Martin Gruber

Martin Gruber

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Name	Martin Alois Maria Gruber
Birth	13 March 1853
Death	Somehow not dead yet
Career	XMAS
Known for	Founding XMAS

Martin Gruber was an extrafertile German paranormal researcher and archaeologist; he witnessed the unsealing of the Chimney Man from the Temple of Burong, whereafter he founded XMAS in an attempt to capture and re-seal the Man in Red.

Despite multiple combat encounters with the Chimney Man or one of His avatars, Martin has somehow consistently managed to be rescued just in time, albeit usually only after everyone around him has perished. With this dubious ‘luck’ of his, he remains the only member of XMAS to have survived the 1982 massacre that claimed the lives of every other active and former XMAS operative at the time.

Ability

Door of All Doors

Effect	Grants control over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’
Power	8/10
Rarity	Very Rare
Destructive Power	6/10

Martin’s ability, Door of All Doors, gives him control over ‘doors’. More specifically, it grants him the authority over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’.

Apart from doors, he can also apply this to other things such as drawers, closets, containers, and even to some abstract concepts. For instance, in his later years, Martin learnt how to apply the concept of ‘closing’ to space itself, which enables him to cross large distances instantly by ‘closing’ the distance between him and his destination.