Mark Hale

"If they left me back then, I don't want them around again, just so they can leave me now..".

Mark Hale is a new student to Beacon Academy and a faunus.

Appearance
Mark is a lean, athletic male with dark skin and golden eyes. He stands at 5'11", and has a defined and toned muscle build, but those muscles are more slender, and firm than bulk. He has jet black hair, and two large black ears atop his head. His hair is worn in a pony tail, with a few stray locks left out to frame his face. When let down, it is shown to come down to his shoulders. He wears a long, golden scarf, which he tends to raise to cover the lower half of his face, when in serious combat. It is quite long, as it usually whips behind him, about five feet when he is running, riding his motorcycle, or any other high speed movement. It's worn over the front of his shoulders and comes down, to near the start of his shoes.

He wears a black v-neck sleeveless shirt, with golden compression sleeves that start at the middle of his bicep and end at his wrists. He wears black steel wrist guards, that he buckles to his wrists. He wears black pants, and his belt is also black, but it has his symbol in gold. He wears black boots that are fastened with leather straps and golden buckles. The sole of these boots are also golden, and on the left and right side's of these boots are his symbol again

His PJ's consist of a simple black pair of pajama pants. and occasionally an either black or gold t shirt, but he usually opts to go without shirts.

Personality
Mark is a quiet person, keeping to himself most of the time. He occupies himself with reading adventure books, or writing short novels of his own, most of them entailing the main protagonist with a family, happy together and facing off evil in order to protect them. He is not, however, antisocial by any means. He will engage fully in conversation when spoken to, and is quite friendly to those who bother to be friendly with him.

He does tend to be a bit sardonic and sarcastic at times. Mostly when he meets people he doesn't like or trust, always pointing out their faults, and speaking ill of them to their faces. He hates being talked about, talking about, or hearing others talk about himself or others behind their backs. He is loyal to whatever he cares for or believes in, and will defend them to the last breath. He is somewhat reticent, as he doesn't like to bring his emotions out as freely as others would like, and that makes it hard to discern how he feels about certain topics. He tries to steer clear of topics that bring up his past, and sometimes reacts with hostility when it is brung up, as he feels betrayed and angered at his blood parents for throwing him out, and saddened as well, because he wasn't even told why, or even a goodbye or I love you from them.

He is an intellectual, and enjoys games like chess, and Remnant. He is highly addicted to Strawberry milkshakes, or strawberry cheese cake, and is easily bribed with either. He hates digging into other people's business, cause he hates when people do it to him, and feels it's an immediate betrayal of their trust. He is rather gentlemanly, and feels reluctant to fight females or children, and will even try and back out of a fight with them, but if there is no escaping it, he will, and very fiercely at that.

He has odd tendencies to read, or write his stories in strange places and in strange positions, as he was once found by Orchid reading upside down in the attic rafters. He is pretty shy, when it comes to speaking to large crowds or groups of strangers, and will attempt to slip away some times.

In combat, his intelligence really comes into play. He is quick, and evasive, which suites his fighting style. He is perceptive and cautious. He tries not to simply rush in, in a full frontal attack, at least not without a plan, though, sometimes, that is the plan so he is not against such things. He likes to know as much about an enemy as he can before fighting them, or at least, before fighting them all out. He will wear them down, tire them, or force them to dish out their best attacks, so he can see what he's getting into.

Semblance
Mark's semblance is dubbed Aura Overdrive. He can use his Aura to augment his teammate's power through physical contact, making them more powerful for about ten minutes. But this doesn't work for himself, because he is using his own Aura, and it will simply be circulated. This ability boosts not only their aura manifested abilities, but their normal abilities as well. If he were to use his semblance on a human, their senses would be on par with a normal faunus. And on a normal faunus, their senses would be at an extremely heightened state. Their reflexes would be greatened as well and they would feel revitalized for as long as the effects linger. The only downside, is on Mark, and that is that his semblance leaves him weakened for about three to five minutes.

Strategic and Analyzation Skills
Mark is extremely intelligent, and this is one of his greatest strengths, as he can usually read people very easily after spending a few moments observing them. He is very patient, and can usually wait long enough to observe his targets, enemy or friend, and devise multiple strategies of approach or evasion, and then filtering through them given even the most minute details such as movement patterns, then choose the best one.

Hand to Hand Combat
Mark, being trained since his younger years in the ways of combat, has learned to keep his body in peak condition, and is knowledgable in multiple forms of hand to hand combat.

Enhanced Senses
Being a Faunus, Mark's senses are better than humans, his reflexes, sight, smell, hearing, and his agility's levels are all levels above what a human could achieve.

Background
Mark's parents, Lillionet and James Hale, were part of the White Fang. They started out when it was originally using peaceful tactics, like protests, boycotts, and sit downs with owners of corporate businesses. But they became uneasy when the White Fang's new leader started their violent acts of protests. When they first tried to leave the White Fang, they were threatened with their lives. When they had Mark, he was kept a secret, they didn't want the White Fang to snatch him away and put him to work like all the other faunus. He went to school at Signal, and studied under the tutelage of one of the teachers there, who was an old friend of Lillionet, Mark's mother.

When James was tipped off about the White Fang suspecting them of treason, informing on them to Vale's police force, he knew he had to get Mark out of the house. The last person they even suspected for treason, was killed on sight. He told Lillionet and they decided they needed to get rid of Mark ASAP. They told Orchid, the teacher at Signal to adopt him, and take him away. When Mark came home that evening, he found his bags packed in front of the house.

He questioned his parents, but they immediately kicked him out, telling him to leave, and never look back. Being the young pup that he was, he immediately figured he'd done something to anger them. He pleaded to try and get them to let him stay, but he was cast out. He made his way to the school, where he spent the night in the Gymnasium's storage closet. He was found by the janitor, and taken by Orchid. She trained him at home, and told him that his parents were simply leaving on a secret mission and he couldn't know why. He was always an intelligent child, so he knew a lie when it was told. But, he figured if Orchid had to lie to him about something, there was a reason, so he went with it.

When he got older and graduated from Signal, Orchid put in an application and recommendation for him to Beacon. When they received and looked over his transcripts, he was accepted. He was still never informed of his parents dealings with the White Fang, and is unaware if they are still alive or not..