Nikolai Deitrich- Bountou

Name:
Nikolai Deitrich

Nickname:
Nik

Age:
89

Gender:
Male

Weapon(s):
N/A

Personality:
General:Nik is a generally kind-hearted teenager. He has a fiery heart, and never truly grew up, having never been given the chance. He enjoys the simpler things in life, such as playing sports, video games, fishing, etc, and is often called childish, but this is only based off the fact people see him walking around, talking to a toy.

Hard-To-Read:Despite having such a childish personality, due to past trauma, Nik finds it hard to trust people. He feels that at any moment, somebody will turn on him, and feels he'll never find someone that he can trust completely. He constantly seems sad, even when he's hyper. It's not hard to get Nik talking about some things, but that doesn't mean he's opening up; it means he's being polite, as he was taught, and holding a conversation.

Adaptable: It doesn't take much for Nik to pick up on things, taking nearly nothing at all, really. He learns most lessons easily, when it's not a life lesson. Nik can pick up opponent's tactics immediately, and respond with his own altered tactics. Just because he can't lie his way out of a box, doesn't mean he's not cunning.

Understanding: While not many people can understand Nik's problems, Nik can pick up on the emotions of others fairly easily. He seems to know exactly what type of comforting one needs, and when.

Child At Heart: Nik can be mature, but somehow, he retains a childish innocence, despite the fact it should have been taken long ago. He enjoys playing with toys, children, and all in all, having fun. Due to not going to school, he's not terribly well-read, but he is fairly proud of what he does know. Nik, being childish, connects most closely with children, finding it hard to trust most adults.


Physical Appearance:
Nik is a young-looking boy, appearing to be in his mid-teens, maybe late teens if you were to stretch it a bit. At first glance, he looks incredibly young, but upon the second glance, it's merely naivety and innocence on his face, which contrasts with his eyes; eyes that have seen stuff they shouldn't have, been inflicted too much pain, shed too many tears. Weary eyes, all in all. His mouth is always turned into a slight, grim frown, though it doesn't take much for him to grin. He has hazel eyes, and a shock of white hair that seems just a little too fluffy, as if he had rubbed a balloon on his hair for too long. It's not very long, so it doesn't look awkward, but it sticks in every direction.

He has a rather lithe frame, athletic, with ropy muscle on his arms and legs. Nikolai is about 5'9, and rather thin. He has long, gangly limbs that seem to hang off of his body, with large hands and feet. He tends to prefer more the clothing of his favorite era; steampunk. He likes to wear goggles and a scarf, as if at any moment he's going to enter a plane and fly away, jean shorts and regular skating shoes being his lower garments. And fairly often, he'll be seen wearing a bomber jacket.

Bio:
Nik was born into a rather low-class family. His mother swore her love for him by day, but when night came, she brandished broken bottles and other such possible weapons in her drunken rages. She often beat him when he was younger, his Father out of the picture, abandoning them both. At times, he would find her in her room, a picture of his father in her hands, crying, but the one time she caught him, he had ended up in the emergency room. After that, he decided it was in his best interest to not spy on her anymore.

His whole childhood had been that way, until drunkenly, she stumbled and broke her neck upon a chair. Nik, in fear, fled that night, wandering to a nearby town, trying to sell the few belongings he had taken with him for money, knowing that he would have been discovered as a minor if he had tried getting a job, and therefore sent to He made his living slowly, until he was found by the government before he was eighteen, and placed into the care of a family. He stayed with them for a while, never fully feeling as if he was at home, before leaving, deciding this wasn't the life for him.

He spent the next twenty years of his life traveling, away from society. You'd think he'd have learned patience, but he hadn't; one of the few lessons that may need to be beaten into his skull. He hadn't realized how long he had been gone, discovering the year with great shock. He knew immediately, that after not aging for nearly 20 years, something was up. He was in his thirties, and didn't look a day older than seventeen.

For a while, Nik fell into a horrible depression, believing himself to be an outcast, a freak. He still thinks this way slightly, but he's not as mopey as he used to be, by far. With nothing left to do, Nik decided to start blowing his money on toys, as he figured he didn't need it, thinking himself to be immortal. Eventually, he wisened up, and started a toy shop; he definitely had enough toys to do so. It was around this time, Nik found his favorite toy; one with a seemingly infinite number of gears, cogs, nuts and bolts. It looked to be fashioned in a steampunk fashion, and he took a liking to the complexity, yet simplicity of the toy. He began to fashion little metal robots that moved, and sometimes even made music; such as little birds, lizards, lions, jets, just about anything that could be imagined.

After this time, Nik began searching for those who could help him, having heard of another case similar to him; an ageless man having been found. He knew he would need resources, so used whatever spare money he got from his toy business. It was just a small shop, really, but placed in a large town where old, quality toys were hard to find. Nik got to play with the toys too, one thing he cherished and had never outgrown. Oddly enough, Nik found himself drawn to people, people that others couldn't see, but he could. In reality they were just pluses, He absorbed them, unknowing they were souls of the dead. He wasn't exactly sure how, but every time he inhaled to take a breath to speak to them, when he was close enough, he would accidentally inhale them, therefore feeding on the pluses.

One long, boring day, a gentleman came in, giving Nik information with regards to what he was; the basic outline, really. The name of what he was, Bount, and what was possible if he were to learn under this man. Nik, intrigued, sold his store to a trusted employee, and followed after this man, always one step behind, but never truly finding him, at least not for a few decades.

Eventually Nik found the man, who simply stated it was a test to see if Nik was truly interested in learning or not, to which Nik passed. The man took Nik on as a protege, teaching Nik everything he could, even overseeing Nik being given his doll. One day, however, Nik woke up, and the man was no longer there. Alone, Nik wandered for another while yet, with himself alone, and his doll, who he came to see like a younger brother.



Doll

Seal: A small, steampunk-looking robot toy.

Name: Spielen.

Physical appearance:
Nik's doll is large, to say the least. Slightly larger than a grown human. Often, it is a large, mechanical bird. However, it can also adjust the various nuts, bolts, and gears in its body to change form to a scorpion, which takes one post. Spielen is of an iron-color, being dark grey, with bright red glowing eyes. No matter what form it is in, while it's not overly large, it is still large enough for Nik to ride upon, the bird even being able to fly with Nik on its back. No matter which form Spielen is in, there are always two electric rods sticking out of the back. These rods are especially dangerous to touch, as they are where the generated electricity is stored. Damage that would be taken from touching Spielen is doubled if skin or clothing makes contact with either of these rods. They take the form of twin wind-ups, like those found on toys.

Personality:
Spielen is a playful sort, seeing combat as a game. Much like his/her "brother"as he likes to call him, he sees the world as a place full of wonder, and can often get lost in thought. Spielen has a very childish voice, which changes, depending on form. When in bird form, Spielen is a female, while in scorpion form, Spielen's voice becomes male, masculine.

Ability:
Spielen is able to keep up an electric field that will slow down speed and reaction time while the user is nearby, to the point of momentary paralysis on weaker enemies. (Whenever an electric current is expelled to keep the field up. (Only affects limbs.)) It's body is super-charged with an electric current, causing shocking damage upon anyone who touches it.

Techniques:
(I'll just number the techniques since they have no name.)

1. Spielen is able to shoot out copper wire onto foes at a distance, causing an amplified shock as compared to what were to happen if they made contact with Spielen. In Scorpion form, one wire each is shot out of the claws and stinger, while in bird form, one is shot out of the bird's beak, but it can drag opponents. (1-post recharge. Reaction timing and speed is delayed for the enemy, electricity damage.)

2. Spielen can focus all of its energies into a single electric stream that is shot at a speed that is the same as a bala's. Can be sliced with a sword to deflect the current, however the electricity results in slowed movement and temporary numbness throughout the limb used to deflect the current. (Slows down enemy speed and reaction time if the electricity makes contact with the enemy, indirectly or directly. (Meaning if it hits something they are holding, or something attached to them, they're still slowed.) If connected, it can cause temporary paralysis, severe burns, and shock damage, along with slowing down the enemy for a turn. (Slow lasts for 2 posts max, depending on if they are wearing conductive clothing. ) This move has a 2-turn recharge. )

3. By pulling out a wind-up rod on Spielen's back, Nik can wield one or both of them as electrically-charged hammer's. When he does this, Spielen loses any electrical abilities it may have, or half, if Nik only took one. Nik can also use one of these to repair Spielen. However, Nik can also wind the crank's up, resulting in higher damage from attacks temporarily, more electricity damage from contact or a shot stream of electricity, and a temporary speed boost. (Lasts 2 posts. Requires a 4-post cooldown.)

Electricity Rod- Spielen, at the cost of one of its electricity-attracting cranks, can shoot forth a dozen small rods from its body in strategic locations. Whenever it misses with an electricity attack or lightning strikes, it is redirected to the lightning rod. The electricity is stored in this rod, and releases it one of two ways; Spielen grips the rod in his/her beak/claws, or the rod is touched by an enemy, causing a small explosion and damaging the enemy.

Lightning Rain- This ability requires the electricity rods be out and onto the battlefield. Spielen spends two turns, attracting a storm in the clouds. At the beginning of the third turn, lightning strikes the surrounding area, hitting the various lightning rods and nearby them, occasionally hitting Spielen himself. If Spielen stops and concentrates, he can direct up to three of these bolts a turn at an enemy, the rest falling around randomly. (The rest only do damage to the environment around, and do not deal direct damage to the enemy(s).) This is one of Spielen's strongest attacks, as when Nik directs at least one bolt of lightning at Spielen for the three turns the lightning is effective, so long as no electrical attacks are done, Spielen can store all of this electricity, releasing it into a single large electricity blast that usually disintegrates most things it hits.

(Not an insta-kill. Just a LOT of damage. Expect to have no clothes by the time you're through with it. The five-turn charge-up should be more than enough time to A: Stop Spielen from getting hit by even one of the lightning bolts, (Which negates the whole lightning barrage effect.) B:Defeat him, or temporarily disable Spielen, (Leaving Nik to need to repair him.) or prevent lightning from reaching him.

Note: The lightning is generated by Nik's own reishi attracting storms, and so cannot be controlled by any aside from him, however it can be influenced.

Merging (with doll)

Physical appearance:
Nik winds up Spielen's cranks, which open up Spielen's back, usually where Nik would be riding on top of him/her. Nik gets in, and Spielen's body conforms to Nik's own, resulting in a human-sized toy soldier, with Nik's head. However, the toy soldier is horribly deformed as it has a pair of mechanical wings, a long, mechanical stinger-like tail, a crank on his side, and two pairs of scorpion-like claws. It is the same color as Spielen when they're not merged, but the red eyes find their way to the chest. When Spielen speaks, it sounds like a female and a male talking in perfect unison.
Ability: Spielen retains all former abilities from pre-merging.

Techniques:
1. Nik can create an electrical repulsion field, which sends objects and people alike flying back from the force, retaining electrical damage. The closer you are, the more force you're thrown back with. Usable once every 2 turns. Extends to 75 feet away. Has the force of a bomb detonation.

2. Like Spielen, Nik can fire a stream of electricity from each of the scorpion's claws. Each individual claw takes two turns to recharge. See the electricity stream above for more details.

3. Nik can grasp the crank on each side with a pair of claws, and twist them, generating more electricity for him to use. This doubles the damage of any electricity-based attack. Nik can also use this to curl up into a ball, and roll at quick speeds, either as a full-on attack maneuver, or a tactical retreat. (When retreating, all the electricity is used to give him speed, so will not shock anyone who touches him. It multiples his speed be 1.5 times.)

4. (This isn't so much a technique, as an explanation.) Due to the metallic armor covering Nik, it's very hard to injure him, taking at least more than one slash to cut through the armor. However, he takes full damage from attacks that deal more blunt damage than slashing damage, as the blow will vibrate throughout the metal, not only injuring him in general, but also injuring his ears, and tends to lose all electricity ability if both cranks are removed. If the cranks are removed, after 1 post, they can be instantly recalled back to Nik.

Flash Cannon- While merged with his doll, Nikolai has the ability to turn a crank on the side of his body, while muttering, "Blitz Strahl", which roughly translates to "lightning beam". When he does this, one of the claws on his body reshapes itself entirely. Rather than form a claw, it forms a hand-mounted cannon. It fires electricity in a thick beam, rather than in a single streak. Nik can fire this for up to 2 posts straight, taking a post to recharge from overheating. The electricity fired has double the damage ability of the electricity streams. If it is fired twice in a row with only one post of cooldown time, it will cause the cannon to melt, allowing it to be reformed back into a scorpion claw, though with that claw, it cannot be reformed into the cannon for the rest of the fight.


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Stats:
Hankou: 16
Reiryoku:13
Hakudo:13
Seijuu:16
Bukijuu:8
Hoho:16
Points Awarded: 2 Points from "A Pinch of Gunpowder"
Total: 82