CHARACTER
Name: Roux Palakiko
Age: 17
Species and Gender: Male Human
Symbol: A portal. Two circles of different size, the smaller one inside the bigger one. In the space between the two circles, various runes, hieroglyphs, and other ancient languages.
Occupation: 1st Year Beacon Student
Appearance: Roux is a fair-skinned individual with messy dark brown hair and neon blue eyes, which are that colour due to his aura. He wears a hoodie with colour that matches his eyes, khaki shorts, and sneakers. When he uses his semblance, his eyes and palms glow neon blue.
History: Roux was born into a line of huntsmen and huntresses known for their exceptional skill with their hereditary semblance, portal manipulation. He trained at Signal Academy and decided to join Beacon as it was in Vale, where he lives. His parents raised him specifically not to be spoilt, making him work to earn things other than basic necessities. Thus, despite being raised in a rich and famous line of huntsmen and huntresses, he is very humble and down to earth.
Personality: Roux is a jocular character, always cracking jokes and playing pranks. He's a bit lazy when it comes to study, but can be serious if the situation calls for it, like when he or someone he cares about could potentially suffer serious injury.
Roux likes lame jokes, companionship, and making references, while he dislikes discrimination, prejudice, and homework. He has pteronophobia, but also has more normal fears, like his fear of cockroaches. His fears are can cause him to resort to overkill, like using his strongest blasts to take care of an individual that just happened to be a certain type of bug. this personality trait is one that most of his friends tease him for.
When he was younger, he was very impressionable, with the stories and legends he was told having an effect on him, and leading him to make decisions like fashioning his weapon, Kupua.
Aura and Semblance: Roux's aura manifests in a neon blue colour and he has the hereditary semblance of portal.
Portal allows Roux to do exactly what the name implies, create portals that, unlike standard portals, can’t be used for teleportation. Instead, he has portal blasts..
With portal blasts, Roux can fire off two different kinds of energy attacks by interacting with his portals - small blasts, strong blasts. Small blasts take up a minuscule amount of aura, and can cause normal opponents to stumble. Strong blasts are more powerful, taking up a slightly larger amount of aura and being able to kill off a minor Grimm with one shot.
Combat Behavior: During combat, he's usually upbeat and making lame jokes and quips. However, when he's in a situation that is important to him or he can tell he is severely outmatched, he can be serious, and willing to sacrifice himself to achieve his goal.
He mainly relies on his semblance, the portal blasts, to deal damage, but does have his fish hook weapon that he uses as well for melee and ranged attacks. He focuses on trying not to get hit, since, despite his large aura, he can be easily sent flying with a well placed hit. Roux has a hard time against opponents that can easily close the gap between themselves and him, so he focuses on using the dust functions in his weapon, Kupua, to get away or send them away from him. Bulky opponents also cause a bit of an issue, as his most frequent attacks, small blasts, don’t do much but make them flinch, and a couple good hits can be the end of the him.
His attitude during battles is more than merely for comedy, however. He sometimes throws non-sequiturs and other nonsense into his speech in order to confuse his opponents long enough for him to land a good attack on them, where he pummels them with normal blasts.
WEAPON
Name: Kupua
Primary Form: Hawaiian Fish hook
Secondary Form: Machine Gun
Tertiary Form: Grappling Hook
Dust Functions: Primary Dust Functions:
Fire: Fire dust sees Kupua unleashing a pillar of flame in the direction at which the fish hook is pointed at. This is mainly used to do damage and obscure an enemy's vision, with Roux usually aiming the attack at an opponent's head.
Ice: Ice dust creates a spike of ice from the ground, freezing anything standing under it. It takes a few seconds to charge, though, so a skilled fighter can see it coming and dodge it. Roux mainly uses this to freeze his opponents in place to begin firing off his energy blasts.
Wind: Wind dust unleashes a powerful gale that blows in the direction that blows most anything away from it. In the case of something sturdy, like the ground, the gale can push Roux away from his opponents.
Lighting: Lightning dust creates sparks when being prepared and takes a full 15 seconds to charge. When ready, it fires off a powerful railgun-esque blast that deals incredible damage if it lands, which it usually doesn't. This is usually used with ice dust so that the opponent can't dodge the powerful attack.
Earth: Earth dust covers Kupua in powerful, hard to break stone, allowing it to hit harder and do more damage to opponents. It can also be used as a way to make Kupua an anchor, so that it falls to the floor, preferably on top of an enemy.
Gravity: Kupua's gravity dust function pushes Roux into the air, allowing him to form a portal and escape any harm.
Secondary Dust Functions:
Fire: Replaces Kupua's bullets with fireballs that deal adequate damage and fire off just as rapidly as normal. This is used to melt ice dust and other frozen things, or to finish off matches if the need arises.
Ice: Same function as fire dust, but has sharp icicles instead of fireballs. These icicles can punch through a tree before shattering. Used to break through tough objects.
Wind: Fires off a barrage of rapid fire gusts that do not do damage, but instead knock the opponent around a bit. This adds an element of confusion that Roux gladly takes advantage of.
Lightning: Lightning dust fires off a single ball of electricity that bursts into tiny, paralysing, but weak sparks. This can stun opponents and give Roux an opportunity to strike.
Earth: Earth dust fires off a few bullets. If they hits anything other than the ground... nothing happens. If the bullets do hit the ground though, they will create a sinkhole that can be used to throw off enemies.
Gravity: Gravity dust fires off a series of rapid fire bullets that send anything they hit back a little. Getting hit with the full brunt of this attack will send you far away from Roux.
Tertiary Dust Functions: None
History: Kupua is a hawaiian fish hook made of dust-reinforced steel, with a heavily reinforced piece of string acting as a rope, and is about 23 m long, with 3 m being the head, and 20 m being the string, fully extended. It was built based off of the myths and legends that Roux heard about famous demigods when he was a child. When he got the opportunity to craft his own weapon, he had to make a fish hook its main form to emulate a certain demigod from ancient Valean mythology. He decided on a machine gun because being pelted by bullets and other projectiles is distracting, a state of mind that can easily give your opponent, or in this case, Roux, an advantage. He also felt that rapid fire bullets would be useful with his fighting style. Roux knew that his fighting style required him to get away from his opponents, so what better tertiary form for Kupua than a grappling hook, able to latch on to faraway places and pull him there, away from his enemies. Kupua transforms into its machine gun form with the head turning into the gun, and the string being rolled up and stored away inside the weapon. Kupua can shoot with the average range for a machine gun in its secondary form, and can be thrown 20 m in its primary form and tertiary forms.
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