Cyanide Charleston

Cyanide "Charles" Charleston is one of the four protagonist of CYANo-. He is a wolf Faunus and a student of Shade Academy. His weapon-of-choice is Twilight, a fiery and icy quarterstaff which is capable of being split into a fiery cudgel named Dawn and an icy cudgel named Dusk.

Appearance
Charles exhibits a runtish height of 5'0" for which he compensates by working hard to keep his physique gracefully lean and visibly muscular. His complexion is strikingly dark and dotted with variety of scars, most of which originate from his rough-and-tumble childhood. He keeps his cyan hair in a butch cut which exhibits a plentiful amount of waves. His eyes are narrow to the point where they appear to be naught but a pair of slits; as a result, few are the times where his cyan irises are visible to those without the keenest and sharpest of eyesight. He exhibits the canine teeth of a dire wolf; consequently, his smiles are a fearsome – if not terrifying – sight to behold. Few, if any, fail to recognize him as a Faunus after they have caught so much as a glance at the daunting fangs that line his maw.

Charles typically dresses in a loose-fitting, thigh-length, and pitch black shirt with a hood and a pair of long sleeves. Notably, both the hood and the sleeves are trimmed with dark green fur. Charles also wears a pair of baggy, black jeans which are trimmed with dark green fur at the waist and the cuffs. And a pair of black steel-toe boots with dark green soles.

His "pajamas" consists of naught but a vastly too-large t-shirt and his boxers.

Personality
WIP...

Fighting Style
Charles' fighting style is agile, mobile, and strong. But it is not durable or enduring. Because his semblance and weapons are more than capable of consuming all of his aura within a very small amount of time, he can't afford to waste any of his aura on defense. As a result, rather than block an attack or simply withstand an attack, Charles would rather dodge an attack or simply outmaneuver his enemy in a manner which prevents his enemy from attacking him in the first place. This allows Charles to save aura for his semblance and weapons.

Of course, regardless of whether or not he manages to save aura, Charles is still quick to expend his aura in a prolonged fight. As such, Charles does not assess the situation. Nor does he bide his time in search of an opening. Bur rather he charges with the intent of defeating his enemy as soon as possible. In addition, he seems to prefer creating an opening over waiting for one. Consequently, Charles excels in brawls and rumbles but suffers in ambushes and duels.

To put it simply: Charles is quite good at overwhelming an undisciplined opponent with his lightning-fast speed and Herculean strength; but unfortunately, he tends to be outclassed by any skillful or tactical opponent whom manages to take advantage of his lack of defenses and stamina.

Weapon
Main Article: Twilight

Charles weapon, Twilight, is a metal quarterstaff which is capable of being split into a pair of cudgels named Dawn and Dusk. Each half of Twilight is filled with dust. The Dawn half of Twilight is filled with fire dust, while the Dusk half of Twilight is filled with ice dust. If used constantly, both the Dawn and Dusk half of Twilight have an hour's worth of dust. However, if they are used in bursts rather than in an hour-long marathon, the Dawn and Dusk half of Twilight can last much longer than an hour.

With his aura, Charles is able to use the dust within Twilight to heat up the tip of the Dawn portion of Twilight and or cool down the tip of the Dusk portion of Twilight. It also possible for Charles to heat up the entirety of the Dawn portion of Twilight and or cool down the entirety of the Dusk portion of Twilight. Doing so will allow Charles to access temperatures that are either much higher or much lower than what he can access by affecting naught but the tip. However, in exchange, Charles will either have to rely on his semblance to protect him from those higher or lower temperatures or simply resign himself to being damaged by those higher or lower temperatures.

Notably, because of the nature of his semblance, the portion of Twilight that Charles is able to use at full power is determined by the time of day. During the day, Charles is able to use Dawn at full power. While during the night, Charles is able to use Dusk at full power.

Of course, Charles is more than capable of wielding Twilight as a mere bludgeon. The length of Twilight is a useful means of keeping an enemy at a distance where the enemy will hopefully be unable to strike at Charles, while Dawn and Dusk allow Charles to maintain his agility in close combat and thereby allow Charles to continue dodging his opponent's attacks even while Charles and his opponent at fighting at close quarters.

Lastly, it also possible for Charles to use Dawn and Dusk as makeshift wands by expending the dust within Dawn and Dusk to hurl either fireballs from Dawn or snowballs from Dusk. Unfortunately, the use of this feature is quick to deplete Dawn and Dusk of their dust and deprive of their uses as anything other than mundane bludgeons.

Semblance
Main Article: Circadian Hermaphroditism

Charles' semblance is Circadian Hermaphroditism. Which is a bizarre combination of a cycle of protandry and protogyny and a cycle of thermal resistance and thermal conductance.

From sunrise to sunset, Charles will gradually metamorphose from a thermally resistant male into a thermally conductive female. While from sunset to sunrise, Charles will gradually metamorphose from a thermally conductive female into a thermally resistant male. To put it simply: In the day, Charles is male and resistant to heat. While at night, Charles is female and resistant to cold.

At sunrise, Charles will be solely male and he will exhibit the greatest extent of his passive resistance to heat. At sunset, Charles will be solely female and he will exhibit the greatest extent of his passive resistance to cold. While during the time from sunrise to sunset and the time from sunset to sunrise, Charles will be a hermaphrodite and he will exhibit either a waning resistance to heat if it's daytime or a waning resistance to cold if it's nighttime.

For the most part, Charles' semblance is passive. For he has little – if any – control over his metamorphosis. However, Charles does have the ability to expend an amount of his aura as a means of augmenting either his thermal resistance when it is daytime or his thermal conductivity when it is nighttime. Notably, the degree of augmentation is directly proportional to the amount of aura that is expended in the augmentation. So the more aura Charles expends, the more resistant or conductive Charles will be.

Birth
Charles is a descendant of both the Nights and the Wolfgramm. The Nights were a clan of assassins whom operated throughout a supermajority of Mistral and reigned over the city of Einosu. While the Wolfgramm, on the other hand, were naught but a makeshift family of orphans whom adopted Wolfgramm as their surname and wore beowolf-like masks whenever they were forced to take up arms in defense of each other.

Because the Nights considered the Wolfgramm to be beneath them, the Nights' leader - Dark Night - was less than pleased when he discovered that his younger daughter - Amazon Night - was dating a Wolfgramm named Keppel Wolfgramm. Dark ordered Amazon to break up with Keppel, and Amazon seemingly acquiesced to Dark's order. However, in actuality, Amazon planned on eloping with Keppel and fleeing to Vacuo. Unfortunately for Amazon and Keppel, Dark was not fooled. Dark ordered his older daughter - Polar Night - to kill Keppel and return Amazon to the Nights. So Polar murdered Keppel and then literally dragged Amazon back to the Night Hold.

Subsequently, in an attempt to remove Amazon's attachments to anyone but her fellow Nights, Dark ordered the genocide of the Wolfgramms. However, much to Dark's surprise and disgust, by the end of the genocide it became visibly apparent that Amazon was pregnant with Keppel's child. As such, in order to remove the last of Amazon's attachments to those without the Blood of the Night, Dark ordered Polar to have Amazon and Keppel's child aborted. However, instead of following Dark's order, Polar poisoned Dark to death and then simply acted as if Dark had never given her the order to abort Amazon and Keppel's child.

Eventually, Amazon gave birth to Keppel and her child. Unfortunately; shortly after the birth of Keppel and her child; Amazon committed suicide out of guilt for having "caused" the deaths of Dark, Keppel, and the rest of the Wolfgramms. Consequently, Polar was forced to adopt Amazon and Keppel's child. And unfortunately for Amazon and Keppel's child, because Polar considered him to be responsible for Amazon and Dark's deaths, Polar spitefully christened him as Cyanide Night.

Early Childhood
Sometime after Cyanide became a 2-year-old, Polar was gradually softened and woo'ed by a huntsman named Forest Charleston. As a result, Polar abandoned the Nights in order to elope with Forest. Consequently, without a leader or an heir to crown as their leader, the Nights were quick to fall into a civil war which splintered them into a variety of sects. Eventually, all of the Night sects were destroyed by the Nights' enemies and the Nights became nothing but a group of refugees whom share a surname with each other.

Meanwhile, Forest and Polar fled to Vacuo and then took up residence in a small town named Dessert. Later, about a month before a 6-year-old Cyanide would start to attend an elementary school, Forest and Polar got married to one another. As a result, Polar Night became Polar Charleston and Polar changed Cyanide's name from Cyanide Night into Cyanide Charleston. Notably, Forest and Polar considered changing Cyanide's given name as well. However, because she figured that Cyanide's given name would be a good memorial to and reminder of the tragedies which prompted her to burden Amazon and Keppel's child with the name of Cyanide, Polar decided against changing Cyanide's given name. Instead, as a compromise, Forest and Polar opted to simply nickname Cyanide as Charles.