Grizel Svane

Appearance
Grizel is a tall, thin girl with short white hair. She has hazel eyes and very pale skin.

Her outfit consists of a black/dark gray/silver/white short dress that resembles the one of a ballet dancer. Over it, she wears a gray corset. She wears white tights, gray legwarmers and white/black high-heeled shoes. In her hands she wears white gloves with silver trimming, and black, detached, tight asymmetric sleeves. She wears a black collar that covers part of her cheeks, and a dark gray/silver hair accessory that covers her ears. She also wears a choker with a moonstone pendant.

Personality
Grizel seems to be a cool, confident and serious person on the outside. She's assertive, formal and doesn't like to use bad vocabulary (unless she loses her temper). She's an introvert but not to the point of being asocial. Grizel has issues showing her feelings, and it could be said that she has a "B-side": she's actually a very sensitive, passionate, unsure person prone to anxiety with an inferiority complex and afraid of failure. Since she's that way, she's self-demanding and a perfectionist, and while she doesn't expect much from other people, she does expect a lot from herself; her behavior makes her a workaholic and therefore she tends to get good grades and being skilled in fight. She gets very emotive when people display their affect to her, but doesn't like to make too many friends because she doesn't want to be a nuisance for them. Also, since she's prone to anxiety she can't stand when people do things in the "wrong" way and is kinda impatient, therefore she gets always annoyed with Bruno; however, she doesn't have mental health issues besides her anxiety that can be too strong sometimes; she's a logical person and tries to ignore her bad feelings because they can interfere with her performance. Because of her childhood trauma (of being teased and abused because of her appareance) she cares a lot about her personal image/hygiene, and always wears nice clothes. In battle she's probably the most offensive, harsher fighter of the team (even if she seems to be delicate).

History
Grizel was rejected and abused by her parents and siblings when she was a little girl due to her appareance (she had white hair and was considered "ugly"). Her parents abandoned her because they refused to believe she was their daughter because she didn't look like them or like her siblings, and she ended up in an orphanage. Since she was a lonely, depressed kid, she danced when there was music playing for trying to cheer herself up, after hearing an adult saying that dancing made her feel better. That adult was Ms. Svane, an old ballet teacher who went sometimes to the orphanage to teach kids how to dance (since she was an orphan herself, she wanted to help kids like her). Ms. Svane saw Grizel dancing and seeing that she had potential, she decided to take her under her wing. Their relationship ended up being so strong that Ms. Svane finally let Grizel live in her house, and Grizel considered her her only relative. Grizel ended up taking Ms. Svane's surname and called her her "adoptive grandmother", and while the fact of not being alone anymore helped her a lot to overcome her situation, she still ended up with emotional scars.

In school Grizel was always a good student, specially in PE. While she wasn't very talkative she had a good relationship with her classmates, since they were afraid of bullying her due to her appareance because Grizel was good defending herself.

Weapon
Grizel has the Semi-automatic dual katars (SADK) Odette and Odile as her weapons. They have 2 moods:


 * Without the blade extended they work as guns


 * With the blade extended they work as katars (note: she can't shoot with the blades extended)

When Grizel gets her aura activated, she can canalize it through the blades of her weapons and make more powerful attacks. They can be used for slashing, cutting and piercing. They can be used for defense too to an excent; the blades are very resistent and sharp. The gun part works similar to a semi-automatic pistol and its caliber is 9 x 19 mm.

Abilities
Due to her physical shape, she's the faster and most agile member of the team; she's one of the physically stronger as well. Her main weakness is her lack of coverage; she can't do attacks from very far away like Della or Ryan, and her defense isn't the best since she prefers to attack. Her aura is the most powerful of her team but using it is exhausting for her and ends up with strong muscular pain if used for an extended period of time because she can't control it well. Its color is vermilion and she uses it mainly for offense. When she has her aura activated, her hair becomes black and her eyes vermilion (like a black swan) and can become emotionally unstable (acts in a way similar to Yang).

Relationships

 * Bruno Erraunt: She doesn't really have a good relationship with him. Grizel can't stand Bruno's behavior and thinks he isn't a completely reliable leader.


 * Ryan Chartreuse: She has a good relationship with him. Grizel trusts him since Ryan's loyal to her and doesn't make noise like Bruno, and values him a lot. She doesn't know that Ryan likes her.


 * Della Azure: Has an OK relationship with her; while Della is more of an acquaintance than of a friend, Grizel knows her since long time ago (they attended the same school). Even if their personalities seem to be somewhat conflicting, Della tries to not being annoying with Grizel, and Grizel tries to not being too cold.

Trivia

 * She's based on The Ugly Duckling. Her costume, hobby, weapon's name and the "duality" motif are inspired by Swan Lake.


 * "Grizel" is a variant of "Griselda", that's possibly derived from the Germanic elements gris "grey" and hild "battle". "Svane" means "swan" in Danish.


 * She's used to wear high heels, and likes being tall.


 * Even if she seems to be very rigid, she does have a sense of humor and likes to act flirty for giggles sometimes, when she's with people she trusts.


 * She smokes sometimes; she only does it when the urge is too big because she's consious she must be in a good shape for hunting.