CHARACTER
Name: Beige Grit
Age: 18 years old, born the 13th of Klever
Species and Gender: Human male
Symbol: 3 bullets I a row
Occupation: 1st year student at Beacon
Appearance:
Beige is of an average build weighing in at 53kg, he is also of an average height at 167cm. His eyes are coloured a strong blue and his short rough hair is coloured walnut. While he could grow a beard he instead choses to shave it regularly leaving only stubble where a beard would have been. His otherwise ivory skin has been markedly tanned by his years in Vacuos deserts.
For combat and as casual clothing he usually wears a white shirt under a basic black waistcoat, with 2 pockets at the bottom of the front of the waistcoat. He wears a pair of black trousers that are fastened by a brown leather belt with spaces for pistol rounds, which are usually filled, all the way round the belt, it also has a simple steal buckle to fasten the belt. On his right side attached to his belt he has a holster for his six shooter silver, the holster is made of the same black leather that the belt is made of and has no patterns or designs on it. On his head he wears a unadorned black pinched front cowboy hat and on his feet he has a pair of durable brown working boot with a pair of well-worn metal spurs attached to them. He wears a bandolier loaded with rifle ammunition that goes from his left shoulder to his right of his hip. He also carries the rifle optimist on his back using a simple two-point sling.
When he wears the school uniform, he also wears his belt and holster with silver in it as well as his black pinched front cowboy hat.
History:
As far back as he can remember Beige Grit was an orphan, he grew up in orphanage within the kingdom Vacuo; the village where it was located and the name of that village are now long lost to the desert. Some of his earliest memories are of his time in the trio gang, so named because there were only 3 members a 15 year old faunus boy named Rice or at least that was what they called him, Beige himself who was about 11 years and the head honcho the wanted criminal the 20 year old Gold Crimson. During his 4 year tenure with the trio, they went on many adventures, most of them of the non-legal verity and gained many skills. On one of their more successful outings Beige "acquired" his six shooter silver, a boon that would help him on many an occasion. Towards the end of Beiges time with the trio he unlocked his aura, with this the trio became more ambitious doing several successful high risk "acquisitions", but with their great success came greater danger, namely the heavy hand of the law. On the final outing of the trio they planned to make a "withdrawal" from a town bank, that form what they knew the bank had no guards and that the serifs office was on the other side of town, but while this job seemed easy they did not take any half measures they planned for their "withdrawal" for at least a week and when they enacted their plan it worked and by the time law enforcement arrived at the scene they were long gone. Unfortunately the local sheriff was more cunning than they first thought and their "withdrawal" had been applied with a scent that was undetectable to most people and when they sat down to rest they were ambushed. During the commotion Gold was severely injured, activating his semblance for the first time Beige managed to escape with the injured Gold, but despite his best attempts he couldn't save Gold, with his last breath Gold told Beige to go on without him and gave him his rifle an item that Beige keeps to this day.
To this day Beige doesn't know what To rice, despite putting a large amount of time and energy into finding what became of him. For a few years Beige took up odd jobs her and there, sometimes working as a bodyguard, sometimes doing some bounty hunting and once in a while doing some less then legal activities. This all changed when Beige decided to once again attempt to make a "withdrawal" from the dammed bank, this time the planning was even more thorough, he took into account anything that could possibly be an issue, he even waited till the sheriff had left town. Unbeknownst to Beige a huntress by the name of Phoenix Brenton was unfortunately visiting town and despite his best efforts he was eventually captured by the huntress. She gave him a choice either join Beacon academy or go to jail for a long time. Taken aback by the offer she had given him, Beige asked "Why me?". "Because we need someone with your skills in Vale." She answered in a clam tone. Then Beige asked one last question "Won't they know who I am?". "Trust me you're are not that big of a criminal" True, ever since Golds death there where at best small bounties on his head, in fact he hadn't had a bounty hunter try to catch him in over a year. Even so Beige was certain that there would be a background check, but to his surprise when he went to the exam only minor things came up and with that he was enrolled in Beacon academy.
Personality:
While to some Beige seems like nothing more than a simple not so intelligent criminal, he is in fact much more. He is both very cunning and fairly intelligent, this is reflected in the high result he got in the written part of the Beacon entrance exam, as well as serval well planned "withdrawals" he has been a part of. To many he also seems to be a very relaxed individual, some would even say lazy, but this is not the entire story he is more than capable of and on many an occasion has put a large amount of effort into tasks, he just maintains a calm and relaxed attitude while doing them.
While he treats most people that he knows as nothing more than acquaintances, but those he considerers friends he treats like family and he is willing to do almost anything for his family. The reason why he treats some people like family is both because of his time with the trio where he grew to treat them like a family and because he no longer in any form has a family.
Aura and Semblance:
His aura resembles a sandstorm both in colour and appearance.
Beige's semblance gives him the ability to control sand. He usually uses the ability to create sandstorms which are 10 meters in diameter and centred on him, these sandstorm make it hard for anyone inside it to see and can to a degree make it hard to hear. For average use it takes a small amount of his concentration, enough to slightly decrease his aim, but if he wants to make the winds stronger or for the sandstorm to cover a large area it requires significantly more concentration, often requiring him to stand still or not use his weapons. He can keep a normal sandstorm going for about 4 minutes, but after that he will begin suffering from fatigue and will have to either stop using his semblance or put more concentration into it. The time he can keep a sandstorm going is decreased by when making a sandstorm stronger or making it cover a larger area. If he wants to stop sand getting in his face or for the wind not to affect him he has to put extra concentration into controlling the sand. Another limitation of his semblance is that he cannot make solid objects out of sand due to the amount of concentration it would take. In addition his semblance is limited to the amount of sand in the environment he is in. Another way he uses sand is to throw a small amount of sand in his opponents eyes temporarily blinding them. He can also use it to put sand into machinery which can cause it to malfunction.
While living in vale he does have the problem of there is not a lot of sand, to compensate for this he carries a small pouch filled with sand, this is not enough to make a sandstorm, but it is plenty for blinding opponents and for causing malfunctions in machines. He can also concentrate to gather sand larger area, if he does this for about 10 minutes, he will have enough sand for a sandstorm. Due to him living most of his life in the deserts of Vacuo, he has grown somewhat accustomed to sandstorms, allowing him to have, while still diminished, far better perception in them than those who are not accustomed to them.
Combat Behavior:
Beige is a gunslinger, he is both quick on the draw and an exceptional shot, preferring to take down his foes with a few well-placed shots before they can lay a finger on him. While by no means as good as experts, his hand to hand skill are above average, he also has some skill with knife fighting and can lay in a good hit with optimist's blade. He is also not above fighting dirty, in fact he does this in almost every fight he is in. Both when being shot at and when melee he will try to dodge or deflect the incoming attacks, due to him not being very though, only being able to take 5-6 solid hits before his aura is depleted. He will often attempt to use the environment to his advantage as well as whatever is lying around as a weapons, be it rocks, frying pans or the weapons of the fallen.
Against opponents who focus on melee he will try to keep them at range using either his semblance or special ammunition. Against fast or nimble melee opponents he will use silver, to ensure that a few shots hit his opponent, when against tough melee enemies he will use optimist, because of its increased damage and accuracy. If he is unfortunate enough for a melee opponent to get into short range he will try to stun them and then either hit them hard or get out of close range.
Against ranged opponents he tries to get into short range and then fire a rapid barrage with silver or against opponents that are worse a melee that he is will try and image them in close quarters combat.
Other skills:
Beige is not only good with a gun he also many out of combat skill, these include:
- Lock picking
- Gun maintenance
- Gaining information from locals
- Eavesdropping
- Horse riding
- Driving land based vehicles
- Establishing and maintaining criminal contacts
- Escaping authorities
WEAPON
Name: Silver
Primary Form:
A silver six round revolver, with elaborate details across all of the gun with the exception of the handle and the cylinder. Due to beiges modifications to the weapon it is an above top end revolver being highly accurate, having a high firing rate and almost never jamming. It is capable of using most kinds of revolver ammunition, but is especial effective with bullet especially made for it, unfortunately beige isn't rich and so realizes for regular use what he can afford. He usually carries 160 normal rounds, 10 amour piercing rounds, 20 flashbang rounds and 10 shrapnel rounds.
Beige use a verity of special ammunition to improve his already deadly skill with silver, which orders form a specialist retailer, these include:
- Amour piercing rounds: These bullets are made fight against heavily armoured opponents, they are capable of piercing plate armour, but have no special effects against bulletproof material or unarmoured.
- Flashbang rounds: These bullets create a small flashbang effect upon impact, enough to temporarily stun what is hit by it, apart from the flashbang effect it acts like a regular bullet.
- Shrapnel rounds: These bullets create a small amount shrapnel, which collectively cause a similar amount of damage to normal bullets, but if used correctly can cause more damage to exposed areas.
- High quality rounds: These rounds do twice the amount of damage that normal rounds do, they are also very expensive and are therefore are not part of beiges normal armament. He saves these rounds with his backup gear for a time when they are needed.
History:
Since beige "acquired" this revolver in an "acquisition" from a wealthy businessman, he has used it extensively and has therefore made modifications to it over the these include an improved grip and a new cylinder.
WEAPON
Name: optimist
Primary Form:
It is a bolt-action rifle and looks almost identical to the real world Mannlicher M1895 rifle. It uses five round en bloc clips, which he often reuses, and can be equipped with a bayonet, though he does not have one. It has a slower firing rate than silver, but does 1.5 times more damage. It has average rifle accuracy and can be easily dodged at short-range,
but does have the advantage of being supremely reliable, when all other weapons are far beyond the breaking point optimist will still be fully functional. Beige usually carries 70 normal rounds, 10 amour piercing rounds, 10 flashbang rounds and 10 shrapnel rounds.
Beige uses special ammunition with the exact same effects as silver for optimist, they just do rifle damage instead of revolver damage.
Secondary Form:
When Beige pulls a switch near the trigger of the rifle an axe like blade bursts out of the back underside of the stock with enough force to brake a jaw. This blade allows Beige to use the rifle as more than just a club in melee combat.
History:
Beige was given this weapon from Gold Crimson while he was breathing his last breaths. He keeps and uses this weapon to in his own way honour his decided friend, because of this the weapon has had no modifications to it since he received it.
Other gear:
Besides his 2 primary weapons he also carries many other pieces of gear, these being:
- A multi peruse knife
- A set of lock picks
- A lighter
- 1 sometimes 2 bottles of water
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