Team RAIN

Nickleas Graham

Color: Silver

Inspiration: Wan Hu

Semblance: Mechanist: Nickleas has an inherent ability to very quickly analyze and memorize mechanical assemblies and constructs. He can briefly view a naked machine or blueprint and be able to reverse engineer, reproduce a similar machine with only approximate components, and mentally improve upon the design. This ability is passive and requires no aura to be channeled to use it, but by focusing his aura he can telepathically build and disassemble small machines from parts he has on hand, a technique he uses to retrofit his own weapons in the field. Is represented physically by his eyes glowing silver, a silver lining appearing around whatever items he is manipulating and small silver static electric discharges snapping off of them. The more aura he uses while fueling his semblance, the brighter the glow and the larger and more frequent the discharges.

Main Weapon: Hostile Intent: Similar to an XM24 CDTE(a semiautomatic airburst grenade launcher), but with a 30% longer barrel and firing larger grenades, closer in size to 40mm grenades as opposed to 25mm grenades. He uses large, 10-round banana clips, and the grenades he uses are either able to be given a set range, determined via laser rangefinder and detonated midair, or set for contact detonations. A 40cm long, 3cm wide single-edged curved-tip bayonet is permanently mounted underneath the muzzle, with half of the blade underneath the barrel before ending with a sharp slope. Colored chrome. Nickleas carries multiple types of ammunition for the weapon, his favorite being explosive-dust concussion grenades that he uses to violently blast apart enemies as well as assist his own mobility, but he carries several variants for good measure, including incendiary fire-dust grenades, cryogenic freeze-grenades for nonlethal attacks, electric-dust EMP grenades, and gas grenades.

Gadgets(Devices he manufactures and uses in the field):

IED'S: Literally, anything that he can turn into a bomb he will.

'Nades: Lovingly handcrafted tools of war, specially designed so he can quickly modify them for various purposes with the aid of his semblance. Variants detonate with various elemental effects, can fire razor wire in a web around the detonation, can release a curtain of micro-tracking devices, can be modified to serve as flashbangs, can be set to stick to objects they impact, can be set on a timer or with a proximity detonator, and can even be set to detonate via voice recognition programs combined with trigger words, and are all available in under a half-minute of tinkering thanks to his semblance. Physically appear as cylindrical devices, with two red bands at top+bottom that indicate that they are active, and are primed with a twist of the cylinder and the pressing of a button on one end.

Dishwashers: Grenades specialized to throw out clouds of volatile vaporized dust, which can be ignited via other dust sources or application of aura. Appear similarly to standard Nades, but colored yellow and have nozzles on both ends to vent dust.

Vacuum Cleaners: Utilizing powerful gravity-dust, this small device can pull unsecured objects to a central point and keep them pinned for a short time. Appears similarly to a flat landmine, and is capable of sticking to objects.

Bonfires: Devices charged by concentrated fire-dust, near-instantaneously incinerating anything in front of them when they detonate. Appears similarly to a M18A1 "Claymore" Anti-Personnel Mine.

Age: 16 Height: 5'4 Weight: 130 pounds Symbol: A hexagonal nut, with the center being filled with a cross inside of a circle: http://imgur.com/Y0ypmOe

Appearance: Spiky, short silver hair. Light build. Small diagonal scar across lips on the far right side of his mouth. Wears chrome welding goggles around neck. Wears beaten navy blue canvas jacket, with a v-necked silvery shirt underneath. Wears battered black jeans, with silver belt fitted with various slots and pouches, and bags strapped to his thighs. Wears a pear of scuffed brown work boots. Wears a silver bandoleer over his left shoulder, with slots for grenades and a satchel attached to the bottom. His symbol is on both the left side of his jacket and on the stock of his weapon on both sides. Carries Hostile Intent on a specialized strap, fitted with bolts to catch notches on the weapon, over his right shoulder.

Personality: Loud, aggressive, arrogant, brave, always the first to volunteer, and never keeping his opinions to himself. Short-fused, but dislikes carrying vendettas, preferring to settle things 1-for-1 and quickly. Despite his abrasive exterior, he cares about his friends, and, being a tried-and-true troublemaker, isn't afraid to stick his neck out for his pals or keep his mouth shut if somebody needs him to. While he is usually at odds with authority, he respects that which is earned. Seemingly disorganized, but in reality he is technically-oriented and very intelligent.

Fighting Style: Making up for his small size and poor C.Q.C. skills with an incredibly potent arsenal of high-explosive killing devices, he loves nothing more than field-testing. While his weapon possesses a bayonet, it is mostly for short bouts of fencing before using his weapon or grenades to put distance between his enemy with a technique he calls "Blast-Riding"; strengthening his aura to transfer the shockwave of an explosion almost completely into bodily acceleration, a maneuver FPS players would recognize as "rocket-jumping". With concussion-based grenades, this allows him to quickly dart around the battlefield while simultaneously wreaking havoc among enemies. He does use the bayonet to finish off enemies, however.

Weakness: As mentioned, fairly poor melee fighter. Is very device-based, so anti-tech measures would be highly effective, as

would be situations that he fails to anticipate.

"I need feedback for the V2, so let me know how much this hurts!" -Nickleas Graham

Vacuo-born Nickleas was born into this world looking for the next scrap. A trueborn rascal, he distinguished himself from the neighborhood children and even his several siblings with his temper and reputation as "the man with the plan". As a result of his obsession with getting even and his loud mouth, he made numerous enemies but his charisma and bravado cemented a small group of loyal friends, brothers, and sisters, with whom he fought childhood wars of passion throughout his entire younger years. It was also at that time that Nickleas discovered his passion for machines, and while his desire for new components occasionally sparked trouble with the law when cars began having their engines internally disassembled, no-one could deny the boys brilliance. However, as his passions turned from general engineering, which is benevolent in it's own right, to demolitions, his parents grew worried. When Nickleas came home for the fifteenth time in custody of a irritated police officer bearing noise complaints, his mother, matron of the house, finally forbid him from building anymore explosives. For a boy who was convinced that making bombs was his calling, he was devastated. Furthermore, his parents, fearing for his safety if he joined any sort of fighting unit, would not even listen to his requests to enroll in combat school.

Finally, Nickleas managed to save, earn, or pilfer enough money to pay for an entrance exam to Vacuo's pre-huntsmen academy. He and his parents had an argument, in which his father told the short, scrawny boy that he "would never be able to compete with warriors", causing him to storm out of the home in rage. To everyone's surprise, the Napoleonic saboteur preformed exceptionally with his shock-and-awe fighting method and his fairly competent athletic ability, coupled with his quick production of traps in the middle of combat. Once he was accepted, and equipped with a regular budget, he was able to build the weapon he had foreseen when he promised his parents that he would be great; a beautiful grenade-rifle, with combined with his bombs would make him one of the most unpredictable combatants to surface in Vacuo in a long, long time.