Auburn Browning

Auburn is a 18 year old first year student of Beacon academy. He is currently the leader of a non-exsisting team and uses the "Hades Hydra" a Duel Double-Barreled Double-Sided Shotgun Staff (DDBDSSS or DDBSS)

Personality
Auburn is charming and confident. His personality is well known for his friendly attitude and perfect communication and speech skills. And because he emits such a friendly personality, it makes it easier for him to persuade people with his excellent way with words, making him charming. As a person gets to know Auburn more, they begin to notice how ambitious and serious of a person that Auburn can be, which changes the way that person looks at him. However, Auburn can often times be forgetful as well as being regretful about past events. Although, Auburn is also well known for being creative and sometimes failing at it, he shows this on the fact that he tries to come up with new ideas but ends up figuring out that his idea isn’t special. For instance, when he made his weapon thinking he made a weapon unique for himself he finds out that another person made a similar weapon, he becomes so upset about it, it makes it difficult for him to focus, but eventually gets over it. Also, Auburn notably has a liking to roses.

History
Auburn lived an pretty average life; he lived with his parents, attended school, and had a job. As a child Auburn did not have any friends, so he was a quiet child. Due to his quiet nature he was often ignored and the others would always pick on him for not having any friends. So he became angry and retaliated in a fight, which got him in trouble and a scolding from his mother which then taught him to tell people how he felt and to find humor in insults. As Auburn grew older he learned to communicate perfectly with people by practicing speech and reading literature because he had nothing better to do, and he made some friends. However, shortly after, Auburn had to move on the fact that his father got promoted at his job at the Schnee Dust Company and was moved to Vale.

Auburn began to feel lonely and depressed because he had to leave his friends behind, but then moved on. He began to become bored with life and decides to research the history of Remnant and discovers how amazing the world can be. At this point Auburn wants to join the ranks of hunters and huntresses to see the world in a different view. He told his parents that he was going to drop out his current school to join Signal Academy to train and become a Hunter. His parents supported him and enrolled him.

As Auburn takes the first step to becoming a hunter he realizes that he must work hard to achieve his goal and prepared for the things he is about to learn. He mastered his studies and training giving him good grades as well as respect. However, with this recognition other students became jealous, and plotted against Auburn. A group of students stole a supply of Dust from the school and placed the action on Auburn, framing him. Auburn did not understand why all the evidence was pointed towards him, but sense he has nothing to back himself up, he accepted his punishment and was suspended and failed the year. Although, his dream of becoming a hunter has been pushed further away from him, he still continued to work towards his goal.

In that time of suspension Auburn decided to study and train even though his chances of becoming a hunter might be gone forever. He just wasn’t going to give up on his dream. However his parents thought it was unhealthy that Auburn was obsessing over his suspension, so they told him to look for a job to pass the time until he would be allowed back into the school. He found a local dust shop and decided to get a job there. He was getting some lien and was doing a good job in the first week. But then one day, near closing time, a customer walked in the store with her hood over her head. Auburn told the customer that it was closing time, but she said “Don’t worry, I won’t take long…” And the girl pulls a gun on Auburn and demanded for him to give her all the dust she can carry. Auburn, although surprised, notice that the girl was holding the gun upside down with her pinky finger on the trigger. He told the girl “You do know that you’re holding your gun upside down, right?” She replied “Shut up and give me all the dust you have!” and fired a round into a bottle across the room, shattering it. Even though her hood was covering here eyes, Auburn notice that the girl seemed to be about his age, but before he could say anything, the girl turn the gun into a sword and slice the cash register in half and again demanded dust. Auburn decided there’s no way to reason with this girl and gives her the dust. As he gave her the dust he snatches the weapon out of the girls hand and points it at her. And with no movement wasted, the girl pulls out another weapon and open fires on Auburn. He dodged the attack and the girl hooked her weapon back out of his hand using what looked like a belt, and then began firing at him behind the counter. She then seized fire and grabbed the dust and ran out the store.

Auburn thought to himself “I was just robbed by a girl; I need to go after her. Either that or I lose my job.” And he ran out after the girl.

Weapon & Abilities
Auburn as a 1st year student excels in combat using staff weapons as well as hand to hand combat. There’s no doubt that he was at the top of his class in combat training. His weapon is the “Hades Hydra” a Duel Double-Barreled Double-Sided Shotgun Staff (DDBDSSS or just DDBSS). It is break-loaded and fires custom 16-gauge standard buckshot, can also be loaded the 16-gauge dragon-breath shell and the .663 frostbite slug round that Auburn carries with him. In addition shotgun’s stock can fold-up to become longer and attach with the other identical shotgun to become as long as a staff, and another mechanism this weapon has is that the shotguns folded-up stocks can extend when in staff mode increasing its length and reach.

Auburn has trained in Japanese style Bojustu during his time at Signal and time of suspension which he combines with his shotgun skills. One of the techniques he uses is when using his weapon in staff mode where he is firing it as he spins it rapidly around his body and reloading it at the same time so it continues firing. Another technique he uses is maneuvering around using the gun’s recoil, for example, “shotgun pole vaulting”. Although his weapon skills use Bojustu with shotguns, his hand to hand combat is quite different. Auburn combines Chinese Wing Chun with Jeet Kune Do martial arts. He’s also notably a good dart thrower and also combines acrobatic parkour with all his fighting styles.

Auburn, having decent combat skills can give him some advantages I battle, but however, his aura and semblance skills are basic and unfinished. His semblance gives him the ability to change an object’s kinetic and potential energy. He uses these abilities to give his weapon or objects supposedly devastating results. In order to uses his semblance he must have skin contact with the object he desires to charge, but when Auburn is charging an object with kinetic or potential the time it takes to charge that object, depends on its mass, and more mass equals more charge time. In addition, he can also charge his entire body with kinetic and potential energy which should give him greater reflexes, coordination, speed, and strength until he uses all the energy in his body. But this ability however, is difficult for Auburn to use; he could only do it if he concentrates enough or does not use his semblance for an extended period time. And there is one major negative when Auburn uses his semblance, charging an object can make it unstable and dangerous for him and others around him.