Shin Cline

Kathier

**Shin Cline** is a legendary damupawa-capable male user, who was leader of Comms of Catic and was the heir to the Cline family. After disbanding Comms, Cline would make Nonobe, a group of respected and powerful damupawa-capable individuals. Shortly before creating Nonobe, Cline would create an alter ego by **Kathier**. During his reign as Kathier, Cline would listen to the orders of Moqu Gyrallee. Cline is currently the Hand-Manipulation user.

Born biologically in the Cline Family, Cline was born on the outskirts of Troitde. He was the son of Sally Cline. Cline's father had walked out before he was even born, therefore never getting a chance to meet his father. Shortly after Cline had turned four, Sally would scar him on the right side of his cheek, ensuring that he would never come back to find her again. After Sally had abandoned him, Cline would live in a orphanage. During his time in the orphanage, Cline would often leave the building, sneaking in extra food like bread, gizmos and scraps he would find and trinkets. At a young age, Cline would show talent and potential in engineering, being very handy in making tools with scraps.

At age fourteen, Cline would escape the orphanage and attend regular high school for a short period of time. At school, he would meet his best friend and love, Mirion Wryns and Hana Eve. Cline would fall in love with Hana, vowing to even save her brother who had turned on her family years ago. Cline and Wryns would learn the use of damupawa from their master, Uncle Uncle. Uncle would guide the boys on how to create their own techniques. After nine months of difficult training, the boys would duel and would decide that it would officially be time to set off to find Hana Eve's brother, Aniket Eve. In order to assist the journey, Uncle would assign his former successor and student, Louis Yooshi. Shortly after, Cline would befriend a boy around his age named Hen Kentcloud. Cline would then create a group called Comms located in Catic. Comms would grow in numbers and strength, mainly due to the groups beliefs and respect status.

During the Battle of Luger, Cline along with founding members of Comms would confront Aniket Eve in an attempt to return him to peace. Desperate and anxious, alongside his fear of losing Hana, Cline's movements and attacks throughout the battle would be uncoordinated and sloppy, leading to him having to fall back. Without the support of Cline, Yooshi would be killed and Cline would be kidnapped to be tortured by Aniket Eve. Cline would be tortured physically and mentally throughout the next week until he was finally set free.

## Appearance

### Youth

As a child, Shin Cline would have unkempt very dark brown hair and wear a dark brown-to-burgundy cloth in very poor material. His face would often be dirty due to poor hygiene. Cline would have clear emerald eyes. One of Cline's most notable features was his scar, caused by his mother. Occasionally, Cline would wear goggles embedded with minute cords in between glass fibers and the leather straps allowing him to see holograms throughout the world within the lenses. In Cline's trunks were often bread and butter.

### Comms

As a fifteen year old, Cline was a young man of taller than average height with a slender build with a slim waist. His hair would continue to be short and silky brown. Cline is usually seen wearing his school uniform. Which consists of a shirt, tie, and black slacks. Casually, Cline would wear a tan hoodie with brown buttons. While training with Uncle, Cline's hair would grow significantly longer, having a mullet. His physique would also advance, putting on more muscle. Cline has two scars on his back, he also has a large scar on his scalp. He would wear a plain white shirt, along with Wryns. After leaving Uncle's training, Cline would cut his hair, however growing in volume than before yet shorter than before. Cline would wear a collared long-sleeved shirt and slacks that were tailored to not rip and fit for combat. After creating uniforms, Cline would be given an issued "leaders" uniform, consisting of a long navy blue trench coat, tan trousers, sturdy black boots, and ear piece. Cline would also wear a brown leathered belt, having inside his valuables, being a photograph of his friends, the Visored Goggles Plus that he had made from his childhood and pocket cash.

After his time in Widow, Cline's hair would be cut short and wavy.

### Kathier

Years later, Cline would grow in height, reaching 6'3. His physique would grow more muscle than fat in ratio, and his eyes would grow to become less flexed. Cline would receive twenty-one bullet scars, a scar on his stomach, after getting impaled. Cline would also have received three small scars on the left side of his face, due to inheriting his family's technique called "possession". Cline's hair would grow, reaching down to a little lower than his cheeks, parted to the side. Cline would wear a dark brown cloak with a golden button, covering his movements. Cline would grow into his cheek bones more, having them defined. By the end of the series, Cline's left side of his body would be completely burned off.

## Personality

As a child, Shin Cline would be surprisingly kind, generous and caring towards people despite his tragic upbringing. In the orphanage, Cline would often help his friends out and gift them gizmos on their birthdays, or if they asked. If they were hungry, Cline would go out and sneak food. From a young age, Cline would show talent and interest towards creating gizmos and gadgets, demonstrating creativity and intelligence. Even though Cline's own mother had given him a life long at toddler's age, he would never hold a grudge against her. Growing up in the orphanage, Cline would extremely dislike the orphanage, leading him to resent it and escape it. He would feel like a slave and prisoner in there, having to do whatever the manager would demand.

After escaping, Cline would feel freedom, being able to attend school and wear a uniform without anyone bossing him around. Later, Cline would grow to be a bold, passionate and strong-willed, yet still anxious and embarrassing. Even though Cline would grow to have these traits in him, he would keep parts of his former self, like his kindness and generosity towards everyone he knew. Other damupawa-capable and non-capable users would often admire and respect him due to this. Cline would become close with Mirion, sharing a brother-like relationship with him. Cline would look up to Mirion and would rely on him at times. However, both boys knew that they had each others backs. Shortly later Comms had grew in size, Cline would grow stubborn and cocky, having his ego increased, though signs were faint. Cline would often not listen to lower officers than him, seeing them as disposable. His will to bring Aniket Eve back grew in size as well, wanting to reunite her whole family, who had split apart, afraid that Hana would lose feelings in him.

On the day of the battle on Luger, Cline would grow impatient and cocky. His movements and attacks were far too easy to counter and dodge. The entire battle, Yooshi would have to hold Cline back for most of the time. Watching his friend and master die in front of his eyes, Cline was devastated and enraged. Angered at the fact that Wryns and Eve would retreat instead of avenge Yooshi, Cline would throw himself at Aniket Eve, eventually falling unconscious. Remembering Yooshi's last words towards Cline being "Make me proud Shin Cline, I'm sure you will. Now run!". After waking up in the Widol Building where he was captured, Cline would feel confused and betrayed, yet hopeful that Wryns and Eve would come, as he would do the same for them. Cline would have no time to grief for his master, and would be put through mental and physical torture, having been burned alive, impaled, shot twenty-one times, beat up, manipulated that his love had died and cut hundreds of times by Aniket Eve in order to fulfil his master's wishes, being Moqu Gyrallee.

Cline would feel betrayed, confused, immense pain, sadness and weak after he was released from the Widol Building. After realizing that Wryns had taken the title of "Yooshi's Successor", receiving popularity and supporters, while Cline had been "killed" several times. He would grow angry, and believe that Wryns was never on his side, disbanding their brotherhood. Cline would venture off to find his mother in order to cope with his emotions. Sally would be living happy with another family, essentially throwing the last name "Cline" away, Shin Cline would be enraged that she had essentially threw him away as well. Gyrallee would sense his aura and would guide him to use his emotions as fuel. Cline was tasked to kill the family, in which he did, however, keeping his mother alive, feeling that it was somewhat wrong and wanting her to feel what he had felt for years. While rummaging through the home of his mother's, Cline would find a brown leathered book, reading 'Cline Chronicles'. The book would be embeded with billions-to-trillions of damupawa, allowing access to Cline's ancestor's power scale, who was Wore Cline.

### Kathier

Through Gyrallee's influence and guidance, Cline would become stubborn, cocky, impatient, disrespectful, obsessed and willful, contradicting his old self. He would believe that he wasn't as naive as he was before. Cline would grow powerful as well and inherit a past technique from Wore Cline. The technique required the user to inflict damage to themselves enough for it to bleed and scar. This technique would be draining for Cline, however he would use it often in fights in order to dispose of the enemy's body. He would grow visibly tired from the use of it, reflecting on the conversations he had with his subordinates frequently out bursting his irritation on them. During Cline's time as Kathier, Gyrallee would influence him to resent Wryns. Cline would believe that Wryns had taken everything away from him and it would only be right and just if he was to kill Wryns. Cline would feel that it was unfair that Wryns had gotten everything hes ever wanted.

While Cline had taken on the name of Kathier, he would create a group named Nonobe. Nonobe would grow in size due to Cline's ability to lead as well as Gyrallee and Rel, Aniket, being leaders of big groups themselves at one point in their lives. The group would grow a reputation of being infamous and notorious as well as feared among damupawa users. Unlike Comms, Cline hadn't put Nonobe to be a tight-knit group, rather it was a group where loyalty was first or else you would die. Nonobe was ruthless and unforgiving.

Throughout the months, eventually years, as Kathier, Cline would grow depressed and impulsive. On the day of the invasion, Cline would be almost emotionless. However, as the battle progressed and Wryns and him were face-to-face, Cline grew disrespectful and stubborn, questioning Wryns. He would end up murdering Luca Elephant, Wryns' first pupil, believing Elephant was his replacement. Cline's mind projects a future that he had once envisioned for himself. A part of himself was returning. Cline would return back in tears, which was used to symbolize his youth. During the battle, Cline would show impulsive yet calculated attacks, showing his development as a damupawa user. He would hallucinate throughout the battle. At one point Cline would see himself as a father with Hana. This would lead to lose the battle, however, Cline wasn't angry like he was in the past. He was disappointed that his life had come to this, a deranged murderer. Cline would question his morals and himself. He would discover that Rel was Aniket and Gyrallee and Aniket were working together all these years.

Cline was aware that he could never be forgiven for his actions, for this he did not blame them. However, he believed if he was going to perish, he was going to fulfill the promise he had made all those years ago to Hana and bring Aniket Eve to her as a friend. During the final battle, Cline would arrive, saving the rest of the participants from perishing. In an attempt to kill Aniket, the left side of his body would suffer. Driving his emotions in his attack, Cline had forgotten why he was really fighting Aniket. Positioned to a point where he could kill Aniket, he would remember.

## Techniques and Abilities

In the beginning, Cline was shown to be clumsy and anxious, showing weak signs of damupawa-capability.

### Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** Training in extreme conditions for nine months and put through fatal situations, Cline is stronger than the average human, faster than the average human and has advanced reflexes than the regular human.
* **Outcome Select:** Passed down by his family, Cline is able to create thousands of different situations or outcomes in his head and is able to select the an outcome to ensure the greatest rate of success. Outcome Select is able to be done within milliseconds.
* **Gifted Engineer:** As a child, Cline would show talent in engineering, creating a pair of goggles with lense that created an augmented system which provided holograms and status's of items around Cline. At a young age, Cline would be able to fix nearly anything.

### Abilities Aided by Damupawa

* **Superhuman Strength:** With the help of damupawa surrounding his body, Cline's strength is increased by hundreds. Cline is able to throw a several men up into the sky far away. With damupawa, Cline is able to lift a car with fair ease.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Cline possesses incredible durability and is the most durable in Comms. With damupawa surrounding his entire body, Cline is bulletproof and attacks will not come in contact to any physical attacks. The damupawa almost acts like a force field, therefore Cline will be unfazed by explosions and lasers.

## Relationships

### Hana Eve

Cline first met Eve at school, with the introduction that she had siblings who were worldwide delinquents. After meeting her, he would admire her and immediate begin to fall in love with her. The two would share moments together, often Cline embarrassing himself, making her laugh. He would enjoy making her laugh. Shortly later they had gotten released from their unexpected kidnapping, Eve would open up to him, explaining her desire to bring her brother back. Admiring her passion, Cline would immediately begin to learn about damupawa and start his training, in an act of impressing and flirting her. After creating Comms, he would fight alongside Eve, admiring her strength and experience in damupawa. Cline didn't just admire her strength, but also admired her resilience. After hearing stories about Eve's childhood with her siblings, Cline's desire to make Eve happy would grow. He would also grow anxious, jealous and uncertain that Eve had lost feelings in him, only talking to him about business. Instead of simply getting her brother back, he would grow greedy and extend his goal to reuniting them all together. Cline believed it was only in arms reach.

After Cline was released by Aniket Eve, now Kathier, he would believe that Wryns had turned her against him. Gyrallee would feed into this, encouraging him to kill Wryns. During this time, Cline had still very much loved Eve. His only regret from running away from Comms was leaving Eve. Cline would try his best to not harm Eve during this time, aware that he was a very dangerous individual. Cline was unaware that he was hurting Eve in the process.

### Mirion Wryns

Wryns was Cline's closest friend and had a brotherly-like bond. The two would meet as young teenagers in high-school and would almost instantly click.

## Quotes

* *"When we grow, I hope to grow with you. While I think, I think about you. When others drift apart, will you stay by my side?"* (Cline to Eve)
* *"That's when I realized. I realized that these were the people that made me happy."* (Cline talking about Wryns and Eve)
* *"Don't you understand Hana? I can do so much more than bring back your brother. I can reunite all your siblings, I can take over the delinquent world entirely."* (Cline's desire to make Hana happy)