Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-26018514-20150128065730

LiveandSound wrote: @73

That...sounds like a rather big handicap. Can he deactivate it? Yes, "at Will". But in his developmental years he couldn't, this was how I decided to balance the ability and lead to insanity actually being a believable outcome for him.

I didn't quite finish my explanation of his introduction story, namely his "clown College" included a semester abroad in which their circus traveled between Cities, and he saved them by distracting/killing most of the weak grimm until their Hunter escort got there, earning him a possible position at beacon(which he declined at the time to be a clown, having Suppressed that childhood incident with years of counseling and medication), after the second psychotic break and return of his memory of his deep fear of "clowns"(himself especially), he decides Beacon may be his only option and joins at around the same age as Yang, Blake, and Weiss.

As previously stated, he finds Ruby terrifying. he does poorly in Combat classes, but amazing in the field, he still dresses somewhat clown-like, and almost everyone's first reaction to him is: "Who is this Clown?".