Cian Pyrite

Profile
Name: Cian Pyrite

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 140

Hair: Grey-brown

Eyes: Blue

Appearance
Cian is about average height, but is qutie skinny, and appears to be much shorter as he is, as he slouches very often. He has pale skin, long fingers, and is often found crouching down. His legs and torso are more muscled than his arms, but he is still a little slim. His hair is fairly short, with a desatured brown color, and he has bright blue eyes. He has some minor scars along his back, which he usually covers with armor.

Cian has a fairly sparse covering of armor, with some metal armor covering his chest, but without sleaves covering the arms to increase mobility. Lesser armor covers the legs above the knee and from the hands up to the elbows. The legs, torso, and upper arms have a thin, black layer of cloth under the armored section. All armor is similarly colored, being primarily cyan, with a gold colored outline. The waist has a belt on it, where Cian commonly hangs his weapon. His feet are covered by thin armored boots.

Personality
Cian seems to be a very confident person when someone firsts meets him. He is often joking around, and enjoys tricking others and upsetting others. He often overacts, rambles often, pops up unexpectedly, and tries to outsmart anyone he is involved with. He has very energetic mannerisms, often running to a destination even if it means outpacing his team. However, he does have some points when he breaks this motif, showing different sides of the personality. When in danger, Cian becomes very serious, becoming rapidly silent, and focusing only on the immediate threat. Another time he cracks is when afraid, as he is quick to panic, expressing his larger fears hysterically.

Cian is fond of the wilderness, enjoying hiking, swimming, fishing, and hunting. However, he is most comfortable in enclosed areas, where he can tell where everything is. Even when enjoying a hike through the woods, his eyes dart around rapidly, checking every rustle of leaves, every changing shadow. He has some deep fears, with notable examples being the loss of his groups, being unprepared, being responsible for the death of others, and the personality of his Semblance. In its current form, activating the Semblance overwhelms Cian's mental capabilities, degrading it to a primal form unable to recognize the difference between friend and foe. This has resulted in Cian's abhorrence to use the Semblance, unless in extreme circumstances.

Weapons and Abilities
Cian's weapon is a short, curved sword, which can be used as a melee weapon. It has two transformations, first as a harpoon gun, and the second as a hook, which is used primarily when storing the weapon. Besides the actual combatitive uses, the weapon was built for getting food, especially through fishing, and moving through rough terrain. His semblance is called "Shadow Form", which was initially thought to be a temporary augmentation of physical abilities. After intense training, this ability was improved to the point where the ability can match Cian up to almost any opponet physically. However, the ability has two major weaknesses, as the form can only last a minute or two, and Cian looses most of the control of himself. This second downside is one of Cian's fears, causing him to not use the ability as commonly as some others.

Beyond his Weapon and Semblance, Cian has a few other abilities, notably in survival skills. He is proficient in hunting, fishing, and cooking, but is not the most creative when it comes to receipes. He has become fairly stealthy, and has above average speed.

Backstory
Cian Pyrite was born in Vacuo, and spent the majority of his life moving through the desert. Early in life, his parents would develope the basics of survival in the harsh conditions, despite his rather sKinney frame. Luckily for him, their group was fortunate enough to have relatively few attacks from the creatures of Grimm, with the few eventful attacks being expelled by some of the older members. As Cian grew older, the group felt emboldened by their apparent safety, and so moved from the lands surrounding Shade Academy to the Kingdom's northern coast. Here, a small "city" would pop up, as multiple nomadic groups settled nearby, know locally as "Mistrock". In this new environment, Cian would develop new skills, from fishing on the coastline, to petty theft in the marketplace.

Unfortunately, large groups of people inevitably leads to an influx of negative emotion, and that, in turn, leads to the arrival of the Grimm. Cian had been going through his initial routine, moving through the marketplace to find something valuable he could take and sell. He searched for about an hour, before laying his eyes on a small necklace, made of gold, just laying on a counter. Surprised to see something of that value anywhere in Windbank, he left his guard down when he grabbed it, causing the shop owner to immediately yell after him. In his confusion, Cian looked behind his shoulder, causing him to to trip, breaking his wrist, and shattering the connections of the necklace. Cian would swiftly be captured, and brought to the community's "prison", essentially just pits in the ground, while the shopowner mourned the loss of a family heirloom. The initial attack came as no surprise, and was assumed to be simply a few Beowolves that had wandered close enough to find Mistrock's borders, sensing the minor strife of the everyday struggle. The attitude changed once an Ursa broke through the gates. The population ran, trying everything possible to escape, while the Grimm flooded into the town, destroying every building in sight. Cian found himself safe due to the pit collapsing, burying him under a foot of dirt as he heard the Grimm rumbling through the place he called home.

After the noise had died down, Cian dug himself out of the hole, taking a few moments to analyze his environment, then moving quickly toward his home. His father was nowhere to be found, but his mother was visible, seemingly thrown through the hut and then killed by a Grimm. As he was leaving, Cian grabbed some fish, a water bottle, a knife, and a sack to put it all in. Afterwards, he moved along the North coast of Sanus, only stopping to hunt, eat, and sleep. Eventually, he arrived at some of the outskirts of the Kingdom of Vale, rapidly changing his routine to move along safer paths, until he made his way to the the City of Vale. This gave Cian a feeling of safety he had not felt in a long time. He found his appreciation for the idea of safety, forming his opinion that it should be a benefit that all people have, that no group should be alone and unprotected.

With this newfound purpose, Cian dedicated himself to become a part of the hunter's academy, Beacon, through rigorous personal training and education, even going so far as to forge his own weapon, modeled after ones he was familiar with back at home, and training his semblance into a skill that could be used in combat. After a couple of attempts, Cian was able to attend Beacon academy, and joined Team KHPR (Copper). In the Academy, he would advance his fighting ability more, make friends with his teammates, and get a formal education. While he was a little behind in physical strength, he was the most agile of his team, often attacking from the shadows. When the first invasion of Grimm came to Vale, KHPR assisted in repelling some of the major Grimm, with Cian helping to kill multiple Grimm. When Beacon collapsed, KHPR left the city, moving alongside the mountains bordering the Kingdom.

Trivia

 * Cian is a reference to the color Cyan, while his last name is referring to the material Pyrite, otherwise known as "Fool's Gold"
 * Cian is based off of Gollum