Venus

 Demi

 
Lived in the forest with her mother
Mother died when she was young and she thrived in the woods on her own (with her semblance) till teenhood
Found by her rich Altesian father
Forcibly groomed and brainwashed into being the perfect pawn.
Went on a rampage and was sent to Atlas academy.
Graduated and was discharged later for her Instability
Now roams Remnant with her Half Brother being a shit disturber everywhere she goes

The rustle of the treetop leaves and the sounds of echoing birds were all the things that Eurydice had ever known. The soft pound against the forest floor were the only things that could comfort her. She felt flaring instinct that flared and cracked like thunder in the sky. As if the world was at her beck and call and the only things that were important to her was her dominance over the forest. This was her life since she came into this world. This was her life living in the forest. Hunting and surviving was her passion and she was excellent at her profession. She was raised by the laws of nature. Kill or be killed, the wild had sharpened her already raised Faunus senses to the point where she knew the immense forest like the back of her hand.

 However one would ask oneself, who raised her? Someone had taught her to speak or interact. Eurydice had been alone for a long time and the recollection as to who her parents were or why they had left lived in a remote Atlesian forest. The reason why her and her mother were there had escaped her memory. The woman couldn't speak due to the wound through her throat, but she cared for her daughter as much as she could, and upon her back grew a plant when she grew ill she passed it onto her daughter putting the remainder of her aura into it and it crawled to life and latched onto young Eurydice.She should have followed soon after, die she would have, if not for a strange mixture of luck and fate. Eurydice was a special child. A child who had already unlocked her semblance at a young age. Fate was a funny thing, it had cursed Eurydice to be alone but had provided her with a semblance that took care of her and raised her. Eurydice’s semblance was Nature’s caretaker.

 This semblance allowed Eurydice to survive off of the life force of the forest itself. The first few years it was only by chance she survived. Her semblance would flow itself into the ground and made fruit grow whenever she wanted, It could control plants to fight for her.  It helped her instinctively know what was safe to eat and what was dangerous most. And when she was tired or hungry she could sustain off of the life force of the plants around her, but most importantly she could hide in the tallest of foliage and in the deepest of underground caverns away from the creatures of Grimm. The semblance was her guardian. Using the vitality she leached from the plants around her she stayed alive herself. Now as Eurydice grew, her dependence on her semblance faded and so she became a great hunter of the forest. And so her use of the semblance grew more refined. She used the forest and the plant latched to her back and manipulated the energy of the forest itself. It flowed in and out of Eurydice like a heartbeat and into the heart of the forest. Plants and the flora would protect her at a command like an heir to an earthen throne.  Eurydice was not stupid, she soon realized that the plants would reach out and nearly speak to her. Teaching her their ways and how to use her semblance properly. They spoke of hunters and what they had seen. Soon Eurydice came to fear the realm of other humans and stayed away mostly to the deeper parts of the forest. As the years past, Eurydice came to use her semblance fluidly. The flora would protect her when she was under attack forming a thick bramble of thorns and when she was hunting they would hunt with her. It took years for her to learn to use her semblance as that of a formidable warrior. It was in this state of harmony with herself and her semblance that tragedy struck.
 
Eurydice woke one morning to hear the screams of her plants. The cried out in anguish to her for help. She wondered if Grimm were rampaging but her worries were doubled when she saw smoke on the horizon. Humans were burning the forest. Racing through the maze of trees and thicket that had become her home. She knew what they were… they had come to dig up the crystals of energy that grew beneath the ground. They wanted to destroy her home for the dust but she would never allow them to destroy her home.

She rushed to defend her home. If there were one way to repay everything the forest had done for her she would do this. Arriving at the front lines of the fires she saw men in giant suits with fancy machine torching the place. Some with giant machines crushing the plants. It infuriated her, her instinct deep inside told her. This wasn’t right and that they had to be stopped at any cost. So she let her aura flow to all the plants in the area. Wincing at the pain she felt with them and she commanded as a tidal of thrones and roots uprooted the machines. The men scrambled scared, how pathetic… But some of them came closer reforming and coming closer to her. Before she could find a better vantage point she was quickly charged at by a few humans with strange mechanisms in their hands. She was quickly restrained but she controlled the plants around her to attack she soon felt lightheaded and passed out.
 
 
She woke up in a white room with three people in it. She was laying down in some weird fabric. She bolted up and looks around. Everything was strange. The walls, the floor, her bed, it was all so unnatural. Eurydice tried running but found herself cuffed to the bed. Thrashing a bit before settling. The helpless feeling of her captivity was sinking in. A man stood before her and walked to her and said.
“You may not understand a word I say but I hope you will understand this.” He gestured to the man in the corner “This is your father and now that we have found you I assure you we will try our best to rehabilitate you into society.”
The man’s smile reeked of something foul and although she couldn't understand the words she did understand one thing. It made her blood run cold and her thoughts stop in their tracks and as she realized, She was their captive.
 
Ushered through many concrete trees and fast moving machines Eurydice was transported. Stopping at a very big manor she stepped off the machine and were moved inside.  A tall man greeted Eurydice and embraced her along with a woman. No amount of instinct could prepare her so she stood there. Frozen with her heart aching, missing her home she walked into the prison that would consume her life.
 
Two years past of their so called rehabilitation. Eurydice was taught how to speak and interact with people. She was taught how to act appropriately and the history of Atlas. It bored her. She thrived on instinct and survival. Now she could act like a person but it would not change who she was at heart. She despised her parents for doing this to her. It pained her every moment she sat in a chair. Eurydice yearned to return to the forest. What had hurt her the most was the silence. When she arrived they placed an anklet around her ankle which dulled her senses. She couldn’t talk to her plants and she felt so empty. The world seemed monotone with the bracelet on it bored her, with the absence of the voices and instinct she could empathize but she couldn't bring herself to smile cry or laugh. All of her outward expressions and displays of emotion were dulled. The drowsy dullness was slowly killing her, like cancer gripping her primal thoughts and drowning them in the lessons of posture, grace, and honor.

Eurydice was trapped without hope. Her instinct had failed her and no amount of fighting was helping. That wasn’t to say she wouldn’t try. Every day she wore the anklet down and it was her dream to escape this life. One day, however, she was ushered into a room with the man that was her father. He smiled and Eurydice returned it with a cold glare the only defiant look left on her face. Many other men were there as well. The gazed at her constantly evaluating, she felt scared and less than a human and more like a specimen. It wasn’t too long before her father spoke.
 
“ Alright, then gentlemen it is now time to decide what is to become of my daughter. She is a woman who holds great potential. A person of many talents and I’m sure she could become an excellent member of society.”
 
Many suggestions were being thrown around faster than Eurydice could process. The room was whirling as shouts began to dominate her conscious. This continued until two things happened at once. A man shouted from the back “She would make a great wife! My boy would greatly enjoy someone like her!” and at that moment. After years of scratching and wearing her prison down without anyone noticing. Her anklet fell off. And she heard a voice primal and fierce. “Let me out… Let me hunt again” She could feel the plants voices but they were distant, and her instincts were still dulled. The voice spoke again “They dulled you… but... I can fight still. Let me take over.”

As Eurydice awoke from the black dream she had been in, she saw her captors in front of her. Her instinct, senses and her semblance had returned. Everything came to a dull roar as her anklet clattered against the ground. Eurydice felt once again the life force of the plants. She was disgusted at the men who stood before her. She was not an object to be sold. However, something was different. Over the years her other half had adopted civility, morals, and personality while she stayed passively in the back of her own mind watching and waiting.  It clashed violently like two tides until finally, the water settled. Returning back to reality the room had donned a silence as everyone was shocked from the visible amount of aura radiating from her, which seeped for her like a malicious cloud. Her steps were deliberate and lethal as she walked towards the crowded men. She had no plants to use in the room but Eurydice had remembered that this specific room was her favorite place in the manor. The palace gardens.  She simply smiled as the ceiling and floor collapsed as roots and vines ensnared the guests. Her power trashed and destroyed the walls as the group was subject to her power. One man stood amidst the chaos seemingly undisturbed. He quickly struck down her plants much to her dismay. He easily closed the distance between her and swiftly had her on the ground. When she regained her bearings the man helped her up. The men were slowly untangling themselves from the vines. Eurydice looked to the strange man as he spoke.

“ I came here because we were told that your father had discovered someone of great potential. He wasn’t wrong. I come here on behalf of the Atlesian Military academy willing to extend an offer of admission. You are obviously well versed in the use of aura in combat. I agree with you miss Eurydice. You were born to play the role of a fighter. So why don’t you pursue that path.” Many thoughts passed through her head as she processed this information. Specialists were bad, weren’t they? But anything would be better than being a pawn or a trophy. Fighting was already her passion and there could never be a better opportunity to grow.

 Taking his hand Eurydice stood up. Her father was fuming but the man put on a sly smile. s “Trust me sir, This exchange will work out for both of us, Her ‘Abilities are very interesting and her potential in the Atlesian military program is…unparalleled. And I'm sure the Altesian government will be willing to give you a more… tangible reward.  Me taking her off your hands is a blessing. Don’t misread that.” And so once again Eurydice was off to another place she had never been before. However this time she wasn’t as afraid. She felt somewhat whole yet broken at the same time as she was transported to the next chapter in her life. There was one thing that echoed through their mind as she marched up the steps to the Altesian academy. “I will never be prey again.”
 
Eurydice was known as a problem student during her time as an Altesian trainee. Although she thrived decently in academics and combat training. Her actions and behaviors were not optimal. She was easily irritable when not near plants, She showed extreme impulsiveness and also her behavior was erratic due to the indoctrination she had received. It was found that her semblance was such an integral part of her function that blocking it had actually caused a rift in her soul. This made her have seemingly two persona’s one with emotionless and scripted class. AND the other with savagery and rage that was nigh-uncontrollable in strategic scenarios. But where some saw problems other people saw an opportunity. Due to her lack of a ‘modern’  education, she was a blank slate of an individual and the teacher was soon scrambling to take advantage of this trying to mold her into the perfect soldier based on her strengths.

She had few acquaintances apart from some of the teachers and even fewer friends. The only one she had was a familiar boy named Damien. They were placed in the same group during their initiation. But there was an incident, some of the  Grimm had banded together into far larger pack than were expected and attacked the pair. Although Eurydice was able to use her semblance to escape and stay out of Grimm reach until help arrived, Damien went missing for many weeks and Eurydice was part of the search efforts. They sent airdrops and distributed emergency supplies all along the initiation area. Before long they declared him dead surely no one could survive half a month in this Grimm infected area. So it was to their surprise when he was recovered from the ruins three months later. Unfortunately, he was a nervous wreck and despite her consoling, he broke down and was institutionalized at  Golden Grove. She made sure to visit him all the time and soon found out that he was her half-brother and had been unable to escape after being at the brink of exhaustion from constant force training by their father and he was forced to use an archaic ancestral sword during his initiation. She became closer to him knowing that they both were wronged by the same person and vowed revenge for both of them, She made sure that she constantly visited him.

Even though Eurydice wasn't experienced as a person she was far from stupid and took advantage at of this. She made friend with the biology instructors and worked together with them to augment the plant that had long become a symbiotic part of her. Testing its limits and strengths.  A living plant that could change based on her needs It seemed it had leeched off her semblance until it had grafted itself to her skin and burrowed into her body.   As time went on went on and she began to become more emotionally stable and she began to specify her fighting style. She began to focus on hunting enemies, ambushes tracking and executions. She wanted to hunt prey as efficiently as possible and throughout her academy years, this is what she focused on getting weapons and skills specified for this purpose. As she became more proficient at her techniques she was frustrated with herself and the Altesian staff were too. Her semblance her greatest strength seemed to have been stunted. The whispers of the plants were quiet almost inaudible to her, and using her skills took far more aura then it didn't when she lived in the forest.

Upon graduation from the academy and joining military service she heard of a program that specialized in tracking down criminals and tracking deserters. She joined the military to qualify for this field and succeeded. And by god was she good at her job. By her hand, she took down Specialist deserters and extremely dangerous criminals. She modeled her entire fighting style around defeating her enemy without giving them a chance to rest. She set up intricate traps and baits with her semblance and broke through their aura to kill them in mere seconds.Her stunted growth had the boon of allowing her to catch her enemies off guard.

But it was this that slowly drove her superiors to question her. She started to spend longer and longer in the field, not returning for mission statements. Her social skills became tactless and it became clear that she was mentally disturbed. She was constantly talking to nothing in the field and she acted extremely erratic. Due to theses developments that grew gradually over time her Superiors declared her unfit for duty and discharged her from service. She soon disappeared from Atlas and now can be seen roaming Remnant with her Half brother Damien as arms dealers muscle.
 

-Recovery from exhaustion (Just  tired) = 15 mins
-Recovery from absolute Exhaustion (Unable to move)= 45 mins
-3000 calories worth of nutrition= 1hour