**Name**: Johann Strauss

**Picture/Description**: A tall boy with long gangly limbs and shot, curly blond hair and green eyes. His uniform is crisp, clean, and obviously well cared for. 

**Age**: 16

**Nationality**: English
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Weapon of Choice**: Main Gauche. 

**Magic Specialization**: Sound Manipulation, most notable a family ability to control the "Volume" of anything they cut. Particularly sharp swings of the weapon are able to unleash bullets and waves of ear-splitting sound, or quite an entire area.

But none of that matters, because Johann has discovered that if you flick the weapon just right you can make music with it.

**Bio**: Any discussion of Johann must first begin with his family, who went into service in WWI as spies, assassins, and infiltrators for the emperor of their native Austria upon the discovery of their ability. The family took great pride in serving the emperor, and were shaken when the empire broke apart at the end of WWI. During WWII, like many Austrian monarchists who opposed the Nazi regime, they joined the exile community in London where they were contacted by British secret service and stabbed Nazis until the end of the war.

As the war came to an end, the family split in two. Some member wanted to return and rebuild in Austria while others had found love, happiness, and prosperity in England. The two groups parted ways amicably, the Austrian half settling down out of the cloak and dagger game while the British half was repeatedly tapped by MI6 during the Cold War and still enjoys a good relationship with them to this day.

Enter Johann, born to the British side of the family, and expected to go into the "Family Business." Drilled from a young age in both espionage and his Blade _Impulse Phenomena_ he was found to be a solid block of wood in the former and a downright prodigy in the latter, good enough to get him into a very prestigious academy despite his lackadaisical attitude.

**Other**: He carries another weapon for the purposes of dueling even though he rarely if ever does so, a rapier, because his main weapon is one typically used in the off hand.