Solaris Phoenix

"Ex cinere, resurgam (I shall rise from the ashes)"

- Phoenix family motto

Solaris is a former student at Beacon Academy. His weapon of choice is a DSNS(Dust Scattershot Naginata Sword), known as Yubel. His partner and girlfriend is Faigel "Faye" Acheflow.

Appearance
Solaris is a skinny guy with untidy black hair that graduates to indigo at the tips and indigo eyes.

Original Outfit (Pre-Volume 1 - Volume 3)
Solaris wears a black zip-up hoodie, that he usually keeps unzipped, with an indigo hood. He wears his emblem on the left side of the hoodie just above his heart. The back of his hoodie has the design of large red phoenix wings going down it. He also wears a pair of black sweat pants with an outline of red feathers going up his right pant leg while the left pant leg has an outline of indigo flames going up it in a similar fashion.

Post-Time Skip (Volume 4-Current)
His outfit remains the same for the most part except for a few minor details. He no longer has any indigo on his outfit anywhere. His hoodie now has red sleeves instead of black. His hood also now curves down over his face in a way that resembles the beak of a bird of prey. The color of the designs on his pants become burnt orange instead of red and indigo. He also gets a pattern of blue flames going up his right arm.

The wing pattern on his back has now changed. The wings are no longer just red. The upper part remains red but then graduates to gold at the ends.

Personality
Solaris can be somewhat of an introvert at times just so he can relax. He likes to read and draw but can't seem to get peace and quiet unless he finds some out of the way place. When he is trying to read or draw, he doesn't like to be bothered and it takes a lot of convincing to get him away from his book or his drawing but most of the time he ends up have to be literally dragged away from what he was doing. Solaris can also be described as being a calm, confident and cocky guy. He also has a humorous side, often making puns and jokes in the middle of battle. He also uses dry wit and sarcasm at times, to amuse himself at the very least. In addition to his humor, he also has a tendency to smack people upside the head just to amuse himself and to show affection.

Weapon
Solaris wields a DSNS (Dust Scattershot Naginata Sword) known as Yubel. Yubel stays in inactive mode as a compact form of the naginata mode. In either Jace will often use Dust to give him an edge in a battle. He has a preference for Fire Dust but will use others if it allows him to get an advantage.  Semblance

Name: Dark Fire

User: Solaris Phoenix

Introduction: User creates indigo flames from their hands for multiple purposes

Range: Medium to Long

Type: Conversion

Purpose: Offensive and Utility

Visual Cue: Balls of indigo flames appear in the palms of the users hands. If the user has their palms facing each other a single large ball of flame appears between them.

Auditory Cue: The flames appear with the sound of a campfire igniting

(With each Tier the flames grow even hotter.)

Tier 1: The user is able to create weak flames witht he equivalent of fire created by matches or a lighter

Tier 2: The user can create small bursts of flames that reach out about 5 feet before sputtering out

Tier 3: The user can create balls of fire that can be thrown without sputtering out

Tier 4: The user can create jets of flames that have the range of your average flamethrower

Tier 5: (Post-time skip ability) The user is able to create extemely intense flames capable of cutting through rocks in varying time. (The time varies with the thickness of the rock. The user would be able to cut through the rocks used in the VYTAL Tournament in about a minute.)

General Limitations: The heat of the flames decrease at the same rate as their Aura. Once their Aura is depleted they aren't able to use their Semblance above Tier 1 until their Aura is restored.

Applications: Cooking, Campfires, Welding

Dust Interaction: (Note: The user throws Dust Powder into the air in front of them then luanches a fireball at it propelling the effected flame(s) towards the target)

Ice: Freezes the target in place and inflicts an ice burn on them

Lightning: Creates an explosion when they come into contact with an object

Water: Creates steam/mist

Wind: Enhances the strength and distance of the flames

Gravity: Knocks back whatever objects are within 10 feet of the impact site

Abilities
He is great at fighting whether it be in a sanctioned fight or not. He very rarely loses to people around his age.

Background
His parents are both retired Huntsmen. They met when they got put on the same team at Beacon. His dad used a HVSG (High Velocity Scattershot Greatsword (Shotgun/Greatsword)) and his mom used a HCSN (High Caliber Sniper Naginata (Sniper Rifle/ Naginata)) After graduating they became Hunters but stopped when they found out his mom was pregnant with him.

Now fast-forward about 10 years into the future. This kid, Solaris, has been swinging sticks around in a way that was scarily reminiscent of swinging a sword. Sometimes it was like he was wielding a pole-arm instead. His dad could sometimes picture his son as a full-grown warrior wielding a sword or a naginata.

His father saw how well he could wield a stick as though it were a real without ever having seen them used and decided to take this as a sign to start training Jace on his 10th birthday. After the celebrations were over, he told Jace that it was time to start training. He tossed him a wooden katana and the training began.

He trained with all different types of swords until he finally settled on a preferred one, a single-edged greatsword. He then decided he wanted to train with something else. He decided on a naginata. He trained with his mother to master the naginata. This took over a year to master. Then he decided that he wanted to do gun training with a shotgun.

His dad knew how to use a shotgun but felt as though they should hand over this part of the training to Grandpa Phoenix. He fought in the Great War on the side of Atlas using a double-barrel shotgun. After the war, he decided to find a more peaceful area of the world to settle down in. He ended up choosing Vale for it's beautiful scenery and because he didn't have military personnel knocking at his door every other day trying to get him to be a leader for their forces.

Grandpa Phoenix gladly trained him how to use a shotgun. He was glad to see that his grandson had inherited his liking for guns instead of just drawing them. At some time during his training with his grandpa he unlocked his Semblance, Dark Fire.

After all of this, he then went to Signal at the age of 13 and created Yubel, a DSNS (Dust Scattershot Nagianta Sword). After 4 years in Signal, he got into Beacon a year before Team RWBY.

That year at Beacon, the relics being used for the initiation were gems of various colors. They had sapphires, emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and opals. Solaris and Faye Acheflow became partners almost immediately after landing. They ended up landing within about 50 feet of each other and when they looked around, they ended up locking eyes pretty quickly. They then headed for the center of the Forest but ended up encountering a bunch of Beowolves on their way there. They dispatched of them together in less than a minute.

When they got to the ruins, they noticed the gems simply sitting out and figured they were the relics, so they picked up a sapphire and walked away back towards the forest. Unfortunately, before they could make it back to the treeline, they were ambushed by a Nevermore, a pack of Beowolves, a few Ursai, 3 Deathstalkers, and a King Taijitu. The two of them knew they couldn't beat all of them alone, so they did what any normal people would do. They ran, as fast as they could away from them and passed Ama Topaz and Homura Ryusei as they were running away. Ama ran ahead to grab the relic, a sapphire, while Homura ran after Jace and Faye to help them against the Grimm. A few minutes later, he found them surrounded by them by the Grimm. He jumped in to help them and Ama joined not even 30 seconds later.

Even still they knew they had very little chance of beating them all, even together. They were putting up a good fight when a random team also in inititation joined in to help. Together they took down 2 Deathstalkers and the Nevermore before a random team, also in initiation joined in. Once this happened they defeated all of the Grimm and walked back to Beacon together. The names of these other teams is currently unknown.

When they got back to Beacon, Ozpin called up Solaris Phoenix, Ama Topaz, Faye Acheflow, and Homura Ryusei, and told them they were on a team together and ironically enough was to be known as Team SAFR (Sapphire).

The Beacon Dance was the most exciting event of their first year. The featured song was "I May Fall (Harry Lodes Remix). They were the main attraction of the dance considering that they had a dance even more complex than JNPR would do later on. The dance is kinda just spontaneous. Solaris starts off with break dancing and then Faye joins in with hip-hop dancing. Then Homura joins in with "The Smooth Criminal". Then Ama chases after Homura and joins in with "MC Hammer Dance". They may not seem like they would go together well but the dances seemed to work together in a way that just seemed to work in a way that shouldn't be possible.

After Team SAFRs dance was over, Solaris was pulled off to the side away from other people and confessed her love to him. He was shocked but told her he felt the same way about her. They kissed under the light of the full moon. They went out, from that day on.

Him and the rest of Team SAFR were present at the Fall of Beacon. They were figthting off Grimm of all types at the Vytal Festival Fairgrounds while helping get anybody out who hadn't gotten out yet.

Since the Fall of Beacon, him and Faye have been making money by going on missions to other places. They also volunteer by helping out those who lost their homes during the Fall of Beacon Grimm attacks.  Trivia

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 * The name Solaris means "Of the Sun" I took it from the game Sonic '06