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Cypher
Race: Arian Elf
Age: old as balls man
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 160lbs
Hair: Copper
Eyes: Anti-freeze green
Skin and Build: Grey(like ash), build is athletic(much of his power resides in the legs)

History sad inbound)

Racial Abilities:

The Long Mile: Arian elves are able to run not only incredibly fast but also for a very long time. Cypher has been clocked at around 60 miles an hour and maintained that speed for 8 hours at a time. He is also very fast over short distances. A side product of this is incredibly powerful legs and kicks, able to shatter stone with no damage to his own body provided he has a stable enough platform to perform this with. The ability to jump extremely high is another product of this aswell as their ability to climb nearly any surface as adeptly as a squirrel would.( Cypher can jump roughly 10 feet vertically and has a kicking power equivalent to a horse on a front snap kick, substantially stronger when hitting people with the bottom of his foot and braced, still subject to physics though so hitting more stable objects sends him flying)

Sight beyond sight: Arian elves communicate through a kind of telepathy based on vision amongst themselves, there have been no cases of outsiders being able to mimic this ability. While not based off words, it is primarily an image based ability. They are also able to communicate with animals in a similar manner, although responses are understandably limited, although he can perform something abit like too many fat men trying to go through the same door. This only works on animals, but essentially he throws far too much information at once for them to respond to. Oddly, this hurts the eyes as opposed to anything mental. This makes them excellent marksmen as well as slightly unsettling as they strive for eye contact with everyone they meet. (Immune to vertigo causing effects and blindness effects, and is also not affected by splitting his vision to see in two areas at once)

Only a flesh wound: As a race bearing many flora-like traits, it is unsurprising that Arian elves don't bleed blood so to speak but a slightly thicker sap. Getting cut can be no less deadly to them, but it takes them far longer to bleed out and they appear able to take more punishment as a result. This also means that their lungs process air in a different fashion, able to not only go much longer than a human would without oxygen but processing it much more efficiently to allow their somewhat overactive lifestyle. (Just grants Gaia-standard toughness, isn't super tough)

Mimic: Perhaps as a byproduct of their latent psychic abilities, Arian elves are capable of committing certain actions and motions to their eidetic memory and then to muscle memory. Any spell that he has seen can be cast in this fashion, but spells that require some inner spark or metaphysical ingredient that he cannot produce is beyond his skill. This also allows him to recognize different types of castings and ritual symbols, comparing them to a broad knowledge of how symbols and motions work to produce effects rather than recognizing off-hand what the spell might actually do. He draws on ambient magical energy to power any abilities he mimics. (Cypher can copy single use abilities but spells with the highest cost on a characters profiles are unavailable. He can use a copied ability once and only once and then the ability becomes unusable. Passive abilities that are always activated or have no real visual effect cannot be copied)

Reality is Perception: A Perhaps a secondary effect of this telepathy is the ability to use their vision in unexpected ways, telescopic, thermal, low light, and even see from perspectives completely outside of their own body. If something can be perceived under any sort of spectrum then Cypher is capable of tuning his eyes in to see the thing in question, after abit of trial and error. This also means that he can see through objects, such as armor, walls, clothes, and other physical objects to see what is actually within them. (Immune to vertigo causing effects and blindness effects to include flashbombs and supernatural darkness, and is also not affected by splitting his vision to see in two areas at once.)

Mind over Matter: a Gift of the goddess that created them, Arian elves have unprecedented control over their own biology, able to change the color of their skin and hair in seconds, growing or losing hair in a similar amount of time, in efforts to be as ever changing as Life itself is. It is rare to see an elf with the same features over the course of years as even their bodies are subject to change over extreme periods of time. Cypher is an exception, choosing instead to remain as the Goddess made him from the very beginning, altering only his hair style in the intervening years. Recently, however, he has been talking about making a change.(note this is not an active camo ability)

Lusus Naturae The first magical weapon Cypher has ever gotten his hands on, these weapons hold only a cursory sentimental value to him. While not made for the elf himself they never the less have become a mainstay weapon for him as they augment his already devastating kicking ability. Made of a boot segment and an ankle to knee guard segment, the <name needed> are summoned at will, replacing whatever footwear was present before and sliding underneath clothing to better protect the skin they were ment to guard. On the font of each shin guard section is the emblem of a tree reaching up into an imagined sky towards a symbol of the Watcher Luminous on the knee guard. The roots of the tree appear on the boots, stretching forward over the top of the foot to form the symbol for The Shadow Father, Nocturne, with three curving spikes like thorns decorating the curved front of the boot. The metal is unknown and undoubtedly magical, enchanted to be lighter on the foot than they would otherwise appear, no heavier than a pair of sneakers and stronger than their weight would allow. The designs seemed to have sprung later, having not been present when Cypher first acquired them, although he has never complained. The metal around the designs, which are done in gold for Luminous, a jade for the tree, and black for Nocturne, is a silver so bright it is almost white. (armor for his legs, as light as socccer shin guards, magical in nature, really nothing else, coverage is knees down to plates over the arch of the foot)

GearBeetle pistols Gross and weird, these pistols are handcrafted by Cypher through a little magical engineering and slightly unhinged science, only kind of mad at best. The grip and main body of these pistols are made of blessed ironwood for durability and defense against the ravenous beetles that are "mounted" ontop. The wood is grey and the grip is wrapped in leather down to were a normal pistol would have a magazine and up to the still existent trigger guard. Each is roughly the size of a desert eagle, but weigh only 21oz(the same weight as a loaded 9mm glock) a piece.The beetles make up the bulk of this, their shiny black carapaces nestled tight against the wood with their heads pointed back towards the wielder. That's right, they shoot with their a**. The "firing point" is located at the end of their thorax and resembles a sphincter. Each fires on mental commands from Cypher making them unusable as projectile weapons in anyone else' hands.They have 3 "bullet" profiles as listed below but each projectile travles at roughly 60 mph. The beetles and wood are also resistant to heat, natures frenemy, up to 200 C. Cypher can remake these between rounds if they become destroyed.

- Normal what it says, just a solid mass of waste. These are blunt and extremely dense, at close range(less than 6 feet) the impact is enough to crack bone. Ranges more than 6 feet depend on the area shot but are generally comparable to being punched(not a jab). Each beetle has 4 of these inside.

- Acid A ball of extremely powerful digestive juices, each beetle has 1 of these inside and each "bullet" is capable of melting through 1 inch thick steel in 2 seconds in an area about 2 inches around. Strangely this only works on inorganic material and is comparable to a paintball of grossness on organic materal. On organic material these act like normal bullets.

- Stink Not a bullet as such, but each bug is capable of spraying a noxious liquid into the air, acting much like bear spray does to anyone gifted with more than normal senses of smell. Can also be irritable to the eyes but only if sprayed directly into them. The smell is capable of filling a 10 by 10 room almost instantly and symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and potentially diarrhea if they remain in the cloud for longer than 1 Turn. Clouds remain "active" for 3 turns. Nonsmell gifted individuals just think it smells horrible. Each beetle is capable of this once. Heat makes the smell worse.

In Addition, Cypher also has a standard leaf blade knife. Blade length is 6 inches, cruciform shaped cross guard and grip. A holdout weapon normally kept on his hip just infront of the pistols.