Rio Azul

"So I'm goin to be the voice of reason here and say absolutely not." Rio keeping Yang from attacking Adam

Profile
Rio Azul is an original character created by mediaocrity4 for his story RWBYond Vale. He is a member of team ARRN (arany). He is a 21 year old professional huntsman graduated from Beacon. His name means "river blue" in Spanish.

Appearance
Rio Azul is a human male. He has dark blue hair and light blue eyes. He keeps his hair styled in the front and is proud of it.He is 6 ft. 1"

He wears a white tunic and a baby blue shirt. He also sports a trench coat with his symbol on the back. He tends to wear casual pants and boots.

Personality
Rio Azul is laid back in all his mannerisms. He gets along with people and strives to be just good enough for the task at hand. This has caused problems with his elitist leader August Gold.

He has been criticized as "passionless" by his peers and his opponents oftentimes underestimate him. He is generally open about his likes and dislikes. He tends to not care what others think about him save for a handful of people whose opinion he values.

Weapon
He wields Riptide; a 4 ft. long one handed broadsword with a 1 ft. wide blade and a 7" handle. He is an exceptional swordsman relying on speed and power with little regard to precision.

Semblance
Aquakinesis: The ability to control the form speed and pressure of water. He is skilled enough to cause water to slice through armor and bone.

Skills
Outside combat Rio is: a skilled navigator, sailor, cook, salesman, negotiator and athlete. He has extensive knowledge on: geography, Grimm, customs, economics, astronomy and physics and history.

Background
Rio was born out at sea. He comes from a long line of sea-huntsmen. He befriended his future teammate Rubrum Snappes during a trip to Patch when he was young. He attended Beacon for four years and eventually got his own boat. After graduating Beacon he went on a trip to West End, Vacuo on a top secret mission along with his team. It was during this that August was notified about operation: Gold Standard. Where his team was put in charge of escorting the fractured team RWBY to Haven in time for the peace conference. He was assigned to Ruby since the rest of his team already picked their targets.