Hiddenite Chapelier

""You idiots! The main characters always get the Nevermore!!""

- Hiddenite, breaking the 4th Wall at initiation Hiddenite "Hayden" Chapelier is a member of  Team GHST. His main weapon of choice is his Mechanized Pneumatic Grapnel Gun (MPGG) nicknamed  Hat Trick. He is based off of The Hatter from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

Appearance
Hiddenite wears certain types of clothing specifically to get people to notice him, by sporting colors that don't necessarily match well together. He wears a short-sleeve, button-up shirt that fades from mustard-yellow at the top to lime green at the bottom. The shirt is under a light, knee-length navy blue coat. The inside of the coat is chocolate brown with white polkadots and he wears a bowtie of the same color scheme. He also has grey pants with brown stripes. The pants are held up by half red, half blue suspenders. He wears dark brown combat boots over miss-matched, calf-length, striped socks that can be seen when he takes his shoes off.

The inside of his coat has various pockets containing parts of his weapon, Hat Trick.

Being the tallest member of the team, Hiddenite has broad shoulders and a muscular build he hides under his clothing. He has bright blue eyes. His most significant quality is his long, curly, vibrant green hair. His hair is combination of thick, tube-like ringlets and a dreadlock-esque hairstyle. He usually attempts to puts his hair into a ponytail or a messy bun before battle, but isn't always insistent about doing so.

Personality
Having a very layered personality, Hiddenite is a very optimistic person (on the surface). Commonly referred to by the name Hayden, he is known for being "happy-go-lucky" and is the most well-liked by the other members of his team. He is the team's fatherly figure and comic relief.

He had a very adamant desire to make friends when he first came to Beacon. He also had a tendency to be too outgoing, leaving people to become annoyed by his advances. With his pushy behavior and seemingly random quirkiness, he wasn't very liked by many students, which made him feel lonely and insecure about himself (which he learned to mask with optimism). Soon, Once he started his second year at Beacon, he began to embrace his differences regardless of other people's opinions.

Being the team's fatherly figure, his quick thinking, take-charge attitude, and smart battle strategies shows his maturity and the experiences he retained from his first year at Beacon. His protective and compassionate nature suggests that he can also be taken seriously and genuinely cares for his teammates.

Hiddenite is also kooky and random. He has broken the 4th wall on many occasions, much to the confusion of his teammates. He has also been the cause of many Non Sequiturs while in and out of combat. Hiddenite was described [by a friend of mine] as being, "The character that could literally get away with doing anything but doesn't because he knowingly doesn't want the audience to figure out his secrets."

He is also a flirt and a little cocky. Which comes into play outside of combat with his unabashed and overly confident flirtatious attitude toward his comrades and piers, causing most of them to reject his blatant romantic advances. But, his confidence and cockiness becomes helpful in combat as well, where he uses strategies of non-violent negotiation and turning his enemies against each other. He'd rather use complex wordplay and vocabulary to confound his foes than fight directly. He's smarter than he lets on. Being an adept smooth-talker, he invokes parleys and tempts his enemies away from their murderous intentions. (Which is a character trait not the best suited against the Creatures of Grimm).

Another downside to his personality would be when he gets too excited in battle, he acquires a "death wish", a side-effect of his drug-use. He becomes reckless and puts himself into situations that would result in him getting potentially injured or even dying. He doesn't allow himself to die or maybe even get hurt in these situations though, because according to him, "if he's going to go out, he's going out in a more spectacular fashion". While in a "death wish" scenario his irises become small and glossed over.

Chapelier's Baked Goods
He was born an only child in the slums of Mistral. His parents were notorious for selling various illegal items in the underworld of Mistral. They went under the alias of "Chapelier's Baked Goods" (CBG) to keep the authorities off of their trail. They were very famous in Mistral's shady underworld. Hiddenite, at 8 years of age, was surrounded by negative, unwanted emotions from his parents. They neglected him for being different and rarely took notice to him because of them being so busy with their "line of work". So, Hiddenite thought drugs were his only escape (he became a drug addict). When the authorities, finding inconsistencies in their records on the CBG, had finally found out about the Chapelier's "business"; they were arrested, but before they got to Hiddenite, he ran away and became a nomad.

Cirque de Rouge
While on the run, Hiddenite came across a traveling nomadic circus, Cirque de Rouge. It had it all, funny clowns, horse riders, aerialists, you name it. It was a place where he saw that no one was the same. He became enamored with the eccentric and vibrant atmosphere of it all. He soon joined the traveling nomads, becoming apart of their family and spending most of his life there. It was there where he decided to grow out his hair. Hiddenite didn't feel neglected or mistreated while apart of Cirque de Rouge, and was finally content being surrounded by gleeful moods, being able to go to exciting new locations and meet interesting people.

But while on his travels he and the rest of the circus was always met with adversity. Cirque de Rouge was a traveling nomadic circus for a reason – the Creatures of Grimm. Even with all the joyful emotions, the circus itself wasn't the best at putting on a show. Something unfortunate always happens during a show that the audience doesn't like, resulting in riots, which attracts Grimm, forcing the circus to relocate. Hiddenite always hated that part of his job; packing up and moving out. So he created a weapon he named Hat Trick to help him defend his circus family from the Grimm. Hat Trick was made from one of the cables and staves that support the many tents they have set up. With help from others, he was quite formidable against the Grimm, capable enough to keep the creatures at bay.

One day, while still apart of Cirque de Rouge, he was doing one of his preformances when he spotted Marsh Peters, a boy with the ears of a rabbit, attending one of the shows. He became smitten with the boy (who he later found out was a hare faunas) and the two began to date. Hiddenite, for a short time kicked his drug addiction while he was with Marsh. After 4 months, Marsh told Hiddenite he was leaving to go to Atlas to be in the military, which devastated Hiddenite, but he grew to accept it, even though he was still heartbroken over his boyfriend leaving him. They broke up and Hiddenite never saw Marsh again. He was in a great depressive state which resulted in him turning back to drugs and leaving the circus (which saddened most of the CdR crew).

First Year at Beacon
Hiddenite became bored without the circus, eventually he stumbled upon Beacon Academy. He thought that this institution would help him emerge from his bored state. So he modified Hat Trick, became discreet in his drug use and enrolled into the school. He passed the enrollment process with flying colors and was put on team CNHY (canary) with Navajo Patuxet as his partner. He was the odd-ball of the team and he wasn't very liked by his other teammates, but that never stopped him from trying to make other friends. Even when other students began to judge him after they somehow found out about his former drug addiction and incarcerated parents. Though he was being picked on, he learned to hide his pain with a facade of happiness. Eventually, he began to slip behind on his studies and neglect his training.

A few weeks before the Vytal Festival, Ozpin had informed Hiddenite, because of his failing grades and lack of training, he won't be participating in the Vytal Tournament and (worst of all) he has to repeat his first year. (Ozpin already made preparations for another student to take Hiddenite's spot on team CNHY)

Second Year at Beacon
He sadly accepted the fact that he had to repeat his first year. He changed his name and went under the alias Hayden Jones (which never quite stuck with some of the other students or administration). He didn't have to participate in the initiation with the other first years, but he wanted to. He picked Torrence Karotté as his partner during initiation and was put on team GHST. He made a vow to practice and train very hard so he could rub it in Ozpin's face, yet the vow never stopped him from being reckless or even lazy.

Relationships
Gyasi Tyrian - Hiddenite's teammate and team leader. Even though Gyasi doesn't see himself as a leader, Hiddenite does. Hiddenite respects his decisions, but steps in when Gyasi makes a bad call or can't make a verdict at all. They soon become friends and Hiddenite becomes Gyasi's second in command, much to Serece's disappointment.

Serece Corrathe - Hiddenite's teammate and closest comrade. Serece's mean-spirited, cut-throat personality might be off putting to most people, but Hiddenite isn't most people. She was the first to continuously call him by Hayden, the name he requested everyone to call him by. Hiddenite is closer to her than his own partner. He makes her feel like she isn't a monster, while she makes him feel accepted. It's a win-win relationship.

Torrence Karotté - Hiddenite's teammate and partner. Hiddenite chose Torrence as his partner during the initiation. The two make a good team on the battle field; utilizing Hiddenite's evasive moves and Torrence's mage-like abilities to their advantage. Hiddenite took a liking to him, because of his resemblance to his ex-boyfriend.

Marsh Peters - A Hare Faunus and Hiddenite's ex-boyfriend. Marsh and Hiddenite were a wonderful couple. Hiddenite had a hard time accepting his boyfriend's departure to Atlas. Marsh and Hiddenite both had a liking for tea, which is what they had on their first date together.

Navajo Patuxet - Hiddenite's former partner. Even though Navajo is a kind person, he never truly forgave Hiddenite for not applying himself to his studies and training like the rest of his teammates. He was initially sad about Hiddenite's punishment, but then grew to realized he was more relieved than sad. When Navajo received a new partner, he wasn't surprised to feel a sense of excitement.

Cadet Grey and Lincoln Yorkshire - Two of Hiddenite's former teammates. The two were glad to see him leave.

Abilities and Skills
He is classified as a Stone Wall. He fights usually between the enemy and an ally. While the ally takes care of dealing damage, he takes care of defense. By keeping the enemy occupied, he allows allies with greater attack strength but poorer defense to kill the enemy without getting killed themselves. He deploys his grappling hook as his primary weapon in combat, falling back on his gun function only when he absolutely has to. He uses his environment to his advantage at all times. He's very agile and quick, able the swing in, take a hit and swing out fairly easily. He resembles a rogue class in that sense. He has sufficient amount of knowledge in acrobatics making him ironically limber for a combatant that specializes in blocking/defending. His "death wish" side affect makes him slightly unreliable and somewhat of a loose cannon while fighting with the rest of his team.

In a 1v1 battle, Hiddenite does quite well. Without anyone to defend, he has no use of taking hits. He rather does the opposite, he dodges them. With his unpredictable and slightly unstable personality, Hayden can be quite hard to pin down in combat. Opponents have hard times trying to memorize his attacks patterns, until they realize that Hayden doesn't have any. He fools around on the battle field and is random and sloppy with his attacks, which, speaking of, don't deal that much damage. When things get hairy he's very good a disengaging from a confrontation, and finding openings to come back in later.

He's a very charismatic smooth-talker, allowing his words to do the talking rather than his weapon. When he does use Hat Trick he utilizes it as trapping device by either pinning his enemy to a wall, tripping them over with the cable or incapacitate them in another fashion. Hat Trick is equipped with an interchangeable head allowing for various combinations that can be used as counter attacks and/or used to help buff his teammates.

Without his weapon, his hand-to-hand combat is similar to that of Zui Quan, a fighting style that translates to "Drunken Fist" in Chinese. This fighting style was made to imitate a drunkard. Zui Quan suits Hiddenite because of his careless, nonchalant attitude during combat, inadvertently making him a master of Confusion Fu.

Outside of Combat
He knows how to make various types of tea and knows a small amount of know-how in mechanics for the construction of his weapon.

He also dabbles with slight of hand and stage magic, which he learned from his time at Cirque de Rouge.

Semblance
Ironically, Hiddenite doesn't know what his semblance is yet. Even with all the travels with Cirque de Rouge and having spent a whole year at Beacon Academy, Hiddenite still hasn't discovered it.

His aura on the other hand is copious, and quite effect and strong. Having to take most the hits for his team, his aura is very durable. This strong and large amount of aura has caused him to think he's somewhat invincible, which is a reasonable explanation for his careless and reckless nature in battle. His aura has also enhanced his weapon's sturdiness to an extent that he has used it to directly hit enemies, like a bludgeon.

With his abundance of aura, He's developed an almost obsessive desire to defeat a Nevermore on his own, but eventually gets the unwanted help from his teammates.

Quotes
The following quotes are from or pertain to Hiddenite Chapelier/Hayden Jones:

"Hey Cutie, your hand looks heavy, why don't I hold it for you?" - Hayden, flirting with, well, anyone really

"Lacking a sense of purpose, he has an unusual gift for both evasion and protection. Can be a little bit of a smart ass" - Beacon Academy Professor, describing Hiddenite at initiation

"Now as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention" - Hayden, hanging someone from their feet with his weapon

"I'd tell you my backstory, but you can just read about it on the Fanon Wiki"

"The what?

"-It all began in the slums of Mistril…" - Hayden, breaking the 4th wall

"So my boots really stuck in there right, I'm freaking out, the dog's having a seizure and I still have half a pie left…" - Hiddenite, telling a "story"

"How much does a friend cost and do I get a discount if I buy 3?" - Hiddenite, presumably refering to the academy's teaming system

Trivia

 * His first name, Hiddenite, is also the name of a gemstone that is know for its green color and ability to attract love and strengthen relationships, which is ironically the oppisite of his character; he can't make friends very well and he broke up with is first boyfriend. His last name, Chapelier, is French for 'Hatter'
 * His alias, Hayden Jones, also has a meaning. Hayden is a respelling of the Dutch word Heiden meaning 'heathen', and a "heathen" is a person who doesn't belong to a widely held religion. (Which mirrors Hiddenite not fitting in at Beacon or with team CNHY).
 * Hayden has another meaning as well. The origin of the name Hayden is from the Old English elements: hege (hedge) and dun (hill), both of which are known for having an association with the color green.
 * Jones means to have a fixation or compulsive desire for someone or something; typically for drugs. (Which mirrors his drug addiction).
 * Hiddenite is also based off of the playing card the King of Hearts, or the Suicide King. Which ties into his "death wish" side affect and his heart shaped emblem.
 * His emblem is a green heart with a visible 'C' and 'H' cut into it, alluding to the first two letters of his last name. It is also the logo of the CBG.
 * Hiddenite and Marsh's first date they had tea, which is an allusion to the Mad Hatter and the March Hare having a tea party in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
 * His weapon's name, Hat Trick, is referencing to the Mad Hatter's signature top hat he is seen wearing in mostly all of the adaptions in the Alice in Wonderland franchise.
 * Navajo Patuxet is based off of Squanto, a famous Native American. Cadet Grey is based off of Neil Armstrong, a famous Astronaut, and Lincoln Yorkshire is based off Robin Hood, a famous character in a fable of the same name.