Auburn Radcliff

Auburn Radcliff is a member of Team LAPZ.

Appearance
Auburn is a rather tall, muscular boy, looking older than he actually does due to his messy auburn hair and goatee he sports. His eyes are a light blue he got form his mother's side of the family.

Personality
Despite being the youngest, Auburn does possess a sense of responsibility and a drive to please people, this coming from where he lived. Being the youngest of six other siblings doesn't always have its perks and he feels caught in his siblings shadows because of this despite the respect he has for several. As such, to get attention, he would always do his best, making him hot-blooded and rather impulsive. His immaturity is also relevant when dealing with those older than him. While he will respect people like the professors at Beacon Academy, minus one he has never met, he will have difficulty showing respect to those older than him, this includes his teammates as he is, once again, the youngest of the group, and so tries to prove himself as the strongest asset, however this also comes form his hatred for his oldest brother, Carmine Radcliff and his parents that abandoned him and the other siblings. But what he doesn't realize is that his ability to lgihten the mood in a tense situation makes him valuable, as well as his ability to stay good-hearted, if a bit selfish. He is also jealous of his comrade's abilities" Liadan for her intelligence, knowledge of Dust and strategy, Zaffre for her knwoledge in Weapons, and another for his knowledge in Martial Arts.

He wants to feel like he belongs, that he can do something right and not be expected to do anything. He felt this way ever since he could comprehend the fact he was useless. This fuels his own rage and self-loathing that his self-preservation is a bit...off to the point he values everything over his own life, wanting to please others and having meaning in his own life.

When a person is in need of something he will help them, displaying his caring side, though this is merely to leave his mark as Auburn Radcliff, and not as the youngest son of the Radcliffs. Sadly he has a perverted side that makes him rather...annoying to say the least.

He has a deep hatred for being called Assistant, seing as his partner likes to do so A LOT. And while she is older than him, he has some respect for Zaffre Perrault because of her experience, but won't admit this outloud due to his immaturity against those who claim to be older than him.

One of his rather questionable traits, when he isn't looking at perverted manga or magazines, is that he has a soft spot for cute things. And while he won't admit it, he does swing the other way, thus making it difficult to approach him, as several students claim. The rumors about him are mostly true, and that you will rarely find this man making a cool-headed decision. If you do, Liadan forced him ot take something. He is often the source of her entertainment with how easily angered he can get...and she will abuse reverse psychology to get him ot do what she wants.

In other words: He is an idiot that is easy to control through anger.

Backstory
Auburn was born the seventh son of the Radcliffs, and for his whole life lived under his older siblings shadows. Up until he was eight, he couldn't understand why he was always spoile,d never haivng to do chores and allowed to be a lazy, spoiled child. Then it came to him during one night, where he overheard his parents saying they mgiht have to give up one of the children, and his father suggested the lesser asset. He meant Auburn. The Radcliffs weren't poor, but they weren't rich, existing in the middle for their entire lives, but as of late they were having money issues and were on a heavy budget. The oldest son wanted to go to Beacon Academy and managed ot get in, but the parents were forced to work even harder for his tuition. They fueled all their money into the eldest son and in response the eldest son didn't care about being a hunter despite begging to go.

This caused some strife with the family as the eldest son began borrowing and never returing the money he spent, only going to parties and the lot and only wanted to get into BEacon because he wanted to be seen as something special. Due to this the family was forced to work harder than before, but they never found out what the eldest son was doing. When his father mentioned giving up Auburn, the next day Auburn began doing chores around the house, trying to show he wasn't useless, but failed as he only managed to make a mess of things.

As he got older his parents were away, leaving the silbings to themselves a lot. Auburn looked up to his eldest sister the most, Amaranth, because of her kindness and showing him love. Its because of her that Auburn and the second youngest daughter, Terra, were able to stay at the house. As the years went by, the siblings began getting jobs of their own and began going to Signal, Sanctum, or earning jobs that would support the family, like Amaranth, who opened a Bakery. Auburn would help her a lot and when she was old enough took him and Terra to live with her at the store. As he got older he realized what his eldest brother had been doing. One day the eldest brother, Carmine, asked for some money from Amaranth, and she gave him some. Auburn followed him and found out that he wasn't using the money he claimed to have been, instead spening it on friviolities and disrespecting his own siblings, even saying he swindled his own sister, the same sister who was kind enough to beleive his story.

Auburn told Amaranth, and turns out she knew. The boy was confused, why help him? Amaranth explained that it was to show that she still had faith in her elder sibling. Auburn confronted his borther on this, but in response was beaten to near death. He found himself in a hospital, Amaranth and Terra, as well as his other siblings, minus Carmine, by him. Carmine vanished, no one knew where he went, and Auburn felt pathetic, as his trip to the hospital only added to the already skyrocketing debt the family had. And that wasn't the worse knews, their father and mother vanished also. The Siblings only had each other. Auburn asked why the siblings didn't leave him ,and he was chatised by all of them, claiming they could never leave him behind, and that he is neither a burden nor a useless person, he is their brother.

Auburn, from hence forth, felt it was right to prove his siblings faith in him wasn't misguided, and after being freed form the hospital, at age 13, decided to enter the nearest hunting school to train to become a huntsmen like his second oldest brother, Vermillion. He and Amaranth were the main breadwinners, taking on the roles of guardians for the other siblings. To be more useful, Auburn took classes in first aid to be something of a medic, thinking he could be more useful if he could help heal wounds. One day, Auburn recieved the invite to Beacon, and swore he would make his siblings proud.

During initiation, he found himslef partnered with a young, rather intelligent yet annoying huntress called Liadan. However, during the initiation, one of the students had to be rushed to a hospital, leaving the initiation a bit....off since there was now a team of three, Liadan as leader, himself, and another student. However, during the second semester of their first year, a new student transfered to Beacon unexpectidly. This new student would be the last member to join but only unti lthe second semester of the next year due to an accident. Once she was paired with them, the team was officially created, LAPC.

Affiliations
Liadan Dormant: Auburn met his future teammate after accidentally landing on her when he couldn't stop his descendt. Feeling sorry he managed to help patch up the girl, and due to the rule of first contact in the forest, the two were forced to be partners. Despite their rather rough start they both grew to depend on the other. Even so, during the times when Lia gets out of hand, he slips an aphrodisiac or two into her food or drink as payback, though once Lia is better, he runs, knowing the blonde scientist will strap him down and use him as a test subject for some kinda crazy concoction.

Putrea Zedong:

Zaffre Perrault:

Abilities and Weapons
Auburn is easily the strongest in terms of strength and defense in his team. Trianing day and night Auburn manages to be the only person on his team with supreme strength and can take the harder hits. If anything he can punch a Grimm straight in the chest and cause some internal damage. However, his strength also makes it difficult for him ot handle fragile things, such as glass, and his temper only makes it worse.

Even so his ability to take hits and dish them out makes him both a great offense and defense for his partner and a foil to her own intelligence and frail body.

His weapon is Tiny Thumb, a fusion of a Kanabo and a pepper-box titled as a Rapid Fire Barrel Club (RFBC). The entire weapon looks like a thicker Kanabo in appearance, but the bat part is also the revolver chamber with spikes that can extend when needed or remain at rest. One shot form the bat is enough to blow a Grimm's head off, not including those with armor covering their entire face (Death Stalker), but the force necessary to make sure one is standing after firing is immense, and even then the shots are limited to five per day. Even so Auburn relies on this feature only when needed until Zaffre can improve on the poor design. Even so the components the weapon is made out of make it an excellent blundgeoning device. The weapon fires explosive dust rounds.

Auburn is basically a mightly glacier, able to take hits and dish them back, but sadly sacrifices speed, making him the slowest on the team. But at the same time he is a medic, being able to help seal wounds and lessen the pain for his teammates if they are injured. Out of his team he is possibly the one with the greatest knowledge in medicine and treatment.

RPG Stats

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 * Strength: S
 * Defense: S
 * Dust Usage: B
 * Aura Usage:A
 * Dust Resistance: B
 * Speed: C
 * Evasion: D
 * Luck: C
 * Intelligence: B

Trivia

 * Auburn is both his name and color while Radcliff means "Red Cliff".
 * Auburn is based on Hop-o'-My-Thumb, or Little Thumb, a fairy tale about the youngest of seven siblings written by Charles Perrault, and famous fictional character and partner of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. James Watson.
 * Auburn is a mixture of Junpei Iori of Persona 3 and Kanji Tatsumi of Persona 4.
 * Auburn's weapon was created by the Hydra Weapons Corporation, aka Krystal Hydralisk, after I told him I wanted him ot wield something akin ot the Batzooka, where it was a bat or a club of sorts but still different.