Headmaster Professor Ansem Vada

## The Cold Warrior

Ansem Vada is the newly appointed Headmaster of Vacuo’s Shade Academy. He serves as somewhat of a Antagonist in the story of RWBY Fables and is personally responsible for the attack of the Battle for Beacon.

And to everyone’s surprise, he possesses Silver Eyes.

## Story in Rwby Fables

Much about Ansem’s history is shrouded in mystery, but it all started when his village was attacked by the creatures of Grimm. After losing his home and parents he ended up in an orphanage and was later adopted by a Silver Eyed individual who happened to notice Ansem’s own Silver Eyes.

Afterwards, Ansem was taken to the Kingdom of Vacuo where he lived under the watchful eye of the Silver Eyed Warrior. For years he was trained and educated to be a warrior like most Silver Eyed Warriors before him. During their course of training, the Silver Eyed Elder took young Ansem to the location of the lost tomb, which was well hidden in the constant sandstorms of Vacuo and informed him of the Silver Eyed Warriors responsibilities involving what was inside, Grimm SIVA.

However, whereas he was instructed to ensure that Grimm SIVA doesn’t get out, Ansem pushed the belief that instead, they should be locating the exact location of the tomb and planning the destruction of Grimm SIVA.

This led to numerous arguments with the Silver Eyed elder, who believed that none of the Four Kingdoms possessed the means to completely destroy Grimm SIVA. So behind the back of his master, Ansem started reading the lost texts that the elder had to learn of the true location of the tomb, which upon discovery of his actions, resulted in a physical altercation of which Ansem emerged victorious.

Many years later, Ansem became a full fledged huntsman of Vacuo without attending the academies. Which made him locating the tomb much easier. With his task now to open it, he starts to travel the world of Remnant, using his status as a Huntsman to avoid possible suspension as his research slowly becomes an obsession. Eventually, his travels led him into meeting Cinder Fall, who was plotting her revenge against the Huntsmen System itself. Strangely enough, something he could exploit.

The woman in red seeing they both had something to gain, requested or rather demanded Ansem’s aid in her attack on Beacon. And though Ansem rejected to be there personally, he gave a scene of long distance aid if in return, she’d help him with an experiment, which strangely involves her succeeding in invading Beacon Academy. Upon agreement, Ansem informs Cinder and her party of the location of the White Fang Camp in Mistral, led by none other than Adam Taurus himself.

As Cinder Fall and her party began their assault on Beacon Academy and the City of Vale, Ansem got the confirmation he needed back in Vacuo. As the Grimm slowly started moving towards the Everlasting Sandstorms of Vacuo, he found out that the lost tomb he had been looking for was in fact through the Sandstorm itself. He managed to get through the Everlasting Sandstorms and found the Lost Tomb, but he came across another problem. The large doors to the tomb apparently were locked. After looking through the door, he found that he needed four keys to open the Tomb Doors. However, before he could even begin, he received a notice that Cinder’s invasion of Beacon Academy had failed. So he was unable to complete his work and had to retreat from the Lost Tomb.

The next morning, he met up with the fuming Cinder Fall and informed her of his theories and findings, not that it improved Cinder’s mood. But he promised her that if they were to continue working together, at the end of his own personal quest, they would in fact get what they both desired.

After aiding Cinder go dark, Ansem returned to the City of Vacuo and became a professor at Shade Academy. Many years later, starts putting his plan into motion by becoming the new Headmaster of Shade Academy. He contacts Cinder Fall and gives her a new identity as he appoints her as his Vice Headmistress. After reaching out to his contacts outside of the Kingdom of Vacuo, he slowly starts to begin his sole mission of destroying The Grimm that is in the Lost Tomb of Vacuo.

## Personality

Though towards his ‘students’, he comes off as compassionate and wise, but this is nothing more than a mask he wears to hide his true self. In reality, Headmaster Ansem is cold, calculating, and utterly ruthless. To further his own goals, he treats people as either tools to be manipulated and disposed of, or of nothing more than cattle for himself. He reveres power and knowledge above all things, and despises ignorance.

He rarely presents a cocky, confident and self-proud demeanor.

Ansem is prone to self-indulgent, bombastic, and flowery speeches about the nature of the Grimm and the status of the world of Remnant ever since the Battle for Beacon. However, the scientific genius of Ansem was blinded by his own obsession with the Lost Tomb in the Sandstorms in the Kingdom of Vacuo, an obsession which his master claimed before his death that would lead to his own demise.

## Appearance

As a 61 year old man, Ansem has tan skin as the result of being a resident of the desert kingdom of Vacuo. He has dirt white short combed back hair and a goatee mustache. Despite being shirtless with tribal tattoos on his chest and right arm, he is wearing a sleeveless black high collar trench coat with white side edgings and red straps as he wears a tribal necklace. He is wearing black cargo pants and combat steel toe boots. He is wearing a pair of black and red fingerless gloves. The most noticeable thing about him are his Silver Eyes.

## Semblance : Focus

Due to Ansem’s semblance Focus, his attacks are honed to perfection. Sharp and precise, few enemies are capable of escaping his spear. By mentally eliminating the use of excessive action, be it either aimless running or failed sword strikes as well as eliminating senseless or unneeded thoughts, with his semblance Ansem will gain a higher sense of Focus, making him more focused and deadlier. For each action, a perfect reaction:

*"Anyone can swing a sword, but only the most disciplined can master it."*

## Weapon : Dark Baron

Ansem’s weapon, Dark Baron is a two handed War Trident that is capable of using Dust Crystals. It doesn't transform into anything else, so it truly proves Ansem's capabilities in battle.

## Trivia

* His quest into unlocking the Lost Tomb Doors led him into being responsible for the death of Duran’s mother, Sarah “Crimson” Raglan.
* His allusion in the story of RWBY Fables is Jafar from Aladdin. For his own selfish desires will be his own downfall.
* Professor Ansem Vada is a Rwby OC that is owned by the creator of the fanfic RWBY Fables RB. AkA…Me.