Duncan Payce

"I'm not trying to be a hero, I'm not here to save the day, but I'll fight who I want and there's nothing you can do about it"

- Duncan telling a villain off

Duncan Payce, with a strong wanderlust and no real home to go to, Duncan merely wanted to explore the world and everything in it, not wanting to be huntsman, not trying to be the good guy yet somehow someway fate seems to make him the good guy no matter his protests. Now he merely wants to fight as a wild challenger if it means getting trouble off his back.

Appearance
He is often seen with an aged cowboy hat with a tethered headband adorned on the hat with the words "Stone Cold Crazy". He wears a brown sleeveless long coat slightly buttoned up with long coattails and a green shirt. brown aged boots, black pants and a belt with a buckle that has "Let Me Live" engraved on it.

The first thing most people notice is that he is not the refined person with messy short brown hair, green eyes, tall and muscular, and has three gold earrings on his left ear.

Personality
With a big streak of curiosity, Duncan has a great love for traveling and seeing what is out there. He likes everything to be a surprise and enjoys whatever town he ends up in has to offer. He often puts it this way "you've got to throw yourself in! Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers!...Or is that just me?" When it comes to trouble he seems rude, vulgar and very grouchy. He is a man that merely wants to know what Remnant holds. Even though he knows how to defend himself from certain terrors he would rather not get involved in certain affairs of whatever town he ends up with. So he is prone to complaining when it seems that he is the only ones that can help, but no matter what then he will.

All of that is due to a deep sense of justice and even though it's seemingly buried in deep nonchalance, it reveals itself when he realizes that if no one else can do it then he should at the very least be the one to do something rather then sit there and do nothing when he can help.

People have pointed out the hypocrisy of his ideology but he is quick to say that if anyone else could do it then he would be more then happy to let them but more often then not there aren't so he's going to do it.

He has shown to dislike being called a hero, to him that is something that has to be earned and he feels that he hasn't earned that right. With that he usually corrects people that try calling him such when he does a good deed as he claims that he is either "passing through" or "killing time".

Is not afraid of trickery, traps, cheating, or bluffing to win, is also not above hitting his opponents while they're not ready or when they are down or kick them in their most weakest. He also has one powerful move when all else fails and that is to run away (but never abandon a fight). He knows these are frowned on but as he puts it "it's better to play it smart then die stupid"

Unlike others he is often quick to except money given to him for his deeds (unless the town in question is bare bones then he gives it back) as being a drifter isn't a money free life. He is also prone to be snarky, say quips and one liners if it annoys his opponents and sometimes for his own enjoyment.

Backstory
Born in Vacuo, he never really go to know his real parents, he never really got a chance to know them due to the fact that they left him as a baby in a crib next to a river. With that tragedy out of the way he did love his foster family even though he knew right away when he grew up as they were coyote Faunus and he was not.

Never held it against them and when he became old enough he decided he had to learn how to defend himself and learned on the streets quickly how to survive as he had a ambition that he wanted to see every square inch of remnant and everything it had to offer. When he felt he learned enough and earned enough he quickly set out to explore. His foster parents while not approving decided to give him a good amount of Lien and information that he had a brother and let him go on his way.

Now stepping foot on Vale, he wants to see the sights, eat the food, get into brawls, and maybe avoid getting involved with fighting bad guys, though he doubts his luck will improve enough for that.

Weapons & Combat
He knows and understands that he isn't the smartest or the strongest but what he does know and uses quite well is to have the craftiness and trickery that would gain him the upper hand, often using his skills and environment to his advantage. He also has a self taught style that is pure aggression, it is mainly powerful rapids punches and strong kicks. It also leads to confusion as with no true fighting style means no real stances, positions or familiar tells that would give him away.

He wields Earth Dust using black gauntlets and greaves "Slue-Foot Sue". The Gauntlets and Greaves are designed to take ten vials of dust from the top of the elbow/shin and auto eject them from the bottom of the elbow/back of the shin when one vial is empty. It allows him to summon seven foot slabs of stone that is good enough to block one attack each, on its own it is very basic but it can give him the opening needed to get good hits in, it also sometimes has comedic stupid faces engraved on it for annoyance.

Strengths:
Using his cunning he knows it is better to be constantly moving rather then let the opponent have even the slightest chance to fight back. He often likes to trick others into over estimating him or under estimating him as he does things that are over the top dangerous or very stupid (though it makes others wonder if it's just in act or just how he is). It also adds to his nature of not letting the opponent have time to fight back always on the attack and never letting up.

Through the use of Earth Dust he is able to pull off several techniques that he uses with his fighting style. A flying side kick with occasional earth dust added to it creating a small pillar of rock to his kick, a strong kick to the chin which sometimes launches an opponent into the air, with his stone slabs, he is able to yank them up and hit enemies with them, push them forward to push an enemy back, and he can slam his palm to the wall and shoot forward a large stone hand that looks like it will give a large slap.

Weakness:
His trickery does him good but those that can spot his trickery and plan around them can effectively stop his momentum and use his plans against him, he is good at thinking on his feet but not strategizing which can lead him into problems with someone that can outsmart him. His fighting style is unrefined and it can lead him to trouble against true martial artists. he also knows that he is not the best defensively and would rather not fight better fighters directly.

His fighting burns through his dust supply quickly, the stronger the technique, the more it eats up, so he would much rather beat them through tricks and cunning rather then start out with his best moves. It leaves him open when he runs out as most his gambits run on his dust usage. He also requires that people given him enough breathing room and prep time to make use of the stone walls otherwise he is left open to getting counterattacked before he can set them off.

Trivia

 * His Story Influence is Pecos Bill
 * His Character Theme is | "Diggin" by The Seatbelts
 * His Fighting Theme is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IWg-mmO_6Q| "Wild Challenger" by Jindou