[quote=@Tip Tappers]
You could do something with the [url=http://zeldawiki.org/Digging_Mitts]Digging Gloves[/url] if you want to pursue a martial arts character like that. That way he can use the clawed gauntlets for fighting and scaling walls as needed. Make sure to throw in a [url=http://zeldawiki.org/Grip_Ring]Grip Ring[/url] too for extra wall climbing goodness. You also get to like dig burrows and shit like that too bro, might be cool. You never know! I'm flexible, just let me know if that's not really what you're thinking and I'll see what I can do. 
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Not quite what I was thinking of, but I was thinking more of gauntlet comparable to... lets see, who was that boss from spirit tracks... Ah, right Byrne and his clawed hand! I was thinking of having him use something similar to that in a hook-shot sort of way, except have two gauntlets of sorts. Catch would be he wouldn't be able to effectively use rings, barring him from magic, and instead forcing him to rely on his own techniques, possibly copying a few others... hum... maybe his "magic"/ability could be to copy what someone does if it is in the range of possibilities?

Eh, I'll expand on and alter this tomorrow I guess; still need to finish up the rest of that post before I can even work on a character for this xD

Still, digging claws, in my opinion don't match his forte, at least for now since it deviated from the main concept in my head. I'll think about using it if I can't go with the original idea I had.