| — Koray talking about himself. |
| Age | 60(vol 1-3), 62 (Current) |
|---|---|
| Alias | Silver Van Heckmier,Koray Master of Illusions. |
| Status | Alive |
| Color | Red |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Human |
| Born | December 31 |
| Handedness | right |
| Complexion | fair |
| Hair | Black with Grey |
| Eyes | Teal |
| Height | 6'0 |
| Weight | 180 |
| Affiliation | Cirque De Nightgale. |
| Team | KROM(Formerly)KORN |
| Partner | O |
| Occupation | Master theif/magicain |
| Job Types | Magicain/theif |
| Jobs | Magician/theif |
| Emblem | File:Nightingale bird siting on a branch with a jem on in its chest |
| Likes | Tressure/lien/gold/women |
| Dislikes | Disrespect/unloyality |
| Special Skills | Master theif an magician an ice dust. |
| Weaknesses | Old age,long range combat,stamina |
Appearance:[]
He looks like a raggedy old man with his long shaggy shoulder length jet black hair with grey strikes in it; with a matching Van Dyke Beard. He also has Alluring Teal color eyes. He has a athetic build to him.
He stands at six feet tall. and is a whopping one hundred and eighty pounds.
Though he may be Sixty years old he only looks forty at most(Though his grey strikes in his hair and beard give away his true age.). He has fair skin.
Normal Attire: He generally wears a brown duster coat over a black vest with a white turtle neck shirt under it. With some kind of baggy pants with sandles
Magician Attire: He generally will wear a nightingale inspired mask over half his face; while wearing a black robe over a Rustic suit which covers a white turtle neck under a matching rustic color vest and dress pants. With Black Oxford shoes.
Thief Attire: He use to wear a navy blue leather jumpsuit inspired stealth suit with a matching leather chest plate and grieves and knee pads to match. Around his thighs and back he has some pouches he uses to store his various gears and gadgets along side his stolen goods. He also wore some black leather boots. He also wore a mask hood to complete the on look.
Personality:[]
During his old days as a thief Koray's personality was that of a suave, cunning and Alluring gentleman thief; with a hedonistic mind set.
Koray is loyal to his friends and family to the point of going so far as putting himself in harm's way if it means helping his friends and family members.
He has a pretty big Ego in that he didn't really see his friends as friends till later in life; In which he now sees them as his dearest companions and he would die for them. He has a bit of a reckless side to him in that; He will generally do daring and dangerous things to either win a fight; Or to get the crowd going. This all goes back to his ego and his need to be known as Rement's Greatest.
While still present; He has since then wisened up over the years and has learned to as he puts it. "Live in the here and Now.". Preferring to enjoy life day by day.
He has changed a bit over the years becoming more Family ordinate and having an almost fraternity with his apprentices though more so with Flint and Nickelae and their love of magic tricks. Going so far as to teach them some tricks.He generally feels his age when seeing his grandson and family, But even more so whenever he thinks back to the old days.
Weapons:[]
Thunder Bird:(Dust Taser Staff) DTS: Takes the form of a three foot long cane with a silver nightingale's head on one end of it. It has a mix of hard wood and soft wood. It uses a black bamboo style wood for the outside with a Douglas fur for the inside. Allowing it be strong and sturdy to it with flexibility to spare. In short a well balanced weapon.
First form:Takes the form of a sword in which any dust placed on the tip of the bottom end of the cane transform the cane's edge into that of a blade. With this it allows him to use dust in close range as well as doing some other stuff.
Fire Dust:Makes the cane hot enough to melt through most metals and glass and gives it a blazing sword look to it.(Can cut through steel with ease if its not protected by aura as well as most glass.) He can do some flaming slashes and explosion when thrust ed into a enemy. (He can also heat up his enemy's weapon if in a blade lock. Won't work if they are wearing gloves or are using aura on their weapon.).(Also will only use in a serious fight against more seasoned hunters as a means of quickly disarming them.) Effective Against:Wind and Ice dust base attacks and defense; Weak against:Water and Earth base attacks. Offensive used mostly.
Ice:Makes the cane cold to the touch that it will freeze bits and pieces of a target's body if touch by it.(Mainly uses this for all his heists; To take on most lesser foes EX:Security guards,Goons and even some newbie hunters to a lesser extent). Offensive used mostly.
Lighting:Makes the cane into basically a stun baton shocking and stunning the enemy for a short while. Effective against:Water Ineffective against:Earth,Wind and Water(If he is in said water or its coming at him.)
Second Form: Koray simply takes the handle off it and stuffs it in his pocket till later time.
Secondar Weapon:Talons Of Nightingale's:Ten Claw Dust Rings; Worn on each of Koray's fingers and are used for close quarters combat and climbing as well as dust casting techniques as the rings are used as a form of conduits for his dust casting. The way he casts these dust techniques comes in the form of hand signs(Other wise known as Finger Tutting). These can range from simple hand jesters to elaborate ones depending on the spell being used.
With this comes advantages and disadvantages; The advantages are being able to use dust up close and far away. Disadvantage being the spells being render useless should he not be able to use his hands.(Such as having them crushed or bonded.). While he has found ways to over come this disadvantage it is still rather difficult for him to over come.
Abilities:[]
Koray has spent years studying dust amassing a well of knowledge that only a true Dust user could know. Though he is skilled in all dust types and their various forms; Ice dust is where he excels at having used it the most of all through out his thieving career and into his magician career. Going as far as to use it in his staff and rings to give him a edge with his unarmed/armed combat skills as well as his dust casting; to quickly,silently and subtly take down opponents.
The way he uses his staff is more or less like that of a sword to be more precise he uses it like a rapier with swift and precise slashs and stabs into his enemies limbs to disable them.
He is also fairly skilled in unarmed combat able to disable and disarm most unskilled opponents and even a few skilled opponents;(Not accounting Professional to Veteran level hunters). However where he true excels at is evasion and misdirection. Often time evading opponent's strikes and even using his parkour skills to get up and over them or below and behind them. While using his skills as a thief and a magician to subtlety underhand his opponents through the use of deceptively cunning tricks and gadgets;
(These are some of his various dust techniques in order from weakest to strongest as well as how complicated they are.)
Dust Techinques:
Phantasm's Smoke:(Ice+Fire+Wind): Koray makes a fist with the use of the three dust and as he goes to throw his fist down as if he were slamming something down. A large puff of steam will form around him blinding the enemy for a few seconds.(10 seconds Max and a Radius of 30 ft)
Ice Wall:(Ice+Water+Wind):Koray waves his palm horizontally in the air in front of him to create a wall of ice. (The strength of which is dependent on the layers of ice it uses With one being equal to a plain of glass etc. all the way up to metalic glass level which is twenty being the max.)
Anemoi's Breath(Wind + Gravity): A strong gust of wind caused by Koray flicking his wrist in the direction of a enemy.(The of which can knock down down a grown man and if times by two can send vehicles flying/cause them flip over.);
Lighting Javelin:(Lighting+Earth+Gravity):Koray crafts a Javenlin made out of lighting with earth dust giving it the shape and sharpness and with gravity giving it the thrust necessary to pass clean through a enemy.(Another Rare skill used.)
Razor Blade(Ice+Water+Wind+Gravity): Koray must bring his hand back in a wave motion then with a swish of his hand in a arcing motion towards his enemy; A blade of Ice is formed that is strong enough to cut through steel.(Koray rarely uses this technique due to its lethal nature. Preferring to use its weaker variant.)
Meteor Strike:(Fire+Earth+Wind+Gravity):Koray puts one hand over the other; He then opens his thumbs and as he is rotating his hand he makes a "L" Shape with his hands before launching the attack. Which ends in a upside down facing "L" and the force of it is equal to that of a missle.(Another technique he rarely uses but will use on some grimm.)
Noncombat::Over his many years as a thief and a magician he has amassed some skills fitting of a Master thief and adept magician. Of these skills he excels at pick pocketing and safe cracking as well as slide of hand and misdirection;
His other thief skills are lock picking to which his skill in it are fairly decent enough so that he can at the very least break into a house without damaging the door.his skills in avoiding detection up there with the likes of ninjas in that he has been able to sneak into some fairly heavily secure locations without being spotted;
he isn't the best at trap detection but he is good enough to avoid trip wires and false bottoms but anything using tech would most likely get him and finally;
A skill he learned from his friend Margrit; He isn't as nearly skilled at disguise making as Margrit is but he can at the very least pull off some rather elaborate disguises to trick people into letting him in.
His other magician skills are stage illusions; Which he performs with the aid of his assistants; Micromagic(Close up magic tricks): A thing he does for folks wishing a audience with him. Then finally but not least Escapology in that he often performs dangerous feets of escape from seemingly impossible circumstances.
One that he has even had his assistants do for him if he wasn't feeling good generally making sure it possible for them to escape before hand. He is also a skilled hand at some minor magician skills that he uses within his stage performances as well as his close up acts such as production,Vanishing,Transformation,restoration,transportation,transposition,penetration and finally generally for his grand final levitation.
Aura/Semblance:[]
Koray's Aura is Red and he has a fairly large amount of it.
Semblance:Grackle's Swarm: That is the name of Koray's Semblance; It is a summoning semblance as it allows him to summon a flock(No more than 30 max) of Grackles to do his biding as if they were his puppets. To which they very much are in that they can fallow basic commands and his hand jesters if being used in intervals(Generally One or two at a time four if pinning down a enemy). His over all use of them is to subtly undermine his enemies. With clever tricks and traps and in some cases bombarding them with the flock.(Specially for much more tank like enemies such as a Giant Nevermore.).
One of them is about as powerful as a hand grenade with;One grackle is capable of taking a lot of damage at a max of ninety hits before vanishing. As the flock number grows so do their power but their number of hits they can take lessening with each new grackle summoned.(Due to Koray having to share his aura with each new grackle.)
As Koray uses more and more grackles the total of hits them taking becomes less.(small flock:10 grackles:Minimum 20 with a Max of 30 hits; With power equal to ten grenades combine.);(Medium Flock:20 grackles:Minimum 10 with a Max of 20 hits; With power equal to twenty grenades.); (Max flock:30 grackles:Minimum 5 with a Max of 10 hits; With power equal to thirty grenades.); He has also learned that adding different dust types to them give them different properties and change their over all appearence as well.
Fire Dust: Phoenix:With fire dust the birds take on a fiery aspect and are able to burn; The enemy as well as create torrents of flames when in a large enough group and can encase a enemy in a pillar of fire as they circle around them.
Ice Dust: Alcyoneus: With Ice dust the birds take on a sort of KingFisher like bird appearance and are able to create cold ice winds and freeze their enemies in place.
Wind Dust:Anzu:Allows him to float for a short period of time and can create powerful gust of winds that can send a enemy's footing and if used with the flock can send a grown man flying.
Lighting Dust:Thunder Bird:Allows him to shoot lighting at his enemies akin to a homing missile. Can miss.
Backstory:[]
Koray comes from a wealthy family however unlike most families who made a living through weapons smiting and dust mining. Koray's family made their wealth by stealing from rements wealthy up class people as well as the corrupted criminals in the criminal underground. It was with their stolen lien and well-placed investments into various companies that have allowed; His family to give up their thieves ways.
However, Koray didn't want to and instead stridden himself on thief's path. At first, he started out small stealing candy from local kids around his neighborhood. But soon found his way into bigger things; Such as stealing wallets, watches and eventually TVs from the neighborhood. He has gotten so good at it that it wasn't till he was caught sneaking into a huntsmen's house. That he was arrested it was at this stage of his life that Koray's parents tried to scare him out of his life of crime going as far as to have him be sent to jail for two years; However this only helped him solidify his theivous path due to the introduction to some professional thieves that he learned from and was inspired by;
Once he became a Thief he sought out to make a crew of like-minded souls which this caused him to travel Rement in search of like-minded individuals; One of these was a young Atlas hacker/inventor named Onyx Ironheart and another was a Solider in Menagerie who was called Rasuk Kojote. With his three companions now with him the trio went on a series of heists across Rement and the various kingdoms and their villages; Starting out small but eventually, they became renowned for their daring heists and equally daring escapes. However to avoid becoming too well known the trio hidden themselves within a traveling circus and used false names.
He then created team Krom Upon a terrorist attack trying to use his family name and upon that and besting the baddies him and the rest team Krom went on heists but eventually two of members wanted out Rasuk and his now wife Margrit due to their three children and them not wanting to live a life of crime nor have them live the life of a circus performer.
During this time the circus was attacked by the very same terrorist group but this time was different and the battle would last for many days and cost many lives. It wasn't till near the end of the battle that Koray would discover the monster that his friend Rasuk was becoming. It was during the moment that Rasuk was about to kill the Terrorist leader that Koray knew what he had to stop his friend. To which he did by using one of his forbidden techniques stop his friend from making a big mistake; After that event, the team left and returned to the circus to rebuild but it was during the reconstruction of the circus that Koray decided it was best that he let Margrit and Rasuk go.
He even gave them their cut of the profits from their heists. It would be nearly forty years since he last saw his friends. That he would come into contact with them during those times he got married and had a kid and eventually had a grandchild. To which he trained Flint and Nickelae together as a means of keeping the friendship between him and Rasuk alive and hoping that his friend would see the errors of his way by seeing how well the kids played.
Triva:[]
Koray's name is turkish for Ember moon or rather a moon in a ember color.
His last name nightingale came from the bird of the same name.