Ginger Thomas

work in progress

==Profile==

Name: Ginger Thomas. Goes by Thomas.

Age: 21? final year student in beason during RWBY S1 (is beacon a four year school? do we know the average graduation age yet?)

Gender: non-binary

Race: human

Height: short - no shoes 5'2. wears heeled boots, looking closer to 5'7

Weight: stocky - likely in the 140 range

Hair: Red. relaxed mohawk cut, french braided to waist

Eyes: green

==Appearance==

Short, un-intimidating, red head, with a face of freckles, and the greenest of green eyes one could manage. Hair is always pulled back in some way - usually a single braid. Maybe not outgoing, but always quick to a smile. Has several stud piercings in both ears - gold, with red or black stones. Thomas has several gold and black rings on both hands

Standard outfit.

Thomas' day to day / combat ready wear consists of a black button up, and black pressed slacks, with a gold tie and matching vest. the vest has a black silk square in the pocket, and the button up is adorned with gold cufflinks with a t. stans flower on them. the slacks are held up with a brown leather belt with a gold buckle. Thomas' boots are saddle shoe styles - the toes and heal being light brown, and the boot's body being black. the laces however are higher, and hidden by the pant hems. They have an inch thick sole under the balls of the foot, leading into another 4 inches of thick heel. Thomas' hair is on a series of looped ponytails down the skull before ending in a braid tied off with a simple black band, and can usually be seen with a black messenger bag over one shoulder and a leather bound book in hand. THe compact LuSenBao is strapped to the outside top of the bag. The outfit is finished with a *long* gold and black scarf, that can either been worn plainly around the neck, or wrapped around the head and neck.

School outfit

Thomas sticks to male uniforms of beacon for the most part, but ops out of the standard blue vest, and instead has had one made with the plaid printing of the skirt material. the messenger bag, boots (and scarf usually) are included. Hair is usually pulled back into a single ponytail

Formal

Thomas' formal wear consists of a deep red - almost black- prince charlie jacket and matching bowtie over a gold button up - with a kilt of bold gold and black threads and slight red lines in the pattern* They wear lower cut boots, but same sole and heel as before, with knee dark red socks. the messanger bag has been swapped out for a black leather Sporran, with loops to secure the collapsed LuSenBao at the back of the waist. the Sporran is adorned with an embossing of a t. stans. Thomas' hair is done with small almost cornrows like braids tightly done on either side of a single larger french braid down the length of the head. there is no scarf for this outfit, but a Full Plaid instead

* i cannot for the life of me remember if there are terms for the lines in a tartan >.<

==Personality==

Thomas would be a gardener, if given the chance. While warm and kind, thomas doesn't really like to be around a lot of people, and would rather spend time outdoors, and digging in the dirt. They have a bit of a green thumb, and their dorm was always filled with potted herbs and flowers. The most common gift they would give to a friend would be a succulent, or another easy to maintain flower like a marigold.

Sadly, the grimm have caused that hope of a to be dashed time and time again, and Thomas fights to make sure the next generation of outdoor lovers gets a chance to enjoy the outdoors. Thomas' interest in combat is to not engage for as long as possible, and to try and avoid unnecessary conflict whenever possible, but once in battle, is not afraid to get into the fray. The best battle is one that can be avoided, the next best thing is one that's over quickly.

==Weapons and Abilities==

Thomas' semblance is fatigue based. the more exhausted and tired Thomas' gets, the better their defence gets. THey are able to endure harder and more devastating hits with less or even no injures. The down side, is Thomas is still exhausted. They've abused this power in the past by refusing to sleep, and purposely staying awake for days before a mission. if they start their forced insomnia too soon, they could accidently fall asleep DURING the fight, or worse - start to suffer from sleep deprivation, and delusions, during the height of combat. it can vaguely resemble drunken boxing, as fatigue begins to effect motor skills, coordination and attention span.

Thomas' weapon of choice is a bow/bo called LuSenBao. it's compact form is less then a foot long, and 2 inches in diameter, and it mostly just the handle / dust compartment. When extended, it is 5 feet, each extension about half a foot. instead of solid, each joint as a bit of a flex to it, giving it a whiplash feel when striking an enemy. the Bow feature can be used by holding it from the dust compartment, and drawing a dust arrow with the opposite hand. the dust reacts with a bowstring embedded just within the LuSenBao's length, pulling it away from the body, and allowing one to draw the LuSenBao like a bow.

==Backstory==

The Thomas' are sheep farmers from the outlying mountains of Sanus, on the west part of vale kingdom. The land was rocky and semi remote - not good for farming crops, but the sheep did well. They were at least wealthy enough to own their own flock - and to hire season workers from local villages. The Thomas Family's success stemmed from the fact that thomas elder was a retired huntsman, and taught his children and hires how to watch out for and avoid grimm when in the fields.

Ginger Thomas loved working with the sheep - but grimm attacks became more and more frequent, and the summer they were 10 - a grimm attack nearly bankrupted them by wiping out more than half the flock. The community pulled together, and by the time Thomas was old enough to enroll in Signal (any other primary academies to we know of yet? in vale) it was cemented in their mind that they wanted to go and be a hunter* and help defend communities like their own.

Thomas was a decent student, good marks, but nothing totally spectacular. having some experience with a shepherds hook, Thomas focused on staff skills; they also worked on speed draw with the bow, leading to them building LuSenBao their final year of Signal.

Beacon team is still in progress

==Trivia==

Ginger Thomas, aka yellow trumpetbush, aka Tecoma stans

LuSenBao is chinese for Luxembourg, which means "Forest and Fortress"

thomas also means twin - the original idea was for thomas to be a red fox faunus. their partner for the first part of team selection is Solaya Naakishchíín - whose semblance involves a arctic fox. naakishchíín is navajo for twin

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