Name:
QUARTZ TEMPORANCE -X-Affix-
Lunar Dial - Touhou Koubutou
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Specie: Human/Cyborg
Physical Description: A sharp-dressed boy with short tan hair and golden eyes. His hands, strangely, are made of a brass alloy.
Personality: Hates violence and tries to stay out of fights if he can help it. However, he is interested in timekeeping mechanisms and is currently learning the craft of bomb disposal to follow in his father's footsteps.
History: A student of Manhattan High School. His father, Horace Temporance, was a leading expert in bomb disposal and ran a clock store. One day, Quartz was caught in a bombing that Horace couldn't make it to in time, damaging almost all the organs and bones in his torso - his heart miraculously suffered the least damage with just a scratch. Since conventional surgery couldn't possibly fix the boy's body, Horace took it upon himself to repair every damaged organ with clockwork variations that operate just like the originals. To keep the heart together, he implanted an Affix called the Chrono-Drive, which empowers his heartbeats' energy output. Quartz's father has since disappeared, and the boy would go any distance to find him.
Equipment: His body is filled with clockwork weaponry operated by the Chrono-Drive, an Affix fueled by a temporal spirit. It manifests the past and present of brass shards, providing nearly-infinite ammo.
Abilities: Besides extending his brass fists and feet, he can pop out a cannon or gatling gun from his arms to shoot foes with the past and present of ammunition. The Chrono-Drive can manifest special time bombs that hang in mid-air, and lets him teleport forward, drag time in a given area, and speed up.
Other: N/A
QUARTZ TEMPORANCE -X-Affix-
Lunar Dial - Touhou Koubutou
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Specie: Human/Cyborg
Physical Description: A sharp-dressed boy with short tan hair and golden eyes. His hands, strangely, are made of a brass alloy.
Personality: Hates violence and tries to stay out of fights if he can help it. However, he is interested in timekeeping mechanisms and is currently learning the craft of bomb disposal to follow in his father's footsteps.
History: A student of Manhattan High School. His father, Horace Temporance, was a leading expert in bomb disposal and ran a clock store. One day, Quartz was caught in a bombing that Horace couldn't make it to in time, damaging almost all the organs and bones in his torso - his heart miraculously suffered the least damage with just a scratch. Since conventional surgery couldn't possibly fix the boy's body, Horace took it upon himself to repair every damaged organ with clockwork variations that operate just like the originals. To keep the heart together, he implanted an Affix called the Chrono-Drive, which empowers his heartbeats' energy output. Quartz's father has since disappeared, and the boy would go any distance to find him.
Equipment: His body is filled with clockwork weaponry operated by the Chrono-Drive, an Affix fueled by a temporal spirit. It manifests the past and present of brass shards, providing nearly-infinite ammo.
Abilities: Besides extending his brass fists and feet, he can pop out a cannon or gatling gun from his arms to shoot foes with the past and present of ammunition. The Chrono-Drive can manifest special time bombs that hang in mid-air, and lets him teleport forward, drag time in a given area, and speed up.
Other: N/A
Specific Moves
- Gear Shot: Collects the past and present of brass to fire a gear-shaped projectile from his arm cannon. Dissipates into time upon impact.
- Time Bomb: Generates a clump of temporal energy in mid-air, which ticks down and explodes.
- Ticking Missile: Shoots a concussive smart missile from his arm cannon.
- Spring-Trap: Generates a tile on the ground that springs upon foe's contact, sending them tumbling back.
- Gear Swing: Grapples a pendulum up his arm onto a point in the air, then swings from it.
- Slow-Zone: Creates a spherical area. Anything within it becomes slowed.
- Time Warp: Teleports forward a fair distance.
- Accelerator: Powers up the Chrono-Drive temporarily, making all his attacks a bit faster than before.
- Chrono Rush: Uses the Chrono-Drive to speed up a slide kick, making it go far and fast.
- Grinding Gear: Soul Drive A. Makes a gear within his wrist grow as he throws forth an extending punch. The spinning gear acts as a shield.
- Gatling Cog: Soul Drive B. Protrudes a gatling gun from his arm and fires multiple brass shards from across time.
- Ten-Strong: Soul Drive C. An amplified Chrono Rush that trails Quartz with nine after-images.
- Hickory Dickory: Arcane Drive AB. Launches five temporal gears into the air, which dog after the foe tenaciously.
- Precision Moondial: Arcane Drive AC. Fires a tracking beam forth. If it hits a foe, s/he is bound by a temporal clamp for a limited time.
- Clock Out: Arcane Drive BC. Freezes time around himself for a bit. Anything is possible with this locked time.
- Time Crisis: Omega Drive. Surrounds foe with multiple selves, which all gun down the foe with Gatling Cog attacks, finished with a temporal-bombing.
Inspirations
- Batsu (Rival Schools)
- Ryan (River City Ransom)
- Inspector Gadget
- Robocop
- Cable (Marvel comics)
- "The World" (JoJo's Bizarre Adventures)
- Dhalsim (Street Fighter)
Trivia
- Quartz is a crystal with piezoelectric properties that makes it useful for many devices, like clocks. "Temporance" is derived from "temporal", relating to worldly or time properties.
- He uses bombs in his moveset, as bombs are sometimes regarded as a metaphor of everything's impermanence - every thing's time runs out at some point.
- Of the Major Arcana, Quartz is based on Strength, or The Passion.
- Like Robocop, Quartz retains his brain and heart after the modifications. This is the same with Inspector Gadget, who may have also been partially inspired by Robocop.
- His Omega Drive, Time Crisis, is named after a first-person shooting game by Namco.
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If you'll excuse me, I got to take care of this beary annoying problem.
What are you doing, you punk! Don't you know you're defacing school property?!