Lieutenant Michaud

Michaud's new suit, an upgrade Moore would come to regret.

> *"Prepare for the force of the solar system, Lennard." - Michaud to Lennard Malloy before their fight.*
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**Lieutenant Michaud** is a Void Walker operating in the streets of NNYC, and an ex-member of both the Alliance Military and the Four Kings. He lost his position in the Alliance Military after its government collapsed, and in the Four Kings after he betrayed them.

## Appearance

Michaud stands at 6'2 inside his upgraded spacesuit, which is based upon the Jager police suit. It is built of graphene and titanium plating, with a visor made from a graphene/transparent aluminum alloy.

Inside the suit, Michaud is little more than a mummified husk, his skin so dry and taught to his flesh that it feels closer to cool stone than leather. Within the sockets of his scoured skull, Michaud's eyes glow a luminous blue that can only barely be seen through the tinted visor.

Michaud wears a fireproof bomber jacket, made out of artificial leather and fur to give it a lifelike look while still remaining resilient. Pinned on it are Michaud's old Alliance medals, or what remains of them.

## Personality

Prior to becoming a void walker, Michaud was known as a warm and friendly man, as well as quite patriotic. The Void however has heavily warped any warmth from his bones, and this comes through in his cold and somewhat arrogant personality.

Michaud despises the spineless and cowardly, having an especially intense dislike for those that come across as rogues or snakes. During his time with the Four Kings this put him into direct conflict with Lennard Malloy, a man who is very much so a snake and a rogue.

Michaud had few friends as a void walker, and one of those few men counted in that number was Lucas Moore. Lucas had a strange curiosity and patience with Michaud, that Michaud greatly appreciated. The two spent many nights in deep conversation about both war and technology, and without Moore and those rare conversations Michaud lost one of his few tethers to reality.

Michaud's mind was broken by his time in the void, though it has slowly gotten better over time he has been leading a very purposeless life. Michaud will often go into a half lucid state and remain in one spot for days and even weeks at a time, either daydreaming or thinking of nothing.

## Backstory

Little is known of Michaud's military service record, other than that he served in the Alaskan war and was one of the few survivors of the Alliance navy after Roland Masseau decimated their fleet.

Most other records of his life were destroyed with the annihilation of Roethsburg, other than documentation of his final mission. He was sent on an experimental voyage into the Void, from a remote Nunavut lab. Only moments later the Spellplague erupted into the Void and into the world, and Michaud's being was shattered.

He became a void walker with the massive burst of energy that thrummed out through the Void, and broke its already strange reality. Michaud drifted their for a timespan that is unknowable, seemingly tens of thousands of years in the span of only three.

Michaud burst out into NNYC, crash landing into the Hudson River. Lucas Moore recovered his pod shortly, and after a quick fight and tense negotiations, Moore recruited Michaud into the Kings. Michaud's mind at this point was fractured and foggy, with memories of the Alliance few and far between as he struggled to regain his identity. Moore aided him here, speaking tirelessly with him and remolding him over the course of several months.

Eventually Michaud was sent out into NNYC on a mission: obliterate Volker Stahlwuff's team, who had been assembled to destroy the Kings. Michaud went out bounding across rooftops, seeking them out and eventually finding them atop an apartment building. There he fought viciously with Dexter Mallaworthy and Laura Wilkinson, ending in the deaths of numerous civilians and with Moore's space suit being badly damaged.

Over the next few weeks Michaud would think to himself and develop strategies on how to defeat the team, as Moore ordered a new custom built suit for him. Michaud thought he'd get the chance to test out these abilities after Moore had been killed by Volker's team, and he was deployed to guard Volker himself who had been taken hostage.

Instead of fighting Volker's team, however, Michaud ended up turning on Lennard Malloy who had been stationed alongside him, after a tense conversation with Roland Masseau who exposed the Four Kings as having lied to Michaud about their end goal. Infuriated over having been manipulated he fought with Lennie, beating him violently and sending him running.

After this fight Michaud deposited both Laura and Volker off at their base, and has not been seen since. He has gone completely underground and his location is entirely unknown, as are his current goals and allegiances.

## Powers and Abilities

### Gravity Manipulation:

Michaud can manipulate the gravity of a localized area around him, which comes about in several forms:

* **Gravity Haymaker:** Michaud greatly increases the weight of his fist upon the moment of impact, increasing the strength of his hit violently.
* **Gravbouncing:** Michaud greatly reduces the gravity around him allowing him to make massive leaps and bounds across large distances.
* **Gravslam:** Michaud increases the gravity in an area around him, slamming people near him into the ground as he remains unaffected in his spacesuit.
* **Graviton Dropkick:** Michaud lowers his own gravity drastically, flying into the air, before increasing it heavily and slamming into a target.

### Temperature Manipulation

Michaud can raise and lower the temperature of a localized area around him, which comes about in several forms:

* **The Burning Hand:** Michaud super heats his gauntlet, allowing it to scorch flesh and weaken metal.
* **Shatter:** Michaud deep freezes metal around him to make it easily breakable.
* **Frozen/Molten Wasteland:** Michaud dramatically heats or freezes the environment around him cause dramatic repercussions for those within its radius.

### Another World

The big bad of Michaud's abilities, this is when he dramatically alters the gravity and temperature of a localized area to make it entirely inhospitable to human life. It requires dramatic amounts of Voidic energy, and renders Michaud catatonic for days on end after its use. Surviving in a radius around Michaud after this abilitiy is activated is quite impossible, though it is a luckily small one. Radius of 10 feet, spreading out from Michaud at a rather quick pace.

## Equipment

#### **E-MASS**

The Experimental Military Attack and Survival Suit is an incredibly resilient carapace that covers Michaud's body, and renders him an incredibly durable target. It can survive in nearly any environment and is very difficult to penetrate by non-energy weapons. The E-MASS has motorized joints that can keep its wearer moving under intense pressure and in alien atmospheres. Originally beginning development to be used by deep sea divers and deep space astronauts it was repurposed by Moore as a new suit of armor for Michaud.