Mavin Emmerich

"To me, the greatest masterpiece is a Huntsman truly unified with his weapon."

- Mavin Emmerich

Mavin Emmerich is a member of Team XANE and one of the main protagonists of the upcoming fan-ficition novella, ''Team XANE: Clear Colors. ''He wields the Shield Gauntlet Energy Lantern (SGEL), Sapphire Tamaraw.

Appearance
Mavin has wispy ultramarine hair, onyx eyes and pale skin almost as white as bones. When using his Semblance (or not in a few occasions), his left artificial eye glows cyan.

He wears an unzipped royal blue denim jacket with a white shirt that has his emblem on it—a sapphire-colored head of a tamaraw. His brown belt buckle contains various tools and hangs his weapon on the right side hooked. He also wears black boots and white socks of different lengths (left one long, right one short). Additionally, he has white fingerless gloves that are designed as that of a skeleton’s. His armory consists of leather pads for the shoulders, elbows, and knees.

His Faunus heritage is a pair of tamaraw horns.

Personality
Mavin is described as a “weapon maniac”, being enthusiastic about weapons from the designs to capabilities, eager to know how and what they are made of, to the extent he would break into rooms to “borrow” the weapons for him to study then return afterwards mostly unnoticed. This personality led him to believe that Huntsmen and Huntresses united with their weapons are is a masterpiece. He is also willing to upgrade and repair weapons that he also has his tools ready with him (but not with him during official competitions and tournaments). With a good memory, he remembers every weapon he encounters and its owners. Any form of stealing involving weapons infuriates Mavin into bringing justice. Destroyed weapons make him distraught.

Being a Faunus, Mavin is also discriminated like the rest of his brethren. However, he is never bothered by this, as he is proud of his talent with weapons and mining. He is also comfortable of making jokes with his friends, too. In fact, he is somewhat the jolliest among his teammates in Team XANE, as Mavin does his best to cheer people up like with jokes and remembering the good times. His jokes though may offend people sometimes, and he would simply try brushing this off by saying “Whoa, don’t be too serious ’cause I’m just joking” to his defense. Moreover, his pranks earn him haters he does not care.

His positive demeanor and weapon intelligence was inherited from his mother and father, respectively.

Rather than feeling like being treated like a right-hand man, Mavin’s loyalty to Xantho Ricionzo never wavers an always helps his pal as if they were dear brothers. The blue one’s loyalty stretches to anyone who has close connection to Xantho.

He may be against stolen weapons, but Mavin is somewhat kleptomanic, frequently grabbing and keeping little objects in his pockets that he also provides his allies with. He also tinkers with the stuff he gets.

Despite his happy-go-lucky and mischievous nature, Mavin can be shown to be serious at times like in battles and dangerous predicaments. A mere mention of the Grimm who killed his father does not bother him, but facing the monster in person immediately fades his jolly demeanor into a menacing behavior. Unlike the allies he cared for that are hurt, Mavin mercilessly fights anyone who has severely hurt Xantho or Amara, as the blue one also said, "...You're about to have a bad time."

He does possess a mature side, probably due to his childhood experience. Mavin shows this mostly in privacy with someone. He sampled this by lecturing Amara how her anger could affect the people who cared about her.

In his free time, Mavin would hang with his friends, make weapon blueprints, and make corny jokes and puns to use soon. He can also be funny for the sake of comedy.

History
(Note: This whole section is best made as a short story to better understand)

When Tech Meets Joy
A tamaraw Faunus name Ultine Emmerich was a scientist working for the Atlas military, developing new weapons and machinery to aid the kingdoms of Remnant. His superiors were always suspicious of him fancying the Grimm, but it didn’t seem to be serious.

The scientist had a free day for himself and went to one of the Schnee Company’s mines to examine Dust crystals for a weapon he was inventing for himself. There, he encountered Aqua Willows, one of the few female miners in the underground. Ultine noticed how jolly Aqua was unlike the other workers who were stressful and unhappy.

He asked, “Why does a woman like you have to be so happy with her arduous job?”

The miners replied like noisy birds saying Aqua was just crazy. They became so loud that Ultine left immediately with ringing ears. During the miners’ break, Aqua came looking for Ultine who was about to leave. She went to him just to answer his question earlier, and said, “Look, I’m not crazy, Mr. Lab Coat. No matter how much your life sucks, no matter how difficult things would turn out; you have to always give your heart out to brave the odds. Life would get better that way. Just smile.”

Ultine was impressed by such a simple answer that he became interested with the Faunus. He and she agreed to exchange numbers with their Scrolls, and promise to see and call each other every day. The two were good friends, but Ultine was actually in love with Aqua, with her positive view to everything and how supportive she was whenever he felt dispirited in his works. He decided to propose to her after their official date. And then, years later, they were married.

It was a joyful time, until a few months passed. Ultine was fired when his superiors found out he was illegally experimenting on captured Grimm. Because of this, the couple moved to Mistral, hoping for a better life. Ultine opened a new shop and new home—the “The Emmerich Weapon-Dust Shop”—along with Aqua, for weapon repairing and selling Dust mined somewhere in Mistral. Despite this, their life was considered low class.

“Those fools…” the Faunus begrudgingly whispered in his basement in their new home, drawing something on a paper on his desk. “They should’ve accepted that we can use the Grimm for our benefits, to help everyone in Remnant with further knowledge of these creatures! To use the Grimm…Yes, they will all know the potential of the Grimm, and how they can change us for the better.”

The drawing was a monster with crescent horns and emitting smoke from its snout…

Early Childhood
Their life was given light when they finally had their child, Mavin, a Faunus with his father’s horns and mother’s eyes.

As Mavin grew to be a child, he was firstly taught by Aqua in how to brave everything with all his heart, and smile at the face of danger. Then, Ultine taught his son weapon crafting and how to fix them. The young boy’s personality and talent was developed by the love of his parents. Despite their hard life, he was always happy under sad times.

Mavin one day snuck into his father’s basement out of curiosity, asking himself why his father often goes in there in his non-working hours. He was amazed to see blueprints and unfinished weapons around the room. What caught his attention the most was a loud snorting coming from another room behind a door. As he opened it, the young one was frightened to see a chained Grimm he never heard nor seen before—a type of tamaraw Grimm with piecing red eyes, snorting black smoke.

Suddenly, Mavin’s left eye was pricked by the horn when he drew too near to the Grimm. Wailing in pain, Ultine heard it as he went to the basement and pulled his son out of the room just in time. Instead of scolding, he treated his son’s injury and panicked a bit. He then thought of using one of his inventions—an artificial eye—on his son to replace the damaged one. The operation was successful just in time when Aqua came home with Dust crystals she dug from their private mine. The father made Mavin promise never to tell her mother what he saw down there and what they did together. However, the young Faunus became more interested of the creature. So, he planned on sneaking in again tomorrow.

The next day, Ultine was on his shift working in the family shop while Aqua went to their private mines to get more Dust crystals. Mavin took this opportunity to sneak into the basement. Being taught the ways of tech, the young Faunus was able to unlock the door and went downstairs. Later, he entered the same room where the Grimm was in. He was so fascinated of it and thought it wasn’t that harmless since it was heavily chained than before. An attempt to touch it, then suddenly, it broke free.

The tamaraw Grimm went in an outrage, pulling its chains out of the walls. The moment that happened, the alarms Ultine built within the home alarmed, telling him something went wrong in his basement. He shoved the customers out as he profusely apologized, closed shop, and immediately went down, only to find his son backed against the wall with the Grimm ready to charge.

Ultine finally regret creating a Grimm so dangerous not only it would fulfill his vengeance, but would take away his greatest creation—his son. Mustering courage quickly, he picked a black ball from a nearby table, warned Mavin to duck, and threw the item to the wall that exploded on impact. The Grimm was dazed. Ultine grabbed his traumatized son, and went upstairs without looking back. The former scientist locked up the basement door and told his son, “Mavin, I am so sorry this happened. I want to let you know I love you and I would never do anything to hurt you. Right now, you have to get help—find any Huntsmen in the area if you have to! I’ll handle this!”

He knew his son was smart—smarter than him, he thought—that Mavin did not protest and simply followed orders, his eyes tearing in fright.

“This is all my fault,” Ultine regretfully said as he opened a chest from their shop, containing a lantern. “My anger, my grudge…drove me into creating a monster—no, I am a monster. My anger led to not only its birth, but to my son’s harm. I should’ve been content and happier like my wife. I love you, Aqua…” He stood in front of the basement door, banging sounds heard from it, knowing that with no experience of combat he wouldn’t stand a chance. “…I love you…Mavin. My dear family, I’m so sorry.”

Mavin finally brought two Huntsmen with him at the cost of paying them his own Dust crystals Aqua gave him a few days ago. When they arrived, the whole shop, the whole home was destroyed. In a distance, the Grimm walked away and the Huntsmen gave chase. Mavin fell to his knees, screaming to the twilight sky of what transpired was a tragedy. Aqua came home, shocked to see everything in ruins, including his husband, now bleeding on the floor with a crushed lantern in his hand.

The two went to Ultine’s body and mourned for his death. However, the foolish Faunus still had little light left within him, as he coughed and said his final words: “Aqua, I’m sorry, I was never really happy like you always tell me to be. I’m sorry all your efforts to cheer me up for all these years were a waste. But I want to say thank you for making our son smile, in making him see the world in a better view than mine. And Mavin, my boy, don’t cry now. Your mom used to say this to me when we first met, ‘No matter how much your life sucks, no matter how difficult things would turn out; you have to always give your heart out to brave the odds. Life would get better that way. Just smile’.”

Ultine’s life was complete.

Before Vale
A few days after Ultine’s funeral, Mavin was now 12 years old. Before leaving for Vale with his widow mother, he visited his father’s grave. There, he promised to Ultine, with burning hatred in his eyes, that he would become a Huntsman in order to kill every single Grimm in this world. Aqua came in time to listen, and grabbed his son by the shoulders and slapped him.

“Mavin! No!” Aqua screamed. “Mavin dear, never ever use that as a drive to becoming a Huntsman.”

“A Grimm killed my dad!” the Faunus protested, his hands balling into fists. “I want to kill all the Grimm! I want to kill the monster who ended dad’s life! Is that what you wanted!?”

“No! Mavin, listen to me.” Aqua hands firmly gripped his son’s shoulders, as if she might lose him too. “Anger was what drove him into creating that Grimm. I went through his basement and found his journal and found out why. Vengeance will only hurt the people around you!”

Mavin suddenly remembered how he got his artificial eye. His fists softened and opened. With the lessons Ultine and Aqua taught Mavin combined, he understood everything and realized how wrong his thoughts were. He hugged his mother tearfully, apologizing profusely.

From that day onwards, Mavin vowed to protect people as a Huntsman someday, just like how his father protected him. He wanted to also search for the tamaraw Grimm—the accursed Kapre—and end its reign of terror, but also not to let that drive take over him like what happened to Ultine.

Mavin became the happiest person he could be.

Present Vale
Mavin moved to Vale with Aqua to live with her friend. To support his mother, the Faunus became a young boxer for a year at the age of 14 to earn a living. Additionally, he was finding more jobs. Just like his mother, Mavin gave his heart out to everything he did no matter how hard life could be.

While being a part-time boxer, he was studying in a school. There he met his first best friend, Xantho Ricionzo.

Abilities and Powers
Mavin can fight skillfully in the art of kick-boxing with or without his weapon. As a Faunus, he may possess the ability of night vision.

Craftsmanship
Thanks to his father’s teachings, Mavin has the exceptional talent for creating weapons that surpasses Xantho. Examples of his creations are Sapphire Tamaraw and mostly the one who made his best friend’s weapons. Moreover, he can upgrade weapons to the point he added hidden speakers into Nadéa’s weapons. He would also craft something out of anything he gets his hands on.

Karma Eye
After Mavin's left eye was damaged by his father's Grimm creation, he was given an artifical one called the "Karma Eye". This only allows Mavin to analyze weapons he sees and keeps info of them, but would rather study them thoroughly than an instant.

Whether using his Semblance or in other occasions, his Karme Eye glows cyan.

Weapons
Mavin’s pride and joy is his Sapphire Tamaraw, a weapon he created back in Signal Academy. It is a blue lantern that has horns on each side. What makes this weapon unique is that it possesses three forms, one of them having special functions.
 * Patient Form: As a lantern, Mavin can open its compartment and insert a Dust crystal into it, and press the trigger from the handle attached to the compartment, blasting an elemental beam depending on what Dust used. Basically, he can also swing his hard lantern to hit. The horns on this mode glows three cyan rings on each side and Mavin describes this mode as, “Someone who I can read bedtime stories with.”
 * Brave Form: By turning the compartment upside-down (or spinning the lantern itself while still holding the handle tight), Sapphire Tamaraw transforms into a horizontal, diamond-shaped shield. Besides protection, he can use the endpoints of the shield to stab, thrust and slash. Interestingly, he can use the shield as means of transportation in surfing or snowboarding. The shield shows Mavin’s emblem on the center glowing orange, and he describes this mode as, “Very creative, and more creative than a scientist with experiments.”
 * Integrity Form: Despite having no functions whatsoever, this is possibly Mavin’s strongest mode, as he shows the full capabilities of his kick-boxing skills with full force. He also takes advantage of his gauntlets’ average weight to swing and hit. The knuckles glow cobalt blue, and Mavin says this before battling his foes using this mode, “You’re about to get dunked, pally.”

Semblance
Adding to his already impressive fighting with his weapon is his Semblance, “Energize”. By holding his hand outward with the palm open, he takes in every bullet shots (excluding arrows), Dust attacks, and energy-based blasts into a colorful ball (depending on what was absorbed) in which his fingers become skeletal and made of iron, but turns back to normal when Semblance is cancelled or unused. He can then throw his collected energy ball, causing damage equal to the amount of power his Semblance accumulated. The energy ball's size limit is that of a basketball's and Mavin will not be able to absorb any more unless he releases what he has first.

While Mavin is using his Semblance, it can be thwarted by bumping or slapping his hands/arms, causing the energy ball he accumulated to explode which damages him and anyone near him. The size of the explosion and damage depends on the power the Semblance gathered.

He can cancel his Semblance at will. But while having an energy ball at hand, Mavin can dissipate it without exploding by closing his hands.

Miscellaneous
As he and his mother live in the low social class, Mavin took multiple jobs outside of Beacon and work on one of them during the weekends. One of his jobs include being a weapon repairman, hotdog salesman, basketball coach, comedian, baker, boxer, janitor, and miner. Thanks to these, Mavin gained multiple productive talents to help his mother and his friends.

Trivia

 * Mavin alludes to Sans from the video game Undertale. Additionally, he also alludes to the Filipino boxing champ, Manny Pacquiao.
 * His general appearance, especially with his denim jacket and white shirt combo, reflects that of Sans wearing an unzipped hoodie and same white shirt. Both their left eyes turn to the color cyan (with Sans using his magic and Mavin when in full power). Mavin's hair is also designed to look like Pacquiao's.
 * Mavin's early boxing career at the age of 14 references to how Pacquiao started his at the same age, although Mavin only lasted a year in the ring just to earn money.
 * Him saying “…I’mma give you a bad time” is a reference to how Sans often said “bad time” during the Genocide Route.
 * Both Sans and Mavin make bad jokes.
 * The number of jobs he took as a alludes to how Sans somewhat took multiple jobs in the game (one of these jobs were also what Pacquiao took).
 * Sapphire Tamaraw is modeled after a 19th century metal train signal lantern. The weapon’s glowing colors 19th_Century_Metal_Signal_Lantern.jpg the way Mavin talks about each mode alludes to some Undertale characters and their corresponding SOUL colors with their traits that are connected to them:
 * Patient Form: The mode’s name is the cyan SOUL’s trait itself in the game—Patience. Mavin said “Someone who I can read bedtime stories with” to his weapon references to Papyrus, San’s younger brother who gets cranky whenever Sans does not read him bedtime stories before sleeping.
 * Symbolically, this form represents his mother, Aqua Willows.
 * Brave Form: The mode’s name is the orange SOUL’s trait itself in the game—Bravery. Mavin saying “Very creative, and more creative than a scientist with experiments” is a reference to either Alphys or Metatton, because one is the scientist while the other uses orange attacks, respectively.
 * Symbolically, this form represents his father, Ultine Emmerich, sacrificing himself to protect his son from a horrible creation.
 * Integrity Form: The mode’s name is the blue SOUL’s trait itself in the game—Integrity. Mavin saying “You’re about to get dunked, pally” references to Sans as he said “geeettttttt dunked on!!!” when he defeated the player in Genocide Route.
 * Symbolically, this form represents his "true self".
 * Mavin is a combination based off of two best friends I have in real life, both old and current. My old friend tried hard to be funny while my current one is described as a craftsman.
 * His first name is from the Turkish name Mavi literally meaning "blue", while his surname is and Old Germanic name, derived from amal meaning "labor" and ne meaning "ruler". His nickname in German means "brave" and "industrious leader" in Teutonic.
 * The Semblance "Energize" and its ability is an inspiration to Return to Sender, a Vigor from the game BioShock Infinite.
 * The original Semblance idea was "Karma", which gives Mavin psychokinesis like Glynda Goodwitch, but his glowing blue hands must touch only one person (except himself) to float that body around for exactly five seconds. I am aware this would be OP, because majority knows how a bullet hell Sans was in the game...
 * The original name was “Kyle Ultine” and the surname was formerly “Dignidad” with Ultine as the first name, which is from the color itself, "Ultramarine".
 * Honestly, Mavin was more fun to develop among Team XANE, while Xantho is second.
 * Mavin's History was not expected to be that long, but I felt it should be to better explain. Without his mother Aqua, he would have been the edgiest character I ever made.
 * His Personality as a whole is meant to be RP-friendly, while his History is mostly meant for the upcoming fan-fiction novella.
 * Making him bald was the original idea in order to give the San-ish feel, but I scrapped it and decided to give Mavin one of Pacquiao's hairstyles to instead give a more Filipino-inspired look.