Liath Grayzier

""People are a lot like the weather. there's always a pattern, but you never really know what's going to come next""

Appearance
Christoph is naturally well built but has focused on being agile so doesn't have a big muscular appearance, yet he isn't skinny. He has strong legs due to martial arts. Christoph has dark grey spiky hair pulled back a little with a fringe at the front, and has slight black stubble. He has a Pendant of a lightning bolt around his neck that his mother gave him as a gift when he was born.

On his right shoulder and extending down just above his tricep is a piece of steel scapula shoulder armour he won at a martial art tournament once for coming 2nd. He wears a black t-shirt with grey lines at the sides. On the front of the shirt in the centre is a white cloud with a lightning bolt, striking an unknown creature of Grimm. He wears dark grey combat trousers (pants) with a brown lining around the pockets and bottom of the trousers/pants.

Christoph wears dark brown shoes with yellow stripes around the back of the shoes. On his left forearm he has a silver bracelet covering three quarters of his forearm. On the bottom of the bracelet is a glass compartment with a yellow dust crystal inside with the ability of lightning, which was given to him as a gift by Samuel Jord, now a close friend and team member. His weapon goes in two sword sheathes on his back, one straight sheathe going just behind his right shoulder, and another horizontal sheathe going horizontally across his back with the opening of his sheathe on the left side.

Personality
Christoph is well mannered and serious when meeting most strangers. He likes to talk to people, although will not often actively seek conversation, unless it’s with his close friends. With his close friends or people he enjoys being with he opens up more, and likes to use friendly sarcasm, along with bad jokes, much to his friend’s annoyance. To most people he is considered a happy person, as he always tries to look at the positives, and, due to having a bad childhood, relishes in the good things that come his way, although he can never really escape his past, so at times he can be cold and calculating. This is shown when fighting. If he has to kill, he will, and not think twice about it. He is ruthless when it comes to fighting, always determined to win no matter who it is he is facing.

He works hard at the things he wants to do, a trait he picked up from his parents, but is laid back whenever he doesn’t really want to do something. People mistake this often as Christoph being lazy, so find it hard to take him seriously at times. He judges people quite quickly, not from their appearance but from what their first sentence is. When he see's someone who has something good, and abuses it or doesn't realize what they actually have, he becomes frustrated with them, and struggles to understand why they act like they do when they have something good. He is relatively stubborn and likes to argue about almost anything, especially when it relates to history.

He has no bias towards human or Faunus, as he believes a person is a person, regardless how they look. He takes honour seriously. He enjoys looking at the weather and believes people’s feelings and emotions change as much as the weather and anyone who acts similar all the time is lying about their true self to people. He likes to read about history, and finds it fascinating that history always seems to repeat itself, even though it’s slightly different every time. Christoph has a big love of swords, and will want to stare intently at any sword he see’s. He doesn’t really care about money and only carries what he needs to survive. Any money left over goes to the orphanage he grew up in.

Backstory
Christoph grew up in a small, poor village just on the outskirts of the kingdom of Haven, with his mother, Rachael bloom and his father, David Grayzier. His mother worked in a shop selling food, while his father was a blacksmith. They made little money but believed in hard work. At a young age Christoph enjoyed watching his dad creating items. He always wanted his dad to create a sword but his dad never created weapons, as he hated warfare and thought if his son would see them he would get ideas to go on a grand adventure and then get himself killed.

At the age of 8, his father was coming home from work one afternoon when he fainted suddenly. After some people came to help him they got him to the local doctor, and informed Rachael. The doctor diagnosed it as a strong fever, one which he would not recover from. 3 days later, he died. Rachael, unable to bare the pain and grief, went into a nearby forest and never returned. A few villagers went to look for her in the forest but they found nothing. The village decided Christoph should be sent to a nearby orphanage outside the village, as, while most of the families in the village were decent people they could not afford to feed an extra mouth. Christoph, much to the villager’s surprise, agreed. All he saw now in this village was death, so his departure what not a problem for him.

While at the orphanage, Christoph did not make many friends, as he was still distraught by what had happened and found it hard to smile and talk to the kids. One day, the orphanage had a visitor. His name was Yinlos winter, a master in martial arts. He was invited to talk about martial arts to try and get some of the kids to try and channel their emotions and showed some of the kids some basics. He then put on a quick, special demonstration, using a sword. Christoph was intrigued, and for the first time since his parents’ death, smiled. After showing Christoph some of the basics, Yinlos was impressed with his passion and saw some drive in his eyes that he has not seen for ages. From then on Christoph practiced at Yinlos' dojo while still living at the orphanage. When Christoph reached the age of 13, while at the orphanage, he saw 3 boys around the same age as him picking on a young girl, who looked to be about 8 years old. Thinking she had been through enough pain already he told the boys to stop, but instead they turned on him. Using his martial art skills he managed to take them down and so they decided it wasn’t worth the effort and walked off. Upon seeing the girl clearly he discovered she was a Faunus, called Jade Ricks. The two of them became close and became like brother and sister throughout their time there. The boys who were picking on Jade regularly came back, in force, and Christoph always tried to protect her. He often lost more times then he won, but that only strengthened his resolve to become better at martial arts.

When Christoph reached the age of 14 Yinlos decided it was time for him to participate in a few martial arts tournaments held across the four kingdoms. He regularly participated and always managed to get no lower than 5th place in each tournament he went into. When he reached 17 he was approached by a man at one of the tournaments who said he was a scout for the academy of hunters and huntresses in haven, and, seeing that Christoph had potential, invited him to participate in the entrance exam. Christoph never really thought about being a hunter until this time, but decided to accept. He realised if he could become a hunter he might be able to help people, and hopefully make a better life for both him and Jade. He always heard about the stories of the kids in the orphanage, with their families being killed by grim monsters or bandits and thought he may be able to, one day, make sure at least one child would keep their family. He passed the entrance exam, although he broke his right wrist while doing so. He was put into a team with Ray Chargis, Oliver greenwood and Samuel Jord to form team ROCS. He is currently in his first year, getting used to the team and the environment.

Weapons and Abilities
Christoph possesses two double edged swords that connect together. He made it himself at 16 in the smithy his father used to work in, the only time he ever went back to the village. One sword represents his mother, the other his father, yet they only have one name: Grey tempest. The pommels of the swords each have a small nock that can be put together and then twisted to lock both swords into place to become a double bladed sword. The blades are dark grey, the handle mixed yellow and black, and the guard is relatively small, designed as a small black flower with petals sticking up slightly. Christoph learnt martial arts at 9 years old to channel his emotions, advance and protect himself and others, and so he could use a sword. He became good with both staff and sword, so created a weapon by combining the two.

His master taught him water, circle, lightning, a style involving agile spinning movements, Water, being the person or beast, Circle, moving around the opponent and lightning, being quick in your attack. He uses water, circle, lightning with his weapon, moving fast in circular motions. Christoph has three ways of attack with his Grey tempest. He uses the double bladed sword for multiple, weaker enemies, spinning his weapon fast. He uses double swords for slower enemies or who only have one weapon and uses quick slashing and jumping motions. Finally, he uses a single sword for more precise cutting, single combat or when there is a stronger opponent.

Christoph uses his lightning dust in difficult situations or when facing robotics or high tech guns. It shoots a sharp straight bolt of lightning out of the bracelet, but only uses a slight amount of dust, stunning the target. He can use the whole stone causing a large outburst of lightning; however he uses the dust rarely as he doesn’t have a lot of money and would rather spend money on better things. Christoph has a strong aura, due to honing his martial arts and is used mainly in sensing enemies. However, he has yet to unlock any semblance.

Strengths
Christoph is strong, agile, attacks fast, and uses grey tempest to good efficiency. Due to his spinning motion it is hard to predict his attacks, and as he has strong legs he doesn’t tire easily in his lower body. He has a good amount of stamina, as his training involved a lot of endurance and his weapon is relatively light weight. Christoph is strongest in close combat, and so uses his agility to get up close.

Weaknesses
Christoph’s weapon, while in the double bladed form, takes its toll on Christoph’s stamina and is quite hard to use, as its relatively long and, unlike a staff, if he hits himself he will most likely end up cutting himself. He is nearly useless in mid to long range combat, as his expertise is a melee weapon plus martial arts. The only thing he can do is use his dust bracelet or throw his weapon, but this of course, renders him weapon-less. Also, while he enjoys working as a team, he finds it easier to fight when his team isn't around him; something that he is trying to improve on.