Roelof Grayfox

"Do. Not. Touch. The. Hat."

- Roland Grayfox

"PROTECT ME HAT!"

- Roland before Eyrain hits him in the crotch with Emrey's rifle



Appearance
A 22 Year-Old athletic, lean man. Black hair and brown eyes. Well-groomed short black hair with a regular cut, part his hair across from the right side. He wears a grey poncho-like cape (the cape Justice from Afro Samurai wears) while wearing a brown double-breasted tunic-vest with 3 buttons on each side that has coattails that goes down to the back of his knees, with a white collared buttoned down undershirt underneath it. He wears navy-blue pants with a pair of suneate shin guards and brown boots. He also wears fingerless gantlets that reaches to his elbows. He wears a brown Gambler Crown hat with a wide brim. He owns a gun holster for each leg attached to his belt and a sword sheath on his left side as well.

Personality
A quiet, introverted, cynical man who prefer to do instead of talk. As he was focused to become a huntsman to live up to his parents' legacy, it made him quite a loner during early childhood with his sister being his only "friend" to play with. He hates small talk, can't start one nor maintain it. He just don't like to much talk much, he'll talk if something interests him in full detail, he don't like "fluff" small talk, he prefers a real, in-depth conversation that has substance (like how all introverts work!). With enough pressure from parents, he was able to loosen up a bit when he was in Signal Academy. Despite that, he doesn't go to most social events, because he's lazy to go out, he rather sit down in a quiet place and read or do more combat training by himself (that's how he and Lizbeth met). He can talk people to people like normal and girls as well (he grew up with a sister, it helps). Unfortunately, he can't read or doesn't care enough if a girl has an interest in him, he treats everybody with the same attitude like every decent folk (for a guy who good perception, he can be so blind). As being the leader of his team, he took it seriously and does whatever he can to lead and protect him, kind of reverting him back to his old uptight self but his teammates were there to prevent that and a tragic incident involve with his old partner. While he takes his position seriously, he does have a sense of humor, but they're sarcastic, cynical, dark, and politically incorrect.

Beside of enjoying to spar and train, he is quite a geek, he enjoys playing the Remnant: The Game and read comics, and lots of fantasy novels. Roland enjoys karaoke and he likes listening to heavy metal music and actually can sing to some of them as well but it will hurt his voice badly if done too much at the same time. Not many people knows about his hobbies because he's quiet about it and he doesn't want to be in the spotlight. It's when he's with Team REPR, and his relationship with Lizbeth helped him help to open up more.

In battle, he's usually calm and seemed uninterested, and bored, and act nonchalantly and causal in a fight depending on who's he's fighting. At the beginning of a fight he would used one gun just to test out his opponents. He prefer long range first by using his guns first. He is mobile always moving and jump around, but he has to stand in one place if he wants to do a rapid fire technique. Roland loves to purposely miss his target only to have them notice that he was plant explosives around them. He also switches between using his gun and sword or use at the same time just to throw off his opponents. When he's with a team, he's a different person, he able to take charge, able to command his teammates  to various positions of offensive or defense to gain tactical advantage. He can read and assess the situation and change tactics in the midst of battle. He's willing to take a hit just to get closer to his opponents for an opening strike.

He is very protective of his sister and willing to do what he can to help her out. In some way, he sees her as the only friend he has. Despite putting up with her constant teasing and pushing him away, he stills stays on her side, defending her when she was in a heated argument with their parents over her career choice. If fathers are  very protective over their daughter with a boy, the brother is much worse as Roland kept shooting most of her dates with stun rounds to the knee as a warning (it did not go very well with Eyrain). That still carried on to Beacon and he only shoots them only when Eyrain gives him the okay sign, mostly on guys who keeps pursuing her after she said no and felt not wanting to punch him. Still, they maintain a good relationship, and spar each other, both keeping score who has the most wins. Current score: 12-10 Eyrain

He deeply values his hat as it is a hand-me down from generations, parent to offspring, and he will go into berserk mode if someone attempts to touch it. Even in the heat of battle, he will drop what was going on in front of him and get his hat back if it comes off his head. The same can be said about his food, especially coffee! He enjoys playing the harmonica at times and even before battle just to get the attention of his opponents.

Background
Son of a gunslinger huntsman from Vacuo and a sword wielding huntress from Vale and he and his sister were born in Vacuo but the family moved to Vale for a better life. Roland had friendly rivalry with his sister and had a better relationship with his parents. He looked up to his parents' job and wished to follow their footsteps and to honor them both, he decides to be both a gunslinger and swordsman. His training to be both put an enormous time constraint on him, making him less social and have very few friends, including his sister.

He spent hours training to be a gunslinger swordsman, and on books on fighting Grimm, which made him to miss out some social events. For the most time, he became uptight on his studies and training. The few times, he has free time, he mostly just stay inside to relax, reading, and playing some games. In school, he spends most the time with the few geek friends. He was subject to mockery and bullying among his peers in Signal Academy but all his time training and studying pay off when he beat every one of them at sparing. Unfortunately, that's the only time he can release all his stress and anger, which lead to him performing some brutal attacks towards his opponents and more than often injured them badly and he secretly enjoyed it. It took a long time for him to loosen up as his parents and therapist told him the being a huntsman also involves helping the people and not just focusing solely on fighting the Grimm. He took up his mother's mediation technique to release the all the burden he bottled up (he's still working on it for now). Not surprisingly, he was accepted to Beacon Academy when he applied.

He was initially partnered up with a Faunus Boar named Everett Judas and when Team REPR was form he kept a pragmatic view of them treating them as professional team and nothing more. It was at the beginning of the second semester of the second year while on a mission in the mountains, they were ambushed by the White Fang and Everett was executed by them for deserting them. The reminding team fought them with help of another group of students nearby. It was later learn that Everett was part of the White Fang and deserted them shortly after they turned to violence and they attempted to hunt him down for awhile. That incident led him and the team to be more open about themselves to know about any information that the team should know. It was grim lesson that the team he's with is more than just a team of huntsmen, they're a small family that trusts their lives on each, and the lack of interaction and/or trust lead Everett to his death. It made him more involve with the team and his new partner Ermey, forming a stronger bond of unity with each other and become a stronger leader.

Meeting Lizbeth
He and Lizbeth met on a Saturday night when they bumped into each other when they're the only two people at the combat gym. It was a holiday weekend where many students went home for vacation, their respective teams were home. He tipped his hat and continue his training in silence. Roland thought she's attractive but decided not to hit on her, thinking it's too cliché and don't think she would like it. This go on for a while but they notice that Roland's a better gun fighter and Lizbeth's a better sword-user. They both decided to help each other improve on their respective skills. It led to those two to talk every time they finished training, they really got talking when they found out about their background, how Lizbeth learn that he is Eyrain's brother and how Roland had knowledge about Crimson house when she said her last name as his dad, a Vacuo native, was not a fan of the Crimson family but it didn't affect. They get to know their shared interests on reading and enjoying the luxury peace and quiet, semblance, and complain about their teammates'  and family's crazy antics. The gym eventually turned into a hangout for those two where 3 hours of training will lead to 4 hours of them just talking. At some point, they realized that they're falling for each other and tried their best to repress and regress to both of them trying to be professional, both refusing to talk about it. That only lead to more awkward and nervous tension. They decided to spar both thinking it would help get rid of the stress and it worked for a while, but it lead to even more tension. It was until they decided to use their semblance and go "all-out" in their duel hoping to get rid of these feelings. When they were at a sword lock, they were about to kiss but the timer went off, ending the match. As they were going back to their dorms, they jokingly talk how they were about to do that and said how it would be awkward and all and nervously. When they about to go back to their separate rooms they hugged goodbye but they stopped at where they each other's elbows and look at each other in silence for a second. They quickly embraced in passionate kiss and decided to spend the night together in Roland's dorm (they locked the door and jammed a chair to it).

Weapons and Abilities
Roland dual wields twin gas-operated hand guns with extended clips that fires armored-piercing energy-dust magnums (it has the stopping power of a revolver, yes it's that powerful, it's needed to kill Grimm), it has 4 modes: normal, explosive, remote explosive, and stun. It is 6 inches long, with a rectangular design. There is a button behind the trigger to denote the remote explosives and a button on its back to switch its ammo types. The colors to associate with each ammo are red to explosive, orange for time, yellow for stun, and blue for normal. They are named Eastwood and Bronson

His sword is a straight, single bladed high-frequency katana (it's the high-frequency from Metal Gear Solid, it can cut through anything) that he can use to channel his Wraith semblance to great effect. The sword is powerful and theoretically can cut through anything, depending the user's strength and charge. The sword, at its basic level, can cut through rocks, steel, limbs, and most of the Grimm and it can charge up for extra slicing power and it will glow light blue when it's charging. It can charge up faster if sheathed, and at its max power it can cut through the thickest of Grimm armor or any giant Atlesian mech if Roland has the time to do it. The sword is named Mifune.

Physically, he has good cardio (to help his speed) and can take in a lot of pain (his sister beating him up a lot, which includes Eyrain attacking him in the crotch many times over, helps a great deal), and Roland has good strength (again training, and it helps him to cut through things and get a semi-decent hit with a hook).

Speed and movement are the key words. He's able to dual wield his two guns with efficiency, as well with his sword often able to take on people close range just by being agile, making him capable in mid-range to close range combat. He can use his sword and gun at the same time and switch them out in the middle of a fight at a relative ease. As a gunslinger, his accuracy is top notch and he's able to perform trick shots like shooting out other bullets in mid-air or hit his target by ricocheting showing his perception and he has a very fast trigger finger. One of his tricks is that he can shoot his gun so fast it's almost like an assault rifle or light machine gun was fire was fired upon, but only when he's standing on one spot. While he's a better shooter than a swordsman, he is no slouch in the sword department, again speed and agility are the key to his fighting style. He does high speed slashes on his opponents and quick dash slashes from all angles. His sword fighting style is a mix of Kenjutsu and Iaijutsu for quick draws and sword combat. He is fast when using his sword and at times he can deflect bullets, if they're semi-automatic and in some cases an assault rifle, but he can't go up against fully-automatic weapons like a chain-gun (his reaction time is fast but not that fast!).

His weakness are that he's not that good in unarmed combat, only know the basics, enough to keep him standing but it won't carry the day. His fighting method is a mix between Gun Kata and Krav Maga which allow him to fight with his guns and to use dirty street fighting moves. His ability to use his free hand in combat when using his pistol offensively and defensively as he has mean punch and back-fist is passable. He rather use his guns as clubs than his fists, and he's better at using kicks. While he is proficient with his guns and sword, he is at a disadvantage when dealing with people in long range combat, which he relies on his speed and agility to get up to mid-to-close range.

A drawback for him is that he still has a massive chip on his shoulder, coming from all the pressure from his parents, the work load and the teasing and bullying will lead him to regress back to his old sparring self back at Signal which he fights in complete rage, become very brutal, but sloppy. He calls it the berserk mode.

Semblance
The Wraith: His eyes will glow light blue when activated, he can teleport in short distances leaving a mist of black smoke behind. His attacks becomes stronger and faster in increments. He can cast an AoE (Area of Effect) shockwave attack or use it to push people away hard (like force push but with a punch). Most importantly, he can use Mifune to channel the Wraith causing Mifune to glow teal-like, he can send energy wave slashes out, a bigger AoE and do a massive energy wave attack in front of him. The longer he uses The Wraith, a black mist will appear around his body, and it make him colder, sadistic, grinning menacingly, and laughing sinisterly over time or sooner if he decides to allow the darkness to engulf him.

Relationships:
Ermey L. Winters: Though it was weird for Roland to have second partner, he was determine not lose another one and vice versa. He was supportive of Ermey when he had PTSD problems. They worked together well, and enjoyed targeting practice together. In battle, they enjoyed doing their team attack of just out all by firing their guns at one direction to overwhelm the target.

Pyralis Eurwin: Roland was put off by Pyralis strong, religious-like devotion to the Huntsmen cause but he got used to it as Pyralis doesn't force on others and saw it as a morale boaster. He's still kind of embarrass of his well-backed boastful rally cries, but Roland knows his heart in the right place. He respects his strong commitment to the huntsmen and his battle prowess

Robyn Sakura: He enjoys the light-heart jokester of the group, keeps the guys smirking at least. He didn't mind that she was a thief when she was grew up and entered Beacon under false pretenses. Though, Roland is annoyed that she tries to drag him and the team to go out on the town, and her laziness over school work. It takes a village to get her to work on homeworks and all that.

Lizbeth Crimson: Roland's girlfriend, after their "initial encounter of their romance" they decided to try keep it secret for awhile until they made it public at the school dance. Their relationship is stable, they deeply care for each other and acknowledge each other's major problems and helped each other to deal with it. Their ideal date is just sitting next to each other on a bench with their heads resting on each other and holding hands.

Eyrain Grayfox/Noel: They maintain a good relationship in Beacon even though Eyrain wanted to keep her distance as she wanted to be her own woman. Roland respected her decision to do so but both enjoyed a good sparring match now and then while keeping scores.

Themes
Character Theme (Man with Harmonica Theme - Once Upon a Time in the West): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MZw_Iv0wdU

Battle Theme (Shoot you in the Back - Motorhead): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2xV8cBnGu4

Trivia

 * He is based from the tropes of a cowboy gunslinger and the samurai or a cowboy samurai
 * His color relations: Roland is based off the Paladin who wears black and white armor and based off Stephen King's Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower or named after a famous land so brown and green.
 * Grayfox is named after a Gray Fox and Gray Fox from Metal Gear Solid (including the sword)
 * His twin guns are named after 2 Western actors: Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson


 * His sword is named after a Japanese samurai actor named Toshiro Mifune


 * His ability to use his sword with his semblance is similar to how Ludwig from Bloodborne uses his sword. (But NOT THAT overpowered!)
 * His quote "Protect me Hat!" is a reference to Red vs Blue when Tex was about to golf swing Sarge's shotgun directly to Grif's crotch and Grif held a traffic cone in front of him and yelled, "PROTECT ME CONE!". And yes, that's exactly what happened in a sparring match against Roland's sister.