The D-Techtive

— The D-Techtive to his nemesis, Meral the Sorcerer.

### Dislikes

Anything related to crime, despises all forms of corruption, every criminals of Detroit, has an intense distaste in racism and xenophobia.

### Allies

Anthony Heckbert
Epsilon
Jūgōryu
Àbsolūm
She-Foo
Tetsudō

### Friends

Blake Mortimer
Captain Milock

### Rivals

The Badger Man
The Bolter
Amæn Kha-rāktr

### Enemies

Sorcerer Meral
Kriminal
45th Avenue Street Gang
The Donovans
Wyld K1ngz
The Nomad
Tenmajin

**Miron Boltar Koben** (also known under his alias "***Harulan/Arlan***") is a private cyborg detective who undergoes a secret life as a crimefighter as **The D-Techtive** or simply "**D-Tech**", a vigilante armed with various kinds of gadgetry and weapons from any sizes with different abilities. He currently lives in Michigan and precisely within Detroit, the state's most corrupted city that is filled with some of the worst criminals in the United States' history.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Childhood Years

Miron Boltar Koben was born in a snowy day of 1962, in the middle of New Jersey and was the third oldest child of a family of five children. Though his family weren't much rich, everyone had to work hard to live well but they were at least content of what they possessed, a philosophy Miron himself would carry in his life.

### School Years

#### High School Days

Miron would enter the Living Stone High School and would meet a boy named James Gerhard, the two would become great friends but bullies often referred them as the "class' ultimate nerds". James was much more hot-headed and wanted to prove he was more than a nerd but Miron managed to calm his friend and to scuff off those insults but James did not understood why Miron doesn't let him fight the bullies. Miron explained even if people would insult them, they will need their help in the future and it's best to protect them rather than hurt them. James never understood initially but this would inspire him to become a policeman in his future life.

#### University & Gradutation

Miron decided to go at the Duke Brown's University like his parents before him, the university is known for having the best education in the state and have overall positive reviews. Miron would meet the university's "most macho student", Christopher Brown.

### The D-Techtive's Adventures

#### Against The Crooks

Miron received a call from a residence mentioning the infamous local criminal family The Crooks were active ever since his accident, taking advantage of his absence and to steal to the most unfortunate of the city. He decided to investigate on the gang, knowing they were formerly watched under justice's eyes for several years after they were sent in prison.

## Combat Information

### Resume

The D-Techtive is a highly skilled combatant from decades of fighting experiences against various types of criminals and learned how to improvise during dire situations, either be an armed robbery to a terrorist bombing attacks and even during a building under arson attacks. Because of his robotic anatomy, his body is mostly heavy and therefore lacks any speed or agility but displays an amazing and sturdy defense as he is not easy to go down in a bare-handed fight: Miron can withstand powerful blows from hand-to-hand strikes or melee attacks and can easily take bullets from handgun firearms and some caliber of low firerate weaponry.

### Skills

* **Expert Mathematician**:
* **Trilinguist**: He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Slightly knows some Japanese dialects and French words.

### Fighting Styles

Miron created his own fighting style that he calls it "**D-Techtive Battle Mode**", an unique combat protocol that incorporates various modern fighting sports and martial arts into one single style made for deadly combats. Though he can also just simply use one fighting style such as boxing or karate, as it is part of his bank database but prefers to use an amalgation of various styles. Miron mostly uses the most effective techniques, which includes fast, strong and easy to use when engaging physical fights.

#### Techniques (Offensive)

* **Mekano-Hand**: Koben will transform his left hand and can modify it such as adding plating on the knuckles, switching modes or transforming his hand into a weapon. It is one of his most versatile tools in his entire moveset, enabling him to perform offensive maneuvers or defensive/counter-attacking tactics.
	+ **Mekano-Fist**: Koben retracts and compresses his hand inside his forearm and then releases his fist at his opponent's face or body. He can control the strength of his Mekano-Fist for a weak or stronger impact, as well the range of his punch; the more he compresses, the longer and more powerful the punch.
* **Drop Shot**: Koben suddenly crouches toward his opponent and delivers a powerful and quick sweep kick aimed at the knees or shins. The move's intention can either trip an enemy or break the lower legs but Koben prefers much the latter option.
* **Forearm Smash**: Delivers a powerful strike with his forearm, in a similar motion of "swinging a police baton" over the opponent's head. He often use this technique due to being taller than the average male adult and can easily reach the head with an attack of this type.
* **Drop Kick**: Leaps with his powerful robotic legs and performs a double kick with the sole of his feet, knocking down his opponent. Since his robotic structures is more stronger than his previous legs in flesh, Miron's dropkick can break thick walls of cement and can seriously injure a human's ribcage.

#### **D-Techtive Combinations**

* **D-Techtive Combination - Striker #1**: A mix between English boxing, wrestling and a bit of melee weaponry. Performs several punches aimed with great accuracy at the opponent's chin and the face's sensitive regions (nose, around the eyes, temples, etc.), then lands a powerful blow in the stomach.

#### Techniques (Defensive)

* **Portative Shield**: A retractable shield hidden in a small device, handy when defending himself or useful to bash enemies with the shield. It can protect Miron from bullets with the potential of piercing his body or with a higher fire-rate that can damage him.
* **Fade Away/Fading Mist**: Koben will release a thick smoke from his body's artificial openings (comes in various colors, he just usually choose any shades of grey or sometimes black colors at night and often uses red or white during the daylight), blinding the sight of his opponents and giving the illusion he's "*fading in the mist*". He will always use this technique whenever he leaves the scene (after completing his job by arresting the criminals on the scene) or when he feels in a pickle and became cornered against a large group of enemies but can also use the mist to attack enemies from different angles as they're unable to see through the thick fog.
* **Live Wire (Counter)**: This version of Live Wire is more focused on defensive purposes, as Koben's body will emit a powerful electric blast surrounding his entire body and shock his opponents on an average radius. The blast isn't lethal but can seriously injure the opponents, leaving them unconscious.

#### Techniques (Support)

* **Darkest Fear**: Releases a self-made gas from small openings from his torso, shoulders, hands or kneecaps that contains toxins specialized created Strychnine with higher effects than the usual version, which results into the targets suffering within enhanced agitation and stress induced fear. The gas is also hallucinogenic, plunging the targets into their deepest fears. There are some medications that can negates the effects of the gas, although one of the best ways to negates is the Miracle Cure.
* **Miracle Cure**: A self-made antidote that can help against most powerful poisons and toxins, with the help of professional doctors around the world. Though it is not perfect, it can also heal serious injuries and wounds such as broken bones and deep cuts but cannot cure serious illnesses like cancers or dementia.
* **Play Dead**: Koben can create a false inanimate state, letting the impression he succumb to his wounds and possibly making his assaillants believe he is "dead" and walks away. While this technique can be useful, the technique is a very risk as for those who are smart enough to know this trick can attack even more Koben while inanimate, destroying even more his body. He rarely uses this technique, only in the most dire situations.
	+ **Live Wire**: If Koben's body has received major damages, he will undergo a shutdown and will remain "inanimate" for the next 5-10 minutes or even more, waiting for his opponent(s) to walks away from him. During the "inanimate state", Koben's emergency system will start to operate internally to repair the damage and broken parts, though the "healing process" is limited and he can only repair himself fully at his base. His secondary energy batteries for extreme situations activates and has an autonomy of 5 hours maximum. The results are minimal but enough for him to slowly walk back to his home.

## Miscellaneous

### Vehicles/Transportation Devices

* **Detective's Police Car**:
* **The Magical Fridge**: Otherwise known as "*The Fantastic Fridge*", the apparatus serves as a teleporting vehicle device. It's appearance is similar to an old, unsanitary refrigerator but hides a complex computer with an artificial intelligence with a navigation program. It is capable to teleport all across Detroit and can sometimes teleported outside of the city to travel Michigan entirely or in other states.

### Equipment

#### Gadgetry

* **W.I.N.**: Acronym for "**W***orld* **I***ndicator* **N***umerical*", which is a hand crafted multi-task calculator that possess incredibly calculative speed and can analyze a situation by creating simulations for Arulan's database. However, it can suffer from complications from updates and on rare occasions, it will shutdown by itself. The gadget was made by his best friend, William Galewood.

## Statistic Rankings

* **Strength**: Class A (Superior than the average human athlete)
	+ **Striking**: Class AA (Can break walls and floors of concrete with a single punch; via Mekano-Fist 20% Power), Class S+ (Can shatter metallic doors in pieces via Mekano-Fist 110%)
	+ **Lifting**:
* **Speed**:
	+ **Reflexes**:
	+ **Agility**:

* **Stamina**:
	+ **Endurance**:
	+ **Durability**:
	+ **Flexibility**:

* **Dexterity**:
	+ **Accuracy**:
	+ **Precision**:

* **Intelligence**:
	+ **Mind Capacity**:
	+ **Senses**:
	+ **Focus**:
* **Development Potential**:

## Weaknesses & Flaws

### Personality Flaws

Koben at heart is a perfectionist, something he never approved and agreed as his friends pointing this side of him being a flaw and would only ignore those "ridicule claims". In extension, he also displays a large ego when he argues he isn't a perfectionist. This perfectionist flaw appeared ever since he was young but became worst as he tried to upgrade his body into "perfection". He only spoke about those issues with his private therapist and rarely his family relatives.

### Limits & Handicaps

* **Limited Motricity (Diminished)**: Koben's movements are restrained by his sturdy robotic body and is less flexible when he was flesh and bones. Even though he trained hard his artificial body, he still finds flaws and is unable to be as fast as he used to be during his prime years.
* **Limited Database (Diminished)**: Even if he keeps updating his own database, it remains unperfect and flawed; as Miron can be prone to suffer from errors and bugs from his self-made database. The more information he could gather and download, the greater his entire system becomes slower and risk to be left vulnerable against attacks.
	+ **Limited Fighting Movesets**: If he adds too much arsenal of fighting styles, it can mess up his database to the point he cannot even fight and move properly his limbs. This is why he created various Combination Fighting Protocols as a way to properly class his movesets and merge his myriads of techniques into one fighting style; which he would have a maximum of 15 unique techniques and was capable to merge those techniques into only 10 movesets in his earliest days.

### Natural Weaknesses

* **Electricity-Based Attacks**: Can create short-circuits and damage his body and system. This weakness will always be present as long his body is robotic.
* **Anxiety (Controlled)**: His job as a law enforcer gave him episodic anxiety attacks on several occasions. To counter this, he takes medications and learned how to calm himself through meditations. This possibly created a form of post-traumatic stress disorder.

### Former Weaknesses

* **Limited Motricity (Intense)**: In his first days as cyborg, Koben struggled to walk and was unable to properly lift his feet one after the other, even unable to walk on a faster pace. He was unable to run either and trying to doing so would only result for him to fall on the ground. Koben was also uncapable to properly control his body's dexterity as a result of his accident, which prompted him to crush doorknobs and couldn't even grab a mug without shattering it. As he trained himself and upgraded his gears, he would have finally managed to attain the body he could control.
* **Humidity**: His body remains weak against humidity, despite the progress he has made over the years. But his waterproof model for his body greatly helped to fight back humidity.

## Relationships

### Friends

* **Christopher D. Brown**: An avid history enthusiast, they both attended with the same university and later remaining close friends. Christopher became a security agent since Koben told him they have to change the world's corruption and crimes, as well to save those who need help during hard times.
* **James Gerhard**: Arlan meet James in late high school and both went into the same college years later. They remain in contact ever since. Gerhard became a policeman due to being inspired from Koben's sense of justice and strong determination to fight evil.

### Allies

* **The Super Trio**: Koben had a hard time to consider this group of vigilantes ( though the group has self-proclaims many times to be "heroes") as allies due to their eccentric nature and somehow twisted sense of justice, it took him some years to finally trust the gang of vigilantes. But he doesn't ignore the group's talented skills and abilities, despite their goofy and nitwit attitudes.
	+ **Monsieur Edgar**:
	+ **Sir Shamus**:
	+ **Señor Anthony**:

* **William Galewood**:

## Notes & Trivia

* The character's name is mostly inspired by **Harlan Coben** and his fictional character, **Myron Bolitar**. Most of the names for The D-Techtive's techniques, quotes, life chapters and gadgetry are also inspired from Coben's bibliography.
	+ The functionality of the Magical Fridge/Fantastic Fridge is inspired from the T.A.R.D.I.S. from the *Doctor Who* universe and the name is inspired from Coben's 2016 standalone novel *The Magical Fantastical Fridge*.
* Partially inspired by Inspector Gadget's overall appearance and many gadgets, as well being a cyborg detective.
	+ His clothing attire and metallic mask is slightly inspired by **Q** from the *Street Fighter* universe (more precisely: *Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike*) and Doctor Doom from *Marvel Comics*.
* Backstory and lore was partially inspired from *RoboCop* (both the original and the remake), as both robotic humanoids lives in Detroit, Michigan and are cyborgs who fight crimes.
* The names for James Gerhard and Christopher D. Brown are references from Harlan Coben's school friends: **Dan Brown** and **Chris Christie**, with their names and surnames being mixed together to create new characters. Both characters also were inspired on the fact Dan Brown and Chris Christie did meet Harlan Coben in high school and college respectively.
	+ His closest ally, William Galewood, was inspired from Myron Bolitar's chaotic best pal: **Windsor Horne Lockwood III**. William's name is a playword on Windsor's (*Galewood* is basically **Wind**~~sor~~ (the word *gale* is another way to say "wind") + **Lock**~~wood~~).
	+ Duke Brown's University is inspired on the university Harlan would go in his life, **Duke University**. The name is a cross-up between Duke University and Brown's Schoolhouse, the university's first name.
* Sir Edgar, Monsieur Shamus and Señor Anthony from The Super Trio are direct references to Harlan Coben winning the won an **Edgar** Award, a **Shamus** Award, and an **Anthony** Award. Both the Edgar and Anthony Awards are based on real-life individuals (Edgar Allen Poe and Anthony Boucher respectively), with the Shamus Award being the only one who isn't based on a real-life author.