Smith Ardor Knight (Completed)

[Smith Ardor Knight]

Basics

Name: Smith Gerard Ardor/Knight

Nicknames: He’s apathetic towards Nicknames. Best just to call him Smith.

Age: 18

Birthday: July 10th

Grade:12th

Bronze Mimicry:

Smith has the ability to transform and maintain a bodily form into a heavy industrial bronze that is generous in the elements copper and lead as well as a minor amount of tin. Smith's strength is adapted to his metal form to give him the same abilities of strength when compared to his weight. This being said, Smith's full metal form, weighing just over a ton (2,013.9lbs) does not impede his ability to move, walk, or run as it did before his metal form. His mobility is not improved nor is it hindered by his metal form. The only physical attribute besides durability is his strength relative to the objects around him.

He is able to do a partial metal form to maximize his use of the power throughout the period of a day. Though the full metal form can be kept at a span of thirty to forty-five minutes. This time span varies depending on will power, fatigue, physical illness, drowsiness, and any over exertion.

(This ability is a physical power and is greatly affected by physical exhaustion.)

His metal bronze contains high quantities of lead and copper as well as tin. This makes him a good conductor to electricity and heat, not to mention the fact that it reacts strongly towards magnets. His form reacts to heat, electricity, and magnetism just as the metal would in nature.

Biologically, he can survive extreme changes of heat of his metal form (melting included) and can take strikes of electricity but not without consequence. Melting and extreme cold weaken structural integrity of the metal form by making it too soft or brittle. Such temperatures cause extreme pain, and, if self inflicted, will cause exhaustion and fatigue.

When electricity is involved the effect is dependent on the voltage. Much like it would with most normal individuals, a strike of lightning is potentially fatal. Low voltage, such as a 9volt battery pressed against his skin causes discomfort at most. The higher the voltage the stronger the pain involved. Though damage is often minimal due to the electricity passing quickly from the source of the strike, through Smith’s body and into the ground.

Bronze is strongly resistant to corrosion caused by water and acid while it is ineffective towards strong bases. A metal form also protects well against poisons, as bronze skin is unyielding to hypodermic injections as well as the difference between how metal reacts to contact poisons and how skin reacts.


(Major) Temperature Manipulation:

Smith can manipulate the temperature of his body as well as matter around him. This gets increasingly difficult with differences in conductibility, flammability, and distance from Smith's body.

Smith can Manipulate best through contact conduction. He can do this by making physical contact with an object (usually a strong conductor of heat). He can greatly and quickly change the temperature of a strong conductor when he is directly touching it. This is the most effective way to manipulate temperatures of objects and it also applies to his metal form. General physical contact with an object, conductive to heat or not, vastly increases his ability to manipulate the temperature of said object. This manipulation can melt his own metal form and can cause self inflicted damage if he is not careful.

The second form of temperature manipulation is direct manipulation. This occurs when Smith focuses his attention, abilities, and will on an object that he is not touching. This is far more difficult than the first method of contact conduction and is, in whole less effective and more dependent on object distance, conductivity, flammability, and pre-manipulated temperature. This manipulation is fairly weak and can, at best, light easily flammable materials (paper, cloth, gasoline, sulfur, etc.) and freeze room temperature (72 Degree Fahrenheit) and cool water.

The third method of manipulation is actually the indirect effect of the other two, previous methods. This is generally the unintentional manipulation of surrounding objects that naturally occurs through thermal radiation. Basically this is the same as the heat that one would feel coming off of a campfire or the lack of heat that one feels when standing near  an open freezer.

Smith can try to prevent the third form of manipulation but it's rather hit and miss, as it is mentally draining and requires him to have a near complete focus on his manipulations, causing an inability to do other complex tasks.

His temperature manipulation's control and strength, like many others at Ashford, inversely correlate when he feels intense overriding emotion. The strength of the manipulation increases as the control of the manipulation decreases when he's conflicted with emotions such as intense anger, distress, sorrow, overwhelming arousal, and (in rare cases) euphoria.

The strength and potency of the temperature manipulation associated with these emotions don't wear him down cognitively. However, he does feel cognitively drained when he regains control of himself and his emotions.

This ability wanes with mental fatigue, grogginess, drowsiness, lack of will power, and forms of chemical intoxication. This is a mental based power that works through mental empowerment over the vibration of molecules. The use of this power can cause physical fatigue upon reaching a point in which cognitive failure produces inhibited physical action.

(Minor) Enhanced Durability:

Advanced durability:
The ability to be increasingly more durable than one's own body is in nature. Smith (without his metal form) is resistant to damage to his body, this including both both internal and external injury. He has a natural resistance to organ failures and cardiac arrest in addition to the resistance against physical damage, such as burns, cuts/scrapes, lacerations, and fractured bones.

This is not to say that he cannot take damage, it is just more difficult injury to occur. His bones, muscle, and skin are all denser (sadly, making it impossible to float on his back). His organs are (simply put) hardier than others’, and seem to have difficulty rupturing and failing. His heavy smoking, however, has stunted his lung capacity. This is a great example of how long term wear, or heavy pressure can damage Smith and his body.

This power is always active and when paired with his metal form, makes it increasingly difficult for him to be harmed and means he will often find the strength to walk away from fights where others wouldn’t.

Member Group: Neutral... if you can call it that

Canon or not: Not

Appearance:

Smith stands 6’2” and weighs 212 pounds. He’s got blonde hair and plain brown eyes that are commonly found behind a pair of sunglasses. He’s a rather gruff looking fellow at times. It’s much more about how he holds himself and how he glares at those who stare at him for a moment too long. You’ll see him wearing his uniform, the same red and black vest and shirt paired with black or white pants (though Smith won’t be caught dead wearing white pants). He wouldn’t mind a uniform if it wasn’t so damn restrictive.

He’s a rather strong individual and often finds himself wearing white threaded t-shirts with black or red boxing shorts. Generally this attire is worn and sometimes catches fire with self frustration during a work out.

After classes, if he decides on changing, he’ll wear more comfortable clothing, often a looser, white button up with an undershirt and a red scarf. It’s his only little touch to his style and he doesn’t want to talk about it. On particularly cold nights he can be found in a black jacket with a fold up collar or in a hooded jacket.

Personality

Tin Man Complex: Smith, through developing in a rather dangerous environment, has developed a rather stolid and stoic personality. There were many stages in his life that caused him to grow rigid or risk dying, Progressively growing increasingly cold and stoical. In some cases he’s even heartless. This is not to say he isn’t capable of worry or mourning or caring for another individual, it just means he often hides his emotions or becomes very blunt about it. If injured Smith will most often experience frustration and annoyance with how he obtained the injury. To truly kindle Smith’s wrath takes an action of total betrayal or an action that puts someone he cares for or loves into a potentially lethal position.

Ex Vigilante: Vigilantism will change a person. Smith can be quick to act if he is needed. This works best if someone he knows is in danger or if someone he identifies as innocent is in danger. He has mixed feelings about vigilantism now, after being betrayed by his most trusted friend and fellow vigilante. He finds that trusting another with his life is difficult, and prefers to act out alone rather than in a group.

Loner: After spending years with one good friend and after being betrayed by this individual in a situation that could’ve ended in Smith’s death, Smith finds himself spending his time alone. He lacks most social skills that make for decent conversation and his rather gruff and rigid personality makes it difficult for him to be anything but a loner.

Smoking Dependency: Smith is addicted to smoking tobacco. One of the easiest ways to get on his bad side is to prevent him from enjoying the simple joy that is a pack of cigarettes. He Smokes when he’s upset, thinking, blowing off steam, trying to forget something, trying to remember something, going for a walk, before and after classes and meals, and before showering (he’d probably smoke in the shower if he could).

Gruff: Smith can be rather gruff at times. This happens on days where he is already irritated or when someone has done something that irritates Smith. This attitude may also appear if he is frustrated with himself, often turning the blame on others or unknowingly punishing others for how he feels.

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History

Family Members/guardians:
Karen Ardor: Mother
Jared Knight: Father
Aubrey Ardor/Knight: younger sister

Charles Christensen: Best Friend and Fellow in Vigilantism

History:

Smith came to a God fearing family. I say came because it’s difficult to say people like Smith are born into anything other than a poor man’s world. His father, Jared Knight, was a good man, he meant well and did as most father’s believed was best for their children, working like his heels caught hellfire and giving what little time left in a day to a rundown household.

Karen Ardor was just the same in this matter, being the second provider of the Ardor, Knight Family. She took shifts at a local shop even when they had their savings, she was, to some extent, obsessive over their financial situation. Her mind produced nightmares, terrible things, illness and break ins and, at times, death.

I tell you about Jared Knight and Karen Ardor not because they are the focus of this history, but because they are the unknowing authors of Smith's story. After all, one of the best ways to understand an individual is to understand what wrote them into existence.

The southern side of town was a terrible place to raise children. The streets were a danger, the economy was slow, the schooling was was ill-funded. Anything that could go wrong went wrong for the bastard Knight/Ardor family. Despite this, Smith seemed a rather well adjusted and passive individual in his early years.

School beatings were a common occurrence, and young Smith was just the target. He took it with a grain of salt, not raising a finger or a fist, often not bothering to run. He didn't see the point of it. It didn't hurt too bad, he didn't bruise, he didn't cry, he didn't break. This became a challenge among the school, who would be the one to break Smith Ardor?

Every day he’d come home bruise-less and unbroken, but none-the-less it made him a very lonely individual. Social groups formed around him as kids created cliques and clubs and teams and gangs. Ultimately shutting Smith out of a very wide dynamic. Smith then began to shot up in a massive growth spurt, making him appear grades above his own. This suddenly made him a bigger target for other children. Though this stayed at little coincidence.

Little in life had changed for Smith. Every day he did the same things, went to school, waited with her sister at front of the school, walked home by their mother, and went to bed to do it all again the next day. It seemed this routine happened for years, becoming a way of life, and staying that way. That was, until Smith and Aubrey waited a bit longer for their mother after school one day. Upon waiting just an hour Smith reluctantly walked his sister home, passing a taped off alleyway, where a white sheet was pulled over the body where a mugging had gone wrong.

Smith didn’t see anything. But a part of him always knew it was her under that sheet.

Summer rolled around, the motherless boy had nothing to do but to stay inside or try to make friends. This did not go well. The children at the nearby orphanage had no intent on being the friendly, playing kind. In fact, they seemed rather territorial for children.

It was one of these attempts of friendship that he got into a fight. He was outnumbered like never before. A swarm of kids beating him like he’d never been before. It was by sheer miracle that someone had come to fend off these people, a gifted by the name of Charles Christensen. The young man’s use of his abilities showed Smith a certain strength he never thought he could have.

After that, Smith and Charles became good friends. Smith looked up to him in his time of need and was trained under his wing to use his gifted abilities. Smith went on to develop his metal form and temperature manipulation as an effect of this training. Charles’ training was of self defense, but upon both of them discovering they each had three abilities they decided to do good with them, take on a common crimes in their side of the town.

They were somewhat successful in this, as their powers seemed to compliment each other almost perfectly. This was a golden age, Smith was happy, he stood up for himself and others, he had his powers under control, and his family seemed to be just bouncing back from the heavy hit of a lost mother.

All of this good changed when one night, when Smith and Charles were in an alleyway preventing a mugging, Smith took a bullet without his metal form. It’s unknown why Charles ran upon discovering Smith’s wound. It’s fair to say fear had a role in it. The mugger, the victim, and the vigilante all ran, leaving Smith Ardor Knight bleeding to near death.

When the hospital took him in they were amazed by the relatively little amount of damage that was done. Upon this realization Ashford status agents pronounced him legally dead, leaving nobody to look for him as he was sent off to Ashford, School for Gifted.

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