Jericho Corey

Jericho Corey is a new student at Beacon Academy.

Appearance
A slender young man of slightly above average height. He has raven black hair about 3 inches long overall, a handsome face and distinct green eyes. He wears a smile nearly all the time. Although it is often genuine, you have to look at his eyes for any clues on his actual state of mind. He is deceptively strong and has a surprising amount of stamina and endurance for his age.

Jericho prefers to wear a combination of t-shirts, jackets and jeans in shades of blue, black and grey respectively. His armor consists of lightweight shin protectors and knee armour worn over his jeans, two gauntlets and a lightweight cuirass with room at the armpits and shoulders to give him better maneuverability. He also wears a sturdy dark grey jacket reinforced with small metal strips on the shoulders and back to cover the gaps of his cuirass. All his armor appears steel grey, with silver patterns resembling insect wings on his gauntlets.

Jericho carries his weapons on his left hip; his revolver in a holster strapped to his thigh and his sword attached to his belt. He keeps them on his left because he is ambidexterous (although mostly favouring his left) and uses his sword in his right hand, and his revolver in is left hand. He also keeps additional supplies like Dust cartridges in two sachels on his right hip.

Personality
Jericho is a calm and respectable young man who is loyal to his comrades and treats even his adversaries/rivals with a friendly respect (although that would not stop him from completing his mission). Behind his polite nature Jericho holds a beast locked up that is his ambition and ruthlessness. He keeps a firm grip on his temper and ambitions and uses his deep wells of willpower to channel these stronger aspects of his personality in a proper course.

He has an interest in duelling and before he went to Beacon he was part of his school's dueling society along with most of his friends. he loves to test his skill against other students even though he is not the best swordsman or marksman. He finds it easier to socialize with people he has sparred with, it gives him a measure of who they are without verbal conversation.

On a rare ocasion, when Jericho finds himself in mortal danger, something shifts and he goes into a sort of survival mode. Drawing strength from anger and his will to live he becomes capable of anything to survive. The last time this happened he injured over a dozen people, some seriously, almost fataly. looking back it scares him what he was capable of, but he keeps those feelings as well as that beast locked away deep inside him, along with any other complications that would endanger his grasp on his mind.

Weapons
Wintermaan: A Side-sword with a slender crossguard and a simple handguard. A fine lined, curving pattern is etched in the blade but the engraving appears to be only a fragment of the full design. When Jericho summons Wintermaan to his hand the pattern glows faintly blue. Jericho has plans to modify the weapon to hold a dust charge to give it more punch.

Dageraad: A darkened steel and silver accented revolver (A customized version of the Avalon Armory Mk. 6 Dust Revolver) bearing the same curving pattern as Wintermaan on the barrel and frame. Instead of firing bullets it uses a dust charge to fire simple bolts of elemental magic, powered by a dust cartridge inserted into the cylinder. Jericho built Wintermaan to compliment his sword fighting with a one-handed ranged weapon. While the weapon is functional and very effective he still has ideas to improve on the design. (Based on the Mateba model 6 Unica autorevolver)

Currently Jericho uses a Red dust cartridge to fire firebolts similar to Yang's fire shots but smaller. Dageraad can fire about 30 shots before replacing the drained cartridge. he keeps aditional cartridges in a sachel on his belt.

Jericho is planning on making a modification to allow multiple types of dust to be used at the same time, making use of the revolver design

Abilities
Semblance: Soulbound

Jericho's sword Wintermaan is bound to him and as long as he is in fighting condition he can summon the sword directly to his hand. Usually this is only noticed a moment later when someone notices that they never actually saw him draw his sword or that he even had it with him. should he be disarmed he can just will it into his hand again as though he never dropped it.

Although not as fast or as skiled as others he has deep wells of endurance when it comes to his aura. With his aura to enhance his armor and strenght he can stay in the fight for extended periods of time without slowing down.

Combat Style
In terms of combat Jericho is a jack of all stats, with only his aura being of note. He fights centralized, keeping the action focused on him, rather than on his target. He doesn’t move around the battlefield as fast as others, but is still agile enough to traverse the battlefield at his own pace.

Although at first he practiced a traditional style of sword fighting, Jericho has developed his own style to make use of his semblance in combat. Because of his semblance Jericho can always make a surprise strike, not having to draw his sword and telegraph his first attack. After his opening move, he keeps his distance and tries to get a defensible position and let his enemy come to him. Should they keep their distance as well then Jericho will distract them with his 'Packard Feint' (throwing his sword away from the fight to distract the target) allowing him to quickly draw his gun and fire a few shots with both hands for accuracy.

naturally Jericho has his weaknesses; he tends to focus on one oponment at a time and has trouble dealing with multiple threats, his moves are also predictable if the oponment knows of his semblance and the limitations of it.

Background
These days Jericho hardly even recognizes the boy he was when he started his training to become a huntsman; brash, stubborn, arrogant and filled with romanticized views of becoming a Huntsman of legend. Of course when he started his career at Haven academy it did not take long for him to be shot down by reality. Jericho had to face the fact that there were many students better than him. Although Jericho had a talent with swords he knew far less than he thought about being a huntsman. The first years were not easy for him, with his stubbornness and pride making sure he didn’t fit in with the other students. Only in the last months of his second year did he find a place at Haven; standing across from the star swordsman of Haven in The Circle.

Jericho had always been a prideful young man and wasn’t shy about voicing his opinions, this sometimes would get into trouble but that did not mean much to him. Except when one day after he made a remark about Eric Bernstein, the top ranking member of the Haven academy duelling society 'The Circle'. Eric had wanted to knock some sense into Jericho and found a chance to humble the younger student in a duel. Jericho did not even last a minute against Eric. After the humiliating defeat Jericho would train and try to beat Eric in a rematch, only to be beaten again. It became a small routine at Haven where every few weeks Jericho would demand another rematch against Eric and Eric would comply, beating Jericho with little effort. However during this strange ritual of vengeance Jericho started to notice he cared less and less about his honour or pride and more about the duel itself, with every rematch he would last longer and learn better to defend against Eric’s style. At some point, and Jericho still can’t decide just when, he and Eric became friends.

The following years Jericho would greatly improve both his social and his combat skills. With the Circle he managed to find friends and grow out of the prideful petty child he was in his first years.

A year ago, in his last year on Haven, Jericho and some other students were caught in a riot when returning from the city. A group of White Fang agitators had gotten some dust weapons in the Faunus rights protest and after they had started shooting the riot police intervened, causing panic and more violence. Jericho and the other students became cornered by a part of the mob and had to defend themselves. Jericho was the first into the fray and held his ground long enough for the other students to either get away or join him in holding their ground. The Faunus mob was quickly dispersed after the students stood their ground, but not without many injured on both sides, only Jericho seemed to come out of it untouched. after the incident rumours spread of a ruthless huntsman cutting down the unarmed faunus protestors with his sword, but the details varied wildly and none of the students of Haven involved in the incident would mention such a huntsman fighting in the mob.

Now Jericho has left the familiar halls of Haven behind him as he has been accepted at Beacon Academy to continue his training to become a Huntsman.

Trivia

 * Jericho is based on Corwin of the Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, Corwin also went by the alias Carl Corey
 * the city name Jericho may be based to the hebrew word yareach which means Moon.