was at which point Urien showed up. Rashid is also very trusting, as when he was caught by Karin during the first raid on Shadaloo, as the metal doors were closing in corridor he pushed R.Mika and Ibuki out of the way and threw Karin the chess pieces to her shock. Rashid asks her to take care of them, despite previously being at odds with her.
Rashid hates fighting both women and children, loading times, Shadaloo, his enemy F.A.N.G, being called a "commoner" and murderers and shows it during three points in the story mode. First when facing Chun-Li in New York, he had his apology throughout the fight, secondly when facing Juri Han he shows great reluctance to battle her which disappoints and angers Juri who states that she will kill him if he doesn't take the battle seriously. And thirdly when fighting Karin to get the chess pieces, Karin overpowers him but he easily brakes from her grip and reveals he swiped her chess pieces.
During the events of A Shadow Falls, Rashid is known to be ignored by the other international fighters when they are facing against their respective opponents. Also, he became friends with Charlie, who was thought to be killed by M. Bison at the time, as he is the guy who restores Charlie's calm personality and a good conscience by discussing his search to look for his kidnapped friend, who later killed by F.A.N.G for betraying the organization.
His most confrontation is to defeat F.A.N.G. After F.A.N.G reveals that he slain Rashid's friend by using his poisonous skill, Rashid loses his own personality and makes his revenge against F.A.N.G to avenge his friend's death when he became vengeful and angry.
Later when hearing a goodbye message from his friend who tells him to live on, Rashid shows his emotions by crying a little but wipes his eyes and tells Azam that it's time to find a new adventure before flying off.
Story[]
Street Fighter V[]
The eldest son of an old Middle Eastern family, Rashid is traveling the world with his butler Azam in search of his friend, a hacker who ended up in the clutches of Shadaloo and forced to work on their latest scheme who wants to destroy the organization from the inside. His search for his missing friend results in him becoming entangled in the main plot surrounding a series of seven missing chess pieces, which are the keys to stopping Shadaloo's ultimate plan.
At some point in A Shadow Falls, Rashid defeats two Shadaloo soldiers that are holding Li-Fen captive and asks her where his missing friend is. Li-Fen points out the direction and Rashid leaves, promising that he will escape with her after he retrieves his friend. Rashid does not find his friend but encounters F.A.N.G as he walks out of the building Li-Fen pointed to. F.A.N.G sees that Rashid is holding a chess piece and Rashid offers to trade the piece for his friend, but F.A.N.G ignores him and initiates a fight that ends in Rashid being knocked out and F.A.N.G taking his piece.
Later on, Rashid receives information from Helen about the pieces that control the Black Moons. In a ravaged New York, Rashid and Azam encounter Chun-Li, Guile, Cammy, and Nash. As Nash fights Guile, Rashid introduces himself and announces that he will be taking Chun-Li's piece, then defeats her as Azam holds off Cammy to prevent interference. Rashid apologizes but notices that Nash has defeated Guile and taken Guile's piece. Nash escapes before Rashid can give chase, so Rashid flies off with Azam on a self-generated tornado. Later on, he and Azam are in Russia after being told to meet Helen at the Underground Arena, and they notice that Nash walks in as well. Helen comes out to reveal herself, and Juri then arrives. Juri decides to test the fighting ability of Helen's other recruit and challenges a startled Rashid. The two fight and Rashid call off the fight after being overwhelmed by Juri. Juri threatens to kill Rashid if he won't fight seriously and Azam steps in to defend him, but Helen stops the conflict to explain Shadaloo's plan to use the Black Moons and her plan to foil that plot. She points out that Rashid wants to find his friend, which garners his interest and convinces him to join, Rashid agrees but muses if going to risk his life he wants to know who she really is. Before Kolin can answer, Urien appears suddenly and cruelly berates her for having a secret meeting in a place he considers a dump. Urien then shows interest in Charlie and engages him in a fight to see if he's more than a mere puppet (since he helped resurrect Nash), after overpowering him Urien decides to kill him on a whim. But before he can strike Rashid steps in and stops him, grabbing the disciple's arm and saying he's done enough, Urien became outraged that a "commoner" like Rashid dared touch him, and threw him off with an Aegis Reflector. Before a fight could ensure, Kolin got between them and begged Urien's forgiveness.
Rashid and Azam visit the Kanzuki Estate to see Karin, who is offended by their trespassing and calls Rashid a "guest without any manners." Rashid asks her for the piece and she tells him to earn it by defeating her in a fight, which she wins. Karin restrains Rashid and he surrenders, then escapes her hold and promises her that he will never use the pieces for evil before leaving with Azam.
Rashid and Azam found Nash, feeling defeated after his failed attempt on Bison's life. Rashid opens up to him about his missing friend, which in turn helped Nash regain his conscience. However, Necalli found the three of them and gave chase until they caught up to Karin's helicopter and escaped to the Kanzuki Estate. After Nash cured Abel the three of them left to regroup with Helen. After a short argument between Nash and Helen, Rashid and Azam followed him into the final assault on the Shadaloo Base. When Rashid entered the computer room he was met with a riddle devised by his friend. Rashid easily guessed the password (his moniker: Rashid of the Turbulent Wind) and the cancellation process began. F.A.N.G arrived, shocked to see his supposedly fool-proof plan beginning to fail. In a fit of rage, F.A.N.G remarked that he should have 'killed that traitor', immediately grabbing his attention. F.A.N.G quickly connected the dots and boasted that he was indeed the one who murdered Rashid's friend. Rashid became enraged and defeated F.A.N.G in order to avenge his friend's death. When Rashid had his back turned F.A.N.G retaliated by poisoning him and making a break for the console. Before F.A.N.G could undo the cancellation process he was confronted by a newly freed Marz, who sacrificed herself in a desperate bid to kill F.A.N.G, Rashid watching powerlessly all the while. Rashid fought off a final wave of Shadaloo soldiers until the cancellation process was complete. With Operation: C.H.A.I.N.S. permanently aborted he took the opportunity to rest, hardly believing that he had managed to save the world.
After Ryu defeated Bison and the Shadaloo base was destroyed, Rashid and Azam watched the other fighters from afar. At the last minute, Rashid received a bittersweet message from his friend, in which she congratulated him for successfully stopping the Black Moons and told him to enjoy the rest of his life. Rashid then stood up and left with Azam, carrying with him a newfound resolve.
Street Fighter 6[]
Following the events of V, Rashid continued his travels with Azam and he narrates about the entire events in his role in Street Fighter V and finally shows his cellphone camera with a selfie stick, showing his enjoyment of being a vlogger to make vlogs on his fights with other fighters. Upon encountering Ryu, Rashid wants to fight him in a rematch while hiding his selfie stick and his cellphone camera from his back. Ryu accepts and they both fight.
After defeating Ryu, Rashid realizes that his fight Ryu is something that he can never forget to learn more about himself and taking a similar path as him as well as no cellphone or no shoot cameras and videos when both had fought. However, he gets a drone camera in wanting to make videos of his fight with the fighters, much to Azam's disappointment.
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