RWBY OC #2- Grant Braun (Backstory in desc)

From pickpocket to fearless leader, I introduce to you the G of team GTHC, Grant Braun.

 

Name- Grant Braun

 

Weapons- Drehung Berzerkers (A pair of drill gauntlets which are also (*gasp*) Guns.

 

Semblance- Creation of Short range portals (a couple dozen meters, give or take, not whole cities). Grant

 

Backstory- Born in the lower levels of Mistral, Grant was raised in an orphanage, but when his semblance emerged unstable, he was thrown out. Left on the streets, Grant was taken in by the shifty, covetous Cayenne Roden. Roden taught Grant to master his semblance and took advantage of his ‘kindnesses to exploit Grant to join his network of thieves and pickpockets all across Mistral. Grant was made to use his semblance as an escape option during there many robberies.

 

On one heist Grant acquired some mining equipment from the ‘Schnee Dust Company’ which he modified into his Drehung Berserkers.

 

Eventually, Grant was sent on a pickpocketing mission, acquiring oddities of value from the more affluent in Mistral. In an attempt to steal a curious looking cane, Grant was caught in the act. While he nobly used his semblance to help the rest of the boys’ escape, Grant was caught and arrested by the Mistral police. Initially facing serious punishment, the person he had attempted to steal from saw potential in the young urchin’s skill and willingness to sacrifice and dropped all charges. That person was Professor Ozpin of Vale.

 

Using his influence with the Headmaster Leonardo Lionheart, Ozpin got Grant a place at Haven academy to train to be a Huntsman. During his training, Grant found himself grouped up with Trachelia Reichenbach, Haller Nihil and Cerise Nautilus, Grant proved himself an exceptional huntsman, despite his lack of experience and became the leader of Team GTHC (pronounced Gothic). After a relatively uneventful (well, as uneventful as training to be a warrior can be), Team GTHC graduated from Haven. Sticking together, Team GTHC travel across Anima, taking any work that comes there way, with any basic reward they need.

 

Grant is an extremely noble and courageous Huntsman, going all out in any fight, and is willing to do anything needed for the sake of his friends. However, while an all around good person, Grant’s time as a street thief has left him slightly ill-acquainted with some basic laws, at times casually shop lifting simply out of habit, resulting in unfortunate complications for the rest of his team

 

Like all members of Team GTHC, Grant is based on a character from 1800s fiction, in his case… Oliver Twist. Alongside the obvious parallels in backstory, such as his origins as a street thief working under an immoral old man (Cayenne Roden=Fagin), the term ‘Drehung’ used in his weapons translates loosely to ‘Rotation’ in German. While referring to the drill element of his weapons, the word rotation has a similar meaning to Twist…

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