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"Begin, the operation!"
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Age: 33
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Originally Posted by Aaron008R
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Thanks
Goose is pretty good at character interactions. I think it comes from being a real-life pwn puppy.
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Originally Posted by LoweGear
 Basically, he becomes the sore thumb in the group
At least, he'll be good as a distraction  |
That's his job XD .
Glen: "...You mean... there are more like him?"
Franz: 
Glen: "...*facepalm* I need a drink."
Emili: "They all saw it... THEY ALL SAW MY UNDERWEAR!  "
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Originally Posted by Liingo
Very nice for your first OC Sheesh, all these nice OC profiles make me want to go back and revise my own OC's... Great background *good job*
Nice spell list as well |
Th-thank you!
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Anyway, here's Glen's relevant information. Need to finish spell list *despair*.
People will see the SRW references. 
Spoiler for Captain Glen Schattenman:
Name: Glen Schattenman
Callsign: Sword 1
Ace Name: Feuer Ritter
Age: 25 (MC075)
Gender: Male
Origin: Sotoa
Affiliation: Order of Freelance Mages, Time-Space Administration Bureau, Project ATX
Position: XO of the OFM
Rank: O-5
Mage Class: Close-Range Combatant
Magic Rank: AA
Magic System: Hybrid Belkan/Midchildan
Magic Color: Red
Magic Affinity: Fire
Magic Style: Wolkenritter-esque
Magic Device: Phoenix (Longsword)
Conventional Style: Secondary Commander, Air Supremacy
Conventional Weapons:
- One 7.62mm Assault Rifle
- One .50 caliber pistol
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 170
Build: Lithe
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Black
Hair Style: Originally had long hair, but recently cut short and spiked backward (i.e. obligatory angst-anime hero).
Facial Features: Occasionally has a stubble, but most of the time clean-shaven.
Seiyuu: Kishô Taniyama (Kittan, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann)
Character Theme Songs:
TSAB Profile: Second-in-Command of the Order of Freelance Mages, Glen is one of the youngest unit's commanders; at 25, he's second only to Emili Naïlo in being the youngest. In his eleven years of service to the OFM, he has experienced the full gamut of battles that they go through, and typically operates as the commander of the OFM's Air Wing (whilst Erick leads the Ground Force). A capable Magic Knight, there is one tick about him that sets him apart from his contemporaries: His fire magic, and an odd distortion in his Linker Core that manifests the "Berserk State".
Personality:
- Alignment: Chaotic Good
Of the four leading OFM mages, Glen is considered the "terse, unfriendly, taciturn, straight man." He's the one who has to talk the other three "less thinking" leaders from doing something insane. He's the one who gives Franz most of his Paperwork (like Ivanovich, he believes in full use of Unlimited Paper Works), helps Erick come up with plans that follow the KISS principle (aka Keep It Simple, Stupid) without being too simple (Erick prefers the "run in and gun 'em all down" strategy; Franz prefers victory through, quote: " Determination, Hotblood, Courage, and the power of the True Spirit of Men!"). He trains Franz on a semi-regular basis. Oh, and he also has a girlfriend: Emili Naïlo.
In essence, he's the Fuyutsuki to the Gendo (if Gendo were hotblooded), the Rossiu to the Simon, the Kyon to the Haruhi, the master to the apprentice. In his own mind, he's also the most normal one (though insanity is probably a requirement to get into the OFM).
Contrary to popular belief though, Glen is not really an unfriendly guy; rather, he's simply withdrawn. Yes, he's blunt, but he prefers the straight and narrow approach when it comes to dealing with people (including Franz... especially Franz). Once you get to know him, he's actually not a real bad guy. Past the intimidation is just your average Magic Knight.
Of course, getting that close to him is a problem. Glen has an introverted attitude in part from how he grew up and in part from his... Berserk State (more on that later). It takes some time and effort, and only a few people have managed to get close to him. Emili obviously is close to him, and Erick has been close to him ever since he was 14, having almost raised Glen from then on. As for the established OCs and Aces, the only ones really close to him are Kha and Fate. The former is because he and Fate are an "item". The latter is because at some point during MC073 Glen found himself torn between Fate and Emili. "Damn emotions..."
Spoiler for Glen's History:
History:
Glen was born on Soto eight years before the Subjugation War. As a child, he possessed no special or exemplary skills in anything, and his parents were consigned to letting him grow up into another normal kid.
During the war, however, that was shot out the window. His father was called back into active duty and subsequently killed, and Erusian soldiers kidnapped his mother, ultimately using her as bait in a failed "Hostage Negotiation". Orphaned, the TSAB rescued him (and countless other orphans) and placed them in a shelter until they began to pull out. Less than six hours after leaving his homeworld, 8-year old Glen saw as Sotoa was nuked 3 thousand times over. His homeworld, destroyed by his own race's hands, was a scar that to this day has never left him.
The TSAB conducted some tests on the orphans that made it offworld, including Glen. They found that 1% of them had stable-enough Linker Cores to utilize magic, and took this 1% to another world (codenamed "Outer Heaven"), and began to raise them while training them in Project ATX - Alternative Type X Magic. This magic style was supposed to utilize Ancient Belkan Magic and Devices with Midchildan Magic mixed in. This project would eventually die out in favor of the Neo-Belkan project, but for six years Glen and 39 other orphans would learn this type of magic.
Shortly before his 14th birthday, during a training session, a 35 year old Erick von Long visited the ATX facilities on Outer Heaven (the project wasn't exactly secret; this project and the forerunner of Neo-Belkan magic were at odds). He was impressed by Glen's skill at such a young age at had him taken out of the project (by this point, Erick had some influence) and put into the Order of Freelance Mages. When he joined, Erick took a necklace and put it around Glen's neck in a flash (similar to how Kamina put the Core Drill on Simon's).
"Well, kid," he said. "This'n here is called Phoenix. Treat 'er well, and she'll do ya right."
Erick received Phoenix from a retired TSAB mage. He had been holding on to it, and since he couldn't use it, decided to give it to Glen, who at the time of their meeting was practicing the Belkan-style of Magic. Phoenix and Glen's magic mingled well together, and soon after Glen started to develop his affinity for Fire-based magic.
This is when the problems started.
The problem was the Berserk State; a mental imbalance in Glen's mind that also affected his Linker Core. Triggered by a swell of negative emotion from him (such as sadness or anger), the Berserk State pushed Glen's conscious mind down and brought out a second personality known as "Id". This ruthless, vengeful personality would stop at nothing to destroy whatever had caused this emotion, ignoring the pain of his body. The initial trigger of the Berserk State happened on the same planet that would eventually be the death of the former OFM XO. A firefight that killed another young boy Glen had become friends with unleashed the Berserk State, and in the ensuing chaos Glen cut a swath through their opponents with nothing short of a blazing fire.
Glen was hospitalized for two weeks after this, having burn marks and mana depletion. In order to prevent something like this from happening again, Erick had Glen placed under hypnosis therapy to rid himself of "Id" and keep him stable until a more permanent solution could be found. This took time and effort: Erick went to non-TSAB sources - sources that could get him court-martialed - if his superiors found that he was keeping a mentally unstable person in the OFM.
At any rate, Glen calmed down for many years, eventually becoming XO of the OFM and taking on Franz as an apprentice. Around MC069, his mental instability began to return, and Erick needed to find a more permanent solution. He went to longtime friend/rival Aurion, and together the two worked on installing a special limiter in Phoenix that would not stop, but limit, the outbursts of "Id". Only strong emotional trauma could bring Id out, so long as Glen had Phoenix with him. As such, after the Limiter was placed, Glen was ordered never to take it off.
Shortly after meeting the Aces and the Wolkenritter, Glen and a new recruit named Emili Naïlo began to see each other. Though his personality was mostly the same, there were subtle changes in his attitude, especially around her. She helped stabilize him further, and over the course of 4 years the two have formed a very close relationship. It's not exactly love - both have a very difficult time with the concept - but it's more than friends, not quite lovers.
As for the other Aces, Glen has slowly developed a small friendship with them, though "polite acquaintance" may be more correct. Except when it comes to Fate T. Harlown and Kha der Kleriker. Peculiarly, Glen holds Fate in especially high regard, insofar as to start falling for her, and thus by proxy he and Kha have a small rivalry.
Over the course of his interactions with the Aces and Wolkenritter, he and Signum have reached a mutual respect and comraderie with each other. Both spar when they can, sharpening their skills for when it's needed. Signum is happy to teach someone her old Belkan style, which the ATX project used.
The last few years have been interesting for him. For some reason or another, Glen can do "Combination Magic"; a term he came up with simply because he can't come up with anything else. Perhaps due to the odd nature of his fire affinity (Erick thinks that, deep down, Glen has a fire affinity because of watching the nukes go off on Sotoa), he can mix his and someone else's magic spells together, and together the two can use a more powerful attack. To date, there's only three people he's been able to do this with: Emili is one and the most powerful Combination Spell (and maybe the most powerful spell in the OFM), called Rampage Ghost: Spiral Shift. Next would be Franz, his apprentice; Franz's lightning is necessary, oddly, to hold the fire together for their Akashic Buster spell. Finally, during a deployment, Glen and Fate did an impromptu combination spell, Plasma Firebolt.
The Id State still exists within him as well. Anytime Emili is heavily injured, Id manifests and takes him over, and the Berserk State is reached. In one case, Glen entered the state when Fate was heavily injured, suggesting perhaps she's closer to him then he really wants to admit.
Now, as Erick looks at the future of the OFM, Glen... can only sigh and plant a palm to his face. "Yare, yare..."
Device:
Glen's Device is a cartridge-loader equipped longsword named Phoenix. It looks like an average longsword, with a silver hilt and the engraving on a phoenix going down both sides. Cartridges are loaded into the pommel of the sword - up to 3 at a time. The Phoenix, as noted earlier, was given to him by Erick when he joined the OFM, as Glen at the time had used no other device than the practice Devices used in Project ATX.
Phoenix may have a connection to Laevantein. Signum seems familiar with the Phoenix yet has said nothing, and their cartridges look similar as well.
Phoenix speaks with a light female's voice, and refers to Glen as "Komponist" (Composer). Phoenix's spell trigger is "Ignite!"
Knight Armor: Instead of a Barrier Jacket, Glen wears a set of Knight Armor that resembles a star's flames. (See above image)
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Kagerou - Generic Universal Rage Producing System
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