Gavin had nagged me to join a while back, I'll be joining as a professor, just so ya'll know. He's not a professor yet, I'll find a suitable way to introduce him.
Name: Arukab Tashira Tragide
Age: 237 (appears 53)
Race: Human
Class: Argentomancer (Argentum means Silver, and Mancer comes from Mancy, which means divination by a specified means.)
Title: Staff
Sect Study: Arukabs abilities put him under the Dominus Sect, but he teachers under the Arma sect.
Appearance: Long black hair down to his mid back, his bangs cover his forehead. With eyes of a deep green, they seem to contrast with his relatively pale skin, however he still maintains that normal peach color. His scars are mostly well hidden by his clothing attire. He wears a long sleeve full length trench coat made from genuine black leather. under his coat is a silk and cotton made dark gray shirt. Beneath his shirt and upon his waist rests loose black denim jeans that need a belt to hold them up. His belt is leather with a silver belt buckle resembling a tarantula. He wears boots that reach just below his knees and have silver plates over the toe and heel parts, effective when kicking opponents. All up those boots are straps that also have silver buckles. on his shoulders he wears very thick, but due to his power not too heavy, spiky silver shoulder plates. He has a pair of gloves that he always wears and as I already specified, he does not carry his gunblade around unless in combat.
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Personality: Simply put, Arukab is a lawful neutral. His own ideals are prioritized over societys. These ideals consist of defending the people, doing what's right, making things fair, among others of the same nature. He will go to great lengths to defend his ideals, even taking part in all out war with the side he respects more. Despite his strongly opinionated ideals, he is not a movement starter, he does not like the spotlight. First impressions are important to him causing him to always be very friendly to people he first meets. He is not the type to show his emotions very easily simply because he doesn't particularly care to let people know what's on his mind, however, when asked, he will answer. Excitement is particularly difficult for him due to the fact that he rarely even gets excited. He is, however, very passionate about the things he does. Due to his kind nature, if he ever must slaw an enemy in combat, he will give them a proper burial and even do a ceremony respective to their religious belief, provided he knows what the individual(s) believe.
Weapons: Technically speaking Arukabs own body is a weapon, but more on that below. The only material weapon he wields is a gunblade. The handle houses a hammer and trigger, as one would expect of a handgun, however, the barrel travels down a silver blade. The blade is approximately 15 inches in length and 4 inches wide decreasing from the handle in width. There is an area near the middle of the blade that dips down about 5 inches from the top of it, but retreats back up and continues to narrow. The gun aspect is a revolver, and therefor only houses 5 shots. These shots are extremely rarely used as the gun is highly inaccurate due to the bullets being crafted of silver. This gives them high power, but very low range and accuracy. As a result this weapon is not considered a ranged weapon
Abilities/Magic:
One of Arukabs three abilities regards his weapon. This is a basic ability that is in no way offensive, as all it does is put his weapon away. Due to the odd nature of his weapon, there is no scabbard, no hilt, no object that has been created to hold it. Instead, his weapon can actually be inserted into Arukabs flesh. It will not cut him, instead it will become part of his blood stream. Once inside his body, he can bring it out of any body part he so chooses, however it must be pulled out, it cannot simply slide out. Despite this ability, his own weapon can cut him when he isn't expecting it.
Arukabs second ability is the ability to manipulate the properties of metals. With flesh contact, Arukab can change a metals weight and magnetic properties. While he cannot turn a metal into a magnet or move it at will, he can manipulate how strong a standard magnet will stick to it, making that part of this ability essentially useless unless he is surrounded by magnets or facing someone with magnetic powers. The true convenience of this power comes from his ability to change the weight of metals. This ability is not 100% free to make any weight he chooses, instead he is limited. When decreasing metals weight he can make the metal up to one eighth it's normal weight. This means if one cubic foot of silver weighs 650 pounds then he can make that weigh 81.25 pounds instead, which is a significant drop in weight. In turn, when making objects heavier, he is limited to 3 times its weight. The 650 pounds becomes 1950, which is also a rather significant boost.
Lastly, the power he uses most, his Silver Phantom. This power came to him from a gift passed down his family. Once the power is accepted, the users bone marrow turns into silver and stops the wielder from aging. The silver is not normal, it weighs much less and remains unable to be effected by Arukabs power, meaning he cannot make it heavier or lighter. He can, however, manipulate its magnetic properties. From this bone marrow he can grow more silver from inside his body, which fortunately acts like his gunblade and will not harm him. Instead, just like with his weapon, the marrow pours silver into the blood stream, which is then focused onto his body, making him be able to grow silver from any part of his body without even breaking skin. His ability to use silver is not unlimited. Since the silver is the same as his bone marrow, he cannot change its weight, so he must be careful to not crush himself. Naturally, since this power originates from a process within his body, this can be very taxing, draining a lot of energy over time. For this reason he tends not to run or do much activity that would exhaust his abilities. And lastly, as with any bodily function, he can only create as much silver as his body will let him. This varies based on factors of energy, nutrition, and even mood, causing him to sometimes be much more limited than he would like.
History: Arukab was the son of Nakiti Tashira Tragide, inheriting the family middle name as well as last, a traditional last name passed down for generations. Since birth Arukab was destined to be the next silver phantom, which was the legacy of his family. The Silver Phantom is the title given to the first born son of each person endowed with the title. The legend goes that long ago, the first Silver Phantom was blessed by a black and silver pegasus who made a deal. The wielder would use the powers of the pegasus, which happened to be the powers Arukab now wields, however this is considered just a myth, a fun story to be told. Once the silver phantom has his first born son, his own powers are relinquished to ensure there is only one. With this legacy also follows a weapon. This weapon is different for each wielder, also granting a secondary power. While every Silver Phantom gets the power to create silver, the weapon can vary drastically. In Arukabs case, his weapon has made him age extremely slowly, increasing his life span drastically, and also has caused him to be immune to poisons.
Despite being granted powers since birth, they do not manifest until later years. Thanks to this Arukab was able to have a normal lasting childhood. He was not an only child, as he did have a sister. Needless to say, she is no longer alive, however they were a typical big sister little brother pair when they were growing up. Arukab was very exploratory as a child, going on long walks into the woods to find anything he found interesting. There was never much to truly find, but it was always interesting as a kid. This didn't last very long, as Arukabs father knew that he would have to be trained in combat, such is the nature of the silver phantom. As such, the lack in information to what weapon Arukab would be given made his father decide to teach arukab in all forms of armed combat. Everything from swords and halberds to gauntlets and hatchets. By the age of 19 his powers had manifested, which was rather late for most of the silver phantoms. It was much surprise to everyone when his weapon was materialized from Arukabs body. Training had to start all over again to get used to this weapon, but it was much easier to manage than most weapons he learned with.
From there, the life of the silver phantom is much like the name implies. A phantom, floating between areas like a ghost. If you ask people about the Silver Phantom, they will tell fantastic stories, but asking them about Arukab will warrant confusion. His life consists of wandering around finding people who need his aid, however the true purpose of the silver phantom is to wait for war. By the age of 32 there was a civil war starting up within a country not of his own. Once he heard about this war, he insisted on joining. The people of this country were happy to accept someone of his nature, hoping it would being them an ally of his country, however this was not the case. As usual, Arukab was acting alone. Most of the battles he took part in resulted in victory thanks to his unique powers. His many foes would all receive some form of grief from Arukab, as he know they had familys, but it was what must be done.
The war resulted in victory of the people over their king, and with that marked Arukabs cue to leave, holding up his family legacy. There has been very little war in Arukabs life time, only the 2 year civil war that he took part in. As such Arukab is nothing more than a wanderer in the eyes of others. When he had heard of Eureka Academy, he didn't pay any mind to it. He had no reason to learn, he was already very skilled at his style of combat. As the years would pass, the Academy got more and more famous, and eventually became a large part of society, forcing it to attract some of Arukabs attention. On occasion, he would even find some of the students on missions, typically paying attention to their results. To this day, he still has not visited the academy, but that will soon change, as he has considered becoming a professor.
