Verte Orchet

Appearance
Verte appears as a young man that is slightly taller than most people. He has noticeable light brown eyes with dirty blonde hair that appears medium length and layered over.

Verte's casual attire consists of a formal kind of dresser that includes dark pants, black shoes, a vest with intricate patterns, white shirt, and a long, dark overcoat. On his tie is a brooch that contains a Dust crystal and also doubles as a family heirloom. Despite the overall appearance, it is made to be light and flexible with a very small amount of Wind Dust woven in. He wears belts and holsters on his waist and legs to carry different Dust crystals and his weapons.

Personality
Verte is a person who tends to be very observant, and therefore has excellent senses being fine tuned to his musical training. This has led him to have a taste for the old fashioned and classical as well as the new. He also has a penchant for keeping clean and is somewhat stingy towards messy or unorganized things.

Despite being portrayed as serious to most, he is very good-willed toward most people and friends and slow to anger. His humor isn't necessarily dry, but he doesn't show it that often. While taking in his surrounding, he always enjoys the peace of the moment. However, if caught off guard by something surprising or unusual, it will take a momentary lapse before he can react.

One of the things Verte cannot tolerate is mistreatment, and therefore very stern against those who do so, especially discriminatory behavior against Faunus. Some of which he is well acquainted.

Weapons and Abilities
Weapon - Verte's weapon is a Compact Dust Baton named Emeraude Siren. It can switch between knife from and baton form. The chamber for Dust is located in the middle of the weapon and can be changed out or reloaded for a different crystal. It uses a Dust crystal slowly like a battery and manifests the power via the barrel from the extended baton. This allows the weapon long range attack capabilities as well. One end is where a 7 inch knife blade deploys to be used in close range situations. The other end opens out like a telescoping baton to use for battering and bludgeon attacks.

Fighting Style - Verte's fighting style is based on action and reaction of the most appropriate moment, thus he is mainly a melee fighter. Like a tactician, he will observe the opponent through confrontation and fight based on any flaws he notices during combat. Due to his nature of observation, he can find the best spots to strike and attack thusly. His sharp reflexes allows him to dodge or counter most of his opponents attacks.

Semblance - Verte's Semblance is Awareness. Awareness allows the user to keep track of multiple targets and/or opponents and can react accordingly to their actions in real time. During the heat of battle, this increases his range of perception the longer the fight is to ultimately make him fully battlefield aware. This will last as long as his Aura does.

Backstory
Coming from a family with a long line of musical careers, Verte was raised to study the musical arts. Exhibiting such great skills, he moved on to his career towards conducting music. He showed great skills in hand-eye coordination, eidetic memory and awareness for all the actions that happened. He became a prodigy.

Ever since learning the history of the Grimm and the problems they create for people, Verte felt like he could have done something to help. After a few years thinking on this, he decided to use his talents to make a bigger difference than with just music. At the recommendation of his mother, who was a Huntress herself, he decided to attended Mistral's Haven Academy, effectively becoming the first generation in his family to become a Huntsman.

With his degree of ability, he studied hard and well, learning fast and developing his combat skills. All his musical training helped him adapt it into his combat studies and assignments.

By the time of the Vital Festival, the students of Haven Academy left for Vale with Verte being among them.

Trivia

 * The name is based on the French word, Vert which means green.
 * The overall design is based on characteristics of a musical conductor and the Phantom of the Opera.