Name: Lord Baza Bones

Color: Bazaar

Other names: The Silver Ghoul, the Unbeatable Monster, the Invincible Huntsman, the Death Beyond Grimm, the Executioner

Age: late 40s

Eye color: Grey

Gender: Male

Race: Faunus (Bat)

Height: 6’1” (185 cm)

Weight: 286 lbs (130 kg) (includes wings)

Birthplace: Vale

Relatives/Relationships: Blade Nero (nephew), Fleet Admiral Maru (enemy)

Occupation: Professional Huntsman, part-time teacher

Weapon: Black Guillotine – A powerful axe with a mini-gun attached, capable of firing 5500 Dust rounds per minute. The axe itself is often used as an execution tool and can rotate around along the barrel of the mini-gun to give it more mobility and to sometimes adjust striking angle. It's difficult to use the rotation of the axe blade effectively because one must be able to adjust for edge alignment and calculate the various angles when rotating. Baza is a very experienced fighter and incredibly intelligent as such his cuts are often extremely clean.

Semblance: Sinful Blood – Baza possesses the ability to both temporarily and permanently take away another person’s pool of Aura. To permanently take someone's Aura would require him to spend a lot more Aura compared to if he were to just temporarily take it away, and doing either of these would not increase the size his own Aura pool, it will just replenish it.

Fighting Style: Lord Baza is an expert at hand to hand combat. His hand to hand style involves various unique precise strikes, stabbing the opponent with the tip of his hands, with lots of emphasis on pressure points and locating an opponent's weakness and exploiting it. This hand to hand style is graceful and clean, requiring an impressive amount of skill and training to master. On the other hand, when Baza switches to his Silver Ghoul persona, he dons a gas mask and wields his weapon the Black Guillotine and shows his bat wings, and everything changes. He fights in a manner that is much more vicious and cruel, a lot less graceful, like an animal clawing away at its prey. Not a clumsy animal, but an evil one. He is much more mobile in this persona, and is extremely difficult to pin down, his defense is nigh impenetrable, and his offense is absolutely overpowering, oppressing his opponent at any chance he gets. He admits that he isn't the best at actually flying in the air, rather just gliding. Some airship models can travel faster than he can, and flying for extended period of time can exhaust him. That said his wings are still extremely powerful tools for combat.

HISTORY:

As a kid Baza was a rather ordinary child and an ordinary student at Beacon Academy. The only thing noteworthy about his childhood was that his parents were rich beyond belief. But other than that he went to school like every other regular student.

Nothing was out of the ordinary. Until one day, when Baza, for some odd reason, decided to go around asking people about Silver Eyed Warriors. He asked to see if the students knew about them, if the teachers knew about them. Some said no, others said it was all just some folktale, others claimed to have met one themselves. Baza decided to hit the books, looking through libraries after libraries to find any information on this rare trait. After a couple days, he came out of the library vowing to kill every single Silver Eyed Warrior on the planet.

He traveled across the land, looking for potential “suspects” and killing anybody he thought could’ve been a Silver Eyed Warrior. Some cases involved assassinations, others involved just outright fighting to the death.

This went on for nearly a year before he ran into Fleet Admiral Maru who managed to beat Baza to within an inch of his life after a titanic battle between these two powerful fighters. Maru asked why Baza was running around and killing Silver Eyed Warriors (or at least people he thought were Silver Eyed Warriors). Baza responded saying if they truly were these powerful warriors like the legends said, then they wouldn’t have been dead. Baza said he wanted the defenders of the land, the defenders from Grimm to possess true power, and if those so called “legendary” warrior couldn’t even kill Baza here then it must mean they do not have such a power.

Baza lied there on the ground waiting for Maru to finish him off, but the Admiral decided to spare his life, saying that death would’ve been a reward for Baza, something he did not deserve after all the atrocities he committed. Maru wanted Baza to live, to feel pain, to feel the injuries of this fight haunt him for the rest of his life.

The battle between the Admiral opened Baza’s eyes that day, finally realizing the value of death, the value of a warrior’s death. From that day forward he declared himself a worshiper of Death itself, vowing to kill every last person on the planet, not just the Silver Eyed Warriors. He had developed a new philosophy on life, claiming that death was a reward to those who had lived their lives to the fullest and not wasted it to useless things like gambling, drinking, excessive wealth, and so on. His definition of “living to the fullest” generally translated to a person who had become a powerful warrior, reaching their limitation where the only thing left they could do was fight to the death. That being said “living to the fullest” could also mean someone who had stripped themselves of all passion and worldly desires because according to Baza, all those worldly desires and material possessions were meaningless in the grand scheme of things. So despite starting out with just killing powerful Huntsmen, Baza gradually grew to killing other non-fighters as well as long as they had reached the peak of their life and left behind their passion and worldly desires.

Baza was also devote believer in the Church of the Seasons, worshipers of the Seasons (not the Maidens). But the followers of the churches outright denounced Baza's own branch of philosophy on life, deeming them a spit on the teachings of the Seasons. And yet despite this, he still grew a fair amount of followers.

Baza himself was also trying to achieve this “true death” he believed in so much. Going so far as to refuse seeing any doctors to treat any of his wounds or even activate his Aura to heal any of them after his fight with the Admiral. Miraculously he somehow kept on living, despite the horrible injuries. People said it was the willpower that kept him alive, but Baza said that the only reason he was alive was because he had not met a warrior strong enough and worthy enough to kill him and help him achieve true death. The only one who could best him in battle spared his life.

PERSONALITY/TRAITS:

Lord Baza seems to bear two distinct personalities depending on whether he’s in or out of his Silver Ghoul persona. While in his regular persona, he seems to be calm, soft spoken, and would occasionally crack a few silly jokes with his own brand of dry humor. He greets everyone he meets with hospitality and respect. He seems wise, and even understanding and compassionate, willing to offer strangers his unconditional kindness.

While in his Silver Ghoul persona however, he will don his gas mask and show his wings, something he never does while in his regular persona. How he’s able to hide his wings in broad daylight is anyone’s guess. It would seem that the only real difference between the two personas is the level of seriousness. The gas mask he wears doesn’t really give him any significant boost in strength. The only reason people think he’s more powerful in this persona is because he’s using a more offensive tactic as oppose to a defensive one.

In this Ghoul persona, he becomes 100 percent serious, with his voice changing to a much more menacing tone, and he will start threatening his opponent with death, saying how he’s going to kill them or how he’s going to escort them to the gates of hell. While in this form, his fighting spirit, Aura and wrath become so strong that it actually becomes hard to breathe for his opponents.

Baza’s preferred method of killing his foes involves permanently draining them of their Aura with his Semblance before depriving them of their last breath. There are however exceptions to this, a good example is when he met a young girl named Diamond Sky. He thought at first that she was a strong and worthy opponent, but then through conversation realized she was just a soldier following orders, meaning she still had something to live for thus was not ready for true death. However Baza didn’t want to leave such a powerful soldier in the hands of the Atlesian military so they can misuse her, so he decided to permanently siphoned a portion of her Aura so that for one, the military would realize how weak she’s become and relieve her of her duties and two, so she can later realize how useless and trivial Aura really is when it comes to true death and the grand scheme of things. Whether any of these things will happen is currently unknown.

Lord Baza also has another method of killing his victim, one done after he has drained a victim of their Aura, a method he reserves for those he deems deserves true death. He is very fond of decapitation. By cutting off the head and limbs, it necessarily symbolizes a person leaving behind the material world, leaving behind worldly desires and the mortal flesh to ascend beyond. It is of course much easier to label Lord Baza Bones as absolutely insane.

Baza hates Grimm with a burning passion, for he knows that Grimm are not “living beings”, they do not have a soul and thus their deaths are absolutely meaningless. So it is this reason that he feels especially sad for those who died by a Grimm, feeling that their life and their potential for true death have been robbed away.

Lord Baza has become a legend among the people, especially the underground crime network. They call him the Death Beyond Grimm because the criminals fear him even more than they fear dying by a Grimm. At least with a Grimm, it will be a quick death. Baza however will not grant the criminals that luxury and instead will torture them until they die of pain and fatigue. Baza justifies this by claiming that he makes sure that his methods will never actually kill any of them and that in fact it is not him who is killing them at all, but rather they themselves are choosing to leave the world of the living like the cowards and criminals they are. Baza always says that once a thug leaves this world during his torture, it means they do not have the willpower to go on living thus are not worthy of a true death.

This is of course very morally questionable (some may call it hypocritical) and super illegal, but the only reason why the cops haven’t arrested him is because they’re afraid of him and he is called the Unbeatable Monster for a reason, evident by the fact that he’s still alive and all that. The bastard’s never even tried to hide his Silver Ghoul persona. Everybody around knows who the Silver Ghoul is. Another reason why he is not arrested is because some high ranking officers in the military deems him a necessary evil, criminals fear him, and crime rate plummets everywhere he goes, because he keeps the thugs in check. Some officers would rather have him out there patrolling the streets and killing criminals than have some mob boss in control. It is a controversial debate.

Baza bears a certain level of disdain towards the authority, still believing after all these years that the defenders of the land must be just and must possess true powers. He’s not a full on anarchist, but he does have little patience for foolish political decisions, corruption and misuse of power.