Jay Noir

"I've suffered more than any human should have to bear. So don't think that that would've hurt me."

- Arthur Ashe

Appearance
Jay Noir looks like your typical, underground tough guy or mercenary. He wears a black t-shirt, dark blue pants, and a utility belt with dark blue markings on it to complete the typical outfit. He wears black combat boots with dark blue soles and laces. Over his whole outfit he wears a light-weight jacket that extends down to his calves with a split in the middle up to his thighs. It is black in color but dark blue in trim and decals. On his head he wears a fedora that is again, black with dark blue trim and decals. He typically uses this to cover his eyes which seem to often mesmerize people or disturb them greatly. He also has black fingerless gloves and a gold necklace with his symbol on it. He uses the jacket and belt to store his individual weapons. His belt holds his main weapon, Shadow Stinger, and secondary weapon, Raze. His jacket pockets hold his throwing knives of differing variety.

Now for his physical traits, he is an average height man, standing at 5ft 9in. He has many scars: one across his right jaw-line, several jagged on his forearms and hands, a stab scar in his thigh, one big scar across his back from his left shoulder to his right hip, a bullet graze scar on his right arm and a bullet wound very near his stomach. He has a permanent emotionless face which wasn't always that way. He has black hair and a small moustache paired with a chin beard leading up to the bottom of his lips lips in a point. His most interesting feature is his eyes; the left one is a pale blue while the right one is a bright gold. He tends to hide them as to not attract any unwanted attention.

Personality

 * You may want to read the backstory before you read this!!!

Jay is what you may call a sociopath as he doesn't show much emotion. He highly distrusts humans and doesn't make many friends, anymore. What he had been through during his lifetime had changed him so much that he almost no longer resembles himself except for his eyes. When he says that he trusts you that may mean that he either does actually trust you or he is just using you for the time being. He's a highly proficient liar because he shows no emotions during any truthfulness test of any kind. To him, what he says is not a truth or a lie but a fact, there is no right or wrong and, there is no good or bad. He is extremely vain as he always thinks of humans as easily influenced or of lesser skill than he is. But this is only what he is on the inside.

On the outside he shows most of his emotionlessness but will copy the emotions of his teammates if he sees them showing said emotions. He will make a joke about something that has just happened, but they are typically cruel jokes. He doesn't have any moral standards unless limited by the job, otherwise he will eliminate all enemies on his way to the objective. He shows his vanity in the form of going on missions solo or having no interest in team making at Beacon. He has no interest in love or intimacy with a member of the opposite gender. This is his present personality but he wasn't always this way. Sometimes he will stand outside during the night looking up at the moon thinking about his old life, about his dead relatives, and how he will kill Mr. Schnee.

He used to care about his family so much before the incident. Everyday they needed food he would go gathering in the forest or hunting for deer. He actually had emotions during the time before he decided otherwise. He would laugh and joke and fool around. He was even a slight klutz to be honest. He took work seriously and when he decided to become a Hunter he became even more serious about his work. He would definitely have not aquired the skills he has today without his sisters help and he appreciates that she did to this day. He trusted his sister completely and was quite jealous that she excelled in almost everything he tried to do. Equipment

Weapons:

 * Shadow Stinger: A Silenced Ballistic Whip Blade with three combat functions
 * Whip Form: Shadow Stinger turns into a whip with a blade attached to the end of it creating quite a lethal mid-ranged weapon. He can use the blade at the end to cut an enemy when whipping someone with the end of it and it has the most velocity of the whole weapon since it is attached to the end. He can use the rest of the whip to entangle an opponent and pull them in, snap the whip to keep enemies at a distance, or use it as a mobile rope to swing from place to place. He can use the handle of the whip as a baton if it doesn't turn into a blade fast enough although this is typically ineffective against enemies.
 * Pistol Form: The whip and blade retract all the way into the hilt and a silencer pops out in place of the whip, this process usually takes 10 seconds. He can insert a clip of ammo into the bottom of the weapon which carries 10 rounds of .45 mm ammo. This is the only long range weapon he carries if he isn't carrying a sniper rifle or marksman rifle. This is the form it typically takes shape in because he carries it in his holster. He is able to shoot out the blade and whip if no ammo is inserted into it.
 * Blade Form: The whip part retracts into the weapon and the blade locks into place allowing him to use it as a close-range weapon, this process takes only 6 seconds. He can also use it in sync with his secondary weapon Raze incase one blade isn't enough to fight an enemy with. He can use the pistol part of Shadow Stinger to shoot out the blade and turn it back into a whip.
 * Raze: A secondary weapon that Jay usually keeps sheathed, only to be used in the most dire of circumstances.
 * Raze is a sickle clipped to Jay's belt but is only used in the hardiest of combat situations. The blade part is covered in red dust giving it a burning effect so that when he decapitates his strongest enemies it will be a fast and clean cut. The blunt edge is used to block enemy attacks but is not used as often as the bladed end.
 * Throwing Knives: He carries 24 throwing knives in the 6 pockets of his jacket. The throwing knives are divided based on the type of Dust coating it. He doesn't use throwing knives as weapons but more as tactical advantages against an enemy and are used sparingly but more often than he uses Raze. The 6 types of throwing knives he carries are: explosive, flash, silent, ice, electric, and trapped. He can use them to kill or stun an enemy or alter the environment.
 * His coat and hat: If he is getting really beat-up he discards his coat and his hat so he can increase his field of vision and speed. The apparel is usually thought of as a fasion but instead they are conditioning equipment that increase his weight and decrease his field of view. He does lose his throwing knives in doing so and is left with no tactical advantages and he typically has Raze out before he does this.

The Start of a Warrior
Jay was born in a small village hidden deep within the Red Forest. He suprised his parents when they saw that he had one gold eye and one pale blue eye. This was not exactly a good sign in his community and he was slightly shunned throughout his childhood. In order to not be shunned he had to show the people he was a capable person and not some Grimm-possessed child, but that would come in later years. In the next 2 years his sister, Kayla, who was an extremely important influence to Jay during her entire life. During ages 3-4 he would generally go out in the woods and play with his sister or learn how to do simple tasks by his mother, Mary. at age 5 his father, Nathan, taught him how to use a bow. It was just a training bow made out of a few sticks but he managed with it. He heppened to land his first shot near the center without the proper technique or guidance but the rest of his shots happened to be sloppy after that, just falling on the ground or going a foot or two. He trained night and day with that thing until it snapped but his father used more wood to make the next one, then the next, until it was time for him to use a real bow. By this time he was 7 and had higher than average strength than all the other boys his age. His sister was quite strong too, being taught how to use dual blades and throwing knives, or in this case tree branches and iron rods. He was very skilled with a bow, being able to hit a target from 50 meters away. His sister was at a similar skill level or even higher, being able to hit his arrow with a throwing knife while it was still flying thorugh air. He wanted to learn how she did this so they taught each other all there was to know about each others weapons. This started a family bond that could never be broken otherwise there could be fatal consequences. They figured out techniques about each other weapons that they never would've never figured out without each others help. They trained together pushing themselves to outperform the other. It was the perfect form of physical and mental development in the form of a brother and sister helping each other become better.

The Schnee Years Part 1,
In the following year the Schnee Dust Company set up their mines in the vicinity of the village. His dad started working in the mines for money which he could use to buy better food from the SDC. But in return for this obstrusion they built a soldier training facility.Its purpose was to train children to serve in a personal army for the Schnee Family and the Schnee Dust Company. Jay and Kayla joined the school immediately after it was up and running. There were 6 classes: Firearm Usage, Melee Weapon Usage, Dust Usage, Physical Training, Mental Training, and Schnee Dust Company History. The Firearm, Melee and Dust Usage classes were how to use various firearms, how to use melee weapons and different techniques you can use with those weapons, and use Dust to significantly improve weapon performance. Physical and Mental Training were to improve the bodys endurance,agility, flexibility ,and strength plus reflexes while the other class improved their intellect, observation, and thought process. The Schnee Dust Company History class wasn't a class at all but a brainwashing course to make them think of the Schnee Dust Company as something they would want to support with their lives and die for if they had too. Jay started off terribly using the firearms because the recoil would put his aim off too much, he was so used to a bow by now that something with that much kick would launch the gun out of his arms and onto the ground. The second time he dropped it the weapon discharged and he grazed his right arm a little but the real damage was when the bullet hit one of the Schnee Army trainers, it went thorugh his eye and came out through the back of his skull and blood splattered all over the red-leaved trees. He was taken out of the class until he could actually control the weapon so he moved in to the Melee Weapon Usage class where he met up with his sister who had aced almost every test she had been put through. He knew that at his current level of skill he could pass all of the tests as easily as she could. Eventually he got through all of the tests they had but there were a few techniques that they didn't know about which they quickly mastered. He stuck with his sister through every class she wanted to go through, so they went to Physical Training. They were stronger than most of the average students of the class so they could easily run the obstacle courses or the set amount of push-ups and sit-ups required. When it came time to run 5 miles through the forest and back, they were quite unprepared. They had never thought about running or even jogging through the forest for that matter; they severely lacked the cardiovascular endurance to get them through this test and eventually they failed it in front of all the children that idoled them and their strength. Quickly, they became average students that had massive strength but lacked in endurance. After school, each day they would go jogging in the woods hoping to hone their skills and with enough time, they could eventually dash from tree to tree. They perfected guerilla tactics they could utilize in the forest and when they did they could hide from the Schnee soldiers whenever they wanted to, proving them to be excellent hiders indeed. They decided that they could also improve their agility and flexibility by themselves, so they stretched and learned skills like flipping from trees and swinging from tree to tree with the branches. They finished their agility and flexibility test in a breeze, then they had to prove their worth in endurance to the Schnee Army trainers so they could move on to the other classes, which they did.

The Schnee Years, Part 2
Now began the second year of the Schnee Dust Company's residency and Jay's 13th year of life in this world. During this year a railroad had been built to transport Dust from this village to the main cities in the world. They had finally hit the jackpot in the mines for this railroad to actually be made, they gave 1/20th of what they found in the mines to the Schnee Army school for them to use in the Dust Usage class. Jay and his sister split during this year and went to different classes, he went back to the Firearm Usage class and his sister took her studies to the Mental Training class. He stayed all year in that class trying out all of the guns and their uses. He was an exceptionaly, skilled marksman by the end of the year and could fire an entire clip from an assault rifle into the center rings of the target. He could use a pistol well because he could control how many bullets came out of it and at what speed but he thought that pistols were too weak so he moved on to other firearms. He absolutely hated shotguns because the way it fired was too random and he could barely ever hit his target in the center but thats what was expected from such a weapon. SMG's fired too fast for him and he fired all over the target, only a few of the shots missed everytime. He even tried out heavy weapons like rocket launchers and light machine guns but the recoil still proved to be too high for him. His real skill layed in the sniper rifle, the ones they used were bolt-action and this worked well for him; it may have had high recoil but he could bring it back down fast enough because of the slower fire rate. He could hit the target dead on from 300 meters away which was better than the Schnee Master Marksman that trained them. This was the weapon he passed the course with and the type he would be given when he graduated. Until then he went to his final class, Mental Training, to improve his reflexes and intelligence. This was quite an interesting experience because he showed much more rebellion to the Schnee Dust Company than the usual Schnee Army soldier. For these specific thoughts they wanted to place him in the Schnee Dust Company History class so that they could turn him into one of their best soldiers witht he initiative to protect the SDC and not rebel against them. So he went to this class and he did change, he became quite adept at lying to the soldiers through it, when he finished the course with flying colors they allowed him to go back to the Mental Training. Once again in the class he improved his reflexes to the point where he could catch an arrow as long as he was 50 meters away and defelct throwing knives with metal wrist guards. He passed with an IQ of 142, he had exemplary observation skills noticing small details but forgetting about the bigger things, his vanity started showing up here, and the reflexes of a a Signal Academy graduate, he could still improve his reflexes it was only a matter of time. Now he could take the advanced classes which were basically repeats of each of the classes but with more of the Company protection implemented into it. The targets were switched to Schnee Army and enemy pictures, you were supposed to shoot the enemies of course, and the SDC History was even more focused on helping the SDC and its shops. He went to the Dust class so he could use all of the known Dusts there and figure out each of their uses and how they can be used tactically.

The Revolution
During one of his classes a riot was going on outside, it was all of the villagers who had been forced to work in the mines for low pay and high labor. He knew that his dad was worked in there but had gotten out barely alive each day and had a bad case of Dust Lung which got worse after each trip. All of them wanted to stop working because they lost too many workers each day in the mines and they were getting sick and the pay wasn't enough to buy medicine or food for their families. They all revolted so that they could hold the Schnee affiliates hostage and use them to make the SDC make reforms and pay them more for their hard labor. Truth be told, this happened in several of the other villlages that were forced to mine for the SDC but this time the SDC were prepared. They told all of the Schnee Army students that this was the final test, to protect all of them from the advances of the revolutionists. The last cargo train to the next main city was leaving in a few minutes and the affiliates all hoped to get to it before it left. Eventually the whole village was involved in the riot and were starting to fight the Schnee Army, this ment that brute force had to be used to kill the flame. The Schnee Army trainees were put to the front lines, then the command was given, "Fire at will!". Time slowed down for Jay, he saw his fellow classmates start to pull the trigger, he looked over to his sister who had her gun pointed down, then he looked back at the villagers. The sound of gunshots broke this moment and he saw the first wave of villagers fall to the ground. He started to look for his mom and dad in the crowd but didn't see them, he went to his sister telling her that they needed to get out of here. They climbed up a tree and saw the massacre happen before their very eyes, they saw the SDC affiliates boarding the train, and then Kayla shouted, "There, I see mom and dad." He saw them too but they weren't running towards the train, they were running away, and the riot was now getting surrounded by the Schnee Army. As soon as their parents reached the other side of the crowd the Schnee Army finished encircling the riot and now they were trapped. The Schnee Army asked the rioters to drop their weapons and surrender, some of them did like their mom and dad but the rest of them said that they would rather die for their freedom rather than be controlled by a shady business such as theirs. Jay told Kayla to board the train, this was not something a 12 year-old should see, so they got to the train and snuck on board. He let Kayla on first and as soon as she passed through the door he started to walk in too but he also turned to see the last of the villagers. The Schnee Army got ready to fire and Jay saw his parents but they didn't see him, then the Schnee Army fired. The last he saw of his parents were them having bullets entering their bodies from every possible angle, then his dads head exploded as a bullet went right through the back of his head, they both fell to the ground just as Jay turned the corner and entered the SDC train.

Train Ride to the New World
It was awful, Jay clambered in one of the storage rooms of the train pale as he could be; the train started lurching forward slowly then it sped up as he got to his sister. Even though it was dark in the room his sister saw that something was wrong and asked him what he saw as he got on the train. He told her but midway through his sentence he threw up all over the floor. It was definitely something she shouldn't have known so he told her that their parents were ok because they surrendered and that he was only throwing up because he was saddened by the death of all of the other villagers he had known all his life. He told her that their parents probably would be taken to somewhere for misconduct and reeducation but for now they had to help each other like they had in the past. As soon as he told her that he noticed that there were red lights glowing along the wall, he walked towards the lights to see what it was and as soon as he got close enough lights turned on all inside the train car and he could see what he was actually trying to inspect. There were AK-130 androids all over the walls and as soon as he came close enough they had been activated as well as the lights in the storage car. They held their guns up to him asking him if he was an intruder or not, he told them that he was one of the highest ranking trainees of the Schnee Army, hoping that they would let him go. They told him to state his name, rank,and weapon mastery, he said ,"Jay Noir, Master Marksman, Sniper Rifle." They processed this for a while searching their records then they disengaged him and then targetted his sister who went through the same process. "Kayla Noir, Close Quarters Specialist, Pistols." After they confirmed that neither of them were intruders they went back to their platforms and deactivated. "That was close Kayla, we need to be more careful about where we are and observe our surroundings a little better next time," said Jay. "You mean like that Spider Droid up on the ceiling?" replied Kayla quietly. He told her that they should probably get out of here and they went to the next car which had no walls or ceiling but were lined with many crates full of Dust. He told Kayla to take enough in her pack to use in the future, they both stuffed their packs full of the crystal Dust and moved on to the next car, this one was full of more androids which they hoped wouldn't activate again, which they didn't, and kept moving from car to car all the way to the front of the train. Here they found no conducter but a computer listing its current route. It was headed for a city called Vale and would arrive in approximately 15 hours, for now they would have to wait except for the fact that they were starving. They had only just eaten this morning, they looked around in the computer car to see if they had any food anywhere just incase someone may have been onboard that was a part of the SDC. They didn't find anything but that wouldn't make sense because the SDC affiliates always used the train to go to and from the cities, could it be that they had already eaten before their trip? That wouldn't make sense either because meals are usually placed 5 hours from each other and this was a 15 hour trip. They went back to the prior cars and looked through all of the containers for food but didn't find any. Finally, the only choice they had was to ask the androids where it was. They slowly made their way to a car the carried androids in it and tapped one of them on. The helmet came down and it asked them what assisstance they would need, they told them that they would like food and it told them that the food was located in the foremost car. He replied that there were no containers containing food in the front car and it replied back saying that you would need to type in the password in the computer to open up the food containment section of the car. He asked the android if it could tell them the password but was denied it stating that you will be given the password during graduation. "Graduation!" he cried out furiously, that was only 2 days away from today which caused him to remember what had happened today and he again threw up. "Wow you really care about the other villagers don't you." Kayla implied. He said yes and with that he told her that they should get back to the front car. They sat there thinking about what the password could possibly be for the food storage, they tried remembering back to the first days of school if they had been given a password or not. Jay knew that in the SDC History class they had been taught some sort of number system, something that corresponded to names of people or Dust types or something. He tried entering a password that had numbers corresponding with the name of the school headmaster, ACCESS DENIED. He was thinking furiously now, not people but how about Dust, he typed in the password using the same system he had used for the headmasters name, ACCESS DENIED, Dust barcode number, ACCESS DENIED. He was starting to kick the computer when a panel popped open, he thought that this was the food storage unit but when he looked in there was a note that read, "Kick me again and I will self-destruct." He calmed down, then it was his sisters turn. She tried all sorts of passwords but all of them were wrong too, how many attempts was it again until it locked down? Then they finally looked at the moniter, it had been locked ever since his third attempt, "GAH! Screw this." exclaimed Jay. He walked out to one of the boxless cars and his sister followed, he asked her how many more hours it was until they would reach the city, she replied 13. He said that he would jump into the forest below and find some food since there was no hope of getting any food on this train. She said she was thinking the same thing, so they jumped and landed on a tree. Little did they notice the 2 shadows sliding down from the cliff above and landing on the train roof, then the train zoomed out of site.

The Road Less Traveled
They climbed on down from the tree and made their way back to the railway. They knew which way the train was headed so they made a stone arrow marking the way just in case they forgot. But first things first, food is what they needed and food is what they got. Its a good thing they held on to their weapons even after the massacre, so Jay sniped at birds, still missing several shots as he wasn't accustomed to moving targets, and Kayla just pistoled down rabbits. Night time was approaching and soon the creatures of Grimm would come out and try to feast upon them and their newly claimed meat. They set up a minature campfire and cooked the meat as quickly as possible then put out the fire and climbed up a tree hoping that the creatures wouldn't hear them eating anything up there. They started to eat then suddenly a wolf howled but it wasn't a regular wolf, it was a beowolf one of the creatures of Grimm, and where theres one theres bound to be many more. Jay and Kayla stopped feasting and started camouflauging themselves to blend in with the brush, what they didn't know to do however was to hide their scent, they were so used to hiding from humans that they never had to hide their scent before and this was a mistake that they never made again. They heard the beowolves approaching and as they moved closer Jay noticed that they could still locate them. He gritted his teeth hoping that would just pass by and not smell them, sadly this was not the case. One of the beowolves pounced out of the shadows and onto Jay, he gripped its neck holding its teeth away from his own neck, he cried out for his sister and she came running over. She took out her pistols and fired a round into the beowolfs head, they both climbed back up the tree so he could get a better view of the beowolves but these ones were particularly adept to the forest, jumping from tree to tree and finally coming to land upon theirs. Jay whipped his sniper up and shot at the beowolf missing its head by a few inches but instead shooting it in the neck, it sputtered and swayed then fell out of the tree. Jay knew what he would have to practice on as soon as this was over but for now he had to conserve ammo as well as protect his sister. This was going to be a long night indeed. The sun finally came over the horizon and Jay and is sister lay down on the ground exhausted by last nights battle. Jay started salvaging the beowolves for parts they could use and he easily constructed a bow from a couple of flexible branches and some tied beowolf hair. He made arrows out of more branches, some sharpened stone, and some feathers from the birds he killed. He practiced shooting his bow and as he drew his bow back i t snapped in half, he realized that his strength had increased so much since he last used a bow that he would need to make it out of even more branches to create enough resistance for him. He went through almost 3 bows until he found the perfect size for him, it was a longbow that was much taller than him and also had the thickness of one of his forearms. He nocked an arrow onto the bow, drew back again, and let the arrow fly but his sister who had much fun fooling around with him drew her pistol faster than his arrow was flying and shot it out of mid-air. She gave him a taunting blow to the barrel of her gun then spun it around and holstered it at such a high-speed that he barely noticed it was in her hand in the first place. He glared at his sister, "So you wanna play like that don't you." He drew his bow again except this time he faced away from his sister, he shot the arrow again and again his sister shot it, but not from behind him again it came from in front of him, where he shot the arrow. He couldn't believe how fast his sister had gotten and he wanted to know if he could do the same, so he told his sister that he wanted to test something out so she should stop for now. She backed down and he aimed and fired his bow at nothing, he raced forward and caught the arrow, 50 meters from his position. He knew that he was only able to catch the arrow because it slowed down enough so he could. He figured that he couldn't be as fast as Kayla or even train enough in the time they had so he would have to do this later. He told his sister that she should train him to move and react that fast eventually but for now they needed to head to Vale. They went to the tracks and found the arrow that told which direction that Vale was in and they started running in that direction. When they left the train it was 13 more hours until they reached the city which meant that the city was about 1300 miles away. It was going to be quite a while before they would get to Vale. So they walked a few miles everyday and slept up in the trees hidden in the leaves and covered in the musk of the trees. Eventually they made it far enoguh where they could see the light of Vale in the sky. They started only walking along the track and the track started to rumble, they could feel the earth shaking beneath them into their very bones. Then they heard the train coming at high-speeds from behind, he saw his sister jump out of the way and he followed her example, the train missed them by a couple feet. His sister exclaimed that they could use the train to get to Vale faster, so they got up on their feet and jumped onto the train. It was moving so fast that Jay almost lost his grip on the train but he quickly flipped out his sniper rifle and used the recoil to propel himself colser to it. His sister had enough speed to press herself onto the train and get a better hold of it. They jimmied their way around the train until they got to a car which they entered and were encountered by the androids again. This time they had been programmed to kill on sight because of the robbery of a dust train a few days ago. So he took out his sniper rifle and dashed to the corner where he could all line them up and get a collateral before most of the activated. He aimed his sniper and fired once, it pierced through 3 of them but there were still 17 more in the car, he swore to himself. His sister whipped out her pistols and Jay held up his sniper and they fought back to back. This didn't prove to be a great idea because your blind spots were on your sides if you were using this tactic so they parted and divided the enemies in half. Jay jumped over the group sniping a few, sniping the beowolves improved his accuracy on moving targets, and landed on the ground rolling then bringing his sniper back up. His sister Kayla had keen observation skills noticing every movement the androids were about to make and shot in every direction, these were not random shots though, each of them hit an android in the upper body region. She quickly dashed to the nearest crate but all Jay saw was her standing there one second then dissapearing the next, her speed was unbelievable, he wondered what he had missed out when they parted ways in the school. The androids finally had enough time to sitch to their guns but there were only three left and Jay quickly sniped all of them and walked towards Kayla. "Did you get hit?" he asked. "No, why do you think I would," she replied sharply, "I'm too fast for their sensors to track anyways." Jay was taken aback by the way she replied, she had never treated him like this before and wondered why this change happened all of a sudden.

The City of Vale
The train finally arrived at Vale and all that was found in it was 20 bust up androids and some missing Dust. Jay and Kayla had jumped off before it entered the train station so that they wouldn't have to be questioned about the androids when they got off.