Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25936766-20170228175626/@comment-26463535-20170312220943

1) Basic Info: 

-Name: Arbutus Stryder

-CNR Explanation: Arbutus is another name for the madrone tree, which has very distinctive mahogany red bark

-Allusion: Drus (male dryads of Greek mythology), his tree- the madrone

-Race: Human

-Age: 18

-Gender: Male

<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Emblem: A madrone tree in front of a recurve bow

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Handedness: Right naturally (has learned how to use his left hand as well)

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Occupation: Hunter-in-Training: Team LAPS(Lapis), 1st year, Haven Academy.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">2) Appearance: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Aura Color: Mahogany Red

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Hair: Red; short, curly, and messy

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Face: Oval with a defined chin, small nose, and almond eyes

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Physique: A climber’s musculature on a medium frame body, scruffy

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Outfit: a Reddish-brown leather vest over a cap sleeved white shirt, light brown trousers with a dark brown belt and a dark green hooded cape (he doesn’t wear shoes or socks, considers them too constricting), Has a leather gauntlet on his left hand but not on his right

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">3) Characteristics:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Background:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Arbutus had never had one place to call home. His family along with their tribe survived in the Mistral wilderness as nomads, trading at various villages for the supplies they couldn’t find out in the wild. As he grew up, he was trained as a tribe scout, learning to fight with aura, how to spot foes and report back. He enjoyed his life, despite the constant danger. The forests were wondrous places, easy to scout out Grimm in and wonderful for hide and seek. Really, he prefered dealing with Grim rather than people outside his tribe. Bandits could often be a bigger nuisance than Grim and people that lived inside villages were “soft and stupid.”  That sentiment was clinched when while he was nine and the tribe was at some town, a local kid teased him about his height and so-called weirdness. Arbutus snapped and tried to tackle the kid, but ended up crashing into an old well instead. The boy had run and Arbutus had been left there for hours before his parents finally found him. He couldn’t stand enclosed spaces after that and especially not village people. He never thought he would and was quite content to always be a nomad. Future events would prove otherwise.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">While he was seventeen, his tribe was commissioned to accompany a headstrong grey squirrel faunus named Lily Beckett as she made her way to Haven Academy to become a Huntress. The majority of the tribe were willing to escort her. The rest, including Arbutus, were skeptical of how a “soft” villager could survive with them in the wilds. Lily was skeptical, in turn, about whether she should be trying to enter Haven if she  couldn’t manage the journey there by herself. The arrangements were made, however, and the company went on their way to the capital.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">At first, Arbutus kept watch to make sure Lily didn’t mess anything up, there to critique every little thing and to comment that the things she did well, “she did well… for a villager.” Lily chafed under his scrutiny and angrily kept seeking to prove herself to him or at least get him to leave her alone. Some of the other tribesmen joined in, causing her to work harder than ever to prove to them that she was indeed, perfectly competent and could handle herself. Eventually, Arbutus came to admire her dedication, diligence, and spunk. He started easing up on her and asked questions about her previous life, why being a Huntress was worth all she had gone through. Lily was at first cautious about his new-found interest in her, but the two started to warm up to each and became close friends.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">By the time they arrived at the capital, Arbutus decided to be a Huntsmen as well. At the very least, he would be coming back to his tribe after his schooling was done as a lot better fighter. With his parent’s blessing, he attempted the entry trials, passing the combat side with flying colors while passing the other part adequately. Then during initiation, he and Lily partnered up and joined oddball pair Pewter Palladium, a quiet, socially awkward girl that tended to charge into things, and Sora Cerulean, a loud, abrasive girl that tended to roll with the punches. Together, they became team LAPS, lead by Lily.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">As the school year went on, Arbutus had to make a few adjustments to the differences of his tribe and Haven. He found all the new info available to him fascinating and utterly delved into it. Homework, however, was a monster he utterly loathed and actively avoided. Only Lily’s strictness and tutoring helped him face the beast and beat it back. He never liked constantly being in buildings and would take every opportunity to go outside, but he got slightly more use to it. The plethora of Dust was fun to play with, causing him to get the nickname “Red” after a couple of his fire Dust experiments exploded on him. He never got over his views on village or city folk, but he came to tolerate them more.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The most surprising thing though was that he found himself falling more and more in love with Lily. He loved her personality, her smile, her laugh. She wasn’t a standard beauty but he loved how she looked, especially the cute little grey squirrel ears. He wasn’t exactly sure why, but he now couldn’t imagine life without her. When he finally gathered his courage and confessed his feelings, he found out that she had come to love him as well. Between classes, missions, and team-bonding with their other team members, the two kindled their love more. They learned more about each other, their cultures, and more about who they themselves were, oddly enough.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The team tried out to be Haven representatives for the Vytal festival. They didn’t make the cut, but they decided to go to the festival anyway. Arbutus had never had a chance to go to one before and he wasn’t going to miss out on the chance and the other three hadn’t actually ever been to one. Once there, the four had an absolute blast, enjoying the fights, the fair games, and the food. The aftermath of Yang and Mercury’s fight shocked them, but they all figured that it was a completely out of blue event. Then all heck broke loose.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">They managed to survive the waves of foes, and save many before they themselves were transported out and back to Haven. The event though took a lasting toll on them all. Arbutus’s disdain for the softness of townspeople grew more bitter, hating the fact that the civilians couldn’t defend themselves to cover up his own feelings of inadequacy for having not saved more. He sought to bury it though to comfort Lily, who had near constant nightmares about all the ways her teammates had nearly died and of all the people she had seen die. Arbutus couldn’t keep his own feelings secret for long and the two became closer as they helped each other through the trauma. During those first few months, they never thought about who would be there for the others. Pewter and Sora had never gone past the stage of friendly co-student that could be called friend with each other or with either Lily or Arbutus. Sora had made friends outside the team and could go to them for help as the screams and calls for help kept echoing in her head. Pewter had no one she could talk with or turn to as she kept imagining all she could have done to help more and blaming herself as to why she didn’t do it then. Only later, when Pewter started falling asleep every moment she was still (utterly exhausted from extended practices and lack of sleep) and Sora would sometimes randomly stop before running to wherever her friends were at did either of them  start to realize that there were some balls they probably dropped, big time.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Personality: Arbutus is smart, though it's not obvious all the time. He’s also curious, inventive, and resourceful, taking great pains to use everything he can and not squander things potentially useful. Tends to be brutally honest except when it would cause others to worry “excessively” about him. Is highly claustrophobic. If in a good mood, he likes to engage in some harmless pranks, doing things that would annoy but nothing that could seriously injure. If something he did was so, he would seek to make up for it immediately. His temper is usually under wraps, but has a short fuse for injuries done towards him or those he’s close to, especially verbal, and when things infuriate him, such as stupid people and homework.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Likes: Lily, Trees, Countryside, Outdoors, Climbing, Harmless pranks on others, Learning

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Dislikes: Cities/villages, Villagers, Bandits, Enclosed spaces, Shoes and socks, Quips about his height, Homework

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">4) Trivia: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Notable Relationships:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lily Beckett (Lily is a white flower, Beckett means stream): His partner, team leader, and love of his life; The tragedy they witnessed has only caused them to grow closer together, close enough that Arb is considering proposing

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Pewter Palladium (Both are greyish color metals): Team tank; Hasn’t gotten particularly close with her but appreciates her silence, rolls his eyes everytime she does something he considers “stupid” and quickly corrects her about how to do better

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sora Cerulean (Sora means sky and Cerulean is sky blue): Team wacky kid; Depending on the mood he’s in, Arb either enjoys her antics and loud excitement or he’s this close to snapping her neck

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Spruce Stryder: Arbutus’s father; trained him in combat, aura use, forest lore, and survival; showed Arbutus how beautiful nature is, shares the mischievous streak with Arbutus, is stern when needed but otherwise is more laid-back than his wife

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lilac Stryder: Arbutus’s mother, taught him essential skills like cooking, instructed Arbutus in how to not waste anything, tends to be more serious than her husband but can sometimes laugh at his jokes, was more often the chief disciplinarian of the house

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Skills:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Survival techniques: Nomadic tribe living in woods would probably try to make sure all members knew something about surviving alone in the wild, taught specifically by father

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Examples: Fishing, Hunting, Campfire building, stealth

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cooking: Cooking’s always a useful thing to know, taught by mother

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sewing: Sometimes, someone else is not available to sew your clothes, taught by mother

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tracking: Part of forest lore is recognizing the different animal tracks from each other, taught by father

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Climbing: One of his chief joys

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Notes:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Connections to allusion: They both live and love the wildlands, especially forested ones; They both are leery of people of the city; They’re both short; They have romantic relations with beings not of their own race; Both their color schemes are based from their tree, in Red’s case, a madrone

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I choose the madrone since as a kid, I would see that tree and always think of it as a perfect dryad tree

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">5) Weapon: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Maker: Arbutus

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Classification: SWRB (Standard Wooden Recurve Bow)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Derivation: Recurve bow

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Design: Made of sturdy vine maple wood, well-built, worn from use, no fancy ornamentation

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Form: A standard recurve bow (stores by slinging over back)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Features: Dust arrows have different elemental effects depending on what type of Dust (ex. Fire Dust sets the thing on fire, Water Dust drenches the thing in a small puddle of water, etc.)

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Ammunition: Normal arrows, stored in quiver on left side of belt

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Planned Upgrades: Add a melee form to the weapon or possibly make a whole new weapon based on his current one but with multiple forms

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Notes: Arb made the bow himself while in his tribe from materials he gathered himself, making him extremely proud of the weapon and hesitant to get something new or change it. Also, makes the Dust arrows himself, which can some surprises when it comes to how much or how little dust he put into a particular arrow

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Name: Whiplash

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">6) Semblance: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Name: Hide-and-Seek, Forest Style

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Reflection of Personality: He’s perfectly at home in the forest and would often climb and hide in trees to scout, think by himself, or for some jump-scare pranks on his dad when they played hide and seek. As a scout, he needed to be very good at tracking prey while not getting discovered himself, requiring him to be stealthy. Very good at taking care of himself and has started learning how to care for others.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">7) Combat Info: <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Preferred Range: Long

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Landing Strategy: If there’s trees or other objects that are large enough, he’ll shoot Whiplash’s grapple then reel himself towards the object to help slow down his fall. If not, he braces his aura for impact, rolling at the last moment to help divert direct impact damage

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Fighting Style: Gets up into a perch, activates his semblance, and shoots his arrows, judging how best to use each arrow along with commands from Lily about what would be good. If his semblance gets shattered and the enemy comes too close, he’ll seek to grapple away using Whiplash, get on a new perch, then start shooting again. Only if he can’t see the enemy will he try to grapple closer. If there is nowhere for him to grapple to, he’ll do all he can to keep the enemy away from him or to get away himself.