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   5'6|140 Pounds[/b]
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[b]Name:[/b] Amadeo Balagtas

[b]Age:[/b] 18

[b]Nationality:[/b] Filipino

[b]Noble Arm Name & Appearance:[/b]

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[b]Noble Arm Rank:[/b] 

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Power: C
Speed: A
Range: C
Persistence: C
Precision: C
Potential: C
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[b]Noble Arm Type, Element, and Range:[/b] Melee + Support, Wind, and Close Range.

[b]Noble Arm Abilities:[/b] 

[i]Wind Manipulation[/i] - Amadeo can move the air around him, allowing him to manipulate minor weather patterns and to fly at subsonic speeds.

[b]Misc Abilities:[/b] A well-read youth who is also athletic; he likes track and field and fencing and is also a good painter and a reasonable photographer. 

[b]Personality:[/b] Amadeo fantasizes about the war ending tomorrow so he can continue on with his life, a sentiment that makes him look lazy and unmotivated; he prefers to present himself as someone with no purpose in life, although he values his 'Inheritance', the Noble Arm that had been 'grown' from his Grandfather's soul and found a new home in him after the latter's death. His Grandfather, Michael Balagtas (not actually related to the Filipino Poet), was the person he most admired, being a poet of exceptional merit. He fancies himself an artist, dedicated to showing people the beauty of the world even at these times, and wants to make a work that speaks to both mind and heart, although it frustrates him that he is no good as a poet while he has very few chances to practice his painting at wartime.

He feels inadequate due to having acquired a Noble Arm not by personal development but through his soul's resemblance to his Grandfather's, which attracted his Noble Arm to him. This inadequacy fuels sloth in him, but being called that entrenches him in his (presented) purposelessness and inferiority complex. Nevertheless, he is patriotic enough to want to protect the country that was dear to his Grandfather, and so despite complaints, he struggles to do his part; he is a reluctant patriot but a patriot nonetheless.

        [b]*Likes:[/b] Beautiful things, tasteful decor, poetry.

        [b]*Dislikes:[/b] Bad poetry, tacky and gaudy decorations, actual work.

        [b]Fears:[/b] What would be worse? Capture by the enemy, or Death? 

[b]Bio:[/b] A graduate of Manila's infamous 'Trinidad Academy', Amadeo embodies the stereotype of that place; a lazy bum coasting by on his family's wealth and reputation. 

This reputation was built during the days of his Grandfather, Michael Balagtas, who grew his own Noble Arm from his own soul through personal development and wielded him against the country's foes, which included its own Government during darker days. After the restoration of Philippine Democracy in the 80s', Michael reconnected with his children and grandchildren, and he encouraged Amadeo to be a painter and an athlete while tasting the joys of life without excess.

But it all ended in tragedy after Michael's death, as Amadeo inherited his Grandfather's Noble Arm, the Sword of the Wind, and his parents promptly transferred him out of his previous school and into Trinidad Academy to be trained as an Arms Master, where he, in an act of rebellion, purposefully held himself back to the minimum required to pass. 

While he was glad that he resembled his Grandfather enough for the latter's Noble Arm to be drawn to his soul, he also couldn't but feel that he had been cheated out of his own development. Either way, his reputation as a lazy, somewhat depressed lout did not save him from being called to war when China struck, and so he is now at the war front, trying to make sure that the country his Grandfather valued still stood, that its beauty was preserved as much as possible, that its people finally had a chance at raising themselves up.

[b]*Current Goal:[/b] Overcome his inferiority complex to his Grandfather.

[b]Military or Civilian Rank:[/b] Sergeant.

*Optional