Solder Cross

"There are two ways to do this, you talk, or my gun does, and Cross Adder is feeling chatty today!"-Solder CrossSolder Cross is the third member of Team ABSS, alongside Azul Abyss, Brass Franklin and Sabrina Garnet, he attends Atlas Academy. While he has a long history of struggle against faunus-kind, he's prone to ignoring Azul's ideas and orders at first. Yet as they grow as teammates, Solder realizes his passion is best spent fighting alongside his team rather than against his leader.

Appearance
A large young man built like a bull, with enthusiastic brown eyes and black hair. He wears plated knight armor, with a crusader helmet/solding mask that covers his face. The armor has a white details, with gauntlets that bring his pointer, middle ring fingers together.

He wears the tabard of his home village, with a magnet plate over it that connects to his belt underneath it. While he does wear a chainmail coat during missions, he usually leaves inner protection to his aura when sparring or during missions Atlas.

Personality
Passionate, headstrong, reckless and a lover of challenging the odds. Solder is a proud individual who believes that with enough force, any challenge can be overcome. He tends to go on rants about restoring Holand and Atlas' greatness. Yet even as he praises the human spirit, he is highly distrustful of faunus due to his family and their clashes with them, not to mention his own beliefs. Unlike the rest of his teammates, Solder is not just religious, but a devout follower of Helios, the Dust God and his village's former patron.

Like many Huntsmen students, Solder is a survivor of a grimm attack that ravaged his home. Not just does he take any opportunity given to slaughter grimm, but he dreams of the day he can march into his old village, clean the grimm out and restore it to it's former glory. While he is somewhat polite yet, referring to teachers by their designated titles and somewhat reigning in his excitement. Alas, once he starts, sit down because he'll continue to the end.

Weapon: Cross Adder
The Cross Adder is a Retractable Gatling Lance(RGL). Designed for wasting away enemy defenses and slaughtering creatures of grimm. It is primarily used to slam it's drill down and waste away aura, literally drill it. Whereas the lance is mainly used to deal with larger grimm, or whack several foes out of the way.

However, Cross Adder's real prowess comes in it's gatling form. Capable to shredding trees and even shooting fully grown nevermore in half. Alas, it's recoil is strong enough to send an unprepared fully grown man flying and it eats away it's bullets quickly.

Semblance: Friction
Solder's semblance is the ability to increase or decrease between himself and/or objects he's in direct or indirect contact with. Allowing him to slide on surfaces or lock himself in place like a fortress.

Fighting Style
Solder usually starts the charge, dismantling his enemy's defenses before settling back and letting loose his gatling gun. Thanks to his semblance, Solder can stand Cross Adder's brutal recoil as gatling gun and take full advantage of it's lance form by piercing enemies after sliding right at them with full mommemtum. Yet one of his simplest moves is to increase the friction between his drill and the enemy, making the drill zero in a single spot to deal further damage and lock the enemy in place.

Backstory
Villages in Solitas are rare for clear reasons, without proper tech, few can survive, much less thrive in the cold and unforgiving enviroment. Nevertheless, faith is a powerful tool, Solder's family settled alongside several others in a place near a moderate deposit of fire dust, and used it to change their lives for the better. For decades, Holand lasted through war and famine. Solder grew up there, being taught that dust was a gift from the dust god Helios and that it must be treasured.

Yet back when he was a child, the fire dust finally ran dry. With the approaching cold and shaken faith, the villagers were beacons for the lurking creatures of grimm in the nearby ocean. Solder and most of the village survived, thanks to the swift actions of the Atlesian Military patrolling the continent.

Yet, left with no means to survive, the head priest swallowed his pride and accepted the commander's offer for a ride to Atlas. Solder, still young, refused to budge and had to be dragged screaming and crying into the airship. Thankfully air travel was short and the grimm in Solitas scarce, otherwise the sheer negativity of the survivors would have attracted an even larger force of grimm.

Resettling in Atlas was far from easy, villagers were penniless and lost most of their belongings during the grimm attack. However, they had one thing most lacked, dust expertise. It was exactly for that Solder's father and several other villagers found jobs in SDC factories. A skilled talker and an expert on safely manipulating dust, Solder's father soon earned a place in upper management of the factory. So Solder adjusted to life in the city, despite never giving up he'd find a way to take back Holand, even enrolling in the nearest Combat School and creating Cross Adder.

Yet, things were not perfect. Their position in the SDC made them constant targets for the White Fang. The support for the SDC also turned many faunus against them, leading Solder to see them as cruel beings like the stories and rumors dictated. When the WF took his father and several workers hostage in a dust mine near Atlas, Solder went on a one man crusade against them, drilling into the mining and restraining the terrorist.

After such sucess, his invitation to study at Atlas Academy was all but sent. Now, he's ready to take the next step in his crusade.

Trivia

 * Much like Neon Katt, Solder's allusion is a meme: DEUS VULT
 * His theme song is In The Name of God by Powerwolf
 * Solder's color name is actually a reference to when he fires Cross Adder, making him armor flash like soldering metal
 * Solder's name was chosen for two reasons: First, because it started with S. Second, because it sounded similar to soldier.