Llyarden

Sorin is a seventeen-year-old young man, fairly handsome with blue-grey eyes and very long, golden-blonde hair. He's relatively tall and slender, though somewhat stronger than he looks. Unbeknownst to...pretty much anyone outside his family...he has a set of small, downy white feathers running up his shoulderblades, past his shoulders, and about halfway down his arms.

He tends to dress in very smart (and quite expensive) clothes, refusing to wear short sleeves to keep his feathers hidden and similarly refusing to wear shorts or take his shoes off so the prior refusal doesn't seem quite as suspicious. His weapon is kept in a holster at his side, which is strapped around his body in a couple of places so the disproportionate weight of it isn't too uncomfortable.

When you're a Faunus trying to hide what you are, life isn't always easy. So it was for Hob Miller, a rat Faunus working in the underbelly of Mistral. He was a skilled inventor and weaponsmith, though, and slowly word began to get around that he could provide repairs and upgrades for weapons with a minimum of questions and a maximum of discretion. It didn't take him long to realise he was working for the Farm and the White Fang alike - the former believing him to be human, the latter knowing him to be a Faunus - along with other assorted malcontents and criminals...but by the time he realised he had a family to support: his wife Rhianu, a lynx Faunus, and their newborn son Sorin. (And, not long after that, their daughter Roxana.)

Trying to disentangle himself from his criminal connections while simultaneously keeping his family fed wasn't easy. In fact, times were hard enough that Rhianu left both him and her own children, and joined the White Fang, living openly as a Faunus among (to her mind) people who accepted her for who she was instead of forcing her to hide for the sake of their own wealth.

But Hob managed. He became a reputable weaponsmith, working for the children of noble families and the like - as it turned out, the quiet, no-questions-asked discretion that had made him so popular among the criminal underbelly was in equal demand among the nobility as they prepared for duels of honour among each other and wanted every advantage they could get.

As his state of living grew better, Sorin could afford to focus on more than just surviving the streets. He started to read books, and became something of an academic - but within those books were also tales of Huntsmen and Huntresses, and the Grimm that they protected the cities from. And Sorin was...kind of a precocious child, so by the time he was reading about them he was still the age to be easily impressionable.

His father...wasn't best pleased about Sorin's decision that he would become a Huntsman himself. But Sorin threw himself into training, both physically and mentally. In time he might have been forced by necessity to join his father's trade...except Hob made a breakthrough.

It was when Sorin was about twelve that he was woken up in the middle of the night by his father kinda raving wildly about his new inspiration. When he came down for breakfast the next morning he found the kitchen table occupied by two failed prototypes and a whole lot of complicated diagrams drawn on...basically every available surface. (Hob was not the sort of person to take neat notes when he was excited.)

Hob's development of this innovative form of weapon he'd come up with stalled pretty quickly, though. The materials, tools and Dust he'd need to create it were way outside of his means to acquire. But by this point he had enough contacts among the upper class that - with a few easy lies about ensuring that the first genuine model would be provided to each of them - he was able to, effectively, be sponsored to create it.

And from that day on he kinda did a 180 on Sorin becoming a Huntsman. After all, what better way to prove that his idea had merit - and keep the money flowing in - than to equip a new Huntsman with a prototype of the weapon? Of course, that did mean that Sorin had to come top of his class in basically everything to prove both his and the weapon's worth.

But Sorin had never backed down from a challenge.

A Picture Tells A Thousand Words [Skill] - Art is all about emotion (or, at least, it is for Sorin.) And a well-placed picture he creates can convey emotions far better than his words alone.

Dove Faunus [Native] [Faunus] - Like many bird Faunus, Sorin can see ultraviolet light, and he also has a perfect sense of direction. (Anyone calling him a homing pigeon is liable to get whacked over the head.) His Faunus nature has also given him a bird-like physiology when it comes to blood oxygenation and the like, giving him a strength and stamina somewhat beyond what his slender frame would suggest.

Ace Parry [Skill] - Sorin is a very good swordsman, capable of using a weapon (usually Fool, but even just a stick charged with Aura would do in a pinch) to deflect attacks that would otherwise hit him - though he's not that great at resetting his stance as he gets pushed harder and harder.

Protective [Skill] - In social situations, Sorin can come off as kinda clingy. In a fight, this tends to manifest as him being...more than a little protective of his allies, very quick to shield them from attacks even at the cost of his own (limited) Aura.

Strong [Skill] - Sorin's Semblance doesn't enhance his physical abilities, nor does he benefit from his Faunus nature in that regard. But by the standards of a fairly slim 17-year-old he's pretty strong, able to lift twice his own body weight (although admittedly that is kinda helped by the fact that he's fairly light, only weighing about 120lbs.)

Artist's Palette - This isn't the first time Hob had split Fool into separate Dust storage and primary weapon forms. But back then it had still been very much in the experimental stages, and he'd mostly done it just to see how it worked. This time it's a deliberate change, and more properly designed for Sorin's fighting style. It still looks like a painter's palette, but instead of just splodges of Dust paste that had been the first version, Hob has used the Wilson's nanites to replicate Fool's segments on a much smaller scale and used them to store small 'packets' of powdered Dust, allowing for the Dust to be stored in as accessible and usable a form as powdered Dust without any of the danger of...well, keeping a large-ish amount of powdered Dust around on the battlefield. The Dust reservoirs are styled to look like feathers - Sorin hasn't yet had the chance to ask whether that's his father's way of accepting Sorin's decision in the heat of the moment to sacrifice their family's identity as humans. (Or, rather, he has, but he hasn't got a straight answer.)

Augmented Shield [Technology] - One advantage of the new Dust storage mechanism is that Sorin can use it more freely like a shield, allowing him to block attacks with it more freely. It can also integrate with Fool to draw power from the weapon itself.

Shield Block - ...and when all's said and done, it is still a shield, and goes a long way to making up for Sorin's no longer quite as low as it was, but still low, Aura.

Dust Artistry [Dust] - Its main purpose, though, remains being a rapidly-accessible Dust reservoir that Sorin can use to easily deploy multiple forms of Dust.

Style Blending [Skill] [Aura] - Sorin's experience using the Foolson (particularly in its shield form) means he's a lot more capable of rapidly manipulating it and the Palette in ways that a casual user wouldn't be able to by using his Aura. Of course, this means if his Aura is Broken, he can only use the Foolson in the same way as any other wielder.

Foolson (Artist's Brush) - With the aid of nanites and after multiple, multiple redesigns, the Foolson is no longer a fifteen-pound chunk of metal that requires specific training to use. Instead, it's a sleek baton perhaps a foot long. And yes, it does look like a painter's brush, although that's purely a stylistic feature that Hob chose to apply as a nod to his son's hobby of painting.

Weapon Modes [Technology] - It's still entirely capable of transforming into a half-dozen different forms, though.

Wilson's Legacy [Technology] [Nanite] - Sorin never really got much use out of the Wilson's weapon mimicry ability, so Hop has repurposed it a little, but the nanite reconfigurations are still very much a facet of the Foolson.

False Perfection [Aura] [Semblance] - While Sorin's Aura is still pretty limited, between his training to increase his Aura and the simple fact that his weapon doesn't require as much Aura as it used to, he can push a lot more of it into his Semblance, allowing him to create mirages or plaster a subtle veneer of 'perfection' over himself or his allies.

Tactical Combatant [Skill] [Physical/Physical] [Bludgeoning] - When he joined the Academy, Sorin wasn't particularly adept at unarmed combat. Months of training (especially Auntie Wulf's training) has put paid to that, and while he's still not great at defending himself without a weapon, he can at least attack unarmed pretty well.
With the Artist's Palette, this can be [Energy/Energy] [Dust] . With the Foolson, this can be [Physical/Physical] [Technology]

Mimicked Lightsaber

Leaping Set-Up [Skill] - Sorin's always been a mobile fighter, and he's learned to use that mobility to knock opponents off-balance, setting them up for one of his friends to capitalise.

Twinned Blades [Technology] [Skill] - Sorin can split Fool into two light blades, allowing him to strike at multiple targets or focus a flurry of attacks onto a single target.

Shifting Blade [Technology] - By making small modifications to the length and curve of the weapon, Sorin can strike precisely at a target's weak points.

Perfect Parry [Skill] - Sorin's always been good at fencing, and with Fool in an appropriate mode, he can parry sword-strikes a lot more easily than other forms of attack.

Red Feather [Dust] [Energy] [Fire] - The red 'paint' in the Palette is, of course, Fire Dust, which Sorin can scatter on targets to burn them for a good few seconds after he's moved on to other things.

Cyan Feather [Dust] [Energy] [Aether] - The turquoise 'paint' in the Palette is Hard Light Dust, which Sorin can coat his weapon (or ammunition) in to allow it to break through defences that would turn a normal attack aside.

False Might & False Speed [Aura] [Semblance] [Mental/Physical] [Bludgeoning] - Sorin can use his Semblance to create a phantasm of himself to strike at opponents - and thanks to the telepathic nature of his power, their physical ability to avoid attacks is somewhat irrelevant. And since his phantasms don't have to obey the confines of his physical body, he can make them much faster or stronger than he is.

Mist Glaive

Exploit Opening [Skill] [Tactical/Tactical] [Maneuver] or [Aura] [Semblance] [Mental/Mental] [Rewrite] - When a target is open, Sorin can capitalise, manipulating them into attacking the wrong target with a quick strike at the last minute - or, with the illusionary and telepathic power of his Semblance, completely feeding them a false understanding of the battlefield to have them do whatever he wants.

Recoil Launch [Technology] - By firing Fool's firearm part down at the ground and standing on the crossbar of the glaive, Sorin can launch himself at much higher speeds than normal.

Whirling Glaive [Skill] - With the advantage that having a longer weapon gives him over most opponents, Sorin can keep up the pressure on his targets without giving them a chance to recover.

Pole Vault [Skill] [Technology] - Through a mixture of quick blasts of his weapon, Aura-powered mobility and just straight up using the Foolson in its glaive form as leverage, Sorin can maneuver around the battlefield at high speed.

Dust Fusion (Steam Dust) [Dust] [Sensory/Sensory] [Obstruction] - By combining Fire and Water Dust, Sorin can cover an opponent in Steam Dust projectors that emit thick clouds of steam that can block not only the target's sight but also their other senses. And if someone else's Aura makes contact with the target, the emitters can leap to them and potentially subject them to the effect as well.

Battle Artistry [Aura] [Semblance] [Mental/Physical] - If he has the time to focus, Sorin can project multiple mirages of himself to strike at targets all across the battlefield.

Thunderbolt Pistol

Harrying Follow-Up [Skill] [Tactical/Tactical] [Overwhelm] - Once he has the measure of a target, Sorin can keep up the attack to make it a lot harder for them to fight back.

Pistol Shot [Technology] - Fool was always built around a Dust pistol, and it can still fire projectiles just as well as it could when first made.

Bouncing Shot - ...in fact, thanks to some secondary Dust charges in some rounds, it can fire better than it could when first made, bullets ricocheting in a perfect direction to surprise an opponent.

Missile Shot [Physical/Physical] [Explosive] - Pump enough Dust into a single bullet and the results can be quite dramatic.

Yellow Feather [Energy/Physiological] [Dust] [Electricity] [Disruption] - The yellow 'paint' in the Palette is Lightning Dust, which Sorin can use to stun targets.

Project Aura [Aura] [Skill] - By wrapping his Aura around a weapon or projectile, Sorin can drastically increase the range he can attack at. By wrapping his Aura around other people, he can also exert force to move them without physically touching them - although it's still limited by his own strength.

Hurricane Gauntlet

Exploit Inattention [Tactical/Material] [Flesh] [Metal] - When an opponent leaves themselves off-balance attacking someone other than Sorin, he can take advantage to maneuver them around - or, with a blast from Fool in its gauntlet mode, send them flying.

Blasting Gauntlet [Technology] - In its gauntlet mode, the firearm part of Fool ends up on the back of Sorin's hand, meaning that he can fire it to knock incoming attacks aside as he moves to protect an ally.

Momentum Absorption [Technology] - Using the gauntlet to anchor himself, Sorin can take the power of an opponent's attack aimed at an ally and turn it right back at them, making it impossible to dodge completely.

White Feather [Material] [Dust] [Wind] - The white 'paint' in Sorin's Palette is Wind Dust, which he can use to blast opponents regardless of whether or not they've left themselves open or not.

Blue Feather [Material] [Dust] [Water] - The blue 'paint' in Sorin's Palette is Water Dust, which he can use to catch opponents in tidal waves and hurl them into each other, directed by his Aura.

Wings of Gold [Aura] [Faunus] - After a lot of training and a few very stressful moments, Sorin has learned to use his Semblance to create feathers of golden Aura that he can use to fly - not for long, admittedly, but if he really pushes himself he can fly at upwards of 30mph, and lift significantly heavier weights than normal.

Winter's Lash

Lethal Distraction [Skill] [Physical/Physical] [Scouring] - Sorin can use the Fool in its whip form to tear through Aura Barriers or rip through the armour of Grimm (or robots).

Shardstorm [Technology] - By loading all the individual segments of the lash into the Fool's firearm component, he can fire it kinda like a shotgun.

Green Feather [Material/Material] [Dust] [Plant Dust] - Plant Dust isn't used very often, but all that means is that it's less in demand. By firing a charged pellet of Plant Dust, Sorin can wrap a target in ropes, preventing them from moving or attacking (although what they lose in personal defence does kinda get made up for by the plants shielding them.)

Dust Fusion (Ice Dust) [Dust] - By combining Water and Wind Dust, Sorin can project dozens of miniature pellets of Plant Dust like a blizzard, entangling anyone who gets in the way.
Spin Phantasm [Aura] [Semblance] - After a lot of practice, Sorin has managed to learn to create illusions that don't glow brightly, making them a little more useful for deceiving opponents.

Perfect Phantasm [Aura] [Semblance] - If he has the time to focus and put a lot more power into his illusions, Sorin can produce phantasms that can not only fool vision, but hearing, smell and possibly even other senses besides.

Guardian's Shield

Guardian's Recovery - By using his shield to parry attacks, Sorin has the opportunity to quickly recover from attacks aimed at his allies that he's blocked.

Tower Shield [Technology] - Augmented by the Foolson, Sorin's palette/shield can become a full-fledged tower shield that he can use to shield himself or an ally.

Shield Slam [Skill] [Tactical/Physical] [Bludgeoning] - When an attack is stopped by his shield, Sorin can take the opportunity to retaliate, pushing an opponent off-balance to allow an ally to capitalise.

Orange Feather [Material/Material] [Dust] [Stone] - Sorin can use Earth Dust to create a solid object of stone, sustained by his Aura and/or the Foolson's nanites.

Violet Feather [Material/Material] [Dust] [Force] - There's a Gravity Dust crystal placed in the centre of Sorin's palette/shield. When he charges it, the gravitational force can pull opponents off-balance who attack him, allowing allies to hit them before they can recover.

Mask of Perfection [Aura] [Semblance] - Using his shield and its artistic motifs as a focus, Sorin can use his Semblance to create an illusion across his own emotional state, hiding himself from the Grimm and simultaneously making attempts to manipulate his emotions ineffective. He can shield allies from emotional attacks if they're in contact with him, but the Grimmsense is too sensitive for him to hide that many people (although to some extent, if people aren't feeling strong emotions, it goes some way to hide them from the Grimmsense anyway.)

The Foolson

Adaptability [Technology] [Aura] [Semblance] - By using his Semblance's illusory nature with the Foolson's nanites, Sorin can augment his own abilities.

Weapon Mimicry [Technology] [Nanite] - The original power of the Wilson - duplicating the weapons of others - has been toned down by Hob in the interests of efficiency, but Sorin can still make use of it to a limited extent, and thanks to a few upgrades from Hob, he can duplicate the natural attacks of Grimm just as easily as manufactured weapons.

Weapon Analysis [Technology] - To help Sorin correctly mimic weapons, Hob has installed an analytical program onto the Foolson, which projects its output to Sorin's Scroll.

Dust Transfer [Dust] - By using the 'packet' nature of the Palette's Dust storage and the Foolson's nanite control, Sorin can use his Aura to transfer Dust or nanites to his allies, augmenting their attacks - with his Semblance, he can also boost their attacks in other ways.

White Feather (Secret/Weakness) - It's pretty well-known at this point that Sorin is a Faunus. Being caught on multiple Scroll feeds flying through the air on golden wings - and then wandering around Beacon without even the protection of his Aura to hide his feathers - will kinda do that. Nonetheless, oddly enough, there are a fair number of nobles in Mistral who actually don't believe that he's a Faunus, and there are some of them who are important enough that he's at least allowed them to continue to believe that rather than explicitly telling them the truth. (As an aside, the little feathery areas on his back and arms are very sensitive. If an opponent managed to strike him there, whether accidentally or deliberately, it would be pretty painful even through an Aura barrier. On a lighter note, he's also very ticklish there.)

Traitor (Reputation/Enemies) - Of course, there are a lot of people who do now believe he's a Faunus. Unsurprisingly, this has attracted him a fair amount of emnity both from racist humans who are outraged that a Faunus would dare pretend to be one of them and from Faunus who call him a traitor for pretending to be a human and living with all the luxuries thereof until now.

I Want to Belong (Motivation/Obsession) - Ever since he was little, Sorin's never felt like he had a home. The upper classes of Mistral will forever see his family as lower-class artisans worthy of sufficient tolerance to serve them and nothing more. The lower classes see his family as abandoning their roots and trying to claw their way into the arms of the high and mighty. And it's not like hiding his Faunus nature for upwards of a dozen years made that any easier - it just meant he didn't feel like he fitted in with the Faunus that are open about their identity as well as feeling like he didn't fit in with the humans he was pretending to be. This doesn't bother his father - who was perfectly happy to blend into humanity - or his sister - who found her own niche living openly has a Faunus. It does bother him. That, combined with the fact that he's not exactly had much social interaction growing up, has made him a little bit...clingy...when it comes to people who are kind to him, especially his teammates and friends.

The All-Powerful Weapon (Secret/Enemies) - Not to put too fine a point on it, Hob has...kinda exaggerated what his new prototype weapon is capable of. While it's been kept fairly quiet that Sorin is the one with the prototype, the family is well-known enough that anyone that moves in the same social circle as them might figure it out - and then, in all likelihood, start to grow suspicious if they realise that Sorin doesn't seem to be capable of all the feats Hob's attributed to the weapon's powers. Or try to steal it for themselves. Y'know, one or the other.

Nose in a Book (Reputation/Quirk) - Between his slender build and somewhat youthful appearance, his quiet nature and the way that he seemingly prefers the company of books to people, Sorin...tends to get taken as a socially awkward scholarly type. At times this can result in him being passed over or discounted, especially when it comes to physical activities (much to his annoyance.) In fairness though he kinda...is...socially awkward, and being well-read doesn't always tell him when he's making some sort of faux pas, especially in informal settings.

Power Guzzler (Weakness/Power Loss) - A significant downside of Fool being a prototype is that it's very, very Aura- and Dust-intensive. This is why Sorin's Aura barrier is weaker than normal, though he's learned to compensate for its lack with his natural speed and agility enough that even if he doesn't have the weapon to hand he'd simply end up using his Aura to parry and evade attacks rather than simply blocking them as with a normal barrier. That said, it's still something he has to contend with; he might be subject to Aura Break where others aren't, for instance. Similarly, while Hob and his backers are ensuring that a steady supply of Dust reaches Sorin to keep Fool topped up, if he was without the option of resupply for a while Fool's capabilities would be drastically reduced.

The Millers (Relationships) - Sorin's father, Hob, is the creator of Fool and the one responsible for ensuring that Sorin had the training he needed to follow his dream and enter Haven Academy. No matter how much the cynical side of Sorin might wonder if Hob would have been so helpful if Sorin becoming a Huntsman didn't also serve his purposes, Sorin is deeply grateful to his father. Sorin's younger sister, Roxie, has - after some deliberation and thought - started to serve as a spy in the White Fang, and Sorin is, as you might expect, terrified that he's going to lose his little sister, but also fully aware that trying to convince her to stop would probably only have the opposite effect.

They Are My Heroes (Quirk? Phobia?) - Okay, so it's probably pretty fair to say that Teams RACL and FLNS...kind of have a reputation at this point. Now, most people, if they had that kind of exaggerated reputation, would either entirely lean into it or just kinda think it was overblown. Sorin, though...Sorin entirely believes it - except for as it applies to him. And when he'd joined the academy, the idea of being so far behind (as he sees it) his teammates and friends would have driven him almost to obsession to try to catch up. But - perhaps to his own surprise as well - he's actually kinda cool with it. His cast-iron belief that his friends are a lot more powerful than him in no way stops him from protecting them (he is at least cognizant of reality enough to realise that they do tend to leave themselves open a fair bit...or a lot...) but this does mean that if he has to fight one-on-one against something he sees as equal in power to them, he might be going into the fight convinced he's going to lose.

Aura Break (Power Loss) - Like all Aura wielders, Sorin can lose his Aura if he takes enough damage, losing access to his Semblance, Aura Mobility, Landing Strategy and a smattering of other powers that rely on his Aura.