Revan MacLeod

"My family is gone, my heart might give out, and my strength may fail me, but what I have committed to my mind is mine forever. Now who wants waffles?"

- Revan MacLeod

Appearance
'"What do you think -- Wait... Good I have pants on."

Revan has a tanned complexion, typically has short, black hair and is six feet tall. His black eyes are focused and atypical to his bubbly mannerisms outside of combat. Even in some combat, he has the movement of a madman who has no idea what he is doing. Looking closely af his eyes, though he has black irises, a small ring of blue remains before the pupil.

Revan wears an open leather jacket over a blue, hooded coat and only takes off the coat when he is anywhere indoors. His undershirts are either blue, red, black or white and he typically wears blue jeans and leather boots. His belt buckle is a miniature version of his families coat of arms; a rhombus shaped, Dust crystal with a dragon, whose tail creates a Celtic knot.



Personality
"You're threatening children, are you? In that case, I have a business proposition for you: you let them go so I can give them a box of Jammy Dodgers, and I won't put three feet of Dusted steel through you. Sound fair?"

Revan is somewhat unstable.

His guilt over not being able to save his family left him scarred. The guilt of a survivor would have reaped his emotions, had it not been for him doing his best to escape it by using having a fun, crazy attitude on things.

He is generally kind to his classmates and the few he calls "friend". Knowing his tenacity, he always taught himself to protect those weaker than him. Which can be complicated, given his survivor's resolve and strength. He never wants anyone to experience what he did, and actively looks for such to stop. In fact, when combat with others, when someone, other than him, is attacked, he will use Dust to shift himself to the attacker and attack him directly.

He has an extremely soft spot for children. Because he was a child when his family was taken from him, he tries to take good care of any around him. Donating to children's hospitals, visiting them to brighten their lives, he loves them all the same. Revan is also extremely protective of them, and his rage will trigger if they are threatened in any way.

Revan uses his kindness and fun attitude as a mask. Deep down, his great loss, all those seven years ago, has left him a scarred young man. When his past is questioned, his mask of a student falls, and his years of sadness and wisdom does his talking for him. And, secretly, Revan will light candles for each of his lost family, and prays for his mentor's good health, as he may be the only blood relation he can find.

Vengeance lurks deep within his mind from the trauma, and he seeks, though sometimes not consciously, to destroy those who share ties with his family's murderers. Should his subconscious try to take over, or his history be brought up, or begins to remember it, he will drum, with anything, in intervals of four as his heartbeat does to calm himself. Others think of this as a little quirk of his. Thus earning him the title "The Walking Drum".

Aura
"Aaaand, BLINK! Up here."

Revan's Aura appears as his eyes do; smoky, dominantly black with a tinge of blue within it. Due to the circumstances of its unlocking, the Aura can interpret many aspects of his personality. For example, his Aura normally looks like smoke leaving his face and hands, his rage may appear as black fire and burning only the arms and face, his pondering may be serene, or it may be pulsing in four-beat intervals.

Using the Aura has an interesting effect on Revan's abilities. In many cases, he can use it to shift himself across the battlefield in an instant and focus Dust through his blade. He is even known for using both for party tricks when visiting orphanages and children's hospitals.

Weapons
"Your choice: Steel, Dust, or Attack of the Stuffed-Rabbit. We're fighting in a department store, after all."

His years of practice has made him a strong Dustblade. The combination of sword, Dust and Aura to perform attacks and amplify them, matched with his strength and speed makes him a very dangerous opponent:
 * Dragan Trócaire:  His trademark katana, which he forged himself, was deigned and was trained with to be both lethal and nonlethal. All the while, the dragon head carving on the hilt's end holds a hidden Dust cannon within its mouth. He trained to make it also attuned to his strength and dexterity, making it very fast, while also allowing it to be a minor defensive weapon.
 * The Dustpen: A device, designed by him, that gives him the ability to draw upon a focused reserve of Dust. He can perform a range of elemental attacks, his favored being lightning. And functions as a healing tool by searing wounds closed. The Dust can last for weeks if used sparingly.
 * The Vambraces: While not actual weapons, the Dust painted on them activates an energy barrier, in an instant, that lets him resist some of the damage an attack would have caused. After which, the paint needs to absorb Energy Dust, for 8 hours, to recharge.

Battle Style
"Pinned down and a room full of hostages. Only one thing to do: LOOK AT ME, I'M A TARGET!"

Revan has had years of learning combat tactics and ethics while learning how to adapt Dust to his attacks. The only one to best him in combat was his master. Although, entering Beacon may prove to have one who can match him.

Ranged Attacks: 
 * Elemental Attacks: The Dustpen lets him use Lightning, Fire, Ice, etc in a range of ways to his liking. So long as the reservoir does not run out of that particular Dust. He may also use his sword as a focus, but at a shorter range.


 * Dragon Breath Cannon: Dragan Trócaire's hidden cannon is one use, unless reloaded with a Dust crystal. Its design is similar to Roman Torchwick's Candy Cane.

Close-In Attacks: 
 * Advanced Kendo:  Revan's training with katanas, specifically, has allowed him skill with Dragan Trócaire as an equally offensive and defensive duelist. Being sort of ruthless when sparring, Revan learned how to attack without killing with a technique that employs feints and a headbutt. The Dustpen can imbue the blade with Dust. Some cases, his Aura can use the blade as a focus.

Special Abilities: 
 * Blink: At will, once in a few minutes, Revan can use his Aura come to the aid of an attacked ally who is being attacked by someone he has his focus on. This happens very quickly and sometimes unexpectedly.


 * Will to Survive: When Revan has suffered an injury that would normally break a bone or even kill him, an adrenalin surge peaks, which supplies enough willpower to focus his Aura into healing himself. This effect is only usable once a day.

History
"There are things that I can, can't, shouldn't, should, would, wouldn't, and may or may not talk about. It's personal."

Born Revan Áinfean MacLeod in the High Northern Continent, he was born to a powerful and generous family, the MacLeod Family Dust Company. What they lacked in connections, they made up for in resources, owning the largest Dust mines in the continent. Known for their generosity, conservitive ways and high family values in business, they were well publicly renowned for such. However, other companies, and their business partners both had major profit gaps because of them. This had gone on for years.

These companies soon decided to "retake the business". Using their connections to make the MacLeods "disappear", one particular company instigated a massive mafia kidnapping. This mafia was known for their ruthlessness and unscrupulous ways of torture: The Children of Grimm. Even so much, that rumor has it that their leader is a Grimm himself, thus having no soul.

Revan's tenth birthday heralded the MacLeod's disappearance. Waking up, in his nice suit, in an empty room where only a window showed him his family's last moments. There, he watched his, mother, father, aunt, uncle, grandparents, and siblings shot. He then saw his three-month old sister being taken, by a man with a serpent tattoo around his left eye, away to a place unknown to him. He was then left to die of thirst and starvation.

For two days, Revan wallowed in despair of his family's murders and self pity. His grief turned into bitterness of his own weakness and his bitterness grew into vengeance against the men responsible and his vengeance became his resolve to survive. And his will to survive unlocked his Aura, a very unstable one. On the third day of his confinement, he tore down the door holding him, defeated the guard guarding him and escaped into the nearby city.

Using the lien he was left in his wallet, he bought three large plates of curry chicken on rice, a great deal of water and root beer, all from a small food stand, making it his most appreciated and favored meals of his life.

Having no where else to go, Revan remembered a relative, who declined every invitation to parties, who lived in the mountains to the west. He eventually found Nolen McCoun, the only weapon smithy in the mountain town of Virik. After a long hike to the cave in the mountain, bringing food, supplies and ores to the smithy, he found the Old Man of the Mountain, a surly weapon smithy and elite combat specialist.

After a degree of convincing, McCoun became MacLeod's mentor. For the next few years, Revan became a "home taught" warrior. Learning to forge weapons and how to use them, Revan learned a great deal of swordplay, and it became his focus. But McCoun needed MacLeod to control his anger, and helped him repress his violent mind through mental exercises, which led to using a four-interval drumming to calm and hold his mind together.

Eventually, he forged Dragan Trócaire, "Dragon's Mercy", a katana that was designed to be both deadly and nonlethal. He even built a small Dust cannon housed in the dragon carving's mouth. His fascination with Dust led to him creating the Dustpen, an old idea for a "magic wand" he had when he was young, that uses a liquid form of Dust that is amplified through a crystal on the end and lets him use elemental power to amplify himself and attack with lightning.

When he turned seventeen, Revan left his mentor to apply to an advanced training academy recommended by him: Beacon. Also to give Ozpin Nolen's regards.

Now, he seeks to destroy his family's murderers, The Children of Grimm.

Trivia

 * Revan's drive can mostly allude to the character Inigo Montoya, from The Princess Bride, he seeks his family's murderers and plans to take vengeance on them. Although, his personality is closer to the Eleventh incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who, as he is wild and fun both out and in combat, but, unrelenting, sad, and wise beyond his years.


 * "Revan" is the shortened form of "Revenant", a being who returns to life after a traumatic death.


 * "Áinfean" (pronounced "AWN f'yun") is a Gaelic name meaning "storm, fury and violence". This is an obvious link to his liking to using Storm Dust and his masked want for vengeance.


 * "MacLeod" is the surname used by the main protagonists in the Highlander franchise, immortals who can never die unless decapitated. It is also the name of an old Scottish Highland clan that has existed since the 13th Century. This reference may expresses the age of the MacLeod Dust Company.


 * "The Walking Drum" is a reference to Revan's four-interval drumming of his fingers and his unnatural heartbeat. But also alludes to the Louis L'Amour novel The Walking Drum, whose main character travels to find someone.


 * "Survivor's Guilt" is a real life phenomena that affects those who survived a traumatic experience that no one else survived. Symptoms include Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt and the subject may be driven crazy.