März Marquardt

Appareance
März is a tall man with short strawberry blond hair, partially dyed in a reddish tone. He has amaranth purple eyes, fair skin, and has a strong, athletic, tonified body build, specially having quite muscular legs. Since he's a rabbit Faunus, he has a pair of rabbit ears over his head, of the same color of his hair.

His outfit consists of a yellow short-sleeved Dust football kit with black decorations, black compression shorts under his kit's shorts, black socks with gold details that reach over his knee, and gold/black Dust football cleats. He also wears Dustball gloves that match his cleats' color scheme, and shin pads under his socks.

Personality
März seems to be almost the polar opposite of his younger brother Halsten; while Hal is serious, kind of grumpy, and isn't a big fan of spotlight, März loves to show off and do stuff that might be eye-catching; he enjoys seeing the reaction of others when he does stuff, no matter if these are good or bad.

März is an extroverted, assertive, charismatic individual, and has a lot of self-confidence; he's aware that he's both skilled and attractive, and uses his qualities as a way of helping him archieving his goals. He's also kind of cocky, and sometimes enjoys making people get mad at stuff he does in a playful way; even if he does this, he's generally well-intentioned and he doesn't mean to do actual harm.

März is a loving and kind individual with a strong paternal instinct, being very affectionate with his closest ones, specially with his siblings. Because of this, he tends to treat younger people he's fond of like small children, even if they aren't. However, this doesn't means that he loves blindly; he's also resentful with those that have harmed him in the past; he never forgets and chances are he won't forgive them unless they have a good argument for making him do so.

Also, März cares a lot about his presentation and appareance, and a lot of people find him kind of eccentric, being too blunt, and/or shameless sometimes. He's also a bit of a flirt, specially with his fans.

History
März is a Menagerie native who moved to Vale with his family when he was around 6-7 years old. Being good at sports in general, he fell in love with Dust football precociously, and played mainly as a goalkeeper, showing natural agility and resistance. Due to his protective, paternal nature, he also got interested in how a lot of Dustball players happened to be Huntsmen as well, and decided to give it a try. März studied in an elementary hunting academy and played for the Dustball team, and kept doing so when he got accepted in Beacon, thanks to his skill and versatility as both a player and a fighter. He graduated from Beacon when he was 20 years old, and a few months later he was already called up for playing in the Vale National Football Team, being the main goalkeeper and vice-captain of the team.

Ivoire's incident
In his first year of playing as a goalkeeper for the Vale National Football Team, being 21 years old, März was already becoming well-known for his skill and personality, and recieved a lot of compliments and support from the public, specially from fellow Faunus, who looked up at him as a role model. However, he also recieved aggressive critiques and flaming from anti-Faunus people, and specifically one of those people was aware of his rising popularity and power, and wasn't happy with that at all.

One day, März had his usual training at the field, and after he and his team completed it he went back home, though he decided to go by foot, enjoying the seemingly peaceful twilight. As März walked alone back to home and passed near a dark alley, a bunch of people covered in dark clothes appeared and rounded him, trying to catch him. März, without hesitation, attacked back and fought against them all. He could subdue most of them, but one of them gave him a strong punch on his head and broke his Aura, rendering him powerless and making him lose his consciousness as well. The henchmen kidnapped the rabbit Faunus. März woke up in a dim room, with all his limbs tied to a chair, and an electric shock collar around his neck. The people in black clothes surrounded him.

"Wh-Where am I?! Who are you?!"

One of the henchmen got closer to him, looked at the Faunus in the eye, and proceeded to give him a strong slap on his face.

"You know what you do".

The rabbit Faunus looked back at them, noticeably angry, and replied back:

"I asked...WHO ARE YOU?!". März quickly moved his right hand as an attempt to activate his Semblance, but a strong electric shock ran around his body, and the statment did nothing but make the henchman deliver a strong punch on his stomach as a reply. The sportsman let a scream out, and his face's annoyed expresion gradually changed to a frightened one.

The henchman's phone ringed, and the following words came out:

"Make him give up on his career; do whatever is necessary, but no severe injuries, okay?"

Ivoire. März could recognize that regal, yet cynical voice tone anywhere.

The henchman replied back, telling her that's what they were doing; then hanged. "Well pretty boy, you've heard her. You won't leave this place till you retire and go back to Menagerie. And, if you don't, we'll start targeting your family. Starting with him.", he said, as another henchmen showed him in his Scroll a photo of his little brother, Halsten. März was shocked; his heart beat getting faster and his breathing heavier; he was surrounded by what were anti-Faunus terrorists, as he noticed the emblem sewn on their clothes. His eyes widely open, he let out a frightened, yet still angry-sounding whisper:

"N-no!...please don't...please, punch and hurt me as much as you want, because I'm not going to give up, but don't touch my little bro!"

The terrorists proceeded to hurt März; be it kicking his stomach, punching his face, even nail his rabbit ears to the wall. The Faunus couldn't help but whimper and cry out of the pain, and feeling shocked due to being burned out and not being able to use his Semblance or any kind of attack to fight them back. In response, the henchmen laughed at his suffering, and even spat at him; they made him look how little they cared about his life and well-being. However, the Faunus wasn't going to give up so easily. As the criminals kept hurting him, and one even tried to touch him in an inappropiate way, März was aware that they it wasn't convenient to them to kill him, so he knew he had no choice but endure the torture until somebody arrived to rescue him. That, or until his Aura recovered and thought of something to get rid of the tying and the electric shock collar. However, not even the most logical thinking coming from his mind made him stop feeling panicked from the whole situation, and the potential damage his beloved ones could endure from those terrorists.

As März's rabbit ears started to bleed profusely, the criminals decided to stop beating him and leave the Faunus alone for a while. The chair lying on the floor, the Faunus tried to look around and try to find something that would help him break free, but he couldn't find anything. Exhausted and scared, he took a deep breath and let the tears come out.

But it didn't last for too much time, fortunately.

A loud window-breaking sound, several punching and slashing sounds accompanied with aggresive screams, and then the almost silent murmur of the terrorist's voices in pain.

A dark-skinned Faunus appeared at the door and approached März, gently moving the chair from the floor, and looking with a compassionate stare at the injured young man. A tender hand quickly removed the nails from his ears, and cleaned and bandaged them with care. Then, another Faunus appeared and helped März to get rid of his ties and the collar. As März was free, he stood with some difficulty, and the rest of the Faunus group appeared. All of them happened to be dog Faunus; they definetively didn't look like the police or some kind of security organization -quite the opposite, actually-, but they all looked at the rabbit Faunus with worried, yet relieved faces. A short, young dog Faunus in sportswear stood in front of März, with a friendly smile on his face:

"I'm so glad we could arrive on time!", he said as he spontaneously hugged the sportsman.

März was still kind of shocked at first and couldn't process the whole scene quickly, but seconds later he reacted back, hugging back the shorter Faunus, and sighing in relief. "T-thank you all, whoever you are."

"You don't have to thank us, it is our duty to help our brothers", a mature voice mentioned. The figure of a long-haired Faunus woman appeared, looking at März in a caring way, placing her hand over the sportsman's shoulder. "We want you to keep being successful", she said. März, taking some seconds to reply again, let out a coy smile and nodded back. They left the building and brought März back to his home.

Later, März became aware than this Faunus group was actually a street gang, The Baskerville Hounds. Surprised at this fact, yet convinced that he had to thank them for their actions no matter what, he told them that if they needed anything they could ask him, but trying to keep this private and personal. The Hounds didn't really looked forward for any reward, but they thought März helping fellow Dustball player-in-training Randel would be of big help to him. März accepted, helping him with money and supplies occasionally. As years passed, März's younger brother, Hal, got enrolled in Beacon, and Randel left the gang and got enrolled as well. As soon März noticed, he asked Randel to try to take care of his brother; something Randel was totally okay with doing, since he and Halsten were partners and also very good friends.

Weapon
März, being a Dust football goalie, wears a couple of Dust Powered Goalkeeper Gloves (DPGG), and also wears Dust Powered Football Shoes (DPFS) on his feet. Both of them have a mainly gold/black color scheme.

He uses fire, thunder, and wind Dust most of times, though he switches Dust types sometimes. Usually, he has a preference for using more "offensive" types of Dust, which is rather uncommon in Dustball goalkeepers.

Abilities
Even if he rather plays more football than hunting, März is a very strong and competent Huntsman. Due to both his Faunus heritage and his training as goalkeeper, he's remarkably agile and flexible and also quite skilled in evasion and dodging, therefore being hard to place a hit on him in battle.

In battle he's a mage fighter, being able to perform several Dust spells but also being able to deal physical damage in hand-to-hand combat.

(...) His Semblance is called ????, and consists of being able to ...

März's Aura is burnt orange and is quite strong intensity-wise. He also has good night vision due to being a Faunus.

(WIP)

Relationships

 * Halsten T. Marquardt: März loves his brother (and all his siblings as well) a lot, and tends to treat him like a kid, even if Hal finds that annoying; März can't help but keep doing it, since that's how he expresses his love towards his younger brother. März thinks Hal is very skilled and hard-working, and admires him a lot because of this. He's also protective over him and feels constantly worried about his well-being.


 * Ivoire D'Enfer: März is obviously resentful at what Ivoire did to him. Af first, he was somewhat scared at calling her on her actions on public, but then he realized that he had to do it in benefit of all Faunus. Thanks to his case and to have the courage to talk about this, he attracted more fans and people who admire him, but also brought in more enemies.


 * Randel Libero: März is aware that Randel was in the gang at the time of the incident he had with Ivoire, and that was one of those that helped him to flee. He appreciates a lot what Randel did for him and helps him economically in exchange.

Trivia

 * März, in part, alludes to the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland.
 * "März" means March in German; March 's name comes from Mars, which is a planet reddish in color. "Marquardt" comes from Old German marka "border, boundary" and ward "protector". Originally an occupational name for a border guard, it can also be interpreted as a metaphor for goalkeeper, since a goalkeeper also protects a border/boundary (in this case, the goal).
 * Like his brother Hal, he's a rabbit Faunus for certain reasons: in first place, rabbits are quite agile and watchful, which makes sense with März being a goalkeeper. Also, there have been some mascots in football cups and clubs that happen to be rabbits. And I have a pet rabbit myself so thought it would be funny.


 * He's specifically a Continental Giant rabbit Faunus.
 * Due to his rabbit Faunus nature, he isn't good at eating meat, and has some eating behaviours that might be considered weird to some people such as eating whole dandelion flowers.
 * He hates when people write/pronounce his name as "Marz" instead of "März"...Umlauts are important, you know. And his name is pronounced [mɛʁts].