Shade Pierce

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"We all have our faults. Mine's having faith in the Academies."

-Shade Pierce

Shade Pierce was a merciless man who had ruined Darian Rouge's life and kidnapped and held children in the Itallingrad Underground to pit them against each other. He is the very head of the Underground in that area.

He is one of the main antagonists of HellFire707's fan-made RWBY series.

Appearance
He is about 35 years old, with eyes as red as wine, and slicked-back black hair, with a few strands of it hanging on his forehead. His chin has stubble, and a lightly trimmed mustache rests above his lips. He has a tall, lean and fit build. He has one earring.

General Outfit
He wears a brown leather jacket, with a torn grey tank-top underneath, wearing a high-crowned, wide-brimmed hat on his head, and black military jeans with grey boots with buckles. He sometimes wears red, circular-lensed sunglasses whenever he goes out.

Personality
Shade is a cruel, charismatic, manipulative, brutal and ferocious sociopathic man with a sarcastic, dark sense of humor. He is fully aware of his reputation for brutality and makes no effort to hide it. He appears to have complete control over his vast Underground group and is questioned by no one, acting as a complete tyrant.

Shade is a firm believer in the concept of "Survival of the Fittest", and often forces unspeakable things upon others to see this. He views himself as a "good person" because of this, as he often tries to teach others. He dislikes the guardians of Remnant, such as huntsmen, simply because he believes that the people will become too dependent on their protection and unable to evolve to deal with problems themselves.

He is shown to be a completely remorseless, cold-blooded mass murderer who kills not just for survival, but to send a message and as punishment for disobedience as seen when he shot Darian's old friend Steven. He is also highly prone to psychological warfare and is extremely good at manipulating and breaking most people into submitting to him. Furthermore, Shade has openly admitted that he enjoys killing people, especially men, while he does not enjoy killing women, but he will kill a woman if he feels that he has to.

Despite his jolly, childlike behavior, Shade is shown to be a genius bruiser and is incredibly good at reading people and exploiting their weaknesses as seen when he almost immediately knew that Darian was Bigby's son, and blackmailed Bigby into working for him. He is also very good at knowing when people are lying, most of the time at least.

He has no fear of death, and openly embraces it to consume him, as long as he knows it will rock the consciousness and guilt of those who witness, but he will save himself if he has a chance to.

Background
Not too much is known about the past of Shade Pierce, but a possible story can be put together with theories made and quotes by Shade himself.

Shade, before becoming a wanted crime boss, was a Huntsman-turned boxer and a family man, with a wife and a seven-year old son. However, they were severely injured in the crossfire of a battle between huntsmen and Grimm, and they later died from their injuries. Distraught and broken, Shade blamed the authority of Vale for their deaths, and found himself drawn closer to a life of crime.

He worked his way up the ranks and made a name for himself as an Underground boss. Around this time, he started to think his family did not survive simply because they were weak. He moved closer to Itallingrad and started kidnapping children to pit them against each other. He did this because of not only entertainment for his lackeys, but he also felt the need to teach these children that the weak die, and only the strong survive, a concept known as Survival of the Fittest, and also to better prepare them for the cruel world. Because of this, he saw himself as their father-like figure in his twisted mind.

Eventually, he found Bigby Rouge, the father of future-huntsman Darian Rouge, and blackmailed him into becoming an assassin for the Underground. Bigby had no choice but to comply, but unknown to his knowledge, Shade kidnapped Darian anyway. For a few years, Shade held both father and son in his grasp, until Darian orchestrated an escape with another child named Steven. Darian cut off Shade's hand and bought time for Steven. Enraged, Shade came back with his revolver and shot down Steven, and almost killed Darian too, but he escaped.

Shade now has a cybernetic replacement for his missing hand and still currently runs the Itallingrad Undergound.

Semblance and Physical Abilities
Shade's semblance is called "K.O.D.", which is short for "King Of Darkness". This gives Shade umbrakinesis, which allows him to have complete control over shadows and darkness. This can go as far as:

 Darkness Generation  : He can shoot solid bolts of darkness, which can sometimes come in the form of sharp edges, and surround enemies into pitch black clouds of suffocating, lightless space.

 Darkness Shields  : He can solidify shadows into barriers, which can be used to defend himself or deflect attacks. He cannot maintain these barriers for long though.

 Shadow Travel: Using shadows, he is able to travel anywhere else that has shadows nearby. This has a limit though, as he can only Shadow Travel as far as a few meters.

 Darkness Absorption and Dissipation  : He can absorb and dissipate shadows with his hands.

His semblance, as powerful as it potentially can be, has a major weakness. He can only use his semblance in dark or hardly lit areas, and bright lights and fire and lightning dust can weaken or even temporarily disable his semblance. Another weakness is the level of concentration Shade must have to use the semblance. If he is distracted, then he cannot use the semblance until he focuses.

Shade Pierce is a ferocious fighter, very skilled in the field of hand-to-hand combat, thanks to his old career as a boxer. He often feints attacks to trick his opponents, then strikes extremely hard in a soft or weak area. He keeps a "Southpaw" stance while fighting, which gives him a strategic advantage because of the opponent's perspective of tactical and cognitive difficulties of coping with a fighter who moves in a mirror-reverse of the norm.

Weapons and Strategy
 Cybernetic Hand:  Since losing his right hand to Darian Rouge, Shade had a cybernetic replacement. Just like a regular hand, the bionic has five digits, including an opposable thumb. It has a burgundy color to it, the joints are black. This robotic hand has a newfound strength in a completely different league from its organic counterpart, able to punch through the steel cells of Atlas-grade prisons, and seems to even have enhanced reflexes. It appears to have built-in detectors as well, detecting incoming attacks and quickly moving in to parry or block them. However, it cannot catch objects faster than sound, and especially cannot focus on multiple targets at once.

 Cerberus: Cerberus is his semi-automatic revolver, loaded with particularly gravity, fire and earth dusted bullets. The chamber holds about six bullets, with moderate recoil. He recently had surgeons fuse the gun into his mechanical hand. When he twists off the hand, the barrel and magazine of the weapon is seen inside his wrist, ready for surprises.

His strategy with this gun is to shoot the floor under his target with gravity dust, bringing his target down. Then he would shoot the limbs with fire dust, burning them away and immobilizing his target. Finally, he uses the earth dust to shoot the core of his target, the organs turning to stone and crushing all other insides as an extra precaution and for his sadistic pleasure.

Methods of Transportation
Being the boss of the Itallingrad Underground, Shade has many vehicles and methods of transportation at his disposal, including armored land vehicles and cargo jets, as well as fighter jets. Though, these are used mostly by his troops.

Combat Stats
Intelligence and Strategy: 8/10

Strength: 8/10

Durability: 8/10

Movement Speed: 7/10

Attack Speed: 6/10

Agility: 6/10

Critical Rate: 6/10

Melee Skill: 9/10

Ranged Skill: 6/10

Hand-to-Hand: 8/10

Dust Mastery and Usage: 7/10

Stealth: 4/10

Semblance Mastery: 8/10

Aura
Shade's aura color is a sort of maroon color, an be used to quickly heal minor wounds, to even form defensive barriers against attacks. He was the very person who indirectly taught Darian to input and channel his aura into his arms at will, enabling him to block and parry physical attacks if he cannot dodge them. However, they cannot protect him against particularly powerful attacks for very long, as Shade's aura is essentially his very life essence.

Special Skills
 Hand-To-Hand Combat:  Pierce is a ferocious fighter, very skilled in the field of hand-to-hand combat, thanks to his old career as a boxer and presumably a huntsman.

 Reading Others:  He is shown to be a genius bruiser and incredibly good at reading people, and can usually tell apart a lie from truth.

 Psychological Warfare and Fear:  Using a mixture of manipulation and fear, Shade has managed to rule the Itallingrad Underground for quite some time. He can use his cunning to evoke a planned psychological reaction from others by attacking their morale, belief system, emotions, motives, etc. He has been shown to use his semblance at the same time to increase the fear factor.

Weaknesses
Shade semblance, as powerful as it potentially can be, has a major weakness. He can only use his semblance in dark or hardly lit areas, and bright lights and fire and lightning dust can weaken or even temporarily disable his semblance. Another weakness is the level of concentration Shade must have to use the semblance. If he is distracted, then he cannot use the semblance until he focuses.

Shade is a wanted criminal, and has many, many enemies outside of the Itallingrad Underground.

In combat, he is mostly close-ranged, and has a possible weakness in distanced combat.

His cybernetic hand cannot parry or catch every attack, especially ones faster than sound. It cannot focus on multiple things at once.

His psyche is deeply fractured, and he ironically sometimes snaps when pressured enough.

Other Notes

 * Shade's name alludes to the color of shadow, or a darkness in general.
 * His inspiration comes from the tales of the Boogeyman.
 * Donald Pierce from Fox's Logan movie was also a close inspiration, as well as Negan from The Walking Dead.
 * His semblance name is a reference to the rap artist Tech N9ne's album and song, "K.O.D.".
 * There is a theory that Shade may actually be Darian Rouge's uncle.