Howly

wolf man

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## Appearance

Howly is a Wolf Demi-Human, he's the shortest in his family sitting at 6'5". His hair being black in color with hints of white/gray at the end and and his eyes a deep red color all on his dark brown skin. His entire body is scarred from his countless battles as a gladiator and mercenary.

Howly sports a few tattoo/markings along his body. One on his back of a wolf, and lastly one on his right shoulder of storm clouds.

Outside of battle he typically wears weighted clothing, arm and leg bands with an **undescribed** weight along with any free-fitting clothing he has available.

In battle is a different story for Howly, typically sporting flexible and durable light armor as well as his coat he acquired from his eldest brother. During battle he sometimes breaks his armor and clothes off to give himself more of a challenge and just to have more fun in a general sense.

## Personality

Outside of battle Howly comes off as a quiet person, only speaking when he feels the need. His demeanor comes off as lazy and uninterested until he gets involved in something he finds fun (i.e learning new tricks with weapons). He turns the cube into an instrument at times as a way to cure his boredom until his next exciting battle.

When in battle Howly comes off in a similar lazy manner, being uninterested until someone gives him a reason to have fun and let loose (drawing blood or even breaking any bones). He then attains what would be a completely different personality of which he exclaims about the fun he's having; he might even drop his weighted clothing off if he feels as though the person is deserving of him "trying a little bit", leaving him to constantly evade, not using any aether or weapons and toying with them as if they were some form of prey.

## Powers and Abilities

**Base Abilities**

* Due to Howly having been training since a young age and being a gladiator for just as long he's seen his fair share of fighting styles Howly doesn't already know. Hes grown to adapt to singular and multiple opponents and react to those attacks thrown at him, and allows for him to come up with a way to fight after a small bit of analyzation
* As a Demi-human and further enhanced with his transformations, Howly has enhanced sight, smell, strength, and endurance he was born with
* Since a Young age Howly's learned and almost created a fighting style for different situations and different martial arts from different parts of the region

**Weapon Configurations**

* Fist, Heavy, Light, Polearm, Range The cube transforms into a weapon that meets the classification of what Howly says if he doesn't outright say the weapon. However the cube does not always listen to Howly and transforms into a completely different weapon instead
	+ **Weapon config-Fist:** Weapons primarily used with hand to hand combat that the Cube transforms into for Howly
	+ **Weapon config-Light:** Typically one handed weapons such as shorter sized swords, sickles, and daggers
	+ **Weapon config-Heavy:** Heavy weapons that would leave normal people sluggish such as Great Swords, Giant axes, Maces, and Bigger hammers
	+ **Weapon config-Polearm:** Weapons that give Howly a good amount of range in physical combat with weapons such as Lances, Staves, and Halberds
	+ **Weapon config-Range:** Simple weapons that Howly can use his aether to create and manipulate ammo out of like different renditions of the Bow and Crossbow
	+ **Weapon config-Defense:** With the Defense Config Howly uses the cube to create Shields he can use to protect others and himself with

**Aether Abilities-** Howly uses his aether with abilities he uses normally to extend the damage they deal to his enemies, but his aether only abilities are strong in their own right. The strength of his physical abilities vary depending on the state of transformation

* **Howling Storm-Aether:** Stationary ability where he lets out a loud howl while bringing down lightning strikes around his enemy
* **Winstorm Rush-Aether:** A flurry of attacks Howly performs in quick succesion. He uses wind aether to cut through enemies after theyve been hit, or to add extra impact into his blunt attacks as well as to add extra impact to his attack in general
* **Cloud Parting-Aether/Physical:** An attack where he swings down with as much force as he can, adding both types of aether to further increase the strength of his slash
* **Tornado Rising-Aether/Physical:** Howly warps wind aether to create a tornado he can move freely, he can use it for extra mobility by jumping in and out of it, or as a form of defense by conjouring it outside of him and sending mini tornados out from inside
* **Shocking slash-Aether/Physical:** Uses his electric aether with his claws to add electric shocks to his slash attack
* **Air Current Claw-Aether/Physical:** Howly adds cutting power and speed with his wind aether and his claws to deliver a strong slash attack
* **Cloud-Aether:** Warps wind aether into a cloud like force he can use to stand on
* **Electric Step-Aether/Physical:** Coats his legs in both types of aether to drastically increase his movement speed while also creating small traps along where he runs with small electric explosions.
* **Dupli-arms Aether/Physical:** Uses as much aether as he can to create more weapons as well as an extra set of arms to be able to be used alongside his others. This ability wears Howly out and usually causes him nausea

His attitude continues to be a very apparent part of him during battle, and it can lead him into two different ways of fighting and acting during battle: serious fury and his unyielding rage.

**Lupus Rage**: When Howly is drawn to the brink of his power and instinct he can enter into a sort of rage state, losing control of the overwhelming power that he pushes inside him, this can cause him to transform into his partial wolf form and go into a frenzy against his enemies. This usually leads to him passing out from exhaustion or being extremely sluggish afterwards

## Weapon: The Cube

The cube is an artifact passed down through Howly's family, typically having chosen the person it links its aether to. This cube is essentially a culmination of knowledge and tactical information as well as it being a shapeshifting living weapon. Created by a neighboring blacksmith who sought to create something that could pass down generations of weapon use and application he created the cube and gave it to the neighboring family of gladiators, and general fighters. Due to the cube containing its own consciousness and having watched countless battles, it usually attempts to give Howly or ideas, it could even become any weapon/s it feels could fit the situation better but it's shown to be a jokester, messing with Howly outside of battle and training. The cube can shapeshift into almost anything under the circumstance that Howly has a good enough understanding of the weapon and later certain items or instruments for him to use. **Considering Howly has used almost every hand-held weapon and simple long ranged weapons he seemed to be a perfect fit such as: an assortment of swords coming from greatswords to shortswords, long ranged polearms (spears, scythes, halberds, staffs) , hammers big small and double handed, different types of bows and crossbows he manifests aether charges for, axes large and short, different types of shields, and limiting itself to size in terms of dual-wielding**.

## Equipment

Howly sports light armor made by his father, a shoulder guard which leads to his gauntlet he uses for his main force of assisted defense, knee and shin guards. He also keeps assorted medical applicators on hand in case of any injury in need of quick attention or application in a belt around his pants.

## Transformations

As a Demi-Human Howly has the ability to change aspects of his body into those of the animal he is associated. In Howly's case he can transform into a human-wolf hybrid or a larger much stronger wolf form. In these forms Howly's senses and strengths are enhanced greatly on top if his already heightened demi-human senses. Due to the training Howly's participated and years of battle and experimenting Howly's learned to transform specific parts of his body to allow him to not directly lose any speed to to mass or gain strength and mass and not lose as much footing taking damage in his normal form.