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• Name: Sophie Volkonova
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Race: Human
• Appearance: I'M GETTING PUMPED UP!
• Weapons and Equipment: Thunder Down Under: An advanced high-tech boomerang with several settings. It can not only be heat-seeking but lock onto and seek out a person's specific Aura. It can switch from bouncing off objects and walls to being completely razor sharp as a blade.
• Semblance: Bio-Growth: Sophie can create multiple copies of different body parts on any surface within a 5-foot radius, including her own body. The extra limbs and body parts she can create do not feel pain like her normal ones do.
• Personality: Sophie is interesting to say the least. She absolutely loves the thrill of action and combat, and devotes a lot of her time to enjoy fighting games, and fighting comic books and anything actiony and explosive. She never gives up, or backs down from any challenge. When it looks like she is about to lose, that's when she will try ten times as hard. She's also hopelessly naive, pretty much downright stupid. A lot goes over her head, and she usually says the first thing that she thinks of. She seems to be completely unaware of it, just like how she is unaware of how extremely shameless and perverted almost every other sentence that comes out of her mouth is. She has very different feelings about females and males. With females, she is a flirt. She feels the need to protect girls that are weaker than her, and often gets girlish crushes, that end up turning into freaky perversions. She has little to no sense of personal space or decency in anything she says or does. With guys, things are very different. Her biggest goal is to push men. To insult them. To pick at them. To undermine their masculinity and push it to its absolute limit. She does it for kicks, and to get her rocks off. Either to see them grow into extremely impressive manly men, or turn into submissive weak-willed losers that serve as toys, she enjoys either outcome.
• Bio: Sophie spent her childhood through hell. Her parents were abusive and cruel, and pretty much everyone older than her thought she was stupid, and wouldn't amount to anything. She didn't have a lot of opportunity growing up. Her family was poor. Her dad was a deadbeat, and her mom was an oversexed drunk. She wanted to get out of their as soon as possible. She left home a complete mess. She was self-conscious, had trouble making friends, and eat away her problems. But unlike the way her life up to this point could have gone, this Sophie decided to kick all of that bad stuff in the ass. She trained. She got strong. Really strong. And yeah, she really isn't that bright. She's pretty much an idiot. But she looks good. And she's a lot more confident.
• Year so far: She hasn't even been at Beacon for a full week yet, so not a lot has gone on with her, except for a couple of missions with her team, and some pretty bad first impressions.

edited 16th Sep '14 10:43:13 AM by Saturn

• Name: Imuka Yukimarimo
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Born: Cor 8th
• Race: Faunus
• Appearance: A fox faunus with a small light build, wears exotic clothing◊
• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Shock Sword: A simple very dulled blade that would never be able to penetrate the skin, but courses with high voltage, low amperage electrical pulses, the end result is an emergency weapon that is very very unlikely to kill, but quite effective at subduing a target in much the same way a taser would, she can adjust the power behind the blade depending on resistance.
  • Personal Network Device: The central hub she links with to control her devices, it uses an AI^note not an AGI there is a difference, AGI are what most people think of when they think of an AI, comparable to a human, sentient, this is simply an advanced program, and about as sentient as say a dog to interpret her mental commands and relay them her large amount of equipment, without it she can only control one thing at a time, but using it renders her unable to move her body.
  • A suitcase full of drones: what these are equipped for depends on what she plans to do with them, they have variable payloads, changing the payloads however requires workshop prep time, and for the most part it is just going to be some drones with mechanical tools, and some with medical tools using small flying chassis
  • A rocket quiver: These are her long range squad support tools, nothing anti-tank or similar, she is still a pacifist, instead you got ones with healing warheads, a couple with flash bang warheads, and lastly magnetic goo for jamming the joints in machines.
• Semblance: None, although experimentation and cybernetic modification to her has left her able to control wireless machinery she syncs with herself.
• Personality: With a love of creation that manifests as an aptitude twords mechanics, and disdain for destruction it is often easy to wonder just why she would choose to become a huntress until one remembers the duty of a huntress is to "Uphold Peace" and that the Grimm are often seen as elements of destruction, it then becomes very clear why such a person would want to become a huntress, however even then Imuka finds it very hard to land a blow and would rather assist others twords there goal. Outside of this Imuka is friendly and un-confrontational preferring to solve issues by supporting others then going after it herself.
• Bio: Born into a relatively poor family in a large Vocaunese city, Imuka never really had what can be described as a good childhood, or even really one at all, abducted by Stella at a young age. After all, who would miss a small Faunus girl, especially in Vocau? She was subject to experimentation, an attempt to create a one woman army. The pairing of a sentient mind with multiple remote bodies would allow her to fight in engagements without ever endangering her physical self, with numbers and coordination to put most to shame. This did not last however after a fair amount of experimentation she managed to escape. Using a mixture of lies and tricks, she managed to get access to the facilities reactor, under the pretense of knowing how to improve it she rewire it in a way that would cause a fire so that it would initiate an emergency shutdown and she could escape in the ensuing blackout, she did not however account for the fact that fire suppression also worked off the reactor, not long after escaping the fire had managed to spread to the armory and the predictable results ensued. It was perhaps in no small part from this experience, the accidental killing of her captors, and any other captives they may have had that she in no way wishes to harm others, to not be like the people who harmed her, which she feels she is, but rather to help others to do good in the world. It was this drive that led her to become a huntress. After all what better way to do good than to fight the elements of destruction, the Grimm?

Note : If her gear seems a bit more then it was before, that's because I am reworking her style a bit so that she has her own niche, she is much less mobile then most, she cant control her drone swarms, or rockets and jump around at the same time, but instead she entrenches and provides support while bunkered down so to speak, this makes her quite a bit more vulnerable when set up to counteract the large amounts of support she can bring a team.

edited 16th Sep '14 12:53:36 AM by Imca

@ Sophie: What are the body parts made of? How do they work?

@ Imuka: Year! Eh, fuck it. Welcome back.

I'm rather new to this, is this OK?

• Name: Damian Bellamy
• Gender: Male
• Age: 17
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Damian has unkempt auburn hair, and brown eyes. He wears a mock pirate hat with a gold jolly roger embroidered on it as well as a black monocle covering his left eye, which he can use for night vision. He wears a maroon shirt under his brown coat. He has simple black pants and knee length boots.
• Weapons and Equipment: Revenge and Fortune: Twin cutlasses which are charged with energy. They can transform into semi-automatic antique pistols and are colored red and blue respectively.
• Semblance: Damian can alter his center of gravity at will. He also has a very subtle control of regular gravity, for instance, decreasing it momentarily to block his fall or increasing it to slow oncoming opponents. This can only be used for a few seconds at a time and tires him greatly.
• Personality: Damian is a rather cynical person, who would rather remove his hat then work with anyone, and he never takes off his hat. He has had problems trusting people due to numerous bad experiences of people betraying his trust. He is an intelligent and agile person and would be willing to take on anything that irritates him.
• Bio: Damian was very naive at a young age, he always believed in heroes and happy endings. That is, until he was attacked by a thief, who gave him several scars, including on over his left eye (although it still works fine). When he was eventually discarded, believed to be dead, Damian changed. He returned to his home like usual, but became rather cold and quiet, barely talking to anyone. He decided, from then on he would become a Hunter, so he could protect people like himself, so nobody has to experience what he has. He trained hard at Signal academy, although he had no friends or assistance when he needed them. After his training he was transferred to Beacon, and the headmaster of Signal kindly forgot about a certain incident involving a lunch hall explosion.

Also, I wasn't sure about the birthday.

edited 16th Sep '14 3:01:14 AM by LectroUnderground

Hmmm, concept is sound. Can we have a little bit of details on his backstory? Like, did he go to combat school?

Also, what kind of subtle control of gravity?

• Name: Noa Schwarzgeist

• Gender: Female

• Age: 17

• Race: Human

• Appearance: ORA ORA ORA◊

• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Legacy Zero: A pair of jet black gauntlets that extend to her elbows, adorned with a heavy duty piston on the back of each wrist and vents on the outside of the forearms. Legacy Zero is made for exceptional durability, such that they are effectively immune to whatever abuse Noa puts them through, like constant exposure to her flames. The pistons can be used to augment the power of Noa's punches and to block attacks. The vents are for a jet propulsion system that can further boost the speed of her punches when activated.
  • A pair of butterfly knives
  • A really big bowie knife

• Semblance: Snake Griller - When using her Semblance, Noa uses her aura to create fire. These ravenous flames can reach incredible temperatures as high as that of a oxy-acetylene torch. Noa is immune to her own flames, and can use them for all sorts of uses like thrown fireballs or wrapping her body in them for short periods, since they still consume oxygen.

• Personality: Noa used to be a nice kid, but the attack on her in her youth left her scarred and mentally damaged from the snake venom that still lingers in her body. Now she's an arrogant fighter that loves to boast and mock her opponents when she goes into battle, though she retains some sense of honour by treating people she beats with courtesy. She finds it hard to remain composed when she is not in control of a situation, always on edge and irritable in those cases. She rarely shows her more virtuous side, but she is genuinely brave and has great respect for people who earn her trust. That doesn't keep her from being snippy at them, though. Noa does have a more loving side, but it is tempered by her rather flippant attitude towards others.

• Bio:
  • A long time ago, Noa was just a normal little girl. She had no aspirations of becoming a Huntress, nor did it seem like she had any particular talent for it. All she wanted to do was live a simple life, somewhere out in the countryside. But that all changed one day, when a wounded member of the White Fang barged into her house for shelter. The snake faunus made short work of her family, and nearly killed her too. But as the injured rebel tore into her face with his venomous fangs, poor Noa was able to kill him with her bare hands, thanks to his chest wound opening up during the struggle.
  • That was cold comfort to her, though. With her loved ones gone and her body wracked in spasms from the deadly venom, all she could do was lie down and wait for death. Saved by a wandering Hunter who noticed her damaged house, Noa was eventually left to recuperate in a hospital from the creeping damage that had nearly destroyed her mind and body. From there, she began her solitary training. In the gap between her recovery and her taking notice of the Academy, she had come to realize that becoming a Huntress would give her the chance to live the rest of her life locked in an eternal battle, free of concerns such as her deceased parents. And so, she applied to Beacon, seeking to gain the strength she needed to fulfill her twisted desires.
    • Year: After much fighting and bonding, Noa's outlook on life changed rather substantially. Though still intent on fighting as much as she could, the brawler developed certain feelings of affection for her partner, Noiri. That, and her rivalry with Princess Alexia have served to slowly take up more and more of her time. Perhaps her life could be turned around by these two relationships....

edited 16th Sep '14 12:09:14 PM by D4C

@ Damian: No problems! Welcome to Beacon!

@ Noa: No edits. Fine, then. But Year! Come on, guys!

I suppose I can edit in her Year later.

And there were minor edits, Grim. For one, she didn't have the really big knife earlier.

Huh. That she did not. Okay, then.

I'm exempt from Year, yes?

@GRIM: Just regular feeling body parts. For example, Sophie's standing next to a table. She can make an arm that looks like hers come out of the table and move it around. It can't stretch out longer than her normal arm, so she has to put it on a surface, or on her own body. She can grab things and do stuff with the body parts, but they don't feel pain when burned, cut, etc. And they disappear after a couple of seconds if Sophie doesn't do anything with them.

Can she grow them on enemies? Because I can think of many painful uses for an ability like that. Like this.

edited 16th Sep '14 8:09:55 AM by SvenOrzoKarkoff

Name: Benjamin "Benjy" Milikan

Gender: Male

Age: 17 and 1/2

Birthday: 12th of Umbra.

Race: Human, but he's below average height. Don't tease him about being under five feet tall.

Appearance: Glasses that are usually slightly smudged, brown hair, brown eyes, short, slender, usually carrying a book. Likes to wear comfy clothes.

Weapons: A small globe. Press the button, and it analyzes the situation and gives you advice. As for actual weapons....Benjy isn't very competent.

Personality: Shy, quiet. Uncomfortable around gatherings with a lot of people. Doesn't talk a lot unless you get him started on something he really lies. Stinks with weapons. Nervous. VERY nervous. Wants to make friends, doesn't know how to make (or keep) friends.Loves to read.

Biography: Benjy is normal. He likes to read, write, and analyze media. (Read: Watch comedy.) Has a weird sense of humor. Worried about his ability to socialize, Beny's parents advised (read: forced) that he go here. Benjy is scared about going here. There's really not much to say about Benjy's life. Other than the reading and story-writing, it's fairly boring. Some incidents with bugs that scared him.

edited 16th Sep '14 9:11:20 AM by MiscellaneousSoup

might wanna add bullet points there

Sorry. I thought I did it the right way. I was wrong.

yeah I've made the same mistake a few times.

• Name: Alfred Tarantula (Technically, "The Tarantula", it's a title.)
• Sex: Male.
• Age:Officially 17 under a forged identity, in reality unknown, but he's guessed to be around the age of 17-19.
• Birthday:Under the forged identity it's in the 20th of Umbra, His actual date of birth is unknown.
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Alfred is a fairly tall man (1.87 meters) , with a lean (67 Kilograms) athletic build, with light skin-color and a rough face. His hair is jet-black and despite being short is usually incredibly messy, with noticeable hair strings sticking out everywhere. His eyes are a bright flaming shade of orange. For apparel, even for casual occasions (not that he had many of those) he usually wears this◊ except the middle of his armor has a shade of orange resembling this shape with the symbol's body being orange instead, and the red turning jet black◊. His shoulder guards also have this◊ symbol on both of them with the same color changes mentioned above, and the arm-part being the metallic gauntlets. Usually after a battle with the use of his gauntlets he will have a small scar on the nape of his neck.
• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Widower's Fangs:Alfred's weapon is a pair of metallic gauntlets capable of bending into any shape the wielder thinks of through the use of the dust infusion in Al's armor, the dust, responsible for transfer, is linked to his brain through his neck, and gives the crystal responsible for shape shifting the gauntlet the information for transforming, the engine itself which is held in a compartment that looks similar to a large spider fang sticking out of the bottom of the gauntlet, is also capable of separating into smaller parts, and when the gauntlet has a part separated from the main gauntlet and core, it can transfer these parts to work as an engine to that separated part. The dust infusion in Al's armor is also capable of sending signals to each of these pieces to activate their transformations, though these signals do not work on the default form. It is capable of magnetically pulling parts of itself towards a small piece of its core with a single button push, which is how it gathers the parts of it used as ammunition after a battle.
  • Iktomi:The name he gave to his armor, which, because of the telepathic link, can actually communicate with him, though only with him, seeing as the voices are only heard in his head.
  • Alfred also carries an old combat knife with him, always, both for security reasons and also because the way he treats it is as close as you can get to him forming a bond with anything.
• Semblance:Battlefield Web Manipulation:Alfred has the ability to temporarily enlarge and shrink any inanimate object that is under one meter in every dimension to up to ten times its original size. Objects that exceed that size can only have a one-meter segment extended. And particularily large objects are incredibly hard to shrink. The natural defensive properties of aura prevent this from being used on a resisting hunter's equipment or body.
• Personality:Alfred doesn't really like being serious about anything that doesn’t concern life and death, he prefers brightening life by throwing a quick joke and a humorous remark, which is how he deals with gloomy situations of all kinds. The man is blunt, to say the least, unless he is forced to put on a persona you’ll find that he’s a really big asshole, lacking dignity sympathy and empathy to people, as well as being apathetic to the feelings of nearly everyone around him Al is also a misanthrope, thinking that people are a little more than tools for him to further whatever purpose he can, and besides thinking of you as amusing, that’s the most positive you can get. Despite that he is fairly social and interacts with just about anyone easily, as long as he isn't bored by them. Alfred is also cowardly, combined with his indifference to other people he is never hesitant to stab someone in the back thrice if it meant he’ll stay alive.
• Bio:Alfred was born in the unforgiving slums of Mnara'e, a city on the far outskirts of Atlas, he has no memory of his parents, knowledge of his real name or family, the first thing he remembers was being near the sewers in the city with a knife in his hand, a Year after this memory, he was kidnapped by the mafia of the city, and trained him for 3 years in one of their programs, when they noticed an ability for strategical thinking he was put under a training to be a leader rather than a usual assassin or thug.

• When Eventually the training started becoming too much for him, and he couldn't tolerate being there anymore, he decided to try and escape, the first few failed. But when a special opportunity presented itself for him, he took the chance and succeeded in escaping, afterwards, he met up with a few other street urchins and hesitantly they formed a gang for easier survival. With them he stayed, slept, ate, stole and increased his body count for 8 years, before abandoning them when he agreed to a nobleman who recruited him for his combat skills to be a bodyguard. There, he gained further tutoring in combat and got educated on what he'd need. The noble saw him as a big investment, and funded a weapon specifically to be made for him, the pair of gauntlets and complex armor he wears now just about all of the time. Just a few months before the recruitments for Beacon for this year ended, recent mistakes in his job (For example, almost killing one of his employer's guests by accident) made it rather uneasy for his employers to keep him on the job and his reputation as well, but since he did not want to just outright throw away his investments. The aristocrat had forged and identity for him to apply him with to Beacon.

• The Year So Far:Not much of the year had passed, though a lot of it has pissed him off, he got paired up with a moron who he decided to force to train because of fear that his stupidity will kill him, and a stupid princess got the idea the she will gain his trust, or that he's a good person. She did set him up a job as a Royal Knight, that'll likely pay him for life though, so that's good for him even if he has little understanding of why she did it.

edited 11th May '15 1:28:39 AM by LiorVal

Grim, I added the things you wanted to my character sheet

I've been curious about Welcome to Beacon ever since I first saw it mentioned in the signup thread for Legend of the Crimson Lotus. I didn't end up posting a signup there, though, since I was going through writer's block at the time. I still am, sorta, but hopefully something like this is mostly alright-ish. Let me know if I missed any important information here and such.

• Name: Cara Flavia
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Birthday: Crystallum 8
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Cara stands at about 5'4". She has long, curly blonde hair with fairly long bangs that occasionally get in the way of her pink eyes. Her casual clothing consists of lots of bright colors, mostly yellow and pink, and white. Her outfits are vaguely formal-looking, but at the same time they're very non-constricting and easy to move around in.
• Weapons and Equipment: Elegance: Elegance is basically a long metal pole with extra features. A handle close to the center of the weapon is rounded and motorized to allow it to spin faster than a person could spin it naturally. It also splits in two at that point, allowing it to be used for dual wielding. The smaller side of the pole is capable of firing a limited number of bullets, while the larger side can act sort of like a cannon, firing a harpoon attached to the weapon by a rope.
• Semblance: Stabilization: Cara's Semblance simply helps her stay upright and balanced in situations where doing so would normally be difficult or impossible.
• Personality: Cara is almost always cheerful and optimistic to a ridiculous degree. This cheerfulness rarely fades for any reason. In the past, some people have been a bit unnerved by her acting like her usual self in less-than-happy situations. She's motivated by what she finds fun, and because of this likes to think of almost everything as some sort of game. In spite of her seemingly limitless enthusiasm and energy, Cara is not a terribly impulsive person and will think most things through very carefully before acting. Because of her parents, Cara is also interested in orchestral music and gambling, and she's capable of playing the violin to an extent.
• Bio: Cara was born the second daughter of a moderately wealthy family. Her mother played violin professionally, and her father was the head of a small business and a bit of a compulsive gambler. Everything was fine until Cara was 11, when her father lost almost everything they had in a single gamble. Unable to face his family after practically leaving them in poverty, he ran away. His body was found a few weeks later. The cause of death was suspected to be suicide. Seeing her mother and sister's depression after this turn of events, Cara decided to try to raise their spirits by acting cheerful. Though this extreme happiness started out as a mask covering her true emotions, Cara has since become talented at finding positives in practically any situation. Nowadays, for the most part, she usually feels just as jovial as she acts. Whether this is a positive or a negative trait is open for interpretation. Cara's decision to become a Huntress came from the thrill of it more than anything else. She decided that for her, becoming a Huntress would be more exciting and entertaining than any other career she could think of. She attended Signal Academy, and her time there was relatively normal.

This extended back-story is pretty much stuff I already had planned for Beacon 2, so I'm putting it here now that I have the opportunity.

• Name: Ai Huang
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Birthday: Ignis 6 (during the Vytal Festival)
• Race: Faunus (Tiger)
• Appearance: Image◊
  • A Faunus girl with blonde hair, tiger ears and a tail. Her teal earring identifies her as a descendant of the Qiu Hu clan. Her cute appearance disguises a sly personality and sometimes, a repressed, angry brat.
• Weapons and Equipment: Tiger Teeth, Gan Jiang (right-hand) and Mo Ye (left-hand). Together, they are classed the Dust-Propelled Star Bandalores (DPSB). The Tiger Teeth are a set of two wired mechanical yo-yos with five retractable rotating blades that extend to form the shape of a star. The blades can be extended in three configurations: just the front blade (Dart mode), four blades (Claws mode) and all five blades (Orion Star mode). Non-elemental Dust is used as a propellant to super-accelerate the disks, change their trajectory more precisely while in the air, or reel quicker.
• Semblance: Ai's Semblance allows her to adjust her physical weight at will, from as light as a baby to as heavy as a car. She uses this to her advantage in several creative ways: anchoring herself while grappling, adjusting her balance while swinging, and even using it just to punch things with a great amount of force.
• Personality: Ai is friendly, but sometimes cat-like and sly. Her friendliness represses what used to be an angry (and lonely) bully. Ai relishes in practical training, and works very hard to push the limits of her body, her Aura and her Semblance. She has a tendency to sleep through theory classes.
• Bio:
  • Ai descends from the Qiu Hu (Autumn Tiger) clan of Vacuo, vicious tiger Faunus bandits immortalized into Vacuonese legend as a tribe of warrior monks. Like other Faunus, the Qiu Hu were deported to Menagerie. Doing what they did best, they were instrumental figures in the Faunus War, and committed atrocious acts of violence towards humans.
  • Ai and her older brother spent their early childhoods in Vacuo, before their family immigrated to a small village not too far from the City of Vale. Her parents then had four more children, forming a large family with six children in total. Her mother Ling Qiu, a descendant of the Qiu Hu, had left her 'employment' to marry Ai's father Fu Huang.
  • At a young age, Ai's family attended the Vytal Festival in Vale. As Ai was their worst behaved child, Ai's parents bought her a yo-yo (a Mistrali invention) for her birthday to keep her occupied. Ai was enamored with the toy.
  • In the year that followed the Vytal Festival, Ling began to teach Ai some of the Qiu Hu clan's fighting techniques. Ai's village was later attacked by Grimm. Ai tried to fight the Grimm on her own, and Ling was forced to rescue her. Facing a surprisingly tough opponent without her weapons (which had broken down from age), Ling managed to wound the Grimm with her bare hands nonetheless, but was tragically paralyzed from the waist down. Ling and Ai were then rescued from the Grimm by a passing Mistrali Huntress, Katerina.
  • Remorseful, Ai decided to become a Huntress so that her family would never be hurt again. Her parents were supportive of her decision, and sent her to attend at Signal with the hopes of moving on to Beacon.
  • At Signal, Ai reforged her first toy yo-yo into one half of two dangerous Tiger Teeth, Gan Jiang. She saved up money to buy an expensive top-of-the-line second yo-yo, and reforged it into a near-identical partner weapon called Mo Ye.
• The year so far:
  • During initiation, Ai proved her versatility with her Tiger Teeth and her ability to plan ahead and on the spot.
  • She also stole a terrorist's tiara.
  • After some time together with Charisse Scyllatta, a burgeoning relationship developed between them, which became official on Lovers' Day.

edited 13th Oct '15 10:26:46 PM by opnerf

Wow, two of the four newbies here are people I know!

Anyways, here's the newly updated character sheet for Lucas!

• Name: Lucas Krigsvart
• Gender: Male
• Age: 18
• Birthday: Chrystallum 21
• Race: Human
• Appearance: Rather tall and lean, but not in an un-athletic way. Pale skin (almost white, in fact). Black hair that’s rather longish – down to a bit past his shoulder. Clouded blue eyes, and scars across his face from the incident. His outfits are somewhat utilitarian – pants, shirt, jacket, and blindfold.
  • Closest thing to a faceclaim: Ignore the words, he has nothing to do with that train wreck of a series.◊
• Weapons and Equipment: Frostbite, a black metal longbow that can split in two into a set of chain-scythes. There is a compartment in the blades of the chain-scythes that allows him to store and use dust for his attacks (typically he uses Ice dust). He also has arrows with similar compartments.
• Semblance: Perception. Using this Semblance, his reflexes are enhances, as are his senses. In addition, he can see Auras, as well figure out the Semblances and emotions (even thoughts, in some uncommon incidents, like seeing a ghost’s Aura), and has some sort of radar sense (Yes, this is a Daredevil reference, but I don’t know how else to describe it). Of course, like most Semblances, this drains his Aura when he’s using it, so he has to be careful.
• Personality: Silent for the most part, and quiet and socially awkward when he does talk. He can get snarky, though, when he’s frustrated. He’s somewhat a perfectionist, and hates it when someone gives him special treatment because of his blindness. Unfortunately, this also means he’s hesitant to ask for help when he actually needs it.
• Bio: Lucas grew up in a town in the northern part of Vale – an area known for harshly cold temperatures and even harsher Grimm. Lucas’s family was one of great Hunters – every head of the Krigsvarts were Hunters who made a name for themselves, his father included. It seemed kind of obvious that Lucas would be the new head of the household, since he was the eldest twin and the most driven.
  • Unfotunately, Lucas quickly saw being the head of the household as something he must become. He dove into his studies and trained, often pushing away his brothers and friends in the process. The final blow came when, after getting high enough scores to possibly attend Beacon two years early, his father told him there was no way he was going to Beacon if he didn’t start showing some humility. The frustrated young fifteen-year old grabbed Frostbite and decided he would hunt down a Beowulf and bring it home. Unfortunately, he had only brought a single arrow with him – he didn’t have enough ammo to take on the pack that came to check on their fallen member.
  • The results were disastrous. Lucas was brought home a wounded mess, staring off with now sightless eyes. His uncle, who had went out to find the boy, was nowhere to be found. And it looked like there was no way Lucas would attend Beacon. But Lucas wasn’t completely deterred. After he was released from the hospital, he began to train himself in secret, so he could fight without the use of his eyes. It took three years, but eventually he managed to meet the requirements to attend Beacon – coincidentally enough, the same year his friend Sophie was accepted.
• The Year so Far: During Initiation, he got partnered with Jack, and ended up with more than his fair share of bad luck on the way to the temple. But he also was a major part in the death of the Albahlok (Or however it’s spelled, I could never get the name right). In addition, he was a major player in Operation Moonfall – mainly because one of the Weapon Girls, Carol Bronzearm, had quickly fallen in love with him. He’s hesitant about it, but is beginning to warm up to her.

Alright, if that was too long for you to read, here's the main changes:

1. Scrapped the faux Norweigan names. Honestly, the ones I put in last time sucked.
2. Fixed up Lucas's weapon. It's now a chain-scythe/longbow combination. And no longer runs the risk of looking like Cinder's weapon.
3. Updated the Semblance with the version that showed up in the game. In BU, that amount of ability was there from the start, no partial blocks this time.
4. Expanded the Personality and Bio to fit how he was Roleplayed in the game, and mentioned the "Sophie and Lucas are childhood friends" thing mentioned in the BU discussion.
5. Added the events of the year so far.

There. Done.

edited 21st Sep '14 7:07:55 PM by Aquatica1000

@Miscellaneous Soup: We might have a problem with your character. See, if there's not even any seeming potential to be Badass like the rest of the cast, to the point that the character doesn't have an actual weapon, then there's really no point in putting him up in Beacon. Either edit him to at least have some potential, or scrap him and make such a character to replace him.

@Ai Huang, Lucas, Alfred, Cara: All of you guys look alright. Unless Grim or Rom has any comments, welcome to Beacon!

edited 16th Sep '14 4:24:01 PM by Insano

I have no comments, other than enjoy your stay.

EDITED AGAIN

Name: Benjamin "Benjy" Milikan

Gender: Male

Age: 17 and 1/2

Birthday: 12th of Umbra.

Race: Human, but he's below average height. Don't tease him about being under five feet tall. Appearance: Glasses that are usually slightly smudged, brown hair, brown eyes, short, slender, usually carrying a book. Likes to wear comfy clothes.

Weapons: A small globe. Press the button, and it analyzes the situation and gives you advice. As for actual weapons....Benjy isn't very competent. However, just in case, he packed a giant mallet in his backpack. (Yeah, don't ask how it fits.) It can turn into different substances, such as wood, rubber, metal, plastic, and spaghetti sauce.

Personality: Shy, quiet. Uncomfortable around gatherings with a lot of people. Doesn't talk a lot unless you get him started on something he really lies. Stinks with weapons. Nervous. VERY nervous. Wants to make friends, doesn't know how to make (or keep) friends.Loves to read.

Biography: Benjy is normal. He likes to read, write, and analyze media. (Read: Watch comedy.) Has a weird sense of humor. Worried about his ability to socialize, Benjy's parents strongly suggested that he go here. He is interested, but very scared. Benjy is scared about going here. There's really not much to say about Benjy's life. Other than the reading and story-writing, it's fairly boring. Some incidents with bugs that scared him.

edited 16th Sep '14 5:03:21 PM by MiscellaneousSoup

Dude, use asterisks before each item to split things up into sections. Also, still not feeling it from this guy. I don't think Ozpin is going to accept people who don't really want to attend Beacon.