Rory Wilson



Appearance
Rory Wilson is a skinny young boy of medium height. Rory has red hair and dark grey eyes. He likes to wear white pants and a white plain shirt. Over this he wears a red hooded coat with several flaps hanging over his hips and a gold trim and gold shoulder pads embedded in red leather. He finishes his look with sturdy looking black shoes with silver plating on the sides and his weapons in gauntlet form on his wrists.

Backstory
Rory was born to a rather wealthy and loving family, son to a housewife and a politician. His parents allowed him to do anything and everything that his heart desired as long as it wasn’t too illegal. As a little kid his father usually never had time to do any serious father-son-bonding but despite this Rory still idolized his dad almost as much as he did huntsmen and huntresses. As Rory attended primary school he didn’t have many friends but the ones that he did have were very good friends, they had all the same interests and would often come over to play or host sleepovers.

This lasted until his friend Van got bullied, the rest of the group initially stood up to the bully but he wouldn’t listen to reason and he would seek the protection of teachers when Rory and his friends tried to get physical. When Rory’s mother noticed Van no longer being included in the group and inquired about this she learned about Van being bullied and contacted the school staff about it. When the school staff asked Van about the bullying he denied it out of fear. Despite this show of loyalty on Van’s side the bullying didn’t just continue, it worsened and the bully even started terrorizing Rory and his other friends. Faced with this adversary who they couldn’t defeat with mere brawn the group did the only sensible thing they could think of. They saved up some money and used it, in combination with a newly discovered illusion semblance, to purchase some dust. Dust in hand the group confronted the bully and froze him in place. While Rory did get scolded by his parents for doing this instead of asking help there were no serious consequences.

Having tasted of the pure rush of adrenaline that combat provided Rory became increasing Violent, At first he only showed up and got physical with his friends as a normal form of playing but eventually Rory Started to aggress other people if they started to bully others. While he did get punished, scolded and put in time out Rory couldn’t care less, in the end he was convinced he did the right thing and to him that was the only thing he cared about.

It was because of this violence that his parents decided to put him on a path towards channeling this towards something good, therefore they proposed to send him to signal academy. Rory couldn’t be happier there, He had fighting classes, weapon forging and all that good stuff that he used to dream about since he was little. Rory fit right in and had many friends but lost contact with his old palls because he lacked time to meet them regularly. Rory performance at signal also wasn’t bad, his grades were well above average and passed with flying collars. After signal he attended beacon academy, which went equally well.

During the fall of beacon Rory felt betrayed and angry. He took it out on the abundant grimm population while defending a safe zone. After everyone was rescued and extracted Rory went home, he needed some time to evaluate what happened, how it could happen and what that meant. After he thought he spent enough time idle he left home in search of the rest of his team while doing some bounty missions on the side for money.

Personality
Rory is a rather helpful soul who often feels as though he needs to help people and does not have any complains if this means bringing injustice to those more lucky though he’d prefer to settle things without doing anyone wrong. He believes that in everything there must be a balance and strives to accomplish this whenever possible. He dislikes being forced to do things that endanger him or put him at a disadvantage and will suggest someone else does so before he’d do it himself. Rory is rather rash and often helps those who don’t need help in such a way that they end up worse than how they started out.

When angered Rory will often speak in a more formal and polite manner than usual, in contradiction to his otherwise more direct and uncensored behavior and speech. Furthermore he has a quirk that he often starts sentences with interjections. Other quirks of his include his dislike towards cheese and fear and dislike for cats.

Semblance
Rory’s semblance allows him to materialize up to three exact copies of his own weapons control these telepathically at a basic level, Furthermore he can also choose to make them partly incorporeal. This has two main utilities. Firstly by choosing to only materialize the dust he can choose to only use the copied dust while keeping the original dust safe. Secondly he can choose to fully materialize his weapons in sword form to allow him to use 8 swords at once for either offense or defense.

There are several drawbacks to using this semblance though. Firstly the created weapons (or parts thereof) glow brightly and can reveal his location should he require stealth. Secondly, materializing things is distracting and does mess with his concentration, making using this for defense a rather bad idea as he’ll have trouble parrying or blocking attacks or using dust accurately. Furthermore, overuse of this semblance does cause headaches.

Rory named his semblance damocles as when he first discovered it it copied his weapons in sword form and they hung above him



Weapons
Might and insight are Rory’s weapons of choice, they’re a pair of sleek braces equipped with small dust cartridges that can quickly transform into swords. The weapon is equipped with fire, ice, lightning and wind dust. Its noteworthy that Rory packs about a fourth the amounts of dust he could carry.

In gauntlet form the weapon is made up of three important parts, the upper part and the two sides Dust  is embedded in the gauntlet diagonally and kept in flexible tubing. It can be discharged by a from the palm of the hand by a small metal rod emerging from the front of the braces that ends in a spiraling circle. Alternatively it’s possible to discharge dust from the vents at the other end of the gauntlet

The transformation process begins by having the upper part of the braces slide into the side parts and the side parts folding open. Rory then needs to quickly grab the small rod near his palm to avoid the semi-transformed weapon falling. Afterwards the gauntlet closes up and a blade slides out from the closed gauntlet. While the back half of the gauntlet closes the front part disassembles completely into thin curving metal strips which twist and turn to form a handguard. Lastly the parts of the gauntlet that remain closed slide down to the base of the sword to provide a small cross guard. This entire process happens fast enough for Rory to transform it mid-punch and he often uses this feature to catch opponents off-guard

<p class="MsoNormal">With the weapon now in sword mode it’s still capable of releasing dust and does so from the cross guard to deal additional sword damage using fire or ice dust or from the pommel to propel it using wind dust. After much training Rory is also known to be capable to use aura to slash at his targets. He combines this technique with his dust releasing to do more damage.

<p class="MsoNormal">Rory always carries extra ammunition on his belt in hexagonal plates, Dust is exchanged magnetically, meaning Rory only has to hold his weapons next to them to charge them. While his weapons are topped up on dust Rory can forgo using his semblance to constantly refuel it and use it to augment the potency of his dust attacks. Alternatively Rory could also discharge different kinds of dust or discharge it in up to 8 different directions.

Trivia
<p class="MsoNormal">Rory is derived from raudh, meaning red-colored hair or complexion, and righ, meaning king.

<p class="MsoNormal">I highly doubt it’s needed but Van, the name of Rory’s bullied childhood friend, is derived from vanilla