Isambard Steiner

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Cobalt Ingénieur is an engineer at Beacon, who is studying there as part of his education.

Appearance
Cobalt appears as the average slim build white male of his age, but on closer inspection one could easily see the robot behind the skin, with heavy augmentation to the limbs and face, the body presumably share this trait, but is normally covered up in most scenes.

Personality
Cobalt is an imaginative, boisterous good ol' boy and a tinkerer at heart. He enjoys nothing more than breaking into other's weapons, to see and understand the complex machinery and how the weapon ticks, despite the owner's opinion on the matter. He is also more of a pragmatist, seeing the usefulness of something or someone before sentimental value, and often find trouble seeing what inspires his fellow students to become Hunters and Huntresses, and sees his line of study more beneficial.

Cobalt is a robot, much like Penny, and (unlike Penny) is more outwards with this fact, which may have been influenced by how Cobalt's robotics are much more obvious to the eye than those within Penny.

He normally carries around a small duffle bag full of Tools and Printing Resin, and is otherwise highly prepared for most situations, normally over-thinking the situation and jumping the gun with things, which often

Background
Cobalt comes from Atlas, having been raised and built by a couple of professors (named Iridis Ingénieur and Rhodes Ingénieur) in Atlas's academic universities, who had built him using cloned parts from his 'brother' who had passed away at birth, and integrated with robotics to ensure his survival to Adulthood.

Cobalt has been following in his parent's footsteps, and has been studying and practising the trade of Weapons Engineering since he was 13, and hopes for his education to flourish through his time at Beacon Academy.

Abilities
As a Robot, Cobalt can detect the digital signatures of other electronic appliances in the area, as well as the current operations they are performing, he is also a excellent engineer and a crack shot, owing the robotic precision his hands offer, and is often approached by students for tuning up and/or fixing their weapons or other devices. However, as a robot, Cobalt has no aura, and therefore lacks a semblance, which has often left him disadvantaged by those who use a semblance, he also dislikes the heavy reliance of dust most students use, and normally uses alternate means of power (i.e small reactors attached to whatever) to fuel his battles, this has often lead to punishments for using non-regulated weaponry (such as lasers).

Weapon: Hacker Hands.

The Hacker Hands are a more recent development in the Arms industry, and allow Cobalt to create a temporary copy of the target's weapon, but he normally adds a twist to the copy, such as an alternate element or function, take for example, Yang's Ember Celica, which uses shotgun bursts to power up strikes or add ranged versatility, Cobalt could quickly copy the weapon and create a "Prototype", the Spark Celica, which trades off the shotgun blasts for railgun rails, adding penetration and projectile speed for close quarters functionality, or something different; the created copies are not-permanent, and Cobalt often requires a special and rather costly Printing resin to create functioning copies.

Alternate Weapon: Twin Caster Model-97s

When Cobalt runs out of Printing Resin, he overclocks his Hacker Hands to create twin handheld Plasma Casters, which function nearly identically to a SubMachine Gun but converts conventional Dust ammo into superheated bolts of plasma, which are magnetically accelerated at the target, these often inflict heavier elemental effects than normal dust, but have no penetrating power, leaving the shots helpless against solid objects, to compensate, the weapons quickly combine into a Claymore (with a forked tip resembling a wrench) to deal some close quarters damage. The creation of this weapon heavily damages the user and the Hacker Hands due to the heavy overclocking.

Cobalt may also improvise with a Monkey Wrench or something he has jury-rigged if needs be (See: the Railway Rifle Incident).

Trivia

 * Cobalt's Name, refers to the colour Cobalt Blue, while his surname is French for "Engineer", as per his character.
 * Cobalt's Parents, Iridis and Rhodes, are references to the elements Iridium and Rhodium respectively, which share the same group on the Periodic Table.
 * Cobalt's middle name: Dell, is in reference to the Team Fortress 2 character "The Engineer", as well as some quotes and mannerisms