Dusk Obsidian

                                            "People aren't my specialty, mortars are, so tread carefully" 

-Dusk upon meeting his team

Dusk Obsidian is a member of team DDLN and is the artillery of the bunch. He does this with his mortar he calls 'Skybreaker'.

Appearance
Dusk is an African American with brown eyes, black hair and is the tallest out of his team. He possesses some muscle tone in his legs and arms.

From chest down, he wears gray colored, leather style, lancer armor. He black boots extend to his knee while his gray pants tuck into them. His sleeves are black as well as his trademark scarf. His scarf was made by his mother to protect him from the numerous sandstorms that hit their village.

Personality
Dusk can be described as cold and distant upon first glance. In reality, he's caring, but doesn't want to get close to anyone he could lose. This can be traced to his past when his best friend died while on a mission with him. As a result, this causes him to have an almost hostile reaction to any new person he meets. If someone does become his friend, however, he will do whatever it takes to keep them alive.

He is vengeful and easy to annoy as well. He holds onto grudges often and will usually retaliate immediately. This happens when he hears his teammates fighting or someone he knows acts like a hotshot. In these situations, he kicks the guilty parties(or party) in the back, which usually sends them flying.

Dusk loves working with his mortar and will spend hours at an artillery range unleashing constant barrages on targets. He loves making new rounds as well and will try many different chemical combinations to get a new product. Because of this, he is very savvy in the chemistry field.

He love life is virtually non existent as girls have never been his specialty. To him, that is one hill he isn't willing to scale yet.

Dusk's biggest fear comes from being left alone, despite being the one to shove as many people away as possible. Isolation drives him crazy and he will work with just about anyone to not be alone.

When it comes to rules, Dusk will mostly follow them. He understands the importance of rules, but he also knows that sometimes they need to be broken. This mentality has gotten him into trouble before, but it's also got him out of it.

As the oldest member of the team, he feels he needs to be a role model for the the team, but he himself has a lot of learning to go. And with his team of consisted of entirely different people, he learns not only about himself, but about what being a team actually is.

Background
Dusk was, as his name implies, born at sunset. Now, being born in a remote village in Vacuo possesses some challenges. The numerous sandstorms rendered it impossible to do basically everything, so he studied chemicals inside. At daybreak, even in a sandstorm, Dusk wandered in the area surrounding the village. As a result, he became very used to harsh living conditions.

His family specializes in scavenging and will constantly take trips to find precious goods. On one of these trips, they encountered a wealthy weapons merchant who was with his son, selling weapons. This boy and Dusk quickly became friends as their parents talked. The boy was named Nerodia and he explained that his father were heading to Vale. Nerodia offered him a place to hangout if Dusk ever finds himself in Vale. After handing Dusk a business card, the two traveled back to Vale. Later, Dusk heard through a messenger that Nerodia's family was wiped out, and only he survived. Though Dusk wanted to support him, he could never make the journey alone. He was not used to battling anything yet. He would just die trying. So, he sent a letter to Nero and resumed with life.

As an only child to two huntresses, he was 'encouraged' to train as soon as he could wield a weapon. Until then, he was taught how to counter most types of melee attacks. At the age of ten, he received his mortar he called Skybreaker. Though his parents preferred that he use the pike transformation, he focused on the using the mortar. This presented a problem as his parents specialized in close range combat and knew little about artillery. As Dusk mastered his mortar, hitting targets in almost all conditions, he began to struggle in close range. Luckily, he met a boy named Cyan whom he quickly befriended. The two would hang out for multiple days in a row, sparring and testing out mortar shells outside the village. Because of Cyan, Dusk was able to use his pike effectively, learn strike patterns of an opponent, and hit targets at long range while only missing a few times.

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