ARMA - Togar Grant

Personality:

First and foremost, Togar is loyal to ARMA. He’s a hard-working fellow who does his job well. He wants to uphold their image and works not to do anything that could damage it. Why is he so intent on pleasing those he works for and with? Well, they saved him at a time when he was being hunted down by the OFL as they sought to force him to join. Yet his loyalty isn’t an unquestioning loyalty, no, for he knows that is foolhardy; plus he feels that behavior is what caused many problems for those magus that eventually formed ARMA. Beyond that he’s a skilled fighter and known to be a friendly guy that can joke around, laugh, have some drinks, plays some sports, and occasionally gets lucky with the ladies. Occasionally he loves to spar, hang at a gym, and in his off-time enjoy some leisure time in the ring. Though his biggest enjoyment these days is inviting people to parties that he holds and caters himself.

He still deals with a lot of grief over the loss of his family, but he knows there’s nothing that could be done. His belief is that the only thing you can do is keep moving forward. Of course, he also firmly believes that someday he’ll be with his wife and children again. Children are perhaps his one weakness. He finds it hard to take out someone who might have family and for this reason has never killed anyone even while on the run. Ever since joining ARMA about a year ago, he continues to try to not harm others, but if he has to thinks it’s better for them to be injured than dead.

History:

An Australian boxer said to be up-and-coming, Togar’s life changed when the Resonance hit. He was at an event in Las Vegas that was to be his biggest match to date. It was even being televised on a major scale. Then the world erupted into chaos, and in the midst of it all he lost his wife and children who were there to watch him fight; the four of them dying along with many others when the building collapsed. Togar lived though he still can’t remember how that came to be, and if he’s honest with himself? He isn’t sure how he survived the post-Resonance world this long especially without any abilities. He was one of those that didn’t get hit.

Somehow he made it to NY where he re-started his life working odd jobs, doing underground fights, and so on in order to survive. The world was different, largely unrecognizable from the world he’d known before, for Togar. Being alone in it was difficult those first 3 years, nobody in his family alive, but then eventually advice that his grandmother used to give him as a child came to him ‘keep moving forward’. That helped immensely in pushing him to move on with his life. He started trying to socialize some so that he wasn’t alone in the world while also keeping his head down.

There wasn’t much in terms of excitement in his life until November 2nd, 2018 rolled around. When he came to after losing consciousness it was to find himself having been affected this time. Frightened, not knowing what to do, and nearly killing people he tried his best to run when the OFL got wind of him. And then ARMA found him instead. Knowing their reputation was better than that of the OFL’s, and having two of their magus save his life, Togar joined them. Now, he works as an operative in their Knight Division. His on-going assignment since completing the significant parts of his training half a year ago has been to follow the bound-magus Rhome Del Santo.

Skills:◾

◾ Physical Combat: Skilled in both hand-to-hand, given his boxing background and further training once joining ARMA, along with knives just solely due to his training while trying to survive on his own and once joining ARMA.

◾ Outdoor/Sporting activities: Boxing, Rock Climbing(Free Climbing, Bouldering, Deep-water Soloing), Cave Diving, Base Jumping, Skydiving, Mountaineering(including hiking), Mountain Biking, Parkour, Running(exercise and marathons), Badminton, Tennis, Volleyball, Cricket, Wrestling, Swimming, Ballroom Dancing, Camping.

◾ Cooking is his favorite leisurely activity in terms of not being sports/athletics related. He takes it quite seriously. Before Resonance he had some of the best cooking utensils and a plethora of cookbooks, and now he works toward trying to build that collection. Often throws dinner parties for ARMA folks.

Abilities (if applicable):

◾ General: Is able to do standard sensing of magic, cantrips, etc. that other magus can do. The cantrip he makes use of the most is one that allows him a temporary illusory facade for 30 minutes so that he can look like someone different which is useful for following targets or working undercover.

◾ Insertion and Extraction: Can both create smoke for cover as well as clear smoke. The benefit of creating is smoke is that not only does it provide cover, but it can also induce coughing. Clearing obviously can do the opposite of those things. However, in order to create smoke there must be a source producing the smoke already(ex. Fire or something smoking).

◾ Deoxygenation: This allows the removal of oxygen from one’s surroundings. More commonly used in fire suppression/negation, it can also be used offensively and defensively to subdue. Removal of oxygen can cause anything from trouble breathing to hallucination to loss of consciousness to suffocation to cardiac arrest depending on length of time suffering from lack of oxygen. The ability is centered on him, allowing for a radius of 8ft and it’s not something that can do while he moves which leaves him vulnerable. As well there’s the issue of oxygen returning to the room, and for that reason this works better in a sealed room necessitating some early preparation to seal vents, windows, and doors. Or in the case of no room working with someone who can make shield-type blocks to either enclose he and the target(s), or to block the vents, windows, and/or doors. As there are risks of innocents suffering when going after a specific target he is adamant about pre-planning and preparation.

◾ Oxygen Absorption: This becomes active when his brain registers that he is in need of oxygen or when using the above ability. If he’s in need of oxygen, his body will start absorbing it until he does not need anymore then stop. However, in the case of using the Deoxygenation ability it is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it is useful to allow him to be able to breathe while he is removing oxygen, but can also cause over-oxygenation if he absorbs too much forcing him to stop. If he does not, or for some reason cannot, stop then he puts himself at risk which can even possibly lead to oxygen toxicity and even death if severe enough.