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Bajarias.josef wrote:

Cowardly Lion??

Nope. He's more of a Determinator + a Heroic Wannabe like Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia, in terms of character, but not design or abilities.

WC-83 wrote:

@YourQuote: A man who is tired of running yet clearly scared for his life. Is helping a group of Atlesian soldiers with stolen armor during the Battle of Beacon.

The first part is true, but change "man" to "boy". The last part is way off, but I didn't give a lot of details since I thought that was the whole point of using a quote that defines your OC's persona.

14-year-old Nosagi Testsubun is a fervent fan of comic books, but he's also obssessed with an online dating simulator game that he has turned him into a reclusive shut-in. His peaceful lifestyle is turned upside down when his older brother, Kuga, drags him along for a vacation to Vacuo with their uncle, Gian Spinaci. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a literal tourist trap where a group of bandits called the Hanged Brothers, a splinter group from the Gallows' Men, who stole everything off of tourists lured to the picturesque seaside village and forced them to "walk the plank" into a Grimm-infested ocean. The trio was seperated, and Nosagi washes ashore on an island, trains with a retired action star and  and then searches the desert for his brother and uncle. During his search, Nosagi falls into a pit where he finds an abandoned Atlesian dropship along with an old suit of unused Atlesian body armor and a strange gauntlet that doubles as an archaic firearm. Armed with these weapons, he breaks into one of the Gallows' Men's bases where someone matching his brother's description was last seen.

LucasVerBeek wrote: Gallows' Men?

The Gallows' Men are a group of bandits from Vacuo made up of refugees and former Atlesian soldiers trained by the charismatic Captain Millenium Bones who has divided his bandit legion into two groups. The first is a motley crew of pirates who roam the seas of Vacuo taking what they need to supply the group while also gathering intelligence about activities outside the Kingdom from other seafarers, willingly or not. The second is a larger group of desert marauders who pillage villages, recruit new members, and manage a small number of underground bases spread throughout the desert continent. Millenium Bones himself is a former elite Specialist abandoned and betrayed by his subordinate who left him to rot in the desert along with a few loyal men. He established this group originally for survival, but eventually decided to use it for a much grander plan.

Coliseum?

The Coliseum is one of several extensions of the underground bases established by the Gallows' Men. The name itself is actually just a placeholder until I can think of something more apt for describing it. It's basically a training facility for new members who use it for basic combat exercises against more experienced members of the group or against low-level Grimm that are lured into the facility.

In this case, however, a more powerful variant of Grimm, the Arachnipod wandered in from below ground after passing through the steel barriers set up to prevent such a thing from occurring. These barriers block off the access points to the sprawling tunnels of an Atlesian Dust mine beneath the Coliseum. Normally, lighting and energy Dust would be shielding these barriers at all times, but Nosagi disabled the generators and used the Dust within them to blow a hole through each barrier in order to enter the Coliseum and rescue his brother's team who were actually invited by Millenium Bones to watch some of the group's training exercises.

And then, all hell breaks loose when Gian breaks into the Coliseum alongside two Huntsmen, an assassin, and several mercenaries with the goal of "saving his nephews".

Arachnipod?

...I linked that word in my OP to the Grimm Designs thread. The Arachnipod is the evolved form of the Luminopod which is a freakish abomination that is based off the Armsy and Virginia from the survival horror game, The Forest (Links can be found in my post in the Grimm Designs thread).