Colin Heinrich (Chronicles of Eredità)

Colin Heinrich is the main protagonist of Chronicles of Eredità. He is a student and class rep of the Academia's Sector XIII, and the son of Wesley Heinrich, a mercenary inventor specializing in weapons technology. 
==Profile==
===Appearance===
Colin is a young adolescent man with rugged hair in a dark blue color and chocolate brown eyes. He is fair-skinned, tall, and possesses an average built body. 
In Chronicles of Eredità, he wears the Academia uniform which is a crimson blazer jacket and tie, white shirt, and brown pants. He also dons a backpack that stores all of his equipment and AEGIS unit, and pouches on both sides of his pants.
===Personality===
Colin is generally seen as a friendly and selfless person whose heart is always in the right place. Much like the usual heroes, he possesses a habit of always helping people in need, especially those who are in grave danger.
This behavior is due to Colin having a romanticized view on Mercenaries, which leads him to think of others before himself and possessing a willingness to sacrifice himself for the safety of others. He is very impulsive and often acts on a plan without thinking thoroughly about it, especially in dire situations. However, he is humble enough to let other people lead him. Furthermore, Colin is a born leader, he is someone who encourages his friends to keep going and is very supportive of them.
===Background===
Colin is the eldest son of Wesley Heinrich, a mercenary inventor, and Priscilla Heinrich; he has a younger sister named Jillian. He was born and raised in Safshire City in the Portano province; the nearest province to the capitol. As a child, Colin was moved by his father's stories of his mercenary adventures, he was also exposed to the good work of these warriors at an early age; this in turn gave him the primary aspiration of being a mercenary just like his father and heroes (who were also in the same field).
Growing up, Colin begged Wesley to teach him the ropes of being a mercenary. But he was only taught about designing and developing weapons, and not about using them to their fullest potential. Thus this led Colin to frequent training arenas and streetfights during his early teenage years so he can learn how to battle.
The only thing that stood between him and his mercenary dreams was the Academia, Ordeos' mercenary school, which was the only way for one to become a licensed mercenary. When he was of eligible age, his application to take the Academia's entrance exam was unfortunately denied. This struck Colin heavily but he hoped to apply once again in the next academic term. However, because of a chance encounter with the institute's dean and Wesley's mentor: Dean Gideon Myrrdin, he was granted special admission to the Academia. Ecstatic, Colin was ready to face the challenges the next three years were going to come at him.
==Abilities==
Colin possesses an adept knowledge on weapons technology and developing thanks to his father teaching him about it ever since he was young. He developed all of his weapons, which shows his resourcefulness and craftsmanship. Though, his father lacked in effective combat skills; Colin is the opposite and knows how to efficiently use all the weapons he's invented to their fullest advantage.
===Weapon===
The Forvandll is Colin's main choice of arsenal, it is a four-in-one compact weapon with the initial form of twin pistols. Colin can merge the two firearms and configure them into an automatic rifle, a sub-machine gun, and a shotgun. Apart from that, Colin has other firearms such as grenades and smoke bombs that aid him in battle. 
===Fighting Style===
With firearms as his main choice of weapons, Colin is a skilled marksman. Relying heavily on his weapons and other resources, Colin utilizes both his skills and wit to gain the upper hand in combat. 
==Development==
Colin's character is inspired by the various main protagonists in games that inspired Chronicles of Eredità. Specifically, the characters of Zack Fair (Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-), Zidane Tribal (Final Fantasy 9), and Rean Schwarzer (Trails of Cold Steel) served as somewhat precedents for Colin's character concept.
With designing his appearance, Colin was supposed to be blond but his hair was changed to a dark blue as to avoid him being assumed that he was related to Jenara, as her final design had blonde hair. He was also supposed to only wield dual handguns but the idea of these handguns transforming into much larger and powerful weapons such as rifles and machine guns came to play.
Additionally, Colin's name was supposed to be spelled with two L's but Colin was decided as the final name as this was better and provided a twist to the common name of Collin.
==Trivia==
*The name Heinrich is German name and a cognate of Henry, which means "Ruler of the home".
*Although being labelled as a class rep of Sector XIII; in the Japanese version of the game, Colin is the sector's class vice-president.
==Gallery==
COE Colin Fullbody Render.png|Official Art (COE)
Colin and chance promo.png|With Chance (Promotional Material)
Colin icon.png|Game Portrait (COE)
Collin sketch.png|Concept Art Sketch (WIP)
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