Sylvestre Felis

Sylvestre Felis
He is the leader of Team SLAE of Vale. An incident occurred when he was young in his home in Atlas, leading him to be sent at Vale instead.

Background
Sylvestre was born in Atlas, but was adopted by his aunt living in Vale when most of their family members had been killed during an onslaught. This has become the Felis Incident, though only a few individuals were given information on what really happened. Despite given love and affection, he had completely shut himself from the rest, save for his aunt and cousin.

During his cousin's training, he became inspired and urged the former to teach him ways on becoming a huntsman. This lead to a gradual increase in their relationship. Though he is quite skilled in acrobatics and indirect close combat, he has extremely low endurance and thus, often times, end up easily being defeated in direct combat.

As he grew up, he had gone to Signal soon after to increase his combat skills. In there, he used his Semblance less and studied on stealth and ambush more than close combat. He had mastered eye-hand and eye-foot coordination, as well as balancing and outmanoeuvring others in terms of quick motions and reflexes. Being a Faunus, he possess night vision which allows him to hone his stealth as well as learning to ambush instead of direct combat. Of course, he too suffers from discrimination.

Appearance
Sylvestre has white, spiky hair that resembles him having something similar to large, cat ears. He has a light skin tone and heterochromia iridum. His right eye is grey while the blue one is blue. He wears a striped, slate grey long sleeved shirt with a white sleeveless hoodie. His pants is blue and is asymmetrical in design, with three pockets on the right side and two pockets with his insignia on the right. His high top shoes is grey with white accents and zippers on the sides. Additionally, he wears a white scarf.

Personality
Traumatised by the past events, he had fear of isolation yet at the same time having trouble interacting with others. He is most of the time quiet and simple, only asking things when he felt needed. He is easily pleased with simple things in life and feels important whenever he is treated greatly or is given something wonderful. Since he has a loner attitude, he tends to immerse himself in reading books. However, most books that he had read are primarily fairy tales and this had left him having a fantastical view of the world.

Weapons (Beckoning Cat)
The name of his weapon is the Beckoning Cat. It takes form of a gauntlet with four, small retractable claws. The gauntlet is white and grey in colour. Additionally, blue streaks are at the side.The blades of the claws can be enhanced with ice type dust, which allows him to freeze a person's limb or object upon impact (e.g. hitting the arm can freeze the arm momentarily). The claws can be fired off from the gauntlets and act as ranged projectiles. The projectile works via aura projection on his hands.

The blade can be launched one at a time and can be replaced with new ones found on his small pouch, which carries several blades. In some circumstances, he can merely use the blades as throwing knives. With his semblance, he can throw knives at remarkable speeds.

Semblance
The name of his Semblance is Flux. It creates a spatial disturbance which slows down anything close to him. It does not affect anything else outside arm's reach. Effects lasts only for half a minute and has a cool down of around five minutes. It does not affect anything that is regarded as 'too fast' (bullets, projectiles, sudden attacks, etcetera) and if there are too many objects within the allotted vicinity (he can affect no more than six objects or one person). Another downsize is that continuous forced use of this Semblance lowers his physical endurance (if used during the stated cool down).

Fighting Styles
His fighting style includes quick, fluid movements similar to Capoeira. He can easily dodge enemy strikes but can not evade bullet projectiles or surprise attacks. He can overcome foes with speed and tactics rather than brute force. On the side note, he can not dodge if: the enemy is on par or has a higher speed; is much stronger; and if there are too many of them. This makes him excellent in most one on one battles.

He also specializes on coordination and balance, which means that he can easily fight an enemy on unnatural terrain such as mountainous slopes or sandy dunes. Moreover, his stamina is quite high making him hard to get tired. His endurance, however, is lower than average.

He is also adept in terms of hand-to-hand combat. With his claws, he can make swift claw swipes at the enemy. His patience in fighting allows him to calculate and time a perfect strike, saving him energy. If needed, he can aim from a distance instead of close quarter combat. His small body allows him to sneak up on unsuspecting enemies.

Relationships
Loq Lykos - His maternal cousin and brother figure. He is his inspiration in becoming a huntsman. He is the very reason why he had trained to become a huntsman in the beginning. They both have a strong brotherly relationship, but he looks at him like a father as well.

Erythros Rosso - A team mate and close friend. They have a strange, one-sided hate relationship as he tends to become agitated by his constant noise. Despite this, they have a brotherly relationship as well.

Aidein Trent - A team mate and a close friend. At first, he seems to be wary of him thinking that he may be an enemy spy (even goes as far as claiming that he intendedly switched his first name with his family name because it is his 'code name'). However, he began trusting him more during their first mission.

Anya Lykos - His maternal aunt. He was adopted by her as soon as she had known about his loss. She did not pity him, instead, she took care of him as if he was her own child because she knows that being pitied at is quite disheartening as she had once been pitied for the loss of her husband.

Indigo Regalo - One of his childhood friends that lives in Atlas. They got along well together. He is part of Team LILL

Loki Yggdrasil - Another one of his childhood friends. He is the first friend he made in Vale after coming from Atlas. He is a part of Team LILL.

Lili Gregorovich - A friend he made in Signal before coming to Beacon. She usually protects him from bullies, which he was the usual target. She is the leader of Team LILL.

Lorelei Rhine - A pop singer/huntress who he is a big fan of, though secretly. She is a member of Team LILL.

Trivia

 * Felis is a Latin word which is commonly used to described cats. Similarly, he also possess traits that found in cats as well (which includes fickleness, laze, great acrobatics, and the like).
 * Sylvestre is a French variant for the name Sylvester. It is a word with Latin background Silvester, which ultimately means "wooded" or "of the forest".
 * His weapon is named after 招き猫 (Maneki-neko). A lucky charm, usually in white or gold, that is said to make the owner affluent. Most have simple mechanisms that makes one hand rock back and forth, a sign to tell "welcome".
 * His birthday, October 29, is also National Cat Day.
 * The combined meaning of his name is "Woodland cat", which describes the large, wild cats. With white and grey colouration, the closest is the Snow Leopard or the White Bengal Tiger.

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