Azul Abyss

"Doesn't matter the challenge, one idea is all it takes to turn failure into sucess!"-Azul Abyss

Azul Abyss is the leader of Team ABSS. Cunning yet reckless, Azul is determined to prove that faunus can rise in the Atlesian military by the book. Even with his past mistakes and shady family history, he refuses to give up on his dream of becoming an Atlas Specialist.

Appearance
Pre-Timeskip

A lanky young man with pale, almost grayish skin and a pure black eye(left) and milky white(right) and messy bluish black hair spiking left. Azul wears a dark blue long-coat with black details, an black eyepatch over his blinded eye with his emblem on it. He has a black shirt underneath, long dark blue jeans and black combat boots with metal studs on their fronts. His right arm is plated, including an arm guard, handguard and steel knuckle-guards on his glove. A black harness runs from his left shoulder down to his right hip, the holster for his weapon concealed on his right side. His faunus trait are the two extra layers of shark teeth on his jaw and a layer on top his upper gums, giving him a vicious smile.



Blue Trailer

During his time with the White Fang, Azul preferred to conceal himself and fully embody the White Fang's reputation. Wearing a black tattered trenchcoat over a white shirt with the Fang's emblem and a standard White Fang Mask.

Timeskip

Following the gripthullu incident and the loss of his arm, Azul equipped a modified, shorter version of his Jolly Roger, dubbed Vengeful Pursuit in the place of his right upper arm. Getting himself a new dark blue coat with simple metal shoulderplates.

Personality
Surprisingly cunning and analytic behind the smile and the humor Azul is always trying to see the best out of any situation, or at least an angle for him to win. Altough he's quick to defend Faunus, he's surprsingly loyal to Atlas. Seeing faunus discrimination as a scar from the Faunus Civil Rights War, where his family had personal involvement sabotaging Atlas(Which he unfairly, feels guilty for). He tends to hide his concerns, often admitting to adore his country's technology, be it weaponry or video games. He loves to read stories of huntsmen of old and fantasy, having grown a hero complex over the years and subconciously starting to believe that his own sucess would redeem faunus in general to the public eye.

He's extremely loyal to his friends, which might lead him to be conflicted when he has to choose between serving Atlas or protecting his friends. Altough he's proud of his fighting skills, he tends to avoid drawing blood regardless of the enemy. For Artur, every fight is a puzzle to be solved. Despite his disrespect for those who simply flash their authority with no backing, he won't challenge them unless he knows there's a chance for him to win.

He's very organized, and tends to grow annoyed when others display a lack of previous planning or rush in with no intention of developing a solution. Due to his history, he doesn't really judge people based on wether they're humans or Faunus. He's quick to call out on discrimination and has little love to those who use their status to hurt others, for him, it's not humans and Faunus, it's oppressors and oppressed.

His relationship with his father is difficult, Edward made choices that lead Artur to be disliked or even hated even more than normal Faunus. The young man respects his father's choices as attempts to do what was right. In combat, he shows restraint almost unconsciously since he's scared of losing control of himself. Despite his love for fighting, he has developed a profound distaste for bloodshed and will try to avoid unnecessary fights, unless he's in a bad mood or a friend is at risk, then only another friend can reign him in with logic.

He's very protective of his friends, specially Sabrina, and if they're injured he can become vengeful, but over the past few years he really improved in stopping himself from overdoing it. While not guilty for past misdeeds, he greatly dislikes the idea of being as bad as his enemies. Artur is very proud, and the idea of being a bully or an unmotivated aggressor simply disgusts him to his core. He doesn't mind scaring people who are a threat though.

Weapons, semblance and abilities
 Weapon: Jolly Roger

A versatile shotgun(Overwatch Reaper) but with a segmented split at the middle and top, leaving it with four barrels instead of two. When the grip straightens with the barrel, the undergrip and lower part with the reload grip flip as the hook sword unfolds. The hook can be used in shotgun form, being fired from between the barrels as a grappling hook, or from the sword form as a giant weaponized fishing hook to reel in foes or slice into them as a hook sword.

Semblance: Liquid

Azul makes direct surfaces he's in contact with liquify, letting him treat solid surfaces as water and move through them. However the liquified area is only while he's in direct contact and goes back to normal as soon as he ceases to or more of the material gets between it and him, meaning that the worst he'll do is leave ripple-like markings on the terrain as he vanishes and emerges.

Fighting style: Hook, line, headshot.

Azul's fighting style is heavily based off his father's. He uses his semblance to close the gap between himself and the enemy, the shotgun sprays to keep the enemy off him and the hook to disarm and reel the target in, then finishes them off with a solid sword strike or a headshot. Even when fighting close range, Azul tends to use his sword to keep the enemy weapon off him while he strikes with his right fist or boots.

Backstory
Thatch Storm, known as Black Beard by sailors. The legendary giant squid faunus who kept the bulk of Atlas military at bay during the Faunus Civil Rights War by stealing a prototype warship and arming it to keep a blockade around the northern sea. Surprisingly, at the end of the war, Thatch offered to return the vessel, Ironwood's Payback to Atlas under a single condition: He would be allowed to join Atlas Military. Perhaps one of the most controversial decisions the recently appointed General Ironwood had to take. Yet while on paper it was clear, it was a lot messier in pratice. The other faunus saw Thatch as a traitor and hypocrite, his wife divorcing him, ignoring his statement he did it so they could start a new life free from the war.

So, Abaia took her maiden name for herself and her son, and sought to raise him in Atlas, to show Thatch how little she cared for his sacrifice. Azul grew up wondering why didn't mommy go to the actions movies with daddy and why daddy didn't help mommy in the White Fang's faunus care group. Azul grew up with stories of heroes from his parents, though from oposite sides in the war, and dreamt of being a hero himself, hence why he was enrolled in Combat Schools right off the bat. Yet, students were wary of him. Not just was he the son of the biggest sting on Atlas' side, but he was also a faunus. Yet, the bullying didn't last, all it took was a spar for Azul to scare off the bully wannabes. Things took a turn for the best when he met Sabrina, a shy girl who was shunned due to her father's attempts at lesening the suffering of faunus in Atlas. One of his main drives since a hate group attacked her mother snd her coworkers, leaving her in a wheelchair.

Azul soon began to spend his free time with her, starting to tell jokes and show a more energetic persona in order to cheer her up. Sabrina was smart, helping him out with his studies even as he gave her some tips about combat. Things were finally looking up. Sadly, Sabrina wasn't just a friend, she was a weakness. The other classmates, frustrated at their incapacity against the headstrong faunus, targeted Sabrina instead. Ambushing her ome night as she returned home, calling her a race traitor and exhausting her aura. During the scuffle, she was thrown in the street and struck by a truck, shooting her into a coma and damaging most of her limbs beyond repair.

The girl's guardian, her aunt, had sever lawsuits against the students involved. But the incident was smothered over and the boys were transfered to other schools or into less savory jobs. Azul visited her every day in the hospital, and during that time, another faunus entered the school. Dylan Marsh was outspoken, proud and could care less for Azul's parentage. At first, she invited him to rallies and protests, but after she saw Azul lash against a guard who was one of Sabrina's agressor, she offered him a mask and an invite. The White Fang would help faunus, and his vendeta. When Sabrina was transfered to another facility and he lost any chance of seeing her, Azul agreed.

So, for the next several months, Azul lived a double life. On one side, he studied and praticed his skills, on the other, he struck SDC Shipments, helped attack anti-faunus shops and hunted down those who sent Sabrina into a coma. When he was done, they all had moved out of Atlas or died. Yet just as he sated his vengeance and grew adjusted to working with the Fang, a miracle happened. Sabrina woke up. The two, altough inexplicably changed, restored their friendship, something that strongly irked Dylan. Who was quite clear on her opinion.

Nevertheless, Azul began to balance his work in the Fang and his friendship. Until one day, Sabrina followed him to a White Fang hideout and was captured. Dylan had the grunts attack her, claiming she was a spy. Yet Azul only saw history repeating and struck, arming Sabrina so the duo could escape. During the battle, Dylan sliced Azul's right eye, blinding it. Yet with the incoming aproach of Atlas forces, the fang dispersed. Between his injuries and lack of uniform, the soldiers bought Sabrina's story of how the fang tried to recruit him and how he stood up to them. Returning to their normal lives, Azul didn't share much of his actions. Yet, with Sabrina convincing him he could still be a hero, and that she would become a huntress for her own sake, Azul applied to Atlas Academy.

Trivia

 * His allusion is Captain Hook, wielding a hooksword, having a background with piracy and other criminal activity and his search for revenge.


 * Azul means blue in portuguese and Abyss is the name of the deepest parts of the ocean.