Shuiro Niavera

"Me? A liar? I never lie, I just don't tell the truth to just anyone."

- Shuiro Niavera to Glynda Goodwitch ""

Appearance
Shuiro is a 17 year old pale skinned boy with reddish brown, short, spiky hair and green eyes that sometimes seem to glow. He is lean with a swimmer's build. Shuiro is a fox faunus with his animal trait being a pair of fox ears. He also has a scar on the right side of his neck, a memento from a Nevermore's feather.

Shuiro's clothes consist of a silver shirt with black sleeves, black pants with a silver stripe around each ankle, a black hooded cloak and black gloves with a silver circuit board-like design on the back of each glove. His emblem - a silver fox stands on the back of his cloak.

Personality
Shuiro is a fun loving prankster with a penchant for tricks that require high amounts of stealth. He is a competent leader that can easily adjust to a situation and is good at seeing things through another's perspective. He loves telling stories and legends, using his semblances weaker version as a visual aid.

While he can be a competent leader, Shuiro has one flaw in his personality: his massive love for everything shiny. He can easily be distracted by gleaming objects and will usually try to steal it in a manner more suited to a magpie than a fox. His fox instincts also make him a good liar and even he would admit that he sometimes tells less than the whole truth to save face, usually pinning the blame on bullies. He is a brave person, sometimes lying and mouthing off to authority figures.

He is a fiercely loyal person that wouldn't hesitate to risk his own life for his friends. Shuiro is deeply in tune with nature, that being one of the reasons for his alias: the Shaman Fox. This is due to him being born into a small Huntsman village deep in the forests of Mistral.

While mostly carefree, Shuiro sometimes feels that he isn't good enough, a mental scar from his father abandoning him and his mother due to Shuiro being born faunus.

Weapons and abilities
Shuiro uses a cross between a tri bladed scythe and a silver shakujō called Forest's oracle. The weapon is about a head shorter than him and consists of a silver staff with a large ring around it's top. Attached to the ring are two small chains, with the connections between the links crafted from burn dust, allowing Shuiro to set the chains ablaze. It has three scythe blades on one side of the staff, the top two seeming hollow. By pressing a button on the weapon's handle the blades can combine into one large blade, the handle shortens and turns the scythe into a sickle to be used in close quarters combat.

Shuiro also carries around two curved daggers called the Kitsune no Kiba (the fox fangs). These blades were created by one of Shuiro's distant ancestors using his semblance and are inscribed with a set of runes that allow the blades to counter dust projectiles, absorbing bits of the dust used and storing it for later use. Shuiro has their sheathes crossed on his lower back under his cloak.

Semblance
Shuiro's semblance, known as Spirit Strike is basically a call for help. During battle this semblance can be focused through the Forest's oracle to create two aura foxes, constructs that Shuiro can control using a suitable focus. Outside of battle this skill can be used without the focus sacrificing size and durability for diversity, creating a large slew of different constructs that Shuiro uses as visual aids during his stories.

Other skills
Shuiro is a very talented storyteller, a talent he is very proud of. He is also a good cook, a talented drummer and is a suprisingly adept brawler, using a tricky and evasive fighting style that depends on avoiding enemy attacks and tiring them out before dealing the final blow.

Weaknesses
Shuiro is not all that strong physicaly so stronger opponents that can corner him can easily defeat him. His semblance also has the weakness of being kind of fragile, dispersing after a few good hits. It also has a problem of range, the foxes cannot move to far from him and require a high level of concentration to control. His awful accuracy prevents him from carrying a ranged weapon which makes ranged opponents extremely dangerous.

Backstory
Shuiro Niavera was born in a small huntsman community in the forests of Mistral called Kamikaze village to a human father and a faunus mother. His mother fell in love with his father during their time in combat school. Unfortunately unknown to Shuiro's mother Kitsi, the man she fell in love with did not like faunus and was planning on using her to get to her village where he could spread his anti faunus views. Luckily for Kitsi her home had a long history of accepting both species, human and faunus and would not be corrupted easily. When he saw this, her then fiancee decided to try a different approach: he would have a child with Kitsi and corrupt him or her from a young age. His child would then spread his philosophy among the other children, slowly corrupting the village. Unfortunately for his plan, Shuiro was born a faunus. In a fit of rage his father revealed his plans which led to him being thrown out of the village, his memories wiped by the village leader to never reveal it's location. Years passed and Shuiro grew up with the entire village replacing his father. He was taught how to fight, soon crafting the first version of his weapon. After unlocking his semblance and going through five more versions of the Forest's Oracle he finally crafted the final version that allowed him to use his semblance to its full potential, creating two silver fox spirits from his aura and, using his staff like a conductors baton, controlling their movements in combat. When he reached sixteen years of age, Shuiro underwent his home's trial of passage: to test the skills he learned over the years and see if he was prepaired for the outside world he would have to spend a day and the following night in the forest. After leaving the village and setting up camp, Shuiro went exploring, soon meeting a group of huntsmen, fresh graduates from Haven Academy sent here to exterminate some of the grimm that started coming out of the woods and attacking nearby settlements. Knowing that those villages had trading contracts with his home, meaning that if the grimm destroyed them, Kamikaze village would no longer have it's link to the outside world, and passing that same group of grimm just a few minutes ago, Shuiro offered to guide the team to their target. The team accepted, wanting to finish their mission quickly and knowing they would be in the forest for a long time if they didn't accept the boy's offer. Shuiro led them to their target: a group of ursa led by an ursa major. The team fought well until the ursa major blindsided the huntsmen leader almost killing him if it wasn't for Shuiro stepping in and knocking the large grimm away with his foxes before jumping into the fray himself. His companions watched on in awe as the 16 year old boy danced through the battlefield his staff swishing through the air and what seemed like fox spirits following his command. Soon enough the group of grimm was exterminated and the huntsman team gave Shuiro his new alias: the Shaman Fox. After the night passed, the team keeping Shuiro company through the night they said their goodbyes, the team leaving the forest, but promising to wait for him on the edge of the woods once he leaves for Beacon to show him around Mistral before his departure, and Shuiro returning to his village. The following year went by in a flash, and soon his mother was escorting him to the edge of the forest where his Huntsman friends were waiting for him. Before he left his mother's care for the following four years, she gave him one last gift: the Kitsune no Kiba, the blades of his ancestors now finally passed to him.

Trivia

 * All members of team NANS are connected to death and other occult themes. Shuiro is a fox faunus, foxes in chinese and japanese lore are guides of the spirits of the dead, guiding them to the afterlife.
 * Shuiro means vermillion in japanese a nod to the anime Naruto, more specifically Kurama's color in the first episode when he was shaded due to it being nighttime as well as the color of the bars in Naruto's seal