Halsten T. Marquardt

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## Appareance

Halsten is a tall and thin young man with short, slightly wavy strawberry blond hair with an ahoge (fool hair) that sticks out. He has green eyes, fair skin, and has an athletic, tonified body build, specially having quite muscular legs and slightly wider hips than the average male. Since he's a rabbit Faunus, he has a fluffy blonde/white rabbit tail.

His outfit consists of a green/gray goalkeeper Beacon Academy F.C. kit with gray/green long socks, dark green ankle socks over them, and yellow/orange Dust football cleats with black and white details. He also wears a couple of Dust football goalkeeper gloves which have the same color scheme his cleats have, dark gray compression shorts under his kit's shorts, and shin pads under his socks.

His shirt has written his name as **Halsten T.** and the number **1** on its back.

## Personality

Halsten, on his external appareance, seems to be a kind and mellow individual most of time, though he's actually rather temperamental and easily comes up with sassy comebacks when he's insulted; it's easy for him to throw shade at others. Due to his assertive, blunt, and somewhat volatile personality he might come off as cocky, but he's actually self-demanding as well.

He also isn't afraid of joking on people he dislikes. However, it isn't hard to him to behave in a more serious and formal way when needed, unlike his partner Randel.

Hal is a clever, diligent individual, and doesn't like to slack off too much; while he enjoys to relax from time to time, he's quite active. He enjoys being versatile in all the aspects of his life -including battle- since he isn't a conformist; in fact, he's quite ambitious, and he doesn't like when he's told to do boring, repetitive stuff; chances are he won't be wasting time in things he considers useless or pointless.

In resume, it could be said Hal has two faces, a 'childish' one and a 'mature' one, and while he leans to the immature side in daily life he behaves in a very mature way while playing and in his professional life in general.

Friendship and relationship-wise, Hal tends to crush on people easily and loves his relatives and friends a lot, but he won't admit this if asked.

## Weapon

Halsten, being a Dust football goalie, wears a couple of Dust Powered Goalkeeper Gloves (DPGG), and also wears Dust Powered Football Shoes (DPFS) on his feet. His gloves are yellow/white with orange and black details in a linear pattern, and his shoes are yellow/orange with white details and also have his emblem printed in black, and they have black soles as well.

He uses gravity, ice, and wind Dust most of times, though he might switch to more offensive types of Dust if needed.

## Abilities

Halsten, due to both his Faunus heritage and his training as goalkeeper, is remarkably agile and flexible, and also has very good reflexes, therefore being quick at performing attacks, and also being rather hard to target in battle; he also has good stamina and strength due to being physically resistant and being used to make physical effort for a long period of time. In battle he's pretty much a mage fighter, being able to perform several Dust spells -mainly for defense and support-, but also being able to deal significant damage in both ranged and close quarters combat.

Hal's main weakness is his green Aura, which is weaker than average. Because of this, his Semblance, while being very useful and versatile, can't be used as much as he wished to, neither can use it at its full potential because if Hal does so chances are he gets burned out rather quickly, so he has to be as precise and as quick as possible when using it. His Semblance is called *Hand of God*, and consists of being able to generate runes capable of movement (besides the "common" runes of Dust spells). Hal's mobile runes take the hand-like shape of his emblem, which he controls as an extension of his hands. He generates 2 of these runes most of times, though he can also generate more of these, but this happens very rarely due to the complexity of his Semblance and his weak Aura, so if he does this so he might get tired quickly; not to mention Hal generally performs better when he only generates two of them.

Hal also has good night vision due to being a Faunus.

## Relationships

* **Frederika Pember:** He has a good relationship with his team leader.
* **Byron Bellini:** He has a neutral disposition towards Byron, though Hal will snap if Byron annoys him too much. Byron likes to grab Hal's tail for annoying him, and this pisses Hal off a lot.
* **Randel Libero:** He's his partner and good friend; even if they're opposites in some aspects of their personalities they have a very good friendship, and complement well in battle. Halsten doesn't know Randel was involved in his brother's incident (neither that Randel was in a gang), but März neither Randel have told him this, since they don't want him to feel worried or stressed.

## Trivia

* "Halsten" is an old Swedish form of *Hallsteinn*, an Old Norse name that means "rock stone". Rock stones are generally gray in color. "Tifton" comes from Tifton 85, a type of grass which is known to produce cyanide under certain conditions. Grass is generally green in color. "Marquardt" comes from Old German *marka* "border, boundary" and *ward* "protector". Originally an occupational name for a border guard, it can also be interpreted as a metaphor for goalkeeper, since a goalkeeper also protects a border/boundary (in this case, the goal).
* He's a rabbit Faunus for certain reasons: in first place, rabbits are quite agile and watchful, which makes sense with Halsten being a goalkeeper. Also, there have been some mascots in football cups and clubs that happen to be rabbits. ~~And I have a pet rabbit myself so thought it would be funny; they share hair color and have similar personalities.~~
	+ He's specifically a Continental Giant rabbit Faunus.
	+ Due to his rabbit Faunus nature, he isn't good at eating meat, and has some eating behaviours that might be considered weird to some people such as eating whole dandelion flowers.
	+ In fact, he's vegetarian (sometimes vegan) most of time since he's so stubborn and doesn't like to eat anything but fruits, vegetables, and herbs; he only eats meat/dairy or takes supplements when he really needs to (or Fred and/or März push him to do so).

## Image gallery

Halsten's emblemHal and MärzThighs so strong Byron and Fred can sit on them.