Pierre Navarro

> I don't let my past sins define me.
>
> Pierre Navarro

* Mistral
* Illyria

### Relatives

**Ancestors:** Reginald Hyacinth I, Julius Hyacinth I**Parents:** Pearl Navarro †, Lucius Navarro †

**Relatives:** Noir Hyacinth †, Phoebe Hyacinth, Vioric Hyacinth,

**Guardian:** Lemona Curd

## Media

### First Appearance

"Preludes"

Pierre Navarro is a main character in Team OPRA's story. He is a student at Haven academy and a member of Team OPRA alongside Ophelia Demoiselle, Rhea La Roja and Albert Règalien. His weapons of choice are Death and the Maiden, a pair of knuckle dusters with fold out blades.

## Appearance

### Physical

Pierre stands at 6'3 and he has a thin physique with pale skin, red eyes, an ovular head shape with a pointed chin and dark brown hair that is tied back into a man bun on the top of his head. After revealing he killed Noir Hyacinth, Pierre cuts his hair to a shorter look.

### Attire

Pierre's original attire consists of a dirty-cream button down shirt with a pine green cravat and matching pine green waistcoat. The shirt has its sleeves rolled up and is also tucked into a pair of dark grey dress pants. On his feet, Pierre wears a pair of black dress shoes.

### Haven Academy Uniform

During his time at Haven, Pierre wore the standard academy uniform. Haven's school uniform consists of a black jacket with a light gray outline around the edges, a white undershirt and a white band around the student's left arm. Male and some Female students wear a pair of black slacks. On his feet, Pierre wore a pair of black dress shoes.

### Pyjamas

On the night before the entrance exam, Pierre is seen wearing a set of pyjamas when sleeping in the gym with the freshman cohort. His pyjamas are shown to be a white top with a pair of dark green, pin-striped pyjama bottoms.

### Alternate Attire - Baron

During their investigation into the Vedova Syndicate, Pierre goes undercover with a new set of attire codenamed 'Baron'. This attire has Pierre swap his usual waistcoat with a pine green and dark grey one with buttons down the middle instead of onto one side and smaller lapels. Instead of wearing a cravat, Pierre has two buttons of his white work shirt undone. On his legs Pierre wears the same dark grey trousers and on his feet he wears black doc martens.

### Post Time Skip Attire - Prowler

After the Fall of Beacon, Pierre along with his Team station themselves in Illyria and are employed under their military. There, Pierre dons a new outfit named *Prowler.* This attire has Pierre cleaning himself up more and wearing a white dress shirt and a dark green ascot tied around. Over that, he wears a low scoop pine green waistcoat with gold buttons. On his lower half, Pierre wears a pair of dark grey trousers and a pair of brown leather boots. Over the top of his waistcoat and shirt, Pierre wears a hooded caplet that drapes over his shoulders with his emblems on both sides. This is connected by a gold chain to two buttons. Around his waist Pierre wears a leather belt with pouches for dust and ammunition.

## Personality

Pierre begins as a quiet, charismatic, gentlemanly and affable young man. On the surface Pierre presents himself as a friendly and polite individual who is initially rather open about his upbringing. Pierre is shown to value the people around them and treat them with respect and kindness. However, this is a mask that Pierre uses to hide a more ambitious and cunning man. Pierre is shown to be efficient and quick in his ambitions and will forego any sympathy to those who get in his way.

He also shows some level of sarcastic and dry humour on top of his polite and gentlemanly exterior, often cracking a joke in dire situations. In combat situations, Pierre also shows some level of smarmy confidence to irritate his opponents, though not without attempting to defuse situations that may escalate and hurt others. While in combat, Pierre is shown to not be above dirty fighting, often using the environment against his opponents.

Because of his upbringing in the lower class district of Vale, Pierre has a level of distrust to people he deems suspicious. He will often act curt and cold towards these people. By the events of volume three, Pierre begins to open up to more people outside of his team, becoming a more friendly individual. Despite this, Pierre still doubts people as evident when he doesn't believe Ophelia when she tells him about The Masked Man who protects her.

Through his relation to the Hyacinth Family, Pierre has a deep hatred for the family because of their elitist and selfish attitude towards the other citizens of Remnant. He has a sense of entitlement to the fortune that the Hyacinths have, believing that he is the rightful heir because of his direct relation to Julius the 1st. Through this Pierre becomes a ruthless man who will resort to acts such as murder to get his way, evident in how he kills Noir Hyacinth and a woman to bring himself closer to the fortune. Despite this however, Pierre shows to be remorseful in his actions and fears what others will think of him, particularly with people like Phoebe Hyacinth. Pierre believes that these actions are necessary though and lets his past affect his personality, becoming moody and cold towards others, even going so far as to chastise Ophelia for her romanticised view on the world.

After the Fall of Beacon, Pierre becomes a more reserved individual. Because of Ophelia indecisiveness he grows impatient with her before he decides to disband the team until she makes the choice between being a huntress and being a performer for the opera. This ignites a rather cruel streak in Pierre, who opts to ignore Ophelia's struggles against The Phantom. However, Pierre realises the error of his mistakes when learning about Ophelia's suicide attempt and vows to be a better friend and partner towards her. He has also grown to throw himself into danger for the sake of another person, evident in how he volunteers to rescue Ophelia from Erik.

In the aftermath of the Siege of Illyria, Pierre has repaired his relationship with Ophelia. During his hostage status with the White Fang, Pierre is also shown to be very compassionate towards others, as shown in how he comforts Merletta Balasco for her struggles growing up as a faunus with her trait.

## Background

Pierre Navarro was born into a life of poverty. The only son of Pearl Navarro, Pierre lived a troubled and poor life in the slums of Vale. Despite this, Pearl Navarro did her best to raise her only son as a proper gentleman, grooming him to be the best, most polite young man that remnant has ever seen.

Growing up, Pierre had a bitter hatred towards the rich aristocratic Hyacinth family. Pierre had been jealous of the life that they had lived, and how much they despise and routinely make the poverty-stricken suffer for nothing but their enjoyment. However, at the age of 10, Pierre learned of a factor about his family that would change everything he had perceived about the Hyacinths.

It was long ago, that Pierre’s grandfather was the eldest son of the Hyacinth family, a noble family within Vale whose family lineage extends well before the great war. His grandfather, Julius Hyacinth, was to become the next lord and leader of the family and to inherit a grand fortune. However, Julius was betrayed by his younger brother, Reginald the First. His son, Pierre’s father Lucius Hyacinth, was exiled from the family afterwards. The reason behind the absence of Pierre's father is due to him passing on shortly after Pierre was born, Pearl suspecting that the Hyacinths had something to do with it. With the new revelation of his relation to the greedy Hyacinths, Pierre began to plot to take back what was rightfully his.

Inspired by the tales of huntsmen who sought justice for the oppressed, Pierre began to train to become strong enough so that he could enact the revenge the Hyacinths so deserved. At the right age of 13, Pierre finally initiated the first act of revenge on Noir Hyacinth. A man of dubious loyalty, Noir was a scoundrel. During the physical aspect of setting up his murder, Pierre seemingly unlocked his semblance when he saw the weak points within the ice that Noir was skating on, which allowed him to quickly take Noir’s life by making it seem he accidentally drowned.

Over the course of the next 3 years Pierre was accepted into Signal Academy. During his time he invented his weapons dubbed *Death and the Maiden.* However after graduating and before Pierre could enact the next part of his revenge his mother Pearl passed away from complications due to a long-term illness. Like his great-grandfather, Pearl Navarro was seemingly forgotten. Pierre was shortly taken in by their family friend, Lemona Curd and the two lived a small comfortable life in Vale. At night Pierre would often sneak out and venture into the seedier districts of Vale, eventually coming across the Ivory Kat Cabaret Club and meeting Sandy Bowles, a young singer who quickly became a close friend of Pierre. Sandy had experience around the sketchy streets of Vale, and quickly took Pierre in as an apprentice of sorts.

At Pearl Navarro's funeral, Pierre saw a young woman from the Hyacinth family. She introduced herself as Phoebe Hyacinth, daughter of Vioric Hyacinth and sister to Noir Hyacinth... Who Pierre had killed. The young girl who was Pierre’s age remarks her sadness for Pearl’s passing and how she is sorry for the treatment she received from the Hyacinths. Pierre sought a newfound friendship in Phoebe, now realising that even if the Hyacinths are horrible, there is always Phoebe to bring out what the family can become and maybe he could secure a better future for her by taking them all out of the picture. In the following year after his mother’s passing, Pierre kept training and practicing his skills, eventually being accepted into Haven Academy.

Now with the revenge plan set in motion, Pierre set off for Haven with a strong desire to take back what belonged to his grandfather and secure himself and the people who care for him the lives they deserve.

## Abilities and Powers

Pierre is a close to mid ranged fighter who uses his weapon's various forms to attack his opponents with swift strikes and slashes. He has a more traditional form of attack, taking opponents head on. Pierre is the type of person to use dirty street fighting tricks against his opponents to gain the upper hand. Through his semblance, Pierre is able to sense the weak point in only his opponents, allowing him to plan on the fly and attack where it will hurt most. Not only can Pierre see the weak points in an opponent, but also the environment around him. Because of this, Pierre can use the environment to his advantage, often causing structures or objects to fall on his opponents.

Pierre begins to practice stealth-based combat during his intense training with Captain Dogberry during the two months before volume 4. Pierre begins to prioritise quick and stealthy take downs of his opponents without anyone noticing.

### Weakness

Despite being an agile fighter, Pierre can be easily out-sped by faster combatants who can evade his attacks and do damage to him.

### Weapon

Pierre’s weapons are called *Death and the Maiden.* They are the Fold Out Duster Razors (FODR). They are a pair of Knuckle-dusters that can fold out into a pair of sharp barber’s razors. In their knuckle-duster forms, they are made from a dark green metal with grips just below the arcs with dull spikes on them. Pierre can also use dust with these weapons, his favourite being gravity and fire to decrease the weight of his knuckle-dusters and give a speed increase to his strikes, as well as create nasty burns and set enemies ablaze. In their 2nd forms, two blades pop out of the arcs to add extra damage to Pierre’s strikes and bleed damage. The blades of the weapons can also pop out to form two sharp razor-knives that Pierre can use to add a little bit more distance in his attacks.

After the Fall of Beacon and their relocation to Illyria, Pierre upgrades Death and the Maiden with the help of Albert. Death and the Maiden receives an almost completely new redesign, now taking on a rectangular shape in its casing. While retaining the same three dull spikes, the blades are now straight, akin to sword blades. Thanks to Albert's help, Pierre can now launch the blades out long distances and are attached via micro wire cables. Another form that Death and the Maiden receives is the addition of a side arm function, allowing Pierre to cover longer distances with bullets.

### Semblance

Pierre’s semblance is called *Weak Point.* Weak Point allows for Pierre to pinpoint exact weak spots in humans, Grimm and physical inanimate objects, allowing him to strike and gain an upper hand. In addition to this Pierre can manipulate the environment around him by using it against his enemies, whether it be creating a make shift obstacle or causing it to fall on top of his enemies. Depending on the size of the person or object, Pierre using his semblance can use up varying amounts of aura. Another key weakness of Weak Point is that those with better mastery of their aura can reject Pierre's semblance out of their bodies.

## Relationships

### Team OPRA

* **Ophelia Demoiselle:** Pierre and Ophelia are shown to have an extremely close relationship at the start of the story. Despite having two different outlooks on life, Ophelia and Pierre admire each other greatly as people and have formed a strong bond as friends and partners. Pierre is shown to respect Ophelia's desire to become a huntress and her independence, as well as admire her kindness and compassion in a world like Remnant. In the events leading up to volume 2, Pierre felt that deep down Ophelia would've been ashamed of his action of killing Noir Hyacinth, something that became a reality when their ideologies created a rift between them. But later it is shown that the two can trust one another to communicate properly and mend their relationship. After the Fall of Beacon, Pierre and Ophelia's relationship once again took a turn for the worse as she became torn between being a huntress or a performer which culminated in him harshly disbanding the team temporarily. But thanks to Mario Demoiselle's intervention, Pierre and Ophelia were able to make amends once more and create an even stronger bond out of it.
* **Rhea La Roja:** Similarly with Ophelia, Pierre has formed a close friendship with Rhea during their time at Beacon. Despite not knowing her true allegiance with the Rose Pirates, Pierre can sense that Rhea is all to secretive of her past, doubting her origin story. This is further proven whenPierre is shown to be taken aback by Rhea's willingness to forgive Pierre after revealing he killed Noir Hyacinth. However, Pierre still values Rhea as a good friend and a competent fighter in battle, often shown to place trust in her keeping enemies off of his back. In the aftermath of Beacon's fall, Pierre and Rhea show similar views against Ophelia's indecisiveness, but while Pierre eventually learns to forgive by the end of volume 4, Rhea still continues to be reserved about her leader.
* **Albert Regalien:** Pierre has shown to have a very close, brotherly relationship with Albert. The two share a deep respect for one another.

### Team CRTN

* Edwin Cobalt: The Cobalt family name is one that Pierre had come across, and a name that has been associated with good things in Pierre's mind. He admires Edwin's persistence and adaptability to becoming a leader. A kind man like Edwin in such an unfair and cruel world like Remnant is something Pierre admires, but he cannot help but feel there are issues that Edwin is weighed down by...
* Rosi Aime: Rosi's intentions as a disaster-relief hunter is one that is incredibly noble in Pierre's eyes. Pierre and Rosi feel a silent solidarity with one another because of their situations growing up, both being people who were ignored by those in power. He values her perspective on issues in the world, he firmly believes that others should listen to those who experience oppression with her as a clear cut example.
* Tanner Ackerman: It may sound harsh but in Pierre's eyes, those who respect and worship the Atlas Military are almost immediately marked with suspicion. Tanner's insistence to become one in their ranks further reiterates this. Despite his distrust in Tanner and his aspirations, he cannot help but remark at his persistence to improve and become stronger. But what Pierre wishes Tanner would understand is that the path to strength and recognition isn't one that'll be made with impossible expectations of others... and one's self.
* Conrad 'Birdie' Nigellus: On the other hand however, Birdie is someone Pierre can trust because of his ambitions. It may be a foolish thing to do, but Birdie's ability to win others over with his music and words is admirable. Unlike others who'd doubt his desire to become a hunter for its financial stability, Pierre can understand why, as growing up in Mantle wouldn't be something that's ever easy. How Birdie will fight for this new Remnant is anyone's guess, but Pierre supports it regardless.

### Others

* Pearl Navarro: Pierre is shown to have adored his mother before her death, an event that clearly took a toll on him emotionally because of how easy it was to prevent it. Despite her death, Pierre is shown to view it as a catalyst to keep pushing forward in both his goal to inherit the Hyacinth family fortune, but also take revenge on the Hyacinths themselves for taking everything away from them.
* Phoebe Hyacinth: Pierre at first didn't know what to think of Phoebe because of his views on the Hyacinth family and since she was one of them. Over time and with some eventual bonding however, he would warm up to Phoebe. He sees her as what the Hyacinth family should be, one that is more charitable and can use their status for good. However Pierre harbours deep and shameful guilt for taking away her brother and often doubts if his plan will actually help Phoebe. But he knows that he has to do this so she can be free from the Hyacinths and their evil clutches.
* Lemona Curd: Lemona has worked hard to make sure that Pierre is raised to be nothing but an upstanding individual. He can't help but feel that he's disappointed her in so many waves. He often thinks of what he'll give back to her once he obtains the fortune his family was robbed of. Whatever it is, Lemona deserves it for all that she has done for him. She may be bossy, stern and quick to anger but in the end, she has shown nothing but love and support for him. Therefore, he will make sure that she receives the proper thank you.
* The Hyacinth Family: There's something that burns in the pit of Pierre's stomach every time he hears that name. A certain rage... a deep *hatred.* The Hyacinths in Pierre's eyes are the most corrupt and evil people in all of Remnant. It's their utter devotion to make the lives of those beneath them as miserable as possible with the fortune that they stole and shed innocent blood over that makes Pierre hate them with every fibre of his being. No matter *what* Pierre does or *how* he does it, he will make all of them pay for their crimes.
* Sandy Bowles: A well respected associate of Pierres, Sandy has been the person who helped Pierre before accustomed to the hardened street life of Vale's downtown. Sandy had experience that she happily passed onto Pierre, and she was even the first to be told about his crime. Because of this Pierre hopes he can give something back to Sandy when he's achieved his goals of taking back the Hyacinth fortune.

## Trivia

### Allusion

* Pierre alludes to Monty Navarro from the 2014 musical *A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.*
	+ Both Monty and Pierre have identical goals in mind: to kill all of their distant relatives so they can inherit a great fortune.
	+ Both share the same surname.

### Colour Naming Rule

* Pierre is a french name that translates to 'Rock, Stone', indicating rustic earthy colours such as grey, beige, and brown
* Navarro meanwhile is a Spanish name that means 'Plains', alluding to colours such as green.

### Miscellaneous

* Pierre's weapons, *Death and the Maiden* are named after the play of the same name by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman.
* Pierre's zodiac sign is Aries.