Tei Phylax

''"I may be large, I may be powerful, but I will always put others before myself when in danger." -Tei Phylax ''

Personality
Tei is often the calm and down to earth type who remains calm under most issues. He rarely shows signs of distress or being bothered for the most part. He’s also described to be like a dense wall when it comes to people’s moods that revolve around love or adoration. It also thought that Tei is uncaring as he rarely smiles, but he seems to have a soft spot for puppies as noted by his ability to name breeds of dogs and even more note their traits. Though it goes without saying that that Tei is very serious and often to be dull when out of battle, but in battle he becomes his team’s first line of defense and takes the role of engaging an enemy up close. In some cases, he may even take a bullet for his team as he seems to make himself the person to take the most damage in a fight as he seems to have high tolerance to pain.

Attire
Being a massive man that he is, he seems to sport what appears to be hoodie with a broken zipper in the front. The hoodie is covered in stitch markings indicating it’s long use and the fact that his muscles place a strain on the clothing. The color of the hoodie is a darker orange, while his emblem sits upon the back of the hoodie. He also appears to sport baggy navy camo cargo pants that have knee-padding in the front with his emblem as does his elbows, both of which are a colored black and the emblem. He seems to wear military-grade boots with orange metal along the trimming and built in spikes on the sole of the boots giving him better gripping. He also encases his head in a motorcycle helmet with a black visor that hides his face which is has the design of a gladiator helmet sketched into it, though it is colored bronze and reddish orange. even more, he wears a black t-shirt and black fingerless gloves that reveal the little skin he displays.

Body Type
As it stands, Tei is a large man mainly built out of raw muscle and little of anything else. His sharp eyes and chiseled chin seem to imply his a brute type even more with his large muscles which often lead to him to breaking clothes that are below the double extra large shirts. Even more his large hands and feet also seem to match his massive size. Though his tan skin isn’t shown for the most part, he does have a couple large scars around his upper arms and calves. He bares no hair despite having hair legs and arms as he’s called ‘wood limbs’ mocking that the color and skin resembles tree bark.

Metallum Cancer
Tei’s signature weapon is ‘Metallum Cancer’ which usually described to be a Aspis, which bares his symbol. The Aspis is paired with a Scissor-type of weapon that resembles that of a round guillotine blade. The Scissor seems to be able to turn into a double-barreled shotgun completely encased in metal. Due to it’s short-range, Tei has to get in close usually take the shot first and slice or vice versa depending on the enemy type. The metal on his weapons are a dark bronze color with an eggshell shine.

The weapon can easily be converted into a large sheath that can be strabbed to his back and have either the gun form or the scissor form slide into it. The sheath retains it's bronze coloring, though the strapping seems to be similar to leather with would the same material used to hold up the Aspis form.

Combat Style
Tei is a straight forward type who will engage up close and personal not backing down from the fight. His usual method is to move in quickly and use his shield to give the impression that he will follow up with a strike with his weapon or ram them, but he may use the shield like sword swinging it before stabbing it into the ground as the opponent will try to flank him only to come to discover his trap. He will usually swing at them or shot them, then pull the shield up to strike them with it. In any case, his method has worked and often becomes a good distraction.

Notable Training Methods

 * Has trained and memorize the usage of an array of weapons.
 * Has fought aquatic Grimm Under water strengthening his muscles.
 * Has fished for big game fish that takes hours to catch which has increased his stamina.
 * Has worked with scolding flames giving him a slight adjustment to high temperatures.
 * During his fights, he began to learn to use aura to heal small cuts and slight injuries
 * Has faced an array of dirty fighters and Grimm making him use to dirty tactics

Strengths
Tei’s size and body structure gives him a natural advantage in close range combat, thus engaging in frontal assaults gives Tei an advantage over most. His high tolerance to pain seems to also benefit as this reflects in his stamina not being bothered by drawn out battles. His silent nature also makes him reserve his breath and able to hold his breath. Even more, due to his natural training in fishing and swimming, he is much more agile for his size then most.

Weaknesses
Despite his size, he cannot make up for the lack of range combat being that his shotgun having some range, it lacks long range. He also lacks Dust training making him solely a tank-type character who can resist attacks from bladed or blunt attacks, but fire and ice will undoubtedly affect him.

Back Story
Tei grew up on the coast of his country under the guidance of a father who worked as a fisherman and a mother who worked as a blacksmith. Despite being raised in a small village, he was actually smaller than most at a young age and consider the weakest of the children. Over the course of his youth, he trained himself with his mother’s weapons that were put away in storage. As a result, he became very familiar with all basic weapons and even more, he seemed attached to a weapon that was used by his passed away grandfather on his father’s side in the war named, Metallum Cancer. The weapon did not stand out much, but learning from his mother, he became well skilled in blacksmith and even learning to fish from his father, who caught larger fish. As a result, upon hitting puberty, he out grew those of his age and even more out due them in a fight. As it seemed, the Phylax name has some weight and even more by entering some competitions, he managed to build a name and was accepted into Beacon Academy.

Trivia

 * His first name Tei comes from the Roman word ‘Teichos’ meaning Wall. His name Phylax is the Roman word for ‘Sentry’. Teichos Phlax would result in his name meaning ‘Wall Sentry’
 * Metallum Cancer could mean either ‘Metal Crab’ due to the Zodiac or ‘Metal Death’ due Cancer being a disease.
 * Being raised by a fisherman, he’s quite the fisherman and even more, he’s developed skill in stamina for fishing big game that can draw out for hours and he seems to be able to fight underwater for short periods using his bare hands.
 * Being raised by a fisherman, he’s quite the fisherman and even more, he’s developed skill in stamina for fishing big game that can draw out for hours and he seems to be able to fight underwater for short periods using his bare hands.
 * Tei is actually allergic to cat fur and certain trees.
 * Indicated by his love for the classics, it may be implied he’s into swing and jazz music.
 * It is also implied that he may own his own motorcycle by his helmet and the fact that he will mock the sound of a motorcycle when either bored or waiting.

Influences

 * His clothing and body style are influenced by Guile of Street Fighter, Skull of KHR and The Stig of Top Gear.
 * Tei's personality and role could be similar to Tank-like characters in multiple series who are often silent and rarely speak unless needed to.
 * Tei’s overall combat and weapon choice is influenced by both Spartan Soldiers and Roman Gladiators who were both treated extremely roughly and were fearsome warriors.
 * Metallum cancer’s shield may also reflect that Cancer is the zodiac connected to the moon.
 * Being raised as a fisherman’s son and becoming a giant which may reflect Portugal during the era which Rome was conquering Europe as Portugal was often to be at a constant war with Rome, until the fall of Viriathus and the Lusitanians as Viriathus managed to repel Roman invasion, until he was betrayed.
 * Tei's CQC skills are a reflection of Cancer being a crab and as animals who fight in CQC.
 * His birthday is the start of Cancer's ruling in Tropical regions, while still being in Cancer's usual span of control.
 * Metallum Cancer's design was inspired from different sources.
 * The Aspis is often the most reconginizable weapon of the Spartan Troops
 * The scissor is a Gladiator weapon often not noted, but is considerably an odd weapon
 * The Scissor in design resembles a swinging Guillotine used by Villains of dirrent medias as a trap to kill intruders.
 * The Double-Barreled shotgun isn't often used for anything outside out of hunting or self-defense nowadays.
 * The Shotgun recieved it's infamous nickname 'Boomstick' from Ash Williams of Army of Darkness.
 * "This. . . is my boomstick!"

Resources

 * http://www.ancientmilitary.com/spartan-weapons.htm
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_(gladiator_type)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barreled_shotgun
 * http://streetfighter.wikia.com/wiki/Guile
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter
 * http://reborn.wikia.com/wiki/Skull
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_Reborn
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)
 * http://evildead.wikia.com/wiki/Ash_Williams
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Darkness
 * http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/quotes
 * http://www.youtube.com
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 * http://gen8.deviantart.com/art/Chibi-Maker-1-1-346025144