Name: Abel R. Iverum
Title: The Metal Musician
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Occupation: Metal Musician/Wanderer
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 160 lbs.
Complexion: Tanned Caucasian
Mental Age: 32
Physical Age: 23
Build: Moderate Athletic
Physical Depiction: Abel carries a unique blend of sharp ferocity and smooth peacefulness. A smooth but strong jaw gives him a commanding appearance. His clean shaven appearance carries a message of tidiness and self-care that is almost thrown off by his wild hair. The dark brown mess of spikes twisting and overlapping almost jeopardizes the clean-shaven neatness of his appearance, yet his strong and warm hazel eyes pull it together. For the most part, he’s built like a rock star. Thin but with defined muscle mass.
Current Attire: The closest article of clothing to his skin is the specially made form fitting suit, keeping his vitals monitored constantly. Over this dark grey bit of apparel he wears clothing that is more natural. A grey t-shirt covers his chest and boot-cut jeans fit easily around his waist and legs, leading down to scuffed black boots. Over his t-shirt he wears a black button down shirt that hangs open over his chest. Around his waist and his right wrist are matching bracers and belts studded with short metal pyramid spikes. On his left hand is a small watch-like device called the Soundshifter. This rock star image is completed with what seems to be a Gibson Flying V strapped over his back, but there has never been an sky blue Flying V before.
Personality: In a way that seems almost contradictory Abel is both unnatural and natural. The constant flow of music seems to surround him, working its way into his movements and his attitude as if he was constantly listening to a tune that no one else can hear. Abel’s unique attitude seems to make him immune to the daily grind around him, setting him above and beyond the normal working class. His constantly shifting flow of rhythm colours his life and his music affects those closest to him in its own way. This almost total control of his life by music suits him just fine, and he lets the music run through him, taking it into the world as a vessel for emotion and creativity.
Interested in:
- Music
- Machinery
- Traveling
Detests:
- Hatred of art
- Rudeness
- Arrogance
Armaments:
Azure V: A custom made guitar with a beautiful sky blue body in the style of a Flying V with white frets and head stock. The form is smooth and solid. When picked up it turns out to be surprisingly heavy, too heavy for such an instrument. The guitar can be used for the simplest act of just playing it to riding it like a hover board. The guitar’s body splits apart slightly to reveal a small jet engine inside to propel it through the air when Abel needs to move quickly over long distances. The output of the engine can be aimed downward to enable him to hover in one place. In the most drastic of circumstances Azure V can be used as a melee weapon. Abel simply grasps the fret board just below the head stock. The sturdy guitar easily takes the strain of being used to attack and defend. Recent additions have been made to Azure V, making a much more versatile weapon. The guitar can now be held against Abel’s side, using it as a ranged weapon. A trigger placed in a recessed grove slides out when Abel activates this ranged mode and the guitar becomes almost gun-like. By squeezing the trigger Abel is capable of releasing concentrated bullets of sound from the head stock. Depending on Abel’s intentions the bullets can range from slugs to buckshot for close and long range combat.
Percussion Knives: A set of normal looking wooden drum sticks, but with a flick of the wrists they become deadly weapons. The top half of the drum stick changes into a gleaming sharp blade that can easily be used to take out threats. A more specialized use is as throwing knives, causing a delayed release of the blade for an element of surprise. Abel carries a set of these stuck through his belt.
Soundshifter: The most recent development in Music Machinery. The small device fits around Abel’s wrist, resembling a watch. Upon closer examination the outer edge of the watch face appears to rotate around the display. As it rotates the display shows pictures that determine it’s function. These function can be a simple as amplifying the music from Azure V or any of the instruments Abel plays. They can also be complex, such as monitoring the motions of Abel’s hands through his bio-linked suit and generating percussion instrumentation allowing him a much greater freedom of sound manipulation.
Abilities: The unique powers of music run through him, allowing a timed fighting style that throws off the enemy. The rhythmic motions of his fighting causes a distinct fighting style that utilizes both sound and physical force to eliminate threats. The power extends to manipulating the essence of sound and using it as a weapon. His power to manipulate sound extends deeper into the fundamental nature of the Omniverse, touching on the ability to effect the way it is structures and shift around energy and matter to a degree.
The second power of technological abilities gives Abel the ability to pull together bits of technology simply by focusing. This small power allows him to build devices that function temporarily with extreme precision and power before becoming totally useless. These powers reach into the teleporting of small devices that Abel understands enough to construct.
Along with his arcane abilities he has master quite a few styles of hand to hand combat, ranging from simple boxing to aikido.
History:
Abel was born into what could be considered high class society, his father a diplomat and his mother a composer. One finds it no wonder that Abel picked up a musical spirit as a child and not his father’s imposing rhetoric. His father was rarely home, but he provided with his travels, while his mother cared for him as she worked, humming and singing her tunes as she composed. Some of those close to Abel would say that this is the thing that shaped his most powerful skills in music, but his mother simply shrugs when asked about it.
Abel grew as any child would, going through all the phases and fads that any child could be expected to. The one thing that set him apart at this young age was the music that surrounded him. The children around him never complained that he hummed, sang, and played any instrument he could find, but his teachers complained that it wasn’t natural for a child his age to be so obsessed. His mother and father simply waved away their complaints and told Abel to do what he wanted. Through his parent’s encouragement his talent grew, awakening distinct and powerful rhythms of his life.
He came to be friend’s with a child of one of his parent’s maids, and they spent time together, exploring the world side-by-side. It was this friend, Aria, that taught him his second talent, the gift of mechanical workings. Together they perfected and shared their talents, building brilliant devices that pulsed with the same rhythm that they shared. As their friendship built higher into a trusting completeness they went through school and continued into careers.
Abel and Aria shared their lives as they left school, moving into their lifelong quest to completely combine the rhythm of life into machinery. Together they began a company, Rhythm Innovations, and sold their unique creations across the world. This startling new sort of technology brought forth a wave of industrial revolution on Iaynum, and more musical machinery was created by this new class of worker.
Having completed their goal on their home planet Abel and Aria reached a fork in their paths of life. Abel left Iayum with a heartfelt good-bye and made a pact with his companion that he’d come back and share with her the rhythms of the universe. Abel marked this as the start of the second half of his goal, and set off to spread machine music into the universe.
Abel’s first challenge on his travels came in the form of an alchemist going by the name Rikken. This alchemist faced off with Abel in an evacuated city that had been forgotten by time. The battle raged harshly, destroying the better part of a street. Abel lost the battle, but kept his life, learning that his dependence on music was a weakness. Swearing to himself to learn new ways of combat he began to work on Azure V and teach himself more techniques while enhancing his technological skills.
Abel found a quiet place to train at a temple on a hidden lake. Unfortunately he was accosted by an animated corpse. This corpse attacked, spewing poison and ravaging Abel’s sanctuary. Abel managed to prevail against the monster, striking him down with a massive sound wave, but his sanctuary was destroyed, and he was forced to move on.
Quote: "You have until I count to three. Then I do something that'll kill you in the most painful way possible."
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Will you be opening this up, or will I?
