Hiddenite Chapelier

Hiddenite Chapelier is a member of Team GHST. He's main weapon of choice is his Mechanized Pneumatic Grapnel Gun (MPGG) nicknamed Hat Trick. He is based off of the Mad Hatter from AIice in Wonderland.

Appearance
Hiddenite wears certains types of clothing specifically to get people to notice him. He wears a short-sleeve, mustard-yellow, button-up shirt (with his green emblem on the front chest pocket) under a light, knee-length navy blue coat. The inside of the coat is chocolate brown with white polkadots and a bowtie of the same color scheme. He also has grey pants with black accents, which he holds up with half red half blue suspenders. He wears dark brown combat boots over miss-matched, calf-length, striped socks.

The inside of his coat has various pockets containing parts of his weapon, Hat Trick.

He is the tallest member of the team and has broad shoulders and a muscualr build he hides under his clothing. He has bright blue eyes. His most significant quality is his long, curly, vibrant green hair. His hair is combonation of thick, tube-like ringlets and a dreadlock-esque hairstyle. He usually puts his hair into a messy bun before battle, if it is not already.

Personality
Hiddenite has very optimistic personality, on the surface. He is  "happy-go-lucky" and is the most liked member of team GHST. He is the teams fatherly figure and comic relief.

He had a very adamant desire to make friends when he first came to Beacon. He also has a tendency to be too outgoing, leaving people to become annoyed by his advances. With his pushy behavior and seemingly random quirkiness, he wasn't very liked by many students, which made him feel lonely and insecure about himself (which he learned to mask with optimism). Soon he began to embrace his differences regardless of other people's opinions.

He is also a flirt and a little cocky. Which comes into play in combat, where he uses strategies of non-violent negotiation and turning his enemies against each other. He'd rather use complex wordplay and vocabulary to confound his foes than fight directly. He's smarter than he lets on. He invokes parleys and tempts his enemies away from their murderous intentions. (Which is a character trait not the best suited against the Creatures of Grimm).

Another downside to his personality would be when he gets too "excited" in battle, he aquires a "death wish", a side-effect of his drug-use. He becomes reckless and puts himself into situations that would result in him getting potentially injured or even dying. He doesn't allow himself to die in these situations though, because according to him, "if he's going to go out, he has to go out the right way"

Chapelier's Baked Goods
He was born an only child in the slums of Mistral. His parents were notorious for selling various illegal items in the underworld of Mistral. They went under the alias of "Chapelier's Baked Goods" (CBG) to keep the authorities off of their trail. They were very famous in Mistral's shady underworld. Hiddenite, at 8 years of age, was surrounded by negative, unwanted emotions from his parents. They neglected him for being different and rarely took notice to him becaue of them being so busy with their "line of work". So, Hiddenite thought drugs were his only escape (he became a drug addict). When the authorities, finding inconsistencies in their records on the CBG, had finally found out about the Chapelier's "business"; they were arrested, but before they got to Hiddenite, he ran away and became a nomad.

Cirque de Rouge
While on the run, Hiddenite came across a traveling nomadic circus, Cirque de Rouge. It had it all, funny clowns, horse riders, aerialists, you name it. It was a place where he saw that no one was the same. He became enamored with the eccentric and vibrant atmosphere of it all. He soon joined the traveling nomads, becoming apart of their family and spending most of his life there. Hiddenite didn't feel neglected or mistreated while apart of Cirque de Rouge, and was finally content being surrounded by gleeful moods, going to exciting new locations and meeting interesting people.

But while on his travels he and the rest of the circus was always met with adversity. Cirque de Rouge was a traveling nomadic circus for a reason – the Creatures of Grimm. Even with all the joyful emotions, the circus itself wasn't the best at putting on a show. Something unfortunate always happens during a show that the audience doesn't like, resulting in riots, which attracts Grimm, forcing the circus to relocate. Hiddenite always hated that part of his job; packing up and moving out. So he created a weapon he named Hat Trick to help him defend his circus family from the Grimm. Hat Trick was made from one of the cables and staves that support the many tents they have set up. With help from others, he was quite formidable against the Grimm, capable enough to keep the creatures at bay.

One day, while still apart of Cirque de Rouge, he was doing one of his preformances when he spotted March Peters, a boy with the ears of a rabbit who attended one of the shows. He became smitten with the boy (who he later found out was hare faunas) and the two began to date. Hiddenite, for a short time kicked his drug addiction while he was with March. After 4 months, March told Hiddenite he was leaving to go to Atlas to be in the military, which devastated Hiddenite, but he grew to accept it, even though he was still heartbroken over his boyfriend leaving him. They broke up and Hiddenite never saw March again. He was in a great depressive state which resulted in him turning back to drugs and leaving the circus (which saddened most of the CdR crew).

First Year at Beacon
Hiddenite became bored without the circus, eventually he stumbled upon Beacon Academy. He thought that this institution would help him emerge from his bored state. So he modified Hat Trick, became discreet in his drug use and enrolled into the school. He passed the enrollment process with flying colors and was put on team CNHY (canary) with Navajo Patuxet as his partner. He was the odd-ball of the team and he wasn't very liked by his other teammates, but that never stopped him from trying to make other friends. Even then oher students had began to judge him after they somehow found out about his former drug addiction and incarcerated parents. Though he was being picked on, he learned to hide his pain with a facade of happiness. Eventually, he began to slip behind on his studies and neglect his training.

A few weeks before the Vytal Festival, Ozpin had informed Hiddenite, because of his failing grades and lack of training, he won't be participating in the Vytal Tournament and (worst of all) he has to repeat his first year. (Ozpin already made preparations for another student to take Hiddenite's spot on team CNHY)

Second Year at Beacon
He sadly accepted the fact that he had to repeat his first year. He changed his name and went under the alias Hayden Jones (which never quite stuck). He didn't have to participate in the initiation with the other first years, but he wanted to. He picked Torrence Karotté as his partner during initiation and was put on team GHST. He made a vow to practice and train very hard so he could rub it in Ozpin's face, yet the vow never stopped him from being reckless or lazy.

Relationships
Gyasi Tyrian - Hiddenite's teammate and team leader. Even though Gyasi didn't see himself as a leader, Hiddenite did. Hiddenite respects his decisions, but steps in when Gyasi makes a bad call or can't make a call at. They soon become friends and Hiddenite becomes Gyasi's second in command, much to Serece's disappointment.

Serece Harte - Hiddenite's teammate and closest comrade. Serece's mean-spirited, cut-throat personality might be off putting to most people, but Hiddenite isn't most people. She was the first to continuously call him by Hayden, the name he requested everyone to call him by. Hiddenite is closer to her than his own partner. He makes her laugh, while she makes him feel accepted. It's a win-win relationship.

Torrence Karotté - Hiddenite's teammate and partner. Hiddenite chose Torrence as his partner during the initiation. The two make a good team on the battle field; utilizing Hiddenite's evasive moves and Torrence's magic-based attacks to their advantage. Hiddenite took a liking to him, because of his resemblance to his ex-boyfriend.

March Peters - A Hare Faunus and Hiddenite's ex-boyfriend. March and Hiddenite were a wonderful couple. Hiddenite had a hard time accepting his boyfriend's departure to Atlas. March and Hiddenite both had a liking for tea, which is what they had on their first date together.

Navajo Patuxet - Hiddenite's former partner. Even though Navajo is a kind person, he never truly forgave Hiddenite for not applying himself to his studies and training like the rest of his teammates. Navajo tried liking him, but he never took a liking to his brash, careless fighting style. He was initially sad about Hiddenite's punishment, but then grew to realized he was more relieved than sad. When Navajo received a new partner, he was surprised to feel a sense of excitement.

Cadet Grey and Lincoln Yorkshire - Two of Hiddenite's former teammates. The two were glad to see him leave.

Abilities and Skills
He is classified as a Stone Wall. He fights usually between the enemy and an ally. While the ally takes care of dealing damage, he takes care of defense. By keeping the enemy occupied, he allows allies with greater attack strength but poorer defense to kill the enemy without getting killed themselves. He deploys his grappeling hook as his primary weapon in combat, falling back on his gun function only when he absolutely has to. He uses his envirmoment to his advantage most of the time. He's very agile and quick, able the swing in, take a hit and swing out fairly easily. He resembles a rogue class in that sense. He has sufficient amount of knowledge in acrobatics making him ironically limber for a combatant that specializes in blocking/defending.

He a smooth talker, allowing his words to do the talking rather than his weapon. When he does use Hat Trick he utilizes it as trapping device by either pinning his enemy to a wall, tripping them over with the cable or incapacitate them in another fashion. Hat Trick is equipped with an interchangable head allowing for various combinations that can be used as counter attachs and/or used to help buff his teammates.

Without his weapon, his hand-to-hand combat is similar to that of Zui Quan, a fighting style that translates to "Drunken Fist" in Chinese. This fighting style was made to imitate a drunkard. Zui Quan suits Hiddenite because of his careless, nonchalant attitude during combat.

He also knows how to make various types of tea and knows a small amount of know-how in mechanics for the construction of his weapon.

Semblance
Ironicly, Hiddenite doesn't know what his semblance is yet. Even with all the travels with Cirque de Rouge and having spent a whole year at Beacon Academy, Hiddenite still hasn't unlocked it.

His aura on the other hand is quite effect and strong. Having to take most the hits for his team, his aura is very durable. His aura has also enhanced his weapon to an extent that he uses it to directly hit enemies.

Trivia

 * His first name, Hiddenite, is also the name of a gemstone that is know for its green color and ability to attract love and strengthen relationships. His last name, Chapelier, is French for 'Hatter'
 * His alias, Hayden Jones, also has a meaning. Hayden is a respelling of the Dutch word Heiden meaning 'heathen', and a "heathen" is a person who doesn't belong to a widely held religion. (Which mirrors Hiddenite not fitting in with team CNHY).
 * Hayden has another meaning as well. The origin of the name Hayden is from the Old English elements: hege (hedge) and dun (hill), both of which are known for having an association with the color green.
 * Jones means to have a fixiation or compulsive desire for someone or something; typically for drugs. (Which mirrors his drug addiction).
 * Hiddenite is also based off of the playing card the King of Hearts, or the Suicide King.
 * His emblem is a green heart with a visible 'C' and 'H' cut into it. It is also the logo of the CBG.
 * Hiddenite and March's first date they had tea, which is a reference to the Mad Hatter and the March Hare having an endless mad tea party in the book Alice in Wonderland.
 * His weapons name, Hat Trick, is referencing to the Mad Hatter's signature top hat he is seen wearing in mostly all of the adaptions in the Alice in Wonderland franchise.
 * Navajo Patuxet is based off of Squanto, a famous Native American. Cadet Grey is based off of Neil Armstrong, a famous Astronaut, and Lincoln Yorkshire is based off Robin Hood, a famous character in a fable of the same name.