Personality: Calm and calculating, usually quiet but can wear any emotional mask he wants at any given time, prefers to avoid direct conflict whenever possible
Background:
Andrew grew up as an only child in Dorchester, Boston, one of the centers of violent crime. There he faced racial and class discrimination being born into a poor Chinese immigrant family and was raised alone by his abusive, drunkard mother after his father had been murdered on the street while returning home from an 18-hour work day. He put up with his mother's abuse until one day when he was 16 and decided he had had enough. He knocked her out cold, in defense of course, and took everything valuable he could fit into a suitcase and backpack and waltzed out, pawning everything of worth, dropped out of school, and headed off to the nearest Army recruiter lying about his age and forging credentials to get into the service. He scored in the top 10 of all recruits in the exam and was sent out to become a military linguist where he was immersed in many languages. After he graduated from boot camp, he applied for the Army Rangers and graduated Ranger school, serving two full tours of duty as an Army Ranger. He got his GED on the side and applied to sniper school, where he was admitted and ranked number 4 in his graduating class. After four tours of duty as a sniper, the CIA sent an agent to recruit him to preform undercover operations in the guise of a civilian. He quickly accepted and he was given a few months leave before heading off to his first mission with the CIA.
While he was on leave, he decided to visit his hometown once more and learned little had changed, it was still the shit-hole he had grown up in, only without his mother. He learned that his mother had died from alcohol poisoning two years after he had bid the wretch farewell; she had died in a pool of her own vomit and even though it sickened him, he felt it was a befitting death of one so alone and hated. Everything that she had owned became his including an old, hexagonal, metallic medallion with the roman numeral XXVII (27) on it. He sold everything but kept the medallion as some voice in the back of his head told him to keep it.
As an undercover CIA agent, he became fluent in most languages, spied on enemies of the state, staged insurrection, and also caused several anonymous "accidents", the normal, but one mission went wrong. He was sent to infiltrate a cult prospected for bio-terrorism and through some patience, he succeeded in attaining enough trust to join one of their "purification" ceremonies. There he earned that it truly was a purification ceremony, one meant to "purify" the ranks of believers by turning them into food for a then-unknown monster, a Homunculus. After devouring about half of the cultists, a group burst in through all entrances and destroyed the Homunculus with ease with their weapons even though his bullets hadn't even phased the creature as it fed. After saving him, they soon realized that he possessed a Kakugane, the medallion he kept in his shirt pocket, and tried to take it by force. Even with their weapons, several of them were incapacitated, either knocked out cold or with broken bones, before subduing him. The group's leader, seeing his prowess, offrered to introduce him to a secret group called the Alchemical Warriors; he accepted, not seeing that he had much of a choice in the matter.
He soon disappeared under the radar of his superiors in the CIA and began his secret training as an Alchemical Warrior, learning to master his Kakugane. He rose through the ranks to where he is today, one of the most efficient and trusted gatherers of intelligence and covert agent in all of the Alchemical Army and currently only sends his CIA superiors enough reports to show that he is still alive.
Appearance:
Kakugane Number: XXVII (27)
Buso Renkin: Soundwave
Description of Abilities:
Once activated, the Kakugane splits into dual semi-automatic pistols with fixed bayonets able to shoot supersonic bullets created from the surrounding atmosphere through alchemy and allows for the manipulation of sound. This has a number of applications including, but not limited to:
The amplification and reduction of noise (sound) up to 200 decibels (dB) and as low as 0 dB.
Altering of sound frequency as high as 10^5 Hz and as low as 0.1 Hz.
Changing the direction and spread of sound waves.
Altering the trajectory of projectiles slightly.
The ability to use sonar.
There are a few limitations to this Buso Renkin. The continual manipulation of sound for extended amounts in extreme ranges requires a lot of concentration which makes the user more prone to exhaustion and it cannot "create" a sound other than in a normal sense; if there is no sound to manipulate, it cannot manipulate anything (i.e. in a vacuum). While the user is able to manipulate sound, the user him/her/itself is not immune to sound (i.e they can still get damaged from the sound they manipulate if they're not careful enough).
Personality: Calm cool and collected. Is usually very friendly. Enjoys very smooth jazz and usually plays it in the bar. Izumo is very defensive of his bar, if anyone scratches the counter, he'll punish you for it and make you apologize.
Background: Before he settled down to become a bartender, Izumo used to be a Black Market dealer. But he retired since the going was getting a bit hot. But he still keeps close tabs on the market.
You need guns? He knows who'll make a deal
You need leaked technology? He knows someone for that too
Nowadays, the only thing he uses the Black Market for is expensive wines. Strangely enough, there was an ominous medallion that was in his latest shipment of wine. 65 it said. He thought it was weird, what made it even weirder was the letter accompanying it: Take care of it, The Eternal Flame
Taking a cigar out, he noticed that his lighter was out. He scowled as he scrambled to search for another one. Amidst all this, the medallion started glowing and shaped itself into a suitable lighter for him to use.
Appearance:
Kakugane Number: LXV (65)
Busou Renkin: Eternal Flame
Description of Abilities:
Izumo's Busou Renkin takes the form of a lighter in which he usually carries everywhere. He finds it amazing that the lighter will never run out of fuel. Depending on what he wants, Izumo and switch the type of flame that the lighter emits. Each flame has a different effect when lighting a cigar and a different color
Iron Lungs After inhaling each and every smoke that the lighter provides, Izumo is immune to his own smoke. Also, all negative effects of smoking are negated, so no lung cancer for him.
Smokescreen The lighter burns with a white flame. When he exhales the smoke after he lights a cigar, it will overflow a set area in such thickness that it becomes extremely hard to see. The nicotine will also be irritating to the eyes unless one is wearing glasses.
Poison Gas The lighter burns with a purple flame. When Izumo exhales, the fumes will encompass an area with toxic gas, that will in turn cause irritation to the eyes, mouth, nose, throat and lungs. It will also slowly deprive the victims of oxygen and replace the oxygen with a toxic chemical in the veins once inhaled. Can cause fatality if inhaled in enough concentration
Sleeping Gas The lighter burns with a blue flame. When exhaling the smoke, a chloroform like substance will be emitted, and all targets that inhale even a small dose of the smoke will be rendered unconscious for a couple of minutes.
Combustive Vapor The lighter burns with a clearly red flame. When exhaling, Izumo can hold the flame close to his mouth and exhale. When this happens, the combustive elements in the vapor he exhales will react with the flame creating a flamethrower effect.
Weaknesses: All of Izumo's abilities require him to smoke something, whether it be a cigar, or whether it be paper. If he cannot smoke something, he cannot use his abilities. There is always the possibility that someone holds their breath to avoid inhaling the smoke. Gas masks are his nightmare, (Except in the case of Combustive Vapor)
Busou Renkin Appearance:
Even Death has a heart It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out.
THAT's what life's all about.
Name:
Aya Koizumi Age:
18 Gender:
Female Personality:
Aya is an extremely lazy and unmotivated Fujoshi(Female Otaku), who claims to suffer from ' An incurable disease were she is only able to do what she wants to do'.
For anything else, Aya finds it extremely difficult to draw up any motivation. As such she seems to have a perpetually bored expression of her face, and can be quite childish at times. Her favourite phrase is "What a bother". When ever she gets serious, such as in battle or when drawing, she ties her hair back in a ponytail.
Her main interest is maintaining and updating her Anime Blog, Magical Bura*Kura, which is currently rated No.#1 in Japan. This Blog is one of the main reasons she is unethusiastic about her assignments as a Warrior. Since everytime she goes out on assignment, her Blog drops down in the rankings.
Aya is also a rather talented artist, who goes by the pen-name of A-Koi. Among Doujinshi circles, she is actually rather famous. Mainly for her original works, but also for her depictions of unusual and fan-favourite pairings. She tends to use people she meets in her Doujinshi. When she meets a guy that inspires her and can be used, she typically freezes for a second, and will instantly try to draw whatever scene she just came up with.
Background:
Aya is what many would call a genius. Or a nutjob. Depends on your viewpoint.
Aya has alway been the type of person who does whatever she wanted, regardless of what others thought. To her, other peoples opinions didn't matter. She spend her days watching anime, playing games and reading manga. She spent her money one figurines and new volumes. She had no interest in school, or science.
When Aya was 15, she watched an Anime, were the main character's where able to teleport. She thought it was cool. So cool, in fact, that she wanted to do it herself. The next day she joined her schools Physics Club.
A year pasted. A year of studying, researching and experimenting. Eventually, she compiled all her findings and thoughts into a thesis. A thesis to prove that teleportation was infact possible. Though she had no way of actually proving her theory. Afterall, she was just a schoolgirl.
Out of curiosity, Aya decided to send her thesis into a well-known science magazine. And to her surpise, they published. Heck, she even won a Noble Prize. It was a world event. She was called a prodigy and a genius. Not like Aya cared, of course. Now that she had proven it was possible, she had begun to lose interest in the matter.
But, Unknown to her and the world, her thesis contained several hints to Alchemic theory and formula. So many, that it caught the interest of the Alchemic Army. Their ultimate goal was the creation of a Philosphere Stone. With her mind, she would surely be able to assist in its completion.
They visited her, and eventually were able to negotiate and persuade her to join them.
Appearance:
Kakugane Number:
LXXXVI - 86 Busou Renkin:
Jet Ex Machina Description of Abilities:
Jet Ex Machina abilities are centered around the absorbing and redirection of Kinetic Energy. The boots store Kinetic Energy with each step, the amount recorded on the circular counters built into the sides of the boots.
When released, the Kinetic Energy can give the Aya a boost and allow her to leap or jump to incredible heights. It can also be released in kicks that can destroy concrete or steel walls.
Each step equals 1 'foot' of height, so 30 steps allows you to leap 30 feet in the air or to put 30 pounds of pressure on a kick. The same formula applies for boosts of speed. Each boot are capable of storing their own seperate amount of Kinetic Energy.
Due to the heat created from the stored Kinetic Energy, the boots have to vent, releasing the excess heat, after every major action. It should also be noted that the stored energy does not carry over. When the Busou Renkin is deactivated, the counter's rest to Zero.
Personality: Jacob was trained to be an alchemist his entire life. He used to be a protective, kind and intelligent kid, but now he is lust thirsty sneaky monster.
Background:
As mentioned before, he was a really good kid and alchemist. Horewer, one day, Homunculus attacked his family. Jacob was the only survivor, and now he wants to slay them all.
Appearance:
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Kakugane Number:(In Roman Numerials)
VIII - 8
Busou Renkin: Power gloves
Description of Abilities:
Power glows, as the title suggests, are gloves, and their purpose is the use of energy. The gloves have 5 modes, each with different color and power. Golden mode - in this mode, Jacob can use his own energy, and form a ball with the gloves. The energy ball's size depends from energy added into it. Red mode- in this mode, the gloves can release sticky threads (made out of energy) that can be used to grab objects, immobilize enemies, etc... Blue mode - in this mode, the gloves can turn matter into energy, and store it at the gloves. (because matter is actually a frozen energy). Green mode - in this mode, Power gloves become very durable, and can be used to smash things. Black mode- in this mode, gloves can create a defensive barrier around itself, able to block attacks.
Busou Renkin Appearance:
read the description.
I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body, and fire is my blood.
I have created over a thousand blades,
Unknown to death, nor known to life.
Have whitstood pain to create many weapons,
Yet, these hands will never hold anything,
So, as I pray: Unlimited Blade Works
And though I had slain a thousand foes less one,
The thousandth knife found my liver;
The thousandth enemy said to me,
'Now you shall die,
Now none shall know.'
And the fool, looking down, believed this,
Not seeing, above his shoulders, the naked stars,
Each one remembering.
Personality: Jacob was trained to be an alchemist his entire life. He used to be a protective, kind and intelligent kid, but now he is lust thirsty sneaky monster.
Background:
As mentioned before, he was a really good kid and alchemist. Horewer, one day, Homunculus attacked his family. Jacob was the only survivor, and now he wants to slay them all.
Appearance:
will be edited
Kakugane Number:(In Roman Numerials)
VIII - 8
Busou Renkin: Power gloves
Description of Abilities:
Power glows, as the title suggests, are gloves, and their purpose is the use of energy. The gloves have 5 modes, each with different color and power. Golden mode - in this mode, Jacob can use his own energy, and form a ball with the gloves. The energy ball's size depends from energy added into it. Red mode- in this mode, the gloves can release sticky threads (made out of energy) that can be used to grab objects, immobilize enemies, etc... Blue mode - in this mode, the gloves can turn matter into energy, and store it at the gloves. (because matter is actually a frozen energy). Green mode - in this mode, Power gloves become very durable, and can be used to smash things. Black mode- in this mode, gloves can create a defensive barrier around itself, able to block attacks.
Busou Renkin Appearance:
read the description.
I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body, and fire is my blood.
I have created over a thousand blades,
Unknown to death, nor known to life.
Have whitstood pain to create many weapons,
Yet, these hands will never hold anything,
So, as I pray: Unlimited Blade Works
And though I had slain a thousand foes less one,
The thousandth knife found my liver;
The thousandth enemy said to me,
'Now you shall die,
Now none shall know.'
And the fool, looking down, believed this,
Not seeing, above his shoulders, the naked stars,
Each one remembering.