Sho Minazuki

RWBY : Shattered Future

@Pyromaniacwolf That semblance looks like all kinds of ambiguous... I don't think it'll pass in it's current state personally.

RWBY: Chronicle of Vault.

It's not overpowered though.

For instance against a dedicated duelist like Asher, he probably wouldn't last one minute, since he can easily and very quickly overwhelm him with essentially a 2-man assault, and variable moveset. The semblance seems better fitted against large groups and in long engages.

That being said, it is overpowered in the sense that he just has to hide for 5 minutes to win a fight, which is incredibly boring. In the case of my two characters Krahe and Shaoqing, who both fulfill the same role as he does in their respective teams, they are much more useful, and fair, simply because they can act much sooner than 5 minutes. Shaoqing requires the right moment to assassinate his targets with his lightning blades, and Krahe wittles down his opponent by dancing around them and just out of reach while throwing his needles at them, his semblance letting him escape bad situations.

@Shadow Daedalus, I have a better idea for your character's semblance. Why not make them into a sniper who thrives in the shadows? Maybe his semblance drains the light from immediate chosen areas, so he can hide in plain sight and fire off his arrows and reposition from relative safety and unexpected positions. Maybe it can even be used to hide one or two allies to help them move in.

A 5 minute timer for a battle where your objective is to wait, hide, and stop them from finding you, is pretty boring, not to mention is very difficult to work in an RP, as it's very hard to keep a timer to figure out when time is up.

Pokémon: Nexus

Apparently it's mostly been school, but even if he comes back, I don't think we'll even have 3 people left to play, everyone else seems to have moved along.

RWBY: Chronicle of Vault.

Asher Brandt

Lustre Academy - Morning
@CadenGallic@Polaris North

"Looks like it's just an evaluation to me, figure out who's going to need the most or least work in the skills we use for our future careers", that career being slaying Grimm. As they entered the hallway for breakfast he yawned before he made his own way to get some breakfast before he would join his team back at a table.

"Besides, I hear it's normal in other academies anyway, killing Grimm is the main thing they teach at these places after all", he continued.

RWBY : Shattered Future

@Savo

CAW CAW CAW MOTHERFUCKER

Name: Krahe Zwolf

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Race: Faunus (Raven)

Theme Song: In the Shadows

Kingdom of Origin: Vale

Personality: He feigns emotion, so to speak. Only knowing combat for so long he is unable to properly express himself, which is why he acts so nice all the time, polite, and so on and so forth. His exposure and working with a team has built within him a sense of camaraderie and responsibility, which is the reason he undertakes the quest that he has after the incident at Beacon. Otherwise, he is quite forthcoming, polite, and cooperative. When faced with resistance he has the capacity to torture if needed.

History: Even as a student, Krahe's past was largely unknown, though he seemed to blend in as a student with little difficulty. As such he never stood out, but his team appreciated his skills very much, and him being a faunus wasn't quite so obvious, as it seemed to only show in his red eyes. Regardless it helped him blend in, which helped him greatly. By his final year at Beacon he was often looked to for repairing equipment and electronics as he had become quite proficient at doing so, not to mention he made his own weapon himself too. While many students do make their own weapons, what makes his stand out is that it's essentially a new technology, though he has kept that hidden.

His true past that which he is aware of is that he was one of the "hitmen children" of a Vale mafia, children trained to be skilled hitmen. He was rescued from it when the ring was broken, and has been adjusting to normal life from then on out. The other 11 children though were not so fortunate, he being the youngest was not yet indoctrinated with a kind of hypnosis where they follow a certain creed or ideology to the letter. After the incident at Beacon, he has taken it upon himself to find and hunt them down, he was planning on it after graduation, but that artificially came sooner than expected.

Weapons:

• Nightmare - A pair of gloves he made himself, when he first arrived to the academy his only weapon was his hidden knives, twelve of them in fact, but with knowledge and resources he's managed to create a very interesting weapon. The Nightmare is a glove with an array of dust vial slots on the forearm area, what the weapon does is allow Krahe to materialize his Aura, and inject them with Dust for extra effects. He can create all manner of things, such as keys and small simple gadgets, but for combat he can create small throwing weapons like knives and needles.
  
  • Throwing them infused with dust has the same effect as dust bullets
  • If he gets a good throw with a needle, they can seep into a person's body and act like a poison depending on effects. Fire dust might have an intense inflammatory sensation that can be paralyzing, earth could stop blood flow, or ice can cause frostbite in the area. He requires a clean throw meaning deep penetration, but all the same he can just jam them in at melee range.
  • He only needs the primary dust, as he has mixers on the glove that create for him secondary dust such as steam and ice on the fly.
• Black Talons - Twelve knives, two hidden in his elbows, two under-slung on his forearms, two parallel with his heels which can let him stick to unexpected areas other than combat use, front and back on his shoes for a total of four, and two combat knives, one of which designed to disarm opponents.

Semblance:

• Murder - As some at the academy called him "The Dracula of Crows", which is pretty apt. He can split himself into many crows and reform, he can only stay unformed for a small amount of time, but this can allow him to evade attacks and counter-attack when the crows reform quickly someplace else. Not to mention these crows themselves are able to do scouting for him, and are able to do what birds do, like find things and maybe peck someone's eyes out. The semblance has pitifully low power in exchange for it's incredible utility.

Strengths:

• Bar none one of the best stealth and informant Hunters Beacon has ever had to offer. His crow semblance coupled with his inherent sense for stealth can essentially allow his team to know the position of every enemy in the area.
• He is incredibly good at killing other hunters. In his time at Beacon before it was devastated, he was being looked into joining a group that hunts other hunters who have lost their way.
• Being an avian faunus means he has incredible agility and jumping height.

Weaknesses:

• His ability to kill monsters like Grimm are pretty much nonexistent, maybe if he got a weak point to strike he could burn up some fire dust to combust on a needle, but he has no reliable form of costless Grimm-slaying.
• He's good at evading and running for a reason. Direct fights are terrible for him. When confronted directly, he must rely on his disarming dagger and hidden blades and hope to surprise the attacker to get the upper hand.
• Being an avian faunus means he also is naturally not the most resistant to damage.

Relationships:

Other: His name meaning "Crow/Raven" and "twelve" respectively is inspired by a German tale called "Twelve Brothers". A king wants to kill his twelve sons, so that his thirteenth child would be a girl, she alone can inherit his kingdom. The Queen tells this to their youngest son, Benjamin, and that she will give them a warning with a flag.

After twelve days of waiting in the forest, the sons see a red flag, indicating that they shall be sentenced to death. The brothers swear bloody revenge on every girl and move to an enchanted cottage deep in the forest, where they must feed on animals.

Ten years later, after hearing of their existence, the sister finds them there, where the queen hid them for precaution. Together, the siblings live in harmony. But as the sister rips out twelve white lilies out of ignorance, her brothers turn to ravens and fly away. At the behest of an old woman, she decides not to speak and not to laugh for seven years, in order to save her brothers.

A hunting king finds her and marries her. His mother however, slanders the girl's silence, and convinces the king to burn her. The rescued brothers save her from the flames, and with the mother-in-law executed, all live happily together.

@Sho Minazuki

Not sure if you missed it or not, but there's a thing here.

RWBY : Shattered Future

Oh yeah, I drew my character.

Hider

RWBY : Shattered Future

The fairy tales play part as influence for characters but aren't always strictly applied more than that. I've just chosen to use the fairy tale a bit more than as influence.

RWBY : Shattered Future

CAW CAW CAW MOTHERFUCKER

Name: Krahe Zwolf

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Race: Faunus (Raven)

Theme Song: In the Shadows

Kingdom of Origin: Vale

Personality: He feigns emotion, so to speak. Only knowing combat for so long he is unable to properly express himself, which is why he acts so nice all the time, polite, and so on and so forth. His exposure and working with a team has built within him a sense of camaraderie and responsibility, which is the reason he undertakes the quest that he has after the incident at Beacon. Otherwise, he is quite forthcoming, polite, and cooperative. When faced with resistance he has the capacity to torture if needed.

History: Even as a student, Krahe's past was largely unknown, though he seemed to blend in as a student with little difficulty. As such he never stood out, but his team appreciated his skills very much, and him being a faunus wasn't quite so obvious, as it seemed to only show in his red eyes. Regardless it helped him blend in, which helped him greatly. By his final year at Beacon he was often looked to for repairing equipment and electronics as he had become quite proficient at doing so, not to mention he made his own weapon himself too. While many students do make their own weapons, what makes his stand out is that it's essentially a new technology, though he has kept that hidden.

His true past that which he is aware of is that he was one of the "hitmen children" of a Vale mafia, children trained to be skilled hitmen. He was rescued from it when the ring was broken, and has been adjusting to normal life from then on out. The other 11 children though were not so fortunate, he being the youngest was not yet indoctrinated with a kind of hypnosis where they follow a certain creed or ideology to the letter. After the incident at Beacon, he has taken it upon himself to find and hunt them down, he was planning on it after graduation, but that artificially came sooner than expected.

Weapons:

• Nightmare - A pair of gloves he made himself, when he first arrived to the academy his only weapon was his hidden knives, twelve of them in fact, but with knowledge and resources he's managed to create a very interesting weapon. The Nightmare is a glove with an array of dust vial slots on the forearm area, what the weapon does is allow Krahe to materialize his Aura, and inject them with Dust for extra effects. He can create all manner of things, such as keys and small simple gadgets, but for combat he can create small throwing weapons like knives and needles.
  
  • Throwing them infused with dust has the same effect as dust bullets
  • If he gets a good throw with a needle, they can seep into a person's body and act like a poison depending on effects. Fire dust might have an intense inflammatory sensation that can be paralyzing, earth could stop blood flow, or ice can cause frostbite in the area. He requires a clean throw meaning deep penetration, but all the same he can just jam them in at melee range.
  • He only needs the primary dust, as he has mixers on the glove that create for him secondary dust such as steam and ice on the fly.
• Black Talons - Twelve knives, two hidden in his elbows, two under-slung on his forearms, two parallel with his heels which can let him stick to unexpected areas other than combat use, front and back on his shoes for a total of four, and two combat knives, one of which designed to disarm opponents.

Semblance:

• Murder - As some at the academy called him "The Dracula of Crows", which is pretty apt. He can split himself into many crows and reform, he can only stay unformed for a small amount of time, but this can allow him to evade attacks and counter-attack when the crows reform quickly someplace else. Not to mention these crows themselves are able to do scouting for him, and are able to do what birds do, like find things and maybe peck someone's eyes out. The semblance has pitifully low power in exchange for it's incredible utility.

Strengths:

• Bar none one of the best stealth and informant Hunters Beacon has ever had to offer. His crow semblance coupled with his inherent sense for stealth can essentially allow his team to know the position of every enemy in the area.
• He is incredibly good at killing other hunters. In his time at Beacon before it was devastated, he was being looked into joining a group that hunts other hunters who have lost their way.
• Being an avian faunus means he has incredible agility and jumping height.

Weaknesses:

• His ability to kill monsters like Grimm are pretty much nonexistent, maybe if he got a weak point to strike he could burn up some fire dust to combust on a needle, but he has no reliable form of costless Grimm-slaying.
• He's good at evading and running for a reason. Direct fights are terrible for him. When confronted directly, he must rely on his disarming dagger and hidden blades and hope to surprise the attacker to get the upper hand.
• Being an avian faunus means he also is naturally not the most resistant to damage.

Relationships:

Other: His name meaning "Crow/Raven" and "twelve" respectively is inspired by a German tale called "Twelve Brothers". A king wants to kill his twelve sons, so that his thirteenth child would be a girl, she alone can inherit his kingdom. The Queen tells this to their youngest son, Benjamin, and that she will give them a warning with a flag.

After twelve days of waiting in the forest, the sons see a red flag, indicating that they shall be sentenced to death. The brothers swear bloody revenge on every girl and move to an enchanted cottage deep in the forest, where they must feed on animals.

Ten years later, after hearing of their existence, the sister finds them there, where the queen hid them for precaution. Together, the siblings live in harmony. But as the sister rips out twelve white lilies out of ignorance, her brothers turn to ravens and fly away. At the behest of an old woman, she decides not to speak and not to laugh for seven years, in order to save her brothers.

A hunting king finds her and marries her. His mother however, slanders the girl's silence, and convinces the king to burn her. The rescued brothers save her from the flames, and with the mother-in-law executed, all live happily together.

RWBY: Chronicle of Vault.

Asher Brandt

Lustre Academy - Morning
@CadenGallic@Polaris North

Asher headed down for breakfast with his team. Combat classes first huh? Wonder what's gonna happen, don't they usually do these classes first to better gauge the potential of their students? Well in any case, off they went. Asher wore his uniform a bit unkempt, for lack of better word, he looked like he was going to skip classes and stand in alleyways threateningly, which he probably is going to do a few times. There wasn't much else to say, Yasmin spent a lot of time getting prepared, he somewhat hoped that it wasn't going to always be that long.

RWBY : Shattered Future

I'm wondering what kind of character to make for this still.

I'm going to see what kind of characters are already in.