Zincz Greyhound

Zincz Greyhound is a third year student hailing from Haven Academy. He is a part of team HHAZ.

Appearance
Zincz is a monster of a man. Towering at over 8'4 ft, he is commonly refered to as a giant in the aspect of his extraordinary height. Zincz is a very fit man with a strong, well-toned physique with chiseled abs and well-defined musculature that can make any man jealous. His dark grey hair is around shoulder length and ungodly messy with random strands and clumps of silver hair mixed in giving it a somewhat metallic appearance.

Unfortunately, almost no one will ever see his bare light brown skin and muscles as his entire body is covered in a full body of dark-silver armor with a slight bluish hue and metal carvings all around. The armor is designed to be a mix of an old knight's suit but made using modern military-grade materials and design. It is ghastly for anyone seeing it, with much of its edges jagged and sharp with scratches, slight cracks, and faded golden engravings all over the armor as a sign of how weathered it is. a dark grey scarf is loosely tied around his neck with a faded image of his emblem in indigo on it. The gauntlets are designed to have claws at each fingertip and the boots are designed with metal plates and to resemble the likeness of a lion's hind legs.

Covering his head is a large metal helmet designed with the likeness of a wolf's with a functioning jaw that moves with the user's own.

History
Born in a nomadic tribe currently traveling towards Vale, Zincz's was a unusually large child at birth. After his fourth birthday he was immediately brought to train as one of the food-gatherers of the tribe. The tribe put a high emphasis on hunting their food, and are greatly fond of wolves for their effectiveness in group hunting, and much like wolf's pack, the food-gathering group has a leader who is considered the strongest in the tribe.

That man is Tungsten Lupun, Zincz's father who brings Zincz frequently to the group's hunts to let him study and learn from watching his father and his group hunt down their food. Much of Zincz's training at first was basic exercises and doing lots of chores, but as he got older his father gives him more strenuous exercises to allow his physique to grow. He had a fondness for chewing things, which ended becoming a habit of his whenever he was either bored or stressed.

At the age of 9 but with the height of a 14 year old, Zincz was alongside the food-gathering group once again but after finding a deer for their lunch, the group didn't kill it immediately like usual but instead multiple of the members held it down and his father gave him a dagger. He then explained that he was now ready to perform the 'rite of passage' into the food-gathering group by letting him take its life and he does so with gusto. Unfortunately, the small celebration of Zincz's first kill was cut short when the group suddenly came into contact with a group of Beowulves. Zincz was hit by one of them and knocked aside while the group was forced to retreat to protect the tribe which the pack was to be heading towards.

Zincz was knocked unconscious from the Beowulf and into a large bush. His father couldn't go to him when he got knocked over due to the Grimm, so he layed within the bush for roughly half an hour before he was found by a huntsman and his team who were responsible for bringing the Grimm to Zincz and the food-gathering group. One of the members speculated that the boy is from a nomad tribe and left for dead after his tribe was attacked by the Grimm pack they were supposed to kill and the tribe might already be gone. The huntsman wanted to go further to confirm this but the same person declared that it is too dangerous to continue. Feeling guilty for bringing the boy such misfortune he took Zincz in his arms and vowed to take care of the boy in his family's steed. However, the tribe did survive the attack and Tungsten returned to where Zincz performed the rites but he couldn't be found.

This is where Zincz's life took a 180° turn. Now living in the main city of Mistral, Zincz was greeted with numerous strangers in a place he's never been before, which was in a hospital. Like an animal in a cage, Zincz attempted to escape the room only to be greeted by the huntsman and his teamwho then tells Zincz of his tribe's misfortune, which was a great blow to Zincz who broke down crying. It was also here that the huntsman said that he will be taking care of him for now on. But Zincz only wanted to return to his family and denied that the tribe was wiped out, and he continued to do so until he got hungry.

After getting discharged from the hospital, Zincz was brought to the huntsman's home and properly introduced himself as "Tungsten Greyhound'. Zincz was surprised at the man sharing his own father's name, but quickly followed by comparing his father to the huntsman, which was one-sided on Zincz's father. Though Zincz did find it difficult to get used to having a stationary house, having to get used to the rules and norms inside the walls of the city, all the while feeling depressed about his family and tribe's destruction by the Grimm, this all changed when he met his next door neighbor when he sneaked out of the house one day to venture around his new surroundings.

That neighbor was a girl around his age named Holly Aubram. She stumbled onto him as he sat by a tree chewing a twig with a frustrated look and decided to watch him from afar. Her curiosity soon turned to intrigue as Zincz continues to do more weird, and somewhat animal-like things. However, she and Zincz were rudely interrupted when the boy was found by a trio of kids and thought he was a faunus due to him acting feral-like and tried to bully him through racial mockeries. Zincz got really ticked off from these kids and as about to start up a fight when Holly jumped in to stop them. The trio though didn't stop, with one of them smacking Holly out of the way. This was the last straw for Zincz and just pounced on the three. Despite being in a 3-vs-1, Zincz was able to hold out his own until Holly's parents stumbled upon the fight.

Everyone was sent to the VPD and the trio tried to put the blame for their fight on Zincz but Holly quickly defended him. After the day, Zincz, after seeing Holly defending him twice, became very awe-inspired by her selflessness and promises to repay her in the future. After this day, Zincz saw Holly one last time so that she can say her farewells to him, as her family was moving away. Holly urged that it wasn't because of the fight but he did feel sad of her sudden departure.

A few days after his fight, Zincz was asked to get something from his step-father's room and stumbles upon a broadsword with its edge dulled. Curious, he took the sword and started swinging, remembering the lessons his real father taught him. Unfortunately for his step-father, Zincz ended up doing it for five more minutes and causing his step-father to check on him. He was somewhat surprised at Zincz's swordsmanship and attributed it to living in a nomadic tribe. He decided to train Zincz, seeing a possibility of him becoming a great huntsman. Although the boy's temper is rather short which made teaching him a little more challenging, Zincz quickly excelled in using a sword. As he got older, Zincz sought for a larger sword for him to wield as for him, bigger is always better.

His step-father's teammates also saw the potential Zincz has and decided to pitch in his training. One of them taught him how to use a gun and Zincz immediately fell in love with them, especially when it came to larger firepower like machine guns and artillery firearms. When he got old enough he was quickly enrolled into Signal in Vale so that he can be taken care of by his step-father's sister.

It was here that Zincz joyously reunited with Holly and was surprised to hear that she wanted to become a huntsman just like him. Zincz didn't see Holly becoming a huntress and even taunted her about it but he was quickly proven wrong when he quickly thrown to the ground, showing off the judo skills she's been learning ever since the day of Zincz's fight with those three bullies a couple of years ago.

After their reunion the two were immediately best friends and practically went through all four years of school together. Zincz learns that Holly is currently living in the agricultural area of Vale while he lived in Patch. So whenever they meet, which is in Signal, they try to do anything and everything together, as if trying to make up for the years they were separated. It was also here that he begins to repay her, which she still even today urges him to forget doing, by acting as her bodyguard. Her discovers that her family owns a pretty large business and is the reason why she had to move away.

During his time in Signal, Zincz got a chance to test his mettle against the Grimm. His step-father allowed Zincz to join him on a mission to a newly established village outside of Vale. Upon reaching the destination he was immediately greeted by a town under attack with the townspeople scrambling to either escape or attempt to fight back. Here he showcased his brute physical strength by decimating Grimm from Beowulves to Boarbatusks with the use of a simple greatsword.

He pushed on forward, determined to find survivors at the west side of the village where the Grimm supposedly came from. As he charges forward he is met with a woman's desperate calls for help and quickly finds her with her leg underneath hot debris from a burning house. As he helped her, the woman recognize's Zincz and he realizes this as well. He was saving his mother, and it also dawned on him that the village burning down is probably his tribe. With this discovery, Zincz gave it his all to remove the burning debris which burned his hands and used up a lot of his energy but his mother was able to squeeze out. Now tired and his palms in pain, he tries to help her up but was suddenly jumped by a Beowulf which got his mother moderately wounded.

This made Zincz angry but with the inflammations he couldn't hold his weapon, so he resorted to using his mouth to hold the sword and was able to swing the blade and cut down the Beowulf. He proceeds to use the greatsword this way as he guides his mother towards the other refugees, cutting down Grimm with surprising ferocity despite holding it with his mouth. After confirming that they got all of the survivors, Zincz, his step-father and his team, as well as the refugees including his mother and the chief of the village, all evacuated. Here he was able to properly greet his mother as well as the others as well as discover that his father accidentally got himself killed after going mad for losing his son. Once they reached their destination, the town's chief decided to give him the tribe's relic, an old ultra-greatsword, which he was able to retrieve before everyone evacuated.