Clockwork

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Aquila Neanders


Clockwork, Medic


Clockwork Automata


347 (Looks 20)


1669, May 3rd


Italy


Asexual


Male

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It isn't easy to express Aquila's personality, because of his long time at life. He can become any number of personas to fit those near him due to wanting to fit in. But as time passed he's become more his own person, which is to say he's stuck to a permanent personality rather than imitating others. This was not an easy or short task, taking a long time to become an individual and settling on a persona. So he's become a kind person with a good heart, his curiosity in new things can get a little annoying.
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But he rarely does this anymore, and prefers to just take note of everything around him. He won't take injustice to others, but also won't take such things against his person. He's been known to take risks when other lives are in danger, despite his original programming stating that he had to continue to survive. It's hard to get him angry unless you're pushing very hard, how he reacts depends on those around him. Meaning he won't endanger and nor will he kill, but he has skills and training that could make him scary.
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One may not think it but Aquila is also quite creative, he enjoys a number of artistic pursuits including writing, drawing and especially music. He can write in several languages including calligraphy, his drawings generally relates to portraits and landscapes. His favourite passion though is music, he's skilled in a variety of instruments both common and uncommon. Over time his skills in this area have vastly improved, allowing him to play alongside numerous musicians throughout his lengthy history and he enjoys the solace of music and getting lost in the melody.



Aquila's history started almost four hundred years ago, when technology was getting up and running. One day a man created clockwork humanoid, covering this creation was leather like human skin. Making her impossible to distinguish from humanity, at first she was simple and merely played music. But time passed and she advanced while her creator's apprentice, whom gained the knowledge of his mentor and continued on his own. He returned to his home town to create a work space, and locked himself away for over two years. Cedric Neanders created a clockwork man, this man was a marvel to behold. As the technology was an improvement on his mentors, becoming an image of a son once lost to Cedric.
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Aquila as he was called, became a new member of the community. Acting like most other men did with both automatic and voluntary functions, Aquila was forgotten as a man’s creation and became a mere man by most people's eyes. As time passed, some came to resent that Aquila did not age. When Cedric was on his last years of life, he instilled further programming in Aquila. This allowed him to protect himself from the harm, which others around him may of rout upon him. Soon the clockwork man was left alone, while the remaining elders pushed him away from the only home the man had known. Aquila buried his father and started to travel the world, as he was growing up Aquila was also taught to look after himself if he was ever injured or became broken. But because he was made from such pristine parts, both materialistic and organic. This was rarely a necessity, as such Aquila travelled with little hindrance. Learning all about the world as it was and as it grew, Aquila went from place to place like a wanderer.
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Every new invention created, often got his attention for a time. And even allowed him to help improve it with his every increasing knowledge, of how this worked both mechanical and even sometimes organic. When war broke out in a region he was visiting, Aquila became a medic on the front lines. Never truly picking a side, he helped keep soldiers and civilians on both sides alive when they were hurt. His care for people, helped him survive the horrors that he saw as war raged around him. Coming out in better shape than most, Aquila moved on when peace was created.
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Allowing him to continue his travels, as the centuries passed. Aquila learned loads of new things from the advancing human population and their desire to become ever better. To this day Aquila still becomes a medic where needed, and using his engineering skills in whatever odd jobs to get by. However saving lives and engineering weren't his only passions, as he strangely picked his mother's talent for music and then some. Over his long life, Aquila has learned several instruments including Piano, Flute, Lute, Ocarina and Guitar among others. He's played with many people over the years in duets and bands, some of them become or were famous musicians at some point. As of modern day era, Aquila has a couple of shops he likes work in including a general Tech, Engineering and music shops all of which have their own uniqueness and rarity.

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Aquila's skeletal structure is made of Clockwork gears and rustproof metal, surrounded by a layer of living human skin and oil between the gears. This grants him a number of useful abilities such as long life, he merely has to digest some oil or something oil based every fifty years or so and he's right. Though if he's damaged he still needs to fix himself, but he's otherwise immortal and long living. He's got a degree of super strength, allowing him to lift things five times his weight which is actually quite significant.
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He's highly durable and hard to damage, without significant force as he can survive gunshots, blunt force and explosive blasts. Though his skin can be damaged, it grows back over time. His body and limbs can move in strange ways, such as 360 degrees. He's also not affected by things a normal human would be such as hunger, thirst, pressure points, psychic intrusion, illness and weather effects. Although he isn't affected by rust, if too much water enters his body. He can become weighted and his gears can slow, due to loss of oil.



Clockwork Chi came about during Aquila's travels when he stopped to learn a way to defend himself, he found that he wasn't suited for the full strength martial arts around. And he didn't like the need for striking first, thus he went for the martial arts form of Tai Chi. As he learned to master this style Aquila made adjustments to it to fit his unusual person, thus over time he developed Clockwork Chi.
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Clockwork Chi is basically Tai Chi with components and variations added to suit Aquila's unique physiology, meaning that his ability to disjoint, hit hard and regimented are all put to use. It's used mainly as a counter art, in that to use it one must be attacked first. Clockwork Chi much like normal Tai Chi makes use of ones flow of movement, and not interrupting that flow but instead misdirecting it.
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Sometimes one may have to stop a flow altogether or at the very least damage the flow, as such Clockwork Chi often relies more on these methods. By incorporating Aquila's clockwork features that allow him to move his arms or legs differently, being clockwork instead grants him no distinctive joint position if he so desires. As such blocking him from moving a certain way, will only result in his Chi moving a different way. Clockwork Chi expands this into a whole form of movement and counter actions.



Aquila has learned over the years, that he can make things rust on command and touch. He can do this to anything metal or that can rust, he can also do it to anything that has any form of metal in it. This does include people due to the Iron and Zinc in their systems, however Aquila doesn't use this on people. Except in dire circumstances, and never does it far enough to kill someone. He can control existing rust particles and use it like a swarm, making it flow, change shape and attack by command.



Over his length of time in life Aquila has picked up vast knowledge and experience, in subjects of interest and need. Such as battlefield medicine in the form of a medic, he's done this for almost all modern day wars in some capacity. Allowing him to treat a variety of wounds, that people or animals may sustain. He's a trained engineer in not only keeping himself pristine but in all forms of tech, having seen and learned their particulars over his vast years. His writing ability has been learnt over the years, having even written a few books here and there and collaborations. His drawings were also learnt and have appeared in galleries around the world, usually under aliases he's had to use. His music was originally a part of his design but not all of it, he's learned much of it over time.