NPC: Wolfram von Eschenbach

Name: Wolfram von Eschenbach

Age: 30

Classification: ACCEL Stealth-Manipulator (transformation) 

Birthdate:  November 17, 1981

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany





Physical Description:

• Height: 6’4”
• Weight: 73kg
• Hair Color: Pale Lavender to White
• Eye Color: Purple (Normal), Yellow rimed with red (Accelerate)
• Body Structure: Lean but firm, like a wolf’s
• Clothing: Favors suits and tuxedos. Unfortunately, he is usually seen wearing nothing
• Language: Can speak at least 4 languages (English, Japanese, French, German), read and write 3 more (Greek, Latin, Russian), and has encountered several others, but prefers to speak in British-English, sometimes with a Scottish brogue, sometimes akin to a pirates’.
• Note: never ask him to speak German
• Wolf-form: pure-white, larger than the average wolf, can understand human words and speak (due to the medications his father has discovered for him)
• Mode of transportation: Hyabusa motorcycle named “Wolf Paw” or wolf paws (literally)

Personality: 

Wolfram is a quiet, cool, calm and collected person. Throw him a grenade and he’ll just look at you without emotion, at least according to some people. However, when caught in his embarrassing / awkward moments, he tends to throw expletives like there’s no tomorrow. Rarely does he interact with other people though there are whispers that he has been seen talking with Kizashi and stalking Kouri. Professionally, he deals fine with other staff members and teacher. Respects Headmaster Woodrow and usually follow his requests. He hates going out of the forest where he lives. (You would too, if you’re him)

History:
 The von Eschenbachs were an old German family. Wolfram was named after one of his ancestors who had been a famous poet in his time. Legend has it that his family had been plagued by a curse since the dawn of time. Most of their male descendants turn into a wolf every new moon. It is from their family that the legend of the werewolf began—except the part where werewolves change form during full moon (let’s face it, it’s much cooler to hear or see a wolf howling at the moon). Or so the story goes.

In actuality, they were Accels. It seems that bad things happen to them during new moon, the darkest night of every month. The oldest story goes that the wife of Ulrich von Eschenbach was raped and killed on a raid. It had been new moon then. The event caused Ulrich to accelerate, changing into wolf form, and attacking the people responsible. Nobody survived. Another, about a century ago, one Walther von Eschenbach, a loving father and husband, was forced to watch his wife and children be eaten by cannibals in Polynesia during a new moon. He accelerated and attacked; nobody survived. And so on and so forth.

Wolfram’s acceleration came early. He had a little sister who was born when he was 12 years old. He was very fond of her and, when two-year-old Christa died in a terrorist attack when their family visited the Middle East which happened in a new moon, Wolfram accelerated.

Worried that his son wouldn’t be able to control the beast he has become, Dr. Christoff von Eschenbach joined with Dr. Julian Nicholai de Colete, and several others in their experiments in which they use medications to control accelerations.

He did succeed in giving his son some control over the beast inside him but the side-effect was devastating, if not, embarrassing. Wolfram cannot control when he would transform most of the time and when he transforms back to being human, he’s butt-naked. He has more control now, due to age, but still has regular lapses esp. during the new moon.

No one knows what had happened after that, nor will Wolfram volunteer the information.

 
He applied at HADES when he was 26years old.

To date, he lives in the middle of the forest beside the school.

Family:
Father: Dr. Christoff von Eschenbach (deceased)
Mother: Mrs. Anette von Eschenbach (deceased)
Sister: Christa von Eschenbach (deceased)

Special Abilities:

• Able to change into a wolf
• Has all the alpha wolf’s abilities like intelligence, sensitive smell, sharp eyesight, strength, speed, stamina, good looks, etc.
• Good at tracking and stalking (wolves are)

Skills:

• Handy at hand-to-hand combat
• Can use a wide assortment of weapons, usually sharp weapons
• Expert in using darts, crossbows, bow and arrows, throwing / shooting things in general, including guns

Weaknesses:

• PARVO! (just kidding, he can’t have doggie diseases)
• Open areas with lots of people (when he suddenly change into a human)
• Little girls (they remind him of his little sister)
• Weak-looking people (he tends to attack them with scathing and belittling words. Wolves like to dominate.)

Major: Wolf Skills
Minor: Weapons and hand-to-hand combat

Job: Public announcer (via the school's PA system), gamekeeper, sometimes swimming instructor