Christan Brooks (Earth - 485)

""Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard.""

- Christan talking to Frost

Christan, also known as the Vigilante Hero is a self made hero. He is an pyrokinetic and the hero of T-City. He protects his small city from monsters alone. Due to stronger heroes not being around as much to deal with the smaller monsters. Sitch of the Hero Association views him as a grave threat to the organization despite him saving countless lives.

Appearance
Christan's design is centered around two key points. One, long stylish coat to make him "showy". Two, according to the series creator he wanted him to be a "witty hero".

Christan is a man of average height, with a slim fit build and it is covered in scars. He has two faded scars across his right eye and left cheek. He has dark eyes and tan skin. He has short white hair which spikes up and naturally flows to the side. His hair used to be longer until it was cut during his fight his fight with the X-Monsters. He wears all black clothes, mimicking Tatsumaki's black dress. At times he wears a tattered leather jacket, a short-sleeved compression shirt, baggy jeans, fingerless gloves, and boots.

Christan owns several shirts and hoodies with various designs. This includes his:

Tornado of Terror Hoodie

Tornado of Terror T-shirt

Demon King T-shirt

Phenomenal One (wrestling) T-shirt

MOX T-shirt

Black Leather Jacket

Good Boy T-shirt

Oppai (Boobies) T-shirt

Kill You T-shirt

22nd Super Fight T-shirt

Personality
Christan's devil may care attitude complements the fact he's usually seen smiling and happy. He is very eager to fight strong opponents and believes the reason for fighting is to be be better than he was yesterday. Due to him feeling that he doesn't grow in strength if he wins in one shot during most fights, Christan holds back in an effort to make any fight more interesting and prefers to fight fair. He can be counted on to do the right thing, even if he makes humorously cynical quips about it the entire time. Though he only uses hand to hand to hand combat during his fights. But he is also quick to unleash his full strength if his opponent proves to be sufficiently powerful, dangerous or angers him. In Hell Frozen Over, he was clearly going easy on Frost at the beginning of their confrontation despite knowing her prior skill in fighting. As he overpowered her with only a mediocre amount of effort. He gets bored with fighting weak monsters and only finds entertainment in fighting strong ones who will give him a challenge. Talking is the only thing that somewhat entertains him in those situations. His enjoyment of fighting was further emphasized in his pre-battle banter with Frost, telling her "that I kinda like the challenge".

Although, this is all a front. As pointed out by Frost, his 'tough guy' persona is to compensate for the fact that he was weak and a coward before he got powers, and he uses it to vent his desire to be someone strong and fearless. In actuality, Christan desperately wants people to respect and like him, but he lacks the social skills to do that and so keeps using his vigilante persona in hopes that someone would like it. He's also extremely self conscious, and hated talking about his past or called the vigilante hero, although he would later get over the latter.

While fighting he tends to mouth off to even the most powerful of people and monsters, and he generally enjoys showing off and taunting his opponents as often as he can. He finds that making jokes, and taunting, stops him from freezing up so he can calm down, process what's happening, and deal with it. If he really thought about all the danger he is in, he would have anxiety attacks. Talking occupies him enough to not focus on the fact that he’s fighting monsters, he also does this to get on the nerves of his opponents, since he knows that if they are angry, that they would normally lose themselves and be a vulnerable opponent. He also does this when he's nervous around people. He also displays a fearless, almost uninterested attitude towards incredibly dangerous situations. Even during these terrible times he tends to maintain his overall laid-back demeanor during these situations, and is never without a witty taunt or comeback. Respect his something values very much, almost to his detriment. He sees the vigilante title as an insult, loosing his cool when its used towards him. Though he's able calm himself down in certain situations.

His desire to be someone strong and fearless comes from his strong will to be like Tatsumaki. Someone who he believes is always fearless and strong. Many of his decisions and actions result from his desire to become a hero similar to her. Even though his end goal was to meet the heroes he had looked up to, his first interaction with the top tier of heroes didn't go as planned. Christan craves respect and acknowledgment from his heroes. He tells Tatsumaki "I believe in noblesse oblige, those with power should use it to help those who don't." He actually dislikes unwanted attention from others, due to him being very self conscious of himself. Believing that no one cares about him as a person but only as the "vigilante hero." Deciding to hide any injuries he's ever gotten from his city and friends. All this built up to him hating the name and always wanting be called by his name. He also has quite the temper. When angered he tends to lash out uncontrollably. Like a whole other person possess him and he goes for the throat. He at first was just trying to knock out Frost in their second fight but when he was near death he couldn't think clearly and was enraged and attempted to piledrive her into the ground.

Abilities and Powers
He's recognized as a dangerous individual overall, though his feats aren't recognized by the Association.

Physical Abilities

• Inhuman Strength: Christan possesses great strength. He calls it the strength of mayhem. Able to easily throw a fully grown adult miles into the sky and severe the body from a monster with a casual push. It's so easy for him that he was able to effortlessly catch a wrecking ball with one hand and lift Steele's entire body above his head. Even in his weakened state, he was still able to defeat a group of demon level and tiger level monsters with either a short barrage of punches or a single strike.

• Inhuman Reflexes: Christan's increased speed also augments his practical reaction time, making his reflexes much faster than those of an ordinary human. He was able to easily dodge and react to air borne attacks he just saw.

• Inhuman Endurance and Stamina: Christan can endure high amounts of physical damage. For example, being thrown into buildings and "planted" into the ground by Frost. Also, after his fight with Tanya and barely any feeling in his legs, he managed to continue fighting multiple monsters at once and actually in fact defeated all of them using smart tactics and enduring all of the continuous pain.

• Inhuman Speed: He is also remarkably fast, capable of running away from Frost Giant for a considerable amount of time. Even in his weakened state, he was still fast enough to outmaneuver the X-Monsters and keep up with fellow dragon level threat Tanya, in their fight.

• Inhuman Durability: Christan's durability has been shown to allow him to simply shrug off wounds that would either disable or outright kill a normal person, such as being impaled through his entire body with multiple ice needles, being squeezed to death and even a completely crushed leg.

• Inhuman Agility: Christan is extremely agile as well; able to jump to great heights or even balance himself on a flying rocket, as well as run up vertical walls. Also, his agility allows him to perform amazing feats of acrobatics that easily surpass even the finest human acrobat.

Supernatural Powers
Pyrokinesis: Christan's creativity when using his flames is what makes him so deadly. One second he's blasting someone with a stream of almost endless flames and next he's taking the body heat from your body, freezing them. He's effortlessly taken down monsters classified as demon and dragon with but a single blast. According to the series creator, Christan is capable of controlling even the suns raise to increase his own power. He is also able to sense heat signatures of people. It is unknown the distance he's able to see when doing this.


 * Fire Construction: He's able to grow flames to any size and intensity and to take any form that he desires, even that of a living creature. He could then psionically cause that creature of "living flame" to do anything he wished. For example, when he caused fire to take the form of Kai, he mentally directed the "monster," to attack a someone. His fiery creations could have greater "solidity" than an ordinary fire of the same size. A gigantic fire-bird, for example could grasp a large, heavy object with its talons and carry it off into the air, although, of course, the heat of the fire would affect the object just as a normal fire would. The size, power, and intensity of the fire-beings he created are limited only by the extent of his imagination and the degree of his concentration. The degree of concentration required was directly proportional to the size, power, and heat intensity of the flame-being. He has to be able to see a flame in order to take control of it. In practical terms, the fire has to be within a 500-yard radius of him.
 * Fire Construction: He's able to grow flames to any size and intensity and to take any form that he desires, even that of a living creature. He could then psionically cause that creature of "living flame" to do anything he wished. For example, when he caused fire to take the form of Kai, he mentally directed the "monster," to attack a someone. His fiery creations could have greater "solidity" than an ordinary fire of the same size. A gigantic fire-bird, for example could grasp a large, heavy object with its talons and carry it off into the air, although, of course, the heat of the fire would affect the object just as a normal fire would. The size, power, and intensity of the fire-beings he created are limited only by the extent of his imagination and the degree of his concentration. The degree of concentration required was directly proportional to the size, power, and heat intensity of the flame-being. He has to be able to see a flame in order to take control of it. In practical terms, the fire has to be within a 500-yard radius of him.

Explosive Growth Rate: He is able to grow stronger and/or faster as he fights, improving their natural abilities far faster. He compares this to the Fighting Spirit ability Metal Bat has. Christan's usage of this ability is on an extreme degree, as he quickly gets stronger with every fight he is in, being able to develop his own skills and quickly adapt to his opponent's fighting styles.

• Enhanced Adaptability: As a result of his explosive growth rate, Christan shows remarkable adaptability in battle. Though he found it basically impossible to stand on the icy floor in his first encounter with Tanya, Christan body quickly adapted to the point where he could not only stsnd on the ice but outclass Tanya with ease.

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Fighting Style
Master Pyrokinetic Combatant: Being the most powerful pyrokinetic in the series, Christan possesses extreme skill in wielding her pyrokinetic abilities. Either for offense, defense, or trapping people. For example he engulfs his hands and feet when fighting at close range, sometimes molding his hands into short daggers. Christan's skill with his powers very vast. Even though he usually relies on purely in brute force, he's shown the ability to actually think. He also tends to name his most powerful attacks after S-Class Heroes he himself likes or respects.

Hand-to-Hand Combat: Christan is by no means a master in hand to hand to hand combat but due to him studying heroes like Silver Fang he has shown to be somewhat capable at hand-to-hand combat. Using various martial arts moves. He is capable of toying with demon level threats completely unarmed with little difficulty. In addition, many of his special moves implement wrestling moves, such as...

The Stunner: His favorite wrestling move. It involves him kicking someone in the gut before applying a three-quarter face-lock (reaching back and grabbing the head of a person, thus pulling the person's jaw above his shoulder) before falling to a seated position and forcing the enemies jaw (but predominantly their neck) to drop down on the shoulder of the him. He only does this to people that disrespect or anger him.

Super Piledriver: To perform it, Christan holsters his opponent by their waist and dive-bombs them into the ground face-first. First used in Chapter 10, the only thing he did that legitimately scared Frost.

Drive Knight Storm: Named after the rank nine S-Class hero. It is a large fireball shot and sent up into the air. When fired, it is slow, as noted by Zenko. He then changes the course of the blast into the air. It then splits into smaller, but faster fireballs that attack the foe at medium speeds, inflicting huge damage. First used in Chapter 3, destroying seven Snow Golems in one shot.

Fireball Special: While not directly named after the hero, this attack is a reference to Metal Bat and is an exclusive move only the two of them can do. First he gathers a huge amount of heat from all around him to conduct that heat into a small fireball with astounding destructive power. It takes the visual form of flickering, blazing fire when adding to the mass that are usually orange and/or red in color. First used in Chapter 5 and later Chapter 6, where in combination with Metal Bat, he missed the enemy but Metal Bat knocked the fireball back with a big swing from his bat.

Hero Rating
Christan's rating determined by the Hero Association.

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Quotes

 * (To Golem) "So your looking to play huh? Alright, I guess I got some time to kill. Oh, and by the way the names Christan."
 * "Those monsters usually show up at night, mostly cuz I terrorize the day."
 * (To Lenny) "Down Low. Too Slow."
 * "I hope you all have enough to cover all this!"
 * "I guess I'll have to chew them up and spit them out and show these demons why I'm dragon."
 * (To Tatsumaki) "I believe in noblesse oblige, those with power should use it to help those who don't."
 * (To Tatsumaki) "Thanks Tornado. Next time, I won't go expecting someone to come save me. I'll save you."
 * (To Ivelisse) "Every muscle, every cell! My body is made from a lifetime of intense battle! But you took my powers and assumed that means we're the same! But you just copy what you see! You feel the firepower in your cells, but you don't really understand it. Because you didn't build it! And you'll never learn to think like a failure like ME!!"
 * (To Tatsumaki) "There's no way I can stay at the same level I'm at right now. You got me all fired up!"
 * "Gods, meet the Devil."
 * "You think you can understand what I really am. No one knows what I am capable of."
 * (To Frost) "Hard work beats Talent if Talent doesn't work hard."

Trivia

 * According to the databook:
 * What he likes is playing video games, hip hop and rock music, fighting monsters and Tatsumaki.
 * What he dislikes is being limited by others and being not being respected.
 * His hobbies are playing chess and drawing
 * Christan is actually from America, specifically Oregon.
 * Reference to him originally being from Gravity Falls
 * Christan's favorite wrestler is AJ Styles and his favorite moves is The Stone Cold Stunner.
 * He wears multiple different wrestling shirts in each chapter
 * According to the series creator, when his grandmother read the rough draft of the first chapter she thought Christan was a dragon.
 * Christan's Kill You shirt is a reference to Mercenary Tao from Dragon Ball



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