Glaukos Nerium

Glaukos Nerium is a first year student training to be a Hunter at Beacon Academy.

Appearance
Glaukos is a tall kid, standing in at around 6'4. 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. He has blue-grey eyes, and long curly dark brown hair, usually kept in a pony tail, with a single blue streak running through it.

Apart from his uniform at Beacon, i.e. for actual combat, he wears a segmented armoured bronze breastplate, a bronze manica with blue and green detailing on his right arm. He also, wears a pair of armoured pants, with segmented plates. There is also a number of bandoliers of ammunition that he wears. Finally, he wears a pair of sandals.

Aspída Aristerá & Foniás Dexiá, when not being used are worn on his back, with Foniás Dexiá sheathed within Aspída Aristerá.

Backstory
Glaukos was born in Mistral, the middle child to a family of seven. 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 Indikon was 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. Glaukos wanted to do something with his life, make a difference. Not die a meaningless death. While being a Huntsman was a dangerous position, it did clearly make a difference. It kept the Grimm from coming into human lands.

He applied to Sanctum academy as soon as he could, and was accepted, starting his formal training of combat. It was during this time, that he built Aspída Aristerá & Foniás Dexiá. When he was 17, he graduated from Sanctum and applied to Beacon academy, passing the entrance exam, and gaining acceptance in to Beacon.

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 relevance to anything, due to his very bad tendency to tangent in conversation. 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. He is a lot less likely to attempt showboating, or trying to steal another person's limelight.

Weapon
Weapon Category: High Output Leiomano Firearm

Name: Aspída Aristerá & Foniás Dexiá

Ammunition: metal shards, dust imbued metal shards.

Description:

Glaukos wields heavily modified Leiomano, Foniás Dexiá, notably it has been substantially lengthened, the blade aspect of it nearly inches in length. It has three states, inactive, melee and ranged. When its in the inactive state, the metal teeth are retracted from the side. When it goes into melee mode, the metal teeth on the side are exposed. Finally, in its ranged mode, it turns in an Sub-machine gun.

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, forming the grip and trigger revealing the back part of the barrel, and the circular part of the Leiomano moves up as the magazine, revealing the operational end of the barrel.

Unlike traditional Leiomanos, which use shark teeth as the cutting surface, Foniás Dexiá uses retractable metal shards as a replacement, made out of a far more durable material, Damascus steel. There is also a standard metal edge below the metal shards, following the outline of the weapon, above the handle. When in its gun form, Foniás Dexiá can also use these shards as ammunition. In special cases, Glaukos has different clips of the shards for Foniás Dexiá which are imbued with dust, for different effects.

He also wields a large Hoplon shield, with his personal emblem, that of the deadly turtle emblazoned on it. It is called Aspída Aristerá. It is bronze coloured, and roughly three feet wide, and has straps on the inside, and is to be held in his left arm. Aspída Aristerá also contains the sheath for Foniás Dexiá's inactive form. The shield itself can be used as weapon, such as using it to bash things.

With the combination of the two, Glaukos has a particular fighting style, which with his semblance, usually involves him being behind the shield and striking at vulnerable points of the enemy, even if he can't physically see them, due to the power of his semblance.

Derivation: Maori Leiomano, American-180 stockless, Archaic Greek Hoplon

Author's note: I'm modelling this in Maya right now. This is a very hard weapon to conceptualize, I know and I'm sorry.

Semblance & Aura
Glaukos' aura is a Blue-grey colour.

His semblance is a derivation of electrolocation, called Spectrum Vision. When he activates it, he can essentially use the air around him, particularly if its dense (i.e. fog, or heavy humidity), to sense where other things are.

As this is a form of active electrolocation, Glaukos' aura generates a electric field around him, in which he senses the changes. The mechanic of this, is allow Glaukos to sense what is around him, using electric pulses. Every time he uses his semblance it sends out weak pulses of an electric field, which detects objects or people. This does NOT allow him to be able to sense the difference between living creatures and inanimate objects, but it DOES allow him to see. Usually he will be able to tell the difference between living and inanimate by the sheer fact that one is moving.

The range is effected by what conductors are in the area, i.e. things such as water (such as it being humid would increases the range). Normally the range of this, without taking into account environmental factors, is about fourteen meters. There is also a limit, as to how much he can use it, as it does tire him, he can use it in thirty second bursts, with ten second cool downs, before it can be used again. However, each time he uses it will increase the cool down for the next time, due to him tiring.

Grimm
Glaukos Nerium and Elise Mindre versus two Ursa
 * Order of Battle: Glaukos Nerium killed one Ursa while Elise Mindre killed the other. No injuries were suffered on the part of Elise Mindre and Glaukos Nerium
 * Result: Victory

Duels
Glaukos Nerium versus Athena Auburn
 * Description: During Dueling/Sparring class, Glaukos Nerium</FONT> fought Athena Auburn</FONT>. Glaukos Nerium</FONT>  took some minor uppercuts to the back, while Athena Auburn</FONT> was hit by high velocity metal shards, knocked back several times with a hoplon shield, before being nearly gutted and electrocuted while being thrown halfway across the room.
 * Result: Victory by Forfeit

Glaukos Nerium</FONT> versus Chartreuse Nyanza
 * Description: Glaukos Nerium</FONT> sparred Chartreuse Nyanza on the afternoon of the first Saturday after initiation.
 * Result:Loss by Forfeit

Germanium and Similar Double Bonds

 * Date: After the first day of classes
 * Start: December 13th, 2014

Pallas Athena

 * Date: A few weeks after initiation into Beacon
 * Start: December 1st, 2014

Teeth and Whips

 * Date: First Saturday of Glaukos Nerium's time at Beacon Academy
 * Start: December 16th, 2014
 * End: December 20th, 2014
 * Description: Glaukos Nerium and Chartreuse Nyanza spar, Chartreuse gets hit a few times early on but wrecks Glaukos' shit towards the end of the match. Glaukos forfeits for two reasons: As team leader the purpose of the match was that it was to get a handle on his teammate's abilities. Secondly, while Chartreuse was out of the dust at this point (probably), he was only one hit away from losing if this was a tournament style match and this match was only going to get uglier the longer it went on.

Seeds of Initiation Part II: The Final Beginning

 * Date: This covers after all four of the members of Team GREN have finally met during initiation
 * Start: December 2nd, 2014
 * End: December 12th, 2014

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.
 * Glaucous in the name form of Glaucus can also be translated as "shiny" or "bright"


 * 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.


 * Glaukos is also a member of Team GREN, or better known as Team Green

Author's Notes
When I originally started to work on this character, I was doing it very jokingly, and made a lot of meta comments throughout the page. As I've tried to make it more professional, i.e. less me rambling, I've removed vast sections, either deleting them, moving them to my user page, or to the trivia. I am now trying to remove them from the trivia, and I'm putting them here, as they do have to do with Glaukos, and where his name/colour comes from, but are more indepth and ramble-rific. As well as involve me referring to myself.


 * I apologize if some places, especially in Trivia I got a bit meta and/or off topic.


 * Tell me if you know how to curve the corners on the template box, cause I don't know how to do it Ypu will get a pizza roll. maybe.


 * This character is the result of someone with training in classical Greek & Pre-modern history gets together with a Native American archaeologist.


 * 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 (a bit redundant, I know, but still.)


 * He then traded his Gold armour, worth 100 oxen to a guy who gave him bronze armour worth only 15 oxen. Might I also add, that the guy he was talking to and trading armour with, was Diomedes, noted badass extraordinaire, who single-handily beat three deities, Aphrodite, Apollo and Ares, making Ares whine so much to Zeus about how badly he was beat, that Zeus essentially said "STOP YOUR WHINING SON, YOU GOT PWNED"


 * Hell, from the massive amount of research I've done into the Homeric Question, 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.


 * I'm also hella interested in how combat will actually occur with Glaukos, for a number of reasons. One such reason is the fact that he is fighting with a short ranged melee weapon, its about 2 and a half to 3 feet long, while using a hoplon shield, which is meant for a fighting style with 18 foot spears. In formation of at least 100 people.