“Without us, what is Remnant? Vale, Mistral? There’s no life in these places. Who wants to see the sights in Vale? Vacuo? Vacuo should be paved in solar panels to run our theme parks! But where Atlas goes, we bring the future. And Atlas goes where we lead it.”
Name: Brennan Ailill Griese, the Captain of Industry
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Nationality: Atlesian
Team: BANK
Designation: Subject 0081: Highly Ravenous, Do Not Unleash Huntsman
Appearance:
Several inches over the average height and athletically broad, Brennan only tends to look somewhat leaner in comparison to his teammate. In reality, though perhaps not a powerhouse on Kek’s level, it’s clear he doesn’t take many cheat days. Brennan himself is very handsome, with a strong jaw, bright red-gold eyes, and a perpetual hysterical laugh never far from his lips. Ever professional, he tends to wear black pants or jeans with white dress shirt, sleeves rolled up. He will always either wear suspenders or a slim-fitting black vest. His coal-black hair is long, but not unruly – half the time it tends to be pomaded backwards lustrously, and half the time he lets it hang free over his eyes. Surprisingly, he’s not one for much gaudy orientation. The only concession to jewelry he wears is a slender silver chain on his neck, from which hangs two Claddagh rings barely visible through an unbuttoned collar.
History:Brennan’s father was only one generation removed from their fortune, but it was clear he had forgotten where it came from. Brennan’s grandfather had initially gone into business as a founding partner of the Schnee Dust Company, but foresaw a coming monopoly on the Dust market and the coming problems with the use of Faunus labor. Therefore, he sold every last share at top dollar and came out with enough money to float him through the rest of his life; a series of sensible investments in property and budding tech firms with interests in Aura and Dust only compounded the fortune, until it was clear no Griese would ever have to worry again.
As you can imagine, this had made Brennan’s father complacent, a trait not shared by his rowdy, implacable only son. A talented little scrapper (to his father’s chagrin) from an early age, Brennan seemed to have determined his path even before he quite knew what the Huntsman path was, and went away to Sanctum Academy in Mistral for combat training at the age of 12. When he returned to Atlas after four years, though, he took a couple drop years to begin taking a hands on role in some investments of his own. Finally, at the age of 19, he enrolled in Atlas Academy to seek out a career as a Huntsman and engage himself in higher study.
Pleasantly, he found himself on a team with three other members of the Atlesian business elite, and though at first their squabbles over leadership and natural competitive edges had led them to all eschew each other, once the question of leadership was truly decided and began to work as a unit, BANK (as they had been first colloquially, then officially known) became an inseparable juggernaut, often able to discern strategies and fight alongside or independent of each other with mere near-telekinetic glances. At the head of this specialized team is Brennan Griese himself – and though his father insists he’s going through a phase, Brennan finds the thrill of being a Huntsman and the challenge of impossible odds far more satisfying a life than a sterile boardroom, where he had no chance of anything but even greater success.
Not the most heady of futures to a young man such as him.
Personality: Despite what his teammates like to mutter to themselves, there’s really no one but Brennan who could lead BANK with any efficiency. He balances the three proper attitudes for business on the tip of his finger – cold and pragmatic on the battlefield, when his team is most in need of direction; open-hearted, jovial, and irreverent at a public setting or presentation; and funny, fluent and respectful in a one on one setting. While not an out and out asshole, years of relative dominance amongst his peers and the restlessness of being born into wealth and lacking things to do with it has completely coated Brennan in bulletproof confidence. This sense of self-assurance can often cross the line to out and out conceit.
Even if Brennan isn’t the most talented fighter on the team (an honor that goes to Kek) he’s easily the psychological warrior of BANK. A born performer, hyping up the crowd comes as easily as breath to Brennan – the sheer act of pumping his arms to raise a mob’s volume seems to feed him with a psychotic, insatiable energy. Though he’s cunning enough to guess at many a psychological weakness, public displays of disrespect towards the other three Huntsmen academies are more his speed. Brennan is a madman. He will raise chants amongst students. He will spout disrespectful limericks towards upcoming competitors. He will buy other students dinner and a Scroll because
“those on death row have rights in Atlas. We love the damned! We love them so much that we give them last meals and phone calls home.” He is not above buying out a Mistralian merch stand and tying shirts to banners in a sick mockery of a funeral procession.
Despite this, surprisingly, the charismatic, quasi-psychotic Atlesian is not inglorious in victory or defeat. Often he will seek out as many opponents as possible after the post-fight bloodlust has worn off and his throat requires a brief rest and congratulate them on their performance. It would appear that this frenzied, hypercompetitive jock state ebbs away as soon as the bellows in the arena die down, giving way to a civil, if overbearing, young man who fights every duel like it’s the time of his life. In addition, though he will never advertise this fact – going so far as to pin all credit/blame on Noel – he tends towards charity, or taking his excess money and scattering it through the immediate area.
“Tears, laughter, pleasure and pain! I bring the fire, THEN I MAKE IT RAIN!”Skills: A skilled orator and hand-to-hand combatant, Brennan is most skilled in a fight when he’s able to manipulate Dust to full effect. Both of his weapons – as well as his fortune – rely upon the propellant, and he’s learned to use them appreciatively. He’s also the leader of BANK for a reason – a smart tactician, gauging his team’s strengths and weaknesses, he can coordinate group attacks with relative ease and very rarely has to deal with someone falling out of formation or losing their head in the fight. Ironically, not even he is exempt from this sense of focus.
Semblance: Slick as a Whistle: Brennan’s Semblance is friction manipulation. Simply put, he is able to generate, remove, or control friction in order to propel himself forward, stop something in its tracks by sending it slipping and sliding, or maneuver up solid surfaces more fluidly.
Weapon: Veblen Good: An energy whip of Brennan’s own design, Veblen Good is a potent weapon even without a power source, able to open up stinging cuts on an opponent with ease or ensnare itself around a body part with a flick of Brennan’s wrist. Its real power, though, comes from the holster built into the handle of the whip, complete with small trigger. When loaded with a Dust crystal or cartridge, the trigger can be pressed in, energizing the whip with Dust for several minutes and imbuing it with whatever particular type Brennan loaded it with. In a pinch, in case of a lack of crystals, the whip can also be powered for a limited time with the Trustbusters.
In its coiled form, Veblen Good can still be loaded with a Dust cartridge and powered up. In this state, Brennan can utilize the weapon as an energy targe, also imbued with whatever element the Dust was and combining with his aura to form a large protective shield.
Trustbusters: A pair of Dust-knitted gloves that operate independently of Veblen Good, the Trustbusters would ostensibly not have much power on their own. Thus, Brennan has done some modification, turning what was once a pair of glorified hand protection into augmented weapons all their own. When a Dust crystal or cartridge is crushed inside one of the Trustbusters, the specialized fabrics and the Dust already latent inside will absorb the Dust Brennan wants to utilize. This surcharge allows him to power up something he chooses with Dust, whether it be Veblen Good or something inanimate…or just hit someone with a burning fist.
Relationships: Albert Morgan: To put it frankly, Brennan and Morgan aren’t friends – but they should be. Both tend to speak fast and take shots at the things around them, and while they often fall into a rapport and coordinate alongside each other well in combat, they don’t hang out on a personal level very often unless someone else is the bridge between them. Despite their aloofness from each other, Brennan enjoys the other heir’s company, and can even be heard to openly laugh at some of Albert’s ideas and jokes. The team leader has decided to try and attempt to forge a real bond with his partner as time goes on.
Noël Du Acier: Perhaps the only member of BANK Brennan can truly said to be close to, Noel is the target of more of his mocking barbs than any other – as well as the target of slightly more extolled pride. Though he is first in the chorus of telling the talkative blacksmith to just shut the hell up, he tends to treat her as something of a precocious younger sister, and knows how to play to her strengths in the field. They will sometimes hang out without the company of anyone else, though usually only for a quick meal. Though he talks a big game about letting her reap her just desserts for running her mouth so often, Noel’s charitable heart is a quiet soft spot for the braggadocio-fueled Atlesian, and slights on her person or (undue) beatings that he thinks she can’t handle will be handled with hot fury.
Kek Tarik: Another team member who, like Morgan, Brennan doesn’t have much of a personal relationship with. Kek, however, has Brennan’s quiet respect if nothing else – as team leader, it’s his job to acknowledge to himself when he’s outmatched, and Kek is pound for pound a better fighter than Brennan himself. As such, he will often just point him in a vague direction and let the big guy go off on his own, only falling in with the rest of the team when it’s time for a complete formation. Outside of the field or classes, Kek will sometimes find himself called on as the deciding vote in an argument with Brennan and Morgan, but otherwise he’s left to his own devices – or to Noel, whom the big guy seems to get on well with.
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