Liberty Johnes

Liberty. A youth clad in dark clothes and sparse with words. Some see this as contempt. Other describe it as being awkward. He simply says he like the sound of silence.

(Liberty is a character created by Arcadianseeker, blablah donut steel, you know the drill.)

Generalities
Height : 1.79m

Species : Kangaroo faunus

Attribute : tail (lost)

Complexion : Dark (sable grey, to be exact. Hex code : #394243)

Eyes : pale green (#98FB98)

Hair : Black

Appearance
Liberty's most easily spottable feature is his skin. It is, to say the least, quite dark, which isn't quite common within natives from Vale. Then come his light green eyes. And the rest seems rather ordinary : muscular without being obviously buff, not quite tall but not quite small either...He also wears clothes that go from dark blue to relatively light grey. In other words words, looks...Average. To the points he nicknamed himself "background character #3142", out of self-derision.

In other words, he looks like your average human teen. An assumption which is reasonable...But wrong. Liberty is actually a faunus, but one who lost his attribute, a tail, at a young age. Besides, he isn't quite physically average either, no matter what he shows. His balance of thinness and muscles allows him some surprising feats, to which we shall come back...Later.

Personality
Liberty is quiet. That is perhaps his most defining trait. It doesn't quite stop to words, however... Not only does he very seldom speak, and often the strict minimum, the way he moves and acts generates very little sound.Some consider it strange, or unnerving. People with a sharp mind and an ability to look underneath the underneath find it downright disturbing, or terrifying. Or both.

Not only does he say little, but Liberty tends to look extremely stoic, all the time. Those who do not know him generally consider him aloof, cold, inconsiderate. They are wrong, but not exactly by their own fault. They simply lack a crucial piece of the answer : as a kid, he was taken in and raised by a highly skilled cop, one whose work often included undercover missions. He was raised that way, in sum.

In the end, Liberty is actually the polar opposite of what he is seen as. His heart is far from icy. He possesses incredible amounts of restraint. But to those with advanced skills in psychology, some details can be spotted. When sad, his head hangs very slightly lower. When angered, his hands tremble lightly. When pushed to his extremes, the reason of his anger ends up seeing either his fist or his blade from extremely close.

That is however an extremely rare occurrence. As mentioned before, he is gifted with extreme amounts of self-restraint. That is not the only reason. That would be very simply that he is a peaceful and gentle person, who paradoxically for an academy student has a rather strong dislike for fighting.

One could ask himself why such a student would even get enrolled in a fighting academy. The first reason is that due to a certain part of his part of his past, he has the skills to do so and considers it a shame to put them to waste. The second is that he enjoys keeping people safe. The third could be seen as a combination of the two, and summed up as such, in his own words : "Most people don't like to fight. I can fight. Might as well do so in the stead of others who not only have no liking to it, but also are not capable of defending themselves."

As mentioned before, he was raised by a cop. As such, he tries his best to be as rational as possible. Being also rather emotional, nature and nurture often clash. The latter generally wins. About the only way to make him truly angry is to threaten and/or hurt those he is close to. Since he has very few of these, Liberty is fiercely protective of them. And the only type of anger he shows actively is cold rage. Meaning he will perfectly calmly break as many bones of the offender as he deems necessary.

Being rather awkward with people, most of his activities are solitary. Amongst these are painting, stargazing, cloud-watching(and overall, nature-watching) and singing. Being rather patient, he is a proficient fisherman, but also a really good cook. He also fancies himself an engineer, and amazingly enough for someone so young, has quite some skills to back it up, most of them in three domains : physics, electronics and ecology.