Arden Forsenthe

"Taste the power of Gauss."

- Arden Forsenthe

Appearance
Arden is a tall boy with flowing brown hair that goes down to the back of his neck and parts in the middle. He has heterochromia in his eyes. The left being golden in colour and the right being brown, but the left eye is covered by an eyepatch most of the time. His mouth is curled into a frown and offsets his slightly raised eyebrows. He wears a vest and t-shirt with a pair of cargo pants.

Personality
Arden is easygoing, he likes people and will talk to them, but can be by himself if needs be, He wont go out looking for a teammate or people to work with, but when he does, he's a team palyer all the way. He is an introvert, but on the edge of it, a she can also take in some energy from being with others. His most prized possesion is his sniper rifle and will go to any extents to protect it, or reretrieve it.

Weapon and Abilities
Arden is very proficient with sniper rifles, being able to use any within five minutes of picking it up. He also has some skill with small arms like pistols, but his accuracy is not quite the same. Albeit, he does carry a .26 caliber pistol in a hidden holster on the left side of his cargo pants.

Arden's left eye has 4.0 vision, the regular human vision being 2.0, thus, his left eye is 2 times stronger than his right eye. Since it causes massive headaches when he uses both eyes to see, he started wearing an eye patch over his left when he is not sniping. His left eye allows him to snipe without the use of a scope.

Flaming Gauss is Arden's sniper rifle. Although it is not a Gauss Canon, his preference of firing rounds with fire element dust most of time gives it the name, Flaming Gauss. He can switch to any other element dust if he prefers. Arden can also fire aura amplified rounds with more impact, but can only fire a limit of 30 per day. The same is true for when he uses his sidearm. So if he uses 15 shots on his sidearm and 15 on his sniper, he's spent for the day.  Gauss Shot:  Arden's most devastating move. He can only fire 1 per 10 days, and after the shot, will be too exhausted to even move. Before the shot, Arden must be undisturbed for 10 minutes, as he is inputting all of his aura into the sniper rifle. Once he is ready, he fires a single shot which absolutely obliterates everything in a 15x15x15 meter box. The range is effectively 100 meters to 1.5 kilometers.

Backstory
Arden was born into a middle class family in a small town located in the west end of Vale. His father was a family doctor who charged cheaply to all his patients, and his mother was a nurse, always by his father's side, be it at the clinic, or at home.

Arden was raised to always be fair and just, never to be angry or to take out his rage on others. His parents warned that things done hastily would always lead to regret, and he has followed those words to this day.

When Arden grew to be or 10 years old, he decided to become a Hunter, his parents were originally against it, trying to convince him otherwise, to become a lawyer, or join the army if needs to be, but to not go and fight the creatures of Grimm. However, after 5 months of persistence, they caved in, after all, even they couldn't be blind to the fact that their son was an extraordinary marksman. They had seen him practicing, and constantly hitting the bull’s-eye in their backyard with the hunting rifle which he had borrowed from one of his fathers' patients.

Arden hated one thing about the sniper rifle though, and that was the scope, he hated pressing his eye against the rubber or metal casing and adjusting to zoom in on his targets, but just before he was to go to Signal Academy, a revelation came to him.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">His father was treating a young faunus girl of an terminal disease. It is said that she had only a few days left to live. She was quite different from regular fauna, having not animal ears, but eagle eyes, with which she saw the world in much higher clarity than humans. Arden had nursed a soft spot for this girl for many years, and was quite downtrodden to hear that she would soon pass on. She spent the last few days at Dr. Forsenthe's home, being amused by his son. Arden made sure that she would spend the last few days of her life in happiness, and on the final nightfall, finally puckered up the courage to say what he had wanted for years, much to her sobbing, but that night of his life was the best. Not because of what most people think what would have commenced afterward, but because he was pleased to hear that she had also started to develop feelings for him as well. Unfortunately, tomorrow would be her last day in the world.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">After her death, Arden was quite downtrodden, but he needed soemthing to drive away the grief, even though all he wanted to do was weep at her grave. He resolved to go to Signal Academy a few weeks early just to keep himself focused on other things rahter then his beloved's death.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;background-position:initialinitial;background-repeat:initialinitial;">Arden is now headed to Beacon in order to fulfill his dream, but he secretly keeps a lock or Ariana's hair inside his left pocket of his vest, and will continue to do so until his death.