Mathias Custos

"Why live in a world full of evil, yet only be mad at the different."

Mathias Custos is my OC in the RWBY-verse and one of the main characters of my story "The Mathias Story".

Appearance
Mathias's attire consist of a Black zipped up hoodie (Normally worn unzipped), along with a Pair of green wrist Bracers (which he always wears), green t-shirt, Long blue jeans, a belt, and a pair of running shoes with his symbol placed on the heel. He wears a Black fedora, along with a biege corduroy jacket when he is attending classes or not in battle. He has chest armor that his mother gave him for luck, but he is rarely seen wearing it.

Personality
Mathias has a calm and collective personality. Being able to take abuse to its maximum extent. However, he will not hesitate to step up to someone who targets people in order to hurt them. Especially if the target's are of Faunus heritage. He believe that everyone who can make their own desicions shouldn't be judged just because of looks, but rather on their actions. He is a tactical thinker when it comes to battle, but has also been known to let his anger blind him in the process. With all this he has heart. Not willing to give up when others are at risk of danger. He will always take the fall.

Socially, he is very caring and loyal to those he respects or pity's. To complete strangers, he is awkwardly silent until he feels like he shares some similarities with the other person. He will never interupt someones conversation, unless someone needs to stop doing something they shouldn't.

To his friends, he can be very hyper-active. Usually talking about anything that pops in his head. He has also been known to be awkwardly quiet towards people he likes, unless they start a conversation him.

He also enjoys reading books that range from love to action.

Background
Growing up poor has aloud Mathias to cheerish the things he has. Since he was young, a faunus friend of the family, who was a martial arts master, seceretly taught him how to fight with a pair wooden tonfa's since he was eight. He caught on quick with how to use them and within a year was almost as good as the students twice his age, being able to beat the entire class at once. He was also taught how to operate a bo staff and though he hadn't caught on as fast he still advanced. His parents were furious that they were not told about this, but were proud of their son becoming so talented in it.

At the age of 9, he found himself in a protest between faunus and humans and began thinking to himself of how stupid people could be. He heard small high pitch yelling of a faunus girl being dragged away by her black hair that contained a bow. The people began telling her to get lost and never come back as they  began to try and pull off her bow. As they tried Mathias began to throw large ammounts of fruit at them, doing so freed the girl but ripped off her bow. Exposing her cat-like ears. Her amber eyes. He ran and was eventually grounded as his parents saw what he had did on the news.

Around age 10, He had made his way back to his house after training and began to hear noises coming from the arena he had left. Followed by a scream of agony. He went back to the arena and found his sensei on the ground and bleeding with a sword in him. With a quick glance he saw 2 theives making their way towards him. He locked himself in the weapons cabinet that contain all the weapons he had trained with including 1 high caliber pistol. He aimed at the door with the pistol and automatically adjusted himself to its power, as a large sword crashed through the door. He unloaded the whole clip into one of the theives. The other began to cry and turned his anger towards lil' Mathias. He jumped on top and began to choke the yound child. With the young boy ghasping for breath, he placed his hands on the theifs head trying to push him away. Instead he began to overpower him and threw him off. He looked at his hands and saw them glowing with green glare. Looking back at the thief he grabbed a pair of tonfa's and made his way back to him. The theif began to throw punches carelessy hoping to hit him. Mathias, who's eyes were filled with rage, began to move at nearly unseenable speed and started hitting the target everywher on his body. Later Mathias was found walking home with bruises, a  pistol, and a tonfa.

Age 15 he bagan to teach himself how to work a bow and arrow. Being self taught he practiced day and night teaching himself, which lead to him failing classes over sleeping during lessons. He competed in a Marksman challenge with his bow and arrow and placed second in the competion. This didn't let him get down, instead it gave him a reason to keep practicingand to get better.

At age 16, he and his parents decided he was going to become something good someday. He began to apply for Hunter and huntress schools, like beacon, and was informed that he had to hand make his own weapon. This was the easiest thing he had ever done. He began working on prototypes for his Current weapon known as Luna Ira. His final design was created just as he turned 17. Making him ineligable to join any classes at the Academies. Though he was dissapointed, he didn't not let it phase him. He began to hunt down Grimm and make them no more.

Age 17, he grew more fond of his aura and semblance and began to train with that alone in the woods. Knowing not what he was capable of, he burned down the entire forrest. He went to the Vytal Fesitival and watched all the contenders as they fought. Seeing a familiar black headed girl as she fought in the tournament. She had done her shadow clone to dogde an attack and was in awe. He wanted to try and learn that. As he watched he also saw a tall blonde headed girl who fired shells out of her gauntlets. He knew that that wasn't her semblance but he still wanted to give that a try anyways. Shadow clone was easy to learn but when he tried to Yang's thing he nearly broke all of his bones in his right hand. His aura healed it within minutes but the pain was unbearable. He eventually began to wear a dark green pair of wrist bracers that took the damage as he tried again. A few months later he got a suprise visit from a professor at Beacon Academy. Being unaware of his semblance not having a name, he gave it the name Imperium.