Mavros Sterben

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Appearance
Physically, Mavros is a tall individual with piercing black eyes and short hair with streaks of white and black that cover the scars from where his bat ears once were. He has a friendly but cocky smile and a calmed expression in almost every situation. He typically wears black jogging bottoms and a red and black t-shirt with a pattern on a flag symbolising Vale being torn to shreds by a grimm, which he tends to keep hidden with his white long sleeved combat top. His white pistol holders rest on each side of his waist and his miniature voice recorder is placed inside of his jeans pocket.

Personality
After forming The Black Claw Mavros encountered a problem. That problem being that he had mixed views on how things should be done, different people and morality overall, causing him to not be able to make any decisions. However his brain coped with this by separating his thoughts into two seperate personalities, The Mavros Personality and The Darklaw Personality.

Now imagine the most annoying, likeable,heroic, slightly asshatish,cocky and compassionate person on the planet, that person pretty much sums up The Mavros Personality or Mavros for short(Ill refer to him as a person rather than a thing as well, that's what he is). Mavros is generally a very positive and upbeat guy. While calm and easy-going he has his flaws. That being he is sort of a dushbag. He is extremely overconfident in terms of his strength and enjoys making fun of other peoples names and actions.If he were to lose he would simply say "Well I guess you win some and you lose some". Despite being over confidant, he cares deeply for his friends and those on his team and does not care for what happens to himself as long as those he cares about are safe and will act kindly towards them while throwing a slightly insulting quote here and there but they know he's only joking.He would easily refuse to sacrifice lives in a situation stating "Getting something done at the expense of the lives of humans and faunus is simply the cowards way out".

His goal being to become strong enough to fulfil the promise he made to a faunus a long time ago and to do this by becoming the strongest hunter in the world, which in his mind will prove to everybody else that faunus aren't lower than human beings and are in fact equal. When seeing inequality he will usually push the oppressors buttons in order for them to attack him, so that he could easily take down the foe,protect the victim and claim it was self defense. Here is an example:

Baddie -Pulls the ear of a faunus-

Mavros: -Taps on shoulder- Yo. What's your problem?

Baddie: Im putting this piece of filth in her place!

Mavros: (murmuring) I only see one piece of filth here

Baddie: What was that?

Mavros: Oh nothing. I was just saying how your mother is a really likeable woman..

Baddie: Err ok-

Mavros:..In bed.

Baddie: What?!

Mavros: Awww is the tiny bully having a tantrum? Poor baby

Baddie: -Brings out giant sword-

Mavros: Thats quite the overcompensation for your little bully downstairs.

Baddie: ARGGG!

The Darklaw personality is much different from this. This personality usually takes effect when he has his mask on. In this personality he is a cold and calculating individual, a idealistic and born leader who cares little for how many lives are lost in a fight as long as those lives do not outweigh the lives he is trying to save. Darklaw is quite positive and truly believes that equality can one day be achieved through a mix of both violence and politics. He has little to no emotion during a mission and will choose to win using whatever needs necessary, stating "If I must destroy evil by having evils' claw pierce my heart, than so be it". He may make a few remarks that insult the enemy but will not usually try to beat the enemy the same way Mavros does, and will instead beat an opponent with strategy,intelligence and strength.

History
Early life:

Mavros was raised in Vale by his father, a famous faunus hunter and businessman who had retired quite early to focus on his family and his business as after some of the White Fang had destroyed some of his dust shops, he had to stop hunting for a while to try and repair the damages. His mother died shortly after his birth to his despair. Because of this, his father decided to train him into becoming a hunter in order for him to take his mind off of it and to help him reach his full potential. He trained using swords at a young age and also played many violent firearm filled games so that he would have mastery of the weapon he had in mind.

After this training, he got into Signal Academy and he forged his dual pistols, Crime and Punishment. During his time in Signal, while fighting a group of bullies he was knocked to the ground and after restraining him used their weapons to cut off both of his bat ears and was left to bleed out. However,just as they were about to leave he got up, severly injured,weaponless and angry. The next day, the bullies were found in the street half dead,crippled and bleeding out with their torn apart weapons were quickly rushed to hospital.The whole aftermath of the situation left Mavros traumatized,causing him to grow out his hair to stop him from seeing his scars each time he looked into the mirror. After his father had been informed of the entire situation he quickly took Mavros out of school to instead train him at home hoping that he would recover from his injuries and eventually join Beacon.

Training and murder incident:

After recovering from his injuries Mavros began to train again but however started training in fighting without a weapon, in order for him to not fear a similar situation of being left weaponless. He perfected both of his punches and kicks but focused more on training to disarm opponents so that he could quickly takedown his foes which he practiced on many gangs in the area.

One day when walking back home from a long day of training near Mountain Glenn, Mavros walked past a row of dark alleyways and then suddenly heard a scream. He quickly ran towards the sound to find a group of humans cornering a young faunus women in an alleyway. They were calling her names such as "monster" and obomonation" while she covered her rabbit ears in shame. One of then grabbed her and put a knife to her ears and told her "It'll be ok. Now you can be like the rest of us". Mavros had a flashback of his experience and ran rapidly towards screaming "Don't you dare harm her!". But it was too late.

Blood poured from where the ear once was and as it fell Mavros stared at it crazily, mentally unable to cope with the flashbacks. The men laughed to themselves and said to Marvos "What's the problem? Don't you hate these sava-". He was interrupted by a rage filled Mavros with a sword to his throat stating " You disgust me". He quickly sliced the legs off of the men, each of them screaming in pain, alerting the Grimm. As they approached, Mavros threw the bodies of the sinners allies towards the Grimm, quickly devouring them. As the last one screamed for his life, pleeing for mercy Mavros sliced off both of his ears and threw him into the mouths of the Grimm, killing him instantly.

After this he was quickly apprehended by hunters and huntresses who had been there at the time under the suspicion of killing the men, but was almost immediately release as both him and the woman stated that the faunus woman had been attacked and Grimm had appeared and merely killed them while Mavros and her had gotten away. Mavros kept in contact with her and vowed that he would never allow a human do anything to hurt another faunus the same way ever again and would kill anyone who would prevent him from fulfilling this with extreme prejudice. He then decided that from that moment forward he would enforce the law under the name of "Darklaw" and rid Vale of all of the discrimination against the faunus.

The creation of The Black Claw:

He felt that it was something that he could not accomplish alone, as he himself couldn't carry out everything that he needed done to fulfil his promise. It was then that he decided he would gather like-minded individuals to help him carry out multiple jobs to eventually take down the White Fang and The Schnee Dust Company. He did this by leaving his house at midnight in mask and a tight black suit with white stripes and long wrapped sleeves and worn over it is a black and purple cloak with a colossal black cape encircling his head. He came across a group of faunus who had recently robbed the store of an anti faunus businessman. After watching them in the shadows, he saw them quickly found by a group of hunters, who remarked that their actions were typical of a race of animals. Enraged by this, one of them attacked and was quickly subdued by one of the hunters. As the group of hunters edged closer, Mavros activated his semblance (S3) and jumped down to fight the savages. He faced the hunters and said " If you stereotype against these people because of their race, then we have a problem". The hunters laughed, amused at the masked mans' comment " If you don't want to get yourself hurt, move along bud." one of them snickered. " Funny" Mavros replied "That's exactly what I was going to say to you".

He rushed towards the hunters. They quickly prepared themselves for his attack as 2 charged at him with their swords while the other two aimed their sniper rifles. He quickly dodged the rifles' bullets with ease, stating "You could have hit me easily, that is, if you weren't blinded by your own stupidity". The huntress was angry at this and kept firing multiple shots at him which he deflected with his new outfits leg and arm armour plating. As the first hunter charged he raised his arm up to block the attack, and used his other arm to punch the foe with his increased in the stomach,sending him upwards and watched as he hit the ground with a massive thud,subdued. The hunter and huntresses were stunned by this, and quickly all charged towards him, thinking that a group assault would quickly neutralise the threat. However as they edged closer, he grabbed the sword that their ally had dropped and used it to disarm the other swordsman in a single swing, and then used the huntsman as a body shield against the army of bullets coming towards him, completely depleting his aura. As they aimed both of their rifles at him, prepared to kill him, they realized they had to reload. Taking this opportunity, Mavros lept towards them, using his strength to perform two massive punches, knocking both huntresses into the dust shop owners' store, destroying the building

He turned to the group of faunus who said to him "How in the hell did you do that!?". "By the looks of it they must have only recently joined Beacon, seeing as they didn't have any sort of strategy and used raw power alone. It was simple.". He gathered the weapons and said to them "If you want to be a slight annoyance to the injust leaders of our city, thats fine. But if you want to make a difference" he offered a handshake "Then join me". All of them were quite scared and thinking about the offer until one of them, a young man with red eyes and a kind smile said "I'm in". The rest of the faunus quickly joined him and after Mavros gave them the weapons of the defeated students saying that "We need them more than they do". He then said "We will fight against those who would threaten the peace and those who would think themselves higher than another race. We are the Black Claw". The faunus cheered and eagerly accepted the offer to be trained in order to fight for their cause.

The organization grew from 4 members, to 50 to 100, to 1000 and more consisting of changed White Fang members, many rival gangs who had also changed their ways and mainly those who thought that the unequality was unbearable, consisting of only faunus. Mavros would assign groups of 5 to undertake tasks such as stopping various riots, intercepting White Fang robberies and generally making ,a difference as planned. The organization within months had grown to a wopping 50,000 members, spread across the 4 capitals of Remnant. They would take up multiple high ranked positions in the White Fang, Atlas and different gangs, giving intel about each of their plans. Mavros continued to lead them in making Remnant and its people more accepting of the Faunus by having them do multiple good things such as slay Grimm at the cities edges and doing it in the name of all faunus and humans, a way of demonstrating equality.

Meeting with Ozpin:

After an altercation with a group of thugs who had talked to a faunus condescendingly, he came across Ozpin, who commented on his brutal but efficient fighting style and asked if he had been teaching the rest of his faction similarly. Mavros was shocked by this but Ozpin quickly added that he sword he would not tell anyone else as long as he heard him out. Mavros agreed to this and Ozpin continued. He said that he could learn so much from other like-minded individuals,becoming much stronger and beckoned him to join Beacon Academy in order for him to become a hunter. Mavros replied by saying he was clearly powerful enough to become a hunter and much stronger than anyone else in the academy. Although Ozpin agreed with him being strong, he replied by saying that although he was a good fighter,he would be invincible with a team of people he could trust and that he would without a doubt find those people in Beacon.He then stated that faunus and humans were one, but many believe that the physical differences made equality impossible, but Mavros had the potential to prove that belief to be false, if only he could make the first step in making that possible. The old man's words had moved Mavros who then decided to apply to Beacon Academy to see if Ozpin was right about there being opponents stronger than him at Beacon and that he would find the team that he described.

Semblance
Mavros' semblance is called The Black Mist and is based off the Black Plague (Credit to sideshot for aiding me in finishing this). The user releases a black mist from his body, the mist is a projection from his own aura and anything moving within the cloud he will know its location, as it is still part of his aura. The mist obscures vision and slowly weakens enemies' defences, with a 1.6% weakness to damage after the first 10 seconds of exposure, working up to a maximum of 10% after a full minute has passed. the mist lasts at a maximum of 7 minutes ending with a 70% debuff on the enemy but once the mist returns to his body he suffers the same weakness debuff of 40% for a third of the total length he had the mist up.

If he is in a situation in which he needs pure strength to win or if going against someone who he cannot defeat by using the mist in the way above,he will use the mist in a much different way by keeping The Black Mist focused and surrounding only his body instead of being spread out.This is a last-ditch effort that causes Mavros to have 2.5% rise in his physical strength, flexibility, speed, stamina, and jump height every 10 seconds while also having a 3.2% defense weakness debuff for every 10 seconds. This can last up to 10 minutes leaving Mavros with an 150% increase in his physical strength, flexibility, speed, stamina and jump height but also giving him an 192% defense debuff, making him into a glass cannon of sorts. Although he can apply a small debuff each 10 seconds on himself as shown above (I refer to it as S2), he prefers to apply the 150% increase and 192% debuff as soon as he activates his semblance (S3) so that in a desperate situation he will be much stronger and because of the convenience.

Weapons And Abilities
Mavros wields dual 9mm pistol katanas which explosive dust rounds, each bullet with a different amount of power or force on a scale of 1-6 so 1 being not very powerful and 6 being powerful enough to shoot down an airship. He can also activate his katanas dust function where he can either use ice dust or fire dust to cut through his opponents (Now although katanas are a common weapon there is a good reason he has these). You see, Mavros knows extremely well that swords and many firearms are the most commonly forged weapons in remnant meaning that the majority of people he would come across would have swords. Knowing this Mavros purposefully made his own sword/firearm weapon and trained in using them against opponents who used either swords or firearms so that the majority of opponents he would face would be destroyed easily. In other words he is extremely efficient in taking down enemies who have no weapons, enemies with swords or sharp weapons and most firearms such as sniper rifles and pistols, both of which he can predict by looking at where the enemy is looking and the direction the gun is pointing. However he does not do well against other melee weapons such as hammers (such as Noras')and large bats (such as juniors) or against unpredictable weapons such as heat-seeking rocket launchers. He will usually keep very close to his opponent in order to quickly expose them to his semblance and weapon.

When under his alias "Darklaw" in order to not expose his identity he will not use his weapons or semblance. Instead he will use the built in armour in his Darklaw outfits' arms and legs to block attacks and eventually disarm his opponent, taking a more defensive approach rather than S3. He prefers to keep very close to his opponents in order to quickly expose them to his semblance to or to do more damage with his weapon. He carries a voice recorder in which he uses to play different stimulus such as a high pitched sound wave in order to make a quick escape from a fight he can't win and another sample being a Grimms' howl. His abilities include being able a skilled mid to close range fighter, as a faunus he has night vision and is easily able to form a plan while fighting by looking at their patterns and weak spots. Although this does not happen very easily, all of this will be rendered useless if he is angry which causes him to lash out at his opponent and leaving him wide open for attacks, however this mainly happens to his Mavros personality. This can usually happen when he sees someone severly injuring a faunus because of their race, someone being picked on and so on. Another one of his weaknesses include under estimating his opponents, thinking that his accomplishments make him much stronger than anyone else.