Styx Themis

Styx Themis is a 3rd year student of Prelysium Sanctuary, the training grounds of the Black Hunters. He was on his Hunter Familiarization Exchange, posing as a first-year Atlas student, when Beacon Academy fell.

Appearance
Styx is a young man of below average height, with a head of neck-length dyed-blonde dreadlocks, yellow eyes and extremely dark skin that looks like burnt wood. As an enrolled Atlas student, he wears the standard Atlas uniform, specifically washed and ironed to a perfect sharpness. If not for his dreadlocks, he would have no issue hiding away in a sea of Atlas students.

In combat, he dons a long sleeved black-green jacket, along with leather guards that cover his entire arms, ending at half-finger gloves. Below the waist, he wears similarly colored combat pants, with a full leather tasset that reaches the knees. Leather greaves and combat boots complete the look. On every leather portion, his insignia, a silver serrated dagger-blade, is branded.

Personality

 * A perfectionist who pushes himself to be the best at everything he does.
 * Strives to understand the people around him and in turn can seem very nosy. He has no problem entering situations he is not invited to if he gets a chance to learn more about the person he is interested in.
 * Naturally friendly and open, with his orders being the only reason he keeps quiet about his Black Hunter background. He is, however, really good at lying, despite his reluctance.
 * Once he knows a person's motivations, his expectations of them are adjusted to match, with him expecting those with huge motivations to do their absolute best. He in turn dislikes those who have tragic backgrounds, complain about it, yet do nothing about it, e.g. Weiss.
 * His morality is relatively normal, so long as it does not stand in the way of his perfectionism. At that point, he still retains certain forbidden boundaries (i.e hurting children).
 * In a heightened battle, he tends to enter a battle trance that lifts any of his reservations to hurt others. Riding on this high, he can be brutal in punishing his opposition and tends to get in trouble with his superiors as a result of this.
 * Can seamlessly slip himself into any team composition and has no issue with following the orders of another. So long as he can see the sense in their plan, he will work wholeheartedly even for someone he does not like.
 * Like most Black Hunters, has a high regard of the rule of law.

Combat
Considered average for his batch, Styx has the capabilities to fight a team of Hunter students to a standstill. He specializes in group fights, utilizing his Power Inverter weapon Messy.

Messy's basic form is that of a 60-cm dagger, with a 30-cm blade. On the other end of the handle, a shorter, narrower blade with nasty serrations protrudes out, allowing Styx to strike with either end of the dagger without needing to change. With a push of a button, the shorter blade can shoot out, revealing itself to be the tip of a long, sharp-edged whip rolled up in Messy's handle. With this, Styx has the ability to focus down on a single opponent with the dagger-section, while simultaneously striking at the group around him with the sweeping cleaves of the whip.

Aura
Styx's Aura manifests as a black coat. It augments his strength and endurance, but while he is fast on his feet, he lacks the agility to move his way through a spray of debris without getting hit. He also utilizes his Aura to control the motion of his whip.

Styx's Semblance is "Weight Exchange". It allows him to switch the weights of two inanimate objects in his immediate area. Densities and other associated physical properties are altered to match, with a lowered density in general leading to a weaker object. Its primary use is to switch the weights of Messy and his opponents' heavier weapon at the moment that they are about to clash. This results in a strengthened Messy outright breaking through the weakened weapon, its momentum heavily amplified by the increased weight at no cost to speed. He cannot maintain the effect for more than a few seconds.

Trivia

 * Styx's name comes from the Greek river between the Earth and the Underworld, that is described as black as ink. His family name Themis comes from the Greek Titaness, who governs divine order and law.