Jet Lignite





Appearance Jet is a caucasian male who appears as a very calm and innocent individual. He has short hair and bangs swept to his left. Furthermore he has an average build and tends to slouch a lot. He has very dark brown eyes and and black hair. Jet has notable burn scars on both his arms and hands from misusing dust at a young age.

Jet wears usually wears a grey hoodie with black sleeves along with pauldrons on both his shoulders. He tends to wear regular blue jeans along with knee pads over top. Jet always wears black fingerless gloves to cover up the scars from when he was younger. In addition to covering up his scars the gloves act as a surface for his weapon Shell Shock to attach to for easier carrying. In addition, he wears a black belt along his waist with several pouches full of dust attached. Moreover he is rarely without his necklace which holds a fang from the first creature of Grimm he took down, a Beowolf.

Personality
Jet is a happy-go-lucky person, who just loves to have fun with his team and fellow classmates. He is always calm, caring and willing to help others. Although Jet dislikes being the center of attention, he is very charismatic, often rallying his teammates together in times of trouble or distress. He is very open-minded when it comes to others, and is sympathetic with the struggles of the Faunas, although conflicted as to whether the armed conflict is necessary for the progress of their cause. He is nicknamed “The Shield” by his friends on account of his protective nature, often caring more about others than himself. Despite the fact that he is friendly and talkative with everyone he meets, he has a great degree of difficulty with speaking to girls excluding those that are in his team



In battle, Jet acts as a strong leader for his team, calling out orders and weaknesses he finds on opponents. He is often in the front taking blows for his fellow team members and pushing forward tactically with his teams behind him. However, whenever his team encounters an especially difficult enemy, he will go all out to try and take down the opponent, often refusing to leave the battle until the enemy is taken down. Jet, although a calm person by nature, when angered is not someone to mess with, usually exploding with his rage aimed at anyone and everyone nearby.

Weapons and Abilities
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jet’s weapon Shell Shock  is best described through its three distinct “forms”.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jet possess excellent eyesight, which greatly aids in his ability to find weaknesses in his opponents. Furthermore he is able to sustain a large amount of hits without so much as flinching. Although he is able to sustain large amounts of damage, Jet is greatly lacking in finesse when it comes to attacking and has a hard time dodging attacks.

<span style="font-size:20px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Backstory
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jet Lignite was born to Willow and Cole Lignite, in a small rural village far North of the city of Vale. Jet’s father was a local hunter who helped to protect the citizens of the village from creatures of Grimm. Growing up, his mother often told him stories of how his father would go out  to protect the town’s people from creatures of Grimm that would threaten attack. This subsequently sparked Jet’s interest in becoming a hunter following in his father’s footsteps.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">By the age of six, Jet was helping his father maintain the gear he would use for combat against creatures of Grimm. At seven he would accompany his father, and observe him as he fought creatures of Grimm, observing carefully in order to find weaknesses. When Jet was eight, he was carelessly refilling his father’s tools with dust, when it exploded in his hands leaving his hands and arms with burn scars. Following the incident Jet’s mother and father decided that they would not allow him to become a hunter. Despite this Jet would often sneak out and train himself in secret.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">At twelve years old, Jet met a young boy named Rusty who wanted to become a weaponsmith for hunters and huntresses. The two became quick friends, and through the time they spent together decided to they would sneak off to go to the the city of Vale and become legendary hunters. When the boys were fifteen, they had created their weapons to combat the creatures of Grimm at a blacksmith one town over. At seventeen the pair ran away from home with their gear and supplies making their way south to the city of Vale. Along the way the pair ran into a pack of Beowolves attacking a group of travelers, which they dispatched quickly succeeding with only minor injuries. Upon the victory Jet took a fang from one of the Beowolves and decided to keep it to remember the first of many creatures of Grimm he would defeat. The travelers that they had saved were coincidentally on their way to Vale to trade some goods and offered to travel together, the pair happily accepted.

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Upon arriving at the city of Vale, Jet and Rusty applied at Beacon, and with the help of the travelers they had saved, were both accepted. Following a successful initiation, Jet became a leader, teaming up once again with his friend Rusty, a female faunus named Pearl and a female human named Sienna.