Tom Lavi

Tom Lavi is a fanmade character created by DuckWaffle. He is a man living in Vacuo, he works as a vigilante trying to stop people from killing each other.

Apperance
Tom is a young man with brown hair, part of his fringe is nearly covering his right eye. He is relatively short & has red eyes. He has a light amount of facial hair covering the lowe side of his face. He wears a red & orange coat with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows over a grey collared shirt with a light red undershirt. He also has a necklace with a blue gem embedded in it. He wears dark gray pants with black leather boots. Around his torso he wears a harness which he uses to hold his sword.

Personality
Tom has good a jokey personality, often making puns & sarcastice comments much to the dismay of the people around him, although he is known to be serious when the situation calls for it. He enjoys fighting & respects his foes, but he shows no mercy to criminals. He has been known to not work with others as can be seen where he opted out of working with a team or partner.

Abilities & Powers
Tom is a skilled fighter, being able to defeat large creatures of Grimm by himself with ease, & being able to best ex-huntsmen/huntresses. This is due to him being raised by his parents who were both Huntsmen/Huntresses up until the age of 16, where his parents died. After that he's lived his life as a hero in Vacuo, protecting those who can't protect themselves.

Weapon
Tom weilds two weapons. His primary weapon is a sword which folds into itself, allowing it to change sizes form a dagger to a longsword. His secondary weapon is a flintlock pistol with a metal plate on the bottom of the barrel, he uses this to hit people with the pistol & to block attacks. He can weild his sword with one hand and even use it to block projectiles from other weapons. His fighting style involves dueling with his sword and using his pistol to fire from long range & to whack people at close range.

His flintlock can use both regular & dust ammunition, but can only fire 8 shots before being reloaded. He doesn't tend to use dust ammo often as he has a tendency to jam his gun, but when he does he mainly uses fire dust.

Semblance
Tom's semblance is the ability to produce energy sheilds with the ability to block incoming attacks. He rarely uses this as he tries to keep it a secret & only uses it when he absolutely has to. His sheilds have a transparent red colour to them, the same colour of his aura. He can create sheilds of difference sizes but the larger the sheild the more energy it takes out of him. Hand sizes sheilds he can easiliy create wihout using much energy, but creating larger ones can cause him to drain his energy or even incapacite himselves in fights. The largest sheild he can create without majorly straining himself is one that covers one side of his body, but mainting a shield that size for long periods does slowly drain him.

History
Tom was born in Vacuo to a huntsman & huntress, due to this he was trained from a young age volountarily to become a huntress. At the age of 16 his parents were killed by a group of criminals known as "The Dust Gauntlet." Because of this he decided to become a huntsman, he was going to study at Beacon Academy (as he didn't trust how lawful Shade Academy's law  system worked) but after the fall of Beacon he became scared of becoming a huntsman. After this he decided to help out around Vacuo as a hero to try to restore order. He spent a lot of his time stopping robberies, catching murderers & lowering crime as much as one man could, until he found evidence of The Dust Gauntlet gang's link to these crimes,  and since then he's dedicated his life to stopping them.

Trivia

 * Tom's name alludes to shades or orange/red.
 * His first name Tom refers to the colour Tomato which is a shade of orange-red.
 * His last name Lavi refers to Lava, which is considered to be orange or red