Talen Multis

"The only thing better than sleep is adventure. And lemonade, lots and lots of lemonade"

                                                           -Stefan 

Appearance
Stefan is a young man who looks to have little muscle, but is mostly lean and tall. He has medium length brown hair that looks somewhat unkempt. He also has fox ears and a long, fluffy tail that matches his hair color, except for the tips which are white. He has a slightly tanned complexion, as well as a burn scar on his face, a little to the left of his mouth. He has hazel colored eyes, except for when he uses his semblance, which then his left eye glows red, while his right glows light blue.

Besides his school uniform, Stefan typically wears gray cargo pants, light brown hiking boots, and a tan leather jacket over a black tee shirt. When going into battle, he also carries a bandolier or two across his chest filled with vials of fire dust, ice dust, water, and oxygen. When he goes to sleep, he removes his boots, socks, shirt and jacket, and just sleeps in his pants. He is typically seen with a lemonade in his hands as well, when he is not doing anything action-oriented.

Personality
Stefan has received the alias of “Frozen Flame” due to his equipment, but it stuck due to the fact that comments or actions of any kind rarely evoke a negative reaction from him, but when they do, heads roll. Despite his fear of heights, the dark, and being a bit paranoid at times, Stefan can usually keep perfectly calm in any battlefield situation, while remaining poised to strike when necessary. Most of that is due to his go with the flow attitude, however, it is also because he naps frequently during the day. Only a few of things really bother Stefan that others know about so far: negative comments about his sister, when someone interrupts his sleep, seeing his friends hurt, and when there is no lemonade. For Some reason Stefan has a particular choice in drinks, so when able, all he drinks is lemonade. He does not like fighting or confrontation, but when friends or innocents are in danger, Stefan will fight mercilessly to ensure the safety of them. Other than that, it does not take much to get along with Stefan, along as you can make friends with him first. He has a habit of being extremely shy around people he does not know, but when he warms up to people, he is insightful and occasionally cracks a joke or too. Faunus discrimination has happened to him, but not on that big of a scale, so other than the ones who public show their distaste of him, Stefan treats them with respect. While Stefan does value the schoolwork at Beacon Academy, he tends to procrastinate until the night before and then stays up the whole night to finish his work. He tends to enjoy the social and adventuring aspects more, even though he can sometimes complain about it. Stefan is single, and he considers himself to be looking, but that is not one of his biggest priorities, because he thinks it will happen eventually without any help from him. Stefan is going to Beacon to eventually help people and reduce crime, but he says his true purpose is to find or see something profound, and to go on adventures that he won’t forget, since that was what his sister wanted him to do. Weapons & Abilities Stefan uses an Armored Dust Circulatory System named adversa temporum (Opposing Seasons), which comes in two parts, the arms and the legs. Armored sleeves and leg guards each have multiple vents and steel cables running through them, to varying Substances to different places from the armor. The system can be refilled with specially crafted refill-vials that Stefan brings with him when he toes out. Each of the four pieces (two arms and two legs) functions individually, and primarily uses the combination of ice dust and water, or fire dust and oxygen. Adding water to be frozen with the ice dust, Stefan can craft some basic tools and weapons from ice for various situations, from some basic keys, to silverware, to icy claws for his hands. He even uses them for mundane tasks, like cooling his lemonade, or to cool himself off on a hot summer day. On the other hand, fire dust and oxygen provide a small flamethrower-like affect, or superheating his armor to bend or break certain kinds of weaker metals. As of right now, Stefan prefers to use ice dust over fire, because he has much more experience with it, but is still training and using fire dust occasionally. The oxygen and water can be used individually though, for drinking and breathing purposes. Stefan’s specialty though is to use a combination of three to create either fog or smoke to hinder the sight of his opponents, to which then he uses his semblance to locate them. These multiple tactics make Stefan well suited towards battling single opponents in combat, but weaker when fighting a group.

Stefan’s semblance is that his right eye glows icy blue and his left glows fiery orange, and that lets him see the auras, or soul of everyone around him, making all objects and appearances fade to a grayscale. He can also see creatures of Grimm, because since they lack anything like a soul, they appear as a black void of where something should be

The way that Stefan uses his equipment and abilities makes him a jack of multiple trades, but a master of none, and this is why this makes him an invaluable support spot of any team he joins. This means that while Stefan only may be able to take down only a few Beowolves by himself, Stefan and a partner could easily kill more than twice as many as each of them could do alone. He has a little hand-to-hand combat training, along with minimal bladed weapons training. He is also somewhat well versed with technology, being able to hack into devices with low to moderate security. Fighting Style Besides some martial arts and a little self-defense training, Stefan doesn’t regularly practice or engage in a “type” of hand to hand combat. The little practice he has had helps him to usually block what his enemies throw at him, and then to counter with some form of dust attack. Stefan’s versatility and resourcefulness has kept him doing well against single opponents so far, but with no discipline in any art, he really struggles with maintaining his strategies when battling groups of enemies.

On the offensive side, Stefan deals with normal enemies differently than he would face truly terrible individuals, or creatures of Grimm. On regular opponents, Stefan will try to use his super-heated hands to put an enemy’s weapon out of commission, or use his chilled arms to lower a person’s body temperature just enough to where they are unable to move well enough for combat. Against Grimm creatures or in battles to the death, Stefan uses his right arm to make a slicing instrument out of ice to cut and afflict his opponent with frostbite, and then use his left arm to stick into his enemy and cook them alive with his fire dust.

Backstory Stefan and his twin sister, Stella, were adopted by a pair of human parents that were not well off in an attempt to monetize off of raising Faunus children because of their “hearts of gold.” Unfortunately for them, the only thing they received from their plan was dirty looks and coarse comments from humans and faunus alike. The parents were not physically abusive, but did start to use their words to threaten and cajole the two into getting jobs when they realized that the spotlight had moved from them now that they were not babies anymore. Giving almost all of their money to “earn their keep,” the twins spent the next couple of years saving to help fund their goals. Stella wanted to be a Huntress; to be able to adventure, help people, make friends, and generally do the right thing. Stefan had no clue what he was going to do, so he branched out in many different fields, not quite finding his place in any. Finally, his sister coaxed Stefan to save and buy a weapon to help her out on her occasional hunts for Beowolves that were alone.

After a little bit of training, the two made a good pair, Stella using fire dust with a pair of scimitars, and Stefan with a dagger that utilized ice dust to freeze what he cut. This led to the two experimenting and discovering their semblance, and found that they shared it, each having the ability to see the other as a silhouette on fire. Soon after realizing that she could use her semblance, Stella applied to Signal Academy, to start her journey to become a huntress, while Stefan found an apprenticeship at a tech company. Midway through that year, both sibling went to visit their “parents” and stayed for a couple of nights, and they found that their adoptive parents had adopted two more Faunus children in another attempt to capture glory. This must have angered someone or some group, because when Stefan returned to the house later that night from his apprenticeship, it was ablaze. Aware that there were four lives that were possibly in mortal danger, Stefan rushed into the house to help in some way. In the end, the parents had fled the scene, abandoning their “daughter” and never to be seen again, but Stefan was able to save his sister, who rushed in to save the children. Despite her fondness of fire, Stella was burned very badly in her effort to shield the babies from the flames; in this she was victorious, but later found out that her nerves were damaged so badly in the fire that she would never be able to move well enough again to become a huntress like she wanted.

No one, not even the police ever did figure out who had set that fire that night. Soon after the fire, Stefan quit his unpaid apprenticeship and started to work any type of labor that featured some form of pay and multiple hours to care for his sister who stayed home and used what little strength she had left to watch the two children she saved. Stella actually enjoyed her time watching children and started taking in others, making the small home the two bought with what money they had an orphanage. Despite his aversion for loud and messy settings, Stefan was willing to put up with it if made his sister happy. Those following months Stefan could tell that something was bothering Stella, so they went out to a remote cottage to spend time together to work out whatever was wrong

While at the cottage Stella confessed that she felt just as happy caring for others than when she was at Signal. She also said that she felt terrible for making her brother care and provide for her. After finding out that her brother had no plans for the future, Stella suggested that Stefan should just try to become a huntsman, go on adventures, make friends, and make a story that would do her proud. Not long after, she left to continue her work with the children, revealing to Stefan that she had wrote a letter of recommendation to an Academy called Beacon, along with leaving her weapons to him to sell for his own. Reflecting on how the twin’s system of fire and ice worked well, Stefan melted down his sister’s weapons and used that as a base for a weapon of his own design that utilized both fire and ice dust. After designing and finishing his prototype, Stefan gathered the recommendation letter to send it away. Attached to the back of the letter was a note from his sister; all it said was: “Have Fun – Stella.” In a few days, Stefan received an acceptance letter from Beacon; he had been accepted by a stroke of luck. It was not his transcripts or his past achievements; it was the letter from his sister that had pushed him over the fence. The next few days were a blur; Stefan gave his personal belongings to his sister, said farewell to his few friends, and visited his sister one final time before he left; to thank her for what she had done, and to promise to her he would return to tell her fantastic stories. Now all that remains of Stefan’s previous life is his equipment, and his sister’s rule for him, “Have Fun.” <h2 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">Trivia


 * Stefan's last name, Primavera, stands for the season of spring in a few languages, spring being the connector between the ice of Winter and the heat of Summer
 * The name of Stefan's weapon, Adversa Temporum, means Opposing Seaons, once again explaining his fighting style
 * When Stefan takes naps when not in his room, he typically uses his tail as a pillow
 * Every now and again Stefan has been known to spontaneously burst into song and dance
 * Despite the usefullness of his bandoliers of vials, Stefan thinks they make him look too much like a trigger-happy lunatic