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BIOGRAPHY

For Nico, it's hard to remember a time before he was the son of the Crimson Cardinal, one of Asia's greatest superheroes. At two, Nico was found and adopted by the superhero after his parents abandoned him at a carnival. The moment he met Nico, the Cardinal seemed extremely confident that there was something special about him. Technology and computers were a strong interest for Nico at a young age, and growing up in a rich household allowed him access to as much tech as he wanted.[break][break]

Nico's powers only began to develop once he started learning to code at age seven. He found that by coding things like objects or effects, he could replicate those elements in real life. The moment he demonstrated this "magic" to his father, Nico began training to be a superhero-- shadowing his many other superhero siblings, getting hand to hand combat training, weapons training, and learning fire and rescue techniques.[break][break]

It didn't take long for Nico to realize how different he was from the rest of his family. Unlike most of his siblings, his powers weren't naturally activated-- they required a lot of planning and work before they could be used. After his mother died, there was definitely a change in the household and in the Crimson Cardinal. There was pressure to perform before, but now it felt like there was this massive weight on Nico's shoulders to become a great superhero. To be honest, Nico was never sure he wanted to be a hero in the first place but he couldn't say that to anyone in the house, let alone his father.[break][break]
In his teen years, Nico broke away from the family. He spent a lot of time in his room or in arcades and only occasionally went on missions and patrols to keep up appearances with his father. Nico became more anti-social and did less superhero activities as time went on. This eventually hit a boiling point when his father got into an argument with him and Nico slipped that he didn't want to be a hero. In this argument, the Cardinal called Nico a failure, a word that has affected him to this day.[break][break]

Not long after the argument, Nico left the house on his eighteenth birth. His father apologized for what he had said, but the word was stuck in Nico's head. For a couple years, Nico pursued a double major in Computer Science and Game Development, but found that there was something kind of hollow about his life without super heroics. Nico finally tried to do the hero thing on his own terms and found that he actually loved being a superhero.[break][break]

Recently, Nico has been trying to reach out to more of his family, with the exception of his father. He's not sure if he'll ever really shake the feeling of being a failure but he knows he won't be able to face his father until he can. [break][break]

CHARACTER POWERS

✰ EXECUTE MAGIC [break]

Digital Materialization [break][break]

Creating something from nothing is something man has dreamed of for all of it's life, and that dream has come true... to an extent. Nico has the ability to materialize objects and effects from code that he's written. As long as a computer with the programmed spells on it's hard drive is within a 10 feet radius of the him, Nico can theoretically materialize almost anything as long as he's taken the time to code it beforehand. Effects and objects appear directly in front of Nico or in/out of his hand. More often than not, the fact that he can program a wide variety of spells leads to a fighting style that includes Hadoukens, Buster Wolfs, and giant anime swords. [break][break]


X - Nico cannot materialize non-plant living things, as creatures with any level of intelligence are incredibly complicated to write in the coding language used for Execute Magic.[break][break]

X - Only Nico can program spells, as he's created a specific programming language to do so that only he's learned thus far. [break][break]

X - The more powerful or complicated an object or effect is, the longer it takes to program. The most complicated effects are often buffs, debuffs, and healing effects, which are hard to program and unlike other spells, usually last a duration of time as opposed to just hitting or missing. Nico only has a couple weak buffs up his sleeves at the moment, and he doesn't tend to use them. A powerful effect or object can take weeks, months, or even years to code and test. For comparison, a very simple spell like the ability to summon a pen or shoot a needle would only take a couple hours to code and deploy.[break][break]

X - As these are programmed spells, they have some of the same issues as a regular piece of coding- bugs. Bugtesting is incredibly important when it comes to these spells, but there are times where issues with execute spells aren't initially apparent or a spell needs to be used as soon as it's coded and deployed. Small bugs can just be minor visual issues but larger bugs could mess with the intended effect altogether or even corrupt other spells on that system.[break][break]

X - In order to use execute magic, a computer with the spells on it's hard drive needs to be within a 10 foot radius of Nico.[break][break]

X - Once an effect has been executed, it cannot be cancelled until the effect has been completed (ie, it hits, misses, or finishes it's duration.) This is notable because hand to hand effects like the ones from fighting games take over Nico's body to execute the motion. So, once Nico casts "Shoryuken", he has to complete the motion and effect until he can regain control of his body. Objects can be cancelled at any time.[break][break]

X - Spells are incredibly hard to modify or recode in the middle of a fight or mission. While there's a wide variety of things Execute Magic can do, it's not as adaptable as one may think.[break][break]

X - Only three objects and/or effects can be in use at a time. If Nico wants to summon another effect or object past those three, he'll have to wait for the effect to finish or desummon an object.[break][break]

X - At maximum, the heaviest object Nico can summon is 500 lbs.[break][break]

MISC.

⍟ QUOTE/CATCHPHRASE:[break][break]



"It's not a bug, it's a feature. Shut up." [break][break]





✽ Family Training [break][break]



As a member of the Crimson Cardinal's family, Nico was trained how to fight from a young age. He has extensive training in hand to hand combat, melee weaponry, and marksmanship. When it comes to hand to hand combat, Nico prefers Hapkido and Aikido but is admittedly a very average martial artist. [break][break]


✽ Spell Suite [break][break]

Nico's "Spell Suite" is a necessary aspect of his superpowers. It's a system of three objects-- the first is his high-powered custom AR headset, as said before. It has the ability to display text on it's outward facing panel, allowing Nico to communicate to people at a glance. The second object is his gloves, which are used to interact with the VR interface. The third is a customized cell phone that's the heart of the entire system. The cell is a high powered portable computer you can fit in your pocket-- and not "cell phone" powerful, but high end desktop powerful. It connects everything in the suite, stores all of the spell programs on it's hard drive, and also makes sure everything's encrypted and secured.
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