<hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/8sMViis.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Masque (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=286197.msg14083251#msg14083251)<br/><strong>Aura:</strong>Gray, 2/3<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>Afternoon, Day One.<br/><strong>Location:</strong>In the air!<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Azuri<strong>Mentioned:</strong><br/><hr/><br/>"It's what I'm used to." A shrug might have accompanied the gesture, but he didn't want to put a hitch in the ride. This is in regards to how he saw that social interaction as a sort of competition. "I guess you could call it culture shock?"<br/><br/>"I'm not allowed to wear the mask on the actual campus grounds, for classes and the like. They did let me for this trial, though, as I consider it part of my combat attire. The face and the eyes, they show a lot of a person's intent; I hide my intent to be a better fighter. I hide so well, not even Grimm notice."  Which, if she puts two and two together, she should be able to figure out he just revealed his Semblance to her. "I'm from far west of your gilded city. Out in the swamps, and the jungles, where we don't get huntsmen and huntresses patrolling the roads. But I've been all along the western most coast; seen practically all of it, 'cept the northern tip. Sky and Sea, the roads are almost non-existent in most areas. We traveled a lot. Even the kids need to know how to shoot a gun, because Grimm attacks are so common, and we don't have walls to hide behind. Have you ever seen how many gutted villages are out there, just rotting away, being reclaimed by nature? Forming Grimm nests?" This probably puts the 'edgelord' moment he had a while back into a better context. "Nothing but small villages, ruins, and us nomads."<br/><br/>And since Azuri is a native to the continent, she might be able to read between the lines, and 'get it'. Masque is--or was--from a bandit tribe.  It depended on how much she knew about her own country. Mistral was legitimately known for its thuggish lower class; thieves and assassins that had gone into hiding while the bounties on their heads cooled. Opportunistic criminal cartels that could use the wide wilderness to shelter themselves from the prying eyes of the law of any governments. Mistral itself was said to be home to the largest black market (http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Mistral_(kingdom)#Culture) in all of Remnant. That he is, right now, all the way in another country, attending Beacon, instead of sticking with Haven Academy, is also pretty telling. Then again... maybe it meant nothing. After all, she had chosen Beacon over Haven.