[b]Name:[/b] Ven
[b]Age:[/b] 16
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Race:[/b] Human
[b]Appearance:[/b] He has blue hair

[b]Personality:[/b] He's young, brave, and naive, with a silly side to him and a poor attention span to things he finds boring (which inhibits his abilities unless he can keep things under control). He doesn't like letting small things get him down so brushes aside wrong doings against him better than most, making friends with them if able. However, it's indeed possible to annoy and upset him if you hit his buttons just right. He especially dislikes injustice.

[b][u]Abilities[/u][/b]

[b]Physical Abilities-[/b] He's enhanced beyond the limits of normal humans thanks to influence from his soul, as long as his soul remains of sufficient strength. He can overturn cars with ease, run for prolonged periods of time at 60 miles per hour, and withstand a brutal beating from any un-enhanced human with minimal damage without target strikes to his weak points. He's not bulletproof, however, besides low caliber. His reactions appear instantaneous to a normal human, as he can respond to attacks swifter than the normal human eye can react to.

[b]Combat Training-[/b] He's trained in duel wielding swords and what looks similar to dragon style kung fu in certain regards, but not all. Due to his young age he's still in training so makes mistakes from time to time, but for the time spent on his training he's doing pretty well. Sometimes he makes up his own style on the fly when his knowledge of proper technique doesn't cover something. That makes him more unpredictable than someone strictly following the styles...even if it doesn't always pay off.

[b]Ice Skating-[/b] He's a very good ice skater, passing as a professional level, but not like he's the greatest ever even if his mom might think so if she saw him.

[b][u]Powers[/u][/b]

When he was a mere 10 year old boy he was caught in a mysterious explosion that nearly tore his soul from his body, leaving him in a 6 month coma. However, his soul eventually returned enough for him to regain consciousness and, with proper meditation techniques, can restore it even further to attain levels he couldn't before the incident, as well as control it in other ways now that it wasn't tied deep down inside of him.

His soul energy appears as a glowing, transparent, glittering blue/silver color with an almost fire-like look about it, but is normally only his body temperature.

[b]Soul Extend-[/b] His most common technique, which allows his soul energy to flow out of his skin in the shape of a candle flame that can adjust the height and width somewhat to get slight changes in shape, but nothing overly dramatic (like from a shovel spade to a thin line would be the limit). It works the best on his extremities (his palms and soles), able to send it out like a sword's blade with a maximum effective length of two and a half feet. It can extend further, up to around 5 feet, but the tip gets more and more transparent and flickering, unable to do heavy damage so would mostly just feel unpleasantly tingly with damage similar to a weak jolt of electricity to make people twitch if it's unexpected. At it's most lethal point it can cut through the entire torso of someone wearing a steel breastplate in a single slash.

The blade can be angled however he desires off of his body, so could even make swinging motions without his body moving (at the speed his body could move it if he were). He could, even, have the blade move at twice the normal swing speed if he did in fact swing while also having the blade swing. He normally has it angled like a normal sword and holds onto the energy at the base, but this doesn't really matter, as his energy sword cannot be knocked from his grip like normal weapons unless the energy was cut from the source. His soul energy can be cut through given enough destructive power, but this only causes the energy above that point to evaporate and he can send more out of his skin to reconstruct it. Enough force can be placed on it to bend the blade for the duration that the force is acting upon it before it snaps back to normal unless it was enough to break it (having the same effect of cutting it). He doesn't know how to snap the blade around by his own will but feels like he could, eventually making it like a whip blade.

He can do this technique on all four limbs at once. He can extend it outwards at a rate of around one foot every second. He could use it elsewhere on his body but they could only extend out around two inches maximum. He could only have about 10% of his body covered in them, but this can be a vague estimate. Once extending his soul energy out, which takes energy, he doesn't need to continually supply additional energy as long as the current energy remains. He only needs a low level concentration on it.

[b]Soul Burst-[/b] Similar to soul extend but instead fires off at a speed of around 300 feet per second after charging up on his skin (glowing brightly) for two seconds. The blade is usually smaller and more bullet-like, but he could fire off normal sized soul extends. This doesn't have as much practicality as he uses up way more energy for not enough extra destructive force to be worth it, plus it would only travel 100 feet per second at a size of 5 feet long.

Getting hit by his soul bursts could be thought of as getting shot by bullets with the added benefit of the energy spreading out upon impact to damage surrounding areas more than normal bullets, but without fragmentation or bullets remaining lodged inside the body. Normally the penetration is no better than his normal stabbing despite it's enhanced speed due to breaking apart, so it's more like explosive, impact damage if hitting something very solid. However, if he doubles the charge time then it could remain in tact for double the normal time, allowing it to pierce some armor before exploding, which could be handy for bringing down things like tanks., but he'd likely need large quantities of energy to pull off such a feat.

In short, while he's able to put out a large amount of damage with his soul energy bullets, it would exhaust him quickly to use his highest level attacks so is not something that he can rely on for the duration of a fight unless he intends to end it quickly. He could always fire weaker powered bursts for less energy and still kill unarmored people with relative ease.

[b]Soul Shield-[/b] His body sparkles slightly and then energy begins to slowly flow out to cover all (or some) of his skin in a process that takes 10 seconds to get to max defensive properties greater than steel; bulletproof to all but large caliber bullets or multiple hits despite being so thin. He can hardly move joints if they're covered, unfortunately, and he has trouble breathing as well for obvious reasons if it coats his entire torso region. Blunt force damage from large objects can still hurt him but small impacts from bullets have a limited effect in this regard. He doesn't have to go for max protection and could instead have it more as a liquid-y layer to provide some anti-magic properties but limited physical defense, which is only added as it grows stronger.

The shield can only be retained for around 30 seconds (including charge time) before evaporating, expending more than half of his total energy if used on his whole body. He cannot use any of his other soul energy abilities through the shield while it's active. Inside his body can also be covered, but cover something like his heart or lungs and they stop functioning, as they require movement.

[b]Soul Mode-[/b] This requires three minutes of intense meditation and relative motionless. At the end his soul energy covers his entire body like flames, he grows a whip-like tail 6 feet long, and three claws grown on his hands and feet that are 1 foot long. He enters a blank slate zen-like mode during this process, eliminating higher level brain functions so he only concentrates single mindedly on the goal he has made for himself. He exhausts himself continually during this mode so that he could only last five minutes if entering at full strength. Once his goal is deemed complete or he runs out of energy then the energy evaporates and he collapses unconscious.

His physical abilities are double normal values and the energy coating him is as strong as a fully powered soul shield yet not inhibiting movement in any way. Plus he can use his normal abilities at any point on his body and it's harder to see the glowing of his soul bursts.

[b]Rejuvenating Meditation-[/b] Focusing his mind on his soul he can restore it at a slow rate, but much faster then any natural process (which would take over a day to recover his strength). It would take him an hour and a half to get back to full strength with complete concentration, shutting himself from the outside world. He can focus his mind during battle but is very poor with this technique so that the benefits are almost negligible as he currently is.

[b]Soul Temp Change-[/b] Although normally only his body temperature, he's able to put special focus and energy into manipulating his soul energy to higher or lower temperatures, but not past any extremes over the average forest fire or ice. He can use it to alter his own body temperature from inside to comfortable degrees, helping to negate such attacks or if he just happens to naturally be hot or cold. He couldn't survive a lava bath but wouldn't mind standing in the desert with the sun blazing overhead.

[b]Soul Skating-[/b] The soul extend on the soles of his feet can be formed into a blade shape close enough to an ice skate and with low enough friction to allow him to use them as such on dry land. The soles of his feet are actually better at soul manipulation, as he has found out. Perhaps due to sole=soul? Nah, couldn't be...or is it?!

[b][u]Weaknesses[/u][/b]

*If his mind is unfocused then his soul energy cost goes way up, exhausting him very quickly if he can't keep control over himself. This makes him very weak towards people who can get under his skin or have him make rash judgments where he can't concentrate on what he's doing.

*Attacks that damage souls would have an easier time effecting him, although if he sheds off the affected part of his soul then he could negate this problem somewhat, just with a high energy cost and it couldn't save him for very long if the attack keeps coming.

*He has a forced meditation where if he uses too much energy too fast or at seemingly random times, his mind shuts down to the outside world for minutes to hours depending on how bad the case is, his body retaining it's pose he was in but could be manipulated by others like he became some sort of an action figure of uselessness. His planned, intense rejuvenating meditation does the same thing if one were to catch him in this state.

*Heavy damage to his limbs could cut off his ability to effectively use soul energy at that extremity; even something such as a badly sprained ankle. Lose of his extremities and he's almost out of options as far as his powers are concerned. 

*Heavy damage to the point where the soul energy is flowing out, while it's flowing out, can cause him intense (yet temporary pain) that could even cause him to pass out or at the very least loose all focus on what he was doing and see stars as he enters a stunned state.

[b][u]Equipment[/u][/b]

[b]Head:[/b] Nothing, normally. He likes trilby hats but they're often mistake for fedoras, drawing bizarre hate from earthlings. As such he doesn't wear them as often. Plus they wouldn't look right if he were to wear one with armor.
[b]Body:[/b] He has pretty bad fashion sense so looks like what a video game protagonist who's a plucky young adventurer would wear. Expect a mismatched look with lots of belts and zippers. The undershirt is yellow with a lot of brown in his other accessories. Imagine [url= http://www.4cosplay.net/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/i/final-fantasy-xiii-13-hope-estheim-game-cosplay-costume.jpg]this guy[/url] but a little less practical.
[b]Hands:[/b] Open palmed gloves.
[b]Feet:[/b] Shoes sort of like in the above picture but with a distinctive footprint by way of a slit down the middle of the sole to allow his energy to flow through them without destroying them.
[b]Weapons:[/b] None.
[b]Items:[/b] None.

[b][u]Bio[/u][/b]

WIP