CHARACTER
Name: Aurelia Caelius
Age: 25, Born 6 Tulikuuma 54 A.C.
Species and Gender: Human, Female
Symbol: White circle with a dark blue outline. One maroon glaive head and one maroon dao head are crossed in the center of the shield; the glaive heads are outlined white.
Occupation: Huntress
Appearance:
Physique: Aurelia is 5'6" and approximately 145lbs. She has light, platinum-colored hair that extends to the middle of her back and has a slight coarseness due to never tying it up, even in combat. Her eyes are a light metallic-grey giving them an odd and artificial look. Her skin is fair with a very slight tint of tan making it appear as if lightly glazed with coat of caramel, and her muscles seem as if etched into her body. She has an hourglass figure, though not significantly so, and her measurements are average save for her bust which is bit below average (somewhere between B and C).
Attire: Casually, Aurelia wears a dark blue, fleece, turtleneck jacket with a long, black skirt covering her lower body along with black military boots that cover half her shins.
For battle, Aurelia has a heavy- and light-armor set. For her heavy-armor set, she wears full-plate armor set, usually excluding the helmet. Underneath her chest-armor is a chainmail tunic. Aurelia's emblem is engraved in the center of the chest piece. She wears this set for high-threat missions.
Aurelia's light-armor set is also her primary battle uniform, and it consists of a long, dark blue coat with silver outlining. The coat reaches her ankles and is kept from swaying about with a strap that goes from the right shoulder to the left hip. Underneath this coat, she wears a plain, black shirt, and underneath this, a thinner and lighter chainmail tunic. With this outfit, she wears slate-grey military pants and the same black military boots from before.
For formal occasions, Aurelia wears a sleek, banana-meat colored dress that reaches to 3/4's of the way to her legs. With this outfit, she wears pearl, tear-drop earrings, black gloves that cover more than half her forearms, and black, leather, high-heeled boots that cut off just below her knees.
History: Aurelia was born in Frouri, a village renowned for its warriors, and was named so because of because her hair looked like strands of pure and polished gold. She was born into Clan Hasta which consisted of polearm users, her family in particular specialized in glaives; her path was already set. Aurelia demonstrated outstanding proficiency with the glaive, and she was given permission to use a double-bladed version (permission being needed because they don't want just anyone swinging around the thing) and was one of the few allowed to so do. She didn't expect to be granted the privilege and gladly accepted the honor.
Starting at the age of 8, those who wanted to become fighters were assigned a random partner, the partner pool spanning across. Partners were always together whether it be for training or missions, and groups were always made up of pairings. Aurelia's partner was a boy named Nicolas Romani who specialized in dual-wielding and decided to sub-specialize in the dao after meeting Aurelia; she did the same with dual-wielding. They often sparred with one another and would guide each other along when training with their sub-specialization.
At the age of 14, final missions were given out before training was officially done and people went on their ways. For this particular mission, Aurelia and Nicolas were assigned to a group with 3 other pairs. They were to go to a village of Phoumi to help put the lid on rising Grimm activity within the northern forest. The mission itself shouldn't have been too difficult, but the group, especially Aurelia and Nicolas, became cocky, arrogant, and complacent, and as a result was a complete disaster.
When Aurelia awoke, she was back in town. Her body was bruised and her chest bandaged, but aside from that, she was fine. Aurelia was not alone, either. In the room with her were a couple of others from her group who had been injured during the mission, and it was from them that she learned of Nicolas's attempts to save her and the rest of the group which ultimately lead to his death. Distraught by this revelation, she wrapped herself in a cocoon of isolation.
By the time she had left for Signal, all of the color faded away from her hair leaving behind a shiny, peculiar platinum. Aurelia didn't do much at Signal, but she did meet her future best-friend, Ulla, there as well as recover most of her mental fortitude; by the time she started attending Beacon, she was mostly back to normal.
At Beacon, Aurelia excelled both in her academics and on the battlefield against both peers and Grimm alike. It felt weird being on a team again, but she was able to brush it off. All went well and she eventually graduated.
Upon graduation, she decided go on hiatus from her team. She remains in Vale and only leaves the city for missions.
Personality: As a leader, Aurelia is incredibly dominant. She runs a tight ship and will reprimand those that make possible group-endangering yet avoidable mistakes with ferocity; she will not let her comrades die in such a pitiful manner. She doesn't demand perfection, but she might as well be doing so.
Aurelia's insecurities manifested into leadership traits and it's overwhelming for anyone that doesn't understand her or know of her background; even though her team knew of the situation, it still took them quite a bit of time to adjust. Knowing this, Aurelia is pretty reclusive, socially and professionally (despite her technically still being the leader of her team), and relies on her own power to complete her objectives. This also saves her the anxiety caused by putting her team into dangerous situations, and if she were to make a mistake, the only one that gets buried is her.
When Aurelia is able to break free from her mental chains, she is a very social creature. She likes to have fun and mingle with other. She also enjoys going on adventures and, occasionally, follows her curiosity wherever it may take her.
Aura and Semblance:
Gold (#FFD700)
Preservation - Aurelia's aura shield is able to passively absorb a portion of energy from any hit taken and is able to expel the energy during the next subsequent hit taken in order to reduce the impact. When energy is being expelled, there will be a blue glint as an attack connects. Preservation works by replacing a part of the aura lost due to a hit with any of the energy that had been dissipated within the shield and only upon Aurelia expecting another attack is incoming will the energy will be expelled against an attack. Any type of attack trigger the expulsion of the stored energy be it light or heavy as long as Aurelia knows it is coming. The stored energy dissipates slowly over time if not expelled, and if Aurelia does not expect an attack to be coming, then the expulsion part of the semblance will not work. Energy can still be stored from unexpected attacks. Due to how the semblance works, it, at best, lessens the impact of 50% of attacks. A switch from heavy to light will result in high damage mitigation (>50%) while a switch from a light to a heavy attack means that the heavy attack may barely even be lessened at all.
Combat Behavior: Aurelia is mainly a front-line fighter and is currently solo. When alone, she seeks to end fights as soon as possible, Grimm and Man alike. If she believes she is significantly stronger (or also weaker with Grimm) than her opponent, she will load up Argenteous Venti with as many fire Dust shells deemed necessary and look to end the fight with a single blow. If Aurelia believes that her opponent is equally skilled or strong, then instead of relying on brute force, she relies on her technique to do sustained damaged as she dances to and fro in an effort to avoid and deal damage. When fighting alone, she tends to fight a little recklessly.
As a leader, Aurelia is strict and is quick to discipline her comrades when things go awry when appropriate. On Team ARUM, however, despite being the team leader, Aurelia was just another puppet to the team's resident tactician and would follow orders without hesitation.
WEAPON
Name: Argenteous Venti
Primary Form: A double-bladed glaive that is in total 7' long. The handle is 3' long making the blades 2' each. The blades are black outlined silver and the handle is silver. The blades can be retracted into the handle thereby creating a 5' staff (meaning there is 1' on each end dedicated to housing the blades). On the back of each blade is something like a vent which allow for the expulsion of Dust. There are two settings of release: controlled and explosive. The controlled setting allows a wave of Dust to be expelled of either of the four Dust types: Fire, ice, electric, and wind, wind being her primary Dust on this setting. The explosive setting expels the Dust all at once resulting in an burst, but it only uses fire Dust. The explosive setting can also take multiple bullets' worth of Dust, but each one added increases the danger to Aurelia and her explosive resistance becomes less effective. This setting greatly increases the damage potential of each swing. Each vent has a supply of five bullets. The staff can be shrunk down to 1' for easy storage.
Secondary Form: The glaive can fold up to make a double-barreled shotgun (though it shoots more like some sort of double-barreled semi-automatic rifle), the barrels being vertical. Any type of Dust bullets can be used. Each barrel has a capacity of 5 bullets. These bullets transfer over to the primary form.
Tertiary Form: The glaive can be split into two separate, shorter glaives that could be dual-wielded like swords. Aurelia prefers to shorten the handles to a length that effectively turns them into daos. All functions from the primary form still apply.
Dust Functions: See Primary Form.
History: The double-bladed glaive was made for Aurelia when she started her training to become a fighter. When she attended Signal, she was able to renovate her weapon by allowing it to utilize dusts with the addition of two Dust vents on the backs of its blades and by having it transform into a double-barreled shotgun.