Roy Pendragon

'' If you think that’s all I got, you’re wrong. I got a couple other tricks up my sleeve… Well, in my sword hilt, but you understand, right? ''–Roy, during a fight with a Goliath.

''Beat me up. You might live. Try to beat my friends, and you won’t see the light of day again…''

Appearance
Roy is a tall, well built young man with messy bluish-black hair that barely fall in front of his eyes, covering underneath a blue and red bandanna which he almost never takes off, saying “it brings good luck.” A long scar covers the right side of his neck, and he has purple eyes. Under his hoodie he wears a metal breastplate and plackart, covering his chest and stomach. His hoodie is covered with fur, making it very soft to have on.

Roy almost always wears his signature red and black sweatshirt, with blue crystals making two parallel lines downward from his collar. The hoodie separates at the center, revealing his armor, and on top of his left shoulder is an armor plate. His hands are hidden by a pair of thin gauntlet-like gloves, the back of the hand covered with a layer of steel, and his fingers popping out of the gloves. Finishing off his appearance are dark blue pants and silver shoes, steel plating covering his knees to his shoes. He has a team locator/GPS made by Lavender in his right pant pocket, while energy bars fill the other.

Personality
Roy has a calm and friendly personality, capable of making friends with almost anyone he wishes to. He’s lazy in general, but he becomes the complete opposite during a fight. He’s a protecting person at heart, and will fling himself into a fight where he thinks an innocent, or friend, is in danger, most of the time risking his life or a limb. He treats almost everyone equally (Humans the same as Faunus), though he’ll be more respectful to those who earned that respect. He absolutely loves eating, especially pasta.

-In a fight, all his cheerfulness dissipates. He is after all a very intellectual and smart man, capable of learning an opponent’s fighting style and countering back in a somewhat short amount of time. He specializes in offensive and counter techniques, his broadsword Excelion improving his skills while in its second form. Being the leader of team RGLA, he is also a good strategist and a somewhat good leader, though he dislikes giving orders unless emergencies.

-Despite his cheerful nature, he is extremely shy when it comes to relationships or revealing his feelings. He rarely manages to tell a girl he likes her, even less to ask her out. He can talk pretty easily with them, though he can’t manage to flirt, and has had no relationship experience in his life. It took quite a while to finally reveal his feelings to his teammate Lavender.

Also, he often has a short memory, so he often forgets to do something if he was told to do it a week before. The short memory also makes it that he has some difficulty learning long-term, but he tries his best to improve his memory. He can also lose his cool and becomes extremely angry when someone insults his parents or friends, and can bring up a fight if someone doesn’t stop him. If however, someone asks him about his parents or talks about seeing their parents or how fun it is to see them; his face will soften up, nearly in tears, though he just says it’s the heat from his armor.

All in all, he’s a good friend who’s shy when it comes to relationships, and an exceptional swordsman. Few, however, know his past, or the real semblance he possesses…

Weapon
Roy’s weapon of choice is the Excelion, a 5’2” broadsword, the blade being 1’ wide and 1” thick. Two buttons lie on each opposite of the cross guard, one red to the right and a blue to the left, while an empty trigger guard lies at the top right of the grip. Imagine the cross guard is vertical; horizontal is a smaller triangular cross guard, used to block attacks sliding down the flat of the sword. The pommel is a prismal looking stone of some sort, being the only blunt weapon of the sword while in that transition.

Ranged
The red button activates the Ranged mode, separating the sword blade from the center, making the blade now 1.5” wide. While the outside of the sword is extremely sharp, the inside is very dull, except the part closest to the rocket ejector. The rocket ejector pops an inch out of the center, along with a trigger appearing in the trigger guard. Roy can now click the trigger to shoot rockets lying within his sword grip, though he can only have up to three to four rockets in the grip, reloadable through twisting off the pommel and putting the rockets inside. Roy can also use the gaping hole between his two blades to capture enemy weapons or for Grimm’s, heads, and then twist the sword with a flick of the wrist, breaking or slicing whatever lay in the center. Roy can also shoot all of his ammo in quick succession, though the Excelion needs time to cool down afterwards.

Final
The final form of Excelion is Dual Mode. In this, Roy clicks the blue button, fully splitting Excelion into two swords. In this state, Roy has to throw his rockets into the air, and ignite them with sparks, being unable to shoot them out of the rocket ejector. The swords allow Roy to perform quick and deadly attacks in return of weak counter capabilities.

Ammo
Roy has four types of rockets; Normal, Cluster, Warhead, and Surprise. He prefers this instead of carrying around Dust, though some assume his warhead rockets may contain Fire Dust. They do, but just enough to cause their explosions to be bigger than the other rockets.

Normal: a normal rocket. It’s heat-seeking, but after a while it will end up going straight until it hits something.

Cluster: seems like a Normal, but explodes into 7 tiny heat-seeking rockets, dealing small damage by themselves but quite a punch when all together.

Warhead: Not heat-seeking, but the explosion is massive compared to the other rockets. Mainly used for group elimination or launching power.

Havoc: Makes a siren noise, and looks extremely menacing, but in facts explodes into confetti before impact, confusing the opponent long enough for Roy or his teammates to finish them.

Roy has a pouch on each of his sides attached to his belt, where he can carry up to 5 rockets each, minus three already in his sword; 2 Normals, 1 Clusters and Warhead, and 1 Surprise.

Semblance
A secret of his… He can manipulate the four elements, or Dust, though most of the time at tiny doses, for using too much semblance weakens him as if he aged 60 years, and fully using his entire semblance will kill him. At the bare minimum, his semblance causes small gusts of wind that can push the enemies sword (or whatever they’re using) slightly away, either missing or weakening Roy at a smaller amount. Small stones sometimes appear near the enemies’ foot, causing them to trip of fall, allowing Magnus a small advantage. His rocket explosions are slightly bigger and hotter, and he can cause his enemy to sweat quicker, causing them to be lightheaded and make mistakes.

Becoming more experienced and stronger with his semblance, he can now use it safely at a moderate level, capable of creating small rock barriers, puddles of ice or water to make opponents slip, gusts of wind that can push enemies slightly away or misdirect bullets, and heating up the edges of his swords for more cutting potential along with being able to ignite rockets without rubbing the dull parts of his swords together.

-As said before, his semblance is mainly used in tiny doses, so very few people know his semblance is actually active, and assumes his semblance is perhaps extreme luck, hence giving him the name ‘Lucky Dragon’. He tries to use it as rarely as possible, sometimes asking Clay for a boost. He can, however, absorb some energy from fire, or some from swirling water, calming both down.

For his aura, it is somewhat strong, but he prefers wearing armor just as a safety precaution. His aura is a mix of red and at its full potential in the 5th style. If he ever begins to hit the limit of his safe amount of his Semblance, he can either stop and go traditional fighting or ask Clay to pass him some energy.

Backstory
Few know much about the Pendragon family, except some Hunters and the Ambrosius family. The Pendragon bloodline had been Hunter and Huntresses ever since the War, and warriors beyond that. Roy`s parents were no exception to that bloodline. Cyan and Magentus Pendragon were incomparable huntress (es), fending off hordes of Grimm’s or White Fangs with ease, to then disappear before anyone could thank or talk to them.

Roy lived his childhood as a somewhat wealthy child, due to his parents being Hunters. When they weren’t on a mission, they trained Roy to become a hunter like them, teaching him the art of swordsmanship, hunting, using ones aura, and civilised conduct. When they were gone, Clay`s parents would teach the two of them, along with some other skills such as cooking, fishing, and history.

At the age of 13 and after six years of training, Roy was given Excelion, the family`s emblem, from his father. Magentus taught how to properly wield it and take advantage of its three modes, while his mother helped him control and strengthen little by little his Semblance. Roy grew older, and became more accustomed to the family broadsword, learning new techniques with it during his time wielding it.

As his 15thsummer bloomed, disaster struck the family when, for the first time in a long while, they went on a picnic near the Pendragon Manor. As they were about to begin their lunch, shadows appeared from within the trees, armed and walking towards the family. Surprised, they were unprepared when the shadowy figures attacked them. The family tried their best to fight back, until they were cornered on the manor walls. Fearing for his son’s life, Magentus threw him away from the battle and told him to hide. Roy ran away, but was attacked by another shadowy figure, armed with a bow. He fled, earning the scar on his neck by one of arrows of his attacker. He came back to the scene after it went silent, worried about his parents, and found them exhausted, hundreds of bodies on the ground beside them. He ran to them, happy so see them alive, but as he was about to get to them, one of the bodies stirred and blew up, sending Roy flying backwards. When he got back up, his parents were dead, and dozens more shadowed figures were approaching him.

That’s when Roy fully used his Semblance for the first time. He barely remembers what happened, but had killed of the rest of the attackers and collapsed afterwards, his body weak from using his Semblance beyond the safe limit. Clay and his parents found him later that day, and quickly hid him in their cottage. They then buried Magentus and Cyan Pendragon, while discarding the attacker’s bodies into a bonfire.

Clay and his parents then took Roy under their wing, Clay almost becoming a cousin or uncle to Roy, despite Clay being 2 years older. They finished training him and their son, and sent them off to a training academy, letting the parents keep the Pendragon Manor clean and hospitable for whenever the boys came back. At the training academy, Roy and Clay aced virtually every exam, and were sent not long afterwards to Beacon, where they had hoped to go, for both of their family had attended that academy.

There, Roy and Clay met the other newcomers, and were tested once more. Roy became friends with most of the newcomers before the test began, and was glad when he was teamed up with Lavender in the Emerald Forest.

The test done, Roy was placed leader of team RGLA, though he didn’t want to. His team later on said no one else could be better, so he gave up and tried the best he could to make his team one of the top team of their year.

'''The days went on, and then came the day Roy got his nickname of the ‘Lucky Dragon’. It was a test fight between him against Ignis, and Roy’s broadsword was winning against his rivals’ warhammer. As he was about to give the finishing strike, Ignis doused him in fire. Roy backed away and, to much of the student’s surprise, suffered very few burns from the blast, despite his clothes burning. What was most surprising of all was fire was coming out of Roy’s mouth, like a dragon. This too caught Ignis by surprise, and Roy was able to claim victory, thus getting the name of ‘Lucky Dragon’.'''

 Second year came along, and Roy met for the first time Altan, an ex of Lavender back from Atlas, when he and his team arrived at Beacon for a Team exchange between the different academies.

 All hell broke loose when he saw Altan slap and mistreat Lavender where the ex thought he wouldn’t get caught.

''' Roy straight up punched Altan in the jaw, sending him flying into the dirt. When he got back up, it became a big fistfight. After a while, Altan summoned his sword and tried to slash at Roy, but ended up stabbing him through the stomach. Roy managed to scar part of Altan`s face by burning it before fainting. '''

'''Roy woke up in the emergency room, where he was told that he survived by a hair, and that he would be walking and fine in around a week. Lavender visited and apologized, and Lance broke his bubble and told him his feelings for her. She said she had the same feelings for him ever since the middle of their first year, and they finally went out together.'''

 He then revealed to her and Gwen about his semblance and what it really was, and told them to keepit a secret, for he thought that the less people that know about his real semblance, the better.

'''  They were tested more and more often, and Roy became more and more stressed he would fail to become a Hunter like his parents. His team reassured him, and they continued staying top of their year. '''

''' Finally came their last year at Beacon. The team passed their final test, and as opposed to some of the other teams who disbanded after their graduation, RGLA remained in very close contact. Lavender stayed with Roy while Clay remained close by, and Gwen wandered around, but never too far away. When either of them would receive a job, they would bring along the rest of the group with them as long as it wasn’t a personal mission, and they would ace whatever task laid ahead.'''

The Fall of Beacon
''' Team RGLA were on a mission in the north of Mistral when they heard the news about the fall of their old Academy. feeling it was their duty to go help Beacon, they quit their mission and are currently on boat to Haven, knowing that they still have a while before getting to Beacon.'''

Relationships
Gwen Simetra is the second member of the team. Roy is what he thinks good friends with her, though they barely talk (much to her fault), and when they do, it’s for discussing battle plans. He tries to make her more social the best he can, while also trying to avoid her getting within reach of sweets or chocolates.

 Lavender Ray is the third member of the team, also being Roy`s partner and girlfriend. Though he can’t admit it, he’s in love with her. He loves her personality, her simple-mindedness, how she fights, and how she treats her friends like family. He hates it when she goes head first into battle without making sure not to get hurt, so he often ends up back to back with her to make sure she doesn’t get injured, most often than not risking his safety as well. People may think he seems a bit overprotective, but it’s just his way of silently saying he likes her, since he’s too afraid to tell her. After the fight with Altan, he finally admitted his feelings for her, and they went out soon afterwards. He still tries to protect her from harm the best he can, but he knows she can handle fights by herself, so intervenes only when he thinks she is in some danger.

Clay Ambrosius is both Roy’s butler, guard, sometimes tutor, and final member of team RGLA. They treat each other like brother, but Roy treats him almost like an uncle. He dislikes the fact that Clay tries to be his servant, so he just ordered him to live like a friend instead of a servant, and be himself. Whenever battle plans need to be made, Roy always makes sure Clay has something to say or add to the plan.

Trivia
Roy has multiple meanings. Red due to its form in old Gaelic, and Royal Blue

Also, Roy is related to the french word roi, or king.

Roy Pendragon is based on Arthur Pendragon, or King Arthur.