Reneas Durigan

Reneas Durigan is an OC submission for the 64 OC Gauntlet. No wonder this took me so long to make because it's almost the end of the competition but whatever. Even if I didn't win, it'd still be alright.
NOTE: I had to change this layout because I was told that his moveset bears a similar concept to Etaleo's original moveset, and it seems that I'm slowly losing my originality. Oh well. Time to change stuff.
== Appearance ==
Reneas wears an indigo fedora with a feather on its left side which unfortunately isn't seen in the mugshot. He wears a Haze suit underneath his black trench peacoat (it seems like it is) and a golden necklace wrapped around his neck, with a carrot hanging in front of his tie. In the mugshot, Reneas holds two significant things: He holds three cards in his right hand, and a strange device shaped like an armblade known as a "card disk". The round-shaped chassis on his wrist has a pink sphere that blinks on strange occasions.
== Personality ==
Reneas inherits an Irish-like accent in his genes and has a tone that defines him as a calm, collected gentleman. He is a mild-mannered, sincere individual who would give his all without any expectations that would attempt to change his identity of who he is. He shows no extreme signs of emotions even in tough times, except when he brings up feelings of sorrow or guilt. Although, his mild manners do hold Reneas back on times when he has to tell the truth all the time; since his parents assume that he is a gentleman and since he behaves so well, this is expected of him. This trait alone is accompanied by his manner of speaking, which is directive and straightforward.
Whenever he is around informal people, he will deem them whether they are worthy of his time or not by telling from their behavior. If the subject is deemed too noisy or acts idiotic in a certain way, he tends to distance himself away from those kinds of people. But if someone was extremely friendly with him or in his case “understanding his attitude”, he would get along well with that person. However, he is prone to getting triggered whenever someone mocks his manners which will definitely piss him off.
One of Reneas’s notable quirks is his love and appreciation for card games, which he does in his free time almost everyday. It can be considered when he’s playing with his siblings or against other people as well using any card game. Due to this peculiar yet somewhat odd quirk, Reneas collects card packs ranging from normal cards to trading card games in general. When he buys card packs, it is either that Reneas wants to collect each pack for his own sake or buying it for his younger brother, Theos.
Another one of Reneas’s notable quirks is his interest in the Middle Ages history. He has lots of books containing those topics in different eras, and is interested to learn more about their customs, histories, and other bizarre facts that Reneas may not know about centuries back.
Reneas is aged about 28 years old and the eldest child of the Durigan family.
== Backstory ==
Reneas Durigan was born into a family of six composing of his mother, father, himself, and his three other siblings. He lives in a peaceful suburb 900 metres away from the big city, which was not too far off for Reneas' family to travel there. Reneas was born with the Haze flame, although he was very unaware that he had it in him for sixteen years.
Reneas started learning the Haze element at the age of 17. He began to familiarize himself with it on how it works, however it kind of seemed hard as he didn’t know where to start practicing. He can only make a single haze orb out of it and summon a clone of himself, and that was all he could do. However, he wanted to develop the basics and turn it into something more. After dedicating himself to training up his Haze ability for three years, he started to develop on his clone-summoning skills and turned it into replicating real medieval figures from centuries past. He shared this new trick with his siblings and unleashed a replica of the late famous medieval king Arthur. His siblings were very amazed with his new trick, as the Haze replica seemed almost virtually flawless in shape. As the Haze replica of King Arthur dissipated, his other siblings clapped their hands for performing such an amazing trick. 
After training his Haze abilities to its highest potential for over five years, Reneas finally decided to test his abilities out and frankly, all the training he had to go through paid off, but not without acknowledging the fact that Haze is a particularly complicated element to master because of its drawbacks and flaws. For instance Reneas could feel pain after a summoned ally is defeated in battle, and the pain felt like he got hit in the stomach without the person being there to physically punch him. Eventually he took a break from going through all that training, and decided to bond with his siblings and his parents for a few unspecified months.
Several days later, Reneas departed from his family house to say good-bye to his parents and siblings. The feeling of him leaving behind the family he bonded with was a heart-wrenching experience for him and it almost moved him to tears for that. A few minutes later, a pick-up van taking him to the city took off with Reneas to go the big city straight ahead. Before leaving, his youngest brother Theos gave him the real-life card disk as a remembrance souvenir. He got the card disk once from a comic con dating a few months back. Although this card disk looked nothing like the other card disks at one of the stalls, and he remembered once that the stall owner said that the card disk was a "limited-edition" type. He decided to make use of it and hugged his youngest brother one last goodbye. 
When Reneas arrived at the big city, he was immediately getting to his new apartment and his new room. In the city, he met an old colleague who was a man named Makari, who was going to be his new roommate for the upcoming days ahead. They got to know each other for a bit and then Makari shared his fact that he had only a few friends in his lifetime, but Reneas had only his family to rely on, so they quickly formed a strong friendship after a long talk. The two went through their ups and downs together, and shared some stuff about themselves which gave them an insight on each other's personalities. On one of those days, Reneas volunteered to a random Yu-Gi-Oh trading card tournament and Makari was there to spectate it, cheering him on every now and then. Reneas eventually won after that very long game though, as it tired him completely. So they both celebrated at a nearest McDragers restaurant and ate some burgers and all, with nothing much to do except celebrate. 
Going forward after three months of their friendship, Reneas went to McDragers again to see Makari looking not at his phone, but something else in his hands. Makari held a pile of cash in his left hand, counting numbers as he seemed that he was thinking to spend something on very wisely. But when Reneas got too close to the door, Makari was already there a few metres away from the door to talk with him. Reneas directly went to the point and asked him a question that he shouldn't have: what was he doing with all that money? Makari then stated that it was none of his business to ask why he had it; but Reneas kept pushing on while at the same time holding his temper to try and negotiate with him. But as Makari was bombarded with just one major question, he became very frustrated with him and as a last resort, lashed out to Reneas with his dagger, starting a night brawl near McDragers. Reneas never though that the situation would be escalated into this, so he used the card deck that he brought (for a strange reason) to repel Makari's dagger strikes before hitting him in the nose a few seconds later. The two continued fighting outside McDragers until Makari threw his dagger at Reneas missing him by a few inches. However, just as he dodged the dagger, Makari was already close to Reneas at the blink of an eye punching him a single time before knocking him into unconsciousness. The last thing he heard from Makari that "we always thought we had each others' backs." The one thing that struck out to him the most is "that our friendship is over. Permanently." While Reneas couldn't do anything about it, he felt a sense of defeat because he was holding back during the fight, as he didn't want to hurt his friend. Before his eyes closed, a man in a sharp-looking suit carried him to safety. Although he wasn't sure where this "safety" is. He still had his card deck wrapped around his left wrist before falling into unconsciousness for the remaining few hours of the night. 
== Moveset ==
Move Name/Hotkey 	Function 	Damage	Cooldown
Upon Spawn 	Reneas starts off with 20 random cards in his deck. The deck of cards that Reneas has will be found in the bottom left GUI of the screen, showing the different types of cards that are available to draw in your storage.
Reneas’s card disk (a device similar to the one that appears in the Yu-Gi-Oh series) holds thirty cards in his deck that will be ready for you as shown on the bottom left of the screen.	N/A 	N/A
Passive - "Irish Gambit" 	Reneas's Life Points (as shown in the top left side of the screen) measures how much stamina you have left in the battlefield. If a summoned ally dies, great amounts of Life Points will be taken (which will be converted into HP) as a result. Reneas starts with 1,500 Life Points that acts like how much HP you have (10 LP = 1 HP). Any ally that attempts to boost or heal him will be negated.	N/A 	N/A
LMB - "Face-Up Draw" 	Simply clicking out of the GUI on the bottom unleashes the card you are about to draw. The card can only be activated when these conditions are met:
* When the same cards are played in twos or threes 
* When Mundane Bolt meets with the five said cards as mentioned in the table below. 
* Playing with one card is also fine, but it won't be as effective on its own. This rule only applies to Ultra Rare Cards, as they are the most powerful.	Varies	3 seconds
Q - "Discard. That's Literally it."	Discard a single card or the whole three sets by pressing this key. Very useful if you want to get rid of Yoink or you think you've done the wrong combo. 	N/A 	1.5 seconds
E - "Card Storage" 	Pressing this key allows you to save a card for future use or for saving up for a combo. You can save up to five at a time. 	N/A 	1.5 seconds
R - "Let's Change the Game." 	Charge up for 4 seconds to focus, then reshuffle the deck to roll 20 random cards given to you upon using this ability. You can cancel this anytime by pressing R again if you're in serious trouble, but you'd still die regardless. 	N/A 	35 seconds (4 in charge, 31 in cooldown)
F - "Chain Initiation" 	Go into overcharge for three draws (attacks), and unleash a single, double or triple ability cards that work similar to how you would use them in LMB (refer to the List of Cards table). However, this has a 45% chance that the cards will fail and instead it will descend to the ground due to gravity. Any enemies that are hit deal minor damage. 	10 	300 seconds (5 minutes)
== List of Cards ==
NOTE: The chances of getting an Ultra Rare Card from this list is 0.5%. 
Card Name 	Description 	Damage
Skull Card 	Activating this on its own or in twos will take away 1/3 or 2/3 of your Life Points away. Playing this in threes just kills you immediately. 	1/3 of Reneas' health.
Meteor Crash 	Summons a purple meteor at the designated location your cursor is pointing to, dealing high damage. Has a 35% chance to Burn enemies for 10 seconds. Playing twos or threes of this card will increase the size of the meteor. 	300 + 10 Burn DoT/1 sec
Razzle Dazzle 	Activating this card will cause two of your other cards to disappear, and replacing one of the missing cards with a better (or worse) one. 	25 x 5
Faint Wind Arc 	Activating this card will allow Reneas to perform a backhand chop in a swaying motion which unleashes a transparent arc of wind that deals damage. When the arc hits, a flurry of quick magical slashes will attack the target thirteen times for extra damage. 	200 + 5 (each magical slash)
Mundane Bolt 	Reneas charges a pale, ordinary orb from his card and unleashes it for low damage. If fused with Meteor Crash, Phantom's Leap, Night Walker, Shadow Missile, or Faint Wind Arc, then the total damage from this enhanced card will deal this card's damage plus the said card's damage along with those extra effects. 	50 + damage added from the five said cards.
Night Walker 	Activating this card causes Reneas’s card to glow bright purple to unleash a clone that will fight enemies for Reneas in a duration of 8 seconds. The clones does two quick punches as its attacks and when time is up, the clone releases a harmless Haze explosion that confuses the enemy for 3 seconds. 	35 x 2 (punches)
Phantom's Leap 	Reneas uses a card that summons a phantom to leap to a designated location that damages enemies around it with an explosive crash. If two or three cards are played, then the phantom will leap towards the enemy two or three times (if you play with a pair or a triple Phantom's Leap card) 	100 (without a pair or three of a kind)
Enchanted Glaive 	Activating this card will cause a three-star glaive to be summoned above Reneas’s head that boomerangs back to the start location. (Appearance: it is a glaive that looks similar to the Glaive Thrower's glaive in Warcraft 3) 	175 x 2
Coma Blast 	Activating this card summons an orb in Reneas's forehead, unleashing a quick laser after a few seconds, damaging enemies hit by it. Enemies hit will get 60% speed reduction but in turn, Reneas gets confused for 8 seconds. Any cards that are dealt with beforehand will have a 35% chance that the attack goes to Reneas himself when the confusion takes effect.	250
Shadow Missile 	Activating this card will result in Reneas cutting 250 Life Points (25 HP) for a soul missile that homes in on an enemy dealing damage. If used continuously, you will gain 15% damage reduction. 	200
Yoink! 	Activating this card will summon a paper shuriken that uh...is definitely useless. Scrap this immediately. 	1
Magical Present 	Activating this card summons a magical present in front of him. After 1.5 seconds of the present being placed down, the present will either heal everybody (including enemies) or damage everybody around its area in a slightly large radius. 	100 to allies and enemies (including healing)
Illusory Dance (with an i at the beginning)	Reneas activates a card that summons a clone that dashes 7 studs in front of him and does a graceful uppercut punch that damages enemies. The clone stays there for 2 seconds until it dissolves. 	125
Soul Patch 	Activating this card will cause a large rectangular field to spawn under Reneas, decreasing enemy's speed, defense and attack by 40%. The field lasts 10 seconds. 	N/A
Recoiling Buster 	Activating this card will cause Reneas to summon a bright purple orb in his left hand and throw it to the floor dealing damage to enemies in front of him. If Reneas is close, he loses 40 HP (or 400 Life Points) as a result. 	120
Core Infliction 	Reneas activates a card that sends various debuffs to everybody, including burn, poison, weakening (defense reduction) and confusion for 8 seconds. 	20 Poison DoT, 30 Burn DoT
Cursed Infliction 	Reneas cuts half of his life points to inflict attack and speed debuffs to everybody for 10 seconds. Luckily, it doesn't deal damage. 	N/A
King Arthur's Blade 	Ultra Rare Card. Calls upon a large blade that falls in the area in front of him covering a large area. 	1,500
Catastrophic Event 	Summons a 10x10 circle area that sprouts out fire pillars in random parts within the AoE, damaging enemies who are caught in it. 	200
Spirit Diffusion 	Reneas loses half of his life points to unleash a large explosive attack from his body, damaging enemies around him dealing great damage. 	400
== Upgrades ==
* Increase Life Points for more sustainability (1 HP = 10 LP). (2 HP/1 SP)
* Decrease F's cooldown slightly. (-1.2 sec/1 SP)
* Decreases the chances that F will fail. (20% at X/X/50)
== Relationships ==
=== Makari Schenova ===
- Formerly a friend of Reneas after sharing his life with only having little to no friends when they first met. After the friendship split apart, he has become his greatest enemy. They no longer see each other at McDragers after this incident.
=== Bromin Wyatt ===
- An upcoming OC that is yet to be made. Although not mentioned in the backstory, it is said that Bromin carried Reneas to safety back at his apartment after being defeated by Makari during that night.
== Trivia ==
- this took me way too long to make
- This character has some combined references including Roblox's Hexaria, Kingdom Hearts: RE Chain of Memories, and the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise. Wanted to see how this fares in the competition
- When the creator first made this, [I] had no idea that Etaleo, an existing character in DB:X was there so, a moveset change had to be made to be more Haze-like.
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