Naan Cordivan

"Well... that was pointless!"

- Naan

Appearance
Naan is a slender and fit young man, dressed in a form-fitting light brown body suit, the collar popped up and the tab of the zipper is a charm in the shape of his symbol. He wears thigh-high high heeled boots, with golden accents. He is a dog faunus, and has very pronounced pointed ears, as well as a curly fluffy tail. He has blond hair, which he keeps very well maintained, but keeps the left side of his face covered by a thick amount of his bangs.

Personality
Flamboyant and Shameless, Naan is a flirt above anything else. He is playful and childish, and loves to push people’s buttons, even if they’re a complete stranger or his closest friend. He is a shameless flirt, and doesn’t distract himself with “trivial” things like gender. Despite being biologically male, he finds the very concept of “only being one gender” to be boring and dull, and prefers not to limit himself to presenting like a “man” or a “woman”.

While his actions and mannerism take most people for a loop, he wouldn’t have it any other way. His greatest joy comes from leaving people in shock, and being stared at when he walks away. While it would be wrong to call him an “Attention-Whore”, there’s no doubt that the attention of others (good or bad) is what drives him.

History
Born into a set of incredibly bad circumstances, Naan was placed in an orphanage soon after he could walk and speak. He was thrust into a foster care system, and thrown from house to house who didn’t want to take care of a scrappy faunus brat. Eventually, like so many others in similar situations, he left his foster home to live off the streets when he was 12 surviving off a life of petty crime, before eventually becoming a fringe member of the White Fang. He was never officially recruited, and his association was in name only, as his assumed duties usually involved exchanging information about targets and shops in exchange for food and whatever change inducted members had in their pockets.

However, when given the opportunity to become a full fledged member, Naan gracefully “chickened out”. After a long catharsis, he decided the best way to get himself out of poverty would be to try and make a proper life for himself. His (hopefully) final illegal act was forging his identity papers so that he could be admitted in a combat school under the fake last name Cordivan.

Weapon
An enthusiast for giving nicknames, Naan has affectionately named his Dual Katar Submachine Guns (DKSG) “Smith and Carter”. A gift from his former white fang buddies under the name Venomfang, Naan has given them his own personal touch, including giving them a fancy paint job and classy leather grips. Smith and Carter are dual heavy-duty pistols, and their secondary from retreats the barrel back and snaps up a sharp katar blade, good for stabbing, slashing and general mayhem.

Abilities
Naan is a generally well rounded fighter, preferring to wear enemies down with consistent, drawn out attacks, than trying to overwhelm them with a shocking blow. He is more than capable of keeping humanoid foes busy with several attacks, and keeping the creatures of Grim dazed and confused with blinding speed.

His semblance is Maha Devi, allowing him to “repeat” a single slash or attack up to three times. Each repetition grows weaker but faster, giving him the appearance of having multiple arms at once. Each hit starts and ends at a certain point and then fades, giving him the opportunity to land multiple successive hits on a target, especially effective against large, slow moving enemies, yet not so much on quick moving foes that can easily dodge them.

Relationships

 * Saffron Hazar Nafsan: As Naan's partner and leader, Saffron is the only voice of authority that Naan will listen to, within reason. Naan appreciates Saffron for simply tolerating his actions and giving him freedom to make his own decisions independent of her strategies. The fact that Saffron isn't really that fun to bother makes their relationship more tolerable than his relationship with Slate.
 * Slate Greaves: Slate and Naan have come to a very simple agreement: Naan stays out of Slate's way, and Slate doesn't bash Naan's head in. Unfortunately for Slate, Naan takes his own liberties with the "stay out of his way" part. Naan has taken a liking to annoying the hell out of his teammate, pushing his buttons in ways that only he knows how. Ironically, the pair should work well together, but due to personal issues and the fact that Naan is a total ass, pairing them up alone would be the worst mistake anyone could make.
 * Tango Rosei: Naan and Tango have a very steady bond, which stems from the fact that Tango is almost entirely immune to his flirting. Even more surprising, she flirts right back at him. The two have bonded more over their similar interest in fashion and fun, and while the two of them flirt with each other often, they are more than content with being best friends. At least for now.

Trivia

 * Naan is loosely based off of the story of the Hindu Dog Goddess Sarama’s son.
 * A story from the Ramayana, an epic Sanskrit poem goes that a wealthy king and his brothers came across a dog, and beat the dog for fun. Afterwards, the dog went to his mother, Sarama the Devi-Shuni. As a punishment, Sarama cursed the King and his family to an unknown, unseen, danger that she refused to specify when or where it would occur and the King lived in fear for the rest of his life.
 * Naan's name refers to naan, an unleavened flatbread in South Asian cuisine. His last name Cordivan comes from cordovan shell leather, from Cordova, Spain.