Age: 24
Abilities:
The cold never bothered her anyway (Click to Show)
Skilled martial artist and spear wielder, Leikani has endured special training in order to wield the Ice Fang which includes intense and rigorous climate trainings in cold and hot weather. She is incredibly nimble and quick to react, having trained for more than several years to simply handle the spear right then several more with actual experience in combat.
Asceum Spear or Ice Fang- The Asceum Spear grants its wielder a few forms of magic other than itself being incredibly resistant to breaking, blunt strikes and slashing. Simply put, it isn't as fragile as most spears are. Its blade is curved inward, similar to a japanese naginata with intricate inlaid swirls that decorate each face. The spear itself is pitch black, its its etched designs are colored a striking blue. The Asceum spear can only be wielded by those with physical contact with it and are living. To activate the spear's inner properties, the user must have skin contact.
The spear is known to be a powerful cursed weapon, drawing in heat from others to fuel its magical properties. The user will be in an increasing state of cold as long as he or she holds the spear bare handedly.
The magical properties of the spear allow the user the following:
Mist Walk - Users of the spear are allowed to turn into a gaseous form to move through spaces and enemies or to simply dodge incoming attacks. The ability is not reactive to her mind and instead has a keyword that has to be invoked. The maximum duration of the spell is a mere several seconds, any more and the user risks his form to be a permanent addition to the air. If thus happens, the spear reforms without the user, dropping to the ground. Users cannot use this very often as it saps away at the user's body heat, rendering him or her colder. Any more and the user will die of freezing.
Temperature Sap - Users of the spear can steal heat from objects and transfer it to themselves or the spear. As long as the user holds the spear, he or she can touch any other object (the spear can be used as an extension) and willingly sap the heat from their target. Therefore heating themselves up to be able to use the spear longer or to simply heat the spear's blade to add some damage. This kind of heat sapping could, in effect, change the states of objects like water to ice or to vapor. The speed of the temperature drain depends on the mass of the object, the larger it is, the longer it takes to fully sap it. A humananoid would take the user some time to actually inflict hypothermia.
Mist/Fog Generation - The spear always exhumes a mist of cold around itself, leaving trails of white wisps whenever it moves. When invoked, the Ice Fang increases its production rate and envelops an area in its mist, lowering visibility of enemies or targets.
She also sports a pair of goggles capable of seeing in infrared and friction gloves to handle the spear without the curse acting up on her.
Weaknesses:
...it really does bother her, y'know. (Click to Show)
Long periods of time of continuous use of the Ice Fang will induce hypothermia on Leikani despite her training. Even if she staves off the sickness through sapping heat from her opponents, the cold will return to fatigue her again. Over time her movements will become sluggish if she forces herself.
Mist Walk and the mist/fog she generates is hilariously affected by strong gusts of wind. If she would be mist walking and a powerful enough breeze could potentially blow her off course and cause her to crash someplace.
Though she is agile and enduring to the elements, her body isn't that strong to attacks. Powerful blows can render her slow. She can weather out the pain but the toll on the body, alongside the numbing cold she constantly has to endure, will add up to paralysing fatigue.
Powerful mobile ranged foes will be able to kite her easily, rendering her close combat skills nearly useless. Mist walking would be a viable way to counteract the weakness but due to its effect on the body, using it so often is out of the question.
REQUIP : ICE ARMOR (Click to Show)
Leikani stands at a height of 5'6" and has a nice slender body.
She sports light leather armor and underneath that are simple jeans and a shirt. The crest of her family, a chalice over a diamond background, adorns both her shoulder guards. She has short silky black hair cut to her shoulders that curl inward and piercing blue eyes. She seems Caucasian but paler than usual, due to extended periods of exposure at handling the Ice Fang. She adorns a pair of goggles that fit snugly on the entirety of the upper half of her face. She wears a pair of gloves that maintain the same frictional force a hand would have.
Casually, she would wear a pleated skirt and some blouse, her hair tied as much as she could muster into a tiny pig tail on her head.
Personality:
Frozen Shoulder (Click to Show)
Leikani, despite her training, had maintained a sunny disposition. She is lively and vibrant, contrast to the spear's deathly nature. Over time, she took her job seriously and knew when and where to shine her personality's brightness. In times of work, she exchanges her bubbly nature to that of a hunter but it does resurface whenever an opportune moment arises, often when an opponent makes a remark or utters some cliche and she feels the need to call him out on it.
To Leikani, this is all work. If ordered, its nothing personal to her. Its just her duty to do so, if its taking a nap or taking a life, its all the same to the MistWielder. She still does the standard procedures with proper assassinations: study the target, prepare beforehand, etc. but she isn't above being eccentric on how she does it. Some perceive her to be a killer that enjoys the thrill of hunting down their target but the truth is, she simply enjoys it because it is work. Leikani is born to a business oriented family and having a job is an utmost need for them whatever it may be, the more prestigious the better. Basically, she's a textbook workaholic. She can get restless without a task to do but luckily, her training regiment requires her to active attention lest she be unable to use the Ice Fang.
When she fights, Leikani immediately puts pressure on the opponents. She tries to wear them down with the fatigue of the cold, decreasing the air temperature around them and attacking with the spear to make physical contact in order to drain the heat off her foes. She likes to get in extremely close, even using her fists to get the job done if necessary.
Background:
I wanna be...ikouze (Click to Show)
Leikani is known to be the inheritor of the Asceum Spear, an artifact of her bloodline passed down through generations. Her entire lineage is kept hidden from the world at large but those who know of the Asceum kin are those who use their services.
The services that the Asceum Family provides are vast and some of those are assassination, escort, goods transport and espionage. Some of the members of the family are fully employed in one organization and never leaves while others work part timein various other companies and organizations. The Asceum Family are known to be keepers of a massive reliquary, in which only their own blood may peruse and claim. One such individual is Leikani, the daughter of one of the bloodline's branches.
Leikani, at a young age, had desired her own chance at claiming a relic of from their family's collection. Upon reaching maturity, she was given the chance to select a relic from the vaults. She spent a week perusing through the chambers of the vault and only one had caught her eye: the Ice Fang. Though warned of its power and the curse that comes with it, the woman had already decided. By then, it was agreed she would carry out missions that required the spear's capabilities and Leikani had to be skilled and enduring enough to wield it.
It took the woman several years before she was deemed capable of first handling it, after braving the blistering heat, chilling cold and training months on end with those climates. Her first extended period of handling it had overwhelmed her, the spear sapped nearly all of her heat and hypothermia immediately set in. Worried for her, the Asceum family nearly pulled her out of using the Ice Fang at all if not for her stubbornness.
For several more months she trained, harsher and harsher she pushed herself to be able to handle the Ice Fang. On the fateful day of her return, she finally was able to demonstrate the full capabilities of the Ice Fang without dropping cold.
Currently, Leikani is employed by the John Mason as a bodyguard and ally. However, due to recent events, her employment had changed from protection to predation. She was tasked to hunt down and capture metahumans for the purpose of the world's safety. For her, it meant nothing. It was simply a job.
Notes:
Snowflakes aren't unique. (Click to Show)
- Leikani is part of The System, who is now actively hunting down gladiators for their own schemes and purposes.
- Leikani and John's relationship are that of close colleagues. They can disregard formalities and call each other by the first names. However, they're strictly a business type kind of people, nothing romantic going on between them.
- When not by John's side during meetings or hunting down gladiators, Leikani goes to the gym or her private dojo, training herself. She has to keep herself accustomed to the Ice Fangs sapping curse.
- You can occasionally find her playing basketball or soccer with random people in the public courts.
- Bl.An.C. is my previous gladiator but he ties closely to Leikani through John Mason. Basically, Bl.An.C. is one of the main reasons to why The System exists. The pseudo at android has been fighting The System ever since he discovered them, founding a small ragtag group named the Observer Protocol in order to counteract The System in small guerilla tactic like warfare.
John Mason is her employer and may appear in stories/battles:
Programmer (Click to Show)
Name: John D. Mason
Age: 34
Appearance: A man that usually wears a suit and tie. Has brown hair and brown eyes, stands at a height of 5'10". His hair is always well kept. He always has a silver rolex watch that doubles as a mobile interface to numerous communication networks.
Personality:
John Mason is a tired man. He has lived through the death of his only son, endured torture and imprisonment and met with what he percieves as the betrayal of trust between colleagues/friends. One of the co-founders of the System, he has grown a dislike with how the world is currently run, how the inability to punish those who deserve punishment are left unchecked and therefore criminals unchecked. He is apathetic to the means to get to the endgame of a new world order, to destroy what is now to create something new from the ashes. John is determined, steadfast and logical. When he sees an opportunity to further his plans, he takes it. John isn't the most charismatic fellow and makes up for it for his straightforwardness and blunt words.
Description:
John Mason, as a result of the sudden accident nearly a decade ago, lost his son and fellow coworkers to what some people call an accident. Due to being a close friend of the perpetrator, he endured torture and imprisonment. Over the course of a few months, he was able to talk himself out of his execution on the grounds that he help build an organization.
The organization is known as The System. He works as a higher official in the RHG scene, holding a degree in the field of medicine and robotics, he melds these two together to help disabled gladiators, civilians or whomever moves into the doors of the city's hospital. He is never within the hospital itself however and is usually found in one of the office buildings nearby.
Currently residing within the home city of the RHG, he enjoys security that his organization and the home of the RHG provides. He is virtually untouchable in the area.
Demo:
But.. (Click to Show)
Knock, knock.
"You called for me, sir?" The voice came from the other side of the door. A man in a suit fixed his tie as he typed on his laptop. John looked up from his seat, finishing up some papers on the laptop to the left of his desk.
"Leikani, please come in," John Mason started. "You've been employed here for quite a long time now, correct?"
"Yes, its been a fun time sir but if I may say, its been rather quiet. My job is done well wouldn't you say?" She said leaning forward a bit.
"Yes, it has," John nodded as he leaned back on his chair and crossed his arms. "I will have to ask you to do something else now, since everything has silenced."
"Oh," Leikani smiled and raised her eyebrows, her interest piqued. "What might that be, sir?"
"You are aware of the RHG System, correct?" John grabs a folder from his desk and hands it over to the woman who graciously accepts them.
"I am, I considered joining but decided not to in the end," she confessed. "I'd rather get paid doing this job than that. Gladiators are for show, like models. I'm more of a realist."
John leaned back, visibly happy at what Leikani had said. "While true that gladiators are for show, their powers are not. Gladiators in that system have died and not only that but also civilians."
The Mistwielder shrugged, perusing the files inside the folder John had handed to her. It was filled with profiles and statistics of some notable gladiators. "What does this have to do with me? What do I care about civilians in the crossfire too?"
"Well, Leikani," he said as a matter-of-factly. "We're an organization that looks out for the civilians."
"I get that, sir, I have been here for some time," she said rolling her eyes. "But you're giving me statistics and names of gladiators. What does this have to do with the--"
Leikani connected the dots, pursed her lips and nodded. "You want me to hunt them down."
John chuckled. "Not hunt down, capture," he said gleefully. "We need them alive for the final act."
"Final act?"
"Kindly capture a gladiator first then we can talk specifics," John said. "I assure you, the end is worth the effort."
"Oh don't mind that then, that was just me being curious," she beamed. "Just tell me who I need to take down and drag back here. I'll be more than happy to, it my job after all."
Battles:
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Points: 5/2/1/0