"I mean... sometimes you just need a little help you know... right?"

Name: Heather Di Mint

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Race: Deer faunus (as a deer Faunus she has a couple quirks. Startles easily, eats vegetables almost exclusively, hates meat though she can eat it. Has horns obviously, but also a deers ears bit no tail. Naturally a bit nervous)

Further appearance: Heather is rather petite, standing at a mere 5'2 she is slim and lithe only weighing only 133 lb.. She prefers short dresses and combat skirts to pants, mixed with stockings. She prefers boots to other footwear and allways has on gloves if outside of her armor. Heathers abs are more developed than that of most girls, though her arms appear to be only slightly more muscled along with her legs, though she is no body builderor anything like that, the diference is noticeble on just slightly closer than a glance (if her legs and arms are uncovered that is, or her midrif I suppose :) )As she focuses on heavy hitting, Heather does wear armor. Her armor is made of several plates of metal connected with an underlying weave of steelsilk. It cover her chest, top of her mid-riff and her arms. She wears a bronze scarf to cover her neck. The armor itself is mint green, lighter than most of what she wears underneath it. She keeps her legs unarmored to avoid hampering the movement of her legs, the amor had no helmet as she prefers not to cover her horns.

Weapon name: Malice

Weapon appearance/function:

Type: Two forms, sheathed and unshaeathed, melee with single medium range ability, dust use

Weapon derivation: Uchigatana/Kanabo

Holstered/sheathed appearance: Worn with the Uchi blade up, the sheath and blade hilt making up the canabo, but curved to fit the sword. Despite the Kanabo sheathes length and size, she carries at her waist like a regular Uchigatana would be.

Weapon appearaance: The Kanabo serves as the sheathe, meaning it is curved unlike a classic Kanabo. Made of black steel, the studs are stainless. THe Uchigatana itself has a white blade, stained from constantly being heated in the Kanabo sheathe.

Form 1: Full Kanabo In its base form, the weapon functions as a full Kanabo about four and a half feet tall, almost as tall as Heather herself (though it has the uchigatanas hilt guard), if more curved than an ordinary Kanabo. In this form it can release small explosions of fire by flaring the studs, originating from the dust vials inserted into its top.

Form 2: Uchigatana/Short kanabo: In this form Heather wields the heavy short Kanabo in her left hand and the Uchi blade in her right. The blade is almost always very hot, often steaming for awhile after being seperated. An interesting ability can be used when first unsheathing the blade. If she pumps all the dust remaining into the the Kanabo before seperating the Uchi, Heather can release a large gout of flame from the sheathe, reaching out to 60 or 70 feet in a cone of about 20 or 30 feet.

Personality: Heather is a reserved and rather shy person in general. She speaks softly(and carries a big stick) and often avoids directly confronting people over issues if she can avoid it. She remains reserved and rarely shares her thoughts or feelings with others, even friends. Most of the time, she comes off as rather socially awkward and shy in the extreme, its hard for her to get particularly close to anyone. In spite of how she normally is, Heather excels and comes into an almost opposite personality when in the thick of a melee, using her weapon Malice with an almost brutal amount of passion and glee. Though still rarely talking, there is no reserve in the way she fights or acts in a combat, throwing her all into what she believes is the ultimate form of self expression.

History: Heather was born and raised in Vale, but not like most children. Her parents were drifters, with no real time to raise a child, so they did what they thought was right. She was dropped at the doorstep of house in the richer district of vale, the owner surprised when he discovered a small faunus child on his porch. He quickly dropped the baby at an orphanage, unwilling to raise any sort of Faunus. Heather was in the poor orphanage until she was about 4, when the orphanage was destroyed by the white fang. After that the chilldren were seperated and taken into many different institutions and groups, Heather was lucky enough to be "adopted" by one Hanna Mint, a human socilite in Vale. However, this was not done out of the kindness of her heart, Hanna was infertile and a widow, as her husband had been a huntsman who died fighting Grimm., and Hanna wanted a legacy, she wanted a child who would be a famous huntsman. To this end, Heather Di Mint, as she was named by her new mother, was almost never not training. Wether learning to use dust, strengthening her Aura, learning her semblance or rigourous physical training she was almost never doing anything else. Though Hanna Mint was not a huntress herself, she had a large inheritance invested into many succesful companies, meaning that though she never went to Signal Heather always had a tutor, often several at once. Schooled this way, isolated from others of her age Heather became introverted in the extreme, being shy around anyone who wasn't her mother, who she only ever wanted to impress. To this end she worked hard, enduring all of her training no matter how difficult or trying it got. Then, when she caame of age, she was admitted into beacon. Now on her second year, Heather has still opened up very little, remaining the shy introvert she has been since year one, no one has managed to become close enough to her to open up just yet.

Emblem


Color: Mint Green

Combat style:When one full size Kanabo Heather focuses on a combination of heavy ground destroying hits and blocking. After transforming, if she uses it as a flamethrower firt, she then dispatches any defense, changing to a full offensive push, using the shorter Kanabo and Uchigatana in tandem to hti her opponent with a flurry of blows, much faster than her full Kanabo. Without her weapons, Heather is a student of drunken boxing, meaning though not AS dangerous, she can continue to fight effectively.

Strengths and weaknesses: Heather is incredibly strong in spite of her size from years of training her body, also granting her far more fortitude than someone of her size should have which is improved further by her armor. However, also unlike other fighters of her size, her reactions and the speed of her attack are hampered by her armor and she puts to much strength behind most of her attacks, leaving her more open for counters than most other hunters if she misses. Her semblence somewhat makes up for these deficiencies, making her far harder to hit, not necasarily because she is faster or has better reflexes, but it makes guessing her moves far more difficult.

Semblance: Vanish in smoke- Heather is withdrawn and enjoys little more than practicing or studying alone, her semblance reflects her shy nature. Upon its use Heather begins to smoke... literally parts of her body begin exude coloums of smoke as if from a huge dying fire. The smoke obscures her motions, making her strikes harder to predict, and making her harder to hit. In addition to valing her movements, Heather can strike out with the buring smoke, able to blind and seriously burn opponents unlucky enough to get caught by the thrown embers. However, the semblance ownly directly increases her speed, meaning her hits come no harder and she gains no more endurance, though it gives her the oppourtunity to escape dangerous situations. The one truly offensive capability she calls "smoking blade", where she channels the smoke purely to her blade or Kanabo(or both though this is more difficult) adding both the ability to seriously burn opponents as well as seperate groups by spreading the smoke with rapid or heavy strikes, throughing the choking, burning smoke into the air. If used in tandem with the Kanabo's flamethrower attack, Heather can create a sort of extreme burning smog blinding, burning and choking anyone or anything caught in the cone of thick black smog.