It's All Monkey Business

Aka Kagutsuchi

Reference To: The color Red, the mythical Salamander, and the Japanese fire deity, Kagu-Tsuchi

Semblance: [Combust]

Combust is the ability to ignite ones Aura into a raging flame that consumes the users body when emotions are kept unchecked. Aka has a deft control over this ability, able to ignite his hands and arms, or feet and legs if he chooses. So long as he keeps a tight grip on his anger, he can throttle the flames and keep them from consuming him and further reducing the burn to his Aura the flames cause. Dust infusion with Combust alters the effect to a linger-burn effect matching the element(electrical-burns, cold-burn, deep contact-burns, ect. ).

Weapon: [Dead Red Heat] is a revolver combined with a sword at it’s most basic descriptor. Its handle is a hand-and-a-half in length classifying it technically as a bastard sword. The firing mechanism for DRH houses up to 6 specifically cut “bullet” Dust crystals that release their elemental-load down the long barrel found along the flat. Dust fired briefly infuses DRH with the element and fires a burst of said element at the same time. Dust is cycled by pulling the trigger with the revolver’s hammers impact also firing the next charge of dust in the cycle. Due to the ammunition being crystals and not Dust bullets, DRH does not need to reload after every six shots. However, crystals do not retain their charges forever so they do need to be reloaded over the course of a long fight. Aka uses a variety of marked quickloaders for specific elemental-clusters of Dust to reload. Due to the design of the firing system, Dust cannot be combined in post refine like it could with powdered Dust. The fully enclosed design of the cylinder ensures that no lucky stray impacts or damage can cause the crystals to detonate while in the user’s hand.

A secondary feature of DRH is the detachable tip. When squeezing the action and cylinder release, the forward most section can be detached to wield a second short blade. This results in a dual-wield mode where-in the revolver portion of DRH gains a significant firepower output increase(Turning into something closer to a sawed-off shotgun) to compensate for its reduced length.

Character Bio Basics:

Aka roughly translates to “Red”

Aka’s age bounces between 18-21 depending on story requirements.

Aka is a Faunus of the salamander variety, possessing a black-orange-yellow tail as his trait

Aka is also an orphan from Menagerie

He would find a father figure in a group of wandering warriors who operated independently of Huntsmen around the age of 7.

Aka became the page of one of the members and learned how to use a gunblade from them.

The wondering warriors would slay Grimm and travel around Remnant, executing “justice” on anything that would harm civilians, be it human or Grimm.

The “Knights” code always simplified to “rout evil where it takes root” and was rigid in defining that evil takes many forms, even that of good sometimes.

Members of the group typically never stay together for long, so eventually Aka and his mentor would be separated from the group.

Aka’s awakening to his semblance came about during his 14th “forge”day, or the anniversary of a member joining the sect of wanderers.

It was the day after that Aka woke up in the inn they had been staying at, alone, as the mentor had left him his gunblade and a simple note:

"7 years under fire, 7 more over anvil, Steel your righteous path now... alone “

Aka was turned loose to complete his training on his own, finding his own purpose and sense of justice from the teachings he received over the 7 years he had been with his mentor

As Aka grew further, he found himself often into fights with Huntsmen and Hunters-in-training on assignment. The nature of these clashes varied between disputes over authority and even petty crime.

By Age 18, Aka hardened himself from fights into a collected slayer of Grimm and corrupted man alike.

Aka sees what he does as righteous in the end result, forming a natural dislike of Huntsmen thanks to his meetings with the less-than-favorable kind.

Fun fact: Aka doesn’t wear gloves, that’s actually his beyond charred skin thanks to his Semblance.

Personality: Aka is a quiet inferno. Someone who is far beyond angry to the point they’re perfectly calmed. His actions speak louder than his scarce words and you would be hard pressed to draw more than a sour retort from him following an insult or mockery. He harbors a distrust and dislike for all Hunters in Remnant, seeing them as false-heroes and glory seeking cowards, all restricted by a strict book of subjective morals with no resolve to see their missions through in the end. Aka sees the bad in good, and the good in bad; making him capable of fitting in with the most deceptively debauchery of folk while also having a short fuse when they finally cross his line. He spares few words for those he seeks to rout, and the last thing you actually want to do is rekindle his tempered flames

Goals: purge the Huntsmen of Remnant who lack resolve, making way for the true heroes. The ends will justify the means.

Art by: Ergofish

I keep making badguys and I don’t know why. Aka is my idea for a flexible-age anti-hero/antagonist. He’s someone who acts as a thing to question Huntsmen and other villains alike. He’s like a goal-litmus test honestly. A quietly angry, forever burning on the inside, force of nature with a gunblade and a willpower to use it on anyone who he sees as lacking resolve or objective righteousness.

Simin Sinbat

Reference to: The color Silver & Sinbad the Sailor

Semblance: [Hoard]

Hoard allow the user to imprint and store “information” into a coin format. “Information” being any sort of object, speech, or even the recorded information of an attack. Simin typically stores clusters of Dust into his favorite coins, using them as more compact units of Dust, but the ultimate utility of Hoard is in it’s mimic-like ability. When Simin flips a coin into an oncoming attack and activates Hoard, a copy of the action is stored inside the coin that can later be utilized with his weapon to imitate the attack in it’s full capacity with Aura filling in the “Blanks” of various parameters.

Weapon: [Seafarer Voyage] Is at it’s most basic, an oar with a slot on it’s face to store up to 3 coins. It can be pulled inward to shift it into a scimitar with a rectangular slot along the yalman to fire coins stored in it’s chamber at an angle. Coins fired from Seafarer Voyage are fired utilizing either the kinetic energy stored in them, or the elemental property of dust stored with an impact similar to the force of a bullet matching their size. A third-mode can only be activated by inserting a special silver “Polearm” coin in combination with a Water and Wind Dust coin, this form is known as “Tempest” and takes the form of a naginata that not only fires bullet-like jets of water from it’s recess, but also sweeps gale force winds outward on swings.

Character Bio Basics:

Simin translates to “silvery” in Persian.

Born on the ocean between the Atlas and Mistral coastlines.

Technically, his full name is Simin Sinbat the 5th

Family has been sailors of the open sea for over 4 generations prior, starting with Simin Sinbat the 1st.

All Sinbat men end up taking a “Voyage” that makes them notable faces in the naval community. Typically these voyages are grossly exaggerated tales of survival and sheer luck.

Simin’s age ranges between 17 and <21 depending on story an plot requirements.

Simin is the first Sinbat to activity show interest in being a Huntsman instead of just a sailor. Upon seeing the requirements to go to an academy however, Simin bailed out on the prospect.

Because of his age, Simin is currently on his “Voyage”

Depending on plot demands, Simin can be either a straight sailor-child, or a pirate.

Seafarer Voyage is a weapon Simin created himself and has self-taught himself how to use.

Simin owns a catamaran-styled boat. He wishes to upgrade eventually.

Simin will always fight a “Roc” or large bird at some point in any of his plot of a story. Note that “Bird” can be subjective and not a literal bird.

Simin actually loves treasure, like no joke. He would slam your hand in a door if it meant he could get to something shiny first. Hence his Semblance’s name and it’s basic function.

Depending on the story, and if he’s notably a pirate, Simin specializes in black market trading and whatnot for big easy money. How Simin acquires his goods is up to your assumption.

Simin keeps his most important coins in his coat pockets. They are strapped into little harnesses that prevent them from jingling around or out of his pocket. When traveling “Light” the coin storing his weapon and boat are among the two always on hand.

Personality: Above all else, Simin watches out for himself at all times. He may be young but he’s a young man who was raised on the sea. He knows his way around the art of a deal, with a slick silver-tongue and sharper wits than his age should allow. His fascination with wealth and collecting treasure and valuable contents makes him dubious in nearly any scenario where he stands to gain something by acting out. His innate face is that of someone who takes things as they come and with a smug smirking stride, feeling always in control of a situation despite the graveness of it. Even when he doesn’t have a plan, Simin puts his trust in his wit and hoard of treasure to get himself, and only himself, out of trouble.

Goals: Become the sea’s greatest sailor/pirate/merchant of all time.

Art by: Ergofish

Caramilla Vanhelsing

Reference to: Vanhelsing & the brown-gold color Caramel

Semblance: [Red Ice]

A semblance similar to cryokinesis where-in the user can chill water particles around them to create solid ice structures. Caramilla’s Aura causes her ice to take on a congealed red hue but is none-the-less just colored ice for all intents and purposes. The limitations of Red Ice is tied directly to just how cold Caramilla is willing to allow herself to become. Extensive use drops the users internal temperature and self-induced conditions can occur when said temperature drops too low. Red Ice is at it’s strongest when the user is overcome in frenzy and the weather is either humid or rainy. The exact range limitation of free-form creation is recorded at 5 yards, with projectiles capable of being flung up to 25 yards before they become brittle and shatter.

Weapon: [Sanguine Bathory] is at it’s most basic, a double break-barrel shotgun with a noticeable edge on it’s underside akin to a twin bayonet. When folded out onto itself, the barrels can combine and extend outward to force the split bayonet towards the sides, extending out to form an axe head with two muzzles pointed outward in opposite direction at the axe-eye. A double trigger at the handle allows Caramilla to fire either left or right to improve swinging power on the opposite direction pulled. This weapon can only house 2 explosively strong Dust shells at a time and while in Axe mode cannot be reloaded without swapping back to the shotgun briefly.

Character Bio Basics:

Born in the kingdom of Vale, though somewhere secluded out in the forests.

Vanhelsing’s are left alone in their pseudo-mansion, to deal with their own business in said forest. Generally Vanhelsing’s only venture into town when hunting something specific and needing supplies.

Caramilla’s age bounces between 16, if in a school setting, and >22 when she’s fully independent or an antagonist within the story.

Weapon is an heirloom that has been enhanced/improved over the years by Vanhelsing’s prior.

Carmilla’s “fangs” depend on if the story at hand needs her to be a bat-faunus or just have a creepy smile that creates the illusion of fangs when grinning.

Caramilla has clear mannerisms of a Southern Belle, accent and all.

Her childhood friend, another character created by Ergofish, generally acts as her “hunting hound” in their sibling-esc relationship.

Caramilla has hunted, and killed, fellow Huntsmen/Huntress before. The specifics of this change for story convenience as needed.

It is questionably hard to tell from the shading and angle in her picture, but Caramilla is exceptionally well-endowed and not afraid to flaunt it while in the presence of company. This femme-fatale gesture sometimes plays into the story, if appropriate at the time.

Personality: Caramilla is flirty and dangerous above all else. She decorates her compliments in laughs and sweet-nothing’s to throw off suitors and rivals alike. Modesty is both an art and inconvenience to the young woman, who likes to fancy herself a practiced manipulator with more than enough assets and flare to attract whosoever eye she desires. Her pretty face and burning red stare mask the viciousness she withholds when on the offense. It should always be important to remember what Caramilla is after you know her, because the young woman is not above lying and deceiving others if it moves her closer to whatever goal she is set out on. Her only genuine concern for others appears in the care she gives her one true childhood friend, who is typically clung to when Caramilla is feeling extremely stressed.

Goal(s): Hunt, Hunt, and Hunt

Art by: Ergofish

Figured this place would be as good as place as any to drop some of the OC’s I’m somewhat proud(?) of I guess. I like sharing my ideas and concepts as well as seeing others own ideas o/

Gil Kaddia

References to: The Epic of Gilgamesh and the orange hue of Cadmium. I guess the fantasy currency Gil can also have a sort of orange-gold color too?

Semblance: [Un-Limit]

Gil’s Aura manifests in the form of exceptional Stat boosts from an ever recharging pool. Simply put, Gil’s aura constantly “Builds” at the cost of metabolism and physical condition to be exerted for strength, defense, and very brief speed boosts. After rest, Gil’s Aura will sit at around 30% capacity and slowly build by 5% every minute while in combat(Greater yields can occur if focused). By expending his Aura, Gil boosts his striking power, and endurance to go toe-to-toe with mostly any foe thrown his way. As explained earlier, this process is taxing on the body, frequently being unable to “cap” your limitations means you will expend more than you can realistically handle which will lead to self-inflicted injury.

TL;DR- Gil has an Aura that starts low at the beginning of the day, builds up over time, and he has to expend it periodically or he will hurt himself from overcharge since he doesn’t have a maximum storage capacity. Using his exertions improperly can also hurt himself from the raw power of the recoil. Additionally, the shackles on his wrists actually act as a medium to drain out Aura into the open air with out any “Noticeable” effects; It requires focus for this effect to occur. It’s a character who is more prone to using their Aura to do the cool Wuxia stuff from Vol.1 and 2.

Weapon: [Enkidu] is a triangular-bladed sword that can be shifted into a variety of other bladed weapons through twisting and folding. In it’s basic form, the triangle blade operates as a sturdy short sword with surprising versatility. It’s other forms include: Zweihander, Halberd, Wedge-blade, and tethered dual short blades. Enkidu’s only ranged abilities resides in inserting cut Dust crystals at the bottom of the fuller to charge the weapon with elemental properties; even then the range created is middling at best.

Character Bio Basics:

Emblem is a reference to his use of “5 swords”. Can be found on the back of his mantle

Born in Vacuo, probably an orphan.

Broke off his right horn in a fight at an early age.

Has always been to, and escaped, (a) prison at some point in the story.

Any and all titles given to him tend to be bad in nature. (IE:The Tyrant, The Insatiable, The Arrogant, ect.)

Works as a wandering sellsword and independent Grimm Hunter(Not HUNTSMAN, mind you). The larger the Grimm are, the happier he is to accept the job.

Should be fully noted here: NOT an actual Huntsman or academy trained. He is a mercenary who made himself and his sloppy fighting style reflects as such. Dude is just REALLY good at killing Grimm and likes his job.

Personality: Boisterous and arrogant. Gil is a man of action and less of thought. He’s very much a charge-it-head-first now and split the semantics later kind of hot head. While very well possessing the ability to think his way through a situation, he would much more prefer to just brute force a solution than “Waste time” working around something. He has a strong taste for savory cooked meats and rich soups, as well as straight, strong liquors. His social skills vary significantly, from decently withheld and “Manageable” to full on rowdy house drunkard.

Goal(s?): Become the ONLY hero of Remnant. Fight and best ALL Grimm. Become a legend(Good or bad, still undecided)

Art by: Ergofish