[b]Name:[/b] Flame Brooks [b]Age:[/b] 16 [b]Physical Description:[/b] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NclfVCc.jpg[/img] [i]Artwork Originally of Lark Meadows from Moonlight Apparition, a webcomic made by one [url=https://www.deviantart.com/darkhalo4321]Darkhalo4321[/url]; all credit given to her.[/i] [b]Important items:[/b] Perfected Electrum Bow - A magical weapon which boosts the strength and range of Flame's 'energy' spells, allowing them to burn through meta-materials and flesh alike. Emergency Knife - A fully-mundane knife carried on his person just in case he needs a last-ditch method of defense. Ballistics Vest - An undershirt of soft but tough materials surrounding a core of armored dura-ceramic plates that can withstand a few pistol shots. Galactic Credits - A few thousand credits in digital form given by the former Rau've warden. Omni-Tool - Miniature Computer that allows for communication, calculation, augmented reality navigation and small-scale hacking. Med-kit - A futiuristic first aid kit which contains healing nanomachines and biological gel. Can heal burns from High Magic within reason. [b]Flame Inventory Upgrades:[/b] - 1 Steelweave under-suit with trauma plates underneath. - 1 Earmuffs. - 2x Inciendary Grenades - 2x Frag Grenades - 2x EMP Grenades [b]Short Bio:[/b] Flame Brooks was born to a drunkard father whose mother ran out on the family. Needless to say, this did not result in a happy upbringing, even with Flame's high intelligence and physicality allowing him to be fast-tracked in education. By some miracle, the authorities only took Flame once he was thirteen, and even then it wasn't social services who came for him, but rather the miitary, whom Flame's father sold his own son to in exchange for more drinking money. What followed was hell, hell that could have turned him into a sociopath or psychopath willing to inflict cruelty and pain on others just to gain respite from his own suffering, if not for Ashton reaching out for him in one of the few periods of free time they were allowed to have. Friendship followed, and in the adrenaline-charged haze of the war, so much more. Flame found someone to love, someone who loved him, and he was able to endure the perils of war and the traumas placed on him and Ashton by their 'owners' in the military because of this. And so in what moments of spare time he had, he plotted revenge, revenge against the Ascendancy. In the final decisive battle at Proxima, Flame fought hard against the Alien Coalition's forces, fearing death and other ordeals should they be captured by the enemy. But it was said enemy who spared them after capture, and said enemy who treated them as sapient beings once more and not property. And thus, he had time to think about the revenge he planned on the Ascendancy. However, if Ashton had chosen the Rau've offer of a new home, he'd have accepted - Ashton's happiness was important to him, after all. Thankfully, his boyfriend had a similar need, a need for closure, and so they decided to courteously decline the offer of a new and peaceful life. And so Flame made his final decision: To throw himself into a new conflict, this time, to make the Ascendancy - The enemy - pay for the treatment he and Ashton were put through! [b]Spell List:[/b] Energy Bolt (World) - Bolts of pure light and heat which can inflict serious damage on the level of a powerful laser. Shield of Force (World) - A barrier of energy that allows Flame to protect himself from harm. Shattering Palm (World) - A close-range attack/strike which enables Flame to break solid objects through sheer kinetic force. Originally meant against Kaisoken, this move can break Power Armor and even Ascendancy ground vehicles as well. Cone of Silence (World) - A cone of telekinetic force that prevents sound from escaping, thus providing a space for him and others to talk in without outside folk overhearing. Power Electronic Equipment (World) - With just a touch, Flame can power electronic equipment using only his own magic, acting as battery and transformer, and extension cord. Prenatural Calmness (Mind) - Flame can use Magic to keep his composure in circumstances that would shatter another person, allowing him to act calmly, though not necessarily rationally, in a terrifying situation. [b]Character Traits[/b] [i]Observer of Human Nature[/i] - Flame's abusive treatment by his father, then his superiors, as well as the kindness shown to him by Ashton and the other Star Marines, have given him some sense of Human actions and feelings, allowing him to keenly observe whether a person is being sincere and their motives if they are not. But these observations are not infallible, and Flame can be paranoid or self-deceiving at times... [i]Marksman and Sniper[/i] - Flame is good at hitting a specific spot on an enemy with almost any ranged weapon or his own magic. [i]Trained Endurance[/i] - Abuse can sometimes deaden one to pain and in the world of the Ascendancy Military, that is an asset. So Flame was subjected not just to harsh military training, but also forced to undergo 'torture resistance courses' which consisted of enduring pain for hours on end to improve his pain tolerance, although, at the same time, he was given the right diet and exercise to improve his physical health. This gave him the ability to, well, endure burdens that would bring down an adult.