Adrian Garou

—Adrian Garou

**Adrian Garou** (formerly **Lefevre**) is a Huntsman, having been trained at the now-defunct Beacon Academy. He is the leader of Team ?. His weapon of choice is three chōkutos that can transform into guns, named ?.

The former heir of the influential Lefevre Weapons Enterprise, Adrian was a wanted criminal of Atlas after he was framed by his uncle. He joined Beacon under orders from Professor Ozpin as a form of probation. He makes his first appearance in the beginning of the third episode, "The Shining Beacon, Pt.2", conversing with Pyrrha Nikos.

## Appearance

Adrian is a tall young man with pale skin and blue-grey eyes. He has short, messy, chin-length black hair with grey tips. Some parts of his hair jut upwards and forwards with bangs that partially hang over his left eye and one over his face, going diagonally down to the left between his eyes. He is lean and muscular. He also has a beauty mark below his left eye.

### Original Outfit (Volumes 1-3)

Adrian wears an upturned high-collared dark blue jacket with a hood attached that reaches his mid-back with black and white accents and silver trimmings. His emblem is visible on both shoulders in white. He has a long black scarf with both his family's logo, and two silver stripes on each end wrapped loosely around the collar of his jacket with its edges hanging on his back. Additionally, he wears black gloves with dark blue accents.

Underneath his jacket, he wears dark grey harnesses with silver buckles over a black, skin-tight sleeveless turtleneck with a mask that covers the bottom half of his face, paired with black fitted pants and knee-high black boots with silver-colored edging around the top and a black belt with silver buckles. Over his pants, he wears two crisscrossing grey belts that carry his bullets and three black sheaths on his left hip for ?. Both belts have the dark grey harnesses attached to them.

### Pajamas

Adrian's pajamas are a dark blue, long-sleeved hoodie left unzipped, with a vertical white stripe on the sleeves and black fitted pants that have two vertical white stripes on the outer side of each leg.

### Child

As a child, he wore a short-sleeved white dress shirt and a black string tie, black trousers, and black dress shoes.

### Uniform

Adrian wears the standard Beacon uniform consisting of a black suit lined with gold, accompanied by a blue vest and a white shirt with a red tie. However, he also wears his mask, scarf, and black gloves.

### Dance Outfit

At the Beacon Dance, he wears a long-sleeved black dress shirt with a dark silver string tie, a dark blue waistcoat, black fitted trousers, and black dress shoes.

### Post-Timeskip Outfit (Volumes 4-7)

After the timeskip following the Fall of Beacon, Adrian wears a loose-fitting, long-sleeved dark blue kimono shirt with black and silver camellia motifs that sometimes exposes his muscular physique, tied by a black obi. His scarf, now tattered, is wrapped around his head in a bandanna-like fashion.

He wears two crisscrossing dark grey belts that carry his bullets and three black sheaths on his left hip for ? over black fitted pants that are tucked into black, knee-high boots with steel and toe plating. Having had his palms badly scarred after the attack at Beacon, in lieu of his usual gloves he wears black bandages from his biceps to his extremities. His hair appears to have grown longer where it covers his forehead with his bangs now reaching down to cover his left eye despite being held up by his scarf.

### Atlas Outfit (Volumes 7-Current)

After arriving in Atlas, Adrian swipes his hair back in a windswept fashion, leaving a bang to hang across his face, and receives a new outfit. He wears an upturned high-collared, dark blue coat with rolled-up sleeves and black accents, most notable at the collar, sleeves, and lapels. His emblem is visible on both shoulders in black. The coat has three separate rectangular tails with black trimmings. His scarf, no longer tattered, is once again wrapped loosely around his jacket's collar with its edges hanging on his back

Underneath the coat, he wears a white dress shirt, a black belt with a silver buckle around his collar, and a black waistcoat with silver accents. He wears black fitted pants with two black belts wrapped around his left thigh and knee-high black boots with steel toe and heel plating. Around his waist, he has a black belt that carries several bullets alongside a pouch on the left side with his emblem on it, and three black sheaths on his left hip for ?. On his hands, he wears black gloves with dark blue accents.

## Personality

As a young child, Adrian was much more cheerful and friendly, yet very lonely, according to his mother. He was also very naive, not understanding how the world can be so cold and cruel. He learned that the hard way as his parents died in a Grimm attack right in front of him. Soon after he met a girl who became the only light in his life. Alas, tragedy struck again as she also died to the Grimm.

After those incidents, Adrian grew to be determined, concentrated, and independent. Initially, he is a cold, standoffish, dignified, and distant person who prefers to keep his emotions subdued and speaks in a very high-class, eloquent, almost robotic fashion. However, he does not lack a humorous side, which is usually in the form of dry wit and sarcasm.

Adrian was also consistently distancing himself from his teammates. He only looked out for himself and didn't care if others were left behind. Much of this is fuelled by what he perceives as failing to protect (friend) leading him to lash out at those he believes are responsible for what happened. Fortunately, his team, Team RWBY and Team JNPR understood and were more than patient and understanding of his plight. Due to this, Adrian managed to get out of his shell and began to show compassion and trust in others, as well as become a proper leader for his team and learn to express his emotions rather than keep them bottled up.

Due to the upbringing his uncle () provided after his parents' deaths; Adrian developed a rebellious nature to cope with his uncle's controlling nature. He is extremely resistant to rigid and dogmatic forms of control-based authority and order. He has received much criticism, insults, opposition, and even death threats because he was born a Vieux.

Adrian has been known to be ruthless at times when it comes to protecting his friends, such as when he nonchalantly breaks Cardin Winchester's arm when he was bullying Velvet Scarlatina. This is a side effect of the traumas he experienced as a child. Beneath his calmness and patience lies a much more reckless and vindictive side, such as when he lets out all his anger towards the Grimm to avenge his parents and childhood friend.

## Powers and Abilities

As the former heir of the Lefevre Weapons Enterprise, Adrian was raised from a young age to strive to be the best at everything he did, and combat was no exception. Adrian shows above-average intelligence, agility, speed, reflexes, and endurance, as shown when fighting multiple enemies yet maintaining motion and energy without fatigue. He also exhibits a prominent level of skill when handling ? as he can wield all three blades easily. He can also slash away at opponents with startling speed and deflect incoming machine-gun fire using his blades.

Being born into the noble Lefevre family, Adrian was taught everything a noble son needed to know by the best tutor's money could buy, which included good, unarmed combat skills and great leadership abilities. He is able to formulate and execute plans with others according to their advantages and counter possible threats. He's very aware of the capabilities of his team and is able to properly coordinate them.

Adrian's combat style relies heavily on misleading and confusing enemies with the help of his Semblance, allowing him to take control of the fight by rapidly attacking from multiple angles to keep the enemy off balance. He also utilizes his weapons' recoil to move around quickly, which allows him to take out multiple enemies easily. Adrian is also able to overwhelm his opponents with the use of his three blades.

### Weapon

Adrian wields ?, a weapon he created himself at his family's estate. ? is made up of three weapons that can transform into one of two weapons, a semi-automatic handgun that can fire Dust rounds in either form or a double-edged chokutō that has a serrated edge in a section just before the hilt, which Adrian uses skillfully in combat. He wields two blades in each hand and the third blade in his mouth. He is also capable of using his blades in a forward and/or reverse grip.

He uses the gun form for ranged strikes on his opponent and utilizes several types of dust to his advantage. Despite preferring close combat, Adrian has the accuracy to land headshots against Grimm while mobile.

While using the chokutō form, he is a lot more versatile in close-range attacks and movement. Adrian uses the recoil from the guns to add force to his strikes and increase the speed of his swings. This also enhances his mobility in combat as he is able to fire shots to propel himself short distances, simultaneously attacking and evading an opponent. He also uses the chokutō form to act as throwing knives.

### Semblance

Adrian's Semblance, ?, allows him to travel instantly from one location to another and cover distances in the blink of an eye. It makes for an extremely fast and effective means of transportation and can also be used in combat when the situation requires fast action. In addition, he has the ability to transport multiple individuals and objects to different locations by simply touching them. However, this is, of course, at the cost of a lot of Aura so Adrian cannot rely on it for very long.

He has displayed the ability to use this Semblance to repeatedly appear and disappear in mid-air and attack at different angles. He is also capable of teleporting to his weapons as well as teleporting them back to him without touching them due to constant practice. This allows him more versatility and movement as he is able to simply throw his weapons towards his enemies and teleport to them to attack without wasted movements.

? has a range-limit and becomes increasingly difficult with the distance to be travelled. It also requires great knowledge of the place he wants to teleport to, as he needs to be able to visualize it clearly.

Whenever he uses his Semblance, he disappears in a distorted, spiralling black void that appears to suck him in.

## Trivia

### Color Naming Rule

* “Adrian” in Latin means “black” or “dark”.
* “Adrian” can also come from the Venetic and Illyrian word, “adur” meaning “sea” or "water”.
* "Garou” comes from the French word loup-garou, meaning “werewolf”.
* "Lefevre” means "blacksmith” in Old French.

### Story

* Adrian prefers drinking tea over coffee.
* Adrian had an alternate accent as a young child, which he eventually lost.

### Character & Design

* Adrian's weapons and fighting style is inspired by Roronoa Zoro's Santoryu.
* Adrian is known to be ambidextrous or have some skills in wielding two or more weapons at once, as shown by his ability to wield three blades in tandem.