[Veritas]

CHARACTER

Name: Argus Sidabras

Age: 54, born Saaral 17th

Species and Gender: Human Male

Symbol: Silver Eye of Horus surrounded by a border of glyphs (http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mJ2N1fAhivdScbRAXqVoC9g.jpg); since Egypt doesn't exist in this universe, we'll just say they mean "We see not with our eyes, but through them."

Occupation: Huntsman

Appearance: Bald with silvery eyes (don't veto this; you'll see why). 5'10" and stocky/broad; weighs 175 lbs. He wears regular, loose-fitting clothes under a hooded black cloak with his symbol on the back. Over his eyes he wears a mask similar to those of White Fang grunts, but with smooth edges and no eye-holes or features of any kind; just smooth metal.

History: Argus was born blind (I wonder if Vox knows why that makes the name funny. He probably does, but there's always a chance) to two Hunter parents in Mistral. He grew up relatively normally, if a bit isolated due to his blindness, and was raised by his parents to be kind to others. However, as he began attending school, other children made fun of his blindness, and some took advantage of it to hurt him. His parents, seeing this, taught him to defend himself starting at the age of eight, although he was always at a disadvantage due to his blindness. During a particularly cruel beating by four other boys, Argus' activated his Semblance, creating several duplicates of himself through which he could see. The bullies, believing they were real, backed off, and Argus' parents taught him to use his Semblance as an aid in combat. He attended combat school, and eventually graduated from Haven Academy as a Huntsman with his weapon, Onlooker. He has survived as long as he has through careful planning of each mission, and creative innovation with his Semblance when things inevitably go wrong. Argus helped defend Mistral from the Grimm invasion several years ago, and has always been a supporter of Faunus rights, though he thinks the White Fang are only worsening the situation, and has undertaken missions against them in the past.

Personality: "I don't need working eyes to smell your bullshit."

Aura and Semblance: His Aura is the same silver as his eyes, and his semblance is called Proxy Vision. It allows him to create illusory duplicates of any animal, including Grimm and humans, of roughly human size or smaller, and allows him to see and hear through them. In combat, Argus typically deploys three to four of these in his own image (which is the easiest version for him to create) to distract and confuse enemies; he has, however, been able to manifest up to ten at a time thus far, though he can only do so for a few minutes in combat, and unexpected distractions disrupt at least two of the illusions until Argus regains focus. Argus' Semblance additionally enables him to process sight and sound from multiple different sources at once, so he can utilize sensory input from every illusion simultaneously. The maximum range at which illusions are stable (not flickering or warping) is about half a mile from Argus, while a clearly unstable and unrealistic-looking illusion can exist out to around a mile from him without affecting how many he can make.

Combat Behavior: Given that semblances are physically taxing, and Argus has had to use his semblance for everyday life for most of his life (not to mention the fact that he's a hunter), I'd say he's very, very strong for his age, especially in terms of endurance, and his years of experience combine with that to make him a deadly foe to just about anyone. That said, he's also totally blind, and can only see via his illusions, so disabling them means he's defenseless.

WEAPON

Name: Onlooker

Primary Form: Seven-foot-long sword; the blade is a tungsten-osmium alloy, which makes it extremely hard-hitting and difficult to destroy, but also limits its swing speed. Transformation: the top barrel of the gun unfolds out to support the blade, which extends from the gun's main body.

Secondary Form: 18mm cannon, 60 rounds per minute. Onlooker fires extremely high-caliber rounds (more like shells, given the barrel width), which Argus typically carries in clips of both armor-piercing and high-impact varieties, and loads what he needs as combat begins. Each clip carries twenty rounds, and Onlooker can hold up to two clips at once, ejecting depleted clips automatically.

Appearance: http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d133/vicdragon7/Xeros_weapon_zpsjkxsyf24.jpg

Dust Functions: Fires dust cartridges can heat the blade's edge to 600 degrees Fahrenheit for about 5 minutes at a time, or be ejected from the gun as grenades. Onlooker can be loaded with up to 10 of these at once. The image shows the blade being heated; normally, the blade would look silver, which is Argus's thematic color.

History: Argus forged Onlooker himself while in combat school, and purchases its specialized Dust cartridges in bulk at a steep discount from a childhood friend with whom he went to school, and whom Argus saved from the same boys who once bullied him.