The Black Shroud

"Who knows what evil lurks the hearts of men? The Black Shroud Knows. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Appearance
A 30 year old man. He is 6'2, weighing 180 pounds. Lamar is slender, muscular man with black slick hair, brown eyes, with a fair skin complexion. His outfit is a black trench-coat that covers his body, a pair of knee high boots, and black gloves. He wears a wide-brim fedora and a long scarf that wraps around his lower face and a cape that's attach to his trench-coat. He has two gun holsters attach to his side torso.

Personality
The Black Shroud distribute righteous justice to the guilty around the world. He is not afraid to kill criminals as he believes it is justice at work. The Shroud does not care what status the criminals are he will hunt them down. He does not see himself as a crime-fighter, he sees himself as an agent of justice and vengeance. He is not blood-thirsty killer, he will give criminals a choice to walk away or face his wrath. When the criminals make the wrong choice, he gleefully kills them while laughing, and make a speech why the criminals' grisly end are right and justify

Background
Lamar Cranston was an Atlas Military Specialist with the focus in espionage and intelligence. When he graduate from Atlas Academy, his parents died in a car crash that left him a decent inheritance, which then he uses to make sound investments making him wealthier. He was a field agent that's being through around the world hunting terrorists, international crime organizations, and clearing Grimm through thick and thin. His service harden him and made him the man who he is now. After he left the military, he traveled around the world, mainly Mistral to train in furthering his abilities. After viewing many injustices around the world during his service and travels, he saw that the worst kind of evil are committed by Man and Faunus, but the world turns a blind eye as they only see the Grimm as the only true evil that the world must fight. He had seen the atrocities that humans and Faunus would do another, how the government will use the military for their own selfish purposes, and how the law is made to not stop the scum of the world but ended up benefitting the criminal scum even further. Decided that there are enough Huntsmen take care of the Grimm, he decided to start his own hunt, fighting evil itself. He will not serve under Atlas, Huntsmen, or the law but as an agent of justice itself as justice is absolute. He uses his playboy status to cover his brutal vigilantism, and as a way to infiltrate the higher class of criminals that uses their influence to further their crime spree. He set up his headquarters in Vale as he heard of the increased robberies and criminal activities in the city. Nevertheless of his headquarter, he travels the world serving righteous justice to the guilty, thanks to his agents. Over the years, he had a become the stuff of legends among the criminal underworld all around Remnant. Stories of feats against the vermin of Remnant, from the drug pier massacre, the rescue of children hostages from the White Fang, the shooting of a violent Faunus hate group, to the utter destruction of a homicidal cult lead a serial killer. The only knowledge of that the criminal have on the Black Shroud is his laughter, they wonder which unholy, unjust, wicked villain will be his next target? The Black Shroud knows HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Weapons and Abilities
He dual wields 2 .45 caliber pistols and have a hidden knife under both of his wrist. His pistols can combined into a high powered sub-machine gun. He is capable of hand to hand combat well-adapt in various martial arts, a master in stealth and espionage, good at tracking and investigating. He uses his dual pistols to maximum efficiency, hitting his mark with remarkable precision. He has a hypo-ring on his left middle finger to daze or cloud the minds of men, it works on weak minded people or willing people. He is very knowledgeable of the underworld around the world as he has a vast network agents around the world feeding him information. His agents could be people owning him a life-debt to the Shroud when he saved them or people willing to join his crusade against crime. He's able to project his voice to sound like it's everywhere when taunting his enemies.

Semblance
The Shadow: he will engulf himself in black smoke and he can teleport anywhere in his field of vision. It helps his stealth, as the smoke clouds the opponents' vision making him look invisible.

Trivia

 * CNR Lamar is Old French meaning 'from the sea' so sea reminds one of the color blue.
 * He is the direct inspiration, hell the plagiarized version of The Shadow! Even the Semblance is his name!
 * The Artwork is NOT My Work! Credit goes to the original artist.