Ampere Zulleo

"We have yet to fully understand the complexity of this world."

- Aaron Zulleo

Aaron 'Amp' Zulleo is a Student at Beacon Acadamy and member of Team NGMA.

Appearance
He is rather handsome for a young man, despite having two different color eyes. His right eye is a rich brown while the left eye is a deep blue. He also has shaggy black hair with blue highlights. Near his face, a right bang hangs to the bottom of his right earlobe. He also has a small beard on his chin. He is also quite lean, yet built, with a tan that reveals his heritage. His right arm is missing, replaced by a blue and black robotic one with his emblem on its outer palm.

In terms of his attire, his battleware includes a navy blue, button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the upper half of his bicep, a white T-shirt underneath, and a brown vest on top. The vest has his emblem on the upper right corner in lightning blue and chain mail underneath. On his legs are straight blue jeans that are somewhat loose but still fit well, with a black belt around the waist. On his belt buckle is his emblem, also in lightning blue and a series of compartments to hold his gadgets and Dust tubes. These compartments are designed so that only he can open then. Two brown gun holsters are on this sides, ancorded by the belt. Black, fingerless gloves cover his hands. On his feet, he wears black combat boots with metal plating on the soles. A brown longrimmed hat. completes the outfit.

For his secondary outfit, he wears a blue polo shirt, a pair of blue-rimmed, welding goggles and white sneakers with blue edges. His emblem on the left side of his polo shirt.

For his nightware, a black A-shirt with his emblem on it and lighning blue pajama pants make up this outfit.

Personality
At first glance, he seems somewhat shy and socially awkward. He is highly reserved to people he does not know, not speaking unless spoken to. Even then, it is highly difficult to hold more than a two minute conversation with him. Often, he does not even look the person in the eye, and will occassionally talk way too fast to be understood. He can also be somewhat navie when it comes to social interactions, such as sarcasm and playful banter. He will usually believe what others are saying when they are voicing their opinions. He generally keeps others at a distance, relying on his family and team for company. It's not that he hates other people, he just wants to be left alone.

However, as guarded as he is, that does not mean he is not without passion. He often expresses himself through mediums such as art, dance, and technology. Plus, once you get to know him and hit topics that really interest him, you'll find that he has quite the personality. Talk about technology, and he'll give you news about the latest innovations. Talk about art, and he'll show you his portfoleo. Talk about the tension between the human and the fauness, and he'll voice his opinion on the issue.

He is very pro-fauness, espicially since he holds his stepfather, who was a fauness, in the highest regard. This is why he wears his hat, which originally belonged to his stepfather, as well as somewhat copy his attire. This view on the fauness has made it difficult for him to socialize with other humans and has made him a target for bullying. Because of this his is generally more open to the fauness than humans.

He always has something at hand, whether it be drawing paper and a pencil, schematics, or some loose change. It is incredibly hard for him not to do something, prefering only to rest when he is asleep. In fact, he is constantly working on his arm. He also has a strong passion for learning and hopes to one day apply his knoledge to help others. This is shown through his reading and studying a wide variety of subjects from biology to robotics to astronomy.

Although he does believe in defending oneself and others, he has a strong distaste for excessive acts of violence. This causes some tension with his brother, Nathan, who doesn't mind being excessive as long as it doesn't go against his own beliefs. Often, he acts as his brother's leash and moral compass, giving him support when he needs it and pearls of wisdom. He reluntantly accepted Professor Ozpin's innvitation to attend Beacon only to kept his brother's temper in check.

He is also closed-booked when it comes to sore topics, like his biological father. He tends to keep all his negative emotions tempered. This creates a sense of level-headedness, while at the same time makes him emotionally repressed. He will also try to diffuse tense situations to prevent them from escalating. He will usually go into other people's conflicts, even those of complete strangers. Due to this trait, he often acts as the glue to his team, keeping the tensions low with reasoning and understanding.

However, when pushed to his absolute limit, he has been known to go through an violent episode. This causes him to become highly irrational, incredibly single-minded, dangerously violent, and somewhat sadistic. He is ashamed of this personality trait and has contributed it to the loss of his right arm.

Overall, he is a complex individual. He has very few friends, but the few friends he has feel like they've known him their whole lives.

Weapons
His weapons of choice are two identical Energy Multitools, which are basically electric pistol rods (EPR). Both are initially powered by a battery in each handle and have black straps that wrap around the wrists. They convert into one of the three forms: Each weapon also has a slot in the back where he can put small tubes of powdered Dust. Each tube he uses has enough Dust for a full battery charge. When put in, the weapons will use them up first before swiching to their batteries. He uses the following Dust: He carries about three of each type of Dust on him at all times.
 * Pistol form: The most compact of the forms. It looks like a 15mm glock with a round barrel. In this form, they can fires electrical energy in three settings; stun, one-shot, and automatic. Stun sends a bolt of energy that harmlessly incapacitates a target. Each pistol can fire up to 400 shots in this mode on a fully charged battery. One-shot fires a ball of energy, its power depends on how long he holds the trigger. This setting is great for precise shots, but will drain the battery the fastest. Each pistol can fire up to three fully charged shots. Automatic fires a stream of energy; its duration depends on how long he holds the trigger. Each pistol can fire up to thrity rounds a minute and can fire up to 120 rounds on a fully charged battery. This mode is great for taking out waves of enemies. He can switch between modes by turning a dial on the bottom of each pistol.
 * Rod form: This form is used primarily for sword fighting. Each rod is about three feet in length and 1.5mm in diameter. Due to the curved hilts, they act as an extention of his arms. The metal of each rod is durable enough for heavy attacks and strong blocks. When charged with electricity, they can reach temperatures of over 70 degrees Celcius. The only drawback is that it drains the battery in the hilts. On a fully charged battery, the rods can be charged for up to six minutes.
 * Fire Dust: In Pistol form, it allows each weapon to create a small blowtorch in stun mode and become a flamethrower in automatic form. In Rod and Whip form, it increases the temperature of each weapon for easier cutting.
 * Ice Dust: In Pistol form, it allows each weapon to make a light burst of cold air in stun mode, fire a mini blizzard in one-shot mode, and become a freeze ray in automatic mode. As a freeze ray, it takes about three minutes of continuous fire to incase a target in ice. In Rod form, it incases the rods in ice to increases their hardness.
 * Lightning Dust: Acts as an extra battery.

Abilities
He is highly intelligent, with an IQ of 197. This allows him to invent new strategies in combat. He also is level-headed, keeping his focus at the task at hand. He is also a fast thinker and will change tactics and techniques when the need arises. Also, he is an expert in Tae Soo Do and applies it when need-be. This, along with his dance skills, allows him to incorporate a lot of agile and nimble movements with his fighting styles.This also provides him with a great amount of stamina. Minding his surrounding, he also uses his environment to his advantage. This makes him very versitile and adaptable in combat.

However, he is the weakest physically in Team NGMA, although he can lift his own weight in a military press, has a reletively weak resistance, and cannot take a lot of physical blows. Often, he will use his robotic arm to block such blows, and his Aura does help to increase his resistance at the expense of energy. He also has poor aim, only able to make shots when allowed at least fifteen minutes to line it up. Also, once he explodes, he often throws strategy to the wind, making him more prone to mistakes.

Fighting Style
While facing single opponents, his fighting style is very focused, fluid, and energy conserving. Most of his opponents say that he looks more like he is dancing than actually fighting. He uses a similar techneque that his mother uses. Because of this, he is proficient at projectile deflection, yet he cannot redirect the projectiles back to the shooter. He also incorporates very unorthdox techniques, such as retracting one of his rods to use his opponent's force against him/her.

While facing multiple opponents, his fighting style is very fast paced and all over the place. He is often described as a fury of motion, his rods a whirlwind of mayham. However, this takes a lot of energy and he is often left winded afterwards. It is also purely offensive, only utilizing fast dodges and jumps for defense.

His fighting style also varies with whom he faces. Against fast opponents, he often controls the fight, directing his opponent to a position that is more favorable to him. With strong opponents, he is shown to be more aggresive, using his stamina to wear his opponent down. Facing long ranged opponents, he acts more defensively, keeping his guard up and closing in.

Overall, his fighting style is very utilitarian.

Semblance
His semblance is Voltage. Basically, he is a living tesla coil, pulling electricity out of the air. He can even absorb electrical energy from devices and electricity-based projectiles. Normally, he uses it to power his electrical devices ahead of time, such as the batteries for his Energy Multitools. He can also use it to manipulate the trajectory of his electric shots, but that usually requires a moderade level of concentration to do so and will leave him sweating bullets afterwards. If he concentrates hard enough, he can focus eletrical energy to his hands, which can range from a mild shock to a devastating electrical force. Using it at its full potential, however, will leave him completely exhausted and on the verge of collapsing. Also, channeling his Semblane through his robotic arm damages the circuitry of it, which can cause him pain. He also can't use it at a distance unless channeling it through a medium, such as the ground or a metal object.

Aura
His Aura is the color Lightning Blue and tends to ionize the air around him when using his Semblance.

Outside of Combat
Thanks to his intellect, he can create complex machinery, like his robotic arm. He also is a fine dancer in the styles of Swing, Tango, and Walts. He is also quite deceint in artistic drawing. However, he is also socially awkward, finding it incredibly hard to grasp things like sarcasm and playful teasing. This gives him a sense of naivity, sense he will believe what others are saying in terms of their opinions. He also has trouble dealing with negative emotions, whether it is himself feeling them or those around him.

Equipment
The most notable piece of equipment he has is his robotic right arm. It is about the same length as his lower left arm and connects at the elbow. It is made out of stainless steel for easy cleaning and durability. Other than being able to take more punishment than his whole body, it doesn't have any special features. The inner circuits of the arm discharge when the arm is hit with an electric current.

He also carries a knapsack, which holds his nature journal, sketchbook, and design schematics.

He also has a variety of gadgets:


 * Holodisks: Small disks that can create visual illusions through the use of hologram technology.


 * Stun pads: A flat, square-shaped pad that can stick to any surface. They release a small electric charge that can short out machinery or knock out targets.


 * Hoverdisk: a colapsable disk that he powers with his Semblance. This gives him the ability to fly, but since this is a reletively new gadget, and the fact that it continually drains him, he only uses it to hover six inches off the ground.

Role to Team NGMA
He often acts as the technology expert, team investigator, and co-leader to Team NGMA. Combativewise, he often covers Mikey Starsaph with his defense and more refined fighting style while she uses her ranged attacks. He also provides the team with coverfire and gadgets.

Backstory
Born on September 15, his father, Fredrick 'Freddy' Lector left him and his mother, Florr Lector, out in the wilderness after the three went out camping in the Western Mountains. Enraged at his abadonment, she and Aaron went by her maiden name, Zulleo, For the next year, his mother struggled to keep them both alive, continuously moving, hunting for food, and fighting off creatures of Grimm. Then, when he was a little over one, they were rescued by a fauness Huntsman named Allan Greywolf. They quickly moved in with him, and within the next year, Allan became Aaron's stepfather. Seeing Allan as a savior, Aaron grew quite fond of the fauness. At age three, he was overjoyed with the news that he be having a brother, living proof that humans and fauness could coexist. On December 1, Aaron was introduced to his baby brother, Nathan.

At an early age, he began displaying his impressive mind. At age five, he created his first invention, a reading light. This was used so that his mother could read him to sleep while keeping his room in low light. He had another breakthrough at age seven. This time, it was something for his brother to play with, a remote control car. By age eleven, he made his first engine. Also, by that time, Florr and Allen invested in a worspace for Aaron, so he could continue to create. He also began to notice that he was stealing the attention from Nathan, who responded out of resentment. Since then, he kept his innovations private.

Also by that time, Allan became a member of the White Fang, and encouraged his family to participate in their protests. Aaron saw this as an opportunaty to show that humans and fauness could coexist and without hesitation, joined the movement. At first, their were mixed reactions about why a human would want to join a pro-fauness organization, but Aaron proved his genuinity by stating what they were fighting for, peace for all, human and fauness. This display of passion moved many high ranking members as well as their leader, and in time, Aaron was considered one of their most proactive members. This also gave Nathan great respect for his older brother and drew them closer together. However, classmates at Aaron's school began to isolate and bully him, some of which were close friend of his. One even filled his locker with lit firecrackers. The attacks got so bad that his mother had to pull him out of the school and teach him at home. Despite this, he stayed true to his convictions.

To make sure they could defend themselves, both Florr and Allan taught Aaron, along with Nathan, how to fight. Florr then exculsively trained Aaron, due to his weak resistance and fast thinking. Through her tutulege, he learned how to attack quickly and fluidly, almost as if he were dancing. He also learned about Aura and his Semblance. During that time, he and Nathan became as thick as thieves, sparring with each other and giving each other critique on how to improve their skills. At thrirteen, he forged his weapons, the Energy Multitools. Upon their completion, he described them as elegant.

However, about a year later, the old leader of the White Fang stepped down and a new one took his place. Quickly, Aaron noticed the rapid change in tactics, all of which he saw as extreme. Appalled by this new approach, he left, but not before witnessing his stepfather's death by firiring squad. After witnessing that, he lamented; his savior taken by the very organization he'd hoped to lead to way to change. At his funeral, Nathan gave Aaron his father's hat, stating that it would look better on Aaron. Since then, Aaron as been his brother's keeper, being his moral guide and keeping him out of trouble.

In the years that follow, Aaron became more guarded around others, only confiding to his mother and brother. He never talked about Allan, only saying that he's dead when asked. Any friends that he did make were through either Florr or Nathan, and even fewer stayed with him for long.

Then at age seventeen, Nathan was kidnapped by persons unknown. When he heard his brother screeming in the middle of the night, Aaron sprang into action. He saw where his kidnappers were heading and followed them to an old warehouse. Once there, he discovered that the man in charge of the kidnapping was none other than his biological father, Freddy Lector. Feeling a fury that he had never known before, he broke in, and fought his fathers fourteen henchmen using the skills he learned from his mother. At first, the odd seemed to favor Aaron. He even managed to use his Semblance to skock three of his father's henchmen to submission. Then, it turned for the worst as one of the henchmen used a forklift to pin Aaron's right arm to a wall. Trapped and surrounded, he did the most desperate thing one man could ever do in this situation; using his Energy Multitool, he cut his own right arm off at the elbow. Once freed, he slammed his remaining arm to the ground, created a wave of electrical energy that knocked out the henchmen. Exhausted beyond belief, he staggered to Freddy and asked him why would he kidnap his brother. Freddy's reply was to get to him and Florr, to watch them in suffer as the last remnace of her new husband fade to oblivion. Then, the police arrived with Florr, and arrested Freddy and his associates. She then freed Nathan and helped Aaron get to the hospital. Once there, Aaron was given a prostectic replacement for his right arm.

After Aaron was fully recovered, Nathan said to him that he put on real light show; really strong amps. That's how Aaron got his nickame.

Within the next year, he worked tirelessly to make a robotic replacement for his right arm. He suceeded on his eighteenth birthday. He made it quite durable, but never weaponized it feeling that it wouldn't be right to do so.

His antics at the warehouse caught the attention of Professor Ozpin. After explaning where he learned to fight like that, Ozpin offered him a position at Beacon. He repsectfully decline, saying that he'd wanted to use his talents toward something other than slaying monsters.

A year later, Aaron took Nathan to a local dust shop while he went to get food. Thirty minutes later, he came back to get Nathan, only to find him fighting at least thirty-five thieves. Instinctually, he joined in on the scrap, despite his brother's insistence that he didn't need any help. A moment later, Aaron found himself facing Mikey Starsaph. He then spotted a thief coming at her from behind and told her to duck. After that, he saw another guy, Gabriel Emeraldeye, join their fight. Together they defeated the theives, but the police arrived at the scene and arrested the four of them.

In the holding cell, Aaron was approached again by Ozpin, who made the same offer with him as he did the last time, except now, he was including Nathan to go with him as well as Mikey and Gabriel. Feeling the need to be with his brother durning this transition, he relunctantly argeed. Ospin then gathered them together and said they would be known as Team NGMA, led by Nathan.

Relationships

 * Nathan Greywolf: His half-brother and closest friend. He cares for him with a firey passion and will do nearly anything to protect him. Sure, they don't see eye-to-eye at times and he does sometimes annoy Nate with his constant meddeling, but he is supportive of his younger brother and is prowd that he has been made leader of Team NGMA.
 * Mikey Starsaph: She is the most difficult person he has to deal with. He doesn't hate her by any means, but her constant needling and obnoxious behavior has caused him a great deal of stress. He often has to diffuse situations in which she is involved in and on more than one occassion had to stun her to prevent further escalation.
 * Gabriel Emeraldeye: Not someone he would spend a lot of time socializing with. He finds Gabe to have similar personality traits that his biological father has, which puts some tension between the two of them. However, the guy does seem to be quite honerable, which is something he can get behind.
 * Florr Zulleo Greywolf: His mother. He loves her very much and respects her for her courage and wisdom. She can be a little overbearing at times, but he knows it's because she cares.
 * Allan Greywolf: His stepfather. He sees him as his savior and highly admires him for his devotions, wisdom, and courage to stand for what is right. He tries to honor his memory as best as he can.
 * Freddy Lector: His biological father. He absolutely can't stand him and wants nothing more that for him to drop dead. He often refers to him as a 'two-faced, son of a Beowulf.' The less said about him, the better.

Trivia

 * His first initial and the first three letters of his last name spell 'Azul' which is Spanish for 'Blue'.
 * The last three letters of his last name 'Leo' is a reference to the famous painter and inventer Leonardo Da Vinci.
 * His clothing is based on that found in the old west.
 * His robotic right arm is of similar design to Anakin Skywalker's from Star Wars.
 * His fighting style is based on a combination of that of Asajj Ventress from Star Wars and that of Whiplash from Iron Man.
 * The concept for his different eye colors is based on Jason from X2
 * His theme is Savior by the band Skillet.
 * His hoverdisk is similar to that used by Static Shock.