CHARACTER Theme - The Promise Battle Theme - Stand Your Ground Name: Akeldama Blood-Heart
Age: 17
Species and Gender: Bat faunas, female
Symbol: A red wifi signal with two fangs on the second smallest bar.
Occupation: 1st year student at Beacon Academy
Appearance: Akeldama or rather just “Akel” is a girl of five foot seven inches in height with white hair carefully styled which reaches to her hips and a neat red ribbon usually keeping it in a ponytail when not done up, otherwise or not at all. She tends to brush a bit of her fringe to cover her right red eye. Being a bat faunus she carries abnormally fluffy, cute white bat ears which are constantly hidden under the guise of headphones. Her sharp yellow and red eyes along with the diamond shaped pupils kinda glow in the night. She is a bit self-conscious of that fact and tends to avoid dark places unless she has special eyewear which she carries around most times.
Akel’s skin is of a standard Valish complexion, usually covering up properly all the time so some might say her skin tone is a bit lighter because of this. As expected of a huntress-in-training she does have a well-defined body, but still has voluptuous curves and doesn’t shy away from a chance to show off. She also bears a birthmark on the side of her neck, looks eerily similar to a vampire bite mark.
Accessories
Headphones - Akel always wears a pair of black headphones which covers both her human and faunus ears due to her hypersensitive hearing semblance. She needs these to be able to handle everyday activities that would otherwise become impossible to do because the noise can give her a sensory overload. A touch based dial is on the right side which can control the amount of noise that she hears. Also she can plug in an aux cord to listen to music. She can’t use ordinary head/earphones and it is also capable of filtering out certain sounds.
Alternate headphones - A smaller pair that go into the inside of all four of her ears. They don’t contain the precision that her regular pair does, doesn’t allow for music and aren’t as comfortable but can do all the other features of her regular ones and are more convenient for formal occasions and high movement activities (like fighting).
Silver earrings - A pair of earrings with a point on both ends. Looking almost like a dagger and someone had the great idea to make it cylindrical.
Ring - A plain ring done in black with a V shape on one side which normally sits on the upper side of her left ring finger.
Thigh strap - A strap along her right thigh which holds ammunition for her main weapon. It holds roughly fifty bullets and has a strap connecting to her belt to keep it in place.
Weapon holster - A seemingly regular belt that has a circular magnetic disc on each side to allow for the weapon on be held on either side amd can be magnetically locked to the small of her back. Underneath her clothes it is also a harness to keep the belt in place even with the weight of the weapon on one side.
Huntress outfit
A dark blue, almost black turtleneck sweater with a zipper going up the middle with a ribbed pattern down the body and sleeves. The top of the turtleneck ends slightly lower than the backside. This allows her to move her head down without feeling the turtleneck on her jaw and her hips are exposed with a cutout so it resembles a leotard in form. Black suit pants with a crease line going down the front and back of each leg. Dark blue knee boots with a zipper and several straps over with a folded cuff on the top of the boot, a slight heel included.
Other than that is a black double layered
coat that extends to the thighs at the back and leaves the top undone. The colour of choice being dark purple on the inside. On the inside layer there is a zipper. Straps are used to secure the outer layer on the off chance she has to do it up.
Alternate Huntress Outfit
Alternately she will don a different set of clothes: A thin gray fitted formal shirt with deep blue buttons. Over that she wears a duffel jacket that extends to her knees but typically leaves her thighs visible from the front but can unclip the front to cover her thighs completely.
Casual
A black no collared long sleeved shirt with a dark red ribbed turtleneck over it. Pants and shoe combination can vary but usually using an identical pair from her huntress outfit.
History: Akel was only raised by her father from the moment she was born, her mother who retired as a huntress soon after meeting Sabbath, passed on from giving birth to Akel. Akeldama’s name was chosen purely because her mother was under the hope that she would inherit her red hair and eyes. A trait which she didn’t end up inheriting and instead got most physical traits of her father: a gold left eye, red right eye which came from her mother. Silver hair and tiny flakes around the rim of her iris in the opposite colour of which eye. A genetic trait held within her mother but brought around with both colours. However this trait was unknown since the flakes in her eyes were almost identical to her natural red eyes.
Akel wasn’t a typical baby in her younger years, aside from her very large bat ears she was always very quiet, in fact she almost never made a sound. This naturally worried her father greatly and visiting several doctors turned up with no anomalies that they could detect with their equipment. Not convinced of this he reached out to some doctor’s in Atlas who found the case strange and would help to hopefully discover what was wrong with her. She stayed under watchful supervision but nothing was able to turn up, quickly running out of ideas one of the doctors thought that maybe it came from her faunus heritage. While no records indicated that something was wrong with her or anything problematic from a genetic standpoint, they could only theorize that she had sensitive hearing. She also started to cover her ears because she was gaining that motor control. Her hearing showed to be beyond that of a normal faunus and it was the only plausible answer they came up with. The doctor’s happy that they found the problem, but disappointed in themselves for being able to identify the problem through analysis. Bringing up the idea that maybe because of her hearing she unsubconsciously tries to make no noise due to her sensitivity.
Since it was the only solution he couldn’t deny the possibility of it being the case. He got advice from the doctors and made notes of it to help give Akel an easier time, even at the cost of a regular childhood. Because of this Akel spent a large majority of her early childhood in her room, he had paid a pretty penny to be able to soundproof it to the best of his abilities. Despite this she was still able to hear outside the walls and this allowed her father to talk to her and Akel using a scroll with pictures to send messages which wre translated into words to her father when sent to him, this allowed for communication albeit in a limited fashion but manageable considering her condition.
During this time Akel was frequently visited by her mother’s old Beacon team. They always visited either alone or as a team on occasion. This continued on until she was five years old, so before school he had a gift for her. It was a headset that covered both her faunus and human ears, this allowed for her to go outside despite everything still being loud, it was manageable. So she also wore a hat on top to hide the part that covered her bat ears. She didn’t have a hat on but when she saw that most of the kids didn’t have a pair of extra ears on their head or had to wear a pair of headphones she freaked out. Grabbing a hat from the back of the car and placing it over her head.
First day was going well, she had made a few friends but did communicate using a scroll because she never really practiced her voice. This made her a bit embarrassed due to it. However one of the human kids decided to pull a prank on her. He planned to grab her hat and run with it, however in doing so he pulled off her ear protection as well. She was immediately incapacitated due to the sudden increase in noise, she just kinda froze, her hearing being completely overwhelmed in an instant. It felt like every sound throughout the school was screaming in her ears, the teachers panicked. One quick call to her dad told them over the phone what they needed to do. She was taken home for the rest of the day to calm down from the sensory overload.
Her father became cautious of letting her go to school because of what had happened on the first day, but Akel wanted to still go because it was the first time that she had friends and was able to talk with people that were her age. Cautious but didn’t want to stop her since she wanted to have friends. So she went to school with the teachers knowing about her sensitive hearing so punishment would be given to any of the students who would try to take her ear protection off.
This incident whilst harmless did manage to get the attention of a small time reporter. Small time newspaper articles, nothing big. However, it was the front page of the companies article due to nothing major going on at the time. Being front page it eventually made its way to a news studio, they eventually got in contact with Akel’s father and he was hesitant about this being broadcast or even filmed. However, he agreed for the slim chance that someone who could see it would be able to come up with a solution for her daughter.
So the news went on and a few weeks of no contact from the studio, then the reporter who have given the report had made contact with them in the first place. They had said that there was a small private company in Atlas who produced sound cancelling equipment, normally for the use of rooms and audio recording devices. However, they saw this as a chance to get the company’s name out there, since she was on the news once already there was sure to be another news report would at least of some benefit.
So Akel and her father went to Atlas for a second time along with a news crew to film it. They didn’t have the product available right then, but they were gathering data that would be used to get an idea for her level of hearing. They were aware that her hearing was sensitive, but her level of hearing was mind boggling. In a soundproofed room, she was able to hear the heartbeat of another person very clearly from one side of the room to the other. The task of making her a headset that could do have her hearing reduced to a normal faunus level became more difficult. They estimated that a whisper was akin to a tank firing right next to her ear, albeit they weren’t able to find exactly how sensitive her hearing was. So with the data collected Akel, her father and the news crew back to Vale.
They had never said how task was going to be to Akel, since she took it as a promise and promises mean the world to a kid, especially at their age. As well as letting this hover over their company name, they persisted on and several months after Akel and co had gone home they had finally made a device which should be capable of giving her regular faunus level hearing.
The device mimicked the design of the crude version she had earlier, completely covering her faunus and human ears and had a few technological advantages over the earlier version: being part audio device and connected to her scroll which became useful from time to time.
So Akel continued her schooling with her fancy new headphones, being on the news a few times did make her a bit popular and gave her a larger friend group but she still remained closest to her friends that she made on the first day of school. She went through school with somewhat of an idea of what she wanted to be: Chef, Pilot or a Huntress were among the most appealing to her.
She ended up at her final decision when a trip into the good old attic which held a large chest, her dad brought down the chest with a bit of effort and they looked through the contents together, there were a few odd relics carefully organized and underneath a panel laid an unfinished prototype of an advanced looking weapon.
Akel linked it towards a huntress because they always had fancy looking equipment and this was no exception to that. One of the old pictures inside showed a picture of her mother as a teenager holding two of her friends underneath one arm each, smiling and having peace signs whilst the last member had his head in his hand in a disappointed face but looking like he was struggling to keep his composure, this made up her mind and she wanted to become a huntress.
Her father was a bit concerned with the idea of her becoming a huntress, but he wasn’t going to stop her, just asking if she was sure that was what she wanted to do, repeated nods and yes was the answer she gave.
Her father decided to bring this up with her mother’s beacon team, they all showed positive support and would help however they would to help her become a great huntress like her mother was. They also opened up a bit about her mother when she was out doing huntress activities. She was a confident individual, always taking on the tough jobs that others would take hesitantly. They even told her that she wanted to learn the scythe because it was a challenge and she wouldn’t stop until she mastered it. But she was indecisive about what to learn, the only scythe user that they were aware of was her mother. She also didn’t want to favour one style over the other because she didn’t want to pick favourites, so, without hesitating she said that she wanted to learn the two styles PLUS her mother’s scythe style using what they knew about it from all of the battles that they fought together.
They thought she was joking but they saw the very same burning passion in her eyes that they saw in her mom’s eyes whenever she wanted to do something. They gave a collective sigh and agreed in their own ways: one gave a thumbs up (Henry, sword user), another gave a small nod (Abagale, guns) and one poking her saying that she was going to be worked to the bone (David, martial artist). She didn’t even waver for a moment but she probably wasn’t aware of what they actually meant at that time.
So for two years before her official enrolment into Signal academy she underwent daily training and had her aura unlocked, mostly in preparation to make sure her body would handle the physical exertion of being a huntress; with stamina based training and a bit of strength on the side to allow for an easier time when she would start to learn how to fight with proper weapons. During this two year period David and Henry were frequently visiting, being away from the Hunter’s life was something they enjoyed but never did enough of. She was trained with wooden versions and fist based martial arts first up. The sword because it was an easier weapon to learn for starters and martial arts because being able to fight without a weapon is an important and underrated skill. Something they all practiced with varying degrees of proficiency. The almost daily training allowed for very good proficiency in martial arts and sword usage.
Time passed by in a flash and she was already enrolled in Signal, she didn’t have any friends from her preparatory school and she didn’t have trouble making any new friends but she was a bit shy at first. Her white hair, different coloured eyes and slitted pupils did mean she had to be the one to engage in conversation first but she didn’t let that dampen her quest to make new friends. Around this time there was a present at the door, a weapon which was sword, scythe and gun. A letter was attached but there was no sender, it read:
“I hope this letter finds you well Akeldama, apologies about the lack of detail in this letter. This weapon should serve you well as you train to become a great huntress. Hope to see you sometime in the future.
- A”
So she had a new group of friends, each learning their own style while she was learning several, the extra workload to make sure she didn’t fall behind in practical abilities did mean she only had average scores in terms of anything that came towards subjects like english, math, science etc. She always got low B’s and high C’s and always got A’s in everything that came about for practical in part to her more capable body and her complete and utter stubbornness to not lose and due to continued training when at home to further enhance her fighting capabilities along with her focus shifting towards the scythe style.
Akel got assistance from David to craft weapons that would assist with his martial arts. She was able to manage her workload better towards her last year which did give improvements to her grades and allowed her to pass with high B’s in theory wok with her standard A’s in practical which guaranteed her acceptance into Beacon.
Personality: At first glance Akel is a bit shy, especially around large crowds. Her early childhood was very remote and she still exhibits this when she isn’t in conversation or a group that she knows well. To people that have known her for a bit she is seemingly regular caring individual. Her cheery nature can always bring a smile to anyone if she tries hard enough and won’t shy away from trying to bring a smile.
However she also expresses a very competitive nature, always wanting to be the best she possibly can be. This competitive part of herself goes hand-in-hand with her determined side, a great combination, having motivation behind wanting to best everyone. Regardless of the situation she isn’t one to give up unless she knows that the situation is completely unwinnable. These traits were picked up from her mentors and have turned her into a bit of a fighting enthusiast. Much to the worry of her father.
Akel is also a very well managed person. She takes joy out of making sure everything's in order and everything is planned. Making sure everything is in order has allowed her to always keep on top of everything. This is by no means an obsession but merely a preference of her own personal lifestyle choices, because order is the enemy of chaos and chaos will bring the grimm.
As a leader Akel tries to be the best she can for her team. However, because they are in a team she expects that her teammates be aware of eachothers strengths and weaknesses. She will lecture them if they stuff up but is noticeably kinder on Primrose. This is because of her more timid nature and when compared to the two males in her team (Fallow Russet and Ace N. Thatoll). She tends to be a bit tough on them, Ace more so than Fallow: his somewhat sadistic nature does cause her to worry when he interacts with other people. As for Ace, Akel has been very watchful over him.
Aura and Semblance: Aura colour:
redBasic semblance: Super hearing
Type: Passive
Akel’s semblance is extraordinarily simple, allowing for enhanced hearing many times over what a normal faunus is able to hear. Of course the passive nature of her semblance does not allow for a pleasant everyday life, constantly berated by sounds without a form of sound filter is debilitating for her because she has no control over it with the inclusion of her faunus hearing despite numerous attempts to try and gain control over it.
Combat Behavior: Akel knows of a few combat styles, each one capable of being used in multiple ways to lend itself to a flexible style. Akel tends to fight aggressively but can slow down to a more balanced role of defence and offense if she feels that her current pace of fighting can be used against her and would lead to a loss. If that isn’t enough she’ll switch to a completely defensive stance.
When fighting she can also adjust the amount of sound going through. On the higher end (she can hear more), she is able to hear anything and everything around her with varying degrees of sensitivity. She can utilize echolocation with varying degrees of accuracy with the volume that her headset runs through to her ears. However, sufficiently loud noises can take her by surprise and force her to bring the volume down to lessen this ability in favour of leveled hearing.
Her sensitive hearing has been used against her more than once. More so by knocking off her headset by an accidental strike. However she immediately becomes incapacitated by a sensory overload, this usually follows with a panic attack shortly after if she can’t get them back on after a rough minute as the sound disorientates her and will eventually send her into an unconscious state.
Akel when using a sword is a formidable opponent, equally proficient with the sword as she is with the scythe under the experienced training of an experienced hunter. Akel is capable of holding her own quite well against an enemy even one who specialises in a specific weapon due to her adaptable nature of fighting.
Akel’s use of the scythe is not what is extremely typical, she treats it a little bit more balanced, using the extended handle of the scythe to act as a staff to block attacks and counterattack with the scythe blade or going just straight offensive. She actually doesn’t spin often and moreso moves the scythe around herself, preferring to keep her eye on her opponent instead.
Akel’s martial arts skills are built around swift strikes to take foes by surprise with speed. Mostly fist-orientated but she is quite adept at delivering a decisive kick or multiple rapid kicks to throw her enemy off. Like the rest of her weapons she is capable of using it to counterattack very easily when given the opportunity.
WEAPONName: Blood Ignition
General Description: Blood Ignition main segments can be generalized into four main piece, blade 1, blade 2, handle and the shoulder of the blade. Blade one and two are done in silver. Featuring a large edge and have very tiny diagonal lines along it which show where the blade moves to form the scythe.The shoulder of Blood Ignition features a circular disc of gears that resemble the inner workings of a watch when the face is removed and has two rings with one slightly bigger than the other, done in dark blue, black and silver to match the colour scheme of her outfit.
The handle is done in dark blue and features two silver rings, one at the top and one at the bottom. These two rings are what control the transformations of the weapon by rotating the rings. Both rings are synced to eachother so when one moves so does the other. The handle can fit about three to four hands on top of one another. Lastly a thick handguard is present on the right side which also controls the direction that the barrel of the gun is facing through a use of a gyroscope movement system for the two on the shoulder, by pressing a button on the underside and moving the guard in a direction like a joystick. It can spin in full rotations around the disc to shoot in any direction besides a very small cone near the top but that doesn’t matter.
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Primary Form: Sword - Bringing the two blades about with 120cm with a small gap in-between the two blades, the handle is at it’s regular length and a small gap between each of the blades left and right side. The handguard typically stays on the right side and normally faces outwards when in combat.
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Secondary Form: Scythe - The handle extends towards its full length, blade 1 forms the inside of the scythe blade and blade 2 will form the outside blade and the blades create a large vertical slit along the blade to allow her rotatable gun to fire forward and not just backwards. The extension off of the handle can bend to a certain extent to allow for greater control when using the scythe and she can rotate the gun vertically to shoot off in different directions.
Ammunition: - Ammunition - Akel uses .223 hollow point rounds. Ideal for grimm due to no protective field like aura. She also carries a few tungsten based armour piercing rounds. However she rarely uses them because she rarely needs to destroy armour.
History: A weapon that was randomly dropped off at her house. Every single piece in the weapon was custom made and couldn’t be tracked. The strangest thing was how it suited the styles that Akel was going to learn. Besides a few small alterations and maintenance she has done nothing else to it and doesn’t plan to as it already was everything she ended up needing.
WEAPONName: Stronghardt
Primary Form: A pair of gauntlets and by extension, gloves. The gauntlets release fire based attacks that Akel can use to enhance normal melee attacks. The gloves are infused with ice dust to protect her hands from damage and prevent aura damage using the same principal. She can also grab fire based weaponry for varying amounts time depending on the heat of the weapon using the ice dust to counteract the heat.
History: Another set of blueprints that came with Blood Ignition, these were made a few months after starting Signal because she became proficient enough in hand to hand combat to warrant their creation.