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Hello, this is my first time making an OC. Sorry for the word wall and I look forwards to your feed back. Just as a refrence to context this is the main character to a FanFic Im planning which starts during the same year that Summer rose attends Beacon.

1) Basic info:

Name: Auryn Leijonaz

Team/occupation: AMBR (amber),(leader) while studying in Beacon, currently one of the many Hunters and teachers that work directly under Ozipin’s command, similar to Qrow.

Species: Human

Age: 17 when he entered Beacon, 20 when he dropped out, 23 when he started working under Ozpin, currently 37

Sex: Male

Handedness: was born left but forced to be right handed, primarily right handed now

Aura/Effects: While student –  dull burnt-orange coloured glow, Early Hunter career – burnt-orange coloured glow with red and gold particle effects, Current – silvery blue glow with white, black and blue particle effects

Symbol: Family Symbol – proud, front facing, lion’s head with it’s the mane arranged around its head in such a way that it makes it look like the sun. True Symbol – a growling, front facing, lion’s head that has a scar on its right eye. Symbol itself looks like it is shattering around the edges, kind of like the moon in RWBY.

Physical traits: Early beacon years – well toned body, no scars. Early Hunter years – left arm a stump just below the elbow. Heavy scars on remaining left arm, chest stomach and back. Later Hunter years – similar to Early Hunter years but with paler skin tone.

Misc traits: Early Hunter years – Sliver vein like makings beginning to appear at the stump due to dust contamination (more info on this in background section). Later Hunter years – Sliver vein like makings have spread up the arm and to the chest and back. One such mark has crawled up his neck, around the side of his face, ending just beside his left eye.

Nickname(s): During his time at Beacon – Silver-Spoon, by his team mate and partner (whose name I have not decided yet) due to Auryn coming from a wealthy family and thus being very sheltered. Compensator, by the same person as above, due to Auryn’s oversized first weapon. During Later Hunter years – Wraith, by his enemies, due to his semblance making him hard to hit as if he were a ghost

2) Appearance:

Height: 5’5” during his early beacon years, 5’9” by his later hunter years.

Weight: 150 pounds. The armour he used during his time in Beacon added 100 pounds. The partial armour he uses during his early Hunter years adds 30 pounds, while the full body armour he uses in his later Hunter years adds 50 pounds

Eyes: Golden during his time at Beacon. Golden with flecks of silver during his early hunter years. Silver during his later hunter years

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-1.0cm">Face: long face and sharp features. Squarer more defined jaw line during his hunter years, with a slight stubble.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0cm;text-indent:-1.0cm">Hair: During his time at Beacon – Blonde at the roots, darkening out to an auburn color and finally black at the tips, giving the appearance of dying embers. Hair slightly grown out with bangs covering his forehead. Early Hunter years –  same colour as before. Shorter hair that are swept back (like Mercury’s hair without the bangs or Archer’s hair from Fate/Stay Night). Later Hunter years – same style are early hunter years. White at the roots, darkens out to a slivery blue and finally black at the tips.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-indent:-49.65pt">Physique: During his time at Beacon – Strong well-toned body but on the leaner side. Early Hunter years – far more muscular that during his time a beacon due to the extreme exercise training regimen he put himself through. Later Hunter years – Still very fit but has lost some muscle mass due to effects of dust contamination.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:70.9pt;text-indent:-70.9pt">Combat Outfit: Early beacon years – large, heavy and somewhat clunky golden suit of armour with blue highlights and his family symbol carved into the chest plate. Later beacon years – armour has received heavy damage during his time at Beacon. Left gauntlet, right shoulder pale and the abdominal plates have needed to be completely replaced and thus do not follow the original golden color scheme. Armour riddled with dents and cuts particularly a vertical cut on his chest plate that leaves the impression that the lion on his family symbol has a scar on its left eye (leads to the creation of his true personal symbol). Early Hunter years – long dark orange coat and black pants and boots. Black coloured partial armour, including chest piece, back piece, shoulder plates, gauntlets and greaves, with neon orange highlights (think Tron clothing). The neon orange lights and the armour plate segments come together to form his true symbol on the chest piece. Later Hunter years – gunmetal coloured full body armour with silvery blue highlights (again kind of Tron-like). Silvery blue lights and the armour plate segments come together to form his true symbol on the chest piece. Ends of a black coat appear form under the armour at the waist and extend to the knees, white fur along the collar. Occasionally adorns a helmet that covers the entire head, same gunmetal colour with a silver reflective visor (kind of like the ODST helmet from Halo). Helmet has basic HUD functions, as well as the obvious function of protecting his head and hiding his face.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:63.8pt;text-indent:-63.8pt">Casual Outfit: During his time at Beacon – black shirt with golden highlights rolled up to just above his elbow and unbuttoned in the front. White V-neck T-shirt underneath with his family symbol in navy blue on the chest. Dark blue jeans and dark coloured sneakers. Black arm brace on his right arm, due to him frequently injuring it (arm brace present in all combat outfits as well, just not visible due to armour). During his Hunter years – no casual outfit.

<p class="MsoNormal">3) Characteristics:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0cm;text-indent:-2.0cm">Background: Auryn was born as the second son to a wealthy and prominent Hunter family, the Leijonaz. As such Auryn had his aura unlock soon after his birth. Since his older brother Saffron showed promise; Auryn’s parents were far more focused on raising Saffron to be a great Hunter, often neglecting Auryn in the process. Auryn was also often compared to his older brother while growing up, who seem to be talented at everything from studying to fighting. The only thing that Auryn could hold over his brother was the fact that he discovered his semblance at the young age of five. However, since he himself didn’t quite understand what semblance was, he managed keep it a secret from the rest of his family. Instead, he opted to use his new found ability to play pranks on the household maids and do other five-year-old shenanigans. However, as Auryn grew older he started to notice, more and more, the disparity between the treatment of him and his brother by his parents. This drove apart Auryn and his brother and caused Auryn to act out more and more to seek attention. It was at the age of ten that the idea finally dawned on him, a way to beat his brother at his own game, way to finally get his parents to recognise him. His would challenge his brother to a one on one duel. Ofcourse in a fair match Auryn had no hope of defeating his older brother. Not only was Saffron five years older than him but Saffron had also received personal combat training since the age of five, while Auryn had received none. However, Auryn never planned on fighting fairly. Saffron did not know of Auryn’s semblance but Auryn knew of Saffron’s newly discovered semblance, which was heat control, and the fact that he could not control it well yet. The night before the dual Auryn coated the wooden practice swords with red dust. During the match Auryn continuously spammed his semblance to make all of Saffron’s attacks miss. Frustrated that he could not land a single blow, Saffron unknowingly activated his semblance on his sword. This combined with the red dust made the wooden weapon explode, creating enough of an opening for Auryn to come in and beat he older brother to a bloody pulp. Auryn had never felt so happy before in his life. He did it! He finally did it! He defeated his older brother. Surely, his parents would be proud of him now. Surely they would praise him now. But they never did. Auryn’s parents saw through his tricks, and called his semblance and his victory a cowardly display that was shameful to the proud Leijonaz family name. From that day forth Auryn swore to never use his Semblance again. He also developed a deep hatred for his brother Saffron and used it a motivation to train himself. He would beat his brother fairly; he would finally prove who is superior. However, fate had a something different in mind for him. At the age of twelve Auryn’s life would change forever, his brother died. During the initiation to Beacon a giant underground Grimm appeared and managed to trample and kill Saffron and a couple other initiates before the teachers arrived to subdue it. Suddenly, everything that Auryn had worked so hard for was given to him on a silver platter. His parents’ attention, combat training, everything he wanted was given to him as a desperate attempt to prevent the Leijonaz Hunter tradition from dying out. For the first time in his life Auryn saw the world form his brothers point of view, he the felt the pressure of have his parents hopes and dreams thrusted upon him and felt the weight of having to uphold the Leijonaz family name. But he did not care. He was out to prove himself; he would succeed where his brother had failed. He would become a great Hunter. However, during his time at Beacon he learned that there is no honour in fighting a Grimm and useless pride while fighting the forces of darkness will only get you and your teammates killed. On the other hand he also learns to accept himself and his semblance during these years. Further, he was able to, with the help of Summer Rose, improve Blankaz Hrunting and create Aldergriever during these years. However, these seemingly happy times come to an abrupt end during his senior year at Beacon. A certain incident (which I will not talk about because of spoiler reasons) leads to the death of his partner and team mate, the loss of his left arm below the elbow and the disbandment of team AMBR. Auryn was extremely disillusioned and almost gave up his dream of becoming a hunter. However, due to much encouragement from various people such as Silvia(more info on her in trivia section) and Ozpin, Auryn was able to get back up again. Auryn then put himself though extreme training to enable him to fight with his disability. Due to him constantly pushing himself beyond his limit as well and supplying High Energy Electromagnetic Dust (basically microwave Dust) directly to his prosthetic Auryn suffers from Dust contamination during his Hunter years. Dust contamination allows one to become more effective at using a certain type of Dust at the cost of the user’s physical health. It also causes the user to undergo many physiological changes such as a change in skin, eye and hair colour and changes in Aura/Effects. Due to this Auryn will probably not live to the age of fifty. In the end he will probably die in the battle field surrounded by the corpses of his foes. In the end, Auryn will not be remembered as a Hero, he will perish and be forgotten. He will die as a weapon, pointed at the enemy, so someone else can claim a victory.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0cm;text-indent:-2.0cm">Personality: Auryn personality changes a lot during the course of his life. When he first arrived at Beacon he had a very closed minded view of fighting, honour and upholding his family name. He was also not very comfortable with sharing his thoughts and feeling with others. However, with the help of his teammates Auryn is able to open up to others and change his ridged views. He probably has the healthiest and most positive outlook during his late Beacon years. However, after the tragic incident that caused the death of his partner and teammate and the loss of half of his left arm Auryn has become far more cynical. He has also closed himself off from other people and prefers to go to mission after mission, for Ozpin, instead of having any semblance of a personal life. His is also fiercely loyal to Ozpin and is far more ruthless in his missions now, willing to risk his or others’ lives in order to follow through with orders.

<p class="MsoNormal">Likes:  honest and strong-willed people

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.45pt;text-indent:-35.45pt">Dislikes: people who don’t stand up for themselves, cowards (though this is more of a self-hate thing since he thinks of himself as a coward).

<p class="MsoNormal">4) Combat info:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:70.9pt;text-indent:-70.9pt">Position/Class: During his time at Beacon – frontal attack, heavy single hit damage dealer, not much dps, evasive tank (kind of like the warrior class from Terra online).

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:78.0pt;text-indent:-78.0pt">Landing strategy: focus aura on forearms and legs and clash through the foliage. Try to roll off the landing.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt">Weapon: During time a Beacon –

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:127.6pt;text-indent:-3.0cm">Blankaz Hrunting: Essentially a really large sword/cannon. The design is based off a Claymore. The weapon has a total length of 6 feet and weighs 24 pounds. It has a long 2-handed grip. At its base the blade is 6 inches wide and tapers down its length. The blade has a groove, in the middle, running a third of the way down its length on one side. However, the blade does not come to a point but rather has flat unsharpened end with its corners chamfered. In sword mode at end of the blade, the end of a large diameter gun barrel can be seen with the rest of the gun barrel retracted down the length of the blade. Due to this, the blade is quite thick, measuring in at 1.5 inches. The guards of the sword/cannon are asymmetrical in shape. Both of the guards are in the shape of handles; however, one of them is more cylindrical in shape while the other is shaped more like the handle of a gun with a trigger at the end. When transforming into cannon mode the trigger handle shaped guard is held in the right hand and the cylindrical guard is rotated 90 degrees, so that it is perpendicular to the blade edge. It is then pushed forwards, along the groove, down length of the blade. The hole left by the cylindrical guard is used to insert bullets into the weapon. As this happens the gun barrel extends out of the end of the blade adding 2 more feet to the total length of the weapon. During early Beacon years – Can only fire once, since Auryn only carries one large calibre explosive bullet. During later Beacon years – Can fire 5 times since Auryn carries a cartridge with him. There is a gravity dust crystal (black in colour) attached at the center of the cross guard. This allows him to change the center of mass of the weapon at will (cannot change total wieght), allows for better handling.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:127.6pt;text-indent:-3.0cm">Aldergriever: A golden gauntlet that vaguely shaped as an eagle claw. Made during later Beacon years when Auryn’s original left gauntlet, which was part of his armour set, broke. Has a sword breaker attached to the forearm and a High Energy Electromagnetic Dust crystal (HEED crystal for short) imbedded in the palm. Used mainly as an off-hand weapon for parrying, grappling and defending purposes. The HEED crystal can cause severe burns to humans and Grimm alike but cannot be used to kill.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:127.6pt;text-indent:-3.0cm">During Hunter years –

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:127.6pt;text-indent:-3.0cm">Blakaz Negling: Design based of long swords/bastard swords. Essentially and improved version of Blankaz Hrunting. The cross guard has the same design as the previous version. The weapon only has a hand and a half handle instead of the full two handed handle of the previous weapon. The weapon has a total length of 5 feet. The blade of the weapon is infused with gravity dust causing it to be black in colour. This allows Auryn to control not only the center of mass but also the total weight of the weapon at will (he can make it range from 1 to 100 pounds).This allows him to wield his weapon in one hand. At its base the blade is 3 inches wide and ½ an inch thick and tapers down its length to a point. There are groves running the full length of the blade on either side. The grove zigzags for a bit a third of the way down the length of the blade and emits a faint light (orange in early hunter years, blue in later hunter years). The weapon transforms into cannon mode in a similar way as Blankaz Hrunting. However, instead of the cannon extending out of the end the blade splits in two, length wise, to reveal the cannon. Instead of being a wide diameter gun barrel, the cannon has a similar shape as the blade it is encased in with a vertical slit as an opening at the end (similar in design to the Dominator in Psycho-Pass or the gun the MC uses in Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei). The weapon is also connected to a portable canister of HEED dust via a cable while in the cannon mode. During early Hunter years – the cannon shoots a high energy laser beam that, while not as strong or large as Penny’s laser, can cut though most things. The cannon can be fired continuously for 5 seconds with a total of 5 shots. During later Hunter years –  due to dust contamination Auryn is much more efficient at using the cannon mode. The laser beam is now as powerful as Penny’s laser, though not as large. It can now be fired continuously for 10 seconds with a total of 7 shots.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:127.6pt;text-indent:-3.0cm">Saffron Requiem: A gauntlet like prosthetic hand. It was made by melting down and re-forging Auryn’s brother, Saffron’s, weapon. Its name is symbolic of Auryn coming to terms with his hatred towards his brother. The prosthetic possesses super human gripping strength and it fingers are sharpened into claws. It is also connected via cable to the portable canister of HEED dust that Auryn carries allowing him the release high energy electromagnetic waves from the palm of the prosthetic. Early Hunter years – the super human strength of the prosthetic combined with the extreme heat released from the HEED dust allows Auryn to easily break any non-aura enhanced weapon he grabs. It also can be used to kill most people whose aura’s are locked, as well as creatures of the grim, with relative ease. Not as effective against people with their auras unlocked. Later Hunter years – Saffron Requiem is much more effective due to effects of dust contamination. Can now severely damage aura enhanced weapons and severely injure individuals with their auras unlocked.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0cm;text-indent:-2.0cm">Semblance: Ocular Shift. Early Beacon years – bends light to make him appear to be at a different location than he actually is. Uses it to trick the enemy into attacking at the wrong location. Against long range weapon users, uses semblance to divert fire until he can close the distance. Up close, he uses it to make the enemy miss their attacks, creating openings for his own counter attacks. Can only make his image appear within 100 meters of him, has low aura drain. Doesn’t like using it much because he thinks it is cowardly. Later Beacon years – much more open to spam semblance. Can also create light clones (cannot use previous ability in conjunction with light clones). Light clones look identical to Auryn, mimic his movements. Light clones do not do any physical damage but in turn cannot be physically damaged (unlike Sun’s clones). Can only create a maximum of 10 clones at a time. The clones are not very effective against sentient enemies but great at occupying hordes of mindless Grimm while he picks them off, one by one. Medium aura drain. Early Hunter years – same as above but can create 20 light clones now. Has, however found a unique use for light clones. Since they mimic not only Auryn but his weapons as well he can use this to attack. For example if Auryn shoots a bullet then so would the light clone, but the bullet the light clone shot would not do any damage since it is just an image made of light. However, if Auryn does a light based attack, such as shooting a laser, then the laser shot by the light clone would also do damage since lasers are made of light. Using his semblance this way, however, puts an extreme strain on his aura and having only two clones copy him while he fires Blakaz Negling in its cannon form would drain his aura to red. As such this is only used as a last resort to effectively triple his maximum fire power. Late Hunter years – same as above but can have four clones copy him while he fires Blakaz Negling in its cannon form due to effects of dust contamination.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:63.8pt;text-indent:-63.8pt">Fighting style: Early Beacon years – can be best described as clunky. Blankaz Hrunting is too large and heavy for Auryn to effectively use, causing him to over-swing often. The weapon is devastating if it hits however. Further, due to design faults the cannon form of Blankaz Hrunting has no sights and can only be fired from the hip. This combined with the fact that Auryn only carries one large calibre explosive bullet makes Blankaz Hrunting a seriously unreliable weapon. On top of this, his adamant refusal to use his semblance makes his a less that competent fighter and would only be at or below Cardin’s fighting level. Later Beacon years – the addition of the gravity dust crystal to Blankaz Hrunting greatly increased the usability of the weapon, and has allowed him to develop a unique fighting style that switches between one handed and two handed strikes. The addition of Aldergriever as an offhand weapon has also added more versatility to his arsenal. Further, by carrying a clip of five large calibre explosive bullets the cannon mode of Blankaz Hrunting is a lot more feasible. Finally, by being more open to use his semblance, Auryn has greatly increased his fighting potential allowing him to compete against long distance fighters. Still weaker than most members of team CFVY. Early Hunter Years – Auryn is now a far more experienced and trained fighter. This fighting style is far more aggressive. He wields Blakaz Negling almost exclusively one-handed, sometimes uses both hands for power strikes. Attacks are far more devastating due to Blakaz Negling and Saffron Requiem being far more superior to their respective predecessors. At or below Qrow’s fighting level. Later Hunter Years – The effects of dust contamination has made him far more effective at using dust; however, has made him physically weaker. Uses more armour to compensate for slower reaction time.

<p class="MsoNormal">5) Trivia:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:63.8pt;text-indent:-63.8pt">Relationships: Beacon years – Good friends with all of the members of team AMBR. Has a short lived romantic relationship with his team partner (whose name I still haven’t decided yet). Generally friendly relationship with team TRQS (Summer, Taiyang, Qrow, and Raven’s team) though he is slightly envious of them because they are a superior team. Younger brother to Saffron Leijonaz, their relationship was very strained, were not very close. Fairly close to Silvia (I haven’t decided her last name yet), a cat Faunus and maid at the Leijonaz household. Practically raised Auryn and is the closest thing he has to a real parental figure.

<p class="MsoNormal">Notes: I don’t know what this section is for.

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Tropes: Auryn comes from the latin word aurantiaco, which means orange. It also has tie-ins with Aurus which is latin for gold, and is his family-crest’s colour. Leijonaz comes from the Finnish word for lion. Auryn Leijonaz is a reference to the cowardly lion from the Wizard of Oz. Auryn’s relationship with his brother is a mild reference to Scar and Mufasa from The Lion King (hence Auryn’s True Symbol having a scar on its left eye and Saffron died from being trampled). Aldergriever comes from the German word Adlergreifer which means eagle claw. The weapon name Blankaz Hrunting comes from a composition of a colour and a legendary sword. Blankaz is a common Germanic word that means white, bright, and blinding and is one of the roots to the English word white. Hrunting is one of the magical swords used by Beowulf in the old English epic poem of the same name. Ironically, Hrunting means thrusting which is the one thing Blankaz Hrunting cannot do. The weapon name Blakaz Negling is also a composition of a colour and a legendary sword. Blakaz is a proto Germanic word meaning burned and is one of the roots for the English word black. Negling is the second and more powerful magical sword used by Beowulf in the old English epic poem of the same name. As homage to their origins both Blankaz Hrunting and Blakaz Negling are shown killing a Beowolf as their first Grimm enemy.