Gabriel Gold

"Truth to be told, I agreed to apply to Shade so I could protect my brother. But I won't turn away from the duty I've been given. As leader of Team GLDN, you can count on me, so please, let me count on you guys."-Gabriel Gold

Gabriel is the leader of Team GLDN, alongside his twin brother Lucian and his newest comrades, Darika Hachi and Noir Holmes. Despite hailing from a mysterious village in the deserts surrounding Vacuo, Gabriel is quite adept at following rules, even with so few of them existing at Shade, even less in Vacuo. He's not just team leader, but their moral compass as well.

Appearance
Gabriel looks nearly identical to his twin Lucian. Same dark blonde hair and golden eyes(Though while his are brighter, his brother's are more yellowed), a bit too tall for their age and with a modest build. Alas, their faunus traits make telling one from the other easy. Gabriel's massive snowy white wings are hard to miss, even if they can be mistaken for a feathery cloak by the passing glance. He wears white desert robes with golden details, with a single diagonal strap on his waist where his weapon's holster hangs. He wears a headband on his forehead with his emblem.

Personality
A calm and content individual, Gabriel tends to try finding peace whenever he goes and bring it to those around him. Despite the heavy competition on Shade, Gabriel, long since having learned to prioritize his brother over sucess, now shares such feelings to care for Dari and Noir as well.

However, Gabriel is quite naive, or perhaps too hopeful, believing that no matter what, there will be a morally right path and that his team will make through regardless of danger. Yet, whereas many disregard his efforts, Gabriel tends to give a calm aura even in the darkest times, something he feels great about, being glad he can soothe others.

Team Leader and big brother, Gabriel is quite responsible, and while he seldom shows anger through short sentences and cold facts, enough stress or lack of cooperation can bring it out of him. Or perhaps enough pressure to make him unbottle all the emotions he keeps locked away due to his self-imposed exile...

Weapons, semblance and abilities
 

Weapon: Sanctus Aureola
Sanctus Aureola is a pair of Khopesh with a grip about the third size of each blade's radius. Flipping it's grips inwards and connecting the weapons, it becomes a single golden chakram. Wind dust is stored within the weapon's grip and reacts to Gabriel's semblance.

Semblance: Gust
Gabriel can manipulate the air around him to flow in a chosen direction with a specific ammount of force. While he can, with extreme effort, separate air currents to create tornadoes or clouds, it is extremely difficult for him to accomplish such feats. It is far easier for him to set massive blasts of air or simply force air upwards instead.

Fighting Style
Gabriel seldom touches the ground in battle. Using a mixture of dimachaerus techniques in conjuction to his semblance and faunus trait to stay aloft, he dives in for quick scuffles before returning to the air, where he can observe the battlefield and step in where he's needed, supporting his teammates either by joining the battle or sending blasts of wind to disorient their foes. Using Sanctus Aureola's chakram form and wind dust, he can direct the weapon around him like a flying buzzsaw to strike enemies and return to him in the air.

Faunus Traits
Like many faunus, Gabriel posseses powerful night vision, allowing him to see in the dark much like an owl. However, his true faunus trait, perhaps his most distinctive feature even, are his wings. Which not enable him to glide, but in conjuction to his semblance, he can even soar and hover without making a sound.

Backstory
Paradise is one of Vacuo's oldest, yet least known societies. A large tribe of faunus that settled on a massive deposit of dust near one of Vacuo's oasis. When the atlesian forces came, the leaders of the tribe used the island's gravity dust to lift their home from the sands and high into the air. There, using semblance and dust, they survived even as the island continues to drift across Vacuo's sky, an urban legend for Vacuo's society.

The people of Paradise were careful, preserving dust by utilizing dust-woven weaponry or simply weapons that relied on the same crystalized dust to continue functioning, setting several rules in place to avoid discovery. Amidst those rules, was that each faunus could only master one type of dust, and shun use of other types.

For Gabriel, that was fine. From day one he was treated as the pride of Paradise. Not only was he profficient in Wind Dust, but he was born with wings, a trait highly coveted in the floating island. Yet, Gabriel always found time for his twin, Lucian was an outcast, and Gabriel always tried to make him feel otherwise.

Alas, when Lucian was revealed to have been breaking the tribe's laws and, due to his age, was declared exiled, Gabriel would not stand it. Furious at his opposition, and consequently breaking the rules against opposing official decisions, Gabriel was to be punished by being the one to carry Lucian down from the island.

Yet even as Gabriel resisted, Lucian didn't. The snake faunus was happy to leave Paradise. As Gabriel flew down, listening to his brother talk about huntsmen and freedom, Gabriel made his choice. When they landed on Vacuo's sands, Gabriel did not return. He'd stay with Lucian, become a huntsman. Not for the freedom it offered, but because then, maybe then, he could show Paradise that the outside world would only strengthen them. First step? Shade Academy.

Trivia

 * Gabriel alludes to the angel gabriel, one of God's foremost angels and the one who followed god's will casting Lucifer into hell
 * Sanctus Aureola directly translates into Holy Halo from latin
 * He was the second member of Team GLDN to be drawn out, first being Lucian
 * Paradise was originally going to be a wandering tribe, then it was changed to an underground land, yet the final choice was a floating island thanks to inspiration from Lake Matsu's floating islets.