Wynston Arkwright

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not steal nor edit MY property. - Fiernull

Winchor was a professional oboist who became a freelance events planner/intelligence agent for personal reasons.

Appearance
Winchor possesses a youthful appearance, despite being in his late 20's. He gives off the impression of an easygoing individual: hands in the pocket, slouched shoulders, and messy long brunette hair. He has soft yellow eyes that usually gaze at nothing in particular, either thinking of something or trying to conceal where his focus is. His body is mildy athletic and lean. As for his faunus trait, he has the white scales of a king cobra covering his entire back and nape. His back also has red chevron-shaped with forward-pointed apices, a typical stripe in king cobras.

His usual wear is business casual, composed of dark red sweater- with a white half mask, its design alluded to king cobra's scales, at the back-, white collared shirt, brown belt, black jeans, and a pair of black shoes customized for running. Being a mask enthusiast, Winchor wears assorted half masks around his neck. He also wears a silver-colored self-winding watch with black leather straps on his right wrist.

Winchor would sometimes carry around Adlig Teufel strapped on his hips.

Background
Birthplace: Atlas

Winchor is the second born of the Woodman family, one of the branch families of the Scharfsinnhardt family and, to the extent, the Bluthardt family. He grew up with his human older half-brother, Incendio, who was the result of an affair between cousins, whom he shared the same father but different mothers.

He was six when Mr. Woodman, a pianist, enrolled him and Incendio at Silver Note School of Music, a prestigious music school famous for producing competitive musicians. Their father had brought them to a concert band competition beforehand to share his passion as well as encourage them to try out music. While his older half-brother became fascinated with classical music, Winchor wasn't much enthused and felt forced to go along with the flow anyway because he couldn't think of any alternative to music and typical studies taught in schools.

However, at his first music class, Winchor's interest to music was aroused upon meeting Lena Silvernote, one of the grandchildren of the owner of the music school, whom he immediately had crush on. He even chose the same musical instrument the young beauty was also playing: an oboe, despite it being one of the most difficult woodwind instruments to play. Even so, it gave him a chance to get to know and befriend Lena when they were instructed to form a woodwind section. The girl became his reason for playing music.

The music school was without its flaws though. Winchor, being a snake faunus, had been subjected to passive-aggressivene remarks and humiliation by some of his teachers. It was thanks to his older half-brother, who stood up against racist adults, that he was able to endure such experiences.

As his childhood years with Lena and Incendio was filled with sense of normality, 8-year-old Winchor got a taste of what was like to hold and fire a pistol, courtesy of Mrs. Woodman, a Huntress and a former guardian of his father. It was enough for him to become fond of firearms, especially sniper rifle, which is his mother's main weapon. His training became the starting point of his journey to assassination work for the Bluthardt family. Firing a shotgun, close-ranged, at the wanna-be kidnapper of Lena was his first assassination. He was ten at that time under the supervision of Ardon Springfield.

Winchor continued his music career throughout his teenage years and early adulthood while learning the ropes of the family's inner workings along with Incendio and studying how to use various firearms. He grew closer to Lena, even becoming best friends and joining the same concert band just to stay together.

At the age of 24, Winchor confessed his love to Lena. And got politely rejected, to which he appeared to accept smoothly. The woman confessed to him that she's in love with Incendio. When she asked whether he could help her with his brother, Winchor immediately agreed. To add more fun to his willingness to help Lena, a few weeks later, his older half-brother revealed to him that he wanted to win Lena's heart.

With these things in mind, Winchor decided to become the duo's bridge. He began teasing them by pairing them off in front of the concert band, much to the duo's embarrassment. It didn't take long before friends and acquaintances began teasing them too. To fan the flames, he set up the duo for a date by inviting them to watch a play with him, which he intentionally didn't attend due to “cold”. The next day, Lena and Incendio revealed that their romantic relationship is official.

Fast forward a year later, the two were in steady relationship and planning to get engaged soon. This was when Winchor decided to organize a bal masqué (masquerade ball), with the assistance of the concert band members and few friends of his family, to celebrate the day the duo became a couple. On the other hand, he insisted to his brother to use this opportunity to propose to Lena. His idea of a bal masqué stemmed from his fascination of masks that occurred to him at some point in time when he went to a circus with some of his relatives.

(Latent Troubles)

Upon the announcement of Lena and Incendio's engagement a day after the bal masqué, Winchor resigned from his music career a week later. He only reasoned that his interest doesn't aligned with music anymore. Deeper than that, he realized that couldn't play the way he usually does, his music sounding rather stiff, subdued, and lacking something even if he followed the music score without flaws. After all, for a long time, he only played for Lena and nothing else.

He was 25 when he turned to events management industry as a freelance events manager. Other than that, such kind of work gave him more opportunity to collect and make masks all over Remnant as well as form more contacts as an intelligence agent.

Post-BOB
Winchor went to Vale to make sure that his events service providers in the kingdom are still intact. He decided to stay in the kingdom for the meantime as a vacation from work.

He received Adlig Teufel as a welcome gift from Casper Bluthardt and Brunhilde Engelnacht. Though called as a gift, it was more like an inheritance since it was formerly owned by Cyzarine, whom he had met some point in time in his preteen years. (Latent Troubles has an extra showing a snippet of this).

Personality
Winchor is rather absent-minded and appears to be very busy inside his head, usually unaware of his eyes drilling at someone else's back, as he takes pleasure occupying himself with his own thoughts. He also hum a music occupying his mind while moving his fingers likened to playing an oboe. He's usually relaxed, and welcomes having a good conversation and small talk over tea or whiskey. Sometimes, he can be a bit awkward and clumsy when flustered. Despite coming from a not-so-honest background, he's fairly sincere and feels uncomfortable playing around in psychological sense. He can be considered too normal and naive for a Bluthardt.

In a company of women, Winchor tends to take note their appearance with meticulous eyes but not stare too long to imply something else. He also likes complimenting them, something that comes naturally to him thanks to his previous experience doing so to his future sister-in-law. Moreover, he's much more cordial and somewhat submissive around women while competitive, in a friendly way, in a circle of gentlemen.

Although not obvious, Winchor has a focus of a sniper and attention of a musician in an ensemble when doing his job as an events planner. It's also not obvious that he's a hardened marksman given his side jobs from the family. Not to mention, his madness is skillfully shrouded.

"A substitute is not meant to be exact as the original. But for as long as your desired concept of the original exists in the substitute, that alone is good enough."

- Winchor, trying to get over Lena

Powers/Abilities
Winchor is a high-caliber, veteran marksman. He can control his breathing, has refined muscle memory, and has sharp ears and eyes (with night vision as a faunus) to shoot a target with frightening speed and accuracy. He has the skills to execute fanning, gun spinning, and random handling tricks with semi-automatic firearms like a circus performer while shooting. However, his hand-to-hand combat skills are terrible enough to only take on Huntsmen/Huntresses-in-training. Furthermore, he also has terrible endurance level in direct combat situations.

He is an events planner, specializing in prom parties, kiddie parties, upper class gatherings, and bal masqué. Winchor's capability in this type of work stems from his ability to listen to his clients and iron out plans with them. In addition, Winchor is good retaining relationships with his network of events-related businesses through “balanced” referrals to other businesses, where he gets generous commissions.

Winchor is also a mask hobbyist, possessing an above mediocre skill to create and design masks with his own hands. He's still skilled playing an oboe, practicing from time to time despite quitting his music career.

His red-colored Aura is strong but has modest reserves.

Semblance: TBA.

Weapons
Winchor didn't have a main weapon as he was mostly focused on his job and preferred to keep his options open.

Adlig Teufel v.2 - Dual Dust Dagger Pistols (DDDP)

A pair of customized, military-grade, 10-inch barreled, slightly bulky semi-automatic Desert Eagles usually loaded with magazines of Impact Dust-infused bullets. Their theme color was changed from purple with black outlines to white with red ones.

They have two, small, 7-slotted revolving chambers containing secured vial of Dusts installed under the gun barrel from the front of the trigger up to the part behind the front sight. Dust exhaust ports, where Dusts are released for each chambers, are inside the barrels. Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Ice, Lightning, and Gravity Dusts are constantly used by these pistols.

The barrels and the revolving chambers are made of titanium while the grips are made of dense materials to withstand the gun's strong recoil and to hit enemies mainly on the head. The part where the hammer is has seven buttons with corresponding colors to control the Dusts to be used in the revolving chambers. The button in the middle is for opening the chambers.

To use these gun's Dust-infused chambers, the user has to press the same button twice to use the same Dusts from the two chambers. If the user desires to use two different Dusts at the same time, the two buttons connected to the corresponding Dusts only need to be pressed once each. The Dusts' power released in the barrels from the chambers through the Dust exhaust port will be utilized when bullets pass through them.

The weapons also have dagger blades, which are made of milspec steel mixed with S7 shock steel and then covered with carbon nanotubes, on top of the guns' barrel and bottom of the revolving chambers (in short the guns' barrel and chambers act like a fuller). The blades are 7.5 inches long and are installed in a way they pass through the muzzles by three inches. However, the dagger blades cannot be inserted with Dust from the dual revolving chambers of the gun and has to rely on external sources.

The weapons' handle can straighten up slightly to align with the barrels in order to be used as daggers. The gears for this are on top of the guns' grips.

More details here.

Trivia

 * Winchor = Winter + Ichor
 * Ichor is the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods and/or immortals. (Wikipedia)
 * Winchor's way of pairing off Lena and Incendio is inspired by this. Read the general overview.
 * I thought it'll be a waste not to use Adlig Teufel anymore. Thus, the “inheritance”.