Clayton Mason

"Get out of my way. I choose to die following the path of the fallen who wait for me."

Clayton Mason is a new presence at Beacon Academy. He is a loner in most circumstances except on the occasion when he decides to assert himself and help others. Most consider him reckless and a danger to himself and others.

Appearance
Clayton appears to the world as a mature beyond his years eighteen year old boy. His most striking features however, are tied to his genetics. Clayton is an albino with white hair and piercing rust red eyes. He sometimes wears a pair of goggles with several sets of small constantly shifting glass lenses that work to combat his amblyopia and keep his vision from blurring if he has no other option. At six feet tall and roughly 220 pounds with large broad shoulders that give him his sturdy characteristics, he also carries a well muscled appearance that gives him an intimidating look. He sports a pair of sturdy brown slip on shoes, khaki cargo pants, a white short sleeved shirt, and a black long sleeved cargo jacket. He also carries a large heavy duffle bag slung across his back.

In a relaxed environment, he can often be seen bearfoot. Away from others where they can't usually find him, he prefers to remove his goggles and simply bind a piece of heavy cloth across his eyes and train his other senses to compensate for his lack of vision. When working on his equipment, he wears a heavy leather apron. Often times, he will have bandages wrapped around various areas that have injured recently, hidden under his clothes to avoid any signs of weakness.

Personality
Clayton prefers to remain aloof from his classmates, seeing many of their antics as childish and unneeded. On rare occurrences when other students may be struggling to carry books, etc, he will gladly assist them before disappearing off on a project of his. The loss of his family and many of his people has unhinged his mind to a degree that he no longer has the will to live. He happily and eagerly rushes into the areas of greatest danger ahead of his allies, knowing that he might one day find something stronger than he is. His only goal is to take as many Grimm as he can with him on his self destructive rampages.

In combat, he has poor vision and tends to have a low opinion of ranged combat, finding the easiest method to achieve results to be in the chaos of close combat. Due to the hereditary complications of his amblyopia, he even has poor vision at close range, and as such, tends to swing with abandon with his weapons until all targets in the area are down, be they friend or foe. His semblance causes him physical pain with each use, but provides him such benefits that he has developed a loving relationship with pain.

When he is alone or with those few he trusts, he can be seen in a different light. He prefers to remain in quiet areas where he can avoid others and study weaponry. Due to his eyesight, he uses almost exclusively uses books for the blind. This slow and methodical reading forces him to be calm and critically think. When he is hungry, he sees his cooking as a small extravagance that he can support and prides himself on his cooking. On occasion, he also is generous and shares his food with others, be it cookies or even a nice roasted chicken.

Biography
Clayton grew up in a small village in the wild zones named Sanctuary. His family had lived there for several hundred years, and the Hunters and Huntresses of the Mason family worked tirelessly to keep the small settlement safe from Grimm attacks. Clayton himself grew up with small but exceptional training in weaponry construction and armament maintenance, despite his disadvantage. Unfortunately, In the last decades, the outer branches of the family tree withered and died out under increased aggression from the Grimm. Barely turning eighteen, Clayton would lose everything he ever knew when a group of Goliaths attacked and decimated Sanctuary. While the rest of his family decided to hold back the Grimm, Clayton was tasked with leading the few surviving villages to the nearby kingdom of Vale. He would only stop on the journey when the last of his family's weapons went silent.

Leading them to safety, Clayton then left them to integrate into the kingdom as a whole after a vote showed that they would no longer attempt to live in the wild zones. Clayton would eventually make his way to the city of Vale, causing mayhem as he went in the form of brutally stopping crimes that he happened to see. The police, already catching on to the path of a stranger on the warpath, were concerned about a potential threat to the city and called to Beacon for aid. One night, he witnessed a large group of men attempting to harm a young pregnant woman when he jumped into action. Landing amongst them, he utilized bastion to quickly devastate the group and leave a pile of groaning bodies. A motion above him revealed Glynda Goodwitch, who was perceptive to his apparent combat capacity, and offered him a spot at Beacon in order to better keep an eye on this newcomer.

Weaponry:
Clayton's only choice of weapons is the Bastion Weapon System. Normally kept in a duffle on his back, Bastion is made up a series of heavy metal plates sewn onto a lattice. This lattice comes in 8 pieces; A jacket, a gorget, two bracers, two greaves, and two gauntlets heavily infused with earth dust. When donned, Clayton is able to activate the system which reveals the metal places are able to shift and expand, quickly linking and form a bulky and durable full body suit complete with sealed full metal helmet with a respirator. Sensors built into the armor boost hearing as well as give audio clues to incoming targets. However, due to the massive construction of the system, he adds several hundred pounds and moves slower in combat that most opponents. He offsets his glaring problem in his fighting with a pair of chain cestus gauntlets that are reinforced and anchored to his hands by brass knuckles. In close combat, he wears out his opponent through attrition and brawling capabilities. In the event that an opponent tries to avoid him, he is able to launch the gauntlets at his opponent on thick fifteen foot chains that can be swung to potentially ensnare them and allow them to be reeled in to a much more suitable range for Clayton.

Aura:
Clayton is surrounded by a surprisingly strong beige aura.

Semblance: War's Momentum
Clayton has the unlucky ability to have a semblance that he is unable to turn off. When taking damage, some of that kinetic energy is stored inside Clayton and he can then use it to boost his momentum, allowing him to spring forward a moderate distance to close gaps or even make higher than normal vertical jumps even while in such heavy armor. One side effect of this ability is that the stored inside him is also transmitted as injuries that bypass his aura, which can lead to heavy bruising or even cuts in the skin from particular fierce blocked sword strikes.