Radford Philistine

"That's such a waste of time."

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Name: Radford Philistine

Nickname:

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Height: 6'2"

Race: Human

Handedness: Right

Complexion: White

Sexuality: Straight

Occupation: Mercenary/"Huntsmen for Hire"

Status: Active

Affiliations: Shade Academy (Former), Team SLFR.

Relatives: Mother and Father

Eyes: Grey

Semblance: Semblance Silencer

Aura Color: Pinkish-Red

Appearance
Radford wears a sleeveless red vest-like shirt with a white collar and white button lining down the center. On his arms, are his two weapons, Paint and Brush, that cover his forearm in their "inactive" state. He wears brown pants and several dark brown belts (one along his waist, and several around his right thigh). He wears light brown knee-high boots that are wrapped in several gray bands.

Along with his towering height, Radford is also very muscular and broad. His arms (specifically his biceps), are covered in claw marks and sword slashes from many previous battles. He has dull grey eyes and long platinum blonde hair. He styles his hair with the left side combed back while letting the right hang over his face naturally.

Personality
Radford is a person that is very hard to work with when first meeting him. As his namesake implies, he has no care for anything considered to be "cultured". To him, delving into such matters when most of the world is still completely infested with Grimm is nothing more than a waste of time and potential. Along with that, he can be extremely sarcastic and gruff with people when discussing topics he holds "duh" beliefs on - such as the value of Huntsmen and the use for the arts.

Radford's hard personality has lead to many conflicts with his team over the years (some of which turning physical). Much of the conflict revolves around his disgust with Lynae's dream of becoming an artist, and commonly critiqued her by saying her artistic talent is only good for her Semblance and nothing else. Despite this, and after some rough patches, the two have (sort of) made peace with each other. While Radford still believes Lynae's artistic talents are pointless, he still respects her for being a warrior (and a damn good one at that).

Backstory
Radford was born into a wealthy Mistral family in the upper-class districts of the city. His mother is an artist and his father an actor. At a very young age, Radford grew to resent both of them. He saw them living the rich comfy life of an artisan as being cowardly. He idolized the rugged life of living between kingdoms, or Vacuo specifically. Because his parents were never supportive of his inner warrior, Radford's initial training was crude and not very effective. He'd occasionally sneak out of the house and fight Grimm in the wilds with two trash lids he'd find along the way.

Once he finally became old enough, he disavowed his parents and fled to Vacuo to join Shade Academy. He managed to barely make it into the academy and was put onto Team SLFR. Though his initial interactions with his teammates were rough, and still occasionally having spats with them (specifically Lynae), he's grown close with his team, and respects all of them as warriors.

Weapons and Abilities
Radford's weapons are two metal braces called, "Paint" and "Brush", that cover the majority of his forearms. In their inactive state, they look like thick, white, and smooth metal bands wrapped around his arms with red rings lining each end and a Dust magazine placed in the center of the front side of the bracer. When activated, a thin sheet of metal extends from the inner lining of the bracers and covers the rest of his arms. This allows the main bracers to slide up to cover his biceps if necessary. As well, when activated the bracers open up and flatten to form a small shield around his arm. The Dust magazine allows Radford to make an extended shield along the rim of the metal up to six inches in radius. He carries around both Earth and Ice Dust canisters to use as his shield. There is also a small caliber gun akin to that of Tyrian's that embeds itself in the front part of the bracers, these can pop out and fire the Dust as projectiles.

Radford calls his Semblance, "The Silencer". This allows him to disable another Human or Faunus' Semblance for a minute. Doing so will disable any active effects (such as despawning Weiss' summons, or removes the added strength from Yang's), as well as prevents the target from being able to activate their Semblance during the few second duration. While it can be a powerful tool in battle, Radford must know to some extent what the targets Semblance is (be it knowing an effect of it, or a full description), as well, there is a several-minute-long cool down between uses. This, however, can be exploited by the target. If Radford does not know other applications of a person's Semblance, the user may still use those unknown applications during the duration (If Radford disables Weiss' Glyphs that she uses for platforming, but doesn't know she can use Time Dilation or Summoning, she would still be able to do them during the minute-long effect).

Radford's fighting style is very straight forwards and headstrong. While defense is what his weapons are primarily designed for, Radford commonly goes on the offense, using the Dust rims of his shield as slashing weapons against opponents. He is a "slow" fighter in RWBY standards and relies on close quarters combat.

Trivia

 * 1) "Philistine" is an adjective describing a person hostile to culture and the arts.