Stahlfritz Panzier

"Calm down, I’m just here to make a Paycheck. Don’t take it so personally."

- Fritzchen to a dying target

Appearance
Fritz is slim, but sculpted. His facial features look like a mix of Asian and German. He has thin black hair the comes down to at least his collarbones.

His armor is a utilitarian, custom built tactical vest. A CATSAI box is mounted on his left shoulder, along with several small dust Canisters. A leathery half-kilt protects his rear from Jump-kit exhaust. The rest of his body is covered in stoic black and gunmetal blue armor.

His legs have been cybernetically modified to contain high-resistance shock dampeners, allowing him to maintain control of his powerful rifle at full sprint and parkour.

Personality
Fritzchen is a unique case. One would assume that being trained from childhood would result in a strong work ethic and sober professionalism, but this is the total opposite with him. Aside from the intensive speed training needed to maintain his ability to do parkour while engaging opponents and simulated combat done for personal entertainment, Fritz has little, if any regard for anything else. His instructors and clients comment that "all that boy seems to care about is his next paycheck". He'll doze off in class and put off paperwork and after-action reports, only to show up at the last minute with a stack of completed documents before freerunning across campus, back to his sofa.

Combat is a similar story. On the plus side, he takes his job seriously and demonstrates incredible prowess as a soldier courtesy of his mother's training. He is brutally pragmatic and careful to avoid casualties with those under his lead. On the other hand, he has his eccentricities. He'll breach into a room, eliminating all hostiles inside and then proceed to arrange the corpses into absurd poses before transmitting the image using a stolen communicator. He'll hack into an enemy comms network only to perform a dramatic reading of what new poor quality poetry or fanfiction he has scrounged up from the bowels of the internet. Either way, Fritz has garnered a reputation for being notoriously unpredictable and devastatingly reliable. He's right kind of crazy and that's exactly what he wants everyone, enemy and friendly, to think.

Weapons and Equipment
"So much for Stealth..."

- Fritz shortly after shouldering his rifle

Sturmhund
Sturmhund is Fritz's assault rifle. Before Fritz enrolled at Flagg, the weapon used a conventional 30 round magazine and was chambered for a 6.5mm round. After his enrollment, Fritz retrofitted the weapon to use a Leighly-Braun Manifold and accept a top loading dust reservoir. The weapon is equipped with a 3x zoom ACOG and fires at 960 rounds per minute and each reservoir holds enough dust to supply the weapon with 90 rounds, each round hitting with the force of a modern .300 AAC blackout round. He carries 9 spare reservoirs on his person, which is approximately 60 seconds of continuous fire. Sturmhund is only held back by its weight of 4.5 kilograms (10 pounds) and staggering recoil when fired for extended periods of time. Were it not for the shock dampeners in his legs, the weapon would be virtually unmanageable.

Its alternate form is a Scissor Halberd. Its diamond edged blades, combined with Sturmhund's mass allow it to puncture through most standard infantry armor. Its pneumatic, Green dust powered jaws allow it to slice apart Grimm and humans alike.

Shrekfaust
The Shrekfaust are a pair of gauntlets used by Fritz in close quarters or during infiltration. It has a series of LB Manifold flash fabricated claws with a swordbreaker/pistol mounted on top. Normally, the swordbreaker/pistol is contracted right behind the wrist when not in use. When activated, the swordbreaker will thrust forward with enough force to puncture an Ursai's skullplate. The pistol uses an LB Manifold just like Sturmhund. It fires a round with stopping power equivalent to a modern .357 Magnum with a capacity of 20 shots before a reload is needed.

Grenade Manifold
Fritz's grenade LB manifold is mounted on his right thigh. It is designed to accept up to three canisters and each canister provides enough dust to create 3 grenades each. Fritz prefers to use Blue, Green, and Yellow. Blue and Green dust allow the manifold to fabricate Cyrogenic grenades which he uses to incapacitate Grimm to be captured alive while Green mixed with Yellow create Stun grenades for tactical entry. Yellow and Blue create Acidic grenades which he uses for general offense.

Jump-kit
Like many eliminators, Fritz has a Jump-kit for better use of Freerunning and Parkour. The device is activated by his Aura (NOTE: His Aura only activates the device. Otherwise, the device runs on its own power source.) The jump-kit is mounted above his bum and is used when he needs an extra mid-air boost or to run up/on walls. Otherwise, he uses the device as little as possible as the exhaust fumes are highly visible.

Semblance
"Sweet dreams, sucker"

- Fritz as he decloaks after eliminating an Ursai

Phantom: Fritz can use his Semblance to become invisible. Unlike technology based cloaking devices, Fritz's semblance can cover his Thermal signature and even his smell to defeat any Grimm who hunt by smell. Phantom is not without downsides however. It is easily defeated by Motion Detectors and it does not cover any sound that Fritz may make while sneaking around. To make matters worse, activating Phantom will lower Fritz's overall aura to 30% its original strength. Deactivating phantom still requires a few seconds for his aura to return to its original strength.

Backstory
"Either slice its jugular or snap its neck. Don't try both; it's sloppy."

- Ziliana commenting on her son's methodology of taking down a Beowulf

Fritz’s mother (Ziliana Panzier) and grandmother (Meygana Panzier) were both famous huntresses of the Sahale Federation before their retirements, but as the only son, this somewhat broke the tradition. Nonetheless, despite his parents saying nothing of the sort, Fritz is still determined to prove himself a better fighter than them. To this his mother has nothing more than pride in her son’s initiative and was more than happy to train him. Since he was five, Fritz trained for hours a day in the unique style developed by his mother and grandmother which combined parkour with gun and knifeplay. As a result, his normal school grades suffered but at age 12, he could reliably best his mother in a mock knife fight. It was also around this time that Fritz developed the perfect procrastination system for maximizing training time and keeping his teachers off his butt. By age 17, Fritz was supposed to attempt an application to Beacon, but was held back since being essentially homeschooled in combat meant he had no such transcripts or documentation. Driven by tradition and family pride, Fritz would instead apply to Flagg when his mother already taught him everything she knew.