Iden Glass

Appearance
Iden is a young girl who wears a pale blue shirt with no sleeves and cyan trim around the arm holes and down the middle, trimming the edge. The bottom of the shirt reaches past her hips and is open from the waist down. On her arms are elbow length pale blue gloves with black strings tied criss-cross up her arm to just below her shoulder.

She wears a skirt that is white with a pale blue skirt under it that is slightly riffled. Around her waist over her shirt is two light grey belts that have two loops connected to them at the backs to hold her swords. Her shoes are cyan and reach to mid-shin, with black ties criss-crossing up her leg to below her knee.

Her gray hair reaches past her shoulders in messy waves and her bangs reach just above her eyes. A gray tiara with three points is atop her head, holding back a portion of her hair. Her hair also is highlighted heavily with cyan. Her eyes are a bright powder blue upon her pale skin, her build being slim and curvy, with her arms seeming to have muscles hidden within them. She also wears a see-through cloak that reaches her knees that shimmers with blue and white, almost like it's frosted glass. The cloak in held into place by a broach in the shape of her emblem that had once belonged to her mother.

Personality
Iden is kind and considerate, she likes to help others and protect people. Because of this, she often will go out of her own way to help others, often at the risk of herself.

She has a strong will that is not easily broken and she will fight to the end if that is needed to help her friends/teammates. As a result, she cannot see the outcome of a match and with that, if she is likely to lose it, she will continue to fight no matter what.

She is fairly innocent and oblivious to any form of affection that is displayed, bit it from others or towards her. This can be a good thing as she will not be distracted easily but also if her teammates are trying to express some kind of caring nature towards, often times she will not notice it.

She is very trusting and will often not bother to ask many questions even when she probably should. Because of this, she sometimes befriends people who many take advantage of her and possibly get her into trouble.

Though she may not get angry much, when she does it shows in her demeanor. However, not much will make her angry, unless she sees others bringing down people or one of her friends/teammates is harmed in anyway. As a result, she will often try to fight against whoever is either harming her teammates/friends or is being a bully to others. As such, this often causes her to get into trouble that she possibly can't handle.

Backstory
Iden lived a very happy life with the family she was born to. Her mother had been her father's second wife, as the first had died some years before. At the time, her parents had only been friends but after a year, the two realized they had an undying love for each other and got married, Iden was brought into the world a year later. She also had a brother, the son of her father's first wife. Even though they were not direct siblings, they treated each other as if they were. Her brother Seth, who was 7 years older than her, would protect her, help her and take care of her when their parents were busy. The family was very close and love each other deeply, Iden could have never asked for a better family, for she felt she had the best to begin with.

But that all changed, when she was 10 years old, she and her brother had left that day, Iden to play with other kids and her brother, Seth, to his part-time job at his father's bakery. Her father had also left with them but he stopped at one time, telling the children that he had forgotten something. He left to go back to the house, but never came back. Iden never found out until her brother had rushed to her from the bakery, telling her that their father had never returned even though it had been hours. The two ran home to see if anything was wrong and they were presented with a blazing house, their home had caught fire. When the fire had died down, the officers in their town revealed that there had been two bodies in the home, most likely their parents. Iden cried much for the next few days, never being the same.

Her brother took up the owner ship of their bakery and that was where they lived, having changed some of the shop's upstairs storage into rooms. Iden felt withdrawn to the world and that didn't change until her brother began reading her stories before she slept, to somehow bring some joy back to her life. Through this she found her passion for books, as a result, when her brother was working at the bakery, she would leave the house to the library, where she found many more books to her liking. They were of the heroic tales of hunters and huntresses, how they would fight against the odds and protect the innocent. After having read so many books, she decided that was what she wanted to do, to become a huntress. And so, at the age of 13, she joined the hunter's academy, Signal and worked hard to become the best she could be.

However, even though it was against her brother's interests, he let her do what she wanted, saying that he could not guide her her whole life so some choices had to be her own to make. During her training, she found her skill in swords-play, taking up the sword. Many of her students felt that she would never be able to make it because of her small stature. However, she grew quite a bit and changed many of their opinions. At the suggestion of one of her teammates, since they saw she was rather skilled with one blade, to try taking up a second blade. She did so and found that she was equally talented, finding that she was ambidextrous. And so, after learning that she could do such a thing, she felt that she could not use a weapon from the academy and so with the assistance from her classmates and her brother, she designed a weapon specially for her. With help from her brother, they were able to pay for the construction of the weapon and when it was finished, she fell in love with it.

In her final year at Signal, her brother that her grades were lacking in the knowledge department, as she was having trouble with her studies with helping out at the bakery and training. So her brother began to help her with her studies and at the end of the year, even though she did not graduate at the top of her class, she graduated with high grades. As a result, she was able to be accepted into Beacon and she felt that she could possibly achieve her dream of being a Protector of the People.

Weapons

 * Testa is a sword of her own creation that was made with the help of her older brother. It's a slim rounded sword with a point, that can changed into a large, thin blade that is curved back over the guard. A light blue gem at the end, when held, will cause the sword to transform, when touched lightly, it will activate the dust within the sword. The blade of the sword in a dust infused metal that has been caused to look see-through, ice and spark dust were used in it's making.
 * Testa has a see-through blade that is slim as well as rounded with a point, it is connected to the dark silver hilt with it's cyan cloth wrapped around the handle. The guard is dark silver that bends over the handle. At the end of the handle is a light blue gem. The blade is 3 feet with an extra foot added because of the guard and grab.
 * The transformed Testa is a see-through blade that is large and thin, that curves over the guard and handle so that it becomes it backhanded blade. The handle is still a cyan with a dark silver guard, a light blue gem at the end of the handle. The blades is now 3 to 4 feet in length.

Fighting Style
She is up-close and personal when she fights. She relies on her speed to make quick and effective strikes, only ever hanging back when she is looking for an opening. When she spots one, she will rush in to strike that opening. When she is using her thin blades, she also has very good defensive skills, able to block with some skill. The rounded areas of the swords allow for blunt attacks as well as a good area to use to slide off attacks from her opponents.

However, when using the large, curved back blades, she has difficult blocking. When fighting in this form, she will try and use her speed and agility to her advantage, trying to push her opponent back. As a result, she is very forceful and strong, often using short and large slashing motions in order to keep her movements unpredictable. She also feels that if she attacks her opponent enough with her barrages, that she could possibly make an opening in their defense to strike.

Strengths and Weaknesses

 * She finds that when trying to learn something, that it is best to learn from experience. She absorbs information, techniques and strategies more easily when on the field and experiencing them.
 * However, as a result to this, she also has trouble absorbing such information from books, often needing some sort of assistance in order to fully grasp what it is she is trying to learn.
 * When fighting, she is a quick thinker and is always looking for resources that could possibly help her in anyway.
 * As such, this often causes her to lose much sight on what the goal might be as she is more worried about beating what it is she is facing.
 * An added downside to her is that she has a very poor sense of direction, often able to get lost in a matter of minutes. Even if she has walk the area before, she is unable to find her way through it.

Semblance
Her ability allows her to activate glyphs at her feet, allow her to burst forward with speed, jump higher and possibly kick harder. It also allows her to change her direction when in air or moving very fast in a certain direction. This allows her to attack on many sides when fighting an opponent. The glyphs also give her as added boost in speed depending on the intensity of the of glyph, thus increasing her speed and possibly making herself move faster than the eye can see.

However, over use of this speed can cause her to lose much of her depths if she uses it in the air, often causing her to possibly miss her target or crash into an object she may have missed that's in her path.

Other

 * Aaron Glass :- He is her father but he passed away when she was 10 years old. When he had been alive, she loved him and would always want to spend as much time with as she could. She felt safe with him and was always happy, so she could never ask for a better father, for he had always been there for her. Except from the time he died, she felt very lonely without and always would.
 * Coral Glass :- She was her mother but she passed away when she was 10 years old. When she had been alive, Iden would often talk to her about many things, about how her day had been and some questions she ever had. Her mother would always speak truthfully except on one occasion, when Iden asked about her mother's life before she met her father, her mother had gone silent. Iden always wondered about that even after her mother's death.
 * Seth Glass :- He is her older brother by 7 years, but he is only her half brother. He was born to a different mother than her but he never treated her like that. The two had always been fairly close as they grew up. And when their parents passed, he took it upon himself to take care of her and he helped her with many things, including becoming a Huntress. She would always depend on him and call him if ever she needed guidance.

Misc.

 * Iden Glass is based off the fairytale, 'The Glass Coffin', the princess being her representation. Much of the Princess' story is left for interpretation so I have taken my own spin of it.

Trivia

 * The name Iden is of Celtic origin, meaning 'Prosperous' in some languages as well as 'Wealthy' in others. Not to be confused with the name Aiden.
 * The name Glass refers to the term 'glass', a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, eluding to her color as well as her representation.