Robin Sherwood

"¿Want to know why we humans lost the Human-Faunus War? It's just like Cardin said: Animals are easier to train than soldiers. They are stronger, have better reflexes, can see you in the dark and smell you from afar, and unlike us, have no remorse about killing, that is in their blood.

We lost, because those animals were better than us, and because we thought it would be a briliiant idea to also teach them how to use what we used: weapons. So, next time you see an animal, make sure you don't teach it how to beat you."

- Robin Sherwood

Robin Sherwood is a fan-made character made by LiveandSound. He's a clever, manipulative, tricky thief who unwillingly is forced to attend Beacon due to certain circumstances. He's hard to understand, and likes to trick others, often without them realizing it.

If he seems like a worthy friend and ally, or a jerkass and manipulating bastard, think twice. You may have been deceived.

Appearance
Robin wears a black T-Shirt, with a dark green, short-sleeved hooded coat, along with a black capris and a pair of black-with-dark green athletic shoes.

Casual clothing is almost the same, but he wears black jeans instead of a capris and doesn't wear the coat.

He wears a black digital clock on his right hand, and has some bandages on his arms and one on his face, some covering real injuries, others just there for style. He also wears fingerless dark-green and light-green gloves on both hands.

Personality
Robin is a person hard to understand. He's usually apathetic, and often refuses to help people when doing so could cause problems for him.

He also lies very often, and when he doesn't he says things in a mocking way. This makes it hard to know if he's telling the truth or toying with you. He likes to manipulate others for his own benefit, and if he can't use lies to do it, he uses the truth.

He's also constantly pessimistic, often expecting things to go wrong, and at times even wondering how they will go wrong.

He's rather egoistic, but not very proud, and while he may show a big ego at times, he doesn't let it go to his head, and he prefers to stay outside the limelight.

Despite this, however, he does have good qualities. He's a libertarian, prefering to live free instead of opressed, and thinks that one should always be able to take their own choices. Also, he's an equalitarian, judging one based on their personality and actions before anything else.

He also hates betrayal, and despite being kind of a jerkass, Robin is a rather loyal person. His views on different subjects also tend to be extremely neutral, to the point most people may find it hard to agree and disagree with him.

Weapon: Second Choice
Robin's weapon is a Crossword, or Crossbow Sword, called Second Choice. It consists of a short sword with a stringless crossbow mounted on one of the sides of the blade, and a 6-Barreled revolver cylinder between the blade and the hilt, with the top barrel connected to the crossbow, and 2 triggers in the hilt, an upper and a lower one.

Each barrel on the cylinder holds a different Dust in cristal form, with the one on the top 1st barrel being the "active" one. By pulling the upper trigger, energy from the Dust is sent to the crossbow, which uses it to form a string and a Dust arrow, prepared automatically, and then fires the arrow while the string disappears. There is, however, a 0.8-second delay between pulling the trigger, and the arrow being fired.

By pointing the weapon towards one or more arrows, and pulling the 2nd, lower trigger on the hilt after firing a Dust arrow or more, the Dust arrows explode, spreading the Dust's effects violently in a small area around the arrow. This can effectively turn any arrow into a trap with enough planning.

Second Choice, however, is incapable of folding itself into a smaller form, which can make it rather hard to carry in certain places. And should the user run out of Dust in all 6 barrels, the weapon becomes almost useless, only being able to be used as a normal sword in that case.

This weapon was stolen, by the way. It was a prototype that was going to be sent to Atlas via ship for further tests.

Fighting Style
Robin's fighting style is based entirely on 3 things: Tricks, Dextery, and Traps.

Robin doesn't like fighting head-on like a berserker, instead analyzing the enemy. Should the enemy choose to attack, Robin will try to evade the attack, and counter with a slash followed by a Dust arrow.

Should the enemy be too evasive, however, he changes to a different tactic, instead deliberately failing to land any arrows on the oponent, until the battleground is turned into an improvised mine field.

Since he isn't strong at all physically, and has a dangerously low level of aura, he is unable to block or resist a great amount of attacks without being hurt in the process. This leaves evasion as his only method of survival during combat.

He isn't above using others as living traps in battle, both allies and enemies, and he often uses strange tactics that could be considered borderline friendly fire, or just downright cruel. This includes things like shooting an ally with a Fire Arrow to turn it into a living bomb, or stabbing an enemy in the chest and quickly firing an Ice Arrow and a Fire Arrow, freezing the oponent and then letting the heat finish them, if not simply shatter them with an explosion.

He also tends to improvise in tough situations, for good or bad, and while his at-times impractical methods may cause more harm to himself or his team than to the enemy, it also makes him less predictable in combat.

History
Robin Sherwood was an orphan, never knowing about his parents. He often read and heard tales of Hunters, of their epic battles against Grimm so powerful and unique they could only be imagined, of how they saved the lives of countless innocents while eliminating horde after horde of Grimms. This fueled his desire to become one himself.

Filled with optimism, he decided to work, and work and work, until he got enough money to attend Signal Academy. And he did it. He was able to enter Signal.

However, life at Signal was dificult for him. He was often the 1st one to get tired during physical exercises, the weapons he made during Weaponcrafting Classes often malfunctioned or didn't even work, his grades were terrible, and he was very unpopular among the other students, so not many were willing to give him a hand. He, however, did not give up. Why? Because of someone.

He had a crush on a senior faunus girl, who had a beautiful white hair with 2 small triangular white ears, an equally beautiful body that didn't have neither too much nor too little, had excellent grades, and was always surrounded by her friends, if not by other students requesting her help in different matters. She was perfect.....and he was a noob.

He wanted to at least try to ask her out, but he never had the courage. Instead, he often spent hours thinking "What if she says no?", "What if she laughs at me?", "What if she doesn't even know I exist?", and other things. However, he one day decided to give it a try. During lunch, he walked up to her, and with all the bravery he had, asked her out on a date.

The girl laughed a little, but stood silent, while almost every other student laughed at Robin, mocked him for thinking how someone like him could have a chance with someone like her...Robin couldn't take it anymore, and ran out of the academy. At first, he hided, crying tear after tear, until he eventually felled asleep. The day after, he realized the girl herself never gave an answer. So he went to look for her, only to find out one thing: She didn't come to Signal.

At first, he thought she may have just been sick that day, so he looked for her the next day, only to find out she still hasn't gone to school. While people thought she was fine at first, eventually they started to worry, and rumors started to spread across the academy. Some said she killed herself for being asked out by such a noob like Robin. Others said Robin couldn't deal with the rejection and killed her when she wasn't looking. In any case, 2 things were clear: She had dissappeared, and everyone blamed Robin.

He started to be bullied constantly, often to dangerous extents, while no one did anything. Most profesors often gave him bad grades on purpose, and everyone often acted against him. Eventually, the headmaster of the academy decided he had enough of the students' attitude recently, and decided to get rid of the cause: Robin. He was expulsed from Signal Academy, before he even finished his 1st year.

Now homeless, and without a place to go, Robin walked down the lonely streets of Vale. He at first tried to live out of the food found in the trash, or begging for it. In time, he started to resort to petty thievery to survive, getting familiar with the city in the process, and eventually his dream of becoming a Hunter faded out completely.

Eventually, he tried to steal the purse of a girl he found alone. What he didn't expect though, was that girl giving chase to him and even catching up to him. Instead of reporting him to the authorities, she was impressed, and days later introduced Robin to a group that was planning on taking down the people in power, considering it inneficient, corrupt, that they would end up ruining the city. Robin at first wasn't too sure about them, but ended up agreeing with them, and decided to work with the group.

He often performed missions that required stealth, or involved stealing a specific object. At times he was also sent to deliver specific objects to a certain target, using his self-taught parkour skills and knowledge of the city. After one of those missions, however, his life changed.

The leader of that group sent him on a dangerous mission he never expected to do: Infiltrate Beacon Academy, enter as a student, pass the Initiation Exam, and recollect as much information as possible. He was surprised, and scared, for he would be barely more than a mook in an academy that held the strongest Hunters in Vale, maybe even in Remnant. He didn't even have a chance, but was still forced to go.

But there, he was surprisingly capable of getting a partner, completing the Initiation, and even becoming the leader of a team (Not that he wanted to). However, with a whole 2nd Year Team being very distrustful of him, and with his teammates including a jerkass noble that is just as distrusful of him, a girl that constantly trashes him like if he was almost a failure, and a man with a bloody past, Robin constantly wonders if he really will be able to survive before finishing his mission.

As he never got any training in Aura, Robin's is still undeveloped, and he doesn't have a semblance.

Author Notes

 * He's based on Robin Hood, and his last name comes from the Sherwood Forest, often associated with the legend of Robin Hood. []
 * He's also partially based on Kano from the Kagerou Project.
 * Robin Hood was said to be a skilled swordsman and archer, which is why I chose a Crossword as his weapon.
 * The Group he's sided with, I have 2 versions of it: The 1st one is another OC, based on Jekyll and Hyde. The 2nd is Cinder and co. It works with both.
 * Originally, he was going to have a very different history, that involved being friends with Ruby, and joining Beacon after fighting a serial killer, being invited by Ozpin himself. I changed it as I felt it made him too much like a Marty Stu, and that it was too much like the show's premise.