Nathan

Nathaniel Durand is a 22 year old human currently operating as a First-Class investigator within the Counter-Joker Agency's Squad Jupiter, bearing the role of co vice-captain along with Adrian.
==Personality==
Nathan is a very collected individual who places great importance on the way he carries himself around other people. Unlike many in the Counter-Joker Agency, he has no ill feelings towards jokers but only sees it as his duty to take over his families role within SHIELD as a whole. He is a kind, nurturing person choosing to see the best aspects of humanity. The nature of his Overlooking View grants him a great empathy towards other living creatures regardless of appearance. Nathaniel is also very honorable in combat, he believes in a fair fight where his adversaries are not put at any disadvantage which is his reason for refusing to use tools such as AIM or Venom.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Superhuman Senses===
Nathaniel was born blind, later having a powerful spirit sealed within his dormant eyes by his mother Rosario. Still blind however, Nathan's father put him through a brutal training regiment to ensure his disability would never put him at any disadvantage. 
*Superhuman Touch: Nathan's sense of touch is so acute that his finger can feel the faint impressions of ink on a printed page, allowing him to read by touch, though laminated pages prevent him from touching and thus reading the ink impressions at a much faster pace than a normal person would be able to read.The rest of his skin is equally sensitive, enabling him, by concentration, to feel minute temperature and pressure changes in the atmosphere around him. Even with his senses of smell and hearing blocked, he can feel the presence of a person standing five feet away from him simply by his or her body heat and disturbance of air. A side effect of his sense of touch is Nathaniel's ability to manipulate his muscles and internal organs. The sense of touch is not just external, but internal too (central nervous system), thereby giving him the ability to have total body control, increasing his strength and reflexes.
*Superhuman Smell: Nathan's sense of smell is so acute that he can distinguish between identical twins at twenty feet by minute differences in smell. He can detect odors of an atmospheric concentration of thirty parts per million. Furthermore, his ability to remember smells enables him to identify any person he has spent at least five minutes with by smell alone, no matter how he or she might try to camouflage his or her natural body odor. His powers of concentration are such that he can focus upon a single person's smell and follow it through a crowd of people at a distance of fifty feet. 
*Superhuman Hearing: Nathan's sense of hearing enables him to detect an acoustic pressure change of one decibel at a pressure level of seven decibels (whereas the lowest threshold for average human hearing is twenty decibels.) He can hear a person's heartbeat at a distance of over twenty feet, or people whispering on the other side of a standard soundproofed wall. Through practice, Nathaniel is able to control his hearing acuity, mentally blocking out specific sounds like his own breathing and heartbeat, all ambient sounds to a normal human level of perception, or all sounds but a particular sound he is concentrating upon.
*Superhuman Taste: His sense of taste enables him to detect the number of grains of salt on a pretzel. His ability to remember tastes enables him to determine every ingredient of a food or drink he tastes, as long as there are at least twenty milligrams of that substance present.
===Breath of the Cosmos===
By training in Asura, Nathan acquired the ancient sword style known as the Breaths, sword techniques able to replicate the effects of supernatural phenomena through spirit and skill; thought to only be usable by Asuran natives. 
By refining the art he was able to come up with and utilise his own style, the Breath of the Cosmos. A sword style that replicates the effects of numerous aspects of cosmology. 
*First Step: White Dwarf: A thrust attack of intense destructive prowess, the speed at which the attack travels at grants it insane thermal prowess being able to scorch nearby objects as well as gaining a white trail with it's movements. 
*Second Step: Ozone: A protective slash made from Nathan rapidly rotating either by pivoting on his foot, or twisting his body mid air; Ozone appears as a white protective layer that has been shown to take and mitigate devastating concentrated attacks as well as large area of effect attacks. 
===Overlooking View===
Nathan possess a dormant ability in his eyes known as Overlooking View that he gained as a consequence of having a powerful spirit locked away in his eyes. When he opens his eyes the ability becomes awakened and he gains a keen spiritual sight, being able to empathise and see the essence of someone's soul, rendering any stealth tactics useless.
===Swift Cut===
Nathaniel is a tremendous swordsman, his potency with blades is mystical being able to use a combination of different sword styles and techniques. In his own mind there is nothing Nathan cannot cut and in his experience of using swords it's true. He has been shown to be able to send powerful slashes without even the slightest race of him moving his blade at all.
==Equipment==
===Jester===
*Blade of the Morning: The Blade of the Morning is one of the Jesters that ever saw light on the continent of Gaia. It takes the form of a Valyrian rapier forged and altered at the beginning of Dark Days and has been passed down the Durand lineage ever since. The primary ability of the blade is to trap the souls of everything it kills without discrimination. It can also capture the essence of spirits not bound to a body making it particularly dangerous against those with Shamanic or Shinigami potential. 
**Pegasus: Killed by his first ancestor, the spirit of the Pegasus allows for Nathaniel to utilize a unique tranquil energy. Pure in light and overcoming any perception of ill intent and evil. When in use, the surrounding environment becomes peaceful, nature blossoms. Nathan has demonstrated the ability to project the energy as potent beams, which only cause harm to his intended adversary, leaving the surrounding environment untouched. 
**Dragon: The spirit of the last known dragon, a truly powerful creature killed by his grandfather. Nathaniel is able to utilize a destructive flame which burns hotter than magma and is capable of incinerating diamond. Use of the spirit also allows for Nathan to shroud segments of his body in spiritual scales which have high defensive prowess.
*Walking Stick: Not even really a jester, it's just cause he is blind innit.
===Life Fibre Garments===
*Cloak of the Setting Sun: The cloak of the setting sun is a garment held dearly to the Durand family and is seen as the mark of one of it's members ascending to a prominent position within the family. Nathan's variation is special in the sense it is the first bespoke variation of the cloak, having been specially lined with a venom trim along the life-fibre stitching; granting it greater proficiency against Jokers. Being an item of clothing created from Luxurian life fibre, it grants Nathan the following abilities: 
**Supernatural Condition: Nathan gains a supernatural conditioning that elevates him above the prowess of some supernatural creatures. His endurance and durability increases exponentially; his skin becoming equivalent to diamond in terms of hardness. Nathan's demonstrated the ability to take stiff blows from Joker's who possess inhumane strength and even trade significant blows with vampires and demons. The strength granted from the cloak has allowed him to exert forces upwards of a ton. He's demonstrated speeds and reaction time that rank supersonic and above. With the Cloak of the Setting Sun, Nathan is granted a supernatural healing factor that allows him to overextend, passively healing minor injuries such as cuts and bruises within seconds. It also negates the effects of fatigue toxins on his muscles; granting him supernatural stamina.
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