User blog comment:Goddess of Despair/RWBY user battle tournament/@comment-6757965-20130226104010

Name: Jeff Poiz

Alias: Shadow

Age: 17

Height: 5'8

Weight: 150 pounds

Species: Human

Weapons (dual-weilding): Two One-handed Longswords.

Left: Solid Black Sword (reverse wield, like Ventus in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep)

Right: Crystal Sword, blade looks like Zelretch from Fate / Stay Night. (Normal wield)

Abilities and background info:

Shadow is a slim figure wearing light skeletal armor, which even though has gaps like the ribs, have some sort of barrier to let it act like a normal armor. Beneath the armor, it can be seen (due to the gaps) that he wears black clothes, a tight fit as to not impede his movement. He has ebony skin and midnight black hair. Often a loner and wanders by himself, having only few friends. He almost always prefers speed over power, and because of this has trained his reaction time and agility to his max. He prefers to dodge rather than parry & block because he can deliver a blow faster that way. He has a high hand-coordination (like the pat-head-rub-stomach excercies, I forgot the real term for this), meaning he can control the swords individually as if from two different people, but he can also control them together like a normal dual-weilder can.

The main reason he is called Shadow is because of his ability to fade into the shadows. He is able to spawn a maximum of 8 chains from the back of his armor and can be controlled individually to restrain and/or trap opponents. A black fire blast can also be emitted from the armor with a radius of 1 meter to repel. Wings can appear from the armor, enabling him to fly for roughly 5 minutes before having to land.

Bio:

Jeff's parents were killed early in his childhood by a bounty hunter, for whatever reason he would never know. Orphaned at a young age, he would have been left to perish if the same mercenary hadn't taken pity. The mercenary took him in as his own. At first, the mercenary tried to let him live a normal life, like any citizen would. One time, though, Jeff learned about the mercenary's way of living. Instead of panicking or rejecting, to the mercenary's surprise, Jeff fully accepted it, and insisted that he train him in swordfighting. Reluctant, the mercenary complied, teaching him all he knew to it. Somewhere at the age of 13, he experimented using two swords, just for fun, but was surprised at the skill he could use with both swords, and honed it. At the age of 15, Jeff stumbled over some documents and loot, once belonging to his family. He demanded the mercenary everything he knew, but all the mercenary would reveal was the fact that, yes, he was the one.

Out of rage and feeling of betrayal, Shadow took him down, the student easily surpassing the teacher. He swore vengeance on whoever gave the mercenary the order, and went into the world seeking for answers and the power to eliminate whichever person was responsible.

His path eventualy led him to a cave, said to hold power, but was cursed. He ignored the warnings, his rage overpowering other instincts, when he reached the end of the cave. There was an altar, faint blue flames lit on stands. A figure, unrecognizable due to the darkness, asked if he wanted power, to which Jeff readily said yes. He gave him armor and swords and told him to put it on. He put it on, eagerness covering any and all instincts he had not to, until he already had. "What's the price?!" he asked, turning to the figure, only to be horrified by what he saw. "You will do my bidding when I beckon, pawn." the devil said menacingly, disappearing.

Notes:

The things the devil asks him to do are mostly either for protection, assassination, or kills. I only realized after writing the bio that he might be comparable to the grim reaper. The swords are absolutely unbreakable and are perma-sharp, same with the armor. His only vunerability is blunt blows, since his armor does not give way.