Chāo Huītàiláng

"There are differences between me and most other mercenaries, one being that most mercenaries would kill innocents just for money. I kill in hopes of making the world a better place for my siblings."

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Appearance
Chao is a short young Asian man with a semi muscular-fat physic. He has a fair complexion, short black hair and heterochromia with a brown eye color in his left eye and gray in his right eye. There is also a noticeable scar on his right eye that starts on his eyebrow, through the eye and curves towards his ear.

He wears a black hooded trench coat with holsters inside for throwing knives over a gray, skin tight t-shirt. He also wears black military cargo pants with a belt holstering one of his daggers and black casual boots. For accessories, he wears gray fingerless gloves and a gray choker with a small silver cross on it.

Personality
Chao usually keeps to himself around strangers unless he feels it’s necessary to interact with some strangers. Even among his teammates he mostly stays quiet unless he is giving orders, contributing to ideas and strategies, being asked questions or asking important questions himself.

He acts respectfully to his superiors and clients and treats his teammates as equals rather than subordinates. For people he does not know, he acts courteously to them but takes caution just in case if they are enemies. When Chao gets angry, he tries to stay calm and tries not showing it, only expresses it with glares, grunts and only shouts when he is way past his boiling point. When he interacts with family and friends he trusts, he is a little more talkative and caring towards them especially his younger siblings.

Chao believes in the saying “you can’t judge a book by its cover” meaning a person can’t be judge by looks. Even though he is a good judge of character, he will still think there is more to the person that meets the eye. Although he looks like a punk/goth, he is a good person at heart and would defend innocent people without a second thought.

Weapons and Abilities
Chao wields a katana, two daggers, a wrist blade and throwing knives.


 * The katana called Blind Justice once belonged to his father has a gray handle with a gray sheath that can be easly attached and detached from his belt (though he mainly carries the sheath in his left hand). On the blade are Chinese characters that roughly translate to, "Unbreakable Honor, Unwavering Resolve, Unyielding Strength." Chao's katana allows him to amplify his aura's power to make him faster, stronger, and more agile but this drains his stamina faster compered to not using the amplifying ability. The indication of the ability being activated is when the characters on the blade start to glow black.
 * His two daggers called Dragon Teeth are placed in holsters located on his back and left thigh. They have curved handles and an exotic blade design with intricate patterns on the blades. The daggers, like the katana, enhance Chao’s aura powers to make him faster, stronger and more agile. Similar to the characters on the katana, the daggers patterns illuminate when the ability has activated. The daggers belonged to his mother.
 * The wrist blade located in his left sleeve under his coat can extend and retract in a swift motion. The blade can also inject poison into targets but Chao uses this ability to inject a sleeping elixir rather than poison. He carries throwing knives to take out enemies at a distance. He received the wrist blade from his mentor Morris Williams and  only uses the wrist blade for assassinations or capture missions and rarely using it in confrontations.

Despite his endomorph figure, he is faster and more agile than he looks. From several years of intense training Chao was taught hand-to-hand combat, how to wield his blade and how to throw a throwing knife accurately. During this time he also learned to be stealthy, patient and to be aware of his surroundings as well as how to use his aura to increase his speed and strength. Though he does not rely on the amplifying ability all the time and uses it only when the situation calls for it.

Backstory
Born in the residential district of Vale, Chao was the oldest among his sister Qiao by two years and the twins Li-hua, (younger sister) and Ling (younger brother) by three. His parents were a retired huntsman and a retired huntress and taught Chao and his siblings to be kind and courteous to others as well as to defend those who can’t defend themselves. Chao was taught basic hand to hand by his father in case he needed to defend himself against bullies at school though he didn’t need it for this school. He went to a normal public school, had normal friends and a good relationship with his brother and sisters, and was pretty active and cheery when he was younger.

Until one day when Chao was eleven years old, his home was invaded by armed robbers and in an effort to protect their children Xun’s mother and father were fatally wounded. It was at this point when Chao had ever killed someone with his father’s sword and the first time he used his aura. When the police arrived they found dead bodies littering the ground and four children crying over the bodies of their parents.

Having no relatives, Chao and his siblings had no other choice but to live in an orphanage and move to another school in the industrial district. When asked if they needed anything from the orphanage, Xun replied with wanting something to remember his parents by; more specifically, the katana and the daggers. Reluctantly, the police and orphanage staff agreed under the condition that the weapons must be locked in a metal box and the key was kept by the head of the orphanage. Chao was promised the box and when he is adopted, only then would he be allowed to open it. Chao’s old personality was shattered after the death of his parents; he was very silent and inert when being talked to and only talked with his siblings but in a flat tone.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">For about a year, the siblings lived in the orphanage refusing to be adopted separately or without the metal case. During the year, Chao was constantly bullied by other kids in the orphanage because of his height and endomorphic figure. He was seen fighting with bullies or picking fights with people bulling other people; most of the time he doesn’t win the fight. It was during one of the fights that a middle age man named Morris Williams was observing the twelve year old Chao and saw potential in him. Morris decided to adopt the siblings and train Xun to become a better fighter and teach him to use his aura properly.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">Morris lived in the agricultural district of Vale and worked as a farmer for a living and a mechanic on the side. For three years, Chao trained his hardest to become faster, stronger and more skilled with his sword, daggers and aura. He was even taught how to use a throwing knife, more advance hand-to-hand combat and how to be stealthy, patient and more aware of his surroundings. Of course, Chao didn’t train all day every day, Morris made sure Chao had a break at least once a day. Even when Chao says he wants to keep training, Morris responds by telling him having a break is a part of training as well as getting to know people and how they work.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">From then on, during the breaks Chao would run errands for Morris when asked and got to interact with people though he doesn’t say much except for greetings and saying what he needs from there. But with each visit, he slowly opened up and began answering questions the best he could when people asked him one and asked questions himself. He even started talking with his siblings again in a more cheery tone than back in the orphanage.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">After three years of training, when Xun was fifteen, Morris considered him to be finally ready for “graduation”. In the basement of Morris barn was an old training room with worn scratches, training dummies and a large alter at the far end of the room. On the altar was a set of clothes, an assortment of weapons and about ten different pictures of people. As Chao gazes at the altar, Morris tells Xun his story and explains to him why he became a mercenary and why he quit.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">When he was younger, his parents died in a car accident and like Chao and his siblings, he was forced into an orphanage but the difference was that Morris was an only child with no relatives. He was also bullied like Chao and couldn’t fight back even if he tried so he ran away from the orphanage and wonder the streets. He eventually resorted to stealing food or lien to get by and with his unnatural speed; he was never caught by the police but he did caught the eye of a group of mercenaries and was asked to join them. With a high amount of pay involved, Morris quickly agreed to the invitation and over the years doing assassinations to hijacking, he became well known and revered throughout the underworld of crime as one of the best men to get the job done no matter what. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">That is until one day, while he was doing a contract killing; it was the day his perspective on what he does changed drastically. It was an assassination with the objective of leaving no witness; the target was the owner of a mansion in the upper class district of Vale with a decently high security. Because of that, there had to be a team of four to infiltrate the compound. In the group were Morris, a scout, a demolitions expert, and a tech expert. During the assassination, Morris with the help of the scout was able to successfully kill the target and his wife. However, when they were about to leave they came across a young boy no more than five years old.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">The scout (only caring about the objectives) was about to pull the trigger when Morris’ conscious stopped him from doing so. Morris had a heated argument with the scout with the scout mentioning that they were there to do a job and Morris killed more innocents than himself. To prevent the scout form killing the boy, Morris shot him and told the boy to run. When Morris just cleared the wall surrounding the entire compound, the mansion and buildings around it suddenly exploded. It turns out that the demolitions expert’s job was to blow up the compound and only he was told to do so. After the contract, Morris left the mercenaries with the sudden feeling of guilt and the memories of how many innocents died because of his actions started to flood his mind. He created the shrine dedicated to the innocent men and women he killed as a reminder of what he had done. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">After listening to the story, Chao decide what he was going to do and told Morris he would become a mercenary. However he won’t be like what the people in the mercenaries group were; he would only do certain contracts and jobs like transporting cargo, protecting VIP’s and delivering packages. Morris only sighed and smiled sadly; saying that it’s his life he forges and hopes he will be able to live with the choices he makes. Later that day, Chao announced he would be leaving so he could find someone who would hire him but promise to visit now and again. Before he walked off, Morris stopped him so he could give him a “graduation” present; a wrist blade and said that he contacted old contacts and got Xun some easy jobs to start with. Once Chao said goodbye to his brother and sisters and Morris, he left the house hoping that they will be okay while he is gone.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt">Two years passed, and Chao went from being a person with no reputation in this career to becoming a well-known person in the underworld as a person who can get any job done quick and easy. As his fame grew he was offered more jobs and contracts even branching from his previous job objectives to capturing and assassinating. But these certain contracts he accepted were targeting criminals and at this point he has never killed an innocent bystander. On the day of his seventeenth birthday, it was in the afternoon when professor Ozpin came by and gave him an acceptance letter to Beacon Academy which Xun reluctantly agreed to.

Trivia
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