Linden Newman

Appearance
Linden is a slender boy standing at around 1,80 meters. He has green eyes, a pale skin and black hair.

Linden's main outfit is composed of a plain green shirt with short sleeves, a black, long-sleeved shirt underneath black jeans with diagonal green stripes on the front of his upper legs. He finishes this outfit with a black/green plaid square scarf around his neck while he also has a similar one around his pants worn as a belt. His weapon is allways carried on his back

Backstory
Linden has had an average life, untill at the age of 10 years when he was diagnosed with a dangerous dissease that would kill him in about 20 years. In this same talk he had the chance to treat it and live longer but he'd have to go through a specific type of treatment that'd significantly weaken him to the point of not being able to do anything worthwhile. He chose not to have his illness treated and start working on his bucket list as when treated he wouldn't be able to do any of this anyway. One day he went to a concert that would eventually turn into a warzone as the white fang used this group of people as hostages to ask for more agreeable conditions of coexistance between human and faunus alike. As the hostages didn't do anything out of fear of getting shot, Linden realised that getting shot by terrorists while trying to save people was a better death than his disease, stood up and started to make his way to their leader. After reaching him he eventually managed to negotiate the release of the hostages by both threatening and talking to the leader of the white fang. Eventually he decided that anything that could ever kill him, as long as it meant giving other human beings the tiniest chance to be safe, it'd be a better way of passing as his disease. It wasn't long before he decided to be a huntsman and joined beacon accademy.

Personality
Linden is a nice person, allways happy to help, be it fightning grimm or making diner. He has a great sense of humor and is also able to laugh at any jokes on behalf of his condition and retord should they be used offensively. His humor is also his first tool to lighten any stressfull mood

His greatest fear would be dying without leaving a mark in the world and as a result he attempts to be the best at whatever he does. He does also expect the same things of his peers and will get enraged when they do not, often remarking how they've been given all this time yet chose to waste it.

Weapons and combat
The longhammer would be Linden's weapon of choice, it is both a rifle and a warhammer.

In his rifle mode the longhammer has a hexagonal front-view and a mostly rectangular side-view with some spacing in the middle to make room for the handle. In this mode the weapon is capable of firing bursts of 5 bullets each with recoil able to propel him backwards if airborne, while also posessing an alternatife firing mode which fires explosives which bounce around untill detonated by an additional button on the gun.

In his warhammer mode, the middle section separates from the front and back parts, rotates 90º, have the front and back parts reattach and extend a telescopic handle from the middle section, while in this mode only the explosive rounds are usable and will detonate after a 1.5 second timer, while also bouncing less.

In addition to this he also uses boots with specific properties and a dust mixture to dampen explosive damage to himself so he can safely jump using his explosive charges. He greedily uses this ability to quickly relocate himself should the need arise.

Linden prefers to fight from a distance and fire at his opponent, in these situations he uses both bursts and explosives. Despite this he has no trouble with close range fighters and often assaults these with a series of spinning attacks and close range explosives. Only in case of an exceptionally powerfull enemy will he use his boots to retreat.

Semblance
Linden appopriately named his semblance "Force fields", since he can conjure barriers that cancel any force on an object that passes through it. This however isn't all there is to his force fields as any force applied to an object under the effects of a force field is greatly magnified. He uses this ability to stop opponent's bullets but also to force his explosive charges to fly in a near-straight trajectory by stopping them and then accelerating them by a burst of gunfire. another way to use this is by punishing enemies attacking from the air without a way of propelling themselves by catching them first and then sending them flying by hitting them with his weapon in warhammer form