Scáth Fola

 ===''"The blood stains go further than my boots." ''===

Scáth Fola is a work-in-progress OC of the RWBY universe developed by Shadowed_Fury

General
Scáth Fola is a sixteen year-old male attending Beacon academy and leading the team SLVR. He has very little family left, and what's left he absolutely despises.

Personality
Scáth is a very cold personality, very much trying to ignore any attempts at a friendship or emotional connection to avoid inflicting more emotional pain upon himself, but that is not to say that he does not care for his friends once he has made them. Scáth will risk life and limb to ensure his friends are kept safe. This loner personality has also brought about a feeling that he must tackle everything on his own without help. Otherwise, what good is he? Although he hates socializing and talking to people, when he is with his friends he feels much more comfortable and will freely talk to them, though rarely seeks out to initiate conversation.

Scáth is also uncomfortable with emotional situations, as doesn't know how to respond to them. If his best friend came crying about their girlfriend/boyfriend dumping them, he would awkwardly pat their back and tell them its okay, using all of his willpower to not tell them to not bother him. Emotionally, Scáth is pretty blank. Always trying to keep his emotions bottled up inside, kept away from the world, not wanting to withstand the pain anymore. Not realizing this causes more damage to himself than it helps.

Another trait that Scáth shows is the ability to be incredibly critical upon himself. Whenever he does something wrong, no matter how small, he is harsh to himself about it, pointing out everything he did wrong to himself. Yet despite this, he is still narcissistic towards many people. Towards his friends he may also be a bit of a jerk, bugging them about something or other that happened to them. Scáth is also adamantly against discrimination, as he believes no one should be targeted simply because of their looks or heritage, but rather be just as much of a jerk towards them as you would be towards anybody else.

A scholar or engineer is a good way to put some of Scáth's behavior. He often finds himself curious about how things work or thinking on how things work, why things are the way they are, and he is always eager to pick up new knowledge about quite a few things.

When concerning his temper, Scáth is quick to blow, especially if he has been in a foul mood that day. In fact, the best way to make him blow is to insult his abilities, family, or begin to harass his friends. This anger however can often also lead to joy and happiness, because Scáth is masochistic (enjoys his own pain) and sadistic (enjoys others pain), so if a fight breaks out because of his anger, his demeanor will quickly change from anger to laughing joy. The masochism often leading him into situations where he will surely get hurt. This is even reflected in his real world situational combat against Grimm when they land blows on him and when he tears them apart.

Scáth also has a complete hatred of the sun, summer, and basically all things hot and bright, prefering the cold and dark of night and winter, rather suiting of his name. This is also a major reason he wears his cloak, to help him survive the bitter cold he loves, and to keep the sunlight off his albino white skin.

Whenever the boy gets a chance, Scáth will try and design things, read, and tinker with small machines.

Appearance
Scáth has a sickly pale white skin colouring that clashes against his jet black crop of black hair, looking as if it is payed little attention besides ensuring that it isn't too wild, the hair long enough to reach down to his thin eyebrows, a few strands sticking down a little further. Scáth's eyes are a dark crimson, similar to blood that has been freshly drawn and put under a shadow. From his left hip to just a few centimeters below his sternum there is three thick jagged scars from a Beowulf's claws.

Scáth wears a long black cloak most of the time. On the back of the hood that he usually wears up and over his head there is his decal emblazoned upon it, a Raven's head with a crimson eye blotting out a silvery moon. Along the neckline of the cloak, wear the hood begins to flag out widely there is a tuft of black feathers that fade to crimson, as if they were dipped into blood. There is a red trim along the edges of the cloak with a few crimson designs trailing off of it in a vine like fashion every now and again. The cloak is kept on through a fastening of a broach that is shaped like Scáth's emblem. Underneath the cloak he wears a crimson long sleeved shirt with a black line running up either sleeve and over the shoulder to the neck. Over top of that but still below the cloak there is a black leather armour and bracers. He wears pitch black jeans with tear holes in several places. For shoes he wears combat boots, black with a crimson lacing. Across the black of the boots there are countless stains of dried blood from the boots having rarely ever being cleaned. On Scáth's right thigh the sheath for his dagger, Bloodletter. Across his waist there is a belt of black with red boxes, utility belt style. Each box is filled with clips and dust canisters for his Naginata, Falling Dusk. The sheath for that very weapon is located on the back of the belt. The sheath is black with the design of his emblem splayed where the blade of the weapon would go.

Falling Dusk-
A Naginata that is a full length of 180cm, the shaft giving 120cm of length at full extension, able of being cut down to 40cm, and the blade being 60cm, incapable of being cut down. This slashing weapon is outfitted with a rifle in the core and the lower 40cm of shaft being doubly used as an adjustable length rifle barrel. The front 40cm of shaft has been made to be able to hold dust and given the mechanics behind the dust dispensers place on the blade of the Naginata, allowing it to spit fire, frost, and lightning as Scáth strikes. The blade is sheathed on his back at a horizontal angle. The sheath itself allows the weapon to be taken from or placed in from the top in which the end of the handle sticks out four centimeters. To keep the weapon from falling out on its own the sheath is magnetically seals itself, but is made so that by pushing against it the magnet will separate, but it takes more force than the force of gravity on the weapon to draw the weapon out of the sheath. The sheath is a thick leather-aluminum composite and tight enough to keep the weapon from jostling about, and even if it did, not cut through the sheath or poke into the wielder.

The core of the weapon's shaft is taken up by the machinery used to draw the shaft in and out as well as a rifle firing mechanism. The bottom portion of the shaft doubles as both a place to have grip and retreat back when you need more reach as well as an extendable barrel, allowing the rifle to be used at both the stage in which the barrel is pulled all the way in, allowing for short range high powered high recoil shots, as well as long range shots of the same kind when it is at its full extent. The upper shaft contains in its areas that would be open space as a firing mechanism of a dust set up on the blade and its support of the Nagnata, allowing the use of an essentially flamethrower on the blade of the Naginata when filled with the appropriate dust. The trigger for the rifle is located on the underside of the main part of the shaft, alligned parralel rather than perpendicular to the shaft and having a guard over it to prevent accidentally firings. The trigger for the dust dispenser is located on the top side of the main portion of the shaft, as to be used by the thumb. This trigger like the rifle trigger is protected by a guard to ensure that it does not fire accidentally. ====Falling Dusk's blade is pitch black with the guard and counter balance at the end being crimson. There is a layer of metal running up the back of Falling Dusk's blade that is black, giving an appearance of a raven's head to the blade.====

Bloodletter-
Bloodletter is an ornamental looking 30 centimeter length of blade dagger. The dagger's blade is silver coloured, but the guard and pommel appear a crimson metal. There is a black thread taughtly rolled around the hilt itself. In the center of the guard there is a black circular jet gemstone.

Semblance
Scáth Fola's Semblance is Shadow Cloud. Shadow Cloud allows Scáth to fade into smoke shadow and fade back in at a given location. This is essentially a teleportation ability in which he disappears in shadowy smoke and reappears in a puff of smoke, however he may also trick his enemies by fading out just to fade back in at the same spot when they expect him to appear behind them, exposing their back again.

Combat Style
Scáth is a very offensive and highly mobile fighter, essentially playing the role of a rogue or assassin on his team. He has very little in the way of defense, making every blow landed on him more devastating than others, since he depends on his high mobility and powerful blows to be his defense. Often times he is reckless and cocky, charging into battle without thinking it through or forming a strategy, despite his capability to strategize very effectively. He is a very strong fighter and his fighting style is  filled with firing of his rifle to use the recoil to lunge, increase the power of his swings, and retreat when needed, or just generally as a long range weapon. The dust dispenser is usually used when he is forced to change his Naginata into a much shorter shortsword-like form in which he retracts the two portions other portions of his Naginata. However, it may also be used after he has stabbed or while he is slashing. Using the long sword-like blade of the Naginata, Scáth usually attacks with slashes, as that is thepoiton of the weapon rather than use it as a regular spear.

Relationships
Daymion Fola (Father)-

There was a very good relationship between the father and son, especially because the man had raised his son without his wife for four years, and even then having to take care of the young boy whenever the huntress went on one of her hunts. Daymion was a smith and always taught his son to think of weapons as more than tools, but as an extension of your own being, another piece of you. Scáth loved his father with every ounce of his being, even challenging a Beowulf after it had struck his dad, despite being told to run. It had a horrible impact on Scáth and was when he first turned to a hunter, it also when his personality turned to its coldness.

Gor Bán (Cousin)-

Scáth hates Gor Bán with every molecule of his existence. They are rivals and where Scáth is offense, Gor is defense, where Scáth is the darkness, Gor is the light and so on. But the reason for the hatred stems from Gor's personality. Gor would constantly goad about him having parents, about him being so well liked and social, about how he was from a living legacy, and would most of all, discriminate, pick on someone because of how they looked and their race. It lead to tension between the two constantly, and being his parents, the spoiled pompous fool would always be sympathized with by them.

Reilea Maith (Teammate)-

Reilea is a good teammate to Scáth, understand when to leave him be and when he says no, he means no. She is just as protectice as Scáth, and despite their major differences, they find a strong respect in each other. Reilea sees the strength and potential that Scáth has and Scáth sees the strength and well aligned morals in Reilea. Their only problem with eachother is the amount of lack of trying that Scáth puts into being a team leader and his completely reckless behavior, causing her to question him, and his-not-so-good moral compass, in which she finds horrible in her leader, who finds her questioning of his motives and decisions rather annoying.

Viola Amatise (Teammate)-

Viola was the partner of Scáth and plain and simply, his polar opposite personality. A generally kind, social, nice, helpful personality versus his cold, reserved, independent personality. Scáth is constantly pestered by Viola about menial and obvious things, forced to engage in conversation when he just doesn't want to, and dragged in situations where he has to socialize, such as parties by the girl, who doesn't care about whether he likes it or not, just thinking its the best for him. Scáth however tolerates it, seeing the girl as a younger sister (despite her being older) and providing her the little support he can give when something happens to her, as she is rather fragile emotionally, he doesn't wish to be overly harsh to her.

Lutus Romus (Teammate)-

The relations between Scáth and his Faunus teammate is rather strained, finding his behavior, disturbing. Scáth is forced through dirty jokes and a pranks pulled by the wolf, the only thing keeping them from going at each others throats is that they have one thing in common, a disdain for the overly vain and those who discriminate. Lutus just does this to try and bring out Scáth's funside after all. He just wants to see a fun person!

Other

 * Scáth is Irish for Shadow and Fola is Irish for Blood, thus, Bloodied Shadow
 * Scáth and the rest of Team SLVR are still being developed and tweaked, critiques are requested
 * The creation was completely unbased on anything what so ever, just a wish for a darker character with a personality I can easily meld with