Khione Vouno

"Fighting's kinda like riding a sled, y'know? You just fall into it, and move with the flow."

- Khione Vouno

Appearance
Khione's a well toned young man, his body fairly limber and athletic, with a fairly tanned complexion. His particular fighting style and his practice with it sort of naturally built up a physique of that nature. While he isn't heavily scarred, he has quite a few cuts and scratches that go up his arms as the result of his training. Standing at 5'10 he's not particularly tall or short, though his wide brown eyes can make him seem a bit childish. Khione's hair is an untamed mess of snow white, coming down to the back of his neck with bangs that hang out clearly and unevenly, mostly covering his forehead. He usually wears a half-cracked grin, even when doing something mundane such as sitting in classes.

Khione's wardrobe has a few consistent pieces that help identify him, a white parka with a checkerboard pattern and black fur collar. The jacket is torn and cut in some areas, revealing the material, and clearly looks pretty well-worn. It bears his emblem, a sort of snowy white hill, four distinct trees standing atop it, as a patch stitched into his right sleeve. Otherwise he is constantly seen with a black beanie, while nothing is particularly outstanding or unique about the hat he uses it to constantly hide his Faunus characteristic, an extra pair of grey lynx ears.

The rest of his clothes are rather variable, often times he wears clearly home-knit shirts, ranging from maroon, to tan, to brown in color. The seams and stitches of said shirts are usually plainly visible. After that he wears whatever pair of jeans he can get his hands on, and a seemingly simple pair of black boots. He also usually wears a simple plastic beaded bracelet on his left arm, with his name in bright bold letters on the beads, a gift from his sister.

Personality
Khione comes off as pretty laid-back and relaxed, the kind of person who doesn't seem to really let much bother him. Usually he can be found finding some dumb way to entertain himself, he has a habit of idly juggling objects for example. He's very positive and bright about his family back home, usually very quick to brighten up and talk someone's ear off when they're mentioned. Despite all this, he's actually rather bad and averse to physical contact, he can get over it in a fight, but he doesn't really like sudden hugs or people  he doesn't know getting in on his personal space. He particularly hates people touching at his beanie or trying to take it from him, for obvious reasons. He doesn't really like awkward silences and can usually be caught muttering to himself or talking to no one in particular if he feels the room is getting quiet. He's got a bit of a reckless and curious streak, often finding himself poking his nose where it doesn't really belong without meaning to.

In reality, while his confidence in his own personality and relaxed nature with others is mostly true, he's incredibly anxious about others finding out about his Faunus nature. He's quick to get nervous and stutter if his secret seems like it's in danger of getting noticed, any sort of lax, chill aura flies out the window when he feels like he's in danger of being exposed, and he quickly becomes quite defensive of his personal space. It can actually be quite jarring, one moment he's having a casual fun conversation, the next he's sliding away from people while simply telling them that they're "too close" if he had a close scare with his Faunus nature being discovered.

Khione really enjoys fighting, it helps him free up and feel less burdened by his Faunus nature. He feels at his most confident when he can simply let his fighting skill do the talking for him. He had a deep admiration of hunters, and was the kind of person to religiously watch thee Vytal Tournament whenever it came on as a child.

Weapons and Abilities
Pagos- Khinoe's retractable claw gauntlets, they're a sort of bright looking silver color, contrasting with the faded and worn look of his wardrobe. The claw blades are incredibly sharp, but even when pulled in Pagos makes for a nice punching tool. The right hand actually has a grappling hook inside, allowing him to grab onto people and objects, or use it to swing and maneuver himself. They do have a slot for dust, though dust channeling in Pagos mostly just leads to generic elemental attacks, and aren't used very often by Khione, he only ever really uses ice dust to try to freeze people in place and even that isn't a focal point of how he fights.  Voreios- Khinoe's boots, they actually have extendable and retractable ice skates in the bottom, which can be used for a kicking blade if he really pleased. Voreios is capable of using dust as well, though Khione does use ice dust much more commonly from them. Often times using ice dust to freeze the floor and get some use out of his skate blades.

Cold Front- Khione's semblance allows him to sort of create a field of cold around him, varying in intensity depending on the distance from him. It only extends around 50 feet, give or take a few inches, though this may raise as he grows as a hunter. On the outer ring it's only mildly chilly, but when in close proximity it becomes downright frigid, his own aura gives him a sort of warmth or blanket from the cold, and if someone were to be holding onto him they'd get some of the warming effect. He usually uses this as a move to slow down opponents, or make it easier for him to use Voreios to freeze the ground, or other objects. The area around him freezes much quicker with the ice.

All of this combined sort of adds up to his fighting style, while he's certainly fast and strong, though not as much as someone specifically focused on speed or strength, his biggest plus is his agility and unique maneuverability, using ice dust to slip people up or his semblance to make his proximity colder, Khione then strikes fast and hard in melee with Pagos, using the grappling hook or ice skates to give him a unique edge in how he moves.

He is however, week at a range, while he can try to use dust in his weapons he isn't very well trained in it, and will only provide minor harassment at best with dust usage. He also isn't much of a planner, if he's on a team with a leader or tactician who is giving orders he'll certainly follow them, but on his own Khione simply relentlessly attacks with his abilities and natural athleticism and hopes to bring people down that way.

History
Khione was born to two Faunus parents in a small mountainous island off the mainland of Vale, known as Chalazi Kor. Chalazi is unique in that it has a strangely high Faunus population, and thus Khione grew up without ever really worrying about his heritage until recently.

His father, Andre, had very bad experiences with people treating him poorly due to his Faunus blood, and was quite paranoid about Khione leaving Chalazi, and while his mother, Folia, was quite a bit more willing to let him explore, she didn't want to ignore her husband's worries. Many a night between the two were spent arguing over letting him go out more, until Khione sort of broke the arguments without knowing it.

"I want to be a hunter, like mom!" he happily chirped at the age of ten, not knowing the kind of wave he'd just set off in his family. His mother and father talked about it, quite a bit before finally deciding that they wouldn't like to crush his dreams, however his father's paranoia led him to lecture young Khione about the dangers of his Faunus blood, for the first real time in his childhood. His mother knit him his beanie as a sort of compromise and the family decided together, Khione would hide the fact that he was a Faunus publicly, though if he felt comfortable around someone, or in the school in general, he'd be free to be more open about it. This was enough to settle the discussion between his parents.

He spent the next coming years training under his mother as a substitute for Signal, with weapons crafted by a town blacksmith. His mother was one of the few hunters who lived on Chalazi, and this led to complications. It wasn't uncommon for her to be called away to fight or hunt Grimm, and while she is alive and well, on one of the first few training sessions a pair of Ursa wandered a bit too close to young Khione. Folia was quick to get rid of them, but it was on that day that Khione knew he'd have to take his training seriously.

He grew to deeply admire his mother's strength, training his body even when his mother couldn't train with him, he wanted to be in tip top shape to finally consider himself worthy of taking the title of hunter. By 17 he took an airship to Beacon, with a tear-filled farewell to his parents and younger sister. He still does get a little homesick, and can often be found writing letters or having scroll contact back with his family when he's got the time. Overall his childhood was a happy one, though one that left him with a growing want to become a hunter, and a deep respect for fighting and the hunter trade.

Trivia

 * Khione is named after a minor Greek goddess, generally considered to be the goddess of snow. His last name, Vouno, meaning mountain in the same language.
 * Khione actually really doesn't like candies, he can taste artificial flavor from a mile away and would prefer to just eat an apple than a candy meant to be flavored like it.
 * Some of the scars along his arms actually come from dumb sledding accidents, though he'd never admit it and lump them all in as "training scars"