Julian Gestalt

"Fucking cops. They go ahead and decide to take you on. And you reply by utterly decimating them. That is the only solution."

- Julian Gestalt

Appearance
Julian is of average height with spiked blonde hair and flashing gray eyes. His eyebrows are thinned out and he is never seen without a cigarette in his mouth, which is curled into a frown. He wears a white shirt with a vest overtop and army pants with over 30 pockets. His most prominent feature would have to be the many sticks of dynamite strapped on his body, his arms, his legs, miniture sticks of dynamite on his belt and his pockets bulging with the stuff. He easily carries over 100 sticks of dynamite on his person at all times.

Personality
Julian is very stoic and serious. Not having a single bit of humour in him. He constantly frowns and doesn't believe people easily. He also doesn't trust many people as he was once a hired assassin and bomber. However, his attempt at turning over a new leaf by becoming a Hunter shows his attempt to reform. However, his past life has left it's impact on him in a negative fashion.

Weapon and Abilities
Julian uses an impressive array of dynamite for many different uses. The dynamite is specially made by a mixture of dust and gunpowder and the fuses are specially made to not light up unless Julian uses a specially made

cigarette on them.

Julian's aura is of a defensive variety, he uses it to protect himself mainly from the blast of his own attacks, but can bolster it so that at it's maximum, he can block a blade from a sword using his forarm. However, increasing his defensive abilities will take it's toll on his aura and diminish it quite fast.

Julian, due to his experiance in terrorism, uses strings along with his dynamite to create traps in which his opponents, or "victems" as he likes to call them, to their utter demise.

Since the string is made up of the same components as his cigarettes, they light up due to friction and in turn, light the dynamite on fire. Chaos ensues afterward.

Another kind of string that Julian uses is much more durable, and is very thin, almost invisible to the naked eye. Julian places this string on his opponents and can send dynamite with hooks attached to them, straight at his opponent like they're on a monorail. the string is destroyed with the explosion, but the monorail has done it's job,



the package of doom has been delivered.

The kinds of dynamite that Julian uses are as follows:
 * 1) Regular Dynamite: Just a regular stick of dynamite that requires a tiny bit of aura to light the fuse. Julian carries dozens of these on his person at all times.
 * 2) Miniature Sticks: Julian wears around 50 of these on his belt. The bombs cause minimal damage and require even less aura to ignite, but these are mainly used by Julian in order to use the blast to propel himself in a certain direction quickly, but he still takes a bit of damage.
 * 3) Directional Dynamite: These are special sticks which are propelled by gunpowder at the bases. They take a bit more aura to ignite and can change direction twice, wherever Julian wishes as long as he doesn't need to change direction more than two times. They can either explode upon impacting with something, or when Julian snaps his fingers while they're tipped with aura.
 * 4) Hooked Dynamite: Julian attaches these to his string and then using the force of a miniature explosion to send them on their way to his opponent.

Backstory
Julian was raised in an orphanage for 7 years of his life. He didn't like the other children there, nor the nurses who looked after the children. He ran away the very first chance he got, but was caught within two days and brought back to the orphanage where he was then kept in a locked room so that he may not escape again. One day, when a matron came to give him his food, he stabbed her with a rough knife whittled down from a wooden table he had dismembered and cut down using a jagged rock.

After his escapade, the police were after him and he had a $200 bounty put on his head. He ran off into the dark alleyways where he lived for the next 2 years of his life.

Julian, from a young age, even though he had no interest in other children, had a facination with explosives, having seen some on television. He used those two years in the alleyways in harnessing gunpowder and materials, plus a bit of dust, having learned about dust from a few gangsters who stayed near the alleyway where he slept. He made a few bombs, and after a year and a half of rigerous training, managed to assemble dynamite by himself quickly, making simple sticks for the most part, but also the miniature sticks as an added precaution.

Julian, having no idea what aura was while he lived in the alleyways, needed a way to ignite dynamite quickly without using a lighter. He started smoking as he made his fuses thin enough that the simple flame from the end of a cigarette would light it. Although he later started using aura to ignite his sticks of dynamite, he became a chain smoker and is unable to throw off the habit.

Julian later met an assassin in the alleyways by the name of Robson. Robson, seeing the child's talent in explosives, took him under his wing and taught him how to be a tactical bomber and assassin, although the latter wasn't as much to his abilities, as explosions are generally very loud, and Julian refused to use a knife for anything except to measure out paper and gunpowder quantities.

Later on, when Julian turned 13, Robson died of a lung diesease that took many in the alleys. If Julian stayed a bit longer, he would've succumbed to it too, however, he left the alleys and the city where he had lived for his entire life, and joined an unnamed terrorist group as a bomber and demolition man. He did many jobs in blowing up city squares and embassies, but felt a bit of guilt afterwards, but managed to keep it at bay.

A few years later, Julian left the group, and they let him go, even though he had been an asset to them over the years, they respected his choice. He spent a year wandering the world, and one day learned about a world which he had been oblivious to for his entire life.

He knew about the 4 kingdoms and such, but he didn't know about the Creatures of Grimm and the threat they presented to humanity, for the year that he wandered, he had felt overwhelming guilt at the many lives he had taken away, and taking down the Creatures of Grimm as a trained Hunter, seemed like the perfect redemption chance to the 16 year old.

It must be noted here that during a job, Julian awakened his aura when cornered by two dozen cops. He realized that he could use a reddish tinged energy flowing from his fingers to block the explosive blasts from his tnt and dropped bombs all around him, blowing up the cops, and leaving him unscathed. This was shortly after he developed his directional dynamite.

Although never having gotten formal training except for the 8 years he had spent under his own care, under Robson's, and under the terrorist group's, he had street smarts and skills greater than a fourth year Signal Student, and even had a useage of aura, however, his record didn't simply disappear off the charts. He had a $50,000 bounty on head now and was wanted dead or alive. He had a past as a mercenary, doing jobs for money, and somewhat sadly, still kept up this pastime to keep himself afloat.

He appealed to Ozpin, shamelessly telling the coffee lover about his past, what he had done, how he wanted to redeem himeslf, everything. Ozpin originally wanted to refuse, he thought that having this obviously dangerous boy in the halls of Beacon could end up with many dead bodies. But then he looked into Julian's eyes and saw the resolve there. It was that resolve that made Ozpin let Julian in, but made Julian swear to keep his past a secet from everyone, even the teachers, especially his fellow students, but most oddly enough, not to tell Glynda Goodwitch about what he ahd done as well. The last request made Julian wonder, but threw his thoughts aside and gladly agreed to the proposal.