Gras Hart

"Truly it is a colorful world that we live in"

- Gras Hart Gras Hart an new student of Beacon academy. a kid with a lazy attitude and rather funny world view. Leader of team GRDT He wields the Grass String, Lived in a farming town somewhere in vale

Apperance
Gras is a tall young man lightskined with yellow-green hair, yellow eyes and rather messy hair. The hair itself looks like a bowl cut shaped like blades of grass, with the right side of his head having longer hair that reaches his lower neck and the left side until his lower ear.

His clothing consists of an outer layer, a cedar wood colored jacket with light leather armor as an undershirt. The jacket is long and reaches his thighs and is open in that area alone, his pants are basically just store brand jeans, footwear involves blue spiked shoes.

He is usually seen with a bored look and a faint smile, unless in combat where his face wears a fearful look.

His accessory is a Rubrics Puzzle cube in his inner jacket pocket

Personality
Gras is a very lazy person who is usually seen sitting around and playing with random objects he happens to pick up, or even just sitting around staring at something .Sometimes he would just walk around places in his home town to what he states as "looking at the pretty colors" as he looks and stares at the town its places and its people, he doesn't have many friends as he doesn't show him self to people much, most people don't even know who he his and just ignore him because of that fact. His main hobby is that of crafting and tinkering with objects he finds during his walks. Creativity is his strong point, as he would turn simple trash or small broken parts into toys to play with or mechanisms that are just plain useless to a normal person yet to him make his life easier. Even if he does prefer an easy solution his problems, he will not give up on them, as he finds the prospect of giving up in his words a "monochrome solution"

One may think he is a stoic man due to his quiet nature, but Gras is very open with his emotions, and doesn't bother to hide it. If he's very sad or in extreme pain he will cry on the spot or if he happens to be in good mood his smile might just reach his ears, he shivers in fear if scared  and many other reactions to other stimuli. Also has a habit of speaking his mind and is a bit of a motor- mouth once he starts.

A loving son to his mother and step-father Gras is very expressive when it comes to familial relations, as he acts like a child when in the presence of his parents, that being the fact that he is an only child.

He is also easily distracted.

He dislikes fighting, in fact he is afraid of fighting due to an experience where he encountered a lone Grimm and had to fight for his life. However he is trying to face that fear as it is the reason he became a huntsman in the first place.

Due to him having a lazy attitude most of his years he is physically weak and therefore relies on creativity in order to fight his opponents, taking advantage of his surroundings and tries to find holes in his opponents to exploit. When fighting a strong opponent he is more cautious and afraid but will not stand down as he wants to face his fear of fighting. When fighting he has a mantra of sorts where he says "feet planted firmly on the ground".

As stated before he has distaste for anything that is monochrome, as he views the world as colorful place, where he compares it to a rubik's puzzle cube, where every color affects the colors around it. To him every action affects the world around it, observing that very chain of events is interesting to him, and would even use that philosophy during combat, as to him all action no matter how small is never wasted.

For some reason he cannot get himself angry at all, something he himself is aware of, though not bothered by it he views it as his missing color, and is afraid if he does not find this color soon it might make him act in a way he might regret.

Backstory
Gras Hart was a child of a huntsman father named Sol Hart and his mother Sear Hart who is a Chef, one may think this a rather normal occurance but the thing is, his father, is his step father. Gras's real father Vine was devorced by Sear on the grounds of him being too lazy to raise his family, a trait that was unfortunately inherited by his only son Gras. Sear later remarried to the huntsman Sol who weirdly enough happens to be the leader of the team Vine was on.

Even though he grew up with the same attitude his birth father had he was nevertheless loved and cared for by his parents, returning the favor with is own brand of affection through small trinkets he would make using small objects he would find walking around his home, a farming town in Vale.

His mother would spoil him a lot and Gras's affection just made it worse.

To his home town he is an enigma to say the least, as he never interacted with the people in his home, not that the townsfolk minded, as he never bothered or disrupted their work as he passed along the streets and croplands.

As he grew older now at the age of 14, his step father became excessively worried about his son's future, wasted on tinkering with trash and walking from place to place with no purpose whatsoever and no chance at getting a stable job, as he just got fired working as a cashier, so Sol decided to take action to save his son from a bleak and possibly worthless future. He decided he be trained as a huntsman to cure his son of his lazy attitude

Gras however could not be sent to go to signal academy or any academy whatsoever, for his father could not trust him to take his classes or even go to school for that matter, so he decided to personally train him and home school him in the ways of the hunt.

Gras himself did not want to be a huntsman at all for he knew he could not handle the training, but he did not want to disrespect or decline his step fathers wishes, the fact that his step father was also exited about the notion of training is son, did not help Gras one bit as declining would also disappoint him. So for the sake of his step father he took the training, but he did not go unprepared

When his step father gave him his first sword he decided to fix it up a bit before training. Hiding most of the blade with steel plating leaving only one edge revealed and the rest shielded with steel, this gave him the defence he needed during guard practice.

In his hometown there were cave where Gras observed plants called mineral flower which produces  a refractive silk string that is refracts light for photosynthesis, its stings when swung and is invisible to the naked eye unless one looks at it properly, he then created a mechanisim to release and retract the thread from the swords handle perfect for combat practice as it gives him range and hurting capability.

After a year has passed Gras is now 15 his aura unlocked and his training almost at its end he was given his final test by Sol, to successfully complete an obstacle course that would test all he had learned.

Gras entered the forest moving past the simple traps and trying not to step on anything that looked suspicious, however during the test he felt something weird, rather than let get to him however as he saw it as just him being nervous. Continuing on to finish the test Gras kept moving, but his heart beat went faster for no reason at all, it was then during his trial of navigation did he see why he was so afraid. It was a lone beowulf that seemed smaller than its kind, nevertheless still a threat to Gras who's combat ability is almost non-existent at this point.

Gras deciding to hold his ground knowing that escape is not possible as the creature would outrun him, so fighting was his only chance of surviving the encounter, he swung his blade as the beowulf charged forward, the refractive string on his hilt whipping the air along side the blade creating a reflection of Gras, as he sidestepped in one direction the mirror would take the other confusing the beast. Erratically he slashed his weapon, but this angered the breast rather than hurt it, the beowulf swung its arms enraged, and knocked Gras away to a far off tree.

Gras was afraid cornered and alone, staring at the creature running towards him, it was then he realized he was not falling off the tree, hearing a crackling noise in his feet, he saw what was surely him standing on the side of the tree, it was Semblance, a power that his step father had, but he had no time to think. As if by instinct he climbed up, he could not run but it was enough time for him get some elevation, as the Beowulf knocked the tree down, Gras found an advantage as the tree was falling in the direction of the beast, all he needed now was a distraction to make sure the tree would hit, he then released the blade from the hilt revealing the many strings kept inside, and unleashed as many as he could in his small time frame towards the beowulf, Jumping of at the last minute the tree directly hit and killed the preoccupied creature, Gras had won his first battle, but not with out repercussion.

The Fight had emotionally scared him, it left him shivering in the middle of the forest, tears flowed from his eyes as he cried in fear of what just transpired, his step father along with other huntsmen found him, worried why he took so long to finish the test, and was surprised to see a dead grimm beside the crying boy, it doesn't take a genius to know what just happened.

Taking time off to think about what just happened, Gras contemplated the experience summarizing everything in his mind. In his thoughts Fighting is scary its dangerous and it is what people like his father and step father do, and then he thought "what a truly colorful world we live in" a world where people find joy in fighting where huntsmen and huntresses live for the sake of others to affect the world around them, is truly a colorful world.

And with that Gras decided to become a huntsman to see for himself the colors of that world, though he is afraid of that world, he wants to see it to walk it to and he wants to face it. He asked his father to train him so that he may be accepted into Beacon.

A year passed and a 16 year old boy was now seen entering the ship to Beacon academy.

Abilities and Powers
What Gras lacks in power he makes up for with creative battle tactics and use of environment. He will take advantage of terrain to set up traps and is willing to use underhanded tactics to get the drop on his enemies, like using dirt to blind his opponents eyes and the like, but will not resort to cheating, in combat he makes sure every action is not wasted and does not go wili-nili on his repertoire of moves. Despite all this though his greatest weakness his is low stamina and cannot last long in battle therefore will limit his movement as not to tire himself out, thus his main tactic is to confuse and tire his opponents before he tires out and finish them off before they can recover.

Weapon
Gras wields the Grass String his trusty sword. The blade itself is just a razor with steel plating surrounding it revealing only one edge, this make it more as a defensive weapon, but there is more to it than meets the eye on one side of the sword in between the hilt and the blade, is a triangular hole that releases a string called mineral silk, the silk refracts light and can glow when when light passes it, when swung the string can distort light and makes the surrounding area reflective giving the illusion of a mirror for 0.5 sec, also is stings and can lacerate if enough force is exerted on an enemy.

Its second form is without the blade, by removing the blade Gras sacrifices defense in favor of a more offensive style, the wide hilt of the blade carries 20 hairs of the string that he can release and retract, and when 2 strings are parallel the it creates a mirror for as long as the string lasts, his attacks however are much more slower in favor of a bigger area of effect ,the light refraction mirror effect stated is much more potent as it can use the effect on a much wider range. it has a huge drawback as it requires a long setup time to execute and the opponent needs to be in the area where the move is, fast enemies can just move up and stagger Gras. The range of the string can reach 8 meters it will take time for it to reach the max length and Gras becomes a sitting duck when using the second form.

Finally the weapon has a crystallized wind dust attacked to the side of the hilt, that he can use in both forms of the weapon and is his only direct hitting move, using the string as a conduit to release the wind adding, impact to counter his lack of power.

However he becomes severely handicapped in dark areas, especially places without a light source as the strings cannot be used properly without light thus, limiting its repertoire.

Semblance
His Semblance which he dubbed "The Walker" plants his feet unto the ground making them feel heavy, slowing his movement speed to a walk, about 4.0 km/h just barely about average walking speed, it may seem like a worthless Semblance, but it effect is far from it, the effect of The Walker allows Gras to Traverse any tangible terrain including walls and ceilings. This can allow him for better positioning in battle. However he cannot activate it when airborne and jumping causes the semblance to immediately deactivate. he only walk on solid surfaces and not on water and/or air, and the surface needs to be bigger than his feet or it will not stick, Also when active the semblance makes a crackling sound.

Trivia

 * Gras Hart has some inspirations to the series "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure"
 * His reliance on strategy and tactics alludes the Character Joseph Joestar From Part 2 of the series subtitled Battle Tendency
 * The Strings while not based on but takes some of its inspirations from is from Jolyne Kujo from part 6 of the series subtitled Stone Ocean as it is the primary power of the main charater
 * The Range of the String is a subtle reference to the quote of the Character Noriaki Kakyoin one of the main characters in Part 3 subtitled Stardust Crusaders where he states that the range of his stand is 20 meters in radius, it only 8 due to 20 being to overpowered
 * The Crackling sound of his semblance is based off the power called the Ripple(波紋 Hamon)   used in the majority Part 1 and 2 of the series and sometimes but rarely shown in part 3


 * The Grass String is Named after the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (Grass Cutting Sword)
 * When Activating his Wind dust, Gras swipes his free hand on top of the dust crystal, mimicking the animation when using item Flame Butterfly From the Game Darksouls 2.