Glaukos Nerium

Glaukos Nerium is a student training to be a Hunter at Beacon Academy. This OC belongs to Jefardi. I mean, I don't think anyone else would care enough to claim this bloke, so, y'know, there is that.

Appearance
something something dark side something something complete

No Glaukos does not look  like the emperor or darth vader, its just a reference

Okay super serious time;

Glaukos is a tall kid, standing in at around 6'3. While you couldn't describe him as lanky, as he has some weight on him, he is definitely on the border of being considered lanky.

Backstory
Glaukos was born in Mistral, the middle child to a family of five. His father is a fisherman who does deep sea fishing (i.e. not just sitting at the dock with a fishing rod, but on a boat.) and as such he was gone for significant stretches of time. His mother on the other hand, while not just raising her three children, was also the one who ran the logistics behind the family business. It wasn't that little didn't receive a loving childhood, its just that felt very disconnected from other people.

His older brother, Indikon was more then ten years older then him, so, inherently to little Glaukos, was the coolest person ever. The brother went into the family business, joining the father on long week long trips. While Glaukos had never made a decision to himself about what he would want to do with his life, he assumed that he would grow up and do what his father and now Indikonwas doing, that is, fishing. That changed with his death.

It was the middle of the week, still two days before the boat was due back when it returned early. There had been an accident, and Indikon was in a severe condition. Someone had left the rods jammed inside the storage room, and when his brother had opened it, a few of the rods snapped forward, sending hooks whipping across and into the eldest sibling. These were not small hooks, but rather, hooks designed to catch big fish, the hooks comparable in size to his hand. There had been a lot of bleeding, and despite attempts to save him, Indikon died.This massively changed Glaukos' outlook on his future. That was literally death by accident and at the age of 18. It was a meaningless death, literally there was no meaning behind it. Other then better protocol for storing fishing rods.

In little Glaukos' mind, he couldn't fulling wrap his mind around it. Sure he had heard of people dying before, even been to funerals, but they had been from some disease, or, Grimm, or the occasional White Fang action.

While Glaukos had never been particularly close to his elder brother due to the age gap, he found himself sitting at the dock, waiting for his brother and father to return. It was during these waits, he started his love of books. They started as something of a hobby, to do other then poke the fish at the docks, but quickly turned into something consumed most of his waking time.However, this isolated Glaukos from his social group at school, as he spent more and more time with his nose in a book (or several, bit of a voracious reader).

For the early half of his life, Glaukos just sort of went with the flow of life, assuming he'd enter into the fishing industry as his family had. However, as he grew older, he realized a couple of things; First, that fishing, was not really something he could do with any amount of happiness for the rest of his life. It just, didn't seem to be a way to do anything meaningful. Sure, it provides food, something that everyone needs to have to survive, but he didn't feel like it was his particular calling in life. Second, was books, and the stories they told of. While he was reading a story on hunters he thought to himself "Too bad I can't do that" idly. The more Glaukos thought about it, the more he realized that he COULD. There wasn't anything stopping him. There were schools for this, battle academies.

Entering into the Sanctum academy, Glaukos steadily worked his way through it, with diligent work, though sometimes less then diligent work, because sleep demanded that he didn't always attend a 8am class (then again, who does go to an 8am class. They suck. They suck so hard). Eventually, Glaukos took the final exam, and passed (despite his lack of attendance for certain classes), and was accepted into Beacon academy.


 * Author's note: okay, see, I have this thing, about not wanting to be a unique snowflake when it comes to characters. I like to play a character that doesn't have the cliche angst, though, the more I think about it, the more I think Glaukos would, because TEENAGER.


 * Continuted Author's note: Okay, technically this history is done, but I am going to change a crap load more by the end of this. Because ANGST. (probably)

Personality
Glaukos is a relatively quiet kid, or at least appears so at first glance. He stays quiet until someone talks to him, then he can't stop talking, though more times then often, what he is talking about has little relvance to anything. While Glaukos likes to make friends, he sometimes has a bit of an issue doing that. Not because he is some form of cold person, but more along the lines of relating to others.

One of his biggest faults is that he second guesses himself. A lot. This makes interacting with others....more then a bit odd at some points. A lot of what he does second guess other people's emotions. Its not that he is particularly lacking in empathy, its just that he tends to think he is wrong when he does guess them, even if they are right.

A lot of people fancy themselves as badasses, Glaukos doesn't. This is a key part of his character. Or at least how I want to play him. Not as some one who is competing for show boating rights, but as the badass normal guy. Thats not to say he is necessarily humble, he is boastful more then once.

Weapon
Weapon Category: High Output Leiomano Firearm

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Description:

Glaukos wields heavily modified dual Leiomano. They transform into sub-machine guns. The manner in which this happens, is the tang of the Leiomano is actually the barrel of the the weapon, with the operational end of the Leiomano being the area where ammo is held/magazine. When it goes into this state, the area around the handle comes down, revealing the barrel, and the circular part of the Leiomano moves up as the magazine.

Derivation: Maori Leiomano, American-180 stockless

(Author's note, the closest look I can give, is that of an American-180 stockless)

I will have a video of this up soon. Its easier to explain that way

Semblance & Aura
This is still in the works, please do not take what is said seriously.

Trivia

 * The colour for Glaukos is something called Glaucous. Its word with origins in ancient Greek, meaning blue-grey or green. The manner in which Glaukos is derived from that, is the name form of the word in Greek can be translated as such. Commonly, you hear the latin/roman bastardization of it as the name Glaucus, a name which pops up commonly in roman and greek mythology, as well as being a fairly common given name in Roma. Most famous is the usage in the Iliad during the duel with Diomedes, that convinces me eternally that talking is a free action.


 * Nerium is a type of plant, full name Nerium oleander. It is a small evergreen shrub or tree that is common in the Mediterranean region. Its leaves and stems during their first year have a glaucous bloom to them.


 * Long winded conversations are quite long winded


 * PLACEHOLDER...OF DOOM


 * its possible i've turned this page into a joke. whoops. (not sorry)
 * I'm such as history nut, that I'm basing this guy off a minor character in the Iliad who's only note worthy because he was dumb enough to speak 5 pages worth of text to a guy trying to kill him and then tried his Gold armour, worth 100 oxen to a guy who gave hime bronze armour worth only 5 oxen
 * Hell, from the massive amount of research I've done into Homeric accuracy, as far as I can tell, he is part of Diomedes' Aegis, and even then, those three books were not part of the Iliad originally.