Liath Azure

"What's the point! This is Beacon, everyone here has their own tragic story to tell! We are all broken. All damaged in some BS way. So for the love of god, don't use that as justification for your actions!"

- Liath Azure during an argument with a classmate.

Appearance
In appearance, Liath has short, spiky hair brown in colour and his eyes are dark blue. Despite not being as strong as some of the other males, he is still in very good shape and stronger than most regular guys.

By ways of clothing, Liath doesn't own much, opting for simplicity and function over swathes of fine clothing. Conforming to this, he wears a short sleeved dark blue jacket with white fur lining, a simple black t-shirt underneath, along with baggy grey trousers tucked into shin-high combat boots. Whilst being right-handed, his scabbard also hangs from his right hip.

The shins of the boots are reinforced with a thin metal plate for added protection that are emblazoned with his emblem, apart from this, Liath wears no armour.

There is a trio of scar dots on the back his left hand, these were caused by a malfunction with one of the first changes he made to his fathers gauntlet and are almost always hidden beneath the gauntlet itself

Biography
Liath was raised on Patch by his father; an ex-hunter called Cathac who had became a dust merchant. From a young age, Cathac taught Liath about the mysteries of dust and the ways of combat, although he hoped he would never have to use the latter. Imagine Cathac's joy when he learned that Liath wanted to be "Just like daddy" and become a hunter.

Years past, and Liath never shook from his choice. He wanted to be a hunter, the best hunter, no matter how much it took. It certainly took a lot for Cathac to accept his sons choice, and when he did, he gave Liath his most prized possesion; his one remaining weapon: Klo. Starting at Signal was the first of many steps Liath wanted to take along his road. He quickly proved himself as one of the best weaponsmiths in his class, perhaps even his year, despite his fondness of simplicity.

A year passed and Liath contiued to do well, scoring ninety out of a hundred or upwards on many of his tests, also scoring well in combat class thanks to his fathers tutoring. Cathac, seeing the success of his son, decided it was time to get back out into the world, and so he left. Disappearing off on an adventure all around Remnant. His parting words to his son were those of inspiration. He urged Liath to continue chasing his dream, to never give up on it, and to never ever leave those close to him get away.

They stuck with him for two years, those words, especially the last part. It made Liath wonder if Cathac had been talking about his mother. While her identity and whereabouts were certainly a mystery, he knew that Cathac must of loved her very much, he had certainly seemed sadder whenever Liath asked about her. But he never got the chance to ask him again after he left.

Liath learned that Cathac had gone missing shortly after landing in one of the eastern Havens.

Liath truged on. His grades began to fall. Sharply. He became unsociable, angry, forcing his friends away from him. Liath even went so far as to hurt one of the few people who meant the world to him.

Half a year passed and Liaths grades were on the rise, steadily increasing back to their previous best. What didn't change was the amount of company he kept. His closest friends, who had stuck with him despite how much he had tried to push them away, were all he had left. Most of them didn't have the drive Liath had to continue, using the qualifications they had gained at Signal to get well paying and prostegious jobs in the civilian world. The thing is, Liath was angry. Furious at his father for leaving him with so many unanswered questions about the woman who had birthed him. He kept it hidden, his rage, only allowing it to seep through when he fought, to help relieve some of the ever building pressure that was behind his calm and cheerful mask.

He finished his time at Signal with new purpose: To become a hunter and do precisely that. But it wasn't Grimm he desired to hunt, it was his father, and his answers.

Beacon, and the new friends he made there, were going to see him through it.

Personality
"Of course I think it'll work!...Okay, don't quote me on that..."

- Liath Azure to a concerned friend shortly before testing an uprgrade on his gear.

Liath is a confident and smart guy. This being said, when it comes to testing out modifications he's made to his gear, he makes sure that he says nothing that could come back to bite him. He likes the company of his friends - who he is extremely loyal too, regadless of how long he's known them - over being alone, but prefers to be when he's working or studying. He's a calm individual, almost never loosing his temper with even the most challenging of people. The only people he has been seen to get angry with are bullies, with them also being the one group that he will start a fight with regardless of the situation and with very little warning too.

He's usually cheerful and kind, but every couple of months for a few days, he will go through a period of melancholy. During this time he speaks very little and prefers his own company to that of others, secluding himself to a rooftop or somewhere with the forests surrounding Beacon.

During combat, Liath has been seen to go slightly animalistic, cleaving through foe's with a feral snarl etched across his features.

He's not been good at making new friends ever since his father went missing, but when he's with the few friends he has these days, he's practically a normal teenager.

Klo
Klo is one of a set of two gauntlets designed and built by Cathac Azure. After accepting his sons decision to become a hunter, Cathac gave it to him as a gift.

Klo was little more than a modified steel gauntlet and was designed to act as a slashing weapon, the fingers tapered into sharp points in order to achieve this. However, over the years, Liath modified it further. In it's current iteration, the fingers - still sharp - can be locked in place to allow for a dead mans grip. Also, a socket for a cut dust crystal has been made in the back to make a few ranged attacks and a couple of defensive options available.

Dente
Dente is Liaths own weapon, and was designed to work somewhat in tandem with his fathers gauntlet. It is little more that a wide bladed gladius but - while having no transformations - it is more than enough in his hands. It's made of steel with the handle tightly wrapped in a single strip of leather. Near the base of the blade on the backhand side is his fathers emblem; The Azure Cross

Combat
While Liath isn't the strongest, nor the best fighter, those who have underestimated him have soon come to regret it.

Whilst far from a master, he has become adept in both for and backhand swordsmanship with Dente, allowing him to switch smoothly between the two styles even in the middle of a fight, also enabling to have the scabbard on his right instead of his left.

Liath is relentless, not skipping a beat between the stabs and slashes he aims towards his opponents. This - and the fact that he has a talent for switching targets and between ranged and close combat attacks - means that he is in his prime if fighting within a group of enemies, be them Grimm, Human, or Faunus. However, his tendancy to launch himself into the fray at the drop of a hat means that he works better acting independent from the rest of his team.

On the defensive side of things, his weapons are not built for defense, nor does he wear any additional protective gear, meaning that - apart from his aura - he is very vulnerable to damage.

Specialisation
While having far from mastered either art, Liath is an avid learner when it comes to weapons, dust, and the use of both.

From a young age, Cathac taught him about dust and its many applications. However, he didn't teach Liath all he new, telling the disheartened boy that he had plenty to learn and should discover the mysteries himself. His still growing knowledge of dust does mean that Klo sometimes backfires, along with the many tests and dust-based modifications he makes to it.

Then, when he started at Signal, he was introduced to the art of weapons craft and maintenance. Despite fostering a like for the beauty of simplicity, Liath also designed a number of complex weapons and gadgets during his time at Signal. By the end of his time there, he was one of the best in his class at it.

Aura and Semblance
Liaths aura - much like his eyes - is dark blue. Currently his semblance is unknown, but it is suspected to be linked with his ferality in combat.

Misc

 * Agile
 * Intelligent
 * Observant

Trivia

 * He is in no way related to Della Azure
 * His name - Liath - is gaelic for blue