Voltaire Ampere

Profile
Name: Voltaire Ampere

Age: 18 Years

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 165 lbs.

Hair: Black

Eyes: Bluish-Green

Appearance
Although Voltaire may appear to have a rather average body build at first glance, he actually has a musculature that is defined just enough to be visible, but not obvious. While his apricot skin is smooth, it is not without a few flaws, such as the electrical burns on his right shoulder, left bicep, and upper torso. He also has a shallow scar on his left cheek, running diagonally towards the respective ear. His straight hair is at a medium-short length.

In terms of clothing, Voltaire usually wears dark blue jeans tucked into a pair of black combat boots, a cyan sleeveless shirt, black fingerless gloves, and a black vest with yellow trim. The vest also has a cyan and yellow thunderbolt pattern on the backside. He also has a black satchel that is almost always slung over his left shoulder, a copy of the vest's thunderbolt pattern emblazoned on the front of it.

Personality
Voltaire isn't the most social person in the world, often preferring to tinker with electronic devices instead of interact with other people (With a few exceptions). As a result, he rarely initiates any conversations. While this does make him seem like a bit of a shut-in, he actually doesn't want to risk running with the wrong crowd, and as such, he may be a bit cold to new acquaintances. However, he warms up to those he considers a friend rather quickly. When it comes to his friends, he will put their safety and well-being before his own, especially in combat.

Due to his aforementioned interest in electronics of all kinds, Voltaire has a tendency to "dissect" and reassemble almost any device he finds in his free time, either to learn more about the device in question or to test himself on his knowledge of said device. However, this may sometimes land him into a little trouble as well, since he sometimes forgets to ask before dissecting a device owned by someone else. When there aren't any electronics on hand, Voltaire may sometimes make one out of scrap parts.

Whenever a chance presents itself, Voltaire may crack a few jokes around friends, usually in the form of an electricity pun. However, these jokes can be repetitive at times.

Weapons and Abilities
Weapons: Shock & Awe (Dust-Augmented Tesla Gauntlets [DATGs])

[DATG] statistics:

Melee Type:

Bludgeoning (Via punching)

Ranged Type:

Ammunition: Electrical Current (Not much of a shocker, considering weapon type) [Can augment punches with said current]

Delivery Method: Artificial Electrokinesis [Arguably classifiable as "casting"]

Dust Type: [Can use any type; used type will affect only color and secondary attributes] [There is one incompatible Dust type: Earth. "Ground is ground, the world around"] [1]

Dust Status: Powder [Contained in a canister slotted in the underside of each gauntlet] [Voltaire's DATGs use powdered dust as fuel for power generation]

Shock & Awe are made of a reinforced steel, with insulating rubber inside to prevent self-shock (or at least substantially reduce the risk of it). The parts meant to be highly conductive are made of silver. These DATGs were made by Voltaire, and are able to shift into a storage mode that makes them look like ordinary bracers.

Semblance: [Currently unknown, as Voltaire has not yet discovered it]

Strengths and Weaknesses:

(+) Physically strong [able to send someone through a medium-sized pillar]

(+) High endurance [able to fight a prolonged battle]

(+) Durable [capable of tanking a good amount of damage]

(+) Extremely powerful VS. cybernetic/machine opponents [EMP countermeasures negate this]

(~) Straightforward [often bull-rushes his opponents. Can work either for or against him]

(-) Exceptionally fast and/or strategic opponents will give Voltaire some trouble.

(-) Recoil damage [some powerful attacks may damage Voltaire as well as the target(s)] [2]

(-) Prone to going "Leeroy Jenkins" in combat [basically, charging in without caution]

Voltaire's fighting style is power-centric with a little bit of speed, using heavy punches and quick open-palm strikes augmented with the dust-enhanced electricity generated by Shock & Awe. He is also capable of zapping targets from a distance, but at the cost of lessened damage output. Because of this, Voltaire only uses ranged attacks to either suppress opponents until he gets close or to grab their attention.

Backstory
Voltaire was born within a minor corporate family, his father being the owner/CEO of the small company "Ampere Electronics." Being an only child, Voltaire was to be the heir of the family business. While growing up, he was fascinated by stories of Huntsmen and Huntresses and the battles they fought against the Grimm, causing him to set a course to become a Huntsman himself. However, Voltaire's father did not want him to tread that path; for if he was slain, then who would inherit the company?

However, he was only able to prevent Voltaire from entering Signal Academy for a single year, for the company went bankrupt as that year ended. By the time the second year started, the company was no more. Because there was no longer a company to inherit, he finally allowed Voltaire to enroll in Signal Academy, seeing no more reason to continue to stop him.

As a result of his father's actions, Voltaire had entered the academy one year later than most people.

During his first year at Signal Academy, Voltaire was hard-pressed to catch up with those he would've been taking classes with had he been able to enroll on-time. Because of his delayed enrollment, Voltaire was often the butt of various jokes and insults. About halfway into the year, the stress he was going through was starting to get to him. To find relief from that stress, he tried various things, but with little luck. However, the moment he decided to try to fix a broken radio he had found, that is when the stress started to fade. Once he found that to be his solution, he began searching for materials to allow him to utilize his new-found coping mechanism.

To cope with the stress brought onto him from the teasing and the need to catch up with upperclassmen, Voltaire began tinkering with whatever electronics he could find.

Early on into his second year, Voltaire had become one of the top students in his class, though the teasing still didn't stop. However, he was contacted by a group of five classmates - all five of them were humans - asking him to hang out with them, apparently not caring about the fact that he was a year late into Signal Academy. Voltaire eagerly accepted, seeing a chance to talk to someone without being constantly teased. It wasn't until later in the year his newfound "friends" had revealed their true colors: They had attempted to manipulate Voltaire into bullying a Faunus classmate. Appalled that they would do such a thing, he turned on them, coming to the defense of the Faunus. He drove them off, though he did not leave unscathed; during the fight, one of his former friends had pulled out a dagger, and managed to leave a scar on Voltaire's left cheek. After that, he began to detach himself from those around him, hoping to avoid being dragged into that kind of group again.

Due to the actions of a group that befriended - and deceived - him, Voltaire had detached himself from those around him in an attempt to avoid being used by those with malicious intent, and gained a scar to remind himself of it all.

Close to the end of the second year, the Faunus classmate that got caught up in the events earlier in the year thanked Voltaire for his actions. It wasn't until then he noticed the details of the individual he helped: She was a wolf Faunus, her long hair hued the same shade of light brown as her tail. After proper introductions, Voltaire learned that her name was Auburn. After about a week, they became close friends. However, neither of them knew the turn of events that were about to unfold...

On the final day of that year, as Voltaire and Auburn were headed to classes, they were attacked by a local gang, the group totaling 25 people in size. Voltaire was able to fend them off, but not before Auburn's final breath had left her. He was distraught; his only real friend up to that point had been taken from him, even though he had done almost everything in his power to protect her. Weeks later, he thought back to the loss, and felt that there was one thing he didn't do - the one thing that could've saved Auburn's life: Take the final strike in her place. Before he had the chance to doubt the decision, he swore to himself that he would put the safety of others before his own - even if it cost him his life.

After losing a true friend - however brief that friendship may have been - to the edge of a blade, Voltaire began to disregard his own safety in order to help ensure the safety of others.

''These events have shaped Voltaire into the man he is now. However, they do not describe the man he will eventually become...''

Trivia
The first name, "Voltaire," refers to Voltage, a unit of electrical measurement.

An Ampere is also a unit of electrical measurement, though Voltage is constant, whilst Amperage varies based on a circuit's resistance.

Electricity is often depicted as being either blue or yellow, though other colored depictions exist.

[1] Because "grounded" electricity pretty much dissipates when put into actual ground, it wouldn't make much sense to allow Voltaire's weapons to use Earth-attuned dust.

[2] Where did Voltaire get his electrical burns from? Excessive recoil damage from Shock & Awe. That's what happens when you play with electricity. If he didn't have his Aura, Voltaire would've been fried inside and out due to high-voltage electrical shock, which is deadly IRL.

Author's Notes
If you want more info on the electrical terms I've been dropping, you can look them up. If that plan somehow short-circuits, ask someone about them. Then get a new fuse

Once I get a better grasp of how the layout works, I'll move a few things around. Until then, this page is pretty much done right now. However, while I would like to put a quote from this character on the top of the page, I won't put one up until a good one I can use here appears in RP (provided he gets accepted, of course).