Character Summary


Name: Phoenix Fall, AKA The Flaming Shadow

Age: 16

Birthday: September 19

Height: 5'8"

Weight: 140 lbs.

Physical Appearance: He has medium length messy black hair, orange eyes, pale skin, and a diagonal scar by the right side of his mouth. He also has several scars and burns on various locations on his body.

Voice: He has a slight British accent, and his voice is slightly high for his age. The accent was picked up due to one of the mercenaries that Cinder kept around for a few years to help train him when he was younger having it.

Personality: He is typically somewhat sarcastic and socially awkward, but he tries to fit in. He uses humor as a coping mechanism to help deal with everything he's seen working for his mother and being a vigilante. He tries to act serious when he is the Flaming Shadow, but he usually fails. However, he is able to tell when being serious is necessary. He blames himself for Cinder being able to continue her operations because he wasn't able to kill her when he betrayed her. This, combined with everything he was involved with while working with her, has caused him to have an issue with self-loathing. He is usually able to hide this, but it becomes more noticeable when Cinder and her plans are involved.

Occupation: Vigilante / "student" at Beacon (His "job" and the fact that his attendance would make it so that one team would have to have an extra person prevent him from attending officially. However, being adopted by Ozpin lets him attend classes without anyone asking too many questions.)

Clothing: He usually wears a black zip-up hoodie, a crimson t-shirt, jeans, and black shoes. He also wears glasses that have numerous technological enhancements. These include, but are not limited to, an assisted aiming system that helps him figure out how to ricochet whatever projectile he is using off of multiple targets and almost always hit his intended target, a video recorder, a zoom function, and night vision. The outfit he wears as the Flaming Shadow consists of a black hooded trenchcoat, a black shirt, black cargo pants, and black combat boots. He also wears a mask that looks similar to the one worn by Corvo in the "Dishonored" video game and gauntlets with retractable claws on the fingers. The mask has the same enhancements as his glasses. The claws can be used for combat or climbing.

Weapons: In order to hide the fact that he is the Flaming Shadow, he uses a simple retractable bo staff that he calls Peacekeeper. However, his primary weapons are a pair of tiger hook swords that he calls the Blazing Hooks. They can transform into semi-auto rifles that can fire either normal or dust rounds. They can also transform into a double-barrel shotgun when they're placed together. The blades of the swords can retract slightly, making the swords better suited for close-quarters combat or shortening the length of the guns' barrels. The ammo cartridges are attached to the pommel blades of the swords and can be used as weapons. The ammo cartridges with dust rounds can also be used as explosives if necessary. The claws on his gauntlets can be used as weapons. He also has a grapnel gun to allow him to reach high places quickly or pull enemies towards him, smoke bombs to catch the enemy off guard, and various other gadgets. His coat has utility belt syndrome (it holds a seemingly infinite amount of ammo and gadgets unless the plot says otherwise).

Semblance: His Semblance is called Pyrokinesis. He is able to control, expand, contract, and control the heat of fire. He is not, however, able to create fire. To make up for this he keeps a lighter with him and sometimes uses fire dust in combat. He is also unable to cause a massive change in the heat of fire he is controlling.

Fighting Style: In a one-on-one confrontation where he's not aware of what the enemy can do, he'll typically focus on pushing them away and then pulling them back in again. This allows him to keep them off balance and see how his opponent fights both up close and at a distance. He'll then adjust his strategy accordingly. In a fight with multiple opponents, he'll try to pick them off one by one. When it comes to Grimm, the style varies based on the species and quantity. He's trained himself to be able to toss one of the hooks into the hand with the other one and then pull out either his grapnel gun or his lighter before the enemy can react, allowing him to seamlessly integrate them into his fighting with the Blazing Hooks. He uses his aura primarily for offense, using only a slight amount to shield himself. This gives his fire attacks more power and lets him use them more. However, he can be injured even if he still has aura remaining. If necessary, he'll focus his aura on the part of him that will be taking the hit to try and prevent this, but this requires conscious thought. This means he can receive a major injury if caught by surprise.

Strengths: He is a skilled detective, tactician, inventor, and blacksmith, has very high pain tolerance, and can quickly figure out how to use new weapons.

Weaknesses: He has terrible eyesight without his glasses, has low self-preservation, and often acts recklessly and without a plan if his allies are in danger or injured.

Likes: His likes include strategy-based card games, video games, comics, building and modifying weapons, and designing new gadgets.

Dislikes: His dislikes include his mother, flying, having to evade the police, and nobody knowing who the Flaming Shadow is.


As you probably guessed from the title as well as what you read, assuming you did, this is a summary of the character. Don't worry, I don't plan on making him too OP. I'm thinking that he'll be on par with Pyrrha at his best at the start of the story. Since I described him here I won't be going into much detail about it in the actual story. The same goes for the stuff in the show, since you already know what it looks like (If you haven't seen the show, then what the hell are you doing on the show's fanfiction page?). What little description is just a formality.

Fair warning, grammar and spelling are going to suck as you could probably already tell. With any luck, you'll still get the idea. If there are any major issues let me know, and I'll go back and fix them. Those of you who were here at the start remember me accidentally calling Weiss "Wice" and forgetting to start new paragraphs (Don't worry, I fixed that. At least I think I did.). Yes, I know I'm an idiot.

On another note, there'll probably be references to other things in this story. How many you ask. Well, is five metric f$#k tons an acceptable unit of measurement?

When it comes to the issue of Cinder herself, I have a couple plans. Plan A is growth in an artificial womb. Plan B, which I'm trying to avoid is alteration to the cannon. I'm going to try to stick kind of close to the cannon storyline. But we'll burn down those bridges when we come to them.

Criticism and tips are welcome, but try to keep the death threats to a minimum if it's not too much trouble. I try to read all of the reviews, even if I don't always respond. The review notifications sometimes get caught up in all of my other emails, so I end up missing them. I don't usually respond to reviews unless I'm answering a question or informing someone that I fixed an error that they pointed out. If I do respond, I do so through private messages. I appreciate the reviews, but I'm not usually sure to respond to them other than saying thanks. Consider this a general thank you for reviews.

The longest I'll go without any sort of update is six months. If it's been more than six months and I haven't posted anything, then I'm probably dead. I'll post an incomplete chapter if I have to just to get something out in that timeframe.

The AO3 version of the character summary has a link to an image of how I Imagine Phoenix looking without his glasses. It was made using the character creator in "Code Vein". I'd put it here too, but this site doesn't allow links. It's also the cover image for "The Flaming Shadow", a story that's a summary of what a prequal of this story would be (shameless self-advertisement).

Sorry about the long conclusion, but I had a lot of things I wanted to get out of the way before the actual story began. If you actually managed to get through all this then congratulations, you get a cookie. Thanks for reading!