Silver Jameson

"Well let's see: I entered the city illegally on a stolen Schnee Company freighter, killed and captured the crew of said ship, started a dockside bar brawl, and I'm not even old enough to drink."

-Silver, answering the Vale Police about the reason for his arrest

Character is property of User: Lurooke Surana

Profile
Name: James Silver (Adopted surname)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Height: 6'

Weight: 165 lbs.

Hair: Brown

Eye: Blue

Weapon: Stormcutter (Dual Dust-enhanced cutlasses)

Semblence: Air Pocket

Theme Song: Song of Storms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNwjUWKP18c

Battle Theme: The Medallion Calls  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA7GGP_n6DM

Appearance
"I also had a vest made of tanned shark skin at one point.  Felt terrible."

-Silver, on his appearance

Silver (As he calls himself) has the appearance of a man has been constantly working all his life and never had a chance to just sit around and do nothing. And being a pirate for over 12 years, that's exactly the case. He's kept physically fit out of necessity, and his skin is tougher than most of his peers as a result. His skin is also constantly tanned, which serves to highlight his ocean-blue eyes. His hair is also unkempt, hanging over his right eye most of the time, although he claims it looks better than if he tried to do anything with it. He only has four fingers on his left hand, as a result of a hunting accident when he was twelve.

He wears a long black coat with his emblem on the back (a field of blue with a black shark fin and human skull in the center), and wears a navy-blue vest underneath. He also wear baggy brown sailor's pants, and thick brown boots. He also has a black tricorn hat that he is very attached to; he has even risked his life to get it back on more than one occasion. He also has a necklace inlaid with a shark-tooth, taken from the one that took off his finger.

Personality
"It's not like I wake up every day and say to myself, 'Yeah, I'm goona kill people today.'  I just have my own idea of fun, and for some reason, everyone else has a problem with it."

-Silver, about himself

Silver has an extreme devil-may-care attitude, following whatever whim happens to strike him at the time. He cares little for the damage or consequences of his actions, which more often than not leads him into situations that he hasn't planned out at all. He is a competent fighter on his own, but needs to rely on others for things like logistics and escape plans. But this lends to a paradox in and of itself for Silver, as he feels that trust is comes with too many strings attached, and he doesn't like to create long-standing ties unless absolutely necessary. For this reason, his value on human (and Faunus) life is minimal, seeing casualties as an inevitability.

He is very sarcastic, never giving a straight answer, which leads people to believe that he does not or can not take anything seriously, but this is not the case: He does in fact take things very seriously, he simply prioritizes things related to himself higher than things that don't. Naturally, spending the majority of his life as a pirate, he swears well and often. He is very sociable, the proverbial life of the party, and is a charming and manipulative speaker. By extension, he is also a bit of a womanizer (and to his credit, he can be very charming), and much like his hat, he will go to unreasonable lengths to get himself laid.

Silver was given a basic education despite his life at sea, learning how to read and write, and knows basic math and history. He does have a great aptitude for learning, and can apply himself to a great degree, provided a subject interests him. As a result, he is a very accomplished navigator and knows how to tell the time of day and direction simply by the position of the sun and the stars. At the other end of the spectrum, if a subject doesn't interest him, you may as well be talking to a brick wall, as he will (purely out of spite) tune out all information being presented to him.

Silver can also be very superstitious, growing up with pirates it's to be expected, and is very believable of ghost stories and the like. As a result, he also has an interest in the supernatural and the occult, and likes to collect trinkets related to such whenever he gets the opportunity. For this reason, he can be fooled into doing something if he comes to believe that there is an especially unusual reward involved.

But the most important trait to remember is that Silver has a fear of not being around water, stemming from when he saw an earthquake on the island of Menagerie. If he can't at least see, or be aware of some body of water, i.e. rivers, lakes, oceans, nearby, he won't freeze up entirely, but he will put locating the nearest body of water as the biggest priority.

Weapons and Abilities
Stormcutter: A set of identical cutlasses, both with a chamber for Dust insertion on the grip. Silver uses Dust that shoots (Naturally) blasts of water from the tip of the blades, which he can guide the direction of the blasts and change their state of matter, but he cannot indefinitely control the water is has been released from the blade. The hand-guard on each one is also encrusted with an image of a storm-cloud.

Swimming: Growing up at sea, Silver is an excellent swimmer, easily able to cover long distances quickly and when paired with his Semblence, allows to him be especially stealthy.

Semblence: Air Pocket- Silver can project a bubble of fresh air around his head. He uses it mainly to breathe underwater, but it can also be used for situations like fires and poisonous gases.

Shark Style: One of the two distinctive fighting styles Silver uses, this style places an emphasis on rushing opponents with overwhelming force, and is a constant stream of water blasts and strikes.

Barracuda Style: The direct contrast to the overwhelming flashiness of Shark Style, this method focuses on Silver making quick, precise strikes, and keeping his opponent confused and unaware of his location, which when available, he incorporates his Semblence to great effect in this style.

History
Born the son of a Vale prostitute and an unknown father, James, as he knew himself at the time, spent his early years begging on the docks of Vale after his mother died. Not willing to settle for the dead-end life that awaited him, he decided to try stowing away on a ship, reasoning that wherever he ended up had to be better than the life he was waiting for. He sunk on a ship in a crate of food being loaded on, and managed to stay hidden for two weeks inside before he was eventually discovered. He was brought before the ship's captain, and met the man who would change his life.

The captain revealed himself to be the infamous pirate Edward Silver, who was impressed that a five year-old kid had managed to stay hidden on his ship for two weeks, took on James as his adoptive son and took him on as the ship's cabin boy. Silver, as the young boy now called himself, saw a way of life that could make him truly happy, and he applied himself to his work with gusto. He trained with his new adoptive father in swordplay and learned how to use Dust, Aura, and Semblence over the course of the next few years, all the while Silver became more familiar with life at sea that it became all he knew, and came to view himself as a child of the sea.

While his childhood years at sea were relatively uneventful, when he turned twelve, he was set on becoming the man he is today. He was in a life-raft with a few other members of the crew on what should have been a routine shark hunt, the shark came underneath the boat and attacked from the side where Silver was resting his hand on the side of the boat, and the shark emerged from beneath and bit off his pinky finger on his left hand. He then instinctively grasped the handgun he brought along and shot the shark squarely in the head, killing it instantly. He then tore out one of the shark's teeth and fashioned a necklace from it, one that he has never taken off to this day, and adopted sharks in general as his emblem and developed a shark-like viciousness that he incorporated into his fighting style.

He also took part in his first raid on a ship that year, and exceeded all reputations, including his own, that went he went in with the boarding party, he was able to kill 3 opposing crew members before he was able to capture the ship's captain and force a surrender. From then on, Silver became an integral part in raids, and Morgan found taking what he wanted to his liking.

Over the next five years, he grew as a pirate and in skill, and became more and more impulsive, including one time when he was 15 and sailed a Schnee Company freighter that was recently captured into Vale and started a bar brawl, and was subsequently arrested. It was after this that Silver's father began to realize that, even for a pirate, Silver could be dangerously erratic, and he needed a way to temper him. He began to pull a few favors and eventually secured a set of fake transcripts that got Silver accepted into Beacon.

Silver doesn't know what he's doing at Beacon, but honestly, he doesn't care. He just sees it as a new and exciting adventure, and a way to show off for a new audience. He's just there to go along for the ride, and see what fresh madness he can find there.

Trivia

 * His weapon, Stormcutter, actually references the type of ship, cutter, rather than simply the sword's cutting power.
 * His name is a reference to famous fictional pirate captains James Hook, from Peter Pan, and Long John Silver, from Treasure Island.
 * He has no special hate for Faunus, saying he distrusts everyone equally.
 * He's proficent in the use of firearms, but chooses not to use them as he feels they don't fit in with his particular fighting styles.