[hider=This guy DEFINITELY listens to Frank Ocean][INDENT][COLOR=SLATEGRAY][CENTER][sup][h1][center][img]https://i.ibb.co/YnyLXpw/proto-ace-banner.png[/img][/center][b][center][color=black] A C E  O F  B L A D E S[/color]
[color=cadetblue]A C E  O F  B L A D E S[/color][/center]
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[color=cadetblue][sup][b]"I don't believe in fate. I wasn't chosen to be a hero, I [i]chose[/i] to be a hero. I choose to get up and keep fighting because that's what a real hero does."[/b][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
[color=cadetblue]C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://i.ibb.co/cPyQpKQ/scott.png[/img]
[sub][COLOR=darkgray](FC: Justice Smith; Dialogue: [color=cadetblue][b]CadetBlue[/b][/color])[/COLOR][/sub]
[sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] S U M M A R Y[/color]
[color=cadetblue]S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Scott Jonas Knight[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]October 12th[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]23[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Single[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Male[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Bisexual[/COLOR][/sub]


[indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] S T A T S[/color]
[color=cadetblue]S T A T S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Height[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]5'11 (180 cm)[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Hair Color[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Black[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Eye Color[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Brown[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Hometown[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Calder City[/COLOR][/sub][/center]
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[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/indent][/cell][cell][INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] H I S T O R Y[/color]
[color=cadetblue]H I S T O R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]___________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
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The year was 1996. A new hero emerged on the scene in Calder City: the [color=6ecff6][b]Queen of Blades[/b][/color], a young woman capable of flight and summoning ghostly blades that she could manipulate with tactile telekinesis. Behind the mask was May Morgan, an intern at Harper Mueller and Co. Attorneys At Law in downtown Calder City. A year into her career, she would form a heroic partnership with [color=lime][b]Shining Shield[/b][/color], a hero with the similar power of summoning apparitions of shields.

The two would make names for themselves as heroes in the city, putting away countless criminals and several supervillains. The most prominent of these villains was [color=crimson][b]Omega[/b][/color], a powerhouse with enhanced strength, speed, durability, and flight. While Omega was incredibly durable, the Queen's blades were able to pierce him nearly effortlessly.

In 1999, May met [color=1a7b30][b]Benjamin Knight[/b][/color], a local bartender that she would begin to date and reveal her heroic life to. Two years later, her partner Shining Shield died forming a barricade around her and a civilian as a building collapsed around them. Despite this tragedy, May continued her work alone, finding comfort in Ben.

In 2002, May and Ben married in a small ceremony, and a year later their son Scott was born. At that point, May was a successful lawyer and Ben had opened his own bar in the south side of Calder City that was a popular spot on the weekends. Scott's early childhood was spent relatively normally, save for the fact that his mother was a beloved superhero who openly regaled her son with tales of her exploits, both old and new.

Shortly before his 8th birthday, Scott's powers manifested when he summoned a ghostly shortsword in his hand while playing alone outside. At first he was amazed, swinging it around recklessly, but then he found he couldn't make it go away. He burst into tears and eventually his parents came outside to find him, his mother coaching him until he eventually managed to make the blade dissipate. May promised to train her son in the usage of his powers after his birthday.

Then the day came when everything changed: October 12th. The Knight family was having a day out to celebrate Scott's 8th birthday, seated at a restaurant and waiting for their food to be served. The next thing they knew, the building was falling down around them, a hulking figure in a skintight bodysuit standing among the rubble.

Omega.

[color=crimson][b]"Found you."[/b][/color]

Ben took Scott into his arms and ran as far as he could while May stayed behind to fend off Omega. Ben dropped his son off in a safe place and ran back to the restaurant to help his wife, Scott immediately sprinting as fast as his little legs would let him after his father. When Scott caught up to his father, Omega was nowhere to be found. What Scott did find was his father, holding the corpse of his wife in his arms.

Omega was recaptured and taken into Vanguard custody shortly after the incident, only to escape several months later. He hasn't been seen since. A large public memorial service was held in Calder City for the Queen of Blades, and a small private memorial was held for May Knight by family and friends. The trauma of the attack and the loss of his mother caused Scott to withdraw, cutting himself off from friends at school. Ben tried his best to comfort his son while managing his own grief, but no matter how hard he tried Scott kept his distance.

As Scott grew older and entered his teen years, this distance became outright hostility as he began to fall in with the wrong crowd, experimenting with drugs and alcohol as well as committing petty crime. His father couldn't figure out how to get through to his son, and their relationship fell to an all time low.

One late night alone in his room, Scott dropped acid for the first time. The experience was a harrowing and soul-rending one as Scott found himself face to face with his mother, begging her son not to throw his life away. After he came back to his senses, it was as though a switch had been flipped in the young man: he cut contact with his delinquent friends and cleaned up his act, reconnecting with his father and reaching out to old friends, hoping to mend bridges he thought had long burned.

The rest of high school passed by peacefully, Scott finally feeling as though he had recovered from his mother's death. He enrolled in an art school a few states away to study audio engineering in the university's music department. He hadn't even summoned his sword in years at that point. But inside of him there was still a yawning pit, a void that he didn't know how to fill.

One night Scott was walking back to his apartment only to find a drunk man harassing a girl he knew, trying to force himself onto her. He knew he couldn't just let that happen. The young man stepped in, holding a glowing blade to the drunk's throat. The older man took off running as soon as the blade was lowered. Scott helped the girl back to her apartment and then went back home.

It hit him: he needed to follow in his mother's footsteps.

The next few weeks were spent going out at night wearing a ski mask and foiling low level crimes in the area around his university. As he did so, his grades and attendance dropped steadily, but to Scott, his burgeoning career as a crime fighter was more important. Eventually, he was forced to drop out and move back to Calder City, getting a job at a bar that wasn't his dad's and renting a cramped apartment by the docks. He continued his vigilante activities.

His dad caught on pretty quickly when a vigilante using a ghost sword showed up in town the same week his son moved back. The two of them got into a long argument, Ben demanding that Scott give it up with Scott refusing to back down. Eventually Ben's anger turned to sadness and he began to plead with Scott, telling him that he didn't want to lose his son the same way he lost his wife. As much as it hurt him, Scott told his father that this is what he [i]needed[/i] to do, and eventually Ben accepted defeat.

By now, Scott has made a small name for himself in Calder City, moving up from a ski mask and a hoodie to a sort of city biker styled outfit. One of these days he's going to have to find out where Shield got his armor made, but for now it works.

Pretty soon, the [b][color=cadetblue]Ace of Blades[/color][/b] will be a household name in Calder City.[/hider][/indent][/COLOR]
[INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] A B I L I T I E S[/color]
[color=cadetblue]A B I L I T I E S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]__________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
[COLOR=DARKGRAY][list][*][b]Spectral Weapons[/b] - Weapons made of pure glowing blue energy. Their sharpness, strength, and durability is dependent upon the user's willpower; the user can also manipulate these factors, making the weapon as sharp and strong as they desire, or conversely duller and weaker for non lethal usage. The weapons are effectively weightless, requiring finesse and skill more than raw strength to wield effectively. At the moment, Scott can only summon a single longsword, though over time he will be able to learn to summon different kinds of weapons such as axes, maces, spears, and other kinds of swords, as well as shields. Eventually, he will be able to summon multiple weapons at a time.[/list]
[list][*][b]Tactile Telekinesis[/b] - A subset of telekinesis, only capable of affecting Scott's spectral weapons as well as his own body. He doesn't have any sort of skill in using it, but eventually he will be able to deftly control his weapons when they aren't in hand, sending them flying and recalling them swiftly. The capstone of his development of his abilities will be learning to use this ability to fly.[/list][/COLOR]
[INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] P E R S O N A L I T Y[/color]
[color=cadetblue]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]__________________________________________________________________________________[/sup]
[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT][sup][b]Myers-Briggs Personality Type:[/b] INFP (Mediator)[/sup]
Scott is a quiet young man, not as outgoing as he was as a child but not as misanthropic as he was as a teenager. He prefers to stick to the people he knows, rarely venturing to make new friends, but when approached first finds himself able to fall into pleasant conversations with people he doesn't know well pretty easily after feeling out the vibe. To those who know him well, he's a deeply compassionate person who strives to do right by everyone, though he often gets caught up in his own head thinking about everything that could go wrong.

In costume, Ace of Blades hearkens back to both his mother's persona as a wisecracking yet compassionate heroine as well as Shining Shield's stoic man of few words attitude. Ace is mostly silent, though when he does speak it's usually to let out a sarcastic quip at the expense of whatever crook he's about to beat the crap out of. When dealing with civilians, he stays mostly reserved, but will freely offer words of comfort and assurance to those who are especially shaken up.

As far as hobbies, Scott is an avid audiophile, producing music in his free time, collecting vinyls and CDs, and attending concerts and festivals when he can scrape up the money for it. He's also a huge comic book nerd, owning several mint condition issues of comics licensing the stories of real world heroes like his mother and Shining Shield as well as fictional superheroes from companies like DC and Marvel. On top of these framed issues, he also has entire crates of loose issues and many trade paperbacks.[/INDENT][/COLOR]
[INDENT][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] M O T I V A T I O N S   &   G O A L S[/color]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]At the moment, Scott's two main goals are to make the streets of Calder City safer and gain renown as the inheritor of his mother's mantle. Everything else is secondary, including his civilian life. As much as he tries to deny it, he's also hoping that he can eventually be strong enough that he can avenge his mother in the event that Omega resurfaces, feeling that he won't be able to get closure until Omega is finally dead.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][/COLOR][/INDENT][/hider]