Stormtiger

Stormtiger is a member of Empire Eighty-Eight. After the Empire's splintering, he joins Hookwolf's "Fenrir's Chosen".

Appearance
Stormtiger was pale, tall, and muscle-bound.

For his costume, Stormtiger only wears loose-fitting pants, accented with chains and a white/pale blue tiger mask.

Abilities and Powers
An aerokinetic, Stormtiger has developed several unique applications for his abilities. His signature technique is to condense air into hard ‘claws’ that he can use for CQC or to launch as projectiles; he can then release the condensed air in explosive blasts. The more time he has to draw air into the claws, the larger the resulting explosion.

Another of Stormtiger's techniques involves drawing sounds and smells towards himself, effectively enhancing his senses. His ability to sense air currents helped him to detect incoming projectiles.

Stormtiger could also generate simple blasts of wind. He could deflect projectiles, including bullets, through his manipulation of air currents.

He could also use his aerokinesis to achieve limited flight, essentially floating in place.

Equipment
At one point, his leg was injured and ended up healing incorrectly, requiring a cast.

Background
Stormtiger knew Hookwolf back when they were both un-powered pit fighters and then parahuman pit fighters.

Story Start
His identity was revealed along with the rest of Empire Eighty-Eight.

Staged an ambush on the police barricade during the rampage caused by the E88's identities being revealed.

Toyed with Skitter and Grue before being blinded and needing to escape.

Post-Leviathan
Was able to interfere with Shatterbird's powers when she came to tell Hookwolf of his nomination.

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Would later interfere with Accord as part of Menja's new mobile Chosen.

Trivia
<!--Stormtiger using his power to create translucent blades: Worm 7.7 said: Stormtiger flexed his hands, and the air blurred around them, congealed into a half-dozen pale, translucent blades that jutted from each hand. Stormtiger using his power to create an explosive blast of wind: Worm 7.7 said: My bugs felt someone come after us, fast. I didn’t have time to get out of the way and lead Coil’s faux paramedic to safety as well, so I shoved her in one direction and leaped in the other. The man leapt into the space we’d vacated, and I felt a rush of wind set my hair to whipping around my face. There was an explosion of sorts, a blast of wind powerful enough to lift me off the ground and push away a fair share of Grue’s darkness. Stormtiger stood in the epicenter of the clearing, reforming the translucent ‘claws’ around his raised left hand. Stormtiger using his power to clear a path through Grue's darkness: Worm 7.8 said: Stormtiger raised one hand in the direction he’d come and created a blast of wind to clear a path through Grue’s darkness and reveal Hookwolf and Cricket. Stormtiger can use his power to carry scents to his nose: Stormtiger using his power to cause bullets to veer off course: Worm 7.8 said: The ‘paramedic’ a few feet from Stormtiger had bolted, and was drawing a gun as she ran toward the closest patch of darkness. As she got close to her destination, still running, she turned on the spot and raised her gun to fire at Stormtiger and Hookwolf. Hookwolf barely reacted as the bullets punched into his chest, and even that was just the inevitable force of being shot. Stormtiger raised one arm as if to protect himself, but the bullets were already veering off before they could hit him, leaving a trio of hazy trails in the air where they had turned.
 * During World War II the Nazis fielded a heavy infantry support tank informally referred to as a Sturmtiger, literally "Assault Tiger." It is likely this is where his name comes from.

Stormtiger's claws are made out of compressed air: Worm 7.8 said: Hookwolf watched for a second before turning back to me. “Maybe I’ll give Stormtiger some practice at getting answers out of people. Those claws of his? They’re compressed air. Every second, he’s drawing in more air, shoving it into that claw shaped space, to make them denser, harder. And when he releases it…” he offered me a low chuckle. Stormtiger can deflect air projectiles by sensing and adjusting air currents:

Stormtiger creating a gale to catch Shatterbird and drive her to the street: Worm Interlude 11.E said: He couldn’t speak to answer her, and only climbed the building’s face. He was three-quarters of the way up when she leaped down, soaring toward the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street. Always keeping her distance. A gale caught her, and her lateral movement stopped. As wind twisted around her, she was driven down into the street, hard. Hookwolf would have laughed if he could. He looked at his headquarters and saw Stormtiger crouching by the front door, clutching a blood-soaked rag to his throat. Stormtiger using his power to float: Worm 12.2 said: Stormtiger floated in the air just beside Cricket, and Rune had levitated three chunks of pavement into the air behind the group, each the size of a fire truck, like weapons poised at the ready. -->