Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20171207232020/@comment-4136655-20180207161133

So, here's the final character for Team AGAT (from the gemstone agate).

Core Info


 * Basic Info
 * Name: Tristan Irving
 * CNR Explanation: Tristan comes from the Latin tristis, meaning sad. Sadness is typically associated with the color blue. In Scottish, Irving means "green water". A variation of Irving, Irvine, is the name of a river in Scotland.
 * Species: Human
 * Age: 18
 * Gender: Male
 * Emblem: Three teal-colored holly leaves tied at the stem.
 * Occupation: Student
 * Appearance:
 * Aura Color: Light BLue
 * Physical Appearance: Tristan is of average height, standing about 5’10” (1.77m), weighs about 160 lbs. (72.57 kg), a lean frame, has medium white skin, a round face, green eyes, and short red hair.
 * Outfit: Tristan wears a teal-light blue baseball t-shirt, Alice blue pants, and Prussian blue sneakers. For colder weather, he wears a turquoise jacket over his normal clothing. For formal events he wears a sapphire tuxedo, with a white undershirt, a sky-blue tie, black slacks, and black dress shoes.
 * Gadgets: Tristan carries an Atlesian army knife, similar to a Swiss Army knife, gifted to him by his father when he was 9. It has a white casing with Tristan's emblem on one side and Conway's emblem of a branch of holly berries, and has a knife, wire scraper, corkscrew, pruning blade, screwdriver, LED light, scissors, nail file, and tweezers. Though typically used more as a tool than a means of defense, Tristan will used this in close quarters if he is unable to or finds impractical to use his weapon, the Quiet Viper.
 * Characteristics:
 * Background: Tristan grew up in the mining village of Opal in Vacuo. His father, Conway, was an Atlesian pilot, being an Atlesian air force pilot, working for the Schnee Dust Company to ensure that raw Dust was being safety transported to official Schnee Dust refining facilities. His mother, Damla, was a Faunus woman (snake-type; zig-zag patterns on her body like the Ottoman viper) working as a mine manager for the Opal Dust mine. Unlike his siblings, Kelvin (venomous fangs) and Maya (vertical slit pupils), Tristan ended up being fully human.

Tristan and his siblings were mostly brought up by Damla, as Conway’s job had long, nearly red-eye hours. Damla instilled the belief of coexistence between people to her children, believed that for every good deed a person does, they will be rewarded, and there is always hope in the world. Damla expressed her beliefs by insuring both her Faunus and human workers were being treated equally and were being paid in accordance to their work performance and job title, despite the Schnee Dust Company’s protests. Tristan took his mother’s beliefs to heart, and became the village’s little helper when he was young, such as assisting elderly villagers, helping his friends with chores, etc. When Conway had time for his family, he would spend as much as he could with them. This included teaching Kelvin and Tristan about firearms and hunting when they turned 7, and learning how to harness their aura. He’d always wanted his children to be safe should anything bad happen.

However, when Tristan was 9, and explosion happened in the Opal mine. Many of the miners lost their lives, while Damla helped the surviving miners get to the airstrip, where many of the cargo pilots where abandoning their cargo to get as many people out of the village as possible. Tristan and, his then 5-year-old, sister, Maya, boarded their father’s ship just before a hoard of Grimm appeared. Conway and a 13-year-old Kelvin both went out to find Damla, who was still at the mine. Nearly 30 minutes later, they returned, but with shock written over their faces. Conway’s copilot was given the okay to get out. Tristan and Maya would later learn their mother was dead.

The Irvings then moved into one of the poorer parts of the city of Vacuo following the event. All four of them grieved over the loss of Dalma, however as Tristan and Maya learned to cope positively, while Conwaya and Kelvin could not. Conway was demoted from his pilot position, due to his actions negatively affecting the SDC, meaning that the family’s income would be slashed. Conway fell into a deep depression and began drinking to cope. He became neglectful to his family, and a few time would be verbal abusive, but never escalated any further. A few years pass, and Kelvin had been expelled for delinquency and truancy from the military school (an Atlesian funded school for current and former Atlesian soldier's children) the three attended, and had too began drinking. Conway being discharged from the military, but a large amount of money was still coming in, but with now two full blown alcoholics, a 12-year-old Tristan began to take on responsibilities a child shouldn’t. He did what he did best and helped his neighbors in exchange for some Lien to help pay bills, so they didn’t get evicted and to help ensure Maya and himself were being taken care of. A year later, using Vacuo’s lax working laws, Tristan found himself some part-time work at a market to stockpile some Lien for himself and Maya. At the age of 14, he considered transferring to a primary combat school, knowing it would've helped him get out of his situation, but decided against it, not wanting to leave his sister behind.

For the next year, Tristan’s schedule was going to school in the morning, working in the afternoon, schoolwork with Maya in the early evening, and training in the late evening and weekends. Maya would join him with his training on the weekends, not wanting to be alone with her father and brother. However, when his brother had gotten a broken arm overnight, Conway wanted to spend time with Tristan. Piquing Tristan’s interest, he obligated. Conway got his son late at night a few days later and brought him over to an underground fight club. Despite Tristan’s objection, he found himself oddly enraged and ready to fight. Conway had arranged Tristan to fight. Despite being initially scared, his feelings of anger and euphoria, won the fight against his much older opponent. After leaving, Tristan felt nothing but disgust, but dared not go against his father out of fear of his reaction.

For the next two and a half years, this continued. Maya got herself a scholarship to an Altesian boarding school due to her exemplary grades. Seizing this opportunity, Tristan applied for Beacon, wanting to help others in their dire situations against Grimm, wanting to be a piece of hope in the world. Eventually, Conway found Tristan’s Lien stash, Ⱡ8,000. Thinking he was being swindled, Conway confronted him. Tristan let loose his emotions he’d suppressed for years, the anger, sadness, disappointment, frustration, and that his mother wouldn’t want this for them. At the end of his rant, Conway left with his pistol. Kelvin, who was passed out in the living room, mentioned an odd dream of him shooting himself. Six months later, Maya found herself in her new school, along with a good portion of Tristan’s Lien and a new scroll and Tristan had passed Beacon’s entrance exam, and headed for the academy. Hunter Extension
 * Personality: Always one to put others before himself, Tristan is a very kind, considerate, and hard-working person. He is someone who will listen to the problems of others and be willing to help them in any way he can. While Tristan’s kindness is initially extended to everybody, we will cut ties to people he feels cannot or will not be helped. Despite his maturity, he will not want to burden others with his own emotions or problems, rather will unhealthily lock them away until the proverbial dam breaks. He does this knowing that even in the darkest of situations, there is always a light of hope to help you. In addition, him burdening himself with other’s issues may lead to self-destructive behaviors that can affect his physical health, such as his insomnia due to his demanding schedule he placed himself.
 * Likes: Chocolate, coffee, reading (especially MRVL Comics), dogs, stargazing, tinkering
 * Dislikes: Fish, alcohol, self-defeatists, victim complexes
 * Trivia
 * Notable Relationships: Conway Irving (father; missing), Damla Irving (née Xanthina) (mother; deceased), Kelvin Irving (older brother), Maya Irving (younger sister)
 * Skills: Self-taught gunsmith (built Quiet Viper himself), intermediate mechanical skills, minor electrical skills
 * Allusion: Like all members of Team AGAT, Tristan is derived from one of the four elements, his being water.
 * Weapon
 * Name: Quiet Viper
 * Classification: Sniper rifle and multi-tool pocketknife
 * Short Description: Quiet Viper is Tristan's primary weapon, which a dark and steel blue sniper rifle. The stock of the rifle can double as a blunt weapon, like a club or bat, with the muzzle acting as a handle. Engraved on the left side of the stock is Tristan’s emblem and, on the right, an emblem of a coiled viper.
 * Semblance
 * Name: Empathy
 * Short Description: Tristan can feel the emotions of others nearby him. A single person with strong emotions, or a large group of people with similar emotion can influence his own emotions. Should emotion(s) of his become strong to the point being overwhelming, his aura will surge, creating an emotional aura that induces the emotion he’s feeling onto others in his aura’s range. In this process, Tristan loses a large portion of his aura.
 * Activation Cue: Similar to Qrow's and Nora's Semblances, Tristan's has no activation cue, always being active.
 * Reflection of Personality: Tristan being able to feel other's emotions allows him to better understand people in order to help, and its ability to surge allows people to understand his, or other's, emotions.
 * Combat Info
 * Preferred Range: Long range
 * Landing Strategy: Utilizing his aura as a shield.
 * Fighting Style: Tristan's fighting style is more centered on defense and distance. He will typically want find an area on the battlefield he can safely hide and fire from a distance to cover allies and daze enemies. When having to fight up close, Tristan will use his aura like a shield to defend himself and attempt to create a safe enough distance he can fire at or bludgeon an enemy.

Other Statistics
 * Physical:
 * Strength: 3/5
 * Speed: 4/5
 * Agility: 3/5
 * Stamina: 4/5
 * Aural:
 * Reserve: 4/5
 * Manipulation: 5/5
 * Semblance: 2/5
 * Dust: 1/5
 * Technical:
 * Dust: 1/5 (Basic Dust Ammo)
 * Primary Combat: 4/5
 * Unarmed Combat: 2/5
 * Close Range Combat: 2/5
 * Mid Range Combat: 2/5
 * Long Range Combat: 5/5