Applyin'.

Hope you don't mind the lack of a picture - never been very good at finding them.


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[b]Name:[/b] Jack Emerson

[b]Age:[/b] 17

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Appearance:[/b] 6'0", 200 lbs.

Jack has mid length, wavy blonde hair that reaches his shoulders, and a goatee of the same color. His narrow, steel-grey eyes give an impression of great vitality. He has a thick bone structure, as evidenced by a square face and cheekbones so forceful they appear to be bulletproof.

Years of molding metal and lifting boxes for his family have given him a very heavy muscular structure - not that of a body builder, but that of a worker or a warrior. This, combined with a very heavy skeletal structure, give him a rather imposing look - and it's often joked that he's the lovechild of a garbage truck and a rhino.

[b]Personality:[/b] Jack is the epitome of confidence - but he is not brash or aggressive. He knows his strengths and his weaknesses intimately, and has no need to prove himself to anybody but himself. Every day, he challenges himself to improve himself further, and periodically he succeeds. He places little value on idle banter, but is willing to make small talk to meet new people if absolutely necessary. He very much enjoys spending time with others, though - even if he isn't always talking.

His grades are somewhat lacking, and he simply doesn't care. His test scores are fairly decent (typically hovering between 85 and 95) despite his lack of completion of most homework assignments (as he finds most of it to be a complete waste of time). He dislikes studying.

He is somewhat internally arrogant, and secretly feels that he is superior to many of his peers - and he absolutely hates this part of himself. But try as he might, he cannot get rid of those feelings, and he forces himself to hold his tongue in front of others. Humility is a virtue he was taught of from birth, and despite his efforts, he feels that he has never truly been able to achieve it.

While he shrugs off insults towards himself with ease, if somebody makes one of his friends cry, that person gets a swift fist to the face.

[b]Skills:[/b] Blacksmithing. Engineering. Hand to hand combat - a mixture of capoeira, taekwondo, and street fighting. Dancing.

Jack is gifted in creating weaponry and defensive devices. He is very strong and extremely agile, but because of his flat feet and heavy musculoskeletal structure, he isn't suited to running quickly.

[b]Equipment:[/b] Mirror Coat - a near totally custom Divine Gear full-body suit of armor loosely based on the myth of the armor of Beowulf. The suit was constructed in a flash of inspiration during a period of meditation on the meaning of divinity, and he came to the realization that mythological artifacts are only divine because of the force of the legends of those who made them and those who wielded them. The armor was constructed as a shrine to both Odin and to his own future.

Visually, the Mirror Coat is a skintight jumpsuit, with a segmented torso piece, elegant (if pointy) boots, a pseudo-medieval style greathelm with modern optics and an air filter, and a pair of enormously thick and heavy gauntlets. The metallic armor is polished to a mirror finish, and the Light Engine is located beneath a thick armor plate between the shoulderblades.

The Mirror Coat is, in Jack's opinion, incomplete - but its power is currently already stretched to the limit by its offensive and defensive effects.

[b]Abilities:[/b] The Mirror Coat, due to its source of inspiration, provides a great degree of defense, capable of shrugging off damage that would maim unarmored fighters. The suit's gauntlets and boots provide greater defense even than the main body of the suit, in order to protect the user while striking a target. The Mirror Coat amplifies striking force to a dramatic degree, even being capable of tearing apart rolled steel, with a condition: the user must truly intend to destroy the target when striking, or else it provides no boost.

[b]Brief Backstory:[/b] Jack is a westerner. Very much a westerner. Previously, he had been enrolled in an academy in northern California, but boredom caught up to him, and he felt he needed a real challenge. He learned of an academy that, despite its success early-on in each tournament, is defeated every year in the finals: Otsuki Academy, of Japan. A perfect place to better his skills, under threat of failure. Some courses in Japanese later, he boarded a plane crossing the ocean, and enrolled in Otsuki Academy for what would have been his Senior year.

In his earlier childhood, Jack was mystified by the concepts of magic and engineering. His parents, who were involved in medieval reenactment, heavily influenced his views of the world and of the divine, and he decided that when he grew older, he would become an adept Ritual Technology user. He wanted to make his mark on the world as not only a user of Ritual Technology, but also a creator, and so he learned basic metalworking - then advanced metalworking - and eventually made his way up the technology ladder to materials engineering. His earlier childhood was marked by years of martial arts programs after school, as his parents worked long hours and did not leave work until several hours after school let out.

He had a very happy and normal life, free of any sort of notable disasters.
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