Lux Mercer

"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good the lies beyond appearances."

Lux is an original character based in the RWBY-verse and created by WeissSchnee. He is a member of the White Fang and based on the Greek god Zeus.

Appearance
Lux is a young man of average height with a slim build. He has pale skin, short and messy white hair and pale golden eyes. Lux has on several occasions been mistaken for a girl due to his somewhat feminine features and slim body.

His combat gears consists of a white coat with gold accents, a zip up sleeveless gold vest, black pants with two gold belts, and white boots with gold straps and accents.

Personality
Lux is a warm and loving person, always eager to meet new people and make new friends. Lux is a loyal friend and someone who won't hesitate to defend the people he loves, but the flip side of this is that sometimes Lux spreads himself too thin trying to make everyone happy. He also tries to shoulder too much responsibility, and often struggles to let others help him.

Also, despite his slim frame, Lux loves to eat. His team are baffled as to how he remains so thin after seeing what he is capable of eating in a single sitting, and how he always seems to have food stored on him when they're away on long missions.

History
Lux was born in a White Fang village outside of Vale. His parents had been members of the White Fang since they were kids, so even when he was a child, Lux knew that he wanted to follow in their footsteps.

Despite the danger all around them, Lux had a habit of leaving the village to explore the surrounding caves and forest. It was on one of these adventures when he was eight years old that Lux met a young girl called Claret Gainsboro. Lux had been climbing a tree when he'd lost his footing and slipped. The fall, while not fatal, would've left Lux with a few broken bones if it hadn't been for Claret. The young girl had seen him fall and managed to just get underneath him before he hit the ground, breaking his fall. Lux and Claret became close friends from that day forward, bonding over their love of adventuring and exploring the area around their home.

Two years after meeting Claret, Lux ment Tynan Brandt. The snake eyed older boy was an orphan who had shown up at a White Fang faction meeting and insisted the he be able to join. Lux was at first a little overwhelmed by Tynan's forward and loud personality, but he soon saw past the bluster and found a person who was warm and brave and charismatic. The two become close friends and even more effective partners in combat.

For the next four years, Lux, Claret and Tynan were inseparable. They trained together, all three determined to become better fighters and it was during this time Claret came up with the idea of them forming a team. The idea became a reality after all three joined the White Fang and Claret went to her step father with the idea. Not long after the team was formed, Lux met the girl who would become like a sister to him, Rialta Asherah. Lux and Rialta were very similar, gentle souls who took it upon themselves to temper the explosive tendencies of their team mates.

Lux wasn't involved in the Fall of Beacon. He and his friends were already in Mistral on White Fang business when the chaos began.

Combat
In combat, Lux uses a double bladed spear staff (DBSS) called Zdeus. In it's default form, Zdeus is a staff that Lux uses to cast bolts of lightning Dust. In it's second form, a mid sized blade can be extended from each end of the staff. Lux commonly uses this form as a spear or to catapult around the battlefield.

Speed and agility are by far Lux's greatest assets, and he uses them to their fullest extent no matter which form of his weapon he is using. The staff form of his weapon gives him the option fo attacking from range, while the bladed spear version allows him to attack from mid range or even to put himself in the thick of the action on the battlefield.

Because he is more skilled when it comes to agility and speed, Lux usually acts as a spotter for his team mates, calling out attacks they mightn't see coming or blocking them before they can strike his team mates.

Aura and Semblance
Lux's Aura is pale gold in color.

Lux's Semblance is called Tether. Tether allows Lux to create an arc of electricity that tethers to objects/ people/ Grimm through magnetic attraction. Lux can use this to move around with greater ease as well as pull himself towards objects or objects towards himself. Lux can create tethers from both hands and use them in conjunction with one another. The maximum distance of an object Lux can tether to varies depending on his Aura level. At full Aura, Lux can tether to an object 15 meters away. The tether can also only pull items that Lux himself could move. It doesn't increase his physical strength.

Trivia
- The name Lux means light. Light can be any spectrum of colours, and can make you think of white or yellow. That is the color allusion of his name.

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