Duran Raglan

## Family Members

Grace Taker ( Foster Mother / Active )

Fusia Taker ( Foster Sister / Active )

Sarah Raglan ( Biological Mother )Deceased

Unnamed Father ( Unknown )Alive

Durandal or Duran Raglan is the team leader of the Freshmen Team of Beacon Academy, Team DARK. His teammate is the hyper active Alice Vermillion. He is described as a bit of a anti-social once you first meet him.

## Biography

Duran was born in the City of Vale by a single mother by the name Sarah "Crimson" Raglan, who was a graduate of none other than Beacon Academy. He never knew his father as he vanished some time before his birth. His mother Sarah Raglan, retired from being a huntress to solely focus on being in his life.

Which was actually successful as Duran can't recall a time when she wasn't involved in his life. Duran considered his mother the highlight of his childhood life as they moved to a private island similar to Patch.

He was happy with his life....before it was taken away from him one dreadful night.

### Attack on the Raglan Estate and the Path of the Huntsman

On his seventh birthday, a group of bandits attacked the Raglan Estate while Duran was in the living room with his mother. He was told to run upstairs to his room....where he ran into a dreadful individual with pink eyes and orange hair. The bandit brought him back downstairs forcing his mother to surrender.

He was then forced to endure listening to his mother's torture locked up in a cage in a room next to her all night in the basement. Come time at some point of the night, he was reunited with his mother as the bandits left them, leaving them as they lit the island house ablaze.

Duran survived the fire due to his mother using what Aura she had left to force his to awaken, sadly this killed his mother in the process. A nearby huntress who was a friend of his mothers came to the burning building to rescue the family. But only the young Duran survived the fire as his mother, Sarah Raglan died to her injuries and the smoke.

The young Duran was adopted into the Taker Family by Grace Taker, a friend and teammate of his mother and his mother's funeral. It took awhile as he was deeply scarred by the event that transpired that night. But in time, he slightly healed and decided to become a huntsman in the memory of his mother's sacrifice.

## Personality

Duran is a serious, sardonic and somewhat antisocial person. He is a choleric character whose emotions can get the better of him, especially when his loved ones or those he wishes to protect are involved. Duran also has a short-temper and is prone to be impulsive.

Despite being a member of a team and team leader, Duran preferred to act as a lone wolf. Off of the trauma of losing his mother years ago, which is currently unknown to the other members of his team and friends.

However, Duran shows great loyalty to people he cares about, especially to the members of his team as well as his foster family who raised him after the death of his mother. During his time in Beacon Academy, Duran is slowly finding the value of teamwork and working with others.

Duran seems to have a habit of casually mouthing off to even the most powerful of his enemies, making taunts and sarcastic jokes on the battlefield.

Duran shows an underlying insecurity about his own ability to protect those he loves. Therefore, he takes comments about his own abilities to heart and react negatively about it.

## Semblance : Heat Drive

Duran's semblance Heat Drive involves focusing his Aura into being able to generate an intense vast amount of heat up to a max of 700 to 900 degrees Celsius, mostly from his hands. An added effect to this semblance is that he can repeatedly stack the temperatures on top of each other for heater temperatures.

This allows him to perform offensive attacks and burn his foes with and without the use of actual fire. He can even create focused blasts of heat energy he can fire at foes from his hands.

His trademark use of his semblance is his ability to transfer the heat energy he generates into objects he is currently holding, mainly his sword Crimson Spiral as he heats up the cutting edge. He can also generate heat into his hands and feet to performing fire powered hand to hand combat techniques.

But still, despite this semblance's effectiveness, Duran has to be careful into how much heat he generates. Too much heat will cause injuries or otherwise damage his Aura Barrier. If the heat radiation is too hot, he can't just turn it off. He has to slowly bring down the temperature until it's safe enough to shut off.

## Crimson Breaker ( Brute Shot - Gun Blade )

Duran’s Crimson Breaker is a great scimitar blade that also acts as a revolver cannon. The Crimson Breaker is an overall length of 37 inches and the handle is 11.5 inches long, though possible for two handed use, Duran has the skills to mainly use one handed techniques.

Crimson Breaker is Ash Gray in color, it’s not exactly fancy built like most weapons in the world of RWBY due to the account of Duran’s semblance involving intense heat, as the main focus of building Crimson Breaker was finding and using metal and parts that can withstand the intense levels of thermal discharge Duran uses, preventing thermal damage. Aside from that, Duran managed to find areas where he could add red colors to Crimson Breaker.

In its Revolver Cannon mode, in basic terms and zooms, it acts as a cannon, firing high powered single shots. By pressing in the cylinder release trigger by the handle of the sword, the top half of Crimson Breaker will pop forward giving Duran access to the cylinder, allowing him to reload and pop it back in place.

The Cylinder holds a total of Eight Dust Bullets. Each of the Dust Bullets will allow Duran to fire enough times before the Dust Crystal in the bullet gives out. By pressing the cylinder hammer on the handle of the sword, the cylinder will turn for Duran to use a different Dust Bullet.

## Trivia

* Duran's actual name is Durandal Raglan. He prefers Duran.
* Duran's Allusion in the Story of RWBY Fables RB is Squall Lionheart of Final Fantasy.
* Duran doesn't really get along well with his teammate, Kira Tabito Myst.
* Growing up with Grace, Duran helped out at the diner. As a result, Duran has become an excellent cook but doesn't tell anybody.