CHARACTERName: Anna Fall
Age: 17, born 13th of Saaral 63 AC
Species and Gender: Female human
Symbol: Three interweaved chains in a circle around the outline of a closed eyelid (where the eyelashes are), the whole thing pure cyan (
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Occupation: Beacon Academy student, first year
Appearance: Standing at 180 centimetres/5'11", Anna is rather tall for a girl. With her weight of 68 kilograms/150 lbs, she also possesses a rather slender build. Her straight hair, which is of bronzes and coppers, extends down to about the level of the middle of her shoulder blades. She will more often than not have her eyes closed or, if open, will seem to have an unfocused gaze far below the horizon. However, when open, her eyes can be seen to be of a stunning green colour. She has slightly pale skin, a soft voice and is left-handed.
She usually wears a long-sleeved, azure shirt along with very pale blue jeans and white flat-soled shoes. When the weather is dreadful, she'll also wear a long, black coat. She makes no modifications to the standard school uniform. If she (ever) attends a formal event, she'll wear a close-fitting, mid-calf length cocktail dress which is a dark blue at the top, gradually fading into black along the entire length of the dress, along with black, low heel pumps. Her pyjama is a featureless, black tank top worn with midnight blue pyjama pants. When heading for a fight, Anna wears a sash hanging on the left of her waist via a diagonal strap, containing Kamisori Kiba, as well as two metal gauntlets complete with bracers running along the entire forearm. Her symbol can be seen on the gauntlets' palms.
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History: Anna was born in Vale to two loving parents. Although she acted somewhat strange, they didn't make a fuss about it and continued their lives. They only realized what was wrong a few days later. She never stared them down, tried to grab something hovering closeby or looked curiously at anything, ever. She had been born blind.
Rather predictably, this made her parents very protective, attempting to cater to her every need in any way possible. Anna didn't really mind during her early years, being too young to really realize what was going on. When she was about 5, her mother was reading a book to her before going on an errand. While she was away, Anna still wanted to read the book, even though she couldn't read, let alone see. She picked up the book and, concentrating with all her might, tried to see what was written on the pages. Of course, she failed. It didn't stop her from trying, though, even though she learned braille like most other blind kids did. For years, she tried, and kept reading in braille all the while. The few friends she made along the way were as overprotective as her parents, a behaviour which she had grown to dislike. Most people knew she could navigate almost any place without help, yet they still insisted on guiding her or reading to her. No matter the sentiment behind the action, it annoyed her.
By the age of 10, Anna was still trying. Until one day, when she was trying for the umpteenth time, she succeeded. Her parents didn't notice immediately, but after a few weeks, they found her on the living room couch, reading a normal book all on her own. Going to the local clinic to figure out what the hell was going on, they were informed by the staff that Anna's semblance was, ironically enough, sight. This pleased them greatly, although they remained as overprotective of her as ever.
As she grew smarter and taller, she delved into an ever-increasing amount of books. Although most were novels of some sort, the portion that mostly pertained to academic subjects became larger over time. She was therefore rather recluse, preferring to read a book than to go out with her friends. The fact that they would probably end up trying to take care of her didn't help, either. The books she read often spoke of heroes facing Darkness, fighting crime in some way or just trying to help people. Anna liked these heroes, and when the time to make a decision regarding her future came, she decided to go to combat school to become a Huntress to be like her heroes, as well as to prove to everyone she could do things by herself.
By the time she was 13, she had developed her sight further, allowing her to actually see where she was going. She usually only used it when in a new environment or when she needed to run, relying on her usual senses - at least, the ones that still worked - the rest of the time, like any blind person usually does, as she'd been mostly fine before and because keeping it up constantly gave her a headache after about a dozen minutes without rest. Ending up at Signal, she would usually wind up in the library during her free time, reading stories as much as brushing up on a variety of subjects. However, when it came to practical training, she struggled a bit for the first few months. Not used to using her more potent form of sight, she was rather bad during that time. It all changed when, during one of her usual training exercises, her sight changed completely, becoming incredibly eldritch. She started to "see" things move, without actually seeing them. She could tell when someone was swinging their weapon right when they started to do so, or how to flex her arms to land an arrow right on target. After a few months of getting practice with this strange sight, as well as suffering from the worst damn headaches after using it for half an hour without stopping, she came up with an idea for weapons that would mesh perfectly with her semblance.
When combat school ended, she enrolled into Beacon, scoring extremely high in all parts of the test, mainly due to her near-manic reading as well as her semblance.
Personality: Anna is shy and introverted, preferring to read a book than to go towards others - which she almost never does. She rarely uses her semblance outside of reading, her senses usually being sufficient. Since most people can easily tell she's blind, she chooses her friends with great precaution. Only people who see her for who she is, not what she is, have a shot at a meaningful relationship. She is somewhat sensitive, but will still not easily cry or such. She is loyal to her friends and very shy with people she's recently met, relaxing once she gets to know them and likes what she sees - no pun intended. She is incredibly good at literature and history, but tends to struggle with maths and science, although she still manages.
Aura and Semblance: Her Aura's colour is the same as her symbol's. Her semblance is Second Sight: it allows her to see with varying degrees of power.
At the first level, she can see things that are less than about 10 centimeters away from the underside of her hand. She usually uses this when reading or writing. The Aura cost is negligible.
At the second level, she sees somewhat normally. This allows her to see somewhat as well as the best Faunus, if not better. The zone where she has full resolution - where the cones are for normal people - coincides with where her head is facing and is twice as large (in angular terms) as normal. This smoothly transitions until it reaches the edge of the peripheral vision, at 180 degrees. The Aura cost is about 1% every 3 minutes.
The third level allows her to see like the second level as well as "see" all motion within a 20-meter radius with a definition the size of a red blood cell. This costs 5% Aura every minute. The 'sight' of motion is processed much faster than normal, run-of-the-mill sight usually is, and is crystal-clear within the entire zone.
In class, Anna usually uses stage 2 in small bursts, essentially just taking images of the black/whiteboard and any projections to make notes, using the first stage to know what she's writing. After a day of class, she feels a slight pressure on her cranium, but nothing bad or actually painful. Things get hairy when she continuously uses 2 and 3, though. She can keep stage 2 up for an hour before the pain starts to become too much, and can only continuously use 3 for about 12 minutes or so before being consumed by a skull-shattering migraine. Taking 10-second breaks every minute in stage 3 and 30-second ones every 6 minutes in stage 2 keeps the headaches manageable - or at the very least, allows her to use stages 2 and 3 for about 3 times as long as usual before screaming in agony.
Combat Behavior: Anna prefers to be at a somewhat short distance from her enemies, where she uses the third stage of her semblance to control her chains with nigh supernatural skill, managing to have an incredible control over their chaotic nature. At longer range, she'll use her knives whilst trying to close in, for as accurate as she can be, throwing knives have a rather limited range and are ever more restrictive ammo-wise. However, when in melee range, she'll use the chains in their storage state as well as two knives, although this isn't the best way for her to fight, being relatively weak and usually relying on the chains' sharpness as well as not being that good at hand-to-hand combat.
WEAPONSName: Kamisori Haaku
Primary Form: Two 3 meter long, black steel chains. The sides of each link have been methodically sharpened to a razor-like edge, giving them a bright, metallic finish. If successfully wound around something unprotected, a good enough tug will slice it clean off. When not in use, they can be found wound wrapped around Anna's armoured forearms.
Name: Kamisori Kiba
Primary Form: 30 steel throwing knives, kept in a small sash.
Dust Functions: Only the throwing knives have any. Small Dust capsules can be inserted into the handles. They can be set up to activate on impact or to be remotely triggered by the small device Anna carries around. She tries to always have 6 capsules of each type on hand at all times.
- Fire: Produces a fiery explosion which has a 1 meter effective radius.
- Ice: Freezes everything within 1 meter/encases it in ice.
- Lightning: Zaps everything within 1 meter.
- Kinetic: Drives the knife forward with immense force.
History: Anna bought perfectly ordinary chains and throwing knives while at Signal and proceeded to modify them into formidable weapons. Their names are based on their extreme sharpness.
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