CHARACTER
Name:
Aoife Alaura
Age:
17
Species and Gender:
Human Female
Symbol:
Opposite facing rose and poppy with intertwined stems.
Occupation:
First Year Beacon Student
Appearance:
Aoife is a pretty enough young girl, with shoulder length dyed mahogany hair, with her blonde roots poking through, and amber eyes. She's 5'4 and weighs 145 lbs, not that she's gonna tell you that. Her nose is larger than average, something she isn't very fond of, and she wears braces. Nadine prefers to keep her hair tied up in a French braid. In terms of make-up, she prefers it to be very in your faces, wearing dark red lipstick, black eye shadow, mascara and winged eyeliner sharp enough to cut with.
For her clothing style, Aoife leans towards the punk rock look, wearing a black denin miniskirt over a pair of crimson leggings, with a red plaid long sleeved shirt that she leaves open to reveal a black waistcoat with red buttons. She wears black combat boots and fingerless gloves, and has a black belt that contains a holster for the Ace of Roses as well several ammo holders.
Out of combat, Aoife mixes it up a little, replacing her leggings and shorts with a pair of blue full length ripped jeans, and swapping her plaid shirt with a black leather jacket. She also lets her hair down to flow around her shoulders.
History:
Aoife's story doesn't really start with her birth, but back when her father, Seán, graduated Haven. He was the typical student really, idealistic and hopeful, and he wanted to make a difference. However, he'd been forced into becoming a huntsman by his aunt that didn't want to mind him and was pretty okay with shipping off her last living relative to private school where he might die. No better way of getting rid of an unwanted pest really.
Also, Seán was a coward at heart. In school, it was easy enough to work around, with his teammates and friends close by to keep him supported and safe. But out in the real world? Where the only thing that kept him safe from the monsters was his own skill? He just couldn't hack it. He did try, sure, but even the simplest of jobs left him quaking in his boots, and after a few months he gave in. He rented an apartment in Vale and started blocking out his fears and nightmares with alcohol.
Seán continued this frankly pathetic existence for years, and when his debts started piling up, he'd attempt to gamble his way out of them. This didn't change when a woman he'd had an affair with during his brief stint at being a hero turned up and dropped an unwanted three year old girl on his doorstep. If anything, it got worse, as attempting to do right by the kid he'd never really wanted only added to his debts.
For Aoife, life started to go downhill pretty much immediately. She got in trouble with her teachers and started hanging out with the "wrong crowd", as they were referred to. As kid, they really didn't do much wrong, but with age comes stupidity and the teenage years. Aoife and her friends headed down what most consider to be the wrong road, drinking, smoking and fighting at a young age, and doing other stuff that'd make most parents weep. And beneath it all, Aoife was struggling with mixed feelings for the man that raised her but couldn't do anything for himself. She both loved and hated her father. Hated his cowardice and demons, but loved him for caring for her and trying his best to treat her to something good whenever he could. The one bit of rebellion she never brought herself to was skipping school. Doing so would waste money they really didn't have.
When Aoife was thirteen, Seán had a stroke of luck. He won big at a cards tournament, and for the first time in years they actually had a large amount of disposable income. Well, large for them anyway. Seán payed off his debts and managed to find a cheap house in the suburbs for them to move to, as part of his new plan to turn everything around and become a better man. Aoife, meanwhile, had by now decided that he really was never gonna improve all that much, and felt that she had to do something herself, else she end up on the same rubbish road that Seán was on. And what better way to do that than become the very thing that Seán couldn't: a huntress. She started on a mission to frustrate him into training her, cause he really wasn't all that bad a fighter, and using his style only made her goal seem that much more worthy of her life. Eventually, he gave in, having realised that she'd only end up doing it herself anyway. Didn't mean he stopping complaining about it though. And, when she passed her entrance exam to Beacon, he may have opened his first bottle of run in years. But that's not for her to know.
Personality:
Aoife is a rebel at heart, doing her best to live her life by no one's rules but her own. She is one hundred percent focused on keeping control over her own fate, and won't let anyone boss her around without damn good reason. She's crass, arrogant, rude and reckless, and anyone who's in her presence is gonna figure that out pretty quickly, whether they like it or not. She's tactlessly honest, and very much in your face about it, the kind of person that'll call you out on your nonsense. Most don't like her for these reasons, but those that befriend her find that she's very loyal to her friends, even if she keeps the attitude with them.
Underneath this, though, is actually just a little girl that's tired of being pushed around in life. She's had bad friends and bad times, living life afraid that she's go home one day and find her father dead, either from alcohol or a debt left too long. Despite his many flaws, she does love him dearly, and that's why she feels she has to become a huntress: so she can recover their "family honour" and prove, to the both of them, that the Alaura name won't just be known for cowards.
Aura and Semblance:
Aura Colour
Being raised by a gambler caused Aoife to learn how randomness can affect everything, and her semblance was born from this upbringing. In effect, she's able to infuse her bullets with aura that allow them to "bounce" off of objects, a maximum of seven times. Aoife has zero control over what way the bullet bounces, making this semblance dangerous for everyone involved. The bullets cannot penetrate objects, but still retain their force, so they'll still hurt if they hit. While shot, the bullet glows red and leaves a trail that persists until the bullet has lost all of it's momentum. Aoife can only use this once a minute.
Combat Behaviour
In battle, Aoife's a skirmisher, preferring to dart in and out of close quarters while hammering her target with bullets. Taught how to fist fight by a friend, she has what some may call a brutal style that focuses on beating an enemy into submission by repeatedly striking weak areas such as joints and the throat with her fists, feet, knees, elbows or gun, whichever is easiest at the time. She only goes in when she's confident in her ability to win the confrontation, which she attempts to ensure via her gun. Take a shot or two, dart in and strike, back up and shoot again. Aoife isn't very good at defence, however, and neither is she particularly strong. This, combined with her semblance's unpredictable nature, means that unless she gets in good shots with the Ace of Roses, her fights are probably gonna last a while.
Weapons
Name:
Ace of Roses
Primary Form:
A red and black 8 round revolver. The majority of the gun is black, with only the cylinder, hammer, sights and butt painted red. The barrel has Nadine's symbol painted on it, and the cylinder has a red club, diamond, heart and spade designed on it, equal distances apart.
History:
Her father's old gun, which she effectively took for her own when she decided to become a huntress. She had it repainted from it's old blue and green colour scheme, while adding her symbol to the barrel, and the card motifs were included as a reminder of why she was leaving home in the first place.
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