Peter Port

Peter Port is a professor at Beacon Academy. He is first seen in The Badge and The Burden teaching the Grimm Studies class, with Team RWBY and Jaune Arc from Team JNPR being present in his class.

Appearance
Peter Port is seen as an elderly man, appearing to be about in his mid-fifties. He wears a burgundy suit with gold trimming and gold buttons running down the collar and by the wrists.

He has gray hair and a gray mustache and appears to be slightly obese. When he laughs his belly visibly shakes up and down.

Personality
Peter appears to be a well-mannered man. However, his teaching skills seem to bore the class, as displayed by Ruby, who was sleeping, and Blake, who was uninterested in the subject. He also seems to joke around in teaching, as he tried to make the class laugh by calling the Grimm "prey," but was met only with silence.

He's also shown to not be above flirting with his female students, playfully flirting with the trainee Huntresses such as Yang. He has also proven to be quite confident in his abilities as a Huntsman, often telling stories of his feats. He even has a gold bust of himself near his desk.

Despite these seemingly self-absorbed traits, he has his moments of humility. Peter also seems to not be afraid in speaking the truth, such as mentioning Weiss' poor attitude and lack of being grateful for what she has.

Trivia

 * "Peter" is derived from the Greek word "Πέτρος" (Petros), meaning "stone." "Port," as a surname, could be from the French "la porte," meaning "the door"; "portier," gatekeepers charged with protecting the gates of fortified cities or large and unique doors; or from "le port," which means "harbor."
 * In his classroom, Peter has a weapon that appears to be a battle axe combined with a blunderbuss. He later wields it in order to release the captive Boarbatusk. It is heavily implied in his story that he was a Huntsman in his past and was seen as a hero after capturing a Beowolf alive.
 * Port capturing the Beowolf alive rather than killing it references to the story of Peter and the Wolf. The background music playing during his telling is indeed Peter and the Wolf.
 * Many fans claim that Port capturing live Grimm and keeping them in cages is a reference to his voice actor, Ryan Haywood, keeping a cow named Edgar trapped under his house in Minecraft. However, as Miles and Kerry have said, Port's character was written long before Ryan captured Edgar. This parallel between Port and Ryan was merely serendipity.