RWBY OC Everest Shackelton V2

Whew! This was my first major visual work where I actually had a general idea what I wanted to do. Well, sort of. Anyway, a new RWBY OC, Everest Shackelton, and he'll be part of a new fanfiction I'm in the middle of planning, so I figured I might as well figure out his character. Enjoy!


EDIT1: Complete overhaul to the personality, and some minor edits to weapons section. Split Weapons and Fighting Style into two sections. Happy hunting!



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The need for strong leaders is prevalent in every society, regardless of the time and challenges faced. Naturally, the need for great leaders in environments as deadly as the frontier is more so, and there are few who can match Everest Shackelton in skill, strength, and intuition.

Name: Everest Shackelton

Age: 42

Color: Stone grey.

Race: Human.

Influence/Reference: The famous Artic explorer Ernest Shackleton, from who this character possess more than a few similarities. That, and the obvious one: Mount Everest.

Occupation/Setting: Leader of the town Wildedge, in the wilderness outside of Vale. 

Gender: Male 

Appearance: Everest is a seasoned man, with dark grey hair and a stocky body. He usually wears a heavy gray jacket over a messy, white button down dress shirts, along with some heavy black pants, both of which are great insulation against the cold. His figures are heavily calloused, and hold a permanent black tinge as a result of repeated exposure to flames and soot. He stands at a relatively average height, which contradicts the legendary stature some hold him in, while his face is remarkably scar free, a testament to his skill in arms. Whenever he is encouraged to ‘dress it up,’ he rarely wears anything more than a messy white button down and some black slacks, a behavior trait that has yet to win over any investors.

Personality: Never has there been a more stubborn leader as Everest Shackelton. To be fair, as he does spearhead the frontier movement into Grimm territory, and some degree of iron-clad will is needed, but Everest takes this to the highest level imaginable and then breaks the gage. He sees nearly any act of nature as an encroachment on the colonies by Grimm. That grass that’s just a little bit overgrown? Future seeds of a jungle, burn it down! Trees getting to close to the homestead? Cut them all down, Grimm will sneak in and kill us all! His tendency to exaggerate the encroachment of nature is even reflected in combat, as he refuses to yield a single centimeter, even when he is hopelessly outmatched.

However, this staunchness of position is oddly reflected when he converses with others, as he is almost always certain that his way is best, authorities be damned. He will try to be friends with people he wants to be friends with, whether they like him or not. That being said, when he was gathering funds for his first expedition, he constantly bombards potential investors with requests, to the point where he simply annoyed them into agreeing. If he sets his mind to it, you can be damn sure that Everest won’t stop until his goal has been met, or he’ll die trying. However, this single-minded focus of his tends to cause him to see only one side of a problem, and more often than not his lieutenants have to deal with other major problems around Wildedge as he works hard at a single goal.

Skills and Abilities: While Everest does have an unfortunate tendency to blow nearly every situation out of proportion, he does have a tendency to know exactly how to respond to nearly any dangerous situation in the frontier, built up from years of experience. However, must important is that after years of recruiting for the frontier and sending a steady stream of new recruits running back to Vale, he can tell within minutes of meeting someone whether they can make the grade and tough it out in the wilderness. Not only does this speed up recruiting progress but it gives Everest an unprecedented core of highly dedicated hunters to help forge the way into the wild.

Weapon(s):

Everest never goes anywhere unarmed, and as such, he always carries his trusty tobacco pipe with him and odd habit for someone who doesn't smoke. Though it may appear to be completely unremarkable, at the pipe is smoked with red Dust instead of tobacco, transforming it into a deadly flame thrower, capable of not only catching opponents off guard but turning nearly any Grimm into BBQ. However, it is an absolute pain to reload, and Dust is an incredibly rare commodity in the wilderness, as such he uses it very sparsely.

More often than not, in a straight up fight Everest wields a heavy claymore greatsword named Stormløb, which is capable of cleaving straight through Grimm. Everest's tendency to charge straight into a battle is only made more efectvie by Stormløb's impozing figure, causing most sensible bandits to flee and Grimm to pause just long enough to seal their fate. Also noteworthy is the fact that Stormløb is one of only a handful of hunter-grade weapons that do not have a secandary transformation. For the most part Stormløb is a slashing weapon, though granted one does not need to put a great deal of strength in the slice striagt through an oponent that has been roasted alive.

Fighting Style:

Everest usually opens up an engagment with a huge blast of fire from his pipe to intemidate and scorch large groups of oponets, followed quickly by an onslaught of slashes at such a speed that only an expertly skilled Hunter would be able to counter. It is not an uncommon sight to see Everest slashing away with his tobocaoo pipe in his mouth, which would allow him to compliment his great sword strenght with an array of intense area-of-effect flame attacks, making him the undisputed champion of combat in Wildedge, though his reckless nature often gets him into hazardous situations that could have been delt with much more easily. However, the lack of dust on the frontier severly limits the use of his pipe, and as such, Everest only uses his pipe when he is hopelessly outnumbered, as it isn’t too effective of a weapon when used agianst the larger speices of Grimm. However, even with that limitation, Stormløb is an increadibly leathal weapon, as it is able to cleave stragight through nearly any sort of armor in one swing, leaving only the toughest of Grimm able to defend against his attacks. 

Aura/Semblance: Everest's Fissure semblance allows  him to cause great cracks in the ground, which enables him to separate tracks of land, create geysers and cliffs, and even split boulders. However, using this semblance to any degree drains a huge deal of Everest's strength, and even then he has to guide this power by stabbing Stormløb into the ground to chanel the energy, and this requirment of a tunning instrument limits the use of this ability, along with the fact that he is greatly exposed when using his semblance, leading to use of this Aura to be reserved for the most desperate of situations. When chaneling his Semblance through his weapon, Stormløb has a tendency to be outlined in a grey glow.

Backstory/History: Everest has always been someone drawn to adventure and exploration (not to mention combat), and from an early age he always questioned why humanity had to limit themselves to the kingdoms instead of charging in and reclaiming Grimm territory. He had a tendency to overstate his grievances to anyone holding power, and the second he graduated he immediately started looking for investors to fund an exploration outside of the kingdoms that would set up a settlement. After nearly a year of clamoring, a small group of wealthy investors finally yielded after being sufficiently annoyed, granting Everest a small team with the expectation that he would fail and end up running back home within a few weeks. Within a month Everest had a fully operational settlement well outside the bounds of the kingdom and only returned to ask for more supplies. Since then, the exploration effort has been a resounding success, with nearly 100 different settlements outside of Vale alone. The most notable of these settlements, Wildedge, has been the target of so many Grimm attacks that Everest sees it as a personal challenge, and will not rest until the town is permanently assimilated into human territory. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to fortify the town and recruit new explores to delve into the ever-dangerous wilderness. But more recently, it feels like the wild is starting to fight back…

Fanfiction: None.

Themes: Lion Heart by Phil Ray

Quotes: "Well, I'd say it's awfully nice to have some target practice. Who knows, I may even have to draw my weapon!"

“I’m going to tear down those trees before they kill us all!”