Tai Lucian Lefebrve

"If there's only one person you wish to protect, you must be cruel enough to get rid of everything else because no one can get back what the both of you lost."

- Tai

Taison 'Tai' Lucian Lefebrve is an original character created by RWBY Ruby Rose. He is a member of Team MLIT and alluded to the Mad Hatter.

Appearance
Taison is a slender, young man that has short, somewhat messy white hair with red highlights, slightly tanned complexion and blood red eyes. He also parts his hair to the left to show a difference between himself from his twin brother. His combat gear can be seen like a card dealer's standard attire with his own twist to be functional in combat.

His combat gear is a mix of reds and cream with some black and blue. It includes a cream vest with dark red lining, buttons and a set of coattails in the back. Underneath the vest, he wears a red long sleeve cardigan with dark red diamond design on the cuffs and a design on both sides of his vest. Usually he is seen with them as long sleeves or rolled up to the bottom of his elbows. For the bottoms, he wears dark red capris with red diamond design on the bottom of the pant legs. He also wears a pair of matching boots with cream lining and soles. There is also a dark red diamond design around the ankle of the boots. As for his accessories, he wears a blue bowtie with his emblem in red on the center, a red fedora with a cream band and black holsters for his weapons that can be seen strapped on the belt of the pants. There is also an ace of diamonds card tucked in the band on the side of his fedora. Nobody knows why that is.

Tai's nightwear consists of a dark red V-neck shirt with dark red lining on the sleeves and the bottom of the shirt and also a dark red diamond like design on the V-neck. The design on the shirt contains four cards with one of each suit lined up at a curve on the center of the chest. He also wears a pair of cream Bermuda shorts with dark red lining.

Personality
On the outside, Tai is usually seen as a humorous gentlemen. He is charasmatic and quite a sociopath since he always start up conversations with other people. He can be seen as a comedian since he always creates jokes to make his teammates and friends laugh which usually works. However, he can get mischevious and cause trouble when it comes to teasing people (especially Miyuki) and pranks which can cause fights with his team and friends. He does well in theory classes and mechanics, though he sometimes goofs off or falls asleep but he makes up for it with his great memory along with his expertise in weaponery. Though this is just one side of him.

The other is serious and sinister, which can lead him to insanity. Although he doesn't show it, he is over protective of his allies and even his team. He will go out of his way to protect them to prevent them from getting hurt. When he gets mad (which is rare), he would find himself in an irrational state and in rage with his aura rising until one of his teammates or friends calm him down. if he does go in a rage, he will only injure the person, not kill them. Though he takes medication to keep himself from beating anyone severely. Though he will apologize for his behavior when he calms down. Because of this, he is afraid of injuring his friends.

Overall, he would a person to be an ally with instead of an enemy.

Biography/ History
Taison was born into a family with a twin brother and a younger sister. Throughout his childhood, he would walk throughout the streets to gamble on games like the shell game to get some more money since he didn't get an allowance and he would share it with his siblings. To everyone, he was a very imaginative child that was living in his own imaginary reality.

He was actually diagnosed with Schizophrenia at the age of 12 because of the multiple symptoms that he displayed in his childhood with living in his own reality and having quite a few hallucinations and delusions. After a few months of taking the medication after he was diagnosed, his father decided to teach about weaponery and mechanics along with card games. He became a great card player and went into card dealing which lead him to get a part time job as a card dealer in one of the clubs in the city.

While he was in a combat school (unnamed at the moment)), he created a unique weapon that could use not only just bullets, but also cards to combine the two things he loves: mechanics and cards. he came up with a dust card gun (Queen's Demise) and a collapsible rifle (King's Victory) that transform into a card sniper rifle called Checkmate. He excelled in long range combat and shooting accuracy while he attended along with learning more about dust so he could use it with his weapons. After he he graduated, he applied to Beacon Academy and got accepted. He used the money that he obtained from card dealing to acquire enough money to pay for what he needed.

In Combat
Weapons: 

Taison's weapons are a collapsible rifle that is called King's Victory and a dust card gun that is called Queen's Demise that combine into a card sniper rifle called Checkmate.

Abilities:

In combat, Tai can fight close-mid range however, he is primarily a long range sniper since he is more skilled with long range accuracy. With his sniping skills, keen eyesight and his sharp reflexes, he can quite helpful at disarming and knocking out the enemy far away.

He holds onto three decks of cards on his belt along with three magazines for both of his weapons. Thanks to his weapons, they can fire off multiple shots over a few seconds like 10 using Queen's Demise 10 using King's Victory and 15 for Checkmate all with a cool off time of 10 seconds per time.

If he ever finds himself in close range, he focuses on speed and he uses King's Victory (melee his rifle like a staff) to defend himself from some physical attacks. If that fails, he uses Queen's Demise to shoot dust infused cards at his enemies. Though he is only a novice at hand to hand combat so he can't afford to get disarmed.

Aura: He is surrounded by Red Aura. It provides protection, slight healing and sharpened senses. Though he usually uses it to shield himself from harm rather than healing.

Semblance: Unknown

Trivia
-His full name translates to "The Firebrand Light Craftsman since Tai is short for his first name, Taison, which is another way to spell Tyson and it means firebrand (burning wood like fire) in English that derives from Old French. ((1)) and fire refers to red with yellow which fits Monty's color rules. Also, Lucian means 'light' in Latin ((1)), and Lefebrve means 'Craftsman' in English.

-He loves to play chess in his spare time along with card games.

-He also loves to drink tea and eat sweets. Sometimes, he carries candy with him to eat.