Shrapnel

### Other names

Nell, Owen Killroy Vitriol Hollis, the Horror librarian, One Who Kills With Burning Things, One, Steve

## Element information

### Element state

Solid, liquid, burning. (can also create acid)

## Status

### Lifestyle

Civilized

Shrapnel is the head of chemicals library and archives. A lot of people know about him but very few stick around to find out more, he got a deadly stare.

## Personality

Shrapnel is intelligent, analytical and patient. He have an exceptional memory and is therefore able to hold grudges forever. Due to his arachnid heritage he have a hard time understanding mammal shifters. He grew up with few friends and therefore thinks no one wants to be his friend. He is polite in an attempt not to offensive, but almost always come across as cold. He gets irritated easily and will be hostile if he thinks you want to be his enemy, which he does a lot.
Shrapnel have a phobia for closed square shaped rooms.

## Biography

### Discovery and Basic Education

Shrapnel was discovered by a scout named Quake. He quickly came to bond to and idolise her. Especially when Shrapnel discoved when he was different from other shifters he depended emotionaly on her. Quake however were seldom in the socty due to her work as a scout and her lone nature. While she was empathic towards Shrapnels stuggles she was not prepared or suitable to be his emotional support.

It was during his first weeks in the society that he learnt something was strange about him. Due to his unatrual animal host Shrapnel experienced difficulties and pain while shifting. He quickly concluded it must be the fault of his parents. Since then developed a strong desire to find and extract vengeance on whomever put him in a scorpion body.

Shrapnel got special tutelage from Fisk, a teacher who had helped many shifters whith odd animal forms. While Fisk teaching helped him Shrapnel does not hold Fisk in high regard since he once sugested that Shrapnel's pain was all in his head and that Shrapnel had probably picked the animal host for himself otherwhise he would have left to find something better.

During his time as a student Shrapnel med Neutron, who at the time was teaching human culture, and they fromed a friendship. Tentatively at first but over the years it developed into a deep bond of mutual trust.

### Chemical career

After finishing his studies Shrapnel was offered a place in chemical. At first Shrapnel was hesitant at joining, he'd much rather stay in T/M where he could be close to Quake. However after learning about the library and the archives he changed his mind since they offered a way for him to reaserch his own history.  And after learning about the limited access to the restricted area in the library he decides to aim for an as high as possible possision in the faction.

Shrapnel got asigned Jodie as a mentor, being a show fighter she had uniqe expertise in shifting controll.  Shrapnel studied animal behavorism in Yhoctin under the name Owen Hollis. Raising in ranks in the library division wasn't hard for Shrapnel, partly beacuse the division lacked the feircely copetetive spirit of other divisions. The only thing holding back his advancement was war form shifting. It was during war form training that Shrapnel permanently damaged his vioce from screaming. It was in the trainghals he first met Haircut, the groundskeeper.

Shrapnel also came across Reed, whom he instantly hated, mainly for being a stuck up fire shifter. After lerning more about him Shrapnel became more sympatheic towards Reed, even if it took a long time for him to warm up to the idea of friendship. Shrapnel was the one to give Reed the idea to poison his mentor.

Mentor Rot

Quake dies

## Animal form

Shrapnel is a scorpion, something that should not be possible since it's too small and unintelligent an animal to serve as host for a shifter soul. The least to say odd animal form causes him to experience pain every time he shifts

He don't like to talk about his animal form and he very rarely use it. Very few people actually know what host animal Shrapnel have, there is even a bet going on among the scouts about it. Shrapnel himself is obsessed about the reason why he is a scorpion and have spent a lot of time researching animal forms and shifter family relations in an attempt to figure out who his parents is and why he ended up like he did.