Arcturus Silvermoon

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Arcturus Moonfang is an original character by Kyran Kandosa for his Silver Moon Chronicles fanon. He is the leader of Team MARS.

Appearance:
Arcturus has rugged features, instead of the more handsome, chiseled ones of his brother. His eyes are blue, and glow gold like his Aura when his Semblance is active. Like most of his family, his hair is silver in color, with an widow's peak. He wears his hair in an shoulder-length mullet parted down the middle. His body is stockily built, with well-sculpted muscles that are larger than average, but not excessively so. He also has an silver wolf's tail.

Arcturus, like most of his Clan's generation, has modeled his attire based on that of his parents and Uncle Gregory. As such, he wears an brown pants with an black belt and longsleeve shirt, with Phasestrider replacing the usual armored boots. For combat, he adds an sleeveless trenchcoat, combat harness, helmet, and limb armor. The trenchcoat is dark brown, knee-length and made of cloth ballistics armor. It also has a slit from hem to hip to accomodate Arcturus' wolf tail. The combat harness worn over it mounts pauldrons to protect his shoulders, and has an utility belt and several front pouches to carry gear, as well as a small backpack to carry his medical supplies. His helmet covers all of his head except for his eyes and mouth, and both it and his pauldrons are modeled after an wolf totem. The armor he wears on his legs includes the previously mentioned Phasestrider, and an set of cuisses for his thighs. The armor he wears on his arms includes rerebracers for his upper arms, and his weaponized family gauntlets for his lower arms and hands. The armor and helmet are silver with brown details. For sleepwear, Arcturus sleeps in black gym shorts and a silver tank top. His personal symbol is an heater shield emblazoned with the Silver Moon Clan's insignia, an melding of the SIlvermane and Moonfang family symbols. The Clan insiginia is a full moon with an silhoutted wolf's head positioned on the left, solid half. The right half is covered in cracks, and the dividing line is overlaid by a fang. It is placed on the lower half of each side of his trenchcoat's leg covering, and on the center of his shirt's chest. His only accessory is his Clan compass locket, which he usually keeps under his shirt.

Weapons:
Arcturus has two weapons, Moonfang and Phasestrider.

Moonfang: PhaseStrider:
 * Weapon: Rocket Variant Dust Claws
 * Type: Dust, Ranged, Melee
 * Weapon Derivation: Claw gauntlets
 * Description: Moonfang was originally an set of basket-hilted katars built by Lucian Moonfang, and became the ancestral weapons and namesake of his descendants, the Moonfang family. They have been rebuilt many times over the generations, but the current configuration consists of an pair of gauntlets with housings mounted on the outer forearm. The front part of the housing deploys the claws, which are a set of four articulated blades that attach to the tops of the fingers when extended. The rear half of the housing contains the actual rocket booster, meant to add speed and power to the weapon's strikes. An six-chambered belt of Dust cartridges is mounted on the wrist. Moonfang has two modes. Gauntlet mode keeps the housings behind the wrist, allowing the wearer to use their hand. The next form, Claw Mode, slides the front housing over the hand and the claws over the fingers. The Dust belt is reloaded by sliding the cover on the inner forearm back, removing the spent belt, locking a chamber of the fresh belt into a slot in the wrist mechanism, and rotating the mechanism to pull it fully into place. The inner arm also holds the rocket booster's fuel cartridges. When activated, the Dust belt will feed Dust from the currently selected chamber into Dust lines in the hands, and from there, into the claws if they are deployed, enhancing the power of the user's melee strikes. The gauntlets can release short- to mid-range Dust attacks in either mode.
 * Weapon: Armored Rocket Booster Greaves
 * Type: Melee
 * Weapon Derivation: Greaves
 * Description: PhaseStrider  takes the form of an pair of armored boots with knee and ankle guards, as well as an calf-mounted rocket booster. Arcturus uses PhaseStrider to complement Moonfang and enhance his mobility in battle, delivering rocket-powered kicks and accelerating to blurring speeds. Each side of each boot's leg mounts an fuel cartridge, twice the size of those used on the Moonfang gauntlets. The side-mounted cartridges allow for boosters on the back of the leg that are larger and more powerful than those mounted on Moonfang.

Semblance:
Arcturus' Semblance, called "Rebound", summons 6-foot glyphs that Arcturus will use as platforms to push off with in mid-air, allowing him to change direction quickly and make full use of his rocket boosters. He can also cause them to generate pulses of energy, helping to launch him when he pushes off the glyphs. Arcturus's glyphs have a maximum range of thirty feet and are normally summoned one at a time, with minimal to moderate drain on his Aura depending on the number summoned and whether or not Arcturus chooses to create energy pulses, which, being spread out across the entire glyph, are only strong enough to propell his jumps. Hence, he can't use them for more than increasing his mobility.

Battle Style:
Arcturus is an rapid assault specialist, striking hard and fast. He uses his boosters and glyphs to quickly overcome obstacles to close with and outmanuveur his opponents. Once he is in close, Arcturus will uses his Dust claws and rocket boosters to increase the power of his melee attacks. He sometimes uses hit and run tactics, unbalancing his opponents with swift changes in his attacks' direction. When fighting with his team, Arcturus often leaves the strategy to Albus, and engages the foe head-on, holding them back and opening holes in the enemy line, or else occupying stronger enemies so that his allies can concentrate on eliminating any weaker opposition first. His fighting style is also ideal for protecting wounded allies and bringing them out of the fight to be treated. As a result of his specialization, Arcturus finds it difficult to engage opponents when kept at a distance, though his gauntlets do permit him to engage in mid-range combat with Dust attacks. Tight spaces also limit his effectiveness.

Abilities:

 * Faunus Night Vision
 * Agility: With his skills in freerunning, rocket boosters, and Rebound Semblance, Arcturus has no problem getting around in most situations.
 * Martial Arts: Though it uses elements of the Silver Moon Clan's basic melee training, Arcturus's fighting style more closely resembles that of Muay Thai, using liberal amounts of kicks, knee strikes, hooks, elbow strikes, and upper cuts. He also favors palm and spear-hand strikes. His training has led him to be one of the Clan's stronger melee fighters, but he freely admits that his uncle outclasses him in terms of skill and power.
 * Gardening: Although not a particularly talented gardener, Arcturus is able to plant and grow medicinal and food crops with reasonable skill.
 * Liberal Arts: Like the rest of the Silver Moon Clan, Arcturus practices art and music for practical and aesthetic reasons. His favorite instruments are the ocarina and guitar.
 * Swimming: Arcturus likes to swim as one of his favorite conditioning activities, as it works all of the muscles in the body at once.
 * Field medicine: Tutored mostly by his grandmother and aunt, Arcturus has added basic EMT skills to his wilderness first aid training. Thus, he is the closest thing his Clan has to an proper field medic.
 * Leadership: With an intuitive charisma and air of command, Arcturus is sometimes teased as being an natural-born alpha wolf. His innate leadership tendencies have prompted his grandfather, Crassus Silvermane, to prepare Arcturus to be the Clan's patriarch once he and Gregory Moonfang, the next in line, have both passed on.
 * Aura Control: Due to his fighting style and training with Aura from age six, Arcturus is skilled for his age in terms of Aura control.
 * Massage: Like much of his Clan, Arcturus is proficient in giving massage, and is his sister Bailey's favorite masseur.
 * Board games: Arcturus' favorite game is Weiqi, which has simpler rules but more complex and variable strategy than chess.

Personality:
Arcturus has many traits in common with his family. His upbringing has made him responsible, disciplined, hardworking, and modest, while also placing high value on family, duty, and integrity. Hence, he tends to be seen as quite mature for his age, if not overly so. Arcturus moves and holds himself with effortless grace, confidence, and power, due to years of training to learn, accept, and master himself and his capabilities, even as he tries to push them further. Thus, he is supremely comfortable in his own skin. His wandering eyes present an haunting mixture of melancholy and piercing evaluation, completing the sense he often projects of being a veteran warrior with many times his actual experience. Though these qualities give him the presence of an alpha male, Arcturus's usual persona is distant, albeit helpful, rarely interacting with people outside his circle unless giving encouragement, advice, and other aid as he sees the need. Many who know him have compared his manner, even with those outside his family, to that of an big brother. This natural charisma is precisely why his Clan consider his teasing nickname of being an "alpha wolf" to be accurate, especially when paired with the more wolf-like attributes he exhibits as a result of his Faunus heritage. The most prominent among these is his strong protectiveness towards family and friends. He is especially provoked by the mistreatment of children, for whom he has a particular soft spot. Besides when he is with children, truly letting his guard down in public or otherwise away from his Clan and friends is a rare thing for Arcturus. His enjoyment of being outdoors, hunting, chasing, and play-fights is also very wolfish. His preference for grooming and being groomed by his Clan, as well as sharing his bed and food, are also wolf traits he exhibits. However, the trauma of his past still shows, in that he has difficulty maintaining composure when speaking about his parents' murder, and the infrequent nightmares that are often brought on by his talking about the subject. In the wake of these nightmares, he displays a level of emotional vulnerability that few would ever expect of him. While he prioritizes academics, his usual routine consists of training and practicing his skills, to the point of being borderline obsessive-compulsive, in an need to be strong enough to protect those he cares about. As a consequence, his social life is very limited. This need for activity has made him a very kinetic learner, and Arcturus frequently gets nervous and grumpy when unable to train or otherwise occupy himself, which, beyong simple upbringing, is part of  the reason for his willingness to help others. Training is also his most common form of stress relief, as is having someone to hold and be held by. Arcturus rarely tolerates bullies and racists for long, human or Faunus, for reasons both personal and professional. While Arcturus is also plenty willing to stand up to bullies in a more assertive manner, he frequently uses his sarcastic wit to frustrate and humilate them, redirecting their attention to him instead of their more vulnerable intended victims in the process. Besides being a wisecracker, his humor is also known to be a little odd, even twisted at  times, something common among warriors and their associates.

Backstory:
Arcturus Moonfang was originally born with the name Arcturus Silvermane III, to Bernard and Columbiana Silvermane, along with his fraternal twin brother Albus. Three years later, Arcturus' sister, Bailey Silvermane, was born. He also met two of his oldest and best friends, Balina Savannah and Bjorn Stark, shortly after this, once they and their widowed mother, Ursula Stark, were taken in by his uncle, Gregory Moonfang. An year later, at age four, Arcturus, Albus, and their new stepcousins began their training as members of the Silver Moon Clan. When he was age seven, Arcturus underwent the most defining moment of his life -witnessing an sniper murder his parents in front of the rest of their family, apparently in revenge for severely damaging the organization of a major crime boss. Watching his sister covered in blood, crying over and shaking their parents, begging them to wake up, as well as helping drag her from the bodies, was an experience that has haunted him ever since. After this, he and his siblings moved in with his grandparents, Crassus and Flora Silvermane, along with the Moonfang family. It was during this time that Arcturus' "alpha wolf" tendencies first showed themselves, in acting as the elder sibling for all of the Clan's other children, even those who were closest to him in age. He was also very protective of Bailey, whose resulting need for him as an emotional crutch was only broken when he left for combat school. When it came time for him to forge his weapons during his stay at Torch Academy, he chose to forgo inheriting StormDirge to change his name and wield his Uncle Gregory's old weapons, the Moonfang family gauntlets, which were then rebuilt for his use. He also constructed Phasestrider to complement the older weapon's new variant, and fully develop his fighting style. He then chose to attend Lantern Academy, which would allow him to deal more with humans while still remaining fairly close to his homeland of Menagerie.