Shredd

Name	Shredd
Designer	Mr. Carl Karlson
Gender	Male
Age	23 (Arc 6)
Nationality	American-Canadian
Height	5ft, 10in

Shredd (シュレッド, Shureddo) is a character in the Aozora's Adventure series.

Background

Originally born and living happily in the warmer climates of the state of Nevada in the United States with his parents, Shredd was forced to relocate to Canada with his farther Barry when his mother Tamil became too busy with her business work to be able to tend to the family and Barry being offered lots of money to work in conducting research in the snowy mountains- something he had experience with in the past.

Stuck in the cold, Canadian winds, Shredd found it difficult to adjust to the climate, keeping himself isolated in his home and covered in thick coats and blankets. Adjusting to the public schools were difficult for him, having trouble fitting in with the other students and the teachers stuck trying to uplift his mood and convincing him to speak. The cold had an effect on Shredd’s breathing, making him intake and outtake large amounts of air to try and stay warm. In a last-ditch effort to cheer up his son, Barry took Shredd to the mountains on the weekends to teach him snowboarding. Shredd, unexpectedly, picked up the grasp of snowboarding well and sped down the slopes after only a few rounds of practice. Barry was proud, but Barry didn’t realize how much his son was growing into the sport. In the meantime, Shredd took to chewing bubble gum to keep himself from growing bored, with mint being his preferred flavor.

As Shredd got older, Shredd begun going to the slopes alone without Barry, teaching himself and analyzing the maneuvers of the other boarders to create his own style. One time he would came across a gang of four older teenagers chatting and chewing a strange white “Super Chill” bubble gum, a super-powered bubble gum not sold in conventional stores. Shredd was curious and called a race down the largest mountain for the privilege of trying it. He effortlessly beat the four teens by focusing on speed and got to try the gum, along with a number to call and order more for himself.

Before leaving, Shredd started chewing the tablet of Super Chill gum he won, soon blowing a single white bubble up to a very large size in only a few seconds. It then exploded, shooting out a huge gust that blasted everyone back. Shocked at what had happened, Shredd stood there, eyes wide opened through his goggles and his mouth emitting a faint white smoke from how cold his mouth got. Before anything could get tense, Shredd fled the scene faintly waving goodbye to the teens only to never see them again afterwards. Back at home, he ordered a pack of the Super Chill gum using some spare change and received it a week later.

Afterwards, Shredd began experimenting with the abilities the bubble gum provided, including breathing freezing mint breath from his mouth and using large bubbles to fly and launch explosive projectiles filled with air. Around this time, Shredd and Barry were tampering with a small but powerful battery-operated desktop fan the latter found out in town. After weeks of work, Shredd completed the attachment for his snowboard that let him ride down hills slightly faster while the fan was engaged. As a bonus, Shredd added on a small handlebar on the end of the snowboard so it could be used as a melee weapon for self-defense. Combined with the Super Chill Gum, Shredd demonstrated his skills one evening by leaping off a ledge while holding onto a huge bubble from his mouth, flying across the landscape and wowing both spectators and other snowboarders alike.

Powers and Abilities

Shredd carries a snowboard with a small handlebar attached to the back left end, allowing it to be used as a handheld blunt weapon. The board itself is adorned with a red, black, blue, cyan, and white pattern on both sides. Shredd can attach a battery-operated purple fan attachment onto the rear of the snowboard to travel slightly faster, reaching back to turn it off when necessary. During competitions, Shredd does not use the fan to keep competitions fair.

Shredd’s signature ability is his custom-ordered “Super Chill” chewing gum tablets. Colored white and glittering in sunlight, this ultra-density gum can easily (and almost instantly, thanks to Shredd’s powerful lungs) be inflated into a bubble reaching an overall extreme size, almost as tall as Shredd himself. While holding the giant bubble from his mouth, Shredd can float in midair, gliding down and using wind currents and vertical drafts to ascend. If Shredd bites down and loosens the bubble from his mouth, it releases the bubble from his mouth, launching it forwards as an explosive sticky projectile. Anything struck with the bubble is blown away a small distance and coated in the sticky compartment, possibly becoming trapped. Shredd can force the bubble to explode right in front of him by “clapping” the bubble hard with his hands or his snowboard, releasing a powerful but brief gust of wind pushing back anything close to it, including Shredd himself getting caught in the blast unless he’s positioned just right. If Shred bursts the bubble underneath himself, he can launch himself upwards several feet.

While chewing the gum, Shredd can blow out a long-lasting ice-cold breath with multiple frosty bits, coating anything within a short distance in frost. This, however, cannot be done for long as the gum’s cold energy gets weaker over time, forcing Shredd to spit out the gum or inflate up and launch a bubble afterwards before he can use another tablet. If Shredd runs out of gum in the mist of a battle or becomes weakened from using either of the gum’s main abilities recklessly, he is forced to rely only on close quarters combat with his snowboard.

Gallery

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  Reference sheet by Mr. Carl Karlson

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