OK, this is a work in progress, but I wanna put it out there for thoughts and criticism.
And [@hammerman], as far as relationships go, I could see my character and yours being a hilarious couple, romantic or not, due to them being polar (kek) opposites in both personality and especially abilities. And no I didn't do it on purpose. 

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[b]Name:[/b] Rurik Alexeev
Nickname: The Sleeper... literally just because he sleeps too much.


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[b]Age:[/b] 18
[b]Grade:[/b] HS, 2nd Year, Mephisto's

[b]Biography:[/b]
A bit of a punk, but not really a troublemaker. He was born to a family of farmers. Nice, humble people for the most part, but unlike him were perfectly normal. Everything was fine until a blight hit their crops, causing them to go poor. One could argue this is what sent him down a bad path. Hard work had gotten his family nowhere in the end, so what was the point?

Moving to the city of Rhea, they rebuilt their lives, but no longer as happy as they had been before. Rurik just became lazier and lazier as time went on, barely passing school. He spent much of his time with a group on degenerates roaming the streets, they would cause trouble, and he would watch because sometimes it was funny and at least he wasn't lonely that way.

That was good enough for him until they got in serious trouble, escalating from petty pranks to full blown crimes. Rurik was fortunately recognized as a bystander, not a true accomplice, but his parents were furious and at their wits end. He hardly cared, but knew it would be even more problematic if things continued as they did.

His life needed to get out of the holding pattern it had been in, and so enter Mephisto's. He could never have gotten into the far more reputable and illustrious St. Laurels. And besides, the crowd this school gathered kinda reminded him of his former friends. He'd fit in just fine, right?

And yet somehow he still got held back a year for egregious tardiness... Some habits never changed.

[b]Powers:[/b]
His powers allow him to energize the world around him, generally resulting in powerful kinetic blasts or turning objects into projectiles. The more energy, the more dramatic the result, but the longer it will take to charge, though rarely ever too long to be viable.

1. Bounce: Channels energy into a field, but can only focused through his hands, limiting the area he can cover. At low energy outputs, it merely drains the kinetic force from incoming projectiles, but at higher outputs will redirect and send the projectiles back, potentially with even greater force than they originally had. Can be overwhelmed if hit by a too strong a force.

2. Blast: Overcharges anything he touches to make it explode. Doesn't work on living beings. Can be combined with his bolt for projectile explosives.

3. Burst: Energizes himself so that he can push off the ground for bursts of speed or enhanced melee attacks.


[b]Relationships:[/b] (WIP)
[u]Clara Erdrigan:[/u] Rurik to this day cannot fathom why he is on the student committee. He hardly ever shows up for meetings, skips classes, fails assignments, and every other thing normally associated with a terrible student. When he does show up, his suggestions are usually useless. He is pretty sure Clara would have kicked off of the council long ago if she had the authority.

The two have come full circle at this point. At first she would give him simple reminders not to miss the next meeting. Reminders became icy scoldings. Scoldings became veiled threats. Eventually she stopped almost entirely, seeming more annoyed when he did show his face. Never anything grand, just the subtle tension in her jaw or the twitching of an eye.

Ironically he now shows up more often just to watch her quietly fume. It's his best source of amusement most days.

[u]Bak Tsarevna[/u]: A crazy ****ing robot girl or something who keeps trying to blow him up. Fortunately her projectiles don't seem to do too much damage or he'd probably have quit school by now. Come to think of it, redirecting one of her missiles and almost hitting Clara might be another reason why she probably hates him...

Honestly though he doesn't dislike Bak; she's good practice for his shield and he thinks her guns are actually kind of cool. Now if only she'd stop using them on him. There was also that one time she clapped when he make an explosion.
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Christine:[/u] ????
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