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Xander is a short form of Alexander
Izanguis is a portmanteau of Izanagi and anguis which can mean Slow worm and hydra.
United, his name can mean Protector of Hydras or Defending worm.
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Fits primarily in Sci-Fi, fantasy, Dystopian settings, or a mixture of the three. Most scenes will involve one of his gadgets for "wacky hijinks" Open to most things besides CV, just send a PM or a PUB if you're interested.
Xander is a Glass lizard, a genus of reptiles that resemble snakes, but are actually lizards. Although most species have no legs, their head shapes, movable eyelids, and external ear openings identify them as lizards. - 1. Glass lizards eat such small prey because they aren't able to unhinge their jaws. 4. Another thing that sets them apart is that they don't lay eggs, they birth live younge like mammals. ___ Xander used to be a Blue Dragon; however, after picking a fight with Rita_Sjach, he lost both his arms and legs. In the throes of agony, he shapeshifted into a reptile without limbs: the glass lizard. He still mirrors his true form based on his scales. His back scales are a dark blue, while his frontal/belly scales are a very light yellow; because of this he can hide at the body of lakes or camoflague himself high in the sky from predators below him.
. A few species have very small, stub-like legs near their rear vents. These are vestigial organs, meaning they have evolved and are no longer in use. Some scientists use this fact as a basis for thier theories that ancient snakes used to have limbs.
As predators Glass lizards feed on insects, spiders, other small reptiles, and young rodents. While they can do things snakes cannot, all while having some of the same capabilities of snakes; it's at the price of the few things that makes snakes so dangerous.
2. The trade off is they have movable eyelids, so if someone tries to kick sand in their eyes it'll be more difficult.
3. However on top of being able to still feel vibrations like a snake they have external ears, unlike snakes they rely on hearing as well as smell to hunt.
5. Their signitaure ability though comes into play when the tables are turned; they can detach their tail to distract their predator.
6. They even have slight regenerative powers; it takes many years to do and the new tail will be smaller than the original, it WILL grow back.
Since Glass lizards still have vestigial stubs, he was able to get mechanical prosthetics to replace his original arms and legs. Finally, he let his tail be chopped off as well, getting it replaced with an artificial one he can detach, reattach, and control with the secondary control node at the tip.
He moves them with a control node implanted near the back of his head; he also embedded dynamos in the hands and feet of his prosthetics. If you can get him to open his mouth you'll see tiny chips in his fangs allowing him to deliver a controlled shock to prey he bites.
Xander is Dragon from Ryue, the moon of a Dragon planet. Born during the Crescent cycle, his length is 16ft but still often rises off the ground at about 5'6; a height that's boosted with his mechanical prosthethics, to 7'7.
Among the Lunarians Xander is the "Figurehead", and represents Denial in the Kubler Ross model of grief. Rather than try to take action to get back home, he belies that everything can sort itself out without his involvement.
Prior to all this, Xander lived in the slums of Ryue; he kept his sanity when the Crescent cycle passed, and the slums were plunged into darkness, by finding a hobby: the collection and harvesting of rare gems. When the Gibbous cycle arrived, Dyan_Vipera chose him to be her ally as they journied out into the abyss of space (only because their leader forbids a dragon to journey alone). When they reached Planet Nu Dyan chased him off; he knew she wasn't well, but lied to himself saying she just needed more time alone.
After a heated discussion Xander tried to fight Rita_Sjach, and was given a "crash course" on what powers the planet held; in the end he was swifted defeated, the prideful mouse slicing off his arms and legs
Xander only escaped by forcing his body down a tunnel after shapeshifting into a Glass lizard. There he found Umbradel and the Umbrae, who allowed Xander to stay undergound with them.
They gave him his cyborg enchancements, showed him things beyond his wildest imagination, and the idea he's expected to give that all up and become a hero "because fate says so" is one he deliberately ignores.
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Having the Gemini zodiac fragments, he reflects them greatly; Xander . . isn't the nicest individual. He's smart but incredibly lazy; if he isn't personally invested in the task at hand, you'll have to badger him constantly before he'll assist you.
He's also incredibly asocial, staying to himself as much as possible, and will actively lash out if forced to leave his comfort zone. The best way to capture him is to bribe him with some cutting edge tech, then it'll become harder to actually keep him from NOT helping you.
Crescent moon dragons are the weakest among the Lunar tribes, so now he's been given power he's quick to exert it on others, sometimes just wanting strangle prey in his coils until they're blue as he is.
Xander is a Sapper, or Combat engineer; employed in a number of armies world-wide, their primary duties are to build up or demolish structures, simultaneously advancing the movement of their own forces while impeding their enemies.
Xander chose this job class to better understand his prosthetics in and out of battle. With the dynamos in his hands and feet, Xander can become a living battery; so long as he's given a "power source" to run off of, he can create Direct electrical currents to power devices and mechs.
As far as an actual job Xander is a self-employed tinkerer; in the field of "Magineering technology", the study enchancing machines via magic and forging weapons from tangible magic like ore, Xander is paid to push the limits of what this field of study can hold.
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As a job class, the sapper suffers heavily from power creep; at the beginning they have low defense, low health, but they have the highest inventory space. They spend most of their time in the field, gathering resources like scrap metal and minerals; once you get one of many kinds of forges, you can then combine these individual scrap pieces to create better weapons and armor than can be found in shops. The sapper is also always in competitiion with other sappers; at higher skill levels they can create stuctures like brigdges to reach new areas, or forcefully block paths by building mines. At the same time a sapper can destroy both of these structures, so it becomes a desperate struggle of: "Who can build the better items faster, and who has the deepest pockets both for money and resources." To the victor goes all the spoils, the other player forced to start over.
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Amplification of weapons
Using his expertise as a combat engineer, Xander can break off parts of his weapon and upgrade them version using the remaning mass of the collective whole.
This is also why he tends to carry scrap metal around with him, able turn them into spike trips or mine fields.
Infusion of Electricity
A power coming from him being a blue dragon, he can breathe out lighning and even make it burst out from his body.
He gives his weapons an electric charge, able to stun lock people if they get hit long enough as his weapons crackle and spark with lightning.
Acceleration of Kinetic Energy/Momentum
Xander's mechanical limbs are rather slow and clunky; however once he gets moving it's hard for him to slow down. Xander double the rate increase his speed and strength increases through movement; this allows for an immense finishing blow once all the energy is transfered.
While this can make him powerful it makes for a drastic flaw in his combat style; if he's not running at full throttle he's incredibly weak, and if someone can take all his momentum and turn it against him in a counter move he's pretty much done for.
Synchronization with Gemini
Lastly though, Xander Izanguis is colloector of the Gemini zodiac fragments. This allows him to create a doppleganger, and eventually used it as a power source for his tulpavatar.
Able to telepathically communicate with him, Xander can also swap his consciousness with his gemini double, giving him all of the power but none of the biological drawbacks.