Tanner Morrow

"Mirror's show us what we look like, not who we are."

Tanner Morrow is an original character created by WeissSchnee. He is a member of Team C.B.L.T and alludes to Narcissus.

Appearance
Tanner is a tall, handsome young man with a pair of lop rabbit ears and a slightly muscular build. He has lightly tanned skin, golden eyes and light brown hair. His usual outfit consists of a brown and tan leather jacket with a high collar, a zip up high knecked red vest, light blue pants with suspenders and brown strapped combat boots.

Biography/ History
Tanner was born and raised in Vale. Growing up as a Faunus wasn't as difficult for Tanner as it was for other Faunus children, simply because the only person's opinion of him that he cared about was his own. His early life was mostly uneventful. When Tanner announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Huntsman, they were confused to say the least. Tanner explained to them that he wanted to be a dashing and brave hero, and that since he had the dashing part down, all he needed to do was nail down the brave hero part. He said Huntsman were the bravest heroes he knew, so that's what he wanted to be. Tanner enrolled at Signal Academy and passed with more than adequate marks. He applied to and was soon accepted into Beacon Academy. During the initiation test, Tanner was checking out his reflection in a lake and was fixing his hair when he tripped and fell in. Unable to swim, Tanner would've drowned but was saved by the girl who would become his partner and best friend, Lila Bloome.

Tanner and his team were out in the field on a mission when the Fall of Beacon occured. They returned to Vale once they learned what had happened to assist with clearing out Grimm and helping to secure the city.

Personality
Tanner appears, to most people, to be very self obsessed and aloof. Truth be told, Tanner has met very few people he likes more than himself. However, as his team mates have found out, Tanner is a very loyal friend and extremely protective of the people he cares about. Tanner is also a hopeless romantic and spends any spare time he has flirting with girls. Though he claims he isn't looking for anything 'serious', his team mates Cole and Briar are aware that he has feelings for Lila, even though they both seem oblivious to the fact.

In Combat
Abilities: Tanner is very much a long range fighter, his speed and agility helping him escape danger when it gets close to him. Tanner is very nimble and likes to be constantly on the move on the battlefield, attacking from high places to cover his team mates and more easily attack airborne enemies.

In combat, Tanner uses a Dust Powered Combat Bow (DPCB) called Echo. The weapon's default form is a recurve bow and is capable of transforming into two energy pistols.

The energy pistols are powered by Dust charges, enabling them to fire beams of elemental energy. The charges are clipped into the pistols in the same way a bullet clip is into a regular weapon. Each pistol has a charge meter on the side, showing how much power each charge has left and letting Tanner know when to swap them out for new ones.

When Echo is in bow form, Tanner uses arrows with heads made from Dust crystals.

Aura: Tanner's Aura is brown in colour.

Semblance:

Tanner's Semblance is called Reflection. Tanner creates a single, solid clone to fight along side him. The clone behaves like a reflection, for example it would kick with it's left leg if Tanner kicked with his right, punch with it's left hand of Tanner punched with his right etc. The clone begins to appear cracked, like a mirror, the more damage it takes. When the clone takes too much damage, it explodes like shards of glass.

Trivia
- Tanner is based on Narcissus.

- His name is an allusion to the colour tan and means 'Worker of leather'.

- The name of his weapon, Echo, is an allusion to Narcissus' twin sister is some versions of the myth. Her name was Echo.