Albus Silvermoon

Albus Silvermane is an original character based on the RWBY universe by Kyran kandosa2 for use in his Silver Moon chronicles. Albus Silvermane is a member of Team MARS.

Appearance:
Albus Silvermane has an strong jaw and chiseled features. He wears his hair in a short crew cut. This allows an observer to see the entirety of his facial scar, which runs from just above his left temple to just past his ear. His body has an solid build and well-toned muscles from years of training. He has an silver wolf tail from his Faunus heritage. His brown eyes and Aura glow silver when he uses his Semblance.

Albus's combat gear follows the informal standard of the Silver Moon Clan. He wears an olive drab shirt, grey pants, and an black belt beneath an helmet, limb armor, an olive drab knee-length trenchcoat with no sleeves, and a combat harness. The trench coat has an slit from hem to hip height to accomodate his wolf tail, and is lined with ballistics armor. He wears his personal insignia, an gear surrounding the Silvermane family symbol of an wolf standing on a rock while howling at a shattered moon, on the left side of his trenchcoat's skirt. The combat harness he wears over his trenchcoat is grey, with several front pouches and an utility belt that has hip holsters for his weapons. It also has shoulder protection in the form of pauldrons decorated with an wolf motif. His helmet covers his entire head, and the fixed visor is shaped into an wolf mask. The limb armor consists of armored boots with knee and ankle guards, chuisses for the thighs, rerebracers for the upper arms, and weaponized gauntlets. All of Albus' armor is silver with olive drab details. For sleepwear, he uses an pair of black gym shorts and an olive drab tank top with his symbol printed on the left chest. His civilian wear is the grey pants, black belt, and olive drab shirt he wears underneath his combat gear, as well as his armored boots.

MourningGale:
Weapon: Dual Dust Chakram Bucklers

Type: Ranged, Melee, Dust

Weapon Derivation: Chakram, Buckler, Wind and Fire Wheels, Gauntlets

MourningGale is an set of gauntlets with a pair of bladed discs attached. The discs, which act as small shields when mounted on the gauntlets, have cut-outs to provide handles, and may detach from the gauntlets to be held as wind and fire wheels or thrown as chakrams. The discs can be launched from the gauntlets as well. When preparing to launch, the gauntlets' mechanisms slide the discs to the wrists and spin them, allowing them to be used as cutting tools in close quarters if necessary. The gauntlets also have an revolving belt of Dust cartridges just below the elbow, loaded with different types of Dust. The Dust cartridges can channel their Dust into either the launcher or the hands. When the hands have Dust channeled into them, they can be used directly, or to charge any discs the wielder is holding. The user may combine different Dust types by charging two discs independently and then linking them by their mounting hardpoints before they are thrown, creating a more powerful blast upon impact. Albus keeps a pair of additional discs in holsters on his hips. Albus generally prefers to use MourningGale as a mid-range fighter, but it works equally well in close quarters. MourningGale's discs are meant to be manipulated in mid-flight by kinetics-based Semblances.

Semblance:
Albus' Semblance is an form of telekinesis called Velocity Control, which allows him to influence the path and force/speed of moving objects. Albus' weapon, MourningGale, requires his Semblance to be used to full effect. His Semblance is limited to affecting solid objects moving at speeds he can track, making him vulnerable to faster objects like bullets, as well as Dust and other Semblances. However, direct line of sight is unnecessary after he has locked onto the object with his Aura. The more objects he tries to affect at once, and the more mass and energy they have, the harder Albus must work to influence them. Unlike most of his family, his Semblance has no set range limit, but is effectively limited by the exponential energy costs as the distance between himself and the target object increases.

Abilities:

 * Faunus Night Vision
 * Mechanical engineering: Like his uncle, Gregory Moonfang, Albus is an gifted mechanic and weaponsmith. He spends much of his free time designing new devices on his Scroll and building them in his workshop.
 * Martial arts: Although he maintains the Silver Moon Clan's base hand-to-hand training, which is an mix of Aikido's blending into and redirection of an opponent's attacks and Jeet Kune Do's explosive movements, Albus' fighting style also draws on Baguazhang's use of circular motions and momentum. This makes him an very evasive opponent. He can use his Semblance to augment his techniques to great effect, or to control his opponent, making him the Silver Moon Clan's best melee fighter.
 * Aura Control: Like the rest of his Clan, Albus had his Aura unlocked when he was just six years old, giving him a great deal of skill in using Aura for someone his age. He is one of his Clan's best at using Aura, as his fighting style with MourningGale relies so much on his Semblance.
 * Swimming: Albus is able to swim with an moderate level of skill.
 * Survival: Though he spends most of his time indoors, Albus is still an proficient forester, with the knowledge necessary to stand an reasonable chance of surviving alone in the wilderness.
 * Massage: His family considers Albus one of the better masseurs of the Clan, second only to Bjorn Stark. This is due to his Semblance giving him a very fine sense of how to apply kinetic force.
 * Liberal Arts: Albus is an skilled artist, likely as a result of drawing out many technical blueprints and ideas for new tinkering projects. He also favors the piano and keyboard for their complexity.
 * Agility: Albus is a trained freerunner, and can use his Semblance to become the most mobile of his Clan.
 * Gardening: Like the rest of the Silver Moon Clan, Albus has enough skill in gardening to feed himself and grow medicinal plants.
 * Strategy: With an spatial and situational awareness honed by practice with his Semblance, and an strong aptitude for creative leaps and problem solving, Albus is also his Clan's best tactician and intelligence analyst. His more methodical thought process makes him less suited to off-the-cuff improvisation, however, requiring the time to take an situation in before setting to work.

Personality:
An largely solitary individual, Albus generally feels better working with machines than socializing, as it balances his seething mind with an outer calm and control. Besides his twin, Arcturus, he is closest to Bjorn, who also likes to tinker, and Balina, who shares his appreciation for solitude. His skill as a weaponsmith shows him to be very analytical and creative, in addition to being good with tools, having helped design and build most of the weapons wielded by his generation of the Clan, with only minimal input from his more experienced Uncle Gregory. He is also a good multitasker, as exemplified by his use of MourningGale. Though he tends to be quiet, he is also an wisecracker when feeling more open, an mark of the sarcastic sense of humor shared by most of his family. He also uses this as a means to conceal his emotional distance, an coping mechanism to help reduce the stress of an overactive mind. He cares little for grooming, which is why he wears his hair short. Though his reclusive habits can make him difficult to befriend, Albus will show great loyalty to those who manage to do so, like most of his Clan.

Backstory:
Albus Silvermane was born to the Grey Wolf Faunus Bernard and Columbiana Silvermane, who would alternate their work as Huntsman and Huntress respectively, in order to spend time with their children. When he and his identical twin, Arcturus, were three years old, thier younger sister Bailey was born, and thier mother's brother, Gregory Moonfang, took in the family of his recently deceased best friend and partner, the crippled ex-Huntsman Artorius Stark. An year later, the wolf Faunus twins and their stepcousins Balina and Bjorn began training together at age four. When they were six years old, their Auras were unlocked by their parents, and thier stepcousins Arctos and Orion Moonfang were born. A few months after Albus turned seven, he, along with the rest of his family, witnessed his parents' murder at the hands of a sniper, also losing his unborn sister Mackenzie in the process. Albus, his siblings, and the Moonfangs then moved in with his paternal grandparents, the former Hunters Crassus and Flora Silvermane, at the Clan orchard. It was during this time of recovery that Albus and Bjorn began to explore and bond over their interests in mechanical engineering and weaponsmithing. After beginning to attend Torch Academy, Albus built MourningGale, and was instrumental in the construction of his family's other weapons. He also barely survived the construction of these weapons, with his Semblance saving his life during the workshop accident that left him scarred. He has since applied for and been accepted into Lantern Academy, to continue his training as a Huntsman.

Trivia:

 * Albus Silvermane's first name is an reference to the Tundra Wolf, Canis Lupus Albus, while his last name references an color in the form of his family's silver hair.