Age: 19
Gender: Male
Appearance/Description:
Personality: Julian is someone who is constantly forced to wear masks in order to suit his situation. In the courts he will be polite ,courteous and submissive, on the streets he will be impassive, hardening his heart from the cries of the populace. When dealing with the The National Revolutionaries of Daerai, he will put on the personality of a firm but fair merchant who truly wishes to be able to work out a deal and be willing to compromise. When he's with Cloe in any casual situation, she will bring out his blubbering, embarrassed younger brother side who constantly endures light hearted teasing from his older sister figure.
Which of these could be said to be his personality? The submissive noble under the Emperor and Prime Minister? The steel faced man who rides through cries of torment hearing nothing? The secret revolutionary who uses his powerful position to support change within the Empire from right under the Prime Minister's nose? The worried, stressed and near paranoid young man who needs to turn to his sister figure for comfort? Why not all of them? Ultimately, Julian is a noble who believes in "the greater good", willing to overlook lesser evils to keep up progress for a greater good. To that end, he will pretend to be whatever he must until change is made. By then, the masks will be off and he will let the people judge for themselves his actions.
Goals/Motive: To incite change within the Empire and to unite those who wish for it under one banner.
Bio/History: Sir Julian August. Born to noble families who were also the owners of a meat brand that was famous for its extremely tender and high quality "mystery meat", he seemed to become another corrupt noble just like his parents, who had raised him to be the successor to the family fortune and business. "Mystery meat", they would say, "look how gullible they are. So long as we say something that sounds remotely like a promise, they'll eat anything. Illiterate pigs". Of course, it didn't take a genius for someone within the system who knew of the corruption to know that "Mystery meat" was in fact human flesh. Julian's father always liked deep fried fingers as light snacks. Their highest quality were "Mystery calf meat", created from the bodies of children no older than than the age of 10.
Julian regarded what happened next as a sign he was extremely, extremely lucky. When he himself turned ten, on his birthday his family decided that the time was ripe for Julian to make his first "hunt", so to speak. As such, he was driven out of the mansion and told to bring back "one of them stupid village hicks", offer him or her lodging as a kind noble and then kill the illiterate pig for a new stock of mystery meat. Julian did exactly as he was told - extremely nervous and worried - but he did so.
To this day, he theorized that had it not been Cloe and instead someone else, he would most likely have become just as corrupt and deserving of death at the hands of the Steel Hearts as his parents were. Bringing a very older yet very innocent looking Cloe to the mansion, the ten year old Julian waited for her to sleep before his father handed him an knife and told him to make the kill. Julian, his hands shaking - something his father scolded him for - entered the room to kill Cloe. To his surprise, Cloe had been expecting him but boldly pronounced that "she knew he would not kill her". trembling, Julian finally dropped the knife and decided he was sick of his entire family.
What followed next was a deception that started from feeding his family cooked meat that he tricked them into believing were Cloe's and lasted five entire years, with his entire life become one big lie to his parents who believed their son was just as corrupt and bloodthirsty as he was. They believed him turned; to be just like them. Little did they know he was plotting their downfall. Through these five years, using nothing but sheer wit and deception he had managed to hide Cloe inside the mansion, and the two had developed quite a big sister-younger brother relationship. On Julian's fifteenth birthday, five years after Cloe first set foot inside the mansion Julian gave Cloe very specific instructions for a task outside the mansion. When she returned from her task, Julian was packed for a night of partying in town and calmly rode out the front gates of his family mansion to attend the birthday party of some other noble girl, not even minding the fact it was his own, and Cloe simply giggled at Julian's sheer initiative from the driver's seat of the carriage. When Julian returned later than the time he had told his parents, he calmly walked into a crime scene - another Steel Hearts murderer. Apparently, the rebel assassin group had been hired by someone earlier that very day to "kill everyone who was inside the August mansion that night". Now who could that possibly be?
After the utterly tragic deaths of his parents, the prime minister announced that the heartbroken and grieving Sir Julian August must take the position as the head of the family, a position Julian took with a completely stoic face. A few months after he took the reigns, he sold the entire meat business - including the mystery meat - to another corrupt noble before arranging for another "savage murder of an upstanding noble at the hands of the barbaric Steel Hearts", and this time allowed the ensuing investigation to reveal to the peasants just what they were eating. With that, he had finally managed to rid the market of the "mystery meat" his family had started. Turning his sights onto larger matters, Julian then began to play a dangerous multi masked game, pretending to be an obedient, content noble who even sponsors the Jaegers financially while also at the same time financing the rebellion.
XXXXX
Name: Divine Armoury Encyclopedia "Alexandria" (She calls herself "Cloe" as in "EncyCLOpedia" for short)
Creation: The Divine Armoury Encyclopedia was created as a Tengu to keep track of all the Tengus in existence. As a result, she is compiled of the ashes of the records of the Tengu, the blood of all the men who created a Tengu and a single gem that serves as her core.
Type: Biological
Required Compatibility: Unpolished potential - Cloe seeks to pair with people with great potential, but only if that potential is in danger of being squandered away without her guidance. The potential for Julian to shake off the corruption of his parents was what allowed him to be compatible with her.
Appearance:
Main Ability: Encyclopedius Imperialus: Cloe knows every single Tengu/Imperial arm in existence and can instantly identify and name them and recite their strengths, weaknesses, abilities and forging method by fuzzy description unless there is an overlap.
Secondary Ability: Instant Transmission: Cloe is able to immediately return to Julius' side to protect him from any and all sudden threats at the snap of a finger (figuratively speaking; snapping fingers is not actually required) with the use of a teleportation spell that uses the bond between Tengu and user.
Hidden Ability: Imperialus Eripuit (Imperial Librarian): Cloe is able to detect the approximate distance of a Tengu from up to three kilometres away. At two kilometres she will be able to identify the Tengu and at one kilometers she will be able to detect direction, distance and identity in absolute precision.
How did your character obtain their Tengu?: She basically lay in a coma on the streets of the empire for a very, very long time in a very dark alleyway, believed to be some sort of dead peasant girl or even a ghost or a spirit. She stayed that way, dressed in torn rags and a blank, dead expression until Julian, on his first and last hunt, came near her, activating her and allowing her to slowly make her way to him and allow him to bring her back to his mansion.
Personality: As a tengu, Cloe acts and masquerades as a normal human, often acting as Julian's (embarrassing) elder sister. However, she is also surprisingly well versed about matters other than tengu as well, drawing on centuries of knowledge and experience to give Julian advice on a variety of matters - when she's not too busy drooling over neapolitan ice cream, something which will get at the first opportunity, much to the pain of even the nobleman Julian's wallet.
Equipment/Assets:
Nobility: Julian August is a noble, and as such has a large amount of wealth and property, as well as a position in the Imperial Government.
Contacts: Cloe acts as a mysterious job provider for the Steel Hearts. She is the one who deals and negotiates with the Rebellion on Julian's behalf.
Julian and Cloe have a ruse going on: To disguise Cloe's identity as a Tengu, Julian took two rare but still non-tengu items, made a lot of alterations and created two "fake tengus" in order to make the enemy believe they are a pair of tengu users instead of Tengu and user.
"Fake" Tengu "Beastly Howl Zangrist": An ominous dagger created from the fang of an omega class beast, this dagger has the dangerous ability to render the victim insane with pain if they are struck by it.
(Really, all he did was take a shark teeth, model it a bit and add slow working, painful poison to the edge.)
"Fake" Tengu "Retaliating Shield Neapolitan: An umbrella Teigu which forms an unpenetrable shield, the teigu is able to fire wild, unpredictable wide shots that can blast away any opponent that gets close.
(It's a shotgun built into a steel frame parasol. The defensive part is actually made by Cloe using her strength as a bionic tengu to spin the umbrella so the steel frames would spin and stop any attack, but because her arm is concealed by the parasol they won't know that. It's basically an umbrella using Chuunibyou's dream weapon)