Nero Rosso

Appearance
Nero is a tall young man with chin-long silver hair, violet eyes  and several scars all over his body, though they are usually hidden by his clothes.

He wears a black and red Hoodie with his emblem on the front and a gray Jacket with a wolfhead on the back. His pants are gray with a camouflage pattern and have multiple pockets on the legs. In addition he wears a gray waistcape, a pouch at his waist and a holster on his back for his weapons.

Personality
Nero is a bit shy and rather quiet, but mostly socially awkward and has problems opening up towards other people. Although he rarely interacts withstrangers, unless necessary, he does not actively avoid social Interactions. Likewise he gets very talkative once he trusts someone and loves giving long-winded explanations when asked about something he enjoys. However he also tends to get easily off-topic during his explanations.

He has no Sense of Rhythm or any other skills relating to music. He also has a strong hatred for dogs although he can't remember why, but he doesn't discriminate against canine Faunus. When in combat he tends to be quite aggressive and when it's against Grimm he becomes especially brutal.

He has a strong sense of Justice and because of his past he can't stand bullying and does everything he can to stop it when he sees it happening, even resorting to violence when neccesary.

Weapons
Nero uses two different weapons, Blood Blaster and Red Radiance, but because of their size he only uses one at a time and rarely carries them with him.

Red Radiance: A combination between a double-bladed combat axe and a bolt-action 17mm smoothbore cannon. The shaft is mostly hollow and acts as the gunbarrel and features a spiked muzzle brake on the tip. A pair of vents are placed at the sides of each blade and serve to reduce the massive recoil and heat up the blades in the process for increased cutting power. Near the tip are a pair of telescoping spikes and a bit below the the blades is an additional grip, both serve as stabilization while firing. Bullets are loaded through a c-shaped 8 round magazine and the types used are high-explosive incendiary rounds and kinetic energy penetrators. By removing the magazine three types of Dust Bullets, fire for more efficient heating of the blades, wind for faster and stronger swings and ice to cool it down for transforming or after combat; can be used.

When transforming into its alternate form the muzzle brake slide down, the tip gets covered while the bottom opens, the shaft retracts, thereby covering the vents and the blades move parallel to each other. This transformation results in higher recoil but at the same time the weapon gets smaller allowing for better aiming, in addition this form has a smaller caliber, 10mm, and uses only Dust Bullets which are also propelled by wind Dust, thereby achieving lower recoil than before. While it can still be used as an axe in this form it's main-purpose is its function as a pump-action shotgun. The rounds used are fragmentating Fire, Ice, and Lightning Dust crystals, as well as pulverized variants for "breath"-type shots; and are loaded through 30 round Box Magazine.

Blood Blaster: A mix between a chainsaw-sword, a machine gun and a beam cannon. Its Base form is a large single bladed sword with three chainsaw blades next to each other, additional grips where the crossguard would be and a machine gun with internal magazine on the opposite side of the blade. For additional cutting power the blades heat up while revolving. Like Red Radiance it can also transform into an alternate form which also is mainly used as a ranged weapon and uses Dust instead of regular Bullets. When transforming the frontmost quater of the sword flips up, the machine  gun retracts and a barrel hidden inside the sword moves outward. The alternate form is used solely as a Dust-based beam cannon and a Dust cannister is attached on top of the weapon to provide it with ammo. The usable firing modes are: a laser, scattering rapid-fire, regular shots and a high powered beam. All of these can be used with fire, ice or lightning Dust.

Semblance
Drone Master: Nero's Semblance, it allows him to create small energy orbs which are capable of trapping Dust, moving through the air and releasing the contained Dust. Nero uses them as guided missiles, mobile turrets and floating mines. As the range at which they can be created is rather short he usually creates inside of his weapons alternate forms barrel where he also infuses them with the required Dust. As a side effect of this tactic it appears as if the orbs are generated through the weapon, thus hiding the identity of his semblance.

Abilities
Model Building: Nero is a passionate model builder and has years of experience of building scale models. This has given him great dexterity and made the creation of his weapons far easier as his knowledge of scratch-building models was applicable to a degree to their creation.

Weapon analysis: Being a lover of robots and exotic weapons he learned to identify a weapons functions through its outward appearance and estimate it's abilities.

Strategic Knowledge: Years of playing strategy games led Nero to gain a respectable knowledge of Tactics and the ability to quickly come up with a Strategy in sudden combat situations.

Weaknesses
Lack of social skills: A childhood in solitude and a lack of desire for company as well as general social awkwardness means that Nero has no Idea how to approach other people and has sometimes problems comprehending a person's actions.

Bad memory: For unknown reasons he has a bad memory especially if it concerns people he doesn't interact with at regular basis.

Backstory
Nero was born in Atlas, in a town not far from the capital where he spend most of his early childhood. His Parents were employees of the Schnee Dust Company while his older sister was training to become a Huntress. Because of his quiet nature he didn't have many friends and was often bullied because of it but also because he had tendency to take the beating in place of other children which he barely even knew. "A Hero doesn't choose which people he saves" is what he always thought and even as he failed to fight back and was beaten up he never regreted his descision.

When he was seven a pack of Grimm attacked his hometown and the sight of the Atlesian military robots and the Huntsmen fighting the Grimm steeled his resolve to fight in order to protect those who can't fight themselves. In hindsight it was also this event which awakened his love for robots and the first time he thought about becoming a Huntsman himself.

When he was eleven his family moved to Vale beause of his parents work while his sister started attending Beacon. The years passed, Nero became a Student at Signal and one day when he, along with his family, was on the way to the Forest of Forever Fall they became caught up in an Attack by the reformed White Fang where he got severly injured. After he recuperated Nero once again changed, or rather decided on his path in life.

"To become a Hero. To protect the weak. To fight the Grimm. To stop those who cause strife between Human and Fauns.

That's why I want to become a Huntsman."

Trivia

 * Nero and Rosso mean black and red respectively in Italian.
 * Red Radiance was inspired by the Axe used by the protagonist of the Manga 'All you need is kill' as well as the one used by the Galilnagant from the Game 'Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2nd'.
 * Blood Blaster was inspired by the God Arc Weapons from the God Eater franchise.