Urdin Meadows

""I always fight alone. I can't hurt anyone that way. ""

- Urdin



Appearance
Urdin is a tall, broad shouldered, muscular young man. His dark blue hair is kept short but is unkempt and tends to be messy and sometimes tangled, his bangs are just long enough to reach his eyes. His face is scarred from years of combat training accidents. The most prominent are a large scar that runs across the bridge of his nose from cheek to cheek and a pair of deep cuts running from his left earlobe to just past the middle of his chin parallel to each other. His muscular chest is host of two scars. One running diagonally from his right shoulder to his left hip sweeping back and forth. The second from a stab wound just underneath the right side of his ribs.

He usually wears a large tattered brown robe keeping his hood up hiding most of his appearance aside from his feet and mouth. However underneath the robe is a contradictory appearance of thick dark blue armor with gold accents on the edges of the plates. Polished so as to shine, the blue plates are connected by black chainmail at the joints. The armor has no shoulder, elbow or knee guards and cuts off at the wrist leaving his hands to only be protected by brown leather gloves. The armor on his right forearm has a special circular mount to mount his Shield-Axe weapon's blade. His armors leggings are one piece including the feet which are rounded at the toes. Despite the large flashy appearance the armor makes little noise when moving, only on hard surfaces while walking, which has caused Urdin to tie white cloths around the feet to help mute the noise. He also has a pair of blue goggles around his neck, to wear while in combat.

Personality
He's very protective of his friends, and will rush into a fight to protect them. Usually tell others to run while he fights the enemies himself, even if he knows he's outnumbered/outmatched. It's in part because he has a low regard for himself as a person. He sees himself as useless and invaluable, regardless of any evidence to contradict his argument. He feels that the others around him are more important so he places himself in danger so as to "Only risk the least valuable asset"

Furthermore he will typically opt to fight alone for this reason and the fact that his own combat style scares him. Being a large person and his heavy armor he's slow and relies almost solely on his brute strength in combat. This fact coupled with his tendancy to lose control of his temper and emotions leads him to fear for the safety of his fellow teammates in combat. This very same lack of control for his emotions (although he is getting better about it) has lead him to distance himself from others, keeping nearly everyone as strangers for fear of hurting anyone he gets close too. When distancing doesn't work he'll typically resort to acting like a jerk to people he doesn't know or trust, in an attempt to keep people from getting close to him. This causes all but his closest friends to believe he's a cruel heartless person, when in reality it's the other's well being he's considering in his mind.

Backstory
Urdin doesn't like to talk about himself and as such little is known of his history. What is known is that he had trained at Signal Academy, where he forged his weapon, Harbinger. It is unknown when or if he has always been self loathing, but noone at Signal cared enough to know him outside of class and training. He eventually continued his training to Beacon academy, desperate to make something respectable of himself he believes being a huntsman is exactly what he needs to be.

Abilities
Urdin is incredibly strong, allowing him to preform most heavy labor task with ease. Aside from this, he is actually a farily decent singer, however his shyness prevents him from singing in front of others.

Combat
Urdin's incredible strength0 In addition to an elevated pain tolerance and agrresive fighting style allows him to end most fights quickly by overpowering is foes outright. However, he is rather slow and if he's unable to defeat his opponent quickly he can be at a disadvantage as he doesn't have the agility to avoid many quicker attacks, needing to opt for either blocking the attacks if possible or just taking it full force outright. He is a close quarters fighter, using large sweeping attacks to dispatch foes even in groups. He is also rather adept in hand to hand combat, however when in full armor he's forced to resort to a more brawler fighting style. His weapon of choice is a weapon of two parts. When assembled it acts as a two handed ax, however the blade resembles that of a spade. However, the head of the ax can mount to his wrist and act as a shield, while then pommel converts into a one handed sword. This adaptable weapon allows him to fight aggresively and deffensively in nearly any situation.

He typically rushes into battle head on without analyizing the situation. This has been the reason for more than one of his scars. If an ally is in danger, Urdin will usually imediatly disengage his current opponent if needed and rush to their aid. He will recklessly put his life in danger to protect others, usually telling them to get to safety and fight the opponent on his own. He prefers drawing attention to himself in battle allowing his allies (if any) to flank his enemy. However he doesn't fight with friends often so he resorts to rushing to close the gap and over power his enemies with several powerful cleaves from his ax or slashes when it's in it's sword form.

He tends to let his emotions get the better of him in combat, and in drawn out or difficult battles he tends to lose focus in battle. Causing him to stop paceing himself and throwing everything he's got at his enemies, overwhelming them but exhausting himself. He tends to also get carried away, continuing to attack someone or something well after they've been defeated or given up. This is one reason he prefers fighting alone, so as not to get so wrapped up in the heat of the moment and mistakenly attack a friend.