Kristoph Langusten
| Kristoph Langusten | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nationality | Merinian | |
| Organization | PHIA Phorce, House Langusten | |
| Species | Human | |
| Height | 6'0" | |
Kristoph Langusten is a young noble of House Langusten - one of the floating provinces of the water world of Merin. Since he was a child, he was raised as a nanomage, an individual augmented with a neural interface allowing for telepathic control over clouds of nanobots that can be manipulated to form different shapes and be moved at different speeds. While gifted in his abilities, as a teenager, he had to put them to use in combat when the Virtual Wars spread to his home. Though he fought valiantly, he was eventually forced to flee to Yeddo when the Insurgency took over his home.
Before he left, his family had made a consciousness backup of him in the event that something terrible were to happen to him. However, when the enemy forces captured the Langusten province, they used the stored consciousness backup to create an exact clone of Kristoph, except warped to serve their purposes. This clone eventually came to be known as the Dark Mage, a ruthless nanomage mercenary that effectively embodied all of Kristoph's darkest thoughts and attributes.
Kristoph joined the PHIA Phorce in a chance encounter while they were both trying to track down the Dark Mage. Initially, the PHIA Phorce mistook Kristoph for the Dark Mage resulting in a combat encounter between the two of them, but after clearing up the misunderstanding, Kristoph joined up in hopes of working together to find his rival and destroy him.
Appearance
Kristoph is a tall, thin man. He is clean shaven with medium-length brown hair and blue eyes. His usual attire is a fitted astronomy-patterned blue robe and a pointed hat which casts a heavy shadow over his face, usually obscuring it.
Personality
Kristoph is very intelligent and articulated. While he prefers to keep to himself and his studies, he is otherwise very polite and cordial towards others - exhibiting a calm gentlemanly demeanor at nearly all times. Despite being very reserved, he maintains a clever, if not a little dry, sense of humor. He is still haunted by his experience in the Virtual Wars, and he prefers not to talk about it, rather focusing at the task at hand.
He has a peculiar affinity for sweets, especially chocolate. Because his primary abilities involve using his thoughts to control nanobots, he craves any sort of sugar very frequently.
Skills and Abilities
Kristoph's primary skill is his neural interface to control clouds of nanobots which he keeps stored in a wand or staff that he carries with him. With the power of thought alone, he can think the nanobots to take virtually any shape he needs. For example, he can materialize platforms to step up on or to use as a barrier. He can also launch the nanobots as blunt objects or have them dissipate into gusts of projectiles that move at high speeds. The only limitation to this ability is his own creativity and the mental energy to form the nanobots into the shapes he requires. He can strain his mind if he pushes himself too hard, but over the years, he has gotten more mentally resilient. He can recharge himself with enough rest.