16-year-old Rusty Osprey is many things. He is a tactical genius, a master of dust and an advanced engineer, a student who got accepted into Beacon a year early, and he is also in a wheelchair.

Rusty is a straight-up genius, a genius who has dreams to be a hunter. He chose this path because he loved the strategy of battle and he loved outsmarting anyone who could think they could overpower him. Rusty is small in stature, around 5'5", with almost no muscle. He has long rust coloured hair that almost cover his thick framed glasses, and he always dresses formally, to show off how mature he is compared to his age. Being that small he often drew the attention of bullies in school who wanted to look tough, but when the bullies targeted him they always ended up looking pathetic. Rusty easily took care of these threats due to his semblance, which he mastered at the age of 12. His semblance was a tactical one, he could instantly size up an opponent he faced, this includes knowing their fighting styles, their intentions to fight, and what kind of semblances they have. This told him the bullies weaknesses and he'd always have the perfect dust mixture on hand to deal with them. Dust alchemy was Rusty's hobby, he got an unlimited supply of dust by discovering a new mixture, a dust that could create a stream of ink, and selling it to the SDC. Rusty had found many other new mixtures but decided it would be safer if they weren't in the hands of the SDC, like a combustible gas that could wipe out a whole city or a dust that could turn anything into dust (not the energy kind, just the useless specks of dirt kind).

He was 15 when he decided to start actually being a hunter, figuring that he was already smart enough that an institution like Beacon wouldn't help him, and his first mission was to stop a store robbery that he heard over the police radio frequency he hacked into. Luckily the dust shop that was being targeted was just around the corner from Rusty's place, so he got there just as the heist was taking place. Rusty used his semblance to analyze the two masked criminals.

"First guy is obviously the leader of the two so I should focus on him first, his gun is powered by electricity so one surge from an electric-powered round should short it out and stun him long enough until the cops get here. The second guy look a bit squeamish, he looks like he doesn't want to kill anyone so I should take it a bit easier on him. An ice grenade should freeze him in one spot, and the explosion should startle him into dropping his pistol, then I'll shoot him with a sleep dart." Rusty thought as the guards turned around to see him enter the store. The leader immediately turned around and pointed the gun at the 14-year-old, but Rusty already had his handgun on him and he fired. The electric round hit the robbers gun, overloading it and sending out a discharge knocking him out. The other criminal looked down at his unconscious accomplice and he saw a blue ball rolling across the floor right next to him. The ball exploded sending out ice that froze his legs in place. The man panicked but he didn't drop his gun as Rusty anticipated. Rusty saw this and tried to dive out of the man's line of sight but he was too slow. The robber shot him right through one leg and into the other. Rusty screamed in pain and passed out right as the cops arrived.

The next day Rusty woke up in an emergency room with a doctor looking over him reading his charts.

"You're up. Do you need anything?" the doctor asked

"My legs... I can't feel my legs... Am I going to be paralyzed?" Rusty realized

"Yes, I am afraid so, but don't worry this is only a temporary paralysis. I'd say feeling should start to come back in a couple of months, and you'll be able to walk within a year. Although I hope you aren't to athletic because you won't be able to run, but that isn't that bad."

"No, that can't be. This wouldn't have happened if I was faster, I need to be faster not slower."

"Well I'm sorry you are going to be pretty slow, you'll be confined to a wheelchair for the next year."

"A wheelchair? I think I can make that work."

Rusty immediately starting making plans. he would modify the wheelchair so it would be faster than he ever was. He designed plans for a wheelchair he christened the Pulvissella. He added thrusters so he could go extremely quickly, placing some underneath so he could hover and even fly for a short distance. He also added a workstation on the chair so he could create whatever dust he needed at the moment in battle.

A year later he had full use of his legs again although they were still really weak, but Rusty didn't mind, he still used his chair for everything. Rusty also figured that no one would expect that he would have use of his legs if he was in a wheelchair, so he could surprise his opponents in battle. Rusty fired up his laptop and sent an email to Professor Ozpin.

"My name is Rusty Osprey and I would like to enroll in Beacon, I may be a year younger but I am twice as smart as any new student you'll enroll. If you don't believe me come to my city and I'll show you what I can do."

Ozpin responded almost immediately.

"I know who you are and I'm frankly surprised it took you this long to contact me after you hacked the Beacon database to get my personal email. I already enrolled one younger student this term so I guess you are in."

A/N There are two teams, so that's eight characters that need previews. Just stick with it, I'll try to get the previews out quickly.