Vide Viridian

IN PROGRESS

==Profile==

Name: Vide Viridian

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Height: 5'11'' Weight: 160 lbs

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Green

Weapon: XYZ

Semblance: Souverain

==Appearance==

Vide is a man of a slightly stocky build. His muscle is often visible through his clothes, though it lacks the definition that he would like. On his face is plastered a perpetually snarky smile, giving rise to his reputation as a bit of a clown. His eyes are an ashen green, being the most notable part of his otherwise plain face. He wears a slight beard that's too clean to have been left alone, but too unkempt to be stylish. His eyebrows are large and expressive, and helps to convey the humor of his world-class jokes.

Above he has slightly curled hair of a dark coffee colour. He would call it curly or wavy, but one look and you'll notice it's obvious frizzy/messiness. He often rests his sunglasses on his head, pushing down his cloudlike mane ever so slightly. The red luster of the lenses is hard to miss in the brown.

For clothing, he wears a long-sleeved coat with the sleeves rolled up. The coat is dark blue, with gold buttons along the front, and is often worn with the bottom buttons undone. He wears a red sash and golden epaulettes. You can tell he put great effort into picking something fashionable, but was too lazy to wear the coat properly most of the day.

Beneath his coat you can see a white shirt that comes to meet his similarly white pants at a black belt. Moving further down you can see his black boots, which shine with a luster that's somehow out of place of his otherwise ragged appearance. The boots have metal soles that rise up beyond normal ones, and a shinguard made of the same iron.

One his arms he wears gloves that connect to iron bracelets of the same iron hue as his shin guards and soles. His gloves, boots, and glasses compose his weapon set: XYZ. When activated, his bracelets extend to cover his forearms in gauntlets, and his soles extend beneath him slightly, revealing exit holes.

==Personality==

[jokester, strategist, lazy, self esteem]

==Weapons and Abilities==

Weapon:

Vide's weapon is actually a set of weapons he calls XYZ (eks-wai-zed). The set is composed of his gauntlets, boots, and glasses, and is known among his friends as the least creative name for a weapon ever. On the gauntlets and boots there are holes through which dust or aura is expelled for thrust.

The gauntlets, the X of the set, cover his forearms and have exhaust ports along the outside. He can activate dust in order generate thrust, making them a sort of jet engine to add an extra oomph to his punches. He can similarly push aura through it for thrust, but this is slightly tiring and most often he just keeps red dust around to refill them.

The boots, the Y of the set, consist primarily of the soles on his boots, and are covered in similar exhaust ports to expel dust/aura. The important part of Y is his ability to slide or grind along the ground with enough dust. In this way he can move fairly quickly on flat ground. On rocky terrain this is effectively useless.

The Z of the set, his glasses, actually are just normal sunglasses. Vide will tell you otherwise, of course.

Semblance:

Vide's semblance has been called Souverain (Sovereign), and is characterized by his ability to convert nearby aura into energy and vice-versa. He needs physical contact in order to do this. This is primarily used in order to drain his own aura level in order to boost his strength and speed. Even when converting his own aura, he gets diminishing returns, and has to continually expend more and more of his aura level to maintain his boosted parameters. This can be visualized as a ticking clock until his aura depletes. On the flip side, he can convert his strength into aura, but as you might guess, this is very tiring, and is rarely used.

When he is close enough to another person, the auras of the two are close enough for his semblance to act on another. In doing so, he can donate his own aura to another to boost their strength. Or, against an enemy, he can attempt to steal some of their aura to boost himself. When attempting to interact with another's aura, the other person needs to be willing and open to receiving aura from Vide. The less open or willing, the harder it is to channel aura, and less strength is conveyed.

Against an enemy, this turns into a battle of will, where if Vide's willpower is greater than the other person, he can steal aura. The more determined or willful the enemy, the harder it becomes. In the worst case, if the enemy is so determined that it overpowers Vide's willpower, his own aura seeps out and boosts the enemy. The less determined Vide is, or the more determined the enemy, the less effective the semblance.

Stats: (Parenthesis stats for when maximally accessing own aura)

Strength: 6 (8)

Speed: 5 (8)

Constitution:5 (4)

Intelligence: 8

Charisma: 4

Wisdom: 4

Abilities:

Jet-Powered Attacks: By expelling dust or aura through his weapons, Vide can make his punches and kicks extra strong and fast.

Grinding: By expelling dust through his boots to hover slightly, Vide can slide across the ground to move extra fast. Only works on flat ground and costly.

Strengthen Allies: By coming into physical contact, Vide can spend his aura to increase his allies' strength/speed/aura at the cost of his own aura. (3 -> 1)

Strengthen Self: Same as above, but targeting himself. (3 -> 1)

Steal Aura: By coming into physical contact, Vide can begin leeching aura if his determination exceeds the target. Is time-dependent, so requires longer contact. (3 -> 1)

Dual Conversion: While stealing, he can steal aura and simultaneously convert it into his own aura. This is highly inefficient even in most situations. (10 -> 1)

Fighting Style:

Vide excels in close-quarters and in one-versus-one fights. His weapons lack range, so he is at the mercy of guns and other projectiles. In close quarters, he outspeeds and outdamages many weapon types, and tries to push this advantage.

Vide approaches fights like a tactician, and tries his hardest to push his advantage. Due to the somewhat unreliable nature of his semblance, he hides it until his opponent expects it least. Since his semblance works best on disheartened foes, Vide tries to discourage his foes in order to maximize this effect. This doesn't always work, as even the snarkiest and most mocking of his tactics can fail against a suitably determined foe.

In a last ditch effort, he can begin spending his aura to maximize his stats. Once this happens, he has a limited amount of time before he runs out of aura, so at this point, it's just a beatdown where whoever is faster or stronger wins.

In group confrontations, Vide acts more as a tactitian or support, boosting his allies while directing their strategies. This comes in handy when working with his team from Beacon.

To summarize, he's a close-quarters fighter with a trick up his sleeve.

==Backstory==

[childhood]

[semblance]

[beacon]

[work]

[return to beacon]