Mauve Gasmaske

Mauve Gasmask is a foolish young man seeking to make a name for himself as a Hunter, armed only with non-existent fighting skills, a silly choice of weapons and his desperate, futile attempts to try and present himself as being cool.

Appearance and outfit
Mauve is in many respects a perfectly average young man in terms of appearance – average height, build, and hair length for a male of his age, with his ordinary green eyes and blonde hair providing no exceptional distinguishing features. What makes him stand out is the glossy purple tuxedo (complete with buttons made of fake precious stones) and bowler hat he always wears.

Personality
Mauve is, in short, a complete moron and something of an asshole. He’s a hypocrite, complaining about gay men hitting on him despite being fully aware of how camp his outfit is and bemoaning his inability to get laid while refusing to change his methods of interacting with the opposite sex even though they consistently end with him being embarrassed and humiliated. He constantly blames others for problems which he obviously brought upon himself, whines about his issues rather than actually doing anything about them, and insists on using falsehood to try and save face in embarrassing situations even though he can’t lie to save his life.

Despite having neither the physical aptitude nor the mental fortitude to be a soldier or warrior, not really knowing how to fight on his own or in a group, and being terrible at teamwork thanks to his show-off tendencies and compulsive glory-hounding he still aspires to the Huntsman’s life, wasting his undiscovered talent for academia and intellectual pursuits.

Biography
Hailing from northern Vacuo, Mauve is the illegitimate son of the disgraced politician Johan Babbel III. His mother Sapphire Gasmask, a secretary in a construction company, was only in her early twenties at the time of his conception while his father had recently turned eighty-four, and when the details of their encounter (including a matter of dubious consent) were exposed the scandal forced his father to resign and leave politics. Because of this he sometimes introduces himself as “the man who brought down Johan Babbel”, then recites one of a number of blatant fantasies when asked to explain the context of this half-truth.

His mother was killed in an explosion when he was ten years old. He used his bereavement as an excuse to get edgy tattoos, wear fake wolf Faunus ears and dress up in trench coats for a few years before his foster parents gave him a very harsh lecture about devaluing his mother’s memory. He began to deceive himself with the delusion that anarchists had assassinated his mother, despite all evidence pointing to her death being an industrial accident and the fact that there were no anarchist cells anywhere in Vacuo at the time.

After deciding to become a Huntsman and paying a renowned weaponsmith to forge his gun and sword (then scratching off the creator’s signature and claiming he made them himself) he applied to a number of combat schools, but was only good enough to get into a third-rate academy, from his tenure at which he gained nothing of value. Now he wanders the world, repeatedly ending up in over his head in various hijinks and misadventures.

Weapons
Mauve’s tendency toward being a massive poser is reflected in his choice of armament: in his left hand he wields a katana and in his right an almost comically oversized handgun. The sword can be attached to the gun to serve as an impractically oversized bayonet; the gun can also undergo a simple transformation which turns it into either a baton or an extension to the handle of the katana depending on whether the blade is attached. None of these functions are really useful or provide any advantage, merely making the weapons more difficult to use while providing no notable advantage to offset that, but Mauve still insists on using them anyway.

Aura and Semblance
Mauve’s Semblance allows him to fire powerful beams of exotic energy with a long reach. However he never actually uses it because he insists on fighting at close quarters, rather than making the sensible choice of blasting his enemies with death rays from long range. He possesses marginally weaker than average Aura, somewhat limiting his endurance in prolonged engagements – though his tendency to try and draw out any fight in order to get more time to show off certainly doesn’t do him any favours.

Relationships with others
[Not relevant as of yet]

Quotes from Mauve
"Come on then! Come on!"

- Mauve to Grimm, criminals or random bystanders acting in self-defence on a number of occasions, usually before ending up in hospital

"GAZUNDELBLYNE!"

- Mauve stringing random syllables together as a battle cry. Unfortunately this only attracted the attention of several other Ursas which promptly arrived to assist the one he was about to fight.

"Gravitas? What’s that?"

- Mauve stealing Blauvont Kellwheeler’s lines to try and sound cool. It doesn’t really work for him.

Quotes about Mauve
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Trivia/out-of-universe information
Yes, his family name really is Gasmask. I almost thought up a long and complicated story about this but honestly it’s more fun to leave it as one of those weird things that’s never really explained.

Mauve’s colour association is... well, one guess, no prizes.

Mauve could perhaps be said to have partial or defective plot armour – he always seems to survive his misadventures, but rarely wins or accomplishes anything and almost invariably ends up spending extended periods in intensive care afterward.