Wynston Arkwright

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Wynston was an accomplished oboist who turned his career to freelance events planning, eventually erasing his prestige in the upper class society and the music world. He also serves as one of the best marksmen of the Bluthardt family.

Appearance
Wynston possesses a youthful appearance, despite being in his late 20's. He gives off the impression of an easygoing individual: hands in the pocket, slouched shoulders, and messy blonde hair. He has soft, bright green eyes that usually gaze at nothing in particular, either thinking of something or trying to conceal where his focus is. His facial features is quite soft for a male adult, his body slightly athletic and lean. As for his faunus trait, he has black scales of a king cobra that covers his forearms, the base of his neck, and his nape. His scales has golden stripes.

His usual wear is business casual, composed of dark red sweater- with a white half mask, its design alluded to king cobra's scales, at the back-, white collared shirt with rolled up sleeves past his elbow, brown belt, black jeans, and a pair of black shoes customized for running. Being a mask enthusiast, Winchor wears assorted half masks around his neck. He also wears a silver-colored self-winding watch with black leather straps on his right wrist.

Wynston would sometimes carry around Adlig Teufel strapped on his hips and a black sling back pack carrying 3 canisters of powdered Ice Dusts.

Background
Birthplace: Atlas

Wynston is the second born of the Arkwright family, a not-so known one of the branch families of the Scharfsinnhardt family and, to the extent, the Bluthardt family. He grew up with his human older half-brother, Incendio, who was the result of an affair between cousins, whom he shared the same father but different mothers.

He was six when Mr. Arkwright, a pianist, enrolled him and Incendio at Silver Note School of Music, a prestigious music school famous for producing competitive musicians. Their father had brought them to a concert band competition beforehand to share his passion as well as encourage them to try out music. While his older half-brother became fascinated with classical music, Wynston wasn't much enthused and felt forced to go along with the flow anyway because he couldn't think of any alternative to music and typical studies taught in schools.

However, at his first music class, Wynston's interest to music was aroused upon meeting Lena Silvernote, one of the grandchildren of the owner of the music school, whom he immediately had crush on. He even chose the same musical instrument the young beauty was also playing: an oboe, despite it being one of the most difficult woodwind instruments to play. Even so, it gave him a chance to get to know and befriend Lena when they were instructed to form a woodwind section. The girl became his reason for playing music.

The music school wasn't without its flaws though. Wynston, being a snake faunus, had been subjected to passive-aggressiveness remarks and humiliation by some of his teachers. It was thanks to his older half-brother, who stood up against racist adults, that he was able to endure such experiences.

As his childhood years with Lena and Incendio was filled with sense of normality, 8-year-old Wynston got a taste of what was like to hold and fire a pistol, courtesy of Mrs. Arkwright, a Huntress and a former guardian of his father. His fascination with firearms overwhelmed his focus in music, slowly neglecting his studies, but only for a moment. He was lagging behind his music class and feared that he might not catch up with Lena. But thanks to his father's advice, he turned his mere fascination into a productive asset- a weapon- to protect Lena. This path to markmanship was the beginning of his journey to becoming an assassin of the Bluthardt. His resolve to protect her led him to coldly shoot her wanna-be kidnapper under the supervision of Ardon Springfield.

Wynston continued his music career throughout his teenage years and early adulthood. He grew closer to Lena, even becoming best friends and joining the same concert band just to stay together. Later, because of his continuous honing of his skill that rivals the talented, he became the principal oboe of his section. With his successful career in music, he also grew up to become one of the most accomplished marksman of his family, continuously becoming better with every training and kill he made.

Both in public and private life, he was a successful young man at age 23, an aristocrat with a privilege to get in the social circle of other young elites. However, Wynston had one thing left: share what he has with someone whom he longed to be with. He thought he'll also succeed in this part.

Right after confessing his love to Lena, Wynston's feelings weren't reciprocated, getting a polite rejection from her. Nevertheless, he appeared to accept her answer smoothly. Then Lena confessed to him that she's in love with Incendio. After the revelation, he immediately offered to help her win his older half-brother's heart. His task became easier when, a few weeks later, Incendio revealed to him that he wanted to win Lena's heart.

With these things coming together, Wynston decided to become the duo's bridge. He began teasing them by pairing them off in front of the concert band, much to the duo's embarrassment. It didn't take long before friends and acquaintances began teasing them too. To fan the flames, he set up the duo for a date by inviting them to watch a play with him, which he intentionally didn't attend due to “cold”. The next day, Lena and Incendio revealed that their romantic relationship is official.

Fast forward a year later, the two were in steady relationship and planning to get engaged soon. This was when Wynston decided to organize a bal masqué (masquerade ball), with the assistance of the concert band members and few friends of his family, to celebrate the day the duo became a couple. On the other hand, he insisted to his brother to use this opportunity to propose to Lena. His idea of a bal masqué stemmed from his fascination of masks that occurred to him at some point in time when he went to a circus with some of his relatives.

(Latent Troubles)

Upon the announcement of Lena and Incendio's engagement a day after the bal masqué, Wynston resigned from his music career a week later. He only reasoned that his interest doesn't aligned with music anymore. Deeper than that, he realized that he couldn't play the way he usually does. He thought that his music sounded rather stiff and reticent. However, his father beg to differ, describing that his younger son's music was mellow and solitary.

He was 25 when he turned to hospitality industry as an events panned with the help of his relatives. Other than that, such kind of work gave him more opportunity to collect and design masks all over Remnant as well as occupy himself tinkering and collecting guns.

Post-BOB
Wynston went to Vale to make sure that some of the events service providers he has connections with are still intact. He decided to stay in the kingdom for the meantime as his career is affected by economic issues and looking for more career opportunities to pursue, just in case. Although he has been taking mercenary work outside his family for a while.

He received Adlig Teufel as a welcome gift from Casper Bluthardt and Brunhilde Engelnacht. Though called as a gift, it was more like an inheritance since it was formerly owned by Cyzarine, whom he had met some point in time in his preteen years. (Latent Troubles has an extra showing a snippet of this).

Personality
Wynston is rather absent-minded and appears to be very busy inside his head, usually unaware of his eyes drilling at someone else's back, as he takes pleasure occupying himself with his own thoughts. He also hum a music occupying his mind, moving his fingers likened to playing an oboe. Sometimes, he can be a bit awkward and clumsy in the beginning but he welcomes having a good conversation and small talk, like getting to know someone, over tea or whiskey. Despite coming from a not-so-honest background, he's fairly sincere and feels uncomfortable playing mind games. On the surface, he can be considered too average for a family member of the Bluthardt.

On the other side of the coin, as a man with musical background and who had encountered terror and perfectionist conductors, Wynston possesses a diligent personality and an air of professionalism. His education in music have also helped keep himself intact under pressure, appearing to effortlessly continue on as if nothing is wrong, albeit not perfect enough.

Wynston has become self-critical, guilty of his inability to move on when his confidence took a serious hit after he got rejected. This also stemmed from idolizing and respecting his older brother, and ignoring his feelings of resentment for him as he considers it as unbecoming of a young brother. He also uses alcohol to calm himself whenever he feels going mad.

Powers/Abilities
Wynston is a high-caliber marksman, experienced with various firearms, and also a gun collector. He can control his breathing, has refined muscle memory, and has sharp ears and eyes (with night vision as a faunus) to shoot a target with frightening speed and accuracy, capable of shooting up to 2,200 meters with a sniper rifle. He has the skills to execute fanning, gun spinning, and random handling tricks with semi-automatic firearms like a circus performer while shooting. However, his hand-to-hand combat and knife skills are only enough to take on Huntsmen/Huntresses-in-training while good enough to parry attacks Huntsmen/Huntresses. Furthermore, he also has terrible endurance level in direct combat situations.

He is an events planner, specializing in prom parties, upper class gatherings, and bal masqué. Wynston's capability in this type of work stems from his ability to listen to his clients and iron out plans with them. In addition, he's quite average in networking but maintains a decent number of connections with events-related businesses through “balanced” referrals to other businesses and rival events planners, where he gets generous commissions. He sends them high class alcoholic drinks as gifts and a sign of goodwill.

Wynston is also a mask hobbyist, possessing an above mediocre skill in designing blank masks with his own hands and improving up to the point he sends drafts of his work to ArmorTech. He's still skilled playing an oboe, playing it from time to time, as well as reading music sheets. Another inherent skill he has is his high tolerance to alcohol.

His red-colored Aura is strong but has modest reserves.

Semblance: Cold Cobra. A summoning-type Semblance that allows Wynston to command a large, 15-meter long, blood-eyed and fanged, king cobra, made of ice with shade of red on some parts like frozen blood. The construct's neck is in a form of shackle, which is chained to Wynston's left/right wrist shackle that materializes when using the Semblance. The chain itself is corporeal and merely shows that the construct follows orders, for as long as doable by average snakes (constrict, strike, move forward, etc.), like a trained dog through mental commands. Although Wynston can hold the chain like a leash, which makes him prone to getting tangled if he weren't careful. What makes the construct unique are its ability to spit .5-meter long icicles that bursts into spiky ice upon impact and to breath freezing ice.

Maximum distance from the user: 20 meters

Time limit of construct: 7 minutes. Decreases on every assault. Assaults, especially fire, weakens construct/s. Lasts up to 10 minutes if idle.

Cooldown time: 4 minutes

Travel speed: 35 kph

As hard as a: Chobham armour

It should be noted that the construct thrives in cold temperature, especially in freezing temperatures, because of its composition. The colder the environment, the longer the time constraint the construct has (additional 5 minutes at most) and harder it becomes because it begins to be a bit less reliant on Wynston's Aura to maintain its quality. Consuming Ice Dusts also enhances the construct's features. Because of his Semblance, Wynston has higher resistance to cold temperature than average people.

However, in warmer environment, the construct's hardness dwindles bit by bit and movements becomes somewhat slow. Thus, it would need to consume more Ice Dusts if it were to fight in full strength within its regular time constraint.

Weapons
Wynston initially didn't have a main weapon as he likes to keep his options open. Until now.

Adlig Teufel v.2 - Dual Dust Dagger Pistols (DDDP)

A pair of customized, military-grade, 10-inch barreled, slightly bulky semi-automatic Desert Eagles usually loaded with magazines of Impact Dust-infused bullets. Their theme color was changed from purple with black outlines to white with red ones.

They have two, small, 7-slotted revolving chambers containing secured vial of Dusts installed under the gun barrel from the front of the trigger up to the part behind the front sight. Dust exhaust ports, where Dusts are released for each chambers, are inside the barrels. Wind, Fire, Water, Earth, Ice, Lightning, and Gravity Dusts are constantly used by these pistols.

The barrels and the revolving chambers are made of titanium while the grips are made of dense materials to withstand the gun's strong recoil and to hit enemies mainly on the head. The part where the hammer is has seven buttons with corresponding colors to control the Dusts to be used in the revolving chambers. The button in the middle is for opening the chambers.

To use these gun's Dust-infused chambers, the user has to press the same button twice to use the same Dusts from the two chambers. If the user desires to use two different Dusts at the same time, the two buttons connected to the corresponding Dusts only need to be pressed once each. The Dusts' power released in the barrels from the chambers through the Dust exhaust port will be utilized when bullets pass through them.

The weapons also have dagger blades, which are made of milspec steel mixed with S7 shock steel and then covered with carbon nanotubes, on top of the guns' barrel and bottom of the revolving chambers (in short, the guns' barrel and chambers act like a fuller). The blades are 7.5 inches long and are installed in a way they pass through the muzzles by three inches. However, the dagger blades cannot be inserted with Dust from the dual revolving chambers of the gun and has to rely on external sources.

The weapons' handle straightens up slightly to align with the barrels to be used as daggers. The gears for this are on top of the guns' grips.


 * Note: The picture's the older version of the weapon. More details here.

Miscellaneous

 * He always brings with him a small trailer truck wherever he goes for stashing whatever guns and bullets he likes and buys.

Trivia

 * Wynston is an English name meaning "from wine's farm". Wine is a dark shade of red. (Wikipedia)
 * Wynston's way of pairing off Lena and Incendio is inspired by this. Read the general overview.
 * I thought it'll be a waste not to use Adlig Teufel anymore. Thus, the “inheritance”.
 * The weapon's picture is not mine. All credits goes to PyromaniacPanda.