Gawain Magne

> “You are both much stronger than I gave you credit for. But, I refuse to allow you to advance any further. For I, Gawain Magne, will now take you on with my own might!”
>
> Gawain to Forest and Leo

Gawain Magne is a veteran soldier that served in the Atlas Military, a member of the Knights of the White Dawn, and an antagonist in “Moonlight Stars”. His weapon of choice is a Dust Imbued Zweihander Shield (DIZS) named White Dawn. He also alludes to Sir Gawain from The Knights of the Round Table.

## Appearance

Gawain is an older gentleman that has medium length, straight white hair, tanned complexion, and dark blue eyes. Despite his age, he has a muscular build and a short, white goatee beard.

***Original Outfit***

He dons a removable heavy black and white body armor with breastplate, pauldrons, tessets, and greaves with a light gray buckle over a pair of light gray pants, white collared dress shirt under a black suit vest designed with gold and silver and black combat boots. His emblem is located as the buckle on his belt.

**Casual Outfit**

Gawain's casual outfit contains a gray tuxedo suit with a dark blue and white dress shirt, black gloves and black dress shoes. He has a pin with his emblem on his left lapel. He also dons a gray fedora with a black band.

## Personality

Gawain is a honest, affable, and respectable man, yet can be serious and stern especially in the midst of business or combat. Even though he is an older gentleman, he has the wisdom and skills to fully make up for it. Unlike most people, he is indifferent towards the Faunus and treats them like any other person. He is one that values honor and loyalty unlike most huntsman because of his years of service in both the Atlas Military and Knights of the White Dawn.

In combat and business purposes, he is a serious and a formidable huntsman when he holds his own against Leonardo and Forest during the events of Crescent Moon Preview (even though he had gone easy on them since they were younger) and also against a couple huntsman from the Aurora Guardians (with his full strength), despite his age. Even though he is focused on combat, he can occasionally partake or start banter and can also give compliments to his opponents when they are due. This can be seen when he compliments Leonardo's skills in combat despite being an opponent and when he constantly throwing banter at Forest to purposefully rile him to attack. Hearing compliments from him should be an honor since it is rare to speak highly of opponents. When he is with the Knights of the White Dawn when it falls into new leadership, he is still fiercely loyal to the cause but he begins to doubt them after the organization hastens their nefarious plans when they begin to attack the Aurora Guardians instead of Eye of Aconitum. He does keeps this to himself however. If he is operating as a huntsman outside those organizations, he is the typical chivalrous knight that values honor in a fight and will do what he can to carry out his duty to save innocent lives. Though, he will be ruthless to those who either cross him or hurt innocent lives.

Outside of combat, he is a gentleman, a conversationalist and is very outgoing towards others and loves to drink with good company in either bars or cities. He can easily trust people and has a long memory that can work good or bad depending on the circumstances and will also give people respect unless they give him a reason not to. Gawain also likes to take part in spars and does what he can to keep peace in areas and is not afraid to spring into action in a moment's notice. He does also like to train younger Huntsmen or Huntresses in the way of swordplay which is seen when he trains Albion in the ways of the Knights of the White Dawn that he inherits. He will also share stories about his times in the Atlas Military and in the Knights of the White Dawn in their more noble days. To his family, he is a cheerful and fun loving father who would do anything to help his sons such as how he had trained them to become Huntsmen.

His personality is not affected much after the Battle of Beacon but has changed after he learns of the nefarious plot of the new Knights of the White Dawn. He is initially against the move when the move is to be against Huntsmen and Huntresses along with their former ally, Aurora Guardians, yet is not given a choice to leave when his family is in danger, leaving him in a predicament of having to be obedient in a new face of the faction he once loved. This leaves him to be more serious and ruthless towards opponents of the White Dawn.

## Biography/ History

Gawain was born in the City of Mantle with his father who was a Great War Veteran, his mother who was a housewife became a professor at Atlas Academy, and two brothers Zanthus and Zerika. Gawain trained with his father and brothers at a young age and attended Atlas Academy when he was of age after passing the rigorous entrance exam. He graduated with his respective team though they all separated shortly after to chase their own individual dreams. For Gawain, he immediately joined the Atlas Military and met his future wife, Gala Uriel.

A few years later after several missions, he happily married his military love before his Zanthus died during a mission after his reception. When this happens, he takes an early leave from the Atlas Military and settled down in Atlas to start a family and returns a year later after Xanthus Magne was born. Shortly after his second child, Ivoree Magne, was born a few years later, he met a man named Auburne Alaric and was offered to join with a new and coming organization: Knights of The White Dawn. He initially refused until his wife was in danger with his children when they traveled out of the kingdom and then accepted after Auburne helped save them. When he joined the Knights of the White Dawn, he joined Team AGTE (Agate) and became a Knight of the organization. He then officially retired from Atlas Military so his wife and boys can live happily and Zerika joins Knighthood as well.

A few years later, he voluntarily does one final mission for the Atlas Military and ran into Leo and Forest during the events of the Crescent Moon Preview. After that mission, he returned to Knights of White Dawn and warns that Eye of Aconitum is beginning to show their hand.

Some time later, both Xanthus and Ivoree became Huntsmen and Team AGTE disbands when the leader of the White Dawn retires. The head of the White Dawn is now Auburne's son, Albion. When leadership changes, Gawain becomes his advisor and teaches him about the organization in Auburne's stead.

***Timeskip/Battle of Beacon***

He was not present during the Battle of Beacon though he is aware that it has happened. Shortly after it occurs, Gawain discovers that the Knights of the White Dawn has more nefarious plans in the future that will affect Huntsmen, Huntresses, and the Aurora Guardians. Surprised by their betrayal to their long time ally and thoughts to embrace Eye of Aconitum as their new allies, he objects to Albion's plans and decides to leave the Knights of the White Dawn. Before he can, Albion threatens him that if he does not assist him as his advisor, he will have him and his family hunted down and killed. Not wanting to endanger his family, he reluctantly agrees and stays as his advisor and because of the loss of the global CTT communications he is unable to relay a warning to his sons of the incoming threat.

## In Combat

***Weapon:***

Gawain's weapon of choice is a Dust Imbued Zweihander Shield (DIZS) named White Dawn.

This is a sharp bladed zweihander sword that can transform into a kite shield. With many years of use, Gawain uses both forms of his weapon to their full potential and both forms can use dust for amplified attacks.

In its Zweihander mode, he can send out dust waves towards his opponents. For example, he can use fire dust and the zweihander can send waves of fire towards opponents or objects. Its sharp blade can also be used to pierce or slash at enemies such as Grimm. If he uses enough force, he can create a shockwave, especially if it is covered with dust.

In its Kite Shield mode, its zweihander splits in two to form this mode which allows the shield to have sharp edges. He can use dust to expand his shield (with hard-light dust) or use it offensively such as using fire and gravity dust to blast back enemies and break large falls.

***Abilities:***

From all his training throughout his life, Gawain has become a capable huntsman with above average strength and endurance (which includes have an above average amount of Aura). He is able to wipe out three rogue mercenaries of huntsman skill on his own with his Semblance before he begins to feel fatigue. To other members of the Knights of the White Dawn, his strength may rival both of their leaders (Former and Current) and he is feared by Eye of Aconitum and well respected in the Knights of the White Dawn, despite his age. His above average strength is seen when he effortlessly tosses an Ursa Major over his shoulder into a tree a few feet away and again when he holds his weapon, White Dawn in its zweihander form and easily swings it with one hand when fighting. When he uses his Semblance, he is much stronger to the point where he can take out several Grimm with a matter of a few swings from his weapon.

With all of his experience in various places, he has mastery over long swordplay and also an expert swordsman with and without armor on. This is seen when he holds his own against Auburne during a few sparring matches and again when he trains Albion. He has mastery over his weapon, White Dawn with both of its modes and with his Semblance, Valor. With his Semblance mastery, he learned to keep his Semblance hidden unless a worthy opponent faces him and he has to stop holding back such as when he uses it to gain the upper hand against Auburne.

When he is unarmed, he will easily resort to hand to hand combat against his opponent with a series of punches, kicks, and grapples in order to gain the upper hand which he is disarmed. In this situation, he may use his Semblance more to damage his opponents which leads to a weakness of Semblance reliance if it happens often. Another weakness (which is more obvious than the other) is that with his armor on, he has slower speed which does slow his attacks considerably in which Leo exploits in order to get a couple hits in during their fight in the Crescent Moon Preview. Without his armor, he is a bit faster but have average speed overall so he can overpowered by speed fighters.

He does also have a good amount of dust knowledge to the point where he can use it alongside both forms of his weapons though he is not a master at it. Overall, he usually plays a protector role but can also be a tank in combat and is able to keep calm in battle, even in the worst of situations that he finds himself in order to find the best strategy to win.

***Aura:***  Light Gray

Semblance: Valor

While Gawain is in battle, he can activate this Semblance by channeling his Aura which can increase his physical strength up to triple his normal strength. When this is active, light gray Aura appears around the areas of the body with his physical strength is enhanced. He uses this on his legs, arms and even his full body if he desires. However the time that the area is enhanced varies. If he enhances his arms or legs, he can keep his strength for a least 5 minutes before having a cooldown of 15 minutes. If he does his entire body, he can only keep it active for 2 minutes before having a 10 minute cool down. He uses this to increase his damage output from his fists and weapon. He can only do this so many times since the longer this Semblance is used, the faster his immense amount of Aura drains, especially if the strength enhancement is surrounding his entire body. He uses this in emergencies and also finishing off his opponents.

## Trivia

* Gawain means White Hawk in Scottish\* and Magne means Fierce Warrior in Norwegian\*
* He alludes to Sir Gawain from the Knights of the Round Table
	+ Semblance alludes to Fate Grand Order Version's Noble Phantasm since both use theirs to boost attack power.
	+ Weapons are both sword based (Gawain Magne uses a zweihander, Original Gawain uses a greatsword)
	+ Both are knights that allude to the sun/dawn.
	+ Personality takes cues from the original Sir Gawain.
* He is the first antagonist introduced in Moonlight Stars when he makes his debut in the Crescent Moon Preview.

## Image Gallery

Gawain Emblem OldRough Draft of Gawain (Thanks to DollDivine)Updated Emblem (Thanks to CuppaJo on Twitter/X)Updated Version of Gawain Preview (Thanks to Rosairy on dA)