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"We don't k-know where we are. W-we didn't come here on our own."

Spoiler: Adrian Gosse (click to show/hide)

Appearance
Fiber and ceramic, cloth and metamaterial, the fabric interwoven with geometric plating. The clothing flows together, the length wherein the muted aloha shirt and khaki pants seemingly fixed as to disallow gaps from forming. The frontal panels of the shirt lock together seamlessly, the buttons little more than token ornaments, the garments entombing the man beneath, their aesthetics far more defining than his unremarkable features. He wields an ashen grey stave, which its curved head holds a pulsating heart of black liquid, secured by metallic rods.

Shadowing him is a lady with wide, alert eyes and a demure smile reminiscent of a beartrap, primed to spring into a wicked grin. She moves with swiftness and silence, her movements purposeful, her stride calculated. Precipitating from the darkness wreathing her, like a shifting haze is a full set of body armor, the design utilitarian were it not amalgamated with a dress shirt and trouser set. Surfacing from the depths of her gloves is a handgun, its polymer frame a matte black.

Abilities
As with all beings of his world, Gosse's "soul" is effectively an entire plane of existence unto itself, which is able to influence reality to an extent, affording him the capacity to distort the world around him in the form of magic. His abilities are dependent on his state of mind and focuses. Due to having only recently reincarnated, they are current echoes of sorts of his past life and not particularly potent by the standards of his world.

He is capable of siphoning matter from his immediate surroundings to form a physical aura that resembles a ghillie suit in both form and function, which can be purged to act as a decoy if need be. His primary means of offense takes the form of the entity that follows him, an ethereal representation of his past-self which is far more proficient in close quarters combat. As a more direct form of attack, both he and this projection of his is capable of injecting nature spirits into foes in a similar process to generating his aura, though rather than forming an exoskeleton of sorts, it instead causes the victim's blood to bloom, causing it to either explosively rupture outwards in the form of a transient flower, or clog their arteries, depending on whether or not it can successfully burst out of their body.

Also, as his world partially runs off of RPG logic, he instantaneously regenerates from all harm until he runs out of HP. In which case he just plain dies.

Both his stave, and his projection's handgun use magic to fire high-velocity bolts of teflon. Though in his projection's case, it can also summon its weapon back into its hand and throw it with surprising force.