Name: Viol Hyacin, but he prefers to go by Vi when asked for his name

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Species: Human





Vi is a average-looking guy, not stunningly handsome but not truly that bad either. His hair is cut in a somewhat messy fashion, and usually is something that he doesn't deal with until it starts to become an annoyance. In terms of his frame, he's rather lean and underwhelming for someone his height, so much so that some think he's a bit sickly, but in terms of health he's just fine. He has some muscles and tone to his body, but not a lot due to it being hard for him to gain much with his body type, as well as a lack of real effort to build it up.

Height: 6ft

Weight: 175lbs

Clothing Style: Vi dresses to be as inconspicuous and unnoticeable as possible, tending to wear either black and/or dark purple clothes to assist in this. He wears a large black and purple zip-up hoodie, baggy jeans, and some sneakers before calling it a day, not really too particular about what he wears.He also wears contacts to help him with his vision, and while he isn't blind without them, they will definitely cause problems if he doesn't have them in.

Hair Color: Purple

Eye Color: Dull Gray



Weapon: Black Needle: Vi's main weapon starts off as a plain-looking, yet powerful railgun, made to pierce through the armor of even the strongest grimm with little difficulty, firing off a single reinforced bullet at insane speeds. However, in order to make the shot, the lightning dust has to charge up for a bit(about one post) before firing, which causes the gun to over-heat immediately and giving it a cool down time that's at least double that of the charge time(two posts). To add extra power, it can be over-charged, but the longer it's charged, the longer the cooldown, as well as a chance for the weapon to possible over-heat while charging, resulting in the weapon exploding with the stored electrical energy. After every shot, the weapon needs to be reloaded with both another bullet and a lightning dust cartridge, as it uses up the whole thing in that single shot. The railgun also has a low power mode as well, so that in a battle against other Hunters, he doesn't end up accidentally killing them when picking off the weakened ones, and in this case, only takes up half the crystal per shot.

When there Vi is unable to use his weapon as the Sniper rifle he'd like it to be, he can shift the weapon into it's Shotgun form, causing the barrel to expand and slide down towards him in order to shorten the length of the weapon and make it easier to handle. After a quick ammunition change, the weapon can now fire powerful slug rounds at the enemy, which can also be switched around for Dust rounds if needed, enabling him to deal quite a bit of damage to those who think they can take him up close. The effective distance of this weapon is a bit larger than most others of this type due to the slug ammunition, meaning that he can also take some foes by surprise if they thing they can play a game of keep away. The downside to this is that his weapon lacks the spread that shotguns normally have, and thus makes it hard to deal with speedy opponents, as he has to make every shot count instead of just going hog wild.

Finally is the melee form of this weapon, in which the barrel retracts down even further to form a gauntlet type construct over his forearm, which compressed down and starts pumping out lightning dust to from a set of dangerous electric claws. In this from, while gaining no increase to strength in that arm, he can launch a barrage of rapid slashes with this clawed gauntlet, as well as defend a bit better as well thanks to the weapons durable make-up. However, due to this not being his method of fighting, he's a bit clumsy and out of practice with it, and is likely to make a few mistakes when fighting in this way, but when the chips are down and he's out of munition, this is better than nothing.

The name black needle comes from the appearance of the projectiles once they're fired from the railgun, as they strangely enough leave a thin trail of black energy behind the bullet for some reason. This has the unfortunate effect of giving away his position in a fight.

Semblance: Now you see me . . .: Vi's semblance is the ability to turn himself and anything he's holding both invisible and intangible for a short amount of time. However, it takes about three seconds or so for this effect to complete, meaning he can't use it to avoid attacks if he;s in the heat of battle. The effect can last up to a full minute, though that can be fairly tiring, but it also ends the moment that he's about to launch an attack against a chosen target, resulting in a three second fade in that starts the moment he's cemented the idea in his head.(Ex. He sees a grimm, activates his ability, and then, after he decided to walk over behind the grim to initiate the counter attack, some part of him will instantly become visible, and over three seconds, the rest of him will follow up as he tries to walk over and commence the attack. The moment he attacks, he becomes fully tangible as well.) He tries not to use this ability consecutively, as it can really tire him out to keep going in and out of it like that.

During the fade-in and fade-out, their is usually some kind of effect that goes with it, either his body seeming to unravel, some parts fading out before others due, his eyes suddenly beginning to glow, or a unusually wide smile spreading across his face. He doesn't know the reasons for this, nor does he particularly care. From time to time, different effects will pop up other than those stated, but they are the most common.

Dust: Lightning dust powers his weapon while it's in its railgun form, and he tends to use all kinds of dust in his shotgun rounds, usually things like lightning, ice, and gravity to keep his foes locked down and give himself or his teammates time to go in for the kill. To further that goal, he also has special trap rounds that don't activate upon impact with a solid surface, instead burrowing into the ground or whatever living surface(or Grimm) they've been placed on, which he can activate by pressing a special button on the gun that sends out the signal, activating the dust to create an explosion of elemental energy underneath or around the target.

Skills:

• Stealth
• Tracking
• Marksmanship
• Trap Setting
• Strategizing and Planning

Personality:

• Curious
• Socially Awkward
• Mocking
• Introverted
• Apathetic(towards anything that doesn't)

Skills:

• Reading
• People Watching
• Stalking
• Sleight of Hand(when one gets lonely, playing cards are your best friend)
• Gambling(got an excellent poker face)

Background: Vi comes from a long line of Hunters and Huntresses, all of them masters of the arts of stealth and deception. From birth he's been expected to join the ranks of the Hunters and keep the people of Remnant safe from the horrors of grim, taking to the Shadows in order to hunt down the savage beasts and drive humanity forward. And while Vi has worked towards that goal, he's rather . . . unmotivated by it. He's rather unmotivated by most things really, looking at the world through the eyes of someone struggling to care about it. He does what his parents ask him to, and works just hard enough to meet their expectations, but anyone who watches him can tell he never really gives his best at anything.

Vi grew rather lonely, as his family has long been seen as a sort of boogeyman amongst that people of the world, as they tend to keep to themselves and the methods of some of their predecessors were known to be rather . . . disturbing, if effective, in how they disposed of the Grimm, not to mention the odd behaviors and mannerisms of some of the more notable hunters to have spawned from their brood. Left to his own devices all his life, never really interacting with anyone but his family, he developed some . . . odd coping habits with to deal with his loneliness, like watching others from afar, and stalking those he found to be particular interesting and that he thought he could learn from. He took to copying the manner of other kids in attempts to fit in, but they usually ended in failure as people just found it weird and creepy. As he reached his teen age years, entering into the combat school of Signal like his parents wanted, he began to stop really caring about what other people thought.

As the years went on, he simply let himself be absorbed by the job and lifestyle his parents wanted for him, lounging around the near other people, some part of him still hoping to glean some information out of those around him, yet most of him not really caring so much about it. As he attends Beacon, he feels neither relief that he was accepted, nor worrying for the new year. Instead, he simply preps himself for another year by himself as peopel label him off as the creepy kid in class you shouldn't talk to.

Character Theme: This character is based around the Chesire cat in terms of his semblance and some of his demeanor, though instead of a smiling, happy go-lucky personality, I decided to focus more on the strong sense of apathy and uncaring that the character seems to have in all of his incarnations, a lack of caring for the world around him except when certain people or events catch his interest. In those instances, he'll show more of his true self, a somewhat intrusive and obsessive personality that seems a bit off kilter to the average person

Other:Has a pet cat named Alice that he takes with him nearly everywhere during his off days. She's a black cat with one blue eye and one green eye, and a strip of white fur that goes all the way down her back and up her tail.

Always carries a set of playing cards on him at all times.