Argent

* IRL
* Alter Ego

Neo Arcadia Police Department
Arcadian Rebels

*"If i have a tombstone, the only words — if any, — that will be on it are 'fuck you, got mine!"*
—Lance White
**Lance Howard White**, born **Shiro Ransu** (**白 ランス**) is the notorious vigilante ninja who defended Neo Arcadia from supernatural events by leading the Arcadian Rebels, under the codename **Argent**, stylized as the **Silver Shinobi**.

Lance is a ninja of great power, one of the greatest practitioners of martial arts in many centuries. A dreaded warrior, Lance's skill with a blade was greater than any ninja. He first started out under the codename **Phantom**, stylized as the **Black Ninja**, and more. In the day, he runs the Elixir Company, and began to lead the Arcadian Rebels on his quest for balance. He's allied himself with close friends, including the galactic cyborg Cody Nakamura and the frosty soldier Isaac Morov, all while raising his beloved ninja daughter Mallory White and beginning scloser relationship with his now-adoptive son Jason Kade and best friend Chris Felix.

Under Lance's leadership, the Rebels faced several threats, including Sebastian Raymond, Enigma, Tony Versidas, Pestilence, and Ankou.

Like any noble warrior, Lance sought an honorable death, and received one after living a long life of psychological anguish, but also family. His company preserved his body in cryostasis while his consciousness became an artificial intelligence. Jason would see visions, or mirages, of him for guidance until he was given an official android body. Lance stuck around in his android form until he was kidnapped by an alternate universe Ankou, the "true" Ankou, and went on to fight him.

## Biography

### Early Life

Ransu Horushi Shiro was born on November 19, 1995 on the Japanese northernmost island of Hokkaidō. Ransu was born into a family of descendants of ancient Japanese assassins, known as the ninja.

Ransu's beginning vocabulary was only Japanese, his first words spoken at 3, and his first time to be taught the language fully at 5. His parents at the time knew English, well enough to teach him, but didn't teach English to him until the age of 7, all in the meantime he was undertaking adjutant level classes in Taekwondo and Kendo respectfully.

Ransu would have been diagnosed early on around the age of 4 with the medical condition Congenital Analgesia, after breaking his finger while playing outdoors, and showed seemingly zero pain, and in place said he felt extremely discomfort in place of pain.

Ransu was given a strict diet from a young age (and abided) to never eat processed meat, dairy foods, or sugars. This was to be in favor of a diet centered on whole-grain rice and vegetables, so that sweat and body odor would be less of an obstacle in his mastery of stealth later on.

#### Training

Ransu would never know of the nature of his lineage until after his 9th birthday, the year after he began learning English. He would be answered most of the questions he had about himself, such as why he had the diet he had, why the nature of his upbringing was more strict than any other classmate, and most of all, if he actually had potential beyond the foreseeable future.

He would be awoken by his father, Hiroto, at an abnormal time in the morning. Ransu and his father would talk of generationally passed stories, Proverbs, advice and wisdom, as well as the lineage he is descendant of **Koga Ninja**.

At the age of 14 to 16 onwards, Ransu had begun moving from Hokkaido to Osaka in Honshu, and he would become more and more solitary, training alone. At this point, he would speak English more fluent than anyone that he knew, or anyone that knew him. His father at this time, being diagnosed with Chronic Bronchitis (due to his nicotine addiction), would leave the overseeing of Raijen Industries in his will for Ransu to inherit, as his father had growing suspicion that he would become a target by the Yakuza. Ransu would then start putting to mind of what kind of job he wanted, as well as a future, but didn't decide for a long time as living a "normal life" did not appeal well.

At some point, Lance inherited the White Fox from his father.

#### Shiro Family Massacre

Criminal activity and violence had been escalating and growing worse within greater Osaka, even before the Shiro Family moved to the region. Civil tensions between the controversy of the American occupation now considering passing a bill that sought to abolish use of a wide variety of the Japanese Self Defense Force's (J.S.D.F.) essential armaments in the event it would ever seek retaliatory strike, which did not help with North Korean threats of nuclear attack on American occupied bases within Japan.

The Yakuza, already viewing Raijen Industries as a corporation that favors privately owned artillery instead of leasing Military Access and shared use of state-of-art weaponry; caught wind that the CEO himself and his family had recently moved to the area.

Under the cover of night, Yakuza hitmen would invade the Shiro Home. Ransu would jolt awake to the sound of struggling, screaming, yelling and tossed furniture. Ransu getting up, viewing down the hallway, saw in that despite his father's recent diagnosis, Hiroto would be fending off the hit squad all on his own, unarmed. Ransu bolted down to give aid, but within seconds, Hiroto was shot in the right side of his torso, suffering a perforated lung in that instant. In the other room, his mother Akari, lie dead, who was unknowingly at the time two weeks pregnant. His sister Hanako had seen the entirety of the bloodbath unfold. Ransu, in instant retaliation, would then permanently cripple the man who shot his father, forcefully snapping a table leg through the assailant's kneecap, before splintering what was left of it under the man's right eye.

#### Aftermath

Hiroto, despite the effort to rush him to a hospital, would be declared dead before he reached the emergency room on March 15th of 2011, at 4:55pm, with his mother being declared dead on scene. After a brief funeral held in both of their honors, as well as the unborn sibling who didn't live long enough to even be given a name, Ransu and his sister Hanako would then travel back to a more rural Hokkaido to stay with their uncle in a place referred as "Sakura Grove." Despite showing borderline post traumatic stress disorder, their uncle Daisuke, was a positive influence and caretaker for the time being. Daisuke was a devout Buddhist Monk and rather than push Buddhism onto them, encouraged meditative practice and focus with calming ones mind. Ransu sparred with Daisuke, as well as with Hanako, so he could continue touching up on his training. Later on shortly after Ransu's 17th birthday, he would receive the inheritance of Raijen Industries though much to his dismay. After this went through, it was the best for both his and his remaining family's safety that Ransu, now legally Lance Howard White, moved to America under temporary Witness Protection, overseen by Leo Clark.

#### College Life, College Turmoil

Lance attended Collingswood University after moving to America, where he underwent an extracurricular class overseen by one Professor Sebastian Raymond. Lance excelled, drawing the ire of a select few of his colleagues. Just before he could leave college, he was found linked to the murder of a former dorm mate, with the sole blame on Lance. Lance would hire a lawyer and despite his efforts to claim that he was an innocent and framed man, the jury turned a blind eye. Knowing himself innocent, it was troubling to sift through such convincing claims and evidence of his involvement, questioning himself if perhaps he wasn't as innocent as he thought.

#### Prison

Lance was sent to a prison far out of Collingswood to the New Sanford Correctional Facility, and was to stay there for a maximum of 25 years. He was fortunate enough to have his bail money pass only after serving half a year, but Lance was found with a scar under his left eye that ran parallel down his nose. The man who bailed Lance out chose to remain anonymous, as the only name Lance was given was that of "Polaris." He told Lance that this was important work, and that his "superior" said to bail him out for said events that Lance would later on play an important role in, but these events were never specified, and just noted vaguely as "events," "happenings," and "choices." Lance was then handed a small, locked ornate box.

### Adulthood

After Lance graduated college, there was still the issue of attempting to start up a Raijen Industries (now AirShock America) subsidiary division in the United States, and how to do it on top of the glaring issue that he was found guilty to have murdered a man. He knew he was innocent, and found himself in a frustrating situation where no matter what words come forth from him, nothing will be believed. In a moment of reflection, he realized the potential of the true killer still being free, beginning the early days of his quest for balance.

#### Assassin

In his twenties, Lance found good work as a Mercenary. His skillset flourished as he would put great use to his training, building upon it he learned many of his martial skills at this time. Though, during his time as a gun-for-hire he grew a very anti-police sentiment, seeing the NAPD as "no different than any other organized gang, they just have more paperwork and procedure" as many times he had worked with them to take down organized criminal activity, and would then be seen as suspect himself.

#### Light in the Dark

Half a decade passed since the death of his parents, Lance would reflect on his time as a mercenary and question if his morals are in the right place. He had been taking lives of crooks and criminals, and was earning a reputation as a phantom killer. Feeling as if though he was making a difference, but not in the way he had wanted and that he had began to lose sight of his goals, he would adopt a moral code. This moral code would ensure that of all things, he would not kill.

After taking out a major child trafficker in Emerald City, Lance adopted an infant, and would later name her Mallory White. He chose her out of the rest because Mallory slept with a clenched fist.

#### The Kunoichi Kid

Lance promised himself to ready his daughter for the world, but to train her more gently than his father. He would go on to teach her in the utilization of many ninja weaponry, notably swords and archery.

#### Meeting Jason Kade

On May 2, 2015, Lance was briefly incarcerated in an Emerald City Police precinct. The same day, a young man named Jason Kade came in to collect his departing step-father's gear from his locker. The two hit up a chat, and developed a good friendship.

Jason began to root for Lance, and helped him escape before he left.

### Adventures with the Rebels

#### The Midnight Mafia

Days after New Year's Eve 2016, Lance concocted the idea to pose his team as a faux mafia to confront a corrupt city politician with suspected ties to the Italian mob.

### Fighting a Disease

As time passed by, Lance grew a need to take down Pestilence once and for all.

#### Ruckus in Russia

In early July, Lance took his team to the newly refurbished **Shiro Estate**. While introducing his friends to his new home, an armed spy for Pestilence broke in to assure they weren't plotting to search for him. Lance quickly took him down.

Lance and the rest of the Rebels made their way to Russia to confront Pestilence, whom had decided to upgrade to a new set of armor. Lance saw this as the ideal opportunity to take him down, with him powerless. With the team, they performed reconnaissance on him, watching and waiting for his armor dealer. As always, Lance anticipated backup, and was right to do so.

Moments later, an armed Russian guard appeared from the alleyway and fired off at the Rebels. They held him off, but made a tactical retreat to avoid any injured innocents. They made their way to a small town square, where they faced off against the guard and then, Ankou. Little did the Rebels know, Ankou was meant to hold the Rebels off long enough for Pestilence to obtain his new, more powerful armor.

With his new armor, the battle lasted only longer. Unfortunately, a new feature of the armor was electrically-charged gauntlets, which allowed Pestilence to revive the armed guard. With Pestilence, a highly-trained mercenary and Ankou around, the team only had more work. The fight somehow ended, but was continued with a high-speed highway chase that resulted in Pestilence's next escape.

Lance continued...

#### Missing

Throughout the month of September 2017, Lance was missing. In his absence, Leo Clark became the impromptu leader of his team.

#### Return: Blood Moon

Lance soon returned as a new virus erupted.

### New Departure

#### Promoting his Son

*"Nothing lasts forever."*
—Lance White

On January 20, 2018, Lance decided to depart from the Rebels to share his knowledge with others with the potential to do more good. He traveled the world with Cody Nakamura. Leo Clark joined them. Lastly, he decided to appoint Kade to lead the Rebels in his absence, and before saying goodbye to his son, they exchanged heirlooms; a Shiro Family feather necklace, and Kade's birth father's dog tags.

#### Exciting Journeys

Lance spent the next three weeks on a deep spiritual journey that took him to depths inside himself he never knew existed. He truly experienced life. During his journey, his son David found him. Lance sent David to return to Neo Arcadia to inform his team that he was prevailing.

#### Brief Return and Death

*"Any way the wind blows..."
"...doesn't really matter... to me."*
—Jason Kade and Lance White, quoting Bohemian Rhapsody
Lance returned to the battlefield one last time upon hearing of Ankou's intent to completely dominate the multiverse. Wielding his ninja weapons, Lance confronted Ankou head-on in his home alongside Cody. He subdued Ankou into a weakened state with a large slash from White Fox, emerging victorious, but he sustained too much physical damage. Lance was clinging to life when Jason arrived and brought him to the graveyard for his final moments.

Lance rested against a grave, but took his final stand to bestow White Fox unto Jason. With that, he passed.

### Legacy

*"Soldiers aren't machines..."*
—Jason Kade
Kade held a funeral the following day, and remembered him for his dedication to justice and honor.

#### Mirage

The Arcadian Rebels, more especially Jason Kade, began seeing sightings of what was thought to be the revival of Lance, or at least some sort of "Mirage". It was later revealed that an engram of his consciousness was copied and later placed in an experimental android body, while his organic body was recovering from the wounds in a hidden stasis chamber. He stuck around for a while longer, until he eventually disappeared, unbeknownst to his friends and family that he had left his life behind to become a Nomad, living a lone-wolf lifestyle in solitude as he would prepare to take down Ankou once and for all, as the dark lord was gathering strength again to take the multiverse this time by storm.

## Personality

*"Maybe the memories I have left are a fragment of what they once were. A depressing thought, given how many I made."*
—Lance White
Lance is a smart man who is good at masking his personality.

Lance is resilient. He never stops fighting, and does not show distress during a fight. He thrives in conflict and chaos, not tranquility; he's a warrior, and fighting stabilizes him. Lance needs an opponent to fight, an enemy to vanquish, a dragon to slay. Only in the middle of a fight does Lance fully come alive. The harder someone hits him, the more everything comes into focus.

He is a protective person, wanting to keep the people he cares about close and safe. He is very protective of his family, friends and teammates, and will do anything to keep them safe. His compassion for people is strong enough to become a vigilante and extradite revenge on those who have harmed them. Lance is very calm under pressure, able to keep a clear mind and work through problems systematically and with composure. His approach is often light-hearted, especially in situations that can lead to his own death or that of others.

Lance is a natural-born leader; he is heroic, noble, kind, selfless, stoic, stubborn, brooding and usually serious in tone. Despite his struggles, Lance has time and again proven to be a great leader. He cares for all of his friends deeply, and will fight to the finish to defend them. Despite that, Lance still remains as a calm, level-headed and intelligent leader who comes up with clever strategies in battles and keeps a calm head most of the time.

As a ninja, Lance was trained to rely on fear and darkness to terrorize his enemies. He demonstrates the prime traits of a martial artist — dignity, inner strength, honor, and humility. However, he also shows resolve and mercy to conquer that darkness.

Lance deeply connected with every member of the Rebels. Lance is a former bounty hunter, and Cody is a former assassin. The two know how it feels to take a life, and learned mercy together, along with sharing interest in television and videogames. He found in Kade a spiritual brother (and later an official adoptive son) as he was a fellow defender who dabbled in martial arts and desired to use their skills to protect the innocent. With Chris, Lance rejoiced in imparting wisdom and martial arts knowledge to a person who understood him, and later artificially conceived a son with her. He and Kaz both share an appreciation for edged weapons. Lance and John both possess a code of honor, albeit varied ones, as well as a fondness for firearms. Not dissimilar to Isaac, they have both had their share of bloodshed and combining guns with swords to enact serious harm upon their enemies. He deeply appreciated Leah for giving love to Jason, and admired her choice of weapons.

Lance harbors a distrust for bureaucracies, such as the EPF.

Despite his hardships, Lance maintains a sense of humor. He remains very cultured with movies, television and videogames.

## Physical Appearance

Lance is a Japanese man with medium-length chestnut brown hair, copper skin tone and a bold stature, standing a little over 6'5". He is slim, rugged and hard looking, with delicately lifted green eyes on the shelf of high cheekbones. He is gracefully flexible with the long hands of an artist, but muscled for speed combat. A scar runs vertical from the left hand side of his face from the bottom of his eyebrow, parallel to his nose, giving the appearance of a tear streaking down his cheek.

As Black Ace, Lance resembles Shinigami, a harbinger of death, the Japanese death spirit who guides people to the afterlife.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Superhuman Senses:** Lance's senses are heightened to superhuman levels, far surpassing the maximum values of human potential. His senses grant him hyper-situational awareness, making him extremely alert to danger, not dissimilar to zanshin (残心). As a true ninja, Lance can also sense the intentions of his enemies. In addition to his five senses, Lance has an amazing kinesthetic sense. His senses can function as a form of subliminal pattern recognition that allows him total absorption of everything around him without preconception or assumption, letting him see the most miniscule of details. Lance also has a natural affinity for magic and arcane lore because his senses make him uniquely connected to reality by energies that would act as a beacon for someone with his advanced sensitivity.
	+ **Superhuman Vision:** Lance is able to see from a great distance while maintaining a good level of clarity, even in darkness due to his eyes having adjusted from spending a significant amount of time in the dark for stealth training and missions. His visual acuity is superior to others, such as his keen eye increasing damage dealt by sniper rifles or being able to target weaknesses to increase damage dealt by shotguns against vehicles and armored targets.
	+ **Superhuman Hearing:** Lance's hearing is hyper-acute, being able to clearly hear conversations, a person's breath and even their heartbeat from a distance. He can also focus on what he hears and block out any other sounds. Hearing the changes in people's heartbeats allows Lance to predict how they feel and what actions they would take, such as attack or run. Based on the rate of people's heartbeats, he can also distinguish whether or not one is lying. Lance's super-hearing is reminiscent of the ninja practice saotokiki (さおときき), as ninja are required to hear as much information as possible during an infiltration.
	+ **Superhuman Smell:** Lance has exceptional olfactory receptors, even sharper than those of a canine, which allows him to locate his enemies in conjunction with his hearing with pinpoint accuracy. His advanced chemoreceptors also allow him to identify explosives and their specifics, as well as pick up on unique smell profiles to essentially track people by their odor. This renders individuals' disguising themselves to be pointless due to the inability to alter their scent.
	+ **Superhuman Taste:** Lance can find injured people by tasting copper in the air from their bleeding wounds. He can also precisely analyze food, its ingredients and origins.
	+ **Superhuman Touch:** Lance can feel the presence of those around him through vibrations, air currents and body temperatures. He can dodge attacks and even bullets by feeling them cut through the air, creating ripples of currents only detectable by him. He can locate enemies through walls and from different floors by feeling the vibrations they make from moving, such as their footsteps. He can also use passive electrolocation to track people and find hidden rooms by feeling electrical currents coming from behind walls, hearing the electricity buzzing inside walls and feeling a stop in the current where the mechanism for unlocking secret rooms are located. He can also sense body temperatures and changes in heat in the environment; he can feel the heat generated from a person losing blood due to being wounded.
	+ **Superhuman Balance:** Lance has perfect equilibrium and can maintain complete balance in a fight, even while evading lethal attacks. Hence, he can instinctively avoid oncoming blows and projectiles with little difficulty. With his other heightened senses, he can interpret multiple stimuli and automatically fire precise muscle contractions to counter any movement, without his center of gravity changing significantly. He keeps his center of gravity precisely positioned above his base of support; his muscles and tendons provide force to stabilize his bones as they sway into balanced postures and his mass is redistributed. He can achieve a state of perfect equilibrium in any position imaginable, adjust his position by instinct, and balance himself on any object, no matter how small or narrow.
* **Pain Immunity:** Lance has deadened nerve endings, allowing him to take extreme punishment without feeling any form of physical pain. Due to his inability to feel pain, Lance is far more resilient than a normal human, as even the most grievous of injuries will not impair his ability to perform, provided his body is still essentially intact (i.e. dislocation). However, his normal healing makes it necessary to give him medical attention. Lance's analgesia could possibly be the reason behind his greater feats of physical strength, as humans are capable of gaining the strength necessary to lift objects weighing more than a dozen times their own bodyweight (in his case, over 3,720 pounds/1.86 tons) during a crisis, or "hysterical strength;" since he cannot feel pain, his body does not hold back due to the absence of danger that comes with hurting himself, allowing him to break his body's limiters and use more than 80% of its power and handle the strain.
* **Poison Immunity:** Lance is immune to all forms of poisons (included but not limited to cyanide, tetrodotoxin and ricin), and short-lived alcohol. Hence, he is able to counter venomous creatures. This also greatly augments his stamina, as he is immune to fatigue toxins. According to Leo Clark, Lance has an extremely rare blood type (C) which eats away at anything venomous and uses it as a stimulant, essentially converting it to chemical energy, so when he is poisoned, he is stimulated.
* **Atmospheric Adaptation:** Lance's body is able to survive and adapt to any environment or weather conditions without changing shape to adapt. He is able to survive at any temperature without discomfort and he can wear minimal clothing in sub-zero temperatures without any harm.

*"Reiatsu, it'll save me!"*
—Lance White
* **Reiatsu Manipulation:** Lance is able to tap into chi, the energy of life itself, and manipulate it to a variety of effects, essentially harnessing the powers of the universe to achieve superhuman feats.
	+ **Air Manipulation:** Lance's primary usage of chi is to summon the Seiken, a piercing blade of razor wind which he sends forth from his palm after invoking it. He has practiced to master the technique, and he eventually mastered the Seishin no Ken, a more advanced and much more dangerous variation of the Seiken.
	+ **Ice Manipulation:** If Lance can harness his chi, he can manipulate ice, cold and frost. He can control ice to the point he can create ice weapons, similar to Isaac Morov.
	+ **Superhuman Speed:** Lance can boost his speed with chi to the point of "Flash Stepping," a short burst of extraordinary speed so quick that it is nearly indistinguishable from teleportation, and leaves behind trace images of his movement that are difficult for the human eye to process. He once used this to run across a body of water, which would require a speed of approximately 650 miles per hour.
	+ **Healing:** With the "melody of love," Lance could heal bodily wounds at an accelerated rate.
* **Inodorosity:** Lance smelled like nothing due to his grain-based diet from birth. Having no scent makes it difficult for others to sense him and makes him optimal for stealth.

### Android Powers

*"I am anything but human! I'm superhuman."*
—Lance White, 5/4/2018
**Android Physiology:** Following his death at the hands of Ankou, Lance's consciousness was transferred into a wetware, synthetic, techno-organic body, the works of which even Cody Nakamura was impressed with.

* **Enhanced Strength:** An approaching storm, an inevitable force of overwhelming might, Lance's android body elevates and surpasses his physical strength and limitations. He is able to casually punch through a car door, and to flip a tank like a lawn chair. He claims to be able to "Throw a punch that even Fort Knox couldn't take", though exaggerated, he's went out of his way to do the math it would take.
* **Enhanced Durability:** Lance's android body is composed of a "Tritanium" Alloyed Composite metal skeleton, a muscular system made up of Carbon Fiber reinforced Polymers, and an ultra-strength technorganic compound that forms his tissue and life-like skin. He once took a bullet from a sniper to his solar plexus, and was unfazed.
* **Enhanced Speed:** Lance can travel at incredible speeds, with the appearance of teleportation.
* **Enhanced Agility:** Due to nigh infinite lung capacity as he requires no oxygen intake, Lance moves with a constant, never ending powerful stride, never faltering and never showing sign of exhaustion.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** As an android, Lance requires neither oxygen, nourishment nor rest to survive.
* **Enhanced Reflexes:** Lance has shown himself to have almost supernatural level of accuracy when dodging, weaving, and redirecting, as the wetware that makes up his brain essentially works like that of a calculator. He is seldom ever wrong with path trajectory, and is able to ricochet a bullet around a corner down hallways.
* **Enhanced Senses:** Lance's Cyberoptics allow him to see in low light vision, as well as perceive heat signatures. His cyber-auditory receptors allow him to hear things miles away if he stops to listen, as well as hear unperceivable sound to those around him.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Lance can regenerate any missing tissue or limb with given time as long as the nanites that form his cells are functional, though they are susceptible to constant overwhelming heat such as from the **Kaiken,** or acute radiation, as the nanites will be unable to operate properly.
* **Electricity/Conductivity Manipulation:** Lance has Shock Inhibitors, a conductive hardware, within the tip of each of his knuckles and the back of his neck, which allows him to inhibit electrical currents in a field that can encompass his entire body with varying degrees of lethality. He can also conduct arcs of this electrical field far from him to zap his enemies from a distance, can send voltage through conductive elements such as water, metals like Copper, and has even shown to be able to chain arcs of electricity through rain droplets to hit a target with a constant barrage of electrical shock. He can spontaneously produce St. Elmo's fire by producing run off electric currents around the outside of these augments, making him voltaic to the touch; He can conduct electricity through a target's blood and can produce enough electrical plasma to the point it resembles an unstable, electric blue flame with a white-hot burning core, hot enough to burn surrounding air molecules. When he enters **Overdrive**, he can leave behind a trail of bright blue electricity with a neon-green glowing background behind him as the conductive plates over his spine release run off currents

### Abilities

*"Remember, I am dexterity, stealth, and thievery; I can dodge a lot of things."*
—Lance White, 12/11/2016

* **Master Martial Artist:** Lance is a tremendously formidable master martial artist and one of the greatest hand-to-hand combatants who ever lived. His skill is second to none, having been trained in numerous martial arts since childhood. He is adept in dozens of fighting styles and weapons, and knowledgeable in their history. He knows the ancient Japanese battle art of Ninjutsu and its disciplines (including Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, Bōjutsu, Sōjutsu, Naginatajutsu, Kusarigamajutsu, Shurikenjutsu, Kayakujutsu, Hensōjutsu, Shinobi-iri, Bajutsu, Sui-ren, Bōryaku, Chōhō, Intonjutsu, Tenmon, Chi-mon, Kuji-kiri and Koppōjutsu), as well as Judo, Jujutsu, Gōjū-ryū Karate, Savate, Kenpō, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, several styles of Kung Fu (including Wing Chun, Wushu, Tai chi, Zuì Quán and Jeet Kune Do), Vale Tudo, Capoeira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Sambo, Aikido, Hapkido, Okichitaw, Silat, Bando, Hakuda, Iaidō, Iaijutsu, Kendo, Kobudō, Eskrima, Tantōjutsu, Zanjutsu, Shīsukenjutsu, and Gun Fu/Hōjutsu. As a ninja, Lance is trained in swordsmanship and other bladed/edge weaponry, most notably his shuriken and kunai. He is seen having a methodical yet savage fighting style which exploits his apex knowledge of weaponry, nigh-superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes and dexterity, and pinpoint accuracy. As a very acrobatic and agile fighter, he relies upon quickly overpowering his opponent with complex kicks, and as such he has demonstrated elements of Taekwondo, as his most frequent strategy is to use his agility and arsenal of counter-attacking kicks to take his opponents down (such as his signature hammer kick), as well as elements of Muay Thai, being fond of sending his knee into an opponent's face. He also employs Apache persuasion holds. His style can easily shift from acrobatic, unpredictable and quick to brutal, cunning and relentless or to natural, graceful and effortless. Aside from his extensive initial training, his skill has developed by fighting along with formal instruction, becoming even more capable with every fight. Under Lance's tutelage, his protégés David White, Mallory White, Almanac, Dimitri, Kodachi and Cross would all become skilled fighters in their own right. After returning from his apparent death, Lance began to emphasize the importance of agility in his movements, now fighting much more gracefully, while maintaining his maneuverability, versatility and strength. He is now much more fluid in his movements, going from one into the next without stopping. Lance retained his martial arts knowledge when his mind was placed in an android body, allowing him to fight against Autumn with ease.
	+ **Sword Mastery:** Lance is a master swordsman. His signature weapon is the katana blade, which combined with his speed, agility, dexterity, accuracy and natural combat abilities make his most highly efficient weapon. As an assassin, Lance would cut through several trained gunmen with ease, as well as dominate on the battlefield with swiftness, sleight of hand, and the surgical precision of a talented swordsman who can masterfully perform in a variety of circumstances. His ninja training included Kenjutsu and Iaidō (among many other disciplines) to increase his awareness and reaction time with using a sword. As Black Ace, he can wield a zanpakutō with Zanjutsu. His superb reflexes are an outlet for Lance to block, deflect, and even split bullets with his swords. The average person takes 3/10ths of a second to register the sound of a bullet being fired and before they can even think to start reacting, and by the time they would move their sword into position, the bullet would have passed them. Lance, however, has an advanced level of anticipation due to his superhuman senses and instincts.
	+ **Star Mastery:** With Ninjutsu comes Shurikenjutsu; Lance is highly proficient in throwing stars, able to disarm goons with shuriken before they can even react. Lance's incredible intelligence allows him to make speedy calculations in order to throw his stars at angles to ricochet them off of multiple surfaces and strike his target without losing momentum. He is extremely good at throwing tiny projectile weapons, which extends to knives.
	+ **Knife Mastery:** Lance is an expert at using knives in combat, especially with his kunai, tantō, kukri, karambit and Nano-Blade. He can easily toss knives across long distances and still make them land, but moreover uses them for traditional close-quarters knife-fighting.
	+ **Staff Mastery:** Given that Lance trained Kade to fight with sticks and staffs, Lance is highly skilled in using sticks in combat. He has mastered the Bōjutsu discipline of Ninjutsu, and he can improvise tools like shovels as a staff weapon.
	+ **Hammer Expertise:** Lance is able to use hammers in a fight. He used a sledgehammer to fight off Rafael Gallardo's men effortlessly.
* **Master Marksman:** Because of his enhanced senses, Lance has an increased awareness of where objects are, allowing him exceptional marksmanship with both firearms and throwing weapons. He is able to hit precise targets without much time needed to aim. He has great skill in handling various weapons, and also has excellent precision. He primarily utilizes his kunai, shuriken, gadget shuriken, trick kunai and occasionally firearms (being a self-proclaimed student of "triggernometry"), though they are often manufactured by AirShock Industries. He is very accurate with them, favoring the use of the KG-115, HPAR and the Dusterwing. Throughout the second half of his first year with the Rebels, Lance has proven to be a verifiable tactical weapons expert in the usage of many firearms. He can also achieve "trick shots" with random objects in the environment around him, notably doing so with a simple rock thrown at an unarmored Pestilence's foot mid-jump to cause him to slam his face into the edge of a rooftop he was attempting to climb.
* **Bow Mastery:** Lance is a master of archery, being skilled in Kyūjutsu, at least on par with the likes of Kade, as his daughter Mallory is a master with the bow and arrow, and since he has taught her everything she knows about fighting and weapons, he is skilled with wielding a bow and using his heightened senses to aim and nock arrows. For Isaac Morov's Viking-themed funeral, Lance fired a flaming arrow onto the former's boat.
* **Master Assassin:** Lance is unnaturally gifted in the ways of violence, and is trained to kill a hundred different ways from the shadows or face-to-face. Before becoming a vigilante superhero, Lance was a master of the art of assassination. A vicious and deadly ninja, Lance was a natural emissary of death with a high kill count and exceptional mastery of swords and firearms. With few equaling him in hand-to-hand combat combined with his senses allowing him to track his targets easily and his extensive ninja conditioning, Lance had an accomplished and seasoned assassin career rivaling that of Cody Nakamura. He became known by many names as a globetrotting mercenary alongside Dimitri.
* **Master Acrobat:** Lance is extremely agile and has great skill in parkour and free-running, which are combined with his chi to give him the ability to perform stunts that should be impossible for a human, making him highly evasive and mobile in battle. He also manages to effortlessly climb and leap over a wall it in a matter of seconds to elude pursuers. His extraordinary athletic prowess is incorporated into fighting style, making full use of his incredible agility to disarm enemies of their firearms and subdue them with lighting quick reflexes giving them no time at all to retaliate. He is one of the few people capable of performing a quadruple front flip.
* **Stealth:** The first thing a shinobi must learn is to conceal his presence and remain hidden. As a highly-trained ninja, Lance can easily avoid people and detection, which is all the more remarkable given that he stands 7'5". His training in Shinobi-iri, Intonjutsu and Kayakujutsu allows him to drop in out of nowhere and vanish just as easily. When going stealth, he hides every part of him, physically and emotionally. He uses the naturally dark areas of his costumes and integrates into the dark parts of the environment around him. He is extremely proficient in stealth and infiltration. As a ninja, Lance has shown being capable of breaking into buildings, apartments and even heavily guarded locations with great ease. He can sneak up on several criminals completely undetected and effectively subdue them with stealthily efficiency. In addition he can utilize various corners and objects to evade his enemies. An example of when Lance is in stealth mode is enemy guards being completely oblivious to his presence. He also uses materials capable of undergoing self-contained, exothermic chemical reactions for the production of gas to disorient his enemies and go in for an attack. Time and time again, Lance has obtained confidential information without permission of the holder of the information, and he's also been known to use disguises to infiltrate enemy territory. His deadly stealth skills earned him the names "Phantom" and "Black Ninja." Some of his stealth techniques include the Tanuki Gakure no Jutsu and the Uzura Gakure no Jutsu.
* **Intimidation:** Lance can choose to be extremely intimidating and fearsome due to his long reputation as a dangerous individual who has taken many lives, tremendous stature, dark habiliments, and stern cadences in his voice often shut people down.
* **Genius-Level Intelligence:** Lance is one of the world's greatest minds. He graduated magna cum laude at the top of his class at Collingswood University. Lance has an incredible IQ, but he seldom uses this power. One of the only times he uses his IQ is in escaping confinement (i.e chains, handcuffs). As his senses allow him to process everything in his surrounding environment combined with his high IQ, this results in creative genius. Aside from his peak physical agility, Lance also possesses mental agility and great performance. His intelligence allows him to learn very quickly and acquire martial arts knowledge to complete mastery in a short span of time, as he can take in a lot of information at once, nine times more efficiently than an ordinary man. His intelligence also extends to anatomy, possessing knowledge of pressure points to utilize whilst fighting, as well as engineering, biology, chemistry, genetics, strategy, leadership, crafts and business. He is also a seasoned toxicologist, being familiar with the poisons/venoms that contaminated Andrew Huxley's arm, specifically the brown recluse spider and the coral snake. Cody Nakamura, an all-intelligent cybernetic who is constantly linked to the internet, has stated that "[Lance has] the brain capacity of a watermelon," confirming his extremely high intelligence due to his brain being more open to incoming stimuli. While wearing his patented IQ Helmet, his neurons fire 20 times their normal rate, his processing systems are evolved, and his synapses are stimulated.
	+ **Master Engineer:**     Lance's daytime job is an engineer at Elixir Co., making him an expert in handling, modification and construction of equipment and high-tech weaponry. He has designed many a weapon for his Rebels and supplied them to his BluDroids. Among his inventions besides the BluDroids include the IQ Helmet, Trick Shuriken, Trick Kunai, numerous AirShock Industries weapons, and the Keybot. He even programs his BluDroids to have free will, human thoughts, emotions, reactions, and even "emotional" pain. While a thoroughly skilled engineer, Lance is not at odds with nature: as a true ninja, he has become one with it to master himself and made peace.
	+ **Expert Tactician:** Lance is an extremely skilled and natural leader, able to successfully lead the Arcadian Rebels in numerous vigilante escapades and missions. Despite some challenges, the Rebels all ultimately came to look up to Lance as the team leader, and developed a healthy team dynamic. His traits of bravery, honor and fortitude make him an excellent leader. As a ninja, Lance is adept in using Bōryaku, using unorthodox strategies and tactics for missions, though he has rarely disregarded the importance of strategy to instead rely on his superhuman instincts, which usually worked out well. He can stay hidden and strike his enemy when they least expect it and disappear moments later, use geography to his advantage and making good use of his environment, and scope out territories he is about to infiltrate before barging in (effectively studying his geography). His heightened senses therefore make him excellent for scouting and reconnaissance.
	+ **Expert Investigator:** Aside from his heightened senses, one of Lance's true powers is the power of observation. Lance was versed in detective work by Leo Clark, and his immeasurably powerful senses make him already highly perceptive and observant, which allows him to notice the smallest of details.
	+ **Expert Businessman:** Lance is an expert businessman, able to lead Elixir Company with efficiency and its subsidiaries, like AirShock Industries, with secrecy. Over the years, he has helped the company grow and gain partners, and also increase in fortune.
	+ **Expert Thief:** Lance is immensely skilled in theft, specializing in breaking into homes and other places to steal. He is also skilled with utilizing chemistry when opening locked safes and bypassing security systems. As a true ninja, Lance leaves no trace.
	+ **Expert Deceiver:** As a ninja, Lance is a deceptive genius, able to effectively fool the public of Neo Arcadia into thinking that "Argent" is an all-powerful, magic being. In his civilian guise, he is able to dissuade people from birthing any thought of the possibility of a wealthy industrialist such as himself of having a vigilante alter-ego. He has also faked his death on more than one occasion.
	+ **Expert Physician:** Lance has great knowledge of human anatomy, having been equipped with medical knowledge by Leo Clark. He was trained to perform emergency medicine and minor surgeries, as well as quick procedures such as one of Kade's many head traumas.
	+ **Explosives Mastery:** Lance has significantly large scientific knowledge that allows him to design and diffuse intricate explosive devices. His dexterity advances this skill, as he once beat a detonator by overheating a bomb, and once put a grenade back together with breakneck speed.
	+ **Skilled Musician:** Lance learned how to play the piano, able to beautifully play the prodigious German composer Ludwig van Beethoven's *Moonlight Sonata*, with his heightened senses assisting him and alerting him to what sounds most pleasant. He has also played *Clair de lune* by Claude Debussy.
	+ **Multilingualism:** Lance speaks both English and his native Japanese, and he has mastered American sign language for stealthy communication. After multiple encounters with Pestilence's goons, he is now able to speak a bit of Russian. This also applies to his encounters with El Fuego's crew, gaining mild proficiency in Spanish. As a child, he desired to visit Latvia, and therefore prepared for his arrival; he trained to identify the Latvian language. By the future, Lance has learned Binary, Italian, and Mandarin. In total: Japanese, English, Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Binary, Italian, Mandarin, and Sign Language. He can also do a convincing Scottish accent.
* **Indomitable Will:** Lance is a very driven and determined individual, as well as virtually fearless in the face of death and danger along with his inhibition of pain. Despite harboring numerous lifelong difficulties, losses and a tremendous amount of physical and mental scars, he fights on like a true warrior. He is not one to submit so easily; Like the archetypal stoic, his focus like iron & his will like steel. Even through the inevitable throes of death and his "resurrection" he did not give in, and did not forget his ultimate goals to finish what was started by killing Ankou once and for all.

### Human Abilities

*"All in the hands."*
—Lance White
* **Peak Human Condition:** Lance is in amazing physical shape. As a ninja, he underwent years of intense training to become a world-class athlete and achieve the pinnacle of human potential. While only his extraordinary senses qualify as superhuman, he still possessed a towering appearance with peak human strength, resilience, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, dexterity and metabolism. In his youth, Lance regulated his diet to maximize his physical well-being. Despite his lean frame, he is muscular and his physical fitness was nearly superhuman; he could hit harder, run faster, react more quickly, and push himself longer than an Olympic athlete. His physical constitution has allowed him to overcome the heightened abilities of opponents such as Stomp, Smith, Sebastian Raymond and John Roy's clone.
	+ **Peak Human Strength:** While Lance's prime physical traits mainly pertain to his mobility, he possesses enormous upper body strength. He could easily lift fully grown men and effortlessly wield heavy weapons, such as Temper. He has powerful strikes, sufficient to shatter metal helmets and cybernetic adornments with his bare limbs, and he once effortlessly sent Jason down with a single shove to the chest during a spar in the water. He could throw small objects with extreme force, including his shuriken and trick kunai, and even use unconventional items as weapons; he once threw a rock at Pestilence's foot mid-air and caused him to crash and slam his face into the edge of a rooftop, achieving a "trick shot." His grip strength is so great that he crushed Cryomancer's amulet in one hand, and he has increased stability with two-handed weapons such as the Dusterwing. He can also easily break a person's neck, which requires about 1,250 foot pounds/163 kilograms/359 pounds of torque. On one occasion, Lance effortlessly moved a statue in front of him to block one of Cody Nakamura's destructive lightning bolts. He also subdued the superhumanly-strong and war-seasoned Autumn Stone, easily lifting and using a nearby portable, metallic set of drawers as an improvised weapon. His possibly greatest feat of strength to date is using his new sword, Unmei, to slash through Famine's weakened Tritanium helmet.
	+ **Peak Human Durability:** Lance is extremely resilient and sturdy by human standards, as his training has forced his skin, muscles and bones to become much stronger and denser than most adults, mainly from his martial arts curriculum involving training to increase the density of his bone and deaden his nerve endings in order to be able to withstand and deliver strong strikes or repeatedly striking hard objects to harden his fingertips, causing them to micro-fracture, but his human physiology repaired these micro-fractures by coating the external layer of his bone with calcium to make them harder than they were before. He can thus recover quickly from brutal beatings received by superhumanly strong opponents or Pestilence's colossally strong armored exoskeleton, although his suppressed pain also aids in this accomplishment. As a man who gets hit on a daily basis, Lance compares his experience to being "knocked around like a toy," but compares himself to a hard, plastic toy; he is a "toy" that cannot break unless he wants to break. During a spar in water with Jason, he blocked a bokken strike with just his arm without sustaining any injury.
	+ **Peak Human Speed:** Lance is as swift as the wind, being able to run at 35 miles per hour without tiring, whereas Usain Bolt holds the record of running up to speeds of 27.78 mph, meaning he is 20.57% faster. He is also 83.31% faster than the average man, who runs at 5.84 miles per hour. In high school, Lance could already run 100 meters in 12 seconds (18.64 miles per hour). His reaction time, maneuverability and counterattacks are also profoundly increased to the limit. He can keep up with most standard vehicles and cover a small area, such as city blocks within a short period of time, run across rooftops while maintaining momentum and direction, and is quick enough to surprise even speedsters such as Doug State. He can deliver swift strikes with his weapons faster than the eye can see; the most well-trained human eyes are capable of detecting movements occurring in 1/220th of a second (0.0045 seconds). His fast trigger finger upgrades pistol rate of fire to as fast as a trigger can be pulled. His speed can be augmented by harnessing his chi to accomplish techniques such as the iconic "Flash Step."
	+ **Peak Human Agility:** Lance is superbly agile and nimble in his movements, on par with only Almanac. He can leap higher and further than most humans, being capable of impressive acrobatic and gymnastic feats, as well as coordinate his body with nearly perfect precision to change direction without losing speed. His seemingly inhuman mobility allows him to move away from the sight of others and stalk enemies from the shadows or from higher vantage points, often leaving him unscathed in shootouts. As a master of guerrilla warfare, Lance can use his agility against clumsy enemies with ponderous sizes. Furthermore, he remains the only person in the world who has ever performed a quadruple front flip.
	+ **Peak Human Stamina:** As a result of Lance being immune to toxins, this includes fatigue, which makes him highly endurant. He can exert himself at his peak capacity for several days without tiring or slowing down, and can recover extremely fast from injuries and fatigue due to his training. His immunity to pain greatly attributes to his superhuman endurance. Furthermore, Lance's endurance enables him to perform the Seiken five times in a 24 hour period, whereas Jason Kade can only perform it once a day, despite the latter's peak physical conditioning.
	+ **Peak Human Reflexes:** Lance possesses incredible focus, reaction time and perception. Hence, he can quickly react in battle, respond with counterattacks at blinding speed and even dodge gunfire. One of his greatest feats was quickly reacting to one of Cody's lightning bolts by using his strength to push a statue in the bolt's trajectory.
	+ **Peak Human Dexterity:** Lance possesses nigh-perfect muscle control and hand-eye coordination, allowing him to perfectly perform very precise movements rapidly, such as composing blueprints or strategies, or accurately and precisely launching his ninja weapons. His training in swordsmanship helped his hand-eye coordination and his hands to work together while performing different tasks, and his versatility and precision allow him to be able to hit specific targeted areas. His advanced sleight of hand increases reload speed for pistols and two-handed weapons, his steady hands reduce scope sway on scoped weapons, and his steady aim increases pistol range. By applying pressure to the joint, Lance can dislocate his thumb to free himself from handcuffs because his ligaments have been stretched and conditioned in the art of escape.
	+ **Peak Human Metabolism:** Lance's metabolism burns faster than the average person due to his long-lived strict diet and physical superiority, making him highly tolerant to alcohol, as only Benjamin Franklin's wine is shown to be able to intoxicate him, whereas his liver metabolizes other toxins at a swift rate.

## Weaknesses

* **Analgesia:** While Lance's deadened nerve endings grant him a higher form of resilience in combat, he is vulnerable to not knowing how dangerous his injuries are because he cannot feel the pain that comes with them.
* **Rare Blood Type:** Lance has an extremely rare blood type (C) that, although has its advantages in that it makes him immune to poisons, venoms and toxins, also has very minimal knowledge surrounding it; less than 1% of the American population have AB negative blood, meaning that Lance's blood type is even more uncommon. Hence, if Lance's human body was to ever require a blood transfusion, it is unknown which blood types could be accepted.

### Android Weaknesses

* **Prone to Rampancy (i.e. Protocol Deviation Syndrome):** Lance's mental fortitude is second to none, but what little of his humanity left in his android body has taken a toll on his mental tolerance. Should it wither or fray away, or be subject to erosion long enough, he will snap. Lance, during one such episodes, broke into the State Estate during a garden party hosted by Doug State's father, slaughtered almost the entirety of the party guests and almost Bullet, before his team mates showed up to stop him with little progress to reverse his state. Javelin was called upon to leave his current duties in E2.6 to assist. Javelin is a contender and adversarial counterpart to Lance in almost everyway. They are matched in strength, speed, endurance, tolerance, and agility. It required Javelin to hold Lance face-down to the floor upwards of over 7 and a half hours until he calmed down, to which Lance freed himself multiple times during, possibly meaning that when he is not of sound mind could easily defeat and outmatch himself.
* **Regenerative Malfunction:** Lance having been gifted a new hyper regenerative body, can outlast most of any trial he might be subject to from any foe he faces, though this isn't without it's draw backs. Lance's regenerative nanites have technologic flaws that can be exploited through obstruction from foreign objects. if Lance is shot, failure to retrieve the bullet(s) from his body in a timely matter can prove fatal as the nanites cannot replicate his tissue if there is something in the way, this goes the same for stab wounds. He is also weak in exposure to high radioactive environments as the technology cannot function well in high doses of radioactivity, rendering him Hemophilic as wounds will not close or clot properly until he is cleared of any radiation.

## Techniques

* Taijutsu
* Reiatsu

* **Ninjutsu:** Lance was trained in Ninjutsu since he was a child to become a master of weapons, stealth, and hand-to-hand combat. He can fight unarmed or wield swords, staffs, spears, polearms, chain sickles, shuriken, knives, and explosive devices, as well as disguise himself, infiltrate enemy territory and approach undetected, ride horses, avoid his enemies underwater, employ unorthodox strategies, commit espionage, escape his enemies, and use meteorology and geography to his advantage.
	+ **Kenjutsu:** Lance specializes in swordfighting, mainly with katanas.
	+ **Shurikenjutsu:** Lance is incredibly accurate with throwing blades, particularly shuriken and kunai.
	+ **Kayakujutsu:** Lance is also skilled with explosive shuriken and kunai, as well as explosives in general.
	+ **Shinobi-iri:** As a ninja, Lance can covertly infiltrate highly secure facilities.
	+ **Intonjutsu**: Lance is a master escaping confinement, and he can disappear without a trace.
* **Jujutsu:** Lance learned Jujutsu for throws, joint manipulation, and immobilization techniques. For instance, he can use strikes, apply chokeholds and use his attacker's momentum against them.
* **Judo:** With the descendant of Jujutsu, Lance can emphasize throwing his enemies in his fighting style, specifically head throws and arm throws.
* **Karate:** Lance knows several styles of karate for striking, blocking and grappling.
* **Kung Fu:** In addition to Japanese martial arts, Lance knows various styles of Kung Fu.
	+ **Wing Chun:** Lance knows Wing Chun, a close combat style from Southern China that combines defense and attack.
	+ **Jeet Kune Do:** Lance knows that the moment of an attack offers an opportunity to intercept and use it to his advantage. He remains calm while his enemy is tense, and when they apply excessive force he controls it through fluid motion by relaxing his whole body so he can react instantly without resistance or thought. Much like water, which can take any form, Lance drifts without effort one moment, then pounds down in a torrent the very next.
	+ **Crane Style:** Lance's crane style is natural, graceful, effortless, fluid, and balanced due his superman equilibrium. He can maintain perfect balance, even while evading lethal attacks. He poses his striking hand similar to the long pointed beak of the bird, utilizing his "wings" for big, circular sweeping movements designed to exploit his wingspan; by enlarging the striking zone, he diffuses his opponents' energy, using four ounces of energy to deflect one thousand tons of pressure. Other than sweeping circular motions with his arms, he uses tall stances with high whirling kicks, and counter attacks with the crane fist. With the crane stance (金雞獨立), Lance can avoid sweeps, as well as block and deliver kicks.
	+ **Zuì Quán:** Lance also learned drunken boxing.
* **Taekwondo:** Lance has very fast and powerful kicks, such as his signature hammer kick.
* **Savate:** Lance knows French kickboxing.
* **Zanjutsu:** As the Black Ace, Lance is able to wield a zanpakutō sword.
* **Bando:** Lance's weapon of choice for a time was a kukri.

*"Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me."*
—Freddie Mercury
* **Seiken:** A ranged attack, Lance can send a blade made out of wind at his opponents. It cannot be blocked, only dodged. Lance claims this requires a great amount of skill and energy to use, not to mention focus. "Seiken" is Japanese for "holy sword."
	+ **Seishin no Ken:** Lance is the only one to ever utilize the Seishin no Ken, the highly advanced form of the Seiken which he created himself. The blade of wind is exponentially sharper and quicker than the original Seiken, Lance has rarely used this due to the intense amount of energy it requires to unleash.

*"Sakura, sakura. Firodu ya mura de. Kagiri anata ga miru koto ga dekiru yo ni. Sore wa kiri, matawa kumo wa arimasu ka? Asa no taiyo no shita de kaori takaidesu. Sakura, sakura. Mankai no hana."*
—Melody of Love
* **Melody of Love:** A captivating song that makes somebody much more loving, caring, and open-minded. In addition to that, it can help the body cure emotional and physical wounds much faster.
* **Shunpo/Flash Step:** If Lance can harness his chi, he can achieve an almost superhuman speed. He's used this to run across large bodies of water, reaching approximately 650 mph.
* **Sudden Knockout:** Lance has and can, by properly utilizing physical forces, momentum, and leverage as well as his knowledge of anatomical weaknesses and undergoing frequent extremely intense strength-and-endurance-based exercises, easily generate low-level superhuman strength and takes full advantage of this to strike pressure points and instantaneously send opponents careening into unconsciousness.
* **Shikai/Initial Release:**

## Equipment

### Attire

* **Lightly Aramid Lined Blue Hoodie:** A dark, navy blue hoodie lightly lined with a bullet-proof material rated to stop smaller calibers between SMGS and handguns. Lance made this himself before any other, and served him in the very early beginnings of his work as a lone wolf merc and vigilante.
* **Huckberry "Flint and Tinder" Flannel-Lined Waxed Outdoor Jacket:** Along with a black baseball cap, black timberland boots and light gray jeans, Lance would wear a cut-resistant dark brown fall jacket for civilian wear.
* **GridTEC "ZeroGrav" Suit Type 01:** A gift from the New Inter-Plantery Peacekeeper's Protocol (N.I.P.P.) right after his temporary agreement to work in coordination with police departments, this suit perfectly fit Lance's style of quick close quarters combat. It is comfortable, flexible, and durable with outer energy shielding and contender class ballistic armor plating that can survive moderate explosions in the vacuum of space without so much as a scratch. With the inclusion of a thermal regulation system, it is built to last for extended periods in molten temperatures as well as below zero before any thermal breaching. It has a built in H,U.D. complete with a trajectory assisting ballistic coprocessor and topographical mini-map. Lance made his own adjustments with the inclusion of an early version of **V.I.S.T.A.** (Virtual Intelligent Smart-Link Tactical Assistant), an A.I. he created for assistance in Sabotage, Assault, Spy, & Reconnaissance missions. The suit was made with an optional automatic environment camouflaging technology. When exposed oxygen rich atmospheres and environments similar to human home worlds, the suit's coloration automatically turns to a deep black and navy-blue to accommodate to darker areas. When exposed to the vacuum of Space the suit's overall color scheme is washed out into a white and pale gray to blend in with distant solar light and meteoric rock. The suit's color and pattern is also adjustable from the inside to blend in to more specific environments, being able to shift to a bright red to indicate presence of emergency service as well as a deep blue to blend in with aquatic areas, along with woodland, arid, urban, and arctic camouflage.

### Weaponry and Gadgets

Lance has wielded an arsenal of ninja weaponry.

* **White Fox:** Lance's own Taisei buki (大聖武器) provides him the ability to erase matter as is from the space-time continuum, a key weapon in taking down the likes of Ankou. His Erasure Sword is in the form of a Nagamaki, a sword with a long handle and blade longer than a katana but shorter than a Nodachi. He passed the blade along to Jason when he died in February 2018, but it was returned to him once his consciousness was transferred into a synthetic body.
* **Temper:** Lance received a sword twice as tall as him, which he named "Temper." He kept it strapped to his back in a strong, white mummy-like wrapping. It appeared to unwrap itself once he gripped the handle behind his shoulder, allowing him to lift it up for him, and he had no problem with lifting the weight of the sword. He discontinued performance with this due to his lethal forces conflict.
* **Hingeblades:** Lance owns a pair of short swords that fold into an elongated handle on a hinge, functioning similarly to a balisong. The hinge works in conjunction with a spring-lock mechanism that with the push of a lever snaps the blade into a fixed position. When fully folded the Hingeblades work as a pair of concealed bladed weapons that equal out to little over a foot long. He often keeps the blades relatively dull, so that their potential at causing lethal slashing is limited, while still maintaining the lasting sting left with each strike.
* **Daisho Set:** A set of multiple katana placed in a sash that work tandem in situations of close and personal combat.
	+ **Unmei (運命)**: Gifted to Lance by Jason Kade, Unmei is a custom forged Tsukamoto model Tachi with the color scheme and depiction on the Hamon of The Great Wave off Kanagawa along the blade, the sword handle wrapped in an elegant blue silk and the Saya comprised of hand painted treated bamboo wood. Due to the pattern of the paint and design, when it is drawn from the Saya it gives the optical illusion that a great tidal wave is being invoked forth from the saya.
	+ **Yūki to Gisei (勇気と犠牲):** Lance owns a pair of blades in which he uses simultaneously. Courage, a Chinese Zhanmadao with a Hamon pattern of a pond with koi swimming up stream, Mandarin engravings near the Tsuba translate to "Courage is a Journey." Sacrifice, a wakizashi short katana, has the Hamon pattern of an impending storm of lightning and thunder, with archaic Japanese engravings near the Tsuda that translate into "Sacrifice is a Battle". Upon further inspection, the depictions on all of Destiny, Courage, and Sacrifice connect into one greater picture, with the storms on Sacrifice following behind Destiny's Great Wave, with Courage being implied as the waterfall that started the wave on Destiny.
* **Ibuki:** Lance used an AirShock Industries shock-sabre which can electrocute his enemies.
* **Kukri:** Lance also used a curved Nepali kukri knife, an arterial weapon perfect for slicing through flesh, but not stabbing.
* **Tantō:** Lance has also used Japanese daggers.
* **Little Fang:** Lance forged his lucky kunai in his youth, keeping it as a charm, continuing to carry it on his person as a vigilante.
* **Kunai/Bō-Shuriken:** Lance carries two pouches on his left and right hip stocked full of kunai and bō-shuriken.
* **Trick Kunai/Trick Bō-Shuriken:** Lance happens to carry an extra ace up his sleeve.
	+ **Remote Detonated Kunai:** Kunai tagged to a remote detonator that create a small explosion upon being detonated. Lance uses these to clear walls and barricades as well as put distance between an enemy and himself.
	+ **Shock Shuriken:** Bō-shuriken hooked to a constant electrical circuit that inhibit shock paralysis to whoever is unfortunate enough to "catch" it.
	+ **Rope Dart:** Kunai with a loose rope or chain tied around the ring near the pommel that releases in air when thrown, working as a incapacitating lasso and as an anchor when directly piercing an assailant. Sometimes these are also hooked to an electrical circuit to double the effect.
	+ **Recon Dart:** Bō-shuriken that pings motion and thermal readings in real time, remote connected to a network feed.
	+ **Smoke Shuriken:** Bō-shuriken tipped at the end with a small cartridge that upon impact fumigates an area in a thick smoke that completely prohibits vision. Sometimes these are packed with pepper, salt or garlic salt to lastingly blind a target even after the smoke clears, or are packed with various fragments of silicon and depleted uranium as computer imaging software has difficulty rendering these materials when made into an airborne powder.
* **Shuriken:** Lance carried shuriken to precisely fling at his targets in quick succession. Like his kunai, he has also designed trick shuriken to achieve goals that standard shuriken could not, such as explosions or tracking.
* **Makibishi:** Lance has used caltrops.
* **Kaginawa:** Lance has used an old-school grappling hook.

*"Triggernometry is what I study in. AKA... guns."*
—Lance White
Lance also owns a variety of guns, and his specialty weapons are manufactured through his shell company, AirShock Industries.

* **Pistols & Revolvers:** Lance has a particular interest in handguns and their professional elegance.
	+ **Strayer Voigt Infinity 0-Grav Model:** Made specifically for Zero Gravity CQC situations, this handgun fires caseless ammunition at high impact to increase the greatly increase chance stabilizing a ricochet.
	+ **Taurus Raging Bull:** Lance armed himself with a chrome plated impact revolver after a break in his apartment. He ricocheted a bullet into the intruder's leg and ultimately shot him in the head.
	+ **Chiappa Rhino:** Lance enjoys using unique weaponry, and the Chiappa Rhino fits his criteria with flying colors.
	+ **Colt M1911A1:** Lance kept a concealed .45 caliber Colt in his holster when in civilian mode in late 2017.
	+ **Commander's Knuckle Gun KG-115:**
	+ **Shock Matriarch Revolver****:** Lance has a "Shock" variant of the Matriarch revolver. The rounds chambered in this simulate a Taser. **Shotguns, Rifles & Automatics:** Even though he opts for stealth whenever possible, Lance enjoys firepower when it's appropriate.
	+ **FN P90:** Lance is a fan of weapons with unique magazine placement, and the P90 is one he has a particular liking to.
	+ **IMI Uzi:** Lance keeps one of these in his nightstand drawer should he receive an uninvited guest.
	+ **AJX Rifle:** A collapsible sniper rifle with red bullets.
	+ **STSR:** Lance's Swarm Type Suppressive Rifle is a versatile sniper rifle ideal for scope-aimed shots at distant targets. Should the targets be close to medium range, the rifle can also be fired in fully automatic mode. The modular design of the STSR allows the barrel to extend and retract easily so the rifle can switch between sniper and fully automatic mode.

### Transportation

* **2005 Chevrolet Tumbler:** The 2005 Chevy Tumbler SUV has driver and passenger-side air bags, as well as head-curtain side-impact air bags, plus an all-new third row of seats, and OnStar with a one-year Safe and Sound plan.
* **Ford Mustang Mach 1/"Himiko"**: Among inheriting his father's company and the White Fox, Lance received Himiko, a Ford Mustang model that was ceased production in 1978 only coming out with a handful more every few decades. Himiko has a deep red paint job with black racing stripes and the numbers "777" to the left rear-end, she has a custom plate number on the back with that reads "F0RTUNA."
* **Customized 2014 Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa:** Shortly after the early formation of The Rebels, Lance invested in a Twilight Blue Suzuki Superbike that he customized to his liking, with a L.E.D. ballistic glass windscreen and light up rims. Among the cosmetics he also made some tactical additions, with two concealed gun shelves under the brake handles and a hollow opening for the barrel. These shelves leave access to the trigger so if Lance finds himself in a high-speed pursuit he has fully concealed and ergonomic access to two handguns while he simultaneously he steers the wheel.
* **2017 Rezvani Tank "Hercules" 6x6 Military Edition:** Shortly before Lance would engage in full skirmishes and street warfare with Taras Richtov and the Red Army Syndicate on a frequent basis, he purchased two Rezvani Tanks, one for members of his team and one for himself, a highly ballistic armored truck/S.U.V. that improved upon the Jeep design. Lance specifically bought a Hercules Model, that comes with a 6 wheel-drive and 20+ security features upon purchase. Lance improved upon his Rezvani by adding a modular mount to the back of the truck bed that holds a FN MAG General Purpose Machine Gun over the back of the bed and an M134 Minigun over the hood of the truck. He also installed blast plating over the front and back of the truck and also put in a rail for a bed covering, effectively turning the truck bed into the back of a van.
* **Alpha Hawk**
* **Jolt**

## Relationships

* Hiroto Shiro - Father
* Akari Shiro - Mother
* David White - Son
* Izzy White - Adoptive Daughter
* Mallory White - Adoptive Daughter
* Jason Kade/Almanac - Good Friend, Apprentice, Adoptive Son
* Max Shiro - Son

Allies* Elixir Company
	+ AirShock Industries
* Arcadian Rebels
	+ Cody Nakamura/Ghost - Best Friend
	+ Chris Felix/Kodachi - Girlfriend
	+ Dimitri - Bounty Hunter Partner
	+ John Roy/Wolftrot
	+ Isaac Morov/Cryomancer
	+ Leah Caverly/Reverie - Friend
* Anna Ayano - Ex-Love Interest
* Sebastian Raymond - College Professor, Victim
* Frost Clan
	+ Cooper Jaywood/Stomp
* Ace Clan
* Winged Beast
* Smith
* Majestic
* Vath
* Enigma

## Trivia

* Lance White is the founder of the Deltaverse roleplay.
* Lance's last name used to be 白 (Shiro), the Japanese character for the color and/or last name, "white". This changed when he became a U.S. Citizen.
* Besides training or maintaining his body and his gear, Lance had a hobby for cooking as a human.
	+ Lance's favorite wine was 19 Crimes, his love found for both its name and taste.
	+ Lance once ate four Ghost Peppers (*Naga Jolokia*) in five minutes. The ghost pepper is one of the world's hottest peppers, measuring 401.5 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. His high aversion to pain likely aided him in this achievement.
	+ Lance, as an android, lost his culinary interest as he no longer had fully functioning taste buds,
		- Having near nonexistent taste buds as sustenance and nourishment are unnecessary, he prefers food that are highly bitter, acidic, spicy, or salty as high concentrations of capsaicin, citric acid, sodium chloride, or white vinegar to override his pain inhibitors and give the temporary illusion of taste.
		- Lance did not drink irresponsibly as a human, but upon stepping into his replicant body, his drinks of choice were Old Crow, Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey, and Aged Pure Sake. Lance's wine of choice is anything red and strong, as red wine is said to hide the taste of poison best. Lance did not like wine nor beer personally.
		- Lance picked up smoking as an Android, as the lack of organic lungs made him immune to any harmful effects.
* Like Cody Nakamura and Jason Kade, he is a fan of video games, and is extremely partial to the Halo franchise, a complex battle simulation with a steep learning curve. There are myriad weapons, vehicles and strategies to master, not to mention an extremely intricate backstory. He is also a big fan of Capcom's Rockman Zero series, developed by Inti Creates.
* Lance's signature color is blue, formerly green.
	+ Blue has relation to intellect and ability to calm with words. It indicates honesty and sincerity. With the help of blue you can isolate from reality and - staying in solitude - contemplate and think. Blue enables creativity. It is associated with the wind, sky, cold, reserve and indifference, but at the same time purity and candor.
	+ Green is the color of life. It flows through all living things, connecting them all. The way he connected the Arcadian Rebels or the way he connected his family, whether they were together or not.
* Lance is the only member of the Rebels to refer to a suppressor as a "silencer."
* The design on Lance's sword **Courage** is a nod to an ancient myth of the Koi of the Yellow River. The myth says that there are many. many Koi who do not make it to the peak of the waterfall but those who persevere, hold faith and courage will crest the cascades and become mighty dragons.
* Of the 12 Character Archetypes, Lance's would be:
	+ **The Sage**, as he has dedicated much of his life to finding a true balance between good and evil, and has an overall interest in learning and teaching, and the cycle of teaching what you have learnt & learning from your teachings (I.E. The Student becomes The Master, and The Master becomes the Student).
	+ **The Warrior**, as he has the innate calling to face his problems with determination and a level-headed discipline, and to overcome any and all odds no matter how big or small; ""Aut viam inveniam aut faciam".
	+ **The Destroyer**, as during much of his upbringing he has been confused, discontent and later frustrated/deeply angered with much of society's tendency to allow and often times coerce or even participate in certain 'lesser evils', and finding apt to bear the responsibility of solving said issues, if not finding a way to pacify said civil corruption. This can often leave Lance to fall into a habit of his conclusions being reckless, creating more problems than he can fix or being careless in how his solutions affect him, placing other's safety and well-being above himself.

## Music

Lance's favorite songs include:

 George Michael | "Careless Whisper"