Gilford MacAllister

> Whatever's gotta be done, I'll do it. By the way, can I get an... easier target? last one ripped my jacket and this was a bitch to get fixed.
>
> Gilford MacAllister

## Professional Status

### Affiliation

The White FangThe Vedova Syndicate (formerly)

### Previous Occupation

AssassinMember of the White Fang

Thief

## Media

### First Appearance

Gimme the Ball

Gilford MacAllister is an antagonist during the first Volume of Team OPRA's story. He is a member of the White Fang. He was hired by Sable Vedova to assassinate Mistral mayor Mei Lin Xun before being stopped by Team OPRA. He is now incarcerated in the Mistral Maximum Security Prison after Sable rats him out to the police. He deals long ranged attacks with his weapon called Cats Cradle.

He first appears in "Gimme the Ball" as he kills Mistralian Senator Hargold as part of an assassination contract given to him by a woman only known as 'Sable.' He is then tasked in kidnapping and murdering Senator Wilson Greene to create diplomatic strain between Vale and Mistral. Despite successfully kidnapping Senator Greene, Gilford is driven off by Team OPRA after they find his camp. Gilford is then given the order to kill the mayor of Mistral, Mei Lin Xun, but is once against stopped by Team OPRA before he can do any harm to her. Much to his surprise, Gilford is only given a warning to leave Mistral and never return.

Because of his failure, Gilford was betrayed by Sable and handed over to the police. He is currently in Mistral Maximum Security Prison.

## Appearance

### Physical

Standing at 5'11 and weighing in at 150lbs, Gilford has an athletic build with peach fair skin. He has orange ginger hair that is styled into a crew cut. He has a rectangular head shape with yellow eyes and two decorative triangles underneath them. Being a faunus, Gilford has an orange cat's tail with a white fur tipped at the end.

### Attire

Gilford's attire consists of a dark navy blue cat suit that is sleeveless and is cut off after the heel at Gilford's feet, leaving the rest exposed. On top of that Gilford wears an orange and dark grey vest with a high white faux-fur collar. On his legs Gilford wears a pair of baggy blue jeans. On his hands, Gilford wears brown leather fingerless gloves.

## Personality

Gilford is a sly, cunning and arrogant young man. He takes pride in his abilities as an assassin as well as a young faunus man, believing that his abilities put him above that of a human. He shows little to no mercy when it comes to killing his targets, evident in him murdering Senator Harland in his home. Gilford surprisingly shows loyalty to the people around him so long as they provide the reward they've promised to him. He will do any job given as long as there is a payment at the end with his name on it. However, Gilford's hubris has proven to be detrimental to himself, causing him to underestimate the abilities of his foes and be punished for that.

## Background

Gilford is described as being a long-running thief, assassin and member of the White Fang.

At some point he is hired by Sable Vedova to kill the Mayor of Mistral, Mei Lin Xun. He is stopped by Team OPRA who intimidates him to leave Mistral. Upon arriving to Kuchinashi, he is ratted out to the police by Sable Vedova.

## Abilities and Powers

Gilford is an agile combatant who uses his weapon to keep his enemies at a distance and attacks them from such distance. With his whip, he delivers long-ranged whips and lashes mixed with dust that leave a variety of dust-based injuries. His agility and agileness allow him to duck, weave and dodge through opponents attacks, seemingly making him untouchable in certain scenarios.

### Weakness

Gilford often lacks awareness of his surroundings, leading to those being able to use the environment around them to attack him. In addition to this, Gilford's pride and arrogance in his superiority above others also leads to him misjudging the abilities of his enemies, as mentioned before. This is evident with his fight against Team OPRA, who play around Gilford and defeat him by causing a communications tower to fall on him.

### Weapon

Gilford's weapon is called *Cats Cradle.* It is the *Dust Head Ranged Whip (DHRW).* It is a basic whip with a length of 10 meters. The rope of the whip is made from a brown inter-woven leather material with a dark grey metal grip with red leather around it. At the end of the whip is a dust crystal that Gilford can interchange with different elements for different effects. Commonly, he uses electricity dust to shock his enemies with long-ranged lashes.

### Semblance

Gilford's semblance is called *Throw Image.* Similarly to other hunters and semblance-havers in Remnant, Gilford's semblance allows him to create a single copy of himself as a means to throw off and misdirect people. While only able to make one clone, the clone itself has almost full autonomy and can do the single order that Gilford gives it. However Gilford must cut his aura in half in order to make the clone, meaning that it is easier to break it. However if the clone were to be destroyed or even touched, Gilford will be given the aura back.

## Relationships

### Associates

* Sable Vedova: Gilford is shown to have some level of respect for Sable at the start of Volume 1. He starts off as loyal to her and is happily willing to kill someone knowing she comes through with her rewards. Upon being ratted out to the police by her though, he now has a lower opinion of her.

## Trivia

### Allusion

* Gilford is inspired by the character of Macavity from the musical *Cats* by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The play itself is inspired by *Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats* by English author T.S Elliot.
	+ Gilford is a cat faunus.
	+ Gilford's furlined vest is a nod to Macavity's costume in the professional productions of the show.

### Colour Naming Rule

* Gilford is an Anglo-Saxon name derived from Guilford, which denoted as "ford where the marigolds grew.". Marigolds are a type of flower that are either yellow or orange in colour.
* MacAllister is a common Irish/Scottish surname meaning 'son of Alasdair.'

### Miscellaneous

* Gilford's faunus trait is akin to ginger or 'tabby' domesticated cats.