Name: Azur Myst

Age: early 20s



Eye Color: Blue

Gender: Male

Race: Faunus (Electric eel)

Height: 6’ (183 cm) (without the tall hair)

Weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)

Academy: Atlas Academy

Birthplace: Atlas

Relatives/Relationships: Crim Rosso (adoptive brother), Admiral Maru (father), Lapis Myst (mother), Winter Schnee (rival), Ghost Vester (rival)

Occupation: 1st Year Student (start of the story)

Weapon: none

Semblance: Lightning Steps – this semblance allows him to absorb electricity and increase his movement speed and mobility for a short period of time. During this period he becomes more agile and flexible, allowing him to reach to speed near 100 meters per second. However activating this for too long and it can overtax his body. His Faunus biology does give him a slight resistant thus increasing the time he can use this by a tiny amount, but it too has its limits.

Fighting Style: He incorporates a mix of boxing, mixed martial arts similar to that of say Muay Thai, primarily focusing on precise knee strikes and kicks. Azur is most proficient in close quarter, with excellent space control. He can be like a thick wall of electricity when he defends himself properly. Add to that his ability to incorporate electricity in his strikes and you have one deadly fighter despite him not wielding any weapon. From afar he is a little bit more limited in his options, although he can shoot a massive beam of lightning out of his hand if the situation demands it. This however will cost him most if not all of his aura and energy, so he only uses this as a last resort.

HISTORY:

Born and raised by a high ranking Atlesian officer and the Fleet Admiral himself, Azur was forced to grow up without a mother in his early days, for she died in a mining accident during an inspection trip. Three people died that day in the accident, one of them was his mother.

The other two were two miners who were the parents of Crim Rosso (the second member of team ACWA), his soon to be adoptive brother. He told himself that day he had already lost one person in his family, he won’t lose another one ever again. To him, Crim was the only family he had left.

Growing up as Faunus was hard for both of them. They were bullied for what they were, especially Crim. Azur was able to get by a bit easier due to the fact that his Faunus features were not as pronounced as his brother’s. But there was a reason why Azur dressed the way he did, there was a reason why Azur acted so flamboyant and over the top all the time, there was a reason why he did not use a weapon.

His brother Crim was never very good at using any sorts of weaponry, preferring to get in close and personal with his fists. This was most unusual for the education and technology of Atlas, making Crim stand out even more, thus exposing him to even more bullying, ostracizing from his fellow classmates. So therefore in order to cheer up his little brother and make him not feel alone in this world that hated the two of them, Azur decided to stand out from the crowd even more than his brother to draw attention away from Crim and onto himself. He donned a flamboyant outfit that did not follow school’s dress code, acted like a cocky pretty boy, and he vowed to not use a weapon as a huntsman in training, making him and his brother two of the only few in their class without a weapon.

The only reason the two of them were not kicked out of the Academy was honestly due to dumb luck… and also because of their father, the Fleet Admiral, pulling strings to keep them in. Azur never thanked his father for that, though. Because from his point of view his father only helped them stay in the Academy because for one he wanted to keep his own reputation clean, two he wanted to use the two as soldiers in his personal troops once they graduate. At least this was what Azur thought was his father’s motivation for helping them out, whether that was true or not is another story entirely.

PERSONALITY/TRAITS:

Despite Azur’s camp, flamboyant, flirtatious and over the top behavior, Azur actually takes his studies, combat training very seriously. Although he has chosen to not use a weapon, he is not handicapped by that decision in the slightest, as he is what most people call a combat genius. He excels in both the classroom and in sparring matches, always striving for perfection, determined to prove the bullies and the naysayers wrong. He is very proud of his skills and doesn’t want people to underestimate him just because he’s a pretty boy.

He of course started butting heads with Winter Schnee, competing against her for the leader position. Despite the Academy assigning Azur as the leader of the team, Winter was not convinced and was not impressed by either Azur nor Crim, thinking the two only got to where they are due to Azur’s good looks and favoritism from the Admiral. Perhaps even subconsciously despising them because they’re Faunus.

But in time, Winter began to slowly, gradually understand both Azur and Crim. She finally understood why Azur was chosen as the leader, not because of some kind of backstage politics or favoritism, but because he truly earned that position through his hard work, academic excellence and combat prowess.

Azur can be overconfident, cocky, and sometimes even arrogant, but this is coming more from his façade and his inability to share personal things with other people around him due to growing up having people hate him and his brother for what they are, rather than any actual ill will. People who are close to him knows everything he does is for his brother Crim, and that the front he puts up is merely just that – a front.

Azur respects Winter very much as both a fighter and an older sibling, he sees a lot of himself in her, just someone looking out for the only family member they have left. Although Azur can be a bit flirty around Winter, it is mostly out of teasing and joking around rather than legitimate attraction. The two of them can also be somewhat competitive against one another, having a little friendly rivalry here and there.

Fun fact: the reason why his hair stands up the way it does is because of the electricity flowing through his body. It goes back down whenever he stops the electrical flow through his body.

