Vulcan Vindrex

"Well, we could probably go around them, but that wouldn't be as much fun."

- Vulcan, regarding the horde of Grimm in front of Team ANVL "D'aawwww! You stole my kill, Nellia! You're lucky this isn't a video game or you'd team-killed so fast...Oh wait, I'm not 10 years old."

- Vulcan, joking with Nellia after she shot a Grimm that was right next to him

Appearance
Vulcan has slightly tanned skin, unruly black hair, red eyes, sharp canine teeth, and short stubble on the very end of his chin. As a result of his faunus heritage, he has a (wolf) tail. As for his muscle structure, he is somewhat muscled; however, his left knee is deformed, although less so as compared to his early childhood. His usual outfit consists of leather padding with gold accents, a dark red tunic, segmented lightweight metal armor that covers his shoulders and chest, a short red cape, metal vambraces, metal shin-guards, leather gloves, and leather boots. While one part of his attire looks like a skirt (which earned him the nickname "Skippy") his legs are actually covered by red pants.

Personality
Most of the time, Vulcan has a laid-back demeanor with an air of confidence. He gets bored quite easily, which contributes to his mischievous nature as well as his undying love of forging things and fighting. Vulcan is likable as evidenced by his popularity at Sanctum Academy and how many of the less apt students as well as the "nerds" greatly admired him.

However, Vulcan is somewhat arrogant in his ability to fight, think, and forge items and he relies a bit too much on his technology.

Weapons
Vulcan's main weapon is an Extendable Incendiary Chain Sword (EICS) called Ignis, which has three forms: a gladius-type sword, a sword whip, and a flamethrower. Vulcan's secondary is a Explosive Projectile-Launching Shield (EPLS) called Infragilis. While he may not be fast on his feet, Vulcan's speed with his sword and shield is excellent.

Vulcan has mechanized his armor so that it can either retract for freedom of movement or completely cover his body for maximum protection during combat. He also made it so that the armor increases his strength, but it only works when the armor is fully extended.

Semblance
Vulcan's semblance allows him to instantly understand the construction and functionality of any piece of technology provided that he concentrate on it for a certain amount of time. This can range from a split second to hours depending on the scale and complexity of the object. For example, guns are made out of many parts, but are not nearly as complicated as Atlesian Airship is, so it would only take Vulcan about 5 seconds to be able to understand everything about the former since Vulcan already understands most of the parts that a gun normally consists of. However, he would still have to use his semblance on each new one he encounters in order to understand the unique arrangement of said parts. Vulcan can also select which exact pieces he wishes to comprehend in order to obtain what he specifically wants to know. Further practice with the semblance over time increases the speed at which Vulcan can absorb knowledge of technology, but this process is very slow.

Other

 * Vulcan is intelligent and quick-thinking. But, he is more "street smart" than "book smart."

Weaknesses

 * Because of Vulcan's deformed knee--although, it is getting better due to his father's work on it--he cannot move that fast, particularly backwards because of his normal fighting stance.
 * Without his own technology, he would be average in terms of fighting ability for his age.
 * Vulcan's overconfidence/arrogance could make him get into situations where he cannot come out ahead.
 * He relies a bit too much on his technology.
 * Vulcan's semblance does not have any direct practical use in combat even though it does allow him to create things that do.

History
Vulcan's mother used to live in the Kingdom of Vacuo while his father used to live in the Kingdom of Atlas. They met each other in the city of Mistral and fell in love. Being from Atlas, Vulcan's father is very interested in science and technology, and Vulcan's mother is a huntress.

Vulcan grew up without any siblings, as the other attempts that his parents made at having children failed due to stillbirth. Even so, Vulcan had a deformed knee and could not walk very well on it. His father created a knee splint for Vulcan at a young age in order to help him move around easier, which gave Vulcan an interest in technology. From then on, he helped his father run a sort of workshop in their basement, which was benefiial to Vulcan since he didn't have to move around so much in there. However, his mother didn't like that she never really got to spend time with her son because he was always with his father in the basement and started to distance herself from the two of them by going on more missions. Vulcan saw this differently though, and thought that she was purposefully avoiding him because of his deformity, which was eventually improved by his father who developed a sort of biomedical technology that helped strengthen Vulcan's muscles in that area and normalize the structure of his knee slightly.

Vulcan tinkered with things for years with his father as well as by himself, and in time, he began to obsess over weapons and how well they were designed in the modern age. He made a simple sword and rounded rectangular shield for himself to start with and started testing them out. One day, his mother came back from a mission and saw Vulcan training. She then saw an opportunity to finally spend time with him and offered to train him, which he begrudgingly accepted as he wanted to learn how to use what he had made. Vulcan then discovered that his passion for combat was only rivaled by his passion for building things. Vulcan liked it so much that he wanted to become a hunter when he was older, which would also allow him to test his inventions in the wild. After a while, his issues with his mother were resolved.

And so, when he was the right age, Vulcan attended Sanctum Academy. He wasn't the strongest of fighters when he started, but he got much better as time went on and he upgraded his weapons and armor. As for his semblance, he doesn't remember when he first used it. All he knows is that one day, he could understand a piece of technology as soon as he touched it and concentrated on it for a bit.

In the first weeks of classes, Vulcan was constantly harassed by bullies because of his faunus heritage, his deformity, and because of his "skirt." They often taunted him by calling him "Skippy," but he took this in stride and made jokes about it himself ("You WOULD like to see me skip wouldn't you weirdo? Dude, do you SEE my leg right now? I can barely walk, much less skip. I WISH my knee would let me move around that much, man, but I really can't. Sorry to disappoint you.") The bullies stopped going after him after a time because they thought it wasn't fun anymore, but they found new targets and weren't being caught by teachers. So, Vulcan made it his mission to give them what they deserved himself by pranking the bullies into submission. Vulcan's favorite thing to do to them was rig a chair/desk to trap them temporarily and publicly humiliate them. He became very popular with the "lower" cliques of the school this way and was admired as the champion of the underdogs. Yet, he let this attention get to his head which, among other reasons such as his seemingly unrivaled ability to create various technologies, caused him to become slightly narcissistic.

When he was 17, Vulcan applied to and was accepted into Haven Academy...

Trivia

 * Vulcan alludes to and is named after the Roman god of fire, metalworking, and the forge. The name Vulcan may come from the Latin word, fulgere, which means "to flash" which can conjure the image of a fire to mind. This is how Vulcan follows the CNR as his color is lava red.
 * Vulcan also alludes to the Roman leader Scipio Africanus, which is the basis for his nickname, "Skippy." The allusion would perhaps be more clear if someone said: "Hey Skippy, yo!"
 * Vindrex, Vulcan's surname, is actually the summation of the Latin words vindex and rex, with the former meaning "avenger," "defender," or "champion," and the latter meaning "king."
 * Ignis means "fire" and Infragilis means "unbreakable."