Nant the Butom

"GOOOOOOD MORNING SILVER CITY!!!"

## Bio

Nant is a happy-go-lucky soul who's pretty deeply troubled on the inside. On the outside, he seems bombastic and overdramatic, impulsive and inattentive to the point of being rude, but this hides someone on the inside that feels like they have to carry the burden of Silver City's issues alone. Born to Buipop around twenty years prior to the present, Nant was separated from his mother shortly after his birth and came to live with his father in Silver City. While the two weren't very poor or destitute, they were far from rich, and found common ground with pokemon repairing and maintaining buildings and structures around the city, and trying to recover and patch up human technology that had been preserved from several millennia prior.

It was when Nant was fourteen that him and his father discovered the Radio Tower, and they both took a deep interest in the capabilities of the gigantic metal structure itself, and the lost technology inside. By that time, the radio tower itself had been largely fixed, but the building was going mostly unused - After planning and scraping together money for another three years, the two managed to scrape together enough cash to both claim ownership of the building and start a venture the two had planned for some time that used Nant's unique abilites; A radio station that would both entertain and lift the spirits of everyone in Silver City, and do something to lift the everyday pall of dread that hung over the city due to the crime, violence and general moral bankruptcy that pervaded it. Three years later, Nant still works with his father doing just that, with Nant at the forefront of KTSC and his father working in the background to keep everything running smoothly.

## Personality

To put it in a single word, Nant is Scatterbrained. He has a low attention span, and always seems to be excited for others or for the next big thing, or new discoveries in ruins, or - Well, any number of things, really. It's a wonder he manages to focus on his radio station for more than an hour at a time. While he's endlessly enthusiastic and always willing to cheer others up with his infectious excitement and happiness, Nant always keeps a certain distance from others. He dodges more deep personal questions and rarely seriously ponders himself or others around him; More astute people who have come to know him might wonder if Nant's excitement and enthusiasm is genuine.

Under the surface, Nant's anxious and deeply troubled, feeling like he has an enormous responsibility and weight on him; Ever since his radio station's started, he's felt responsible for lifting the spirits of those who are down on their luck in Silver City, responsible for entertaining them and lightening their hearts in a place that can be so bleak and brutal at times. But it's never enough; Nant can never provide direct action, only broadcast music, radio plays and information from his station, as well as give advice when he can. Every murder, every deepening of the tragedy of Silver City makes Nant feel like he's failed, that he's not doing enough. But he knows he's doing all he can, so he bottles it and makes light of it on his show, both to hopefully lighten the spirits of others and lighten his own spirit, even if it's in bad taste.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

Nant's main ability concerns the horn on his head, the strongest part of his body; Using it, he can transmit or receive any sort of energy from the EM (Electromagnetic) spectrum, often doing both at the same time. The higher the frequency of energy on the EM spectrum and the shorter the wavelength, the more difficult it is for him to produce it; In a similar vein, absorbing higher-frequency EM waves gives him more energy than lower ones. Due to this, and due to the low frequency of radio waves, Nant's extremely skilled with transforming his voice and thoughts - and most things that affect his horn - into radio waves, having practiced it for most of his life. In addition, his body is semi-incorporeal, similar to jello in consistency. Anything steel - swords, blades and the like, pass through him as if he wasn't even there, with little resistance. This gives him an incredible defense against Steel-type moves.

However, he has an equally incredible weakness to Grass-type moves. Whenever a grass-type move hits him, it results in a chemical reaction in his body that can result in him becoming extremely weak or nauseous, or even risk blacking out or worse. Due to this, Nant is wary around grass types, despite being a half Water-type, himself. In addition, creating higher-frequency rays - such as X-rays and Gamma rays - can tire him out to the point of exhaustion in a matter of minutes, for X-rays, or seconds, for Gamma Rays.