Jay Azul

(sorry if i mess anything up, this is my first article iv'e even written =p. also this character isn't really done yet.)

profile
name: Jay Azul

age: 14

gender: male

race: spider faunus

height: in normal stance, 5 feet, but with legs fully extended can reach 7 foot.

weight:160 pounds (chitin is heavy)

hair: mostly a light blue with white, yellow, and black spots mixed in

eyes: blue

appearance
jay is a spider faunus, with his spider trait being that his entire lower half is the body of a spider, with his upper body replacing the face centaur-style. the design for his spider half is basically the body of the Poecilotheria Metallica spider with colors, with the body shape and proportions of smaller spiders likethe black widow so here's an image! so anyways he is quite slim, almost as if he were starving(see weapons and abilities) his arms and legs are spindly like twigs, and his abdomen is around the size of a beanbag chair with the shape of a fat tear. his complexion is rather pale, and he has no freckles and such. however he does have large fangs. (as to why check weapons and abilities) as for clothing Jay wears an over-sized light blue hoodie, with the bottom going over the thorax, with 8 holes in the sides for his legs, while the abdomen is exposed out the back, where a humans lower half would go. naturally the sleeves are gigantic, going over his entire arm so far that he can hold myrtenaster (wiess' raiper sword) and the end would barely stick out the tip of the sleeve. depending on what point in his backstory, his condition varies, going from fine to heavily bruised and battered. he has small cuts on his hoodie, and 1 giant one, revealing the intricate pattern on the back of his thorax. under these cuts you can see scars, ranging from small lines to large stripes, along with a scar showing a gash on his neck. ( as to why, BACKSTORY) (the spider below is the one his lower half is designed after)

personality
upon first examination, he seems rather shy and scared, as if any second something would pop up on him. at first this will be the case, but when he warms up to you you will see that hes actually kinda nice. while im sure you just read that and thought "hmm, kinda sounds like blake", hes less dont care and more run away like your running at him with a knife. that's because for a great part of his backstory that was the norm.anyways he is very loyal, and is very trusting of friends around him. this can end negatively as some people arent really good for him as they can be a bad influence or straight up using him without his knowing. can be naive on the more societal elements in life, being "raised" on the streets. he learned about some things like money and the cruelty against faunas while he was in menagerie, but he doesn't understand things like politics and war and companies fighting and things like that. he also likes people with calm personalities, like blake. he gets scared of tense situations because his abuse was pretty tense, so he associated tense with abuse. he also as associated happiness to food (cause people feel happy after they help someone) so hes also good with cheery personalities. he also associated fear with pain (more specifically a boot to the face) so he doesn't like people being afraid. he tends to adapt to unfavorable situations pretty nice as long as hes not hurting.most times around friends he acts childish, always chatting and trying to play. he is rather curious of life itself, seeing every challenge as an adventure or a danger. he hasnt had many run-ins with the creatures of grim, so he doesn't fear them as much and doesn't collapse in fear and run when faced with them. usualy a bite on the neck can take out a grim easily.whenhe is afraid he turns invisible and runs. if he gets hungry enough he enters a sort of food trance, where all he does is search for food, killing animals (but not humans or faunas) and eating them. in this hunger trance his eyes change from their usual blue to a red. if hes in a hunger trance it means A. get any pets you have away from him and B. give him some bread or something.

weapons and abilities
jays weapon is poison kiss, 2 pistol whips with sword handles. The rope (idk whip anatomy) is infused with poison dust crystals (a combination of ice and electric) causing the opponent to be paralyzed when hit with them.. when they transform, the whip goes in like a ripcord until its gone, then the gun barrel comes out. the hilt guard opens into a trigger, and the handle splits and half, creating the trigger and but of the gun. poison kiss' rope can go in and out, to 10 feet max, and can go in almost completely, acting as a dagger needle instead of a floppy whip. his fighting style is to confuse the opponent by seemingly being everywhere until he sees a chance to make a significant blow. he uses his semblance of invisibility to do so, fading in and out of sight to confuse. however he still exists, and is detectable with sonar, heat scanning, basically any form of detection that doesn't use visible light, like smell or touch or if hes being reckless you can hear him.other capabilities he uses are his webbing, which he uses in combat to restrain enemies and make tripwires, and to make single use tents for travel and webs for food and living space. another faunas ability he has is venom. though he doesn't like to put people in danger of death. if he has to or else he or someone he cares for dearly will die/get maimed (like if he was bonded to this extent with yang at the end of vol.3 he would have bit adam), he will bite using his fangs. the effects are: extreme pain in the area, swelling, blood not clotting, and in the case of many bites or with shorter individuals or children,(note he hasn't bit children hes not a monster, tho he has bit smaller grim which showed the same effects) internal bleeding, paralysis, loss of consciousness, and possible death by organ failure. out of battle he has 1 more spider ability, climbing walls. now as for personal skills, hes very observant, really useful at carrying things, is surprisingly fast and agile for his size, and is good at finding things. those are the pros, now for the cons. firstly, hes pretty hefty. his lower half is alone the mass of an adult male human, and is entirely flesh, organs, and chitin. secondly he gets distracted easily, often times interrupting conversations cause he saw a deer or a cute bird. naturally with this comes the fact that he gets bored easily. he needs time to warm up to people due to his past, and with this hes rather skittish and cowardly, running at any sort of danger. however he is downright clingy to other faunas, following them until they do something to scare him, and then he runs away. he is a complete mute(backstory), being unable to talk in any sort. this proves challenging when hes on a team, as he cant relay information unless the person in question can see him. (well texting is an exception) another weakness, invisibility takes not only aura, but a lot of energy for the hairs on his body to refract light around him, so he gets hungry after using it. very hungry after prolonged periods. if he uses invisibility long enough he could enter his hunger trance.

backstory
so his parents were killed in a dust mine accident when he was a baby, and they tried to get him in an orphanage but none would accept a baby that might bite the other babies and kill them within several days, so he was kinda left on the streets with a basket saying "please put FOOD in the basket not MONEY. babies don't know how money works" so he was living off of other peoples kindness, with people dropping food and money despite the sign, and then people buying food with the money and giving it to him(sometimes they just stole the money/food). as he grew up he learned new skills for his own survival, such as looting items from trash cans,( that's how he got his hoodie), that some people are nice, and let him stay, give food, and they share stories of their travels. and that sometimes people aren't the nicest. especially humans (he got those scars from back alley beatings) from there nothing special happened,same old same old, until one important event. some mean looking human with a red bowler hat and white suit (>-|) hit him in the neck with his cane really hard, cutting his neck and muting him. in one other really bad attack, he found his semblance, invisibility. using it he got away from them. now whenever he saw a human we went invisible so he didn't get hurt again. he eventually got to menagerie by turning invisible and stowing away on a boat, so he could get some supplies for his weapon, freeze current, learn that the people here are nicer, ect. now he has left menagerie to go abroad, to wherever the winds of fate could take him....

trivia
his first name jay is a reference to the blue jay bird, while Azul is blue in Spanish