Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25857155-20150213020036/@comment-25857155-20150217110959

Ok, got #4 to post up now.


 * Name: “Ash” Jay Westwind
 * Team/Occupation: Team ACCA, student
 * Position/Class: Support Mage/Sniper; Weapons Expert.
 * Species: Human
 * Traits: N/A
 * Other: Faint scarring in various places on his hands.
 * Age: 18
 * Sex: Male
 * Handedness: Right
 * Height: 74 inches
 * Weight: 197 pounds
 * Eyes: Storm Grey
 * Hair: Plain Brown, mid-short length.
 * Physique: Tall and lanky; wiry muscles.  Better at cardio than heavy lifting.
 * Combat Outfit: Spec-ops style fatigue pants with knee-pads and boots, black tee-shirt and a dark-grey combat jacket with padded elbows, his personal emblem on the left shoulder.  Depending on the weather, sometimes accompanied by a hat.
 * Casual Outfit: Jeans or gym shorts with a tee-shirt, often bearing the logo of a band or other music group.  Alternately, a long-sleeved tee shirt with his own symbol on the chest.  Often accompanied by a leather flight jacket and sunglasses.
 * Personality: Very polite and often a bit distant, frequently spacing out.  Ash prefers to open up in one-on-one encounters or small groups only, gathering a small group of friends around him rather than a large bunch.  Grows uncomfortable quickly in large crowds or groups of people.  Preferring not to be tied down, Ash has a rather mercenary outlook on things, being very willing to offer allegiance to a group or person only for as long as their ideals align.  He can be very protective and easily angered on behalf of those few he feels loyalty toward, and will jump to defend their honor, but does not seem to care enough to defend his own.  Excellent at planning and strategizing beforehand, but easily flustered if his plans go wrong.  Mildly prejudiced against the Faunus, but tries his best to overcome it.  Frequent insomniac.  History and archeology buff; especially interested in antique weaponry and fighting styles.  Likes reading, using his semblance to get up to places he shouldn’t be able to, eating oranges and any combination therein.  Enjoys gardening, but plants with thorns were common on the grounds of his family’s estate, so his hands and arms accumulated a collection of small scars.
 * Landing strategy: Uses his semblance to glide down to the ground.  Alternately, doesn’t land.
 * Aura/Effects: Silver.  Wind gust effects when emotions are high.  Glyphs appear in various forms upon activation of his semblance.
 * Semblance: Wind Glyphs – allows limited control of wind, similar to the effects of air Dust.  When used appropriately, allows limited flight effects and AOE knockbacks.  Ash can also apply his glyphs to his rifle, allowing him to ignore bullet drop and wind effects.  Advanced skill allows the manipulation of small or lightweight objects through wind and some skill with defensive shielding, and mastery grants wide area of effect attacks and near-constant flight abilities when not distracted by combat.
 * Weapon: Ash uses a customized Atlas SR-25 gas-operated semi-automatic sniper rifle, which uses a magazine of 20 .308 rounds, with a 20 inch variable and variable zoom with glare-guard, and a deployable bipod.  With the application of pressure to two buttons at the stock and receiver of the rifle, it transforms into a long metal staff.  He calls his weapon Leonidus’ Cross, after the king of an ancient, dead kingdom from hundreds of years before the war.  Ash also keeps a knife with him, either on his belt (casual) or strapped to his chest (combat).
 * Fighting style: Ash much prefers to use his semblance to access higher ground, and lay down supporting fire for his team from there.  He is not incapable of melee combat, but his close-range attacks focus on controlling the crows and keeping them off-balance rather than actually dealing damage.  Can be caught off-guard while scoped in.
 * Symbol: Stylized silver zephyr on a red nimbus background, set on a navy blue patch.  Can be found on the stock/grip of his rifle/staff, and also on the left shoulder of both of his jackets.
 * Background: Ash was born in Atlas as Jay Eastborn, son of Mavros and his wife Lefko (rough Greek for black and white).  The Eastborn family is somewhat infamous for having been firmly on the losing side of the great war, and it is an ill-kept secret that many members of their family still harbor anti-expressionist sentiments and crave for a unified government over the Kingdoms.  Jay spent his childhood having his fellow students at the combat school in Atlas avoid him, while Jay in turn shunned the few others in the school whose families followed his own family’s anti-expressionism values.  As he grew up and learned more about the world, Jay realized more and more just how wrong his parents and their family were.  Fed up with it all, Jay moved out at the age of 16 when he graduated his junior combat school.  He followed up by filing the legal procedures required to be emancipated from his parent’s family, having his name changed to “Westwind,” and taking the first name Ash for himself to further distance himself from his family.
 * Background (continued): For many years prior to his splitting from his family, Jay was always close to a girl named Aurora.   They grew very close during his time at the junior combat school, and dated for several years, during which his parents purchased the supplies and training for him to create Leonidus’ Cross from its base rifle form.  They stayed close over the years until Jay started rebelling and arguing with his family about their ideals, which she actually supported despite how many other things Jay and Aurora agreed on.  When he officially changed his name, Aurora attacked him, driving him away from her and wounding his left leg in the process.  He moved to vale shortly after, taking several months to recover emotionally and physically, and then the rest of a year working odd mercenary jobs to get re-established in Vale before applying to Beacon under his new name.  The last he heard from Aurora, she had sworn to either bring him back “home” or kill him outright.
 * Notes: Team partner with Aurum Segen.  Straight sexual orientation.  Actively avoiding romantic relationships.

On a side note, it looks like I might actually get home before eight AM after all, weather permitting. :)