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Notes: Italics are thoughts, and unless otherwise noted, thoughts are in German.
Is Weiland
Is his Hermingja, Ermendrud


"This is rather outside your usual wanderings, Weiland..." For those that could see into the spirit world, they would see the feint outline of a spirit following the foreign man walking down the street. The foreigner in question, Weiland Voss, was not even attempting to blend into his surroundings. The German foreigner had been here for long enough to not be out of place for those who saw him doing his rounds on a regular basis, though he still got looks from those who don't look at him too closely. He was also outside his usual wandering area, so he got more looks than usual. He mentally responded to the spirit that followed him around constantly, bound as she was to his family, though not out loud, their conversation being exclusively in thoughts.

"The lightning strike in broad daylight. Foreign to this area, and I am curious. It needs investigated." Weiland was walking forward towards the location where other people were watching and looking around the area where the strike had occurred. Out of all the mysteries and tales going around this place, most disinterested him, considering the fact he had a spirit following him around on a routine basis. So here he was, heading to investigate something that could be as simple as a natural phenomenon. He ignored the various people and groups wandering about, investigating this or that, not even bothering to give them any second of his attention unless they were directly speaking about the unusual lightning strike during broad daylight. It struck him as something unnatural, as if someone else called upon it, either willingly or unwillingly. So the young man found himself walking towards the site of this strike, keeping an eye out for anyone or anything out of place, or warranting his attention in regards to the odd lightning strike.

Name: Weiland Voss
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Race: Human Magi
Appearance: 
Personality: Almost always wearing a mildly pleasant expression, Weiland almost never wears his true feelings or thoughts openly, far too used to keeping such things suppressed on orders from his family. In his day to day, he tends to hide any of his real emotions or reactions behind a facade of humor and mockery, being the first to call someone out or make a joke out of a situation. While mockery and jest are his typical face and coping mechanism, with just a dash of appearing to be oblivious, he tends to keep a very, very close eye on his surroundings and occurrences within his ability to detect. Underneath the flippant and jesting mentality is someone with a very analytic, very focused mind. When on a task he actually cares to do, he becomes hyperfocused to a degree that he often needs reminded, either by Ermendrud or, more commonly, one of his peers. 

Weiland typically cannot be bothered to focus that much on just anything, so he tends to slack around, feet kicked up, relaxing and observing. He tends to look for ways to antagonize and prod at those around him, filing such things away for when he needs, or wants, to use them. While he doesn't typically manipulate for gain, he does it mostly for his own amusement. Seeing how people react and act when being prodded and pushed is a guilty pleasure of his, and it doesn't help that Ermendrud enables him by encouraging such behavior. Even so, he does know where the line is typically, but sometimes he crosses it, just to gather information and see how people react.
Abilities: The Voss family is a very old, very established blood line within Germany, and their only son has inherited the same Affinity that has been a staple of their family, that of Light. While not necessarily the most useful of Affinities in regards to raw offensive potential, with exceptions, he is very capable of various utilities and tricks. His go to for offensive power tends to be focusing light into high powered beams of light, laser beams effectively, though he also can refract light around him to render himself invisible, blind people with blasts of focused light, maintain orbs to keep light in areas to allow better vision, and the like. He has a great deal of practice hiding his presence, via bent light, though this is completely useless against tracking that doesn't rely on visual confirmation, while the laser beams can work well against most targets.

Notably, Weiland, much like his family, lacks any sort of Magic Trait. However, the family instead had, in its early generations, established a contract in blood with their Hamingja, a guardian spirit of sorts that was responsible for luck and happiness of her charge, that bound the spirit to their family for all time. In return for this, it allowed Ermendrud, the name of the spirit, to be anchored to the world in such a way that her charges could call upon her outside of prayers and offerings for her passive assistance in their fortune and well being. The spirit herself has a great deal of knowledge, accumulated over the countless millennia. Ermendrud is a whimsical spirit, fitting as her domain is fortune first and foremost, typically chattering and speaking to Weiland, though no one else can hear such chatter. When manifested, she typically appears in an aquatic form, much preferring it over a more traditional look. Otherwise, while not manifested, her aura overrides Weiland's own, protecting him from being read by anyone capable of seeing and viewing auras.
Skills: Weiland is actually a fairly accomplished unarmed fighter, having been learning from his bodyguard growing up, and continuing to practice and implement such activities. He employs a mix of formal martial arts and brawling, taking useful techniques from both to help make up for the fact he is just a human, magi abilities put aside. Besides this, he is a fairly accurate shot, be it with sidearms or thrown items, though nowhere near as impressive as his unarmed abilities.
Equipment: Besides a small set of tools for engraving that tend to never leave the apartment he stays at, the only notable item that Weiland has is a graduation gift from his father, a pair of brass knuckles that were blessed, each knuckle having a small cross engraved on it.
Brief Backstory: The Voss bloodline is far older than the country that they have based themselves in, though they are not quick to brag or confirm such things. Weiland is the only son of the family, and that means living with the entire expectations of the family on his shoulders. The main options he had to temporarily escape such pressure was training with his bodyguard, and older man who taught him everything he knew about hand to hand fighting, and Ermendrud, the Hamingja bound to his family's bloodline. Every first born would find the spirit transferred to them once they were old enough, usually around five or six years old, and Weiland was no different. Growing up, he did not depart for the Tower in London to train, like his family would have preferred, choosing to stay in Germany to train in his magic. This allowed his father to continue tutoring him in the more subtle arts in the Light affinity, though once he was old enough, and finished his main training and schooling in Germany, it was decided he needed to travel abroad for further experience. With Ermendrud protecting and guiding Weiland, it wasn't seen as anywhere near as unsafe as it could be.

Weiland didn't initially end up in Japan, wandering most of Europe first and foremost, spending several years after his 18th birthday exploring and practicing further. He would eventually settle down in Japan when he was 23 years old, and would spend the most time he ever did in one place, his wanderlust never seeming to trigger again and drive him to leave and move on to other places. Weiland couldn't peg the why as to why he didn't leave already, but he did odd jobs and the like when he felt the need, mostly to keep himself busy since his family kept him well supplied while he traveled and studied in various places.

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