Gavin Redgrave

WIP"Life would be so boring without a fight every now and again, don't ya think?"

- Gavin, prior to sparring with his brother.

Appearance
Gavin's body build leans more on lithe than muscular, however there is some muscle to his arms due to extensive use of his semblance. He appears friendly with his gentle smile and relaxed posture, only taking on a more serious face when in battle - and even then his overall body language and facial expression still conveys the sense of a man enjoying the moment.

His attire consists a white tunic, slightly loose around the arms but fits his torso nicely. The red string that was supposed to pull the fabric more close to each other

Personality
To describe him, Gavin will appear to those who meet him as laid-back, flippant and maintains a devil-may-care attitude. He is friendly and helpful to those who talk to him, but if they rub off on him the wrong way by showing qualities that he dislikes - generally people who see themselves as superior to others - then he will treat them with the same disrespect by being quick to judge them as a one-sided person, and slow to forgive that person even if they matured. He does have a sense of justice, however there is bias towards humans that give off the impression that they treat faunus unfairly. He is also quick to get into a fight with, be it verbally or physically. He is generally lazy when it comes to work of any sort - besides fighting, of course - and makes the mistake of generally leaving things to the last minute. However there is the sense of some intellectual side to him, as he did design and make his weapons and it does show up every now and then when working in a topic he is interested in.

Underneath his outwards interactions lies a person who has a deep sense of loyalty, and immensely respects those who show they are honourable not through words of titles, but through their actions. He is knowledgeable when it comes to the creates of Grimm, and has a fascination with the myths and legends of the past and as well as past civilisations.

Galatine and Caliburn
These dual guns are personally designed by Gavin and resemble the M1 Garand rifle, however with sawn off barrels and shortened stocks that resemble pistol grips. These guns include a unique dust-infusing system built into the guns through the use of multiple rings that store powdered dust within the barrel. It was intended by Gavin to allow powdered dust canisters to be inserted into the guns grip, and from there small amounts of the powdered dust would be infused into the rings which would charge a bullet as it's fired. In travel mode, the barrels have shortened enough to resemble the length of typical handguns, and will extend out when in use and retract when returning to travel mode.

Second Form - Twinblade.

When Gavin switches to his weapons first melee form, a twinblade, he spins the guns 180 degrees until his hands hold the barrel, and the stocks straighten itself with the rest of the gun. The stocks are then pressed against each other, locking into place - the stocks will serve as the handle of the melee weapon - and the barrel retracts into gun, rendering it useless in this state. Two halves of a blade then slide out from the top and bottom sides of both the guns barrels, extending to sword length and the two halves connect to form complete blades on both ends of the barrels. The handle itself is wide enough for both hands to grip onto it.

Third Form - Greatsword

Activating a mechanism, one of the blades sides - it doesn't matter which blade it is, as both have a mechanism so that either blade does this - retract into a thin version that can fully retract through the handle and to the other blade, which is hollowed enough to perfectly fit the blade. Both blades then split in the middle and halves move aside enough to reveal the guns barrel, extending enough that it can be used to fire.

Semblance
Gavin's semblance can be described as his aura creating a sticky, slimy white and translucent substance that can attach to any tangible surface. He can create this substance from anything that his aura covers and since weapons are a conduit of aura, they too can be used to generate the substance. After experimenting with the semblance, Gavin found it useful in only three ways. While Gavin's main use of them are listed below, he could use them in an ingenious way with enough creativity and an opportunity to execute the move.

The first use is to create glob balls, big enough that most of the ball can be covered by two hands cupping around it. It can only be generated from Gavin's palms and can be thrown like a ball. Anyone unfortunate enough to have a limb or item stuck into it would know that it's easy to put something in the ball, but requires a moment of sudden strength and force to yank and pull out of it. It's main use is to be used as a trap meant to trip up an opponent and leave them stuck until they can yank their foot out of the ball. It's not a difficult task, however it does open up a window of opportunity for an attack as the victims foot is temporarily locked into place. Gavin can only create two glob balls at a time, and can have a maximum of ten placed around at any time. The glob balls will dissolve in a dim shimmer of white light after five minutes have passed.

The second use is to shoot it out web-like form. They are as thick as a finger, but its length and tensile strength are incredible - Gavin could use the webs as a traversal method, but not for long periods of time as the buildup of momentum hinders Gavin rather then help. Like any web, they are easily destroyed when sliced through or shot at. It's main uses is to provide a transport option and to fire his webs at an opponent and mess around with them. An example is that Gavin connects a web to a persons foot and weapon. When he yanks back, the persons footing will be lost and he could even disarm an opponent if they weren't prepared. Gavin is limited to only firing a maximum of two webs to a spot within his field of vision, and even then he has to shoot off a web accurately, meaning he is prone to missing from long ranges.

The third use is rather simple, it simply creates a coating of the slime over any part of the body what he wants to cover. Its main use is simply to let himself stick onto a surface. Before he attempted to wall climb with hands and feet, however he learned the hard way that the slime is too hard to crawl with due to its stickiness.

The powdered dust inserted into Galatine and Caliburn can also alter the properties of his semblance, however it takes five seconds for the dust to charge into the semblance. Using dust-infused semblance attacks of any sort use up 5% of aura reserves, and any dust-infused semblance use has a recharge delay of thirty seconds between each use.

The dust safely dissolves away if the substance reaches its time limit. In short terms, here's the effects:

Glob balls - The orbs dissolve after one minute of activating the dust. Web - Dust-infused webs act normally at first, but the dust kicks in as soon as the web connects to a surface. Slime Coating - The dust cannot be used with this aspect of the semblance, as too much dust will be drained and the result is highly volatile and a hindrance to Gavin.
 * Earth: The dust mingles with the glob ball, not doing anything at first. But as soon as pressure it applied, the glob ball hardens into a rocky form. Its weight will slow down an opponent considerably.
 * Fire: Fire dust turns the sticky ball into a sticky mine, and will blow up in a small radius when activated.
 * Ice: Like the earth ball, it will harden around whatever was pushed into the ball. This doesn't slow down an opponent, rather it makes them have a very slippery object stuck to them - think of it like forced ice skating.
 * Wind: A large gust of wind blows an opponent up, can send victims flying in the air. Handy as a jumping pad, if you use it to your advantage.
 * Earth: When hardened, the web is stuck in the place it was in. It's the most strongest of the webs, and could be used like a support beam for movement - or to irritate an opponent by having a large chunk of earth stuck to them.
 * Fire: The web begins heating up upon contact, essentially becoming like a plastic explosive - soft and hand moldable. It does not do as much damage as a fire ball mine, and instead of exploding outwards the fire web explodes inwards.
 * Ice: When frozen, the webs become incredibly slippery. Handy as a make-shift zip-line or grind rail.
 * Wind: When connected, the wind immediately yanks Gavin forward towards the surface the web connected it. In essence, it's a magic grappling hook.

Gavin's semblance doesn't have an 'official' name, but previously Gavin liked to call it Slime Ball when he first used his semblance. However he dropped the name as the semblance developed and he learned it was not accurate. When asked by his friends what he knew about the semblance so that an accurate name could be made, he simply shrugs his shoulders and described with a cheeky smile as "my other sticky substance".

Trivia

 * The name Gavin means 'White Hawk'.
 * Gavin is also a variation of the name Gawain, a Knight of the Round Table from Arthurian legend who Gavin alludes to.
 * Inspiration for the character was drawn from the character Gwaine, a character from the TV Show Merlin.
 * Redgrave was picked out of respect for an alias name used by Dante, the main protagonist of the Devil May Cry series. The alias name he formerly went by was 'Tony Redgrave'.
 * Gavin's white hair and the use of two guns took inspiration from Dante.
 * Galatine is the name of Gawain's sword, while Caliburn is a variation of the the sword Excalibur. Both of these weapon names were chosen to build on the allusion to both Arthurian legend and Gawain.
 * Gavin's guns took inspiration from the sawn-off M1 Garand rifles used by Luke Valentine from the Hellsing series.