My RWBY OC overview:
Characteristics
Name : Aedan Cousland
Race : Human
Gender : Male
Age : 18 (at series start)
Traits
Handedness : Right
Height : 5'11" (1.79 meters)
Hair Color : Dark Brown
Eye Color : Blue
Semblance : Aura Shielding
I suck at drawing, but because I still want you guys to show and to understand what I describe I may come over as unoriginal regarding certain things (at least I admit it and say from who I got it).
Aedan is one of twelve possible standard starting names I borrowed from a game called 'Dragon Age Origins'. I only borrowed the name from there, not the related background story. Aedan also means 'Born of fire' in Irish, this is why the emblem is a Phoenix in a shield, the shield thing has to do with my character's Semblance. I chose the color blue because of my own eye color and because it would in my opinion be the best fitting color combined with Red, White, Black and Yellow and yes, the character is basically me.
(www . halo3archives . com Emblem Generator)
Take the cover image for a visual for his appearance. Aside from the black jacket, blue jeans etc. (see cover image) my character also wears black hiking boots.
(www . kongregate . com Anime Character Maker 2)
Lots of credit towards the games of the 'Halo' franchise for the weapon my character uses. In the games known as the 'Spartan Laser', this weapon fires a red energy beam that can burn through its enemies and explode. It runs on red dust crystal magazines and is capable of firing five highly powered up shots before reloading. For each shot you need to charge it up for four seconds, or you can let go of the trigger earlier for less powerful shots and shoot more often before needing to reload. Looking through its sight you can zoom in up to three times. When not in action the weapon is carried on the back in its folded state (see cover image, it's all on scale).
As you can see, my character's main weapon doesn't have a melee state, kind of the opposite from Jaune, who's only weapon only has a melee state. My character though does carry a combat knife with him, horizontally sheathed in a sheath on his belt at his back.
Aura Shielding is a Semblance that allows my character to use his Aura to create solid shields outside of it being a personal force field. This does cost Aura, if the shield isn't destroyed it will fade away and the used Aura will go back to the character's Aura level. This happens at Aedan's command or if he gets unconscious. These shields can only appear within his sight radius and can consist out of various levels of strength and shapes. He can't move the shield around after letting it appear, unless he gathers Aura in his hand, than he can throw it. Also his Aura and Semblance are transparent blue in color.
Furthermore, combat wise: What he lacks in speed and agility he makes more than up for in durability and strength. While having great reflexes and aim with his weapon, he could become better with his knife fighting skills. Without his weapons he is good at mixed martial arts (I've done mixed martial arts for years), but he refrains from using a lot of kicks in favor for solid defenses.
Most of the male cast is slim, my character is not like Jaune and Ren, my character has an overall broader and a more buff build. He is just a tad broader than Cardin and/or Yatsuhashi. The origin of his scar on his cheek will be told in a future chapter as will additional information about the character. He does live in the kingdom of Vale and comes from a medium sized city called Draken (made up, translated my birthplace is called Drakes).
Aside from the AU and changes in the story of RWBY because of this OC, I want him to pair (M/F) him with someone. I was thinking Yang or Pyrrha, at the moment I've set it on Yang so that all the most obvious M/F-pairings in the show can still exist.
Disclaimer: For the most part I just added another student for Beacon Academy, who in the grand scheme of things may or may not change that much.