Salem Caeruleo

Personality
Salem is generally a very social person. He enjoys talking to others and findes his best moments are with friends. Salem tries to be friendly to everybody, even if they are not to him in turn. Salem feels that he must be kind to all if the faunus will ever gain equality. Salem will not stand for bullying, period. He disregards the discrimination against the faunus as an act of misunderstanding rather than an act of hate.

Salem hopes that his actions and good deeds will reflect on the Faunus as a whole, and thinks that, in time, those around him will begin to pen up to the idea of Faunus equality.

Salem doesn't believe in fighting anything save for Grimm. As such, he will do his best to avoid coming to blows in a confrontation with humans or faunus. Unfortunately, it is not always avoidable. If Salem feels that the other person is about to attack him, he'll try to escape.

History
Salem was born into the "Old" white fang. He protested with the group for many years. He believed that the Faunus and the Humans should coexist peacefully, with neither side hating on the other. He grew very close to the group's ideals. Which is why he  started to notice changes happening within the White Fang and the way they did things. He saw the old leader step down, and what the new one had in mind, and Salem decided that the White Fang was no longer the right place to stay. He fled the group without telling anyone anything, and wondered for a week and a hald before ending up in Vale. Here, he found Signal academy. He decided that he would prove just what a faunus can do.

Unfortunately, He was behind a year at Signal. Even though he tried very hard, he was held back a year. Salem didn't let this development stop him, and continued to train, learn, study and work. He graduated Signal only a year after he should have.

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Having a general philosophy of peace, Salem disliked the iea of fighting others. Instead of a weapon, he built a suit of armor that would allow for quick getaways, and if the need should arise, a fully protective armor. The armor is susceptible to Dust attacks, which means it isn't any good against other faunus or humans.

Salem's sword was a family heirloom heed taken when he'd fled the White Fang. It is a simple Wakizashi, the only defining features being the tassle with the old White Fang logo on it's end, and it's pale-blue hilt.

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Salem was a victim of discrimination himself, and witnessed several accounts of bullying. Salem took it upon himself to help the people he saw being bullied in any way possible. He would get very angry at the thought of one doing harm to another, and would vocalize this to his human and faunus friends. However, if he was intercepting a bully, or stopping such activities, he'd make a concerted effort to appear calm, keep his voice even, and he would appear as if nothing bothered him. His friends knew otherwise, but he was happy he was able to keep them safe.

Salem got in a fight but once, stopping a classmate from bullying another. Both were human, and both had regarded him as a freak in the past. Salem cared not, and stopped the bullying anyway. The classmate he'd saved simply walked away with no words of thanks, or even a departing thought. A disheartened Salem was confronted by several classmates, who said that what he'd done was very appreciated, and that they had been wrong for judging him as a criminal for simply being a Faunus.