[b]Name:[/b] Ashton Andrews

[b]Age:[/b] 16

[b]Physical Description:[/b] 

[img]https://i.imgur.com/5iF08UB.jpg[/img]
[i]Artwork Originally of Jason Levasseur 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] 

Curved daggers - Two blades forged from super-alloys and honed to a monomolecular edge, Ashton carries these weapons as reminders of his ordeal in the Ascendancy, and his determination to prevent the same thing from happening to other people.

Coilgun Pistol - A pistol that uses electromagnetic technology to launch metal bullets at a fraction of the speed of light.

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.

[b]Short Bio:[/b] Ashton Andrews could still remember a time when he had been happy. Born to an ordinary household, with the only thing extraordinary about him being his intelligence, he had loving parents and friends, as well as promises of a future scholarship to the University of Proxima Centauri, a star system which he would one day 'visit' in a way he very much did not want. Then the war with the Rau've and Kaisoken started, a war that his parents privately murmured was 'for unneeded territory' and 'to serve the needs of the dictators in power'. These whispers were somehow heard by the authorities, who were already viewing Ashton as a potential test subject, and so on Ashton's thirteenth birthday, Ashton disappeared on his way to school, and it was subtly hinted that his abduction was to keep his parents under control.

After disappearing, Ashton was taken to an Ascendancy Black Site, where horrific experiments were done to him, as well as various humiliations and torments to slowly break down his sense of self and make him more malleable for military training, which he was quickly thrown into as the war with the 'Alien Meneace' was intensifying at a rapid pace. He was trained by the best special forces trainers, who put him through hell in order to fight in any environment with his chosen weapons and use the Magic he had been taught to lethal effect. And once he was ready, he was sent to another level of hell.

Life became a blur of combat actions, depression, and additional traumas imposed by his 'superiors'. And also friendships, bonds, and even love with his fellow child soldiers, among them one Flame Brooks, who became his boyfriend and fighting partner. Together, they managed to make it through the Ascendancy's increasing number of losses, which culminated in the Battle of Proxima, where the Ascendancy Fleet tried to prevent the Rau've/Kaisoken Coalition from pushing through to Earth. 

Ashton and Flame were deployed with most of the child soldiers in a boarding action against the Rau've's flagship with orders to demolish it, but this turned out to be a trap, as the Aliens had learned how to fight against these 'magical humans' after many engagements. Ashton and Flame and their battalion were ambushed by overwhelming enemy forces, who subdued them with a tranquilizer that could not be negated with Change Magic.

The young man woke up in a prison camp, screaming for Flame. A collar of plant matter and crystal was on his neck, preventing him from casting spells, and the walls were padded and without any convenient air vents. It was clear that he was at the mercy of his enemies, and all he can do was cry.

Then, he was allowed to meet with Flame, and there was hope that things might be all right.  Said hope was proven right when the aliens treated the child soldiers humanely, allowing them to roam freely in their 'prison quarters', giving them books to read, puzzles to play with, and actually taking care of them. And with Flame, he was happy, even though the other boy was burnt with a need for revenge, while Ashton wanted only closure. And so, they decided not to accept the Rau've's offer of a new home, and instead chose to chase rumors of Moonstrike, a resistance against the Ascendancy. This was allowed, but not without regrets...

[b]Spell List:[/b] 

Supernal Vision (High) - The Mage can see all Magic, identify what School it is, and the strength of the spell.

High Enchantment (High) - Ashton's daggers and bullets can be enchanted to deal wounds unhealable by Magic on Magi, Magical Creatures, and Constructs. This can be cast on weapons not owned by Ashton for three rounds of combat.

Suppress Aura (High) - Ashton can conceal the aura given off by his own Magic and others, as well as the aura of magical items.

Aerokinesis (World) - Ashton can control the wind, moving it around at high velocities.

Physical Invisibility (World) - Ashton can bend light and electromagnetic radiation (infrared, ultraviolet, and x-rays, etc.) to hide from physical scanning.

Flash Step (Dimensional, Tied to Omni-Tool and useless without it) - Ashton can plane shift a very short distance, the length of a small room, then return to this dimension in another spot to get behind an enemy and thus gain the advantage of surprise.

[b]Character Traits[/b]

[i]Infilitrator[/i] - Ashton is trained not just in regular stealth, but the electronic kind, in hiding his presence from surveillance equipment. He is also adept in collecting information, not just from Alien technology, but from renegade AIs and computers owned by 'collaborators' as well. In short, he's not just a stealth fighter, but a hacker as well, just as capable of entering your smartphone's systems as he is at carving your heart out with a knife... Or was it the reverse?

[i]Parkour and Acrobatics[/i] - Ashton is a natural in climbing things, somersaulting out of the way of attacks, and even contorting himself a bit. This gives him an extra advantage in urban terrain, as well as any area not even plain.

[i]Wolf Cub of Wall Street[/i] - When he was young, Ashton's inner genius manifested itself when he accidentally logged into the E-commerce platform his father was using and, thinking it was some sort of videogame, promptly made his parents a fortune in the stock market, a fortune which his father had to give back upon finding out. Nevertheless, when Ashton grew older, he managed to find ways to play the E-commerce game until he was abducted by the Ascendancy, and even then, he found occasional ways to get back in the stock market game whenever his superiors' vigilance lapsed.

[i]Area Mastery: High and Dimensional[/i] - Ashton, by having three High Magic spells taught in the Traditionalist Manner and one Dimensional Function tied to his Omni-Tool, has Mastery over High and Dimensional Magic.