Stuka, Nikolaus

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CASE FILE: Amestrian Militant

"I imagine a world of love, peace, and no wars. Then I imagine myself attacking that place because they would never expect it!"
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FULL NAME:
→ Nikolaus Stuka. (Codename: Lockjaw)

AGE:
→ 36.

SEX:
→ Male.

BIRTH PLACE:
→ It is known Nikolaus is from Central, Amestris, but not known where specifically.

RACE:
→ Amestrian Human.

DEPARTMENT:
→ Security

DATE OF BIRTH:
→ August 9th.

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HEIGHT:
→ 187 cm.

WEIGHT:
→ 85 kg.

PICTURE:
→

Spoiler:

DESCRIPTION:
→ Nikolaus Stuka is a very fit male with muscles bulging out as it is obvious he is at peak physical condition as a human, well to do in his own right as powerful after years of consistent and constant training, exercises of all sorts. His hair color is blond, being slicked back, whilst his eyes blue and skin white. Making it obvious he is Amestrian. He is well toned, as he often wears black suspenders, combat boots, and blue pants typical of Amestrian soldiers. When he walks, he shows discipline by walking up right with hints of sleazy laziness as a result of his lax attitude considering changed employment. His movements are always calculated and precise when need be, and his eyes often methodical, staring at things and observing the tiniest of details. Voice having the Amestrian (German) accent, as he speaks with a jovial tone always that contradicts his evil and malevolent nature, often appearing happy-go-lucky with vulgarity present. Wearing long gloves that reach the mid-forearm on his hands as he carries holsters around his suspenders to store his weaponries, and also around his belt.

In other words, he has no need to wear anything but his military uniform, and depending on the climate, he may wear just this outfit with camouflage, or if in tundra environments, he'd be wearing white camouflage, and jackets to add up layers that'll heat him up. Adaptable in his wear in all regards, as his belt carries an insignia showing Nikolaus's authority, and rank. Making it necessary for him to be assisted in any way he can when sent to friendly territories, otherwise he'd have to operate in secrecy, and may don any disguises if need be. His body not so muscular and thick as to dampen flexibility and agility, rather it supplements it as a result of his muscular physique.

His face in retrospect is broad, developed which shows his maturity physically, almost always looking around with absolutely open eyes, and a smirk seems to be consistent in his features that he has smile lines as a result of smirking oft too much.

Though recently Nikolaus has adopted the typical uniform of the Amestrian officer's, minus the cumbersome blue blouses. Instead, wearing a black button up blouse with blue collar, and a sash of blue with yellow outlining just like his collar. His rank insignia located on his wrist sleeves. Often wearing an officer's cap, as it conceals his eyes. Nikolaus also wears pants which are slightly baggy, but with big pockets to hold somethings as a holster is what hugs one side of his pants closer to his thighs. Wearing jackboots that hugs his ankles and goes over the pants just as well. Nikolaus also wears a belt over his officer's blouse to which would clamp it down, carrying multiple ammunition and all. The sash itself is fully optional but is often worn for ceremonial reasons, and because he can carry things on it.

Additionally, he has made his muscles to be extremely toned to present Nikolaus as a specimen of the highest physique he attained thus far, surpassing even other agents of Father in his newly attained strength. Those agents like himself.

And so lo and behold, Nikolaus grew a thin stubble as a sign of change, a notable sign of change from the otherwise new and improved self of his. Brimming with such developed muscles as to make a physician blush. Extremely well toned, from back to front. Though at first glance, one may not tell a difference between his original Olympian build, and his rather improved physique.

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PERSONALITY:
→ Nikolaus Stuka is a freak in his social interactions that sets him to be a sociopath and an estranged and eccentric one at that. To think that he had been groomed to be one of Father's many agents, he wasn't taught the social necessities required to get through life, rather it was thought at the time he'd learn it from his peers. Unfortunately, the result was that he had learnt to become a top dog against his peers by being mean and absolutely rude, ridiculing them and to be cruel as a means to survive, henceforth Nikolaus is not fit to be a diplomat for whatever reasons.

Often vulgar because of a lack of supervision from his superiors, as he is serving a less strict department than his old one where he operated in complete secrecy with countless protocols, this one he was in was simply too easy. Not implying Nikolaus is sharp, but he is quick witted to himself due to the knowledge he had been taught, which stems from him an air of arrogance due to how he feels better than his peers in the intelligence department, along with the rest of the former remnants of Father's men, and the fact they are much more efficient than the rest of the people in the department officially dubs Nikolaus as "that asshole". The jerk who thinks he is better than everyone.

The fact he doesn't see himself constrained by morality or ethics can be attributed to his training, which has corroded over time which left him ultimately, when things are far too easy, to be bored. As a result, he may impetuously seek destructive or safe mediums, but being the random person he is, he is absolutely incoherent in thoughts, and nobody can make sense of his line of thought but himself at many times, or not. It's just the random flair he carries to which he simply does things for the sake of doing, reason not applying to him because he was taught to obey, not to think. Thinking to obey counts as obeying, but not thinking as a medium because loyalty is something burnt deep into Nikolaus's cranium. To Father, not to the Fuhrer though.

In the end, he represents the worst in Amestrians, being shallow, cruel, arrogant, random, and absolutely bigoted with an air of superiority that he likes to flaunt around when social occasions arise. Otherwise he is that sneaky chap who goes behind people's backs, and steals things before slipping out as an example of his random methodology. That jerk with an absolutely bonkers and random agenda that at this point, it'd be more accurate to infer if he is reliable than trustworthy.

Especially considering the fact he is often sleep depraved, which further dampens his reasoning, but not his instinctual skills. Which makes him volatile to an extent, and at a lot of times, he doesn't really sleep. Which may not exactly help him at ALL in setting his priorities straight. Especially from the fact he recently developed a hunter mentality, to which he sees a strong opponent worthy of being stalked and hunted down till the ends of the Earth, no matter how long it takes in his weird sense of patience.

Also he has developed a sort of wild imagination as of late because of his sleep deprivation, that he sees imaginary things at times, and would talk to non-existent things, he is no schizophrenic, simply hallucinating things because of his lack of sleep. Being paranoid at times and making up wild accusations that may rub a person as humorous, or not. Depending if you can see him as a conspiracy freak or as an enlightened member of a secret society, really depends on perspectives in the end. Thinking to himself often due to this lack of common sense, that he knows things other people don't, hence his nuttiness.

It was just recent that Nikolaus picked up a sense of absurd humor as he became slightly affable. Emphasis on slightly. But that does not shirk the fact he is an inhuman killing machine that doesn't flinch even at the thought of killing defenseless civilians. Merely that he had learnt SOME functions of socially interacting with others along with a sense of taking an occasional challenge or two in his times spent in Central due to his tendency to inflate his worth than it really is. Making himself out important than he really is despite having spent those times as a 1st Lieutenant thinking those things. Becoming SLIGHTLY more tolerant of the Xingese, individuals although, but that doesn't change the fact he is still a bigot as he picked up a new target to dislike in his bigotry.

As of late, a misanthropy of slights had developed where a supremacist view had now begun to surface in Nikolaus as he looks down as the weakness of those whom require alchemy to persevere. A contempt for all those that base their entire style upon alchemy which is but an augmentation to Nikolaus than an actual fighting style. It is nothing more than a tool, not a so called "power" to him.

Lately having become more serious, if not having become more skilled in social conventions and the mannerism. Empathy. Something Nikolaus has begun to loathe as he had begun also to pick up philosophical inclinations more so than ever. Though it is but a tool. This social skills that had improved his capability to speak not eeringly, something he learnt to "turn on and off" at times as he has sarcasm to compliment his personality newly. Delusions having disappeared as such. Arrogance being his new vice as well as contemptible hate and disgust of the weak he has come to see in the war. Strength the thing he aspires and to look at well enough.

LOVE:
→ Lemonade, scotch whiskey, schnapps, assassinations, sneaking around and appearing suddenly to freak people out, climbing up in awkward places and hiding, stealing, dark places, disguises, powerful prey, and ranting on and on. Challenges, investigations, wine, fancy cars, wealth, and finding out dirt on people.

HATE:
→ The Xingese, orange, lectures, the color teal, not doing anything, a future without any chaos in it, a lack of freedom, his imaginary friends, and rusty weaponry. Cretans. RIOTE, the shallow, stupid and conforming humans, presumptuous people, complications.

IDOL:
→ Father in all regards, as he was brought up and trained into being absolutely loyal to Father.

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HISTORY:
→ Nikolaus Stuka does not remember a time where he wasn't being Father's crony in his earlier years. He has always remembered the secluded room he and a number of children were in, remembering that he had always been drilled by military veterans of many campaigns against Ishvalans, Drachmans and Auregese whenever the occasion rises. The upper echelons of the military, and the secretive one at that.

Father has always been watching, supervising as he took an interest in the children, wanting to get more out of them, to get them to perform loyally and infinitely better as humans, but with a lack of interest in anyone of them having any future as Humonculuses or potential candidates considering this wasn't the aim of the Sturm Initiative. Rather it is to create soldiers, elites and loyal absolutely to Father and Father alone, that will be able to perform exceptionally against overwhelming odds as shock troopers and commandos, to quash rebellions, hunt rogue alchemists, and to fight the Alkahestrist menace with the highly agile Xingese to boot.

The weak died first, weeded out as Father wanted not numerous of these agents, he can always dig up anyone he wanted at any time, no, he wanted strong operatives worth a hundred men. Nikolaus was one of those operatives as he was more of the stronger ones, not exactly the strongest but the mid-tier operative, not the best at all but not the worst.

Having had to soak himself in blood at such an early age, at an order, that it was good ad desensitizing him to violence and making him take it apathetically, that it'd be as natural as breathing. After all, what good is a person that gets over emotional over killing others? That they were taught to fight under King Bradley's method of fighting style involving vicious disarming methods that aims to stun opponents and to finish them off, to restrain them with brute force and to annihilate. Making them exceptional hand-to-hand fighters... but...

Nikolaus hadn't been doing quite well in that coarse, being able to deflect strikes well, but not able to beat his opponent to death by momentum, instead relying more on agility, to which in later years, he had demonstrated profound accuracy, reflex and speed that got him to become a scouting type.

That if he hadn't done well under the Bradley training technique (BTT), he'd be switched over to training himself in the Hawkeye training program (HTP), to focus on fighting enemies at range and to barrage them with accurate attacks. In retrospect to not doing well in hand-to-hand combat, Nikolaus performed exemplary as a marksman. Which meant he wasn't useless at all, therefore not to be killed.

Though it wasn't long before the recruits were sent to go into the Gold Steiner Survivalist Training (GSST), where the recruits were sent at first, in groups to survive for a month in the wilderness ranging from Briggs to the deserts of Ishval, to be sent to Briggs with little scraps of clothing, and to Ishval with winter wear. There wasn't much of a casualty rate compared to the NEXT exercise. Instead of going into groups where each had to utilize their strengths and cover one another's weakness in a team-like cohesion, the next was simply a lonewolf initiative. The only thing they had was a combat knife, and that's it. The rest they had to work with survivalism in completely hostile territory where every animals wanted to kill them.

Nikolaus had an easier time just flinging his knife at animals from up a tree into their head which speaks testament to his aim, and survived easily, the survivor of the survivalist program. This time though, there was a higher casualty rate where fewer returned and the weak were weeded out once again.

This was routine in the training, that after years of intensive coarses on military practices, that Nikolaus had been given a rank by Father along with the others who had completed their training (after receiving an unknown yet painful surgery as an experiment that augmented their already powerful prowess), from well over a thousand to a few hundred. That he was given the name of Nikolaus Stuka, and a background just as all of them had, and was as a result, was part of the Black Ops group that operated in secrecy with high clearances, and complete effectiveness in cracking down rebellious groups and anyone that contradicted Father's plans. It was as much as the fact they worked in a two-man team without much support, instead had to rely on their inquisitive minds to make their objectives from a central goal that ensured their success, after all, all those training were definitely good for something. Every member of this group had a partner that would compliment their skills as they went in two man cells with access to all of the latest technology of Amestris and intel, to make sure they complete their missions, and when there is a lack of intel, they rely on investigation skills they've learnt. (They didn't have intel a lot more times than they had intel, which made intelligence a commodity to be treasured for these operatives, being trusted with information due to their complete loyalty to Father).

Eventually Nikolaus and his partner, a woman named Bethany, were sent behind enemy lines in assassination missions in Xing, and even an intel collecting mission on Alkahestry's inner working to find a weakness to it. That was a mission several years ever since Stuka's completion of his training, that several missions have done well to sharpen Nikolaus as he had gained a wealth of experience which made him ideal for assassinations and behind enemy-lines ops.

Though... after operating at a point in Xing, and fighting off against the Xingese fighters to whom they were trained to counter precisely, Bethany had heard news that Father died, which meant their mission was by default a failure. Startled as all the other operatives would've been, Stuka and Bethany fled Xing, that across the desert, due to Father's death, and the imprisonment of the personnel that worked for him directly, they had no EVAC, which meant they had to cross by foot. Bethany was one of the worst survivalists Stuka knew, to which she had wasted her water more than necessary, had forgot her hat, wearing clothing suitable for tropical climates, and eventually, had fallen from heat stroke. Without a hesitation, to destroy any information and evidence of her existence so that it may not fall behind enemy hands, Nikolaus had to execute her. Murder his own partner, to which somehow, despite the times he spent with her... he hadn't felt a thing about it but apathy, which was surprising to him, but he shrugged and went along with it after delivering a shot to her head. Finding a bullet through her head to be rather... enticing. That when he had stripped her of every equipment he could salvage, he had picked up a disturbing habit after it was sundown, and was night -- necrophilia. It was a dead body anyways, AND it was an instinctual urge that he went along with, that eventually for many nights, he had carried her around in his sick obsession over her form.

Yep, and he also KNEW this was wrong, but liked it anyways because, sure, he has been trained not to be social to people alive, but why not mingle with the dead? He had caused a lot of them, so much, that Nikolaus, in his newly picked up sleep deprivation, had begun to see himself as closer to death as an ideal partner than he is to life for how much lives he had taken. That she was used until she had rotted down to bones as he had to resort to eating her flesh as means of supplementing himself, hence it was first rule of survival. To make do with whatever you have and take care of any bodily requirements.

Anyways, after he had trekked his way across the desert, after passing by a friendly nomadic group to which he had spent a year with, and gotten along with due to their similar nature of being pragmatic and priding themselves upon kills despite knowing different languages, that Nikolaus's sleep deprivation was further enhanced after he was introduced to a drug that made him enter trances which relaxes him, so much so that he had begun to sleep a lot less. Eventually being taught by the tribe how to shoot whilst mobile, and how to construct primitive but silent weapons such as bows, arrows, and crossbows. Learning how to make extremely accurate use of trajectories that he had begun to maximize his accuracy. Learning a sister language of Xingese from the nomadic tribe, and in fact, they were one of the few people he had begun to like and connected with besides his black ops group he had grown with. That they had taught him a lot of new skills in survival, and in accuracy. All because Stuka was an Amestrian, the golden haired man that was the enemy of the much hated Xingese, and that an enemy of their enemy is their friend.

With newly begotten supplies, Nikolaus made his way through with a horse to Amestris eventually from the East, and finally to the West. Carrying the corpse of Bethany as he had absolutely no more position any longer in the military... a remnant of the past abandoned after Father died, an entity that constituted the world to Stuka. That to this point, Nikolaus had to make do with the remaining funds of his mission, get to Central, and indulge in his macabre necrophiliac practices for a time as he was going in trances after snorting in the drug that made him skip sleep because of how it 'relaxes' his body, which at this point, became an absolute anomaly to medical science on how he had managed to stay awake for months at a time without sleeping, even going as far as not to sleep for a year before simply going ballistic before finally falling flat on his face asleep for a couple of week in his chronic coma sleep.

Anyways, in these time intervals, he had seen himself better off working for Father's children, the Homunculus (he was groomed to know the exact nature of the Homunculus and how to identify them as a result due to his training by Father). That he had went to sign up for the army, the intelligence department specifically since technically, he wasn't supposed to exist due to his alleged identity. To join up with the black ops group on there like the other remnants of his organization, which by far, the intelligence department was surprisingly lenient compared to what hardships he had to go through in his organizations and the countless protocols, that he had begun eroding in his discipline that allowed him to adopt his vulgar facade. Aye, that he had worked for an odd number of years for the Fuhrer from secret police to assassin as he had to work on getting back up the ranking ladder due to how he had 'newly' joined the army, since after all, his post in Father's organization technically never existed, henceforth shrouded in secrecy.

In his time spent in a Fatherless Amestris, Nikolaus and Hei had went on a mission that had ended in a success(?) at the cost of the commander lashing out at the two. Not to mention Nikolaus has busted down Hei's door to his house, and met a delightful number of individuals. From the challenging femme fatale Victoire who just so happened to rekindle Nikolaus in hunting her with emphasis on being a security officer. All the way to his time spent back when he used to be with intelligence, having 'enlightened' the inquisitive Isabella into seeing that there were Cretan saboteurs everywhere in Amestris at her posting whilst she worked for Sofia. Having killed a couple of civilians, broke into Isabella's office at points, and at a point (not in that order necessarily) had attended the carnival. Which of course indirectly had Nikolaus having provoked a daemonic looking Chimera in an organization called the Brotherhood to have ripped off his partner's arm to which Nikolaus, for a prank, had taken Hei to a Doctor. A Doctor to INTENTIONALLY sew in Hei's arm wrong and to be as dysfunctional as ever.

Caught unaware of the fact that he was RIGHT for all the wrong reasons that Creta had designs upon Amestris but all for the wrong reasons and methods, not to mention having missed Markus's death and even a tornado. To which at a point Nikolaus would perhaps potentially be contracted to go in this upcoming war to fight on the Western front. From a lowly Sergeant, to a high 1st Lieutenant. Having went back to a few of Father's scientists to enhance Nikolaus even further in surgical augmentations as Nikolaus would be spending that time (not shown in RP) to improve himself and gain new skills, not only from observing his partner Hei, but also spending sometime training it and putting it into practice. Aye, becoming more efficient and better than ever.

After the battle between Amestris and Creta, after he had finished his dealings with the one known as Nika, Nikolaus had taken the opportunity in this chaos as to leave. To leave as he was recently contacted by the Fatherist scientist, the one that had helped raise Nikolaus, in a sense, a foster parent, to come back for very intensive methods to improve Stuka vastly. Biological enhancements and training were done so greatly as he was briefed upon new skills. Having been moved up the roster of the previous Fatherist Agents due to their recent deaths. Even the best among the roster were killed off, whilst Hei went MIA.

Leaving Nikolaus considered now one of the better ones higher up among the top ten from those agents as they begin to dwindle. Being taught swordsmanship in a short span of time as not an entirely new art but as an extension of his body per se in a sense. Exercise as well had made him much better than ever in prowess as well as augmentations along with studies on perception as to increase his Dragon's Pulse. The location he was at was primarily unknown besides the fact it was in Amestris.

That when Nikolaus returned to Amestris, a plethora of new skills were under his belt as he came back to a country in shambles. Though it hadn't shocked him. Only thrilled him further at the new enemy that had risen known as RIOTE. Perhaps worthy opponents to Stuka? Or perhaps nothing more than has-been trying to measure up to the grandeur supremacy of Father himself? The most certain aspect is that he is still doing a research over the suspect one whom was on the car so far, of Creta as he has skepticism as always, and as well to learn more about those odd Briggs weirdos as he has learnt later about them on their fights there in the Western front. Notably his delusions, his hallucinations and such had faded away as he had become somewhat jaded, retaining his prior ruthlessness he now possesses along with his high willpower. Indeed to him, to Nikolaus, the spirit of Father is closer to heart than ever before as he feels.

With his recent participation within the invasion of Drachma, Nikolaus has taken to it towards wiping out the populace towards a mysterious goal. Coincidentally having created a convenient catalyst for a philosopher stone to be used, as the rest of the Amestrians resolved not to kill civilians as he has done. Increasing the death toll of life in general, ruining the landscape of Moscow, and creating a parody of life itself. Spawning doom upon many. But he was averted by Ivanka, whom he spared despite contrary and ruthless persona he dons. Enigmatically leaving the Kuvalda commander with his life, and kidnapping Marismo with him. That in his leave, her absence was marred with sadistic torture for information and inspection of whatever effects she had on her. Something so unspeakable and inhuman performed in the interrogation and torture, forever potentially ruining the innocence of what white rose the great monster Stuka has profanely tainted. Otherwise, there are many events that occurred, yet it had not been taken to note.

All trivial, save for the fact he had learnt of Kallie's death, and received it not with sadness as many mistaken it to be, but indifference. A lack of enthusiasm, and an irritation at the news of it. An event he does not hold significantly, and feels out of touch with it. It didn't bother him a bit. For what remained of his remorse died many years ago in training, conditioned away. For how else could he kill Bethany without a blink of an eye? Without hesitation whatsoever? He loathes to think of it more, for it is but a life snuffed out. A life without value, that he himself doesn't value. All of human life not with an endearing price, but the fact they are so cheap. So cheap, he may as well have snuffed all of it out, that they do not matter. Pave a mountain. A hundred for a thousand. A thousand for a million. A million to bring back Ilios whom he swears fealty to. The dwarf in the flask from within the grave whom he serves. With his absence, just how could there be such a goal? All things don't matter. They are unimportant and without worth.

That is how it has become, to Nikolaus within his time, a short span of a time that is.

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TRIVIA:
→ Due to some unknown medical practice possibly with alchemy involved, Stuka possesses an insane reaction timing, the alterations to his body enhanced Nikolaus and bestowing him a decrease in the time taken to react by 300%.
→ He speaks Amestrian, Xingese and Cretan.
→ He is considered pretty agile, and sneaky, so much that he can angle his steps to the point that even wearing metal padded shoes would go as much as a subtle 'plink' than a loud 'clunk', making him pretty sneaky and pretty fast at that.
→ Because of his agility, he can easily run across walls and scale across buildings in extreme speeds in a similar manner to the Xingese, all thanks to his training.
→ Pretty much he has a great accuracy, all because he has eagle-like vision because of that.
→ He unfortunately suffers from sleep deprivation, his body is an anomaly to medical science in it's own rights, as he is able to stay for months awake, whilst progressing slowly to dementia rather than as fast as other humans who are sleep depraved, until he just falls into a coma, hence why he stares at people, not gazes, but STARES because of how his common sense seems to be pretty much bonkers, that, and he takes these depressant drugs that he makes at home that he learnt from a nomadic tribe, just like other things he learnt.
→ As a note, Nikolaus is a habitual necrophiliac, seeing love in dead corpses rather than on alive people, as he feels there is no potential for romance and to relieve his urges that he bottles up every now and then. And now, Nikolaus's new habit has evolved from the macabre sexual gratification through the dead, towards instead the predatory inclinations of cannibalism. Be they dead or alive, he at times would devour a person when it suits his fancy.
→ Is notable to have won 11 drinking games in alcohol without passing out, but lost 1 as a record as a chronic alcoholic. Showing testament to his stamina as not able to fall asleep ALL thanks to those darn drugs he keeps snorting that relaxes him and his body, allowing him to concentrate without having a nervous freak out.
→ Comas may vary at times, going from a day, to weeks from how long he'd sleep, a testament to his stamina as normal people would've fallen apart from that level of sleep deprivation (blame that scientist that surgically enhanced Nikolaus, turning him into a freak of nature for that stunt.)
→ By his partner, he has been regarded as a freak of nature, and a dangerous homicidal maniac, that somehow others not picking up on it is quite a feat pulled off on Niko's part. Influenced by deprivation of sleep on his bit.
→ Nikolaus having spent time training, had put his insane agility to use as he would be more like a Xingese martial artist. Learning their moves as he would be able to fight in their style in melee combat. Hence actually becoming proficient at close quarter combat thanks to watching his partner Hei battle and adapting some of those methods into practice.
→ Having had surgical augmentations similar to Hei's, Nikolaus became more sturdier so as his bones were outfitted with much harder density. Not having steel in them or anything, rather just made denser to withstand more punishment. That breaking bones are much harder for Nikolaus as he can afford to land from higher heights but not TOO high, he still has human limitations.
→ Ironically, despite hating the Xingese so much, Nikolaus had learnt a method of theirs through manuscripts in the black market. Something highly illegal and a state secret of Xing, the manuscript having been imported to the Fatherist Scientists from before that had Nikolaus learn them. The ability to read the Dragon's Pulse. Thereby becoming not only able to commune with nature and understand their surroundings, but sense the presence and movements of the people and animals around him as well by reading the pulse of life energy within his bodies. Although not as proficiently as a real Xing warrior, he can no doubt detect alchemy being used before it occurs SPECIFICALLY that, and Homunculus. Other lifeforms to be detected, would need to have Nikolaus concentrate on that feeling alone by subverting all others as it is very subtle and almost undetectable due to how small the presence is to Nikolaus, almost invisible, otherwise he can only detect the Homunculi and Alchemy passively.

→ Due to the highly intensive training Nikolaus went through as he had become now recently the top agents around from the remnant of Father's cadres, he has undergone a training King Bradley of the past had gone through. With already experience in his belt of the past of fighting, to have been toughened by his ordeals of melee combat, he had become a masterful swordsman, no matter the length of the sword, as it was worked upon the knowledge of which was there. Everything else has been a breeze as he has conquered what he hasn't done well at in the past. Though nowhere near at Bradley's capacity for swords yet as to destroy and slice through vehicles as if it were hot knife through butter. But he can certainly now cleave through bones. For now, blades are but another extension, a third arm for Nikolaus to use as if it were a part of him.
→ Due to his new physique being regained, along with biological enhancements, Nikolaus had now become able to keep his stamina even higher as well as a heightened strength. Curiously it helps that he in fact sleeps regularly and is no longer an insomniac, along with the fact he stopped taking the drugs as to keep him relaxed withholding his sleep thus far. Making him much better physically adapted to the rigors of melee combat, be it by hand or sword, he has become proficient in both. His body able to keep up with him more than ever, all in part of his young age as well.
→ With his ability to read dragon's pulse honed very much so, Nikolaus now has the ability to detect products of alchemy and Homunculi powers very easily, along with the fact he does not require to concentrate to tell out lesser lifeforms from those numerous that the Homunculi seem to portray. Those with one lives can be founded very easily as his perception of things has reached a peak to be as good as a Xingese warrior's capability. It is something constantly active as he is merely aware of his surroundings save for obstructions between him and the life form, to which would then warrant a need to concentrate and tell the form from within a building as an example. And because of his greater awareness, he is able to tell one's signature life aura, he can tell one from another easily as a result of the vibes and tunes he'd memorize as a result. If he cared to memorize the feeling that is. Not every person he runs across the street he'd remember, in the same way one does not care to remember a face.
→ His agility increased once again to a point he can be light at feet. Able to traverse the fragile and the scattered well enough to leap off of them as an example. A new flexibility now exists in Nikolaus which now compliments his acrobatics as well. Faster than before if anything as a result. A result of biological enhancements and training.

→ Demonstrating a great perception, Nikolaus's understanding of the Dragon Pulse was honed to a point he may accurately differentiate the many minute details of the soul. Where energy flows from. Where it matters most. Where life dwells upon and hangs from the balance. The exact idea where life is most vulnerable, as the Dragon's Pulse is richest there. Able to see the outline of the person's figure or whichever sentient being it is. Possessing the perception to tell what is and isn't alive or has Chi flowing through. Otherwise, this is just a better "eyesight", if anything.
→ His resilience, stamina and endurance are monstrous by human standards as of recent. Was it a result of his superior training or the many augmentations he received which developed further and intensified his ability to withstand so much, be it the elements, the fatigue or damage that would have been fatal in the first go? All are in turn to dub him as able to take it and to withstand, and operate throughout battle as rest is not much of a concern to him. Not in his mind much.
→ With his resilience, and also new muscular make up, the agent Stuka has the strength and capacity to bend steel girder with his bare hands without external support. Which speaks lengths of his capacity and performance in this extreme enhancement. All in due towards exercise and growing used to his already existent augmentation he has present within him. One thing was for sure, was his obsessive exercising unlocked the potential of his biological enhancements.
→ In concerns towards swordsmanship, Nikolaus's consistent practice towards the finer arts of cutting someone to ribbons has increased to be skillful and accurate at most. The greatest mastery he could ever achieve with blades, and an attained ambidexterity as to wield two blades with equal proficiency. A mastery comparable towards the Fuhrer of the olden times.
→ (TBA/Will probably add something in this ability tab later on. Figured I'll just leave it open for now until I think of something to throw in.)

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ALIAS:
→ Niko.

OTHER CHARACTERS:
→ I say so.

CREATOR'S COMMENTS:
→ I came, I saw, I registered. Pretty simple.

FACE CLAIM:[*code]SERIES/ARTIST/character[/code*] (Take out the * and this message)

CUSTOM RANK:
→ Intelligence Operative Unfriendly Fire

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[Guest]

Finished, hopefully didn't go overboard with this app.

[Guest]

APPROVED

I'll let Aki take a look at this later, however. I think the body modifications should be fine. Might I recommend a place for you in the Four Horsemen?

https://mdalchemist.rpg-board.net/t314-four-horsemen

[Guest]

Rank Roll =3

[Guest]

The member 'Hild' has done the following action : Rank Roll

'Lieutenant Roll' : 6

[Aurelius Schwartz]

APPROVED

Level up!

[Aurelius Schwartz]

Rank up...

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The member 'Aurelius' has done the following action : Rank Roll

'Major Roll' : 2

[Reila Tsukino]

APPROVED

<3

[Dai]

A P P R O V E D

Looks alright to me. Anyone has any issues, lemme know.

[Guest]

Been told by Dai to post this here to justify promotion to Brigadier General. OBSERVE.

As a Colonel, Nikolaus Stuka has made flexibly tactical use on the field like no other field officers. In the Drachman war, as a show of his own merit, he has managed to instill a high casualty within the opposing forces, as well as subdue Drachman Kuvalda elites with a prisoner to boot. Those said same elites that would have caused major hindrance to other forces. Yet it doesn't stop from there, that as Colonel and Chief of Security, threats to Central were culled in the form of counter-espionage and numerous dealing of the law given to the otherwise lawless populace. Such as saving Aldrich from an assassin's clutches, and ensuring his prior safety. Ensuring the safety of Amestris and her citizens, as well as keeping a vigilant eye over any potential leaks that seems to be rife throughout Amestris. Not to mention otherwise averting a threat within the Chancellor's congratulatory ball that may have killed most of the military high brass within one go, and keeping quiet about it so not to inspire widespread panic in the country.

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