Celesti Cesium

Celesti Cesium is the leader of Team CSTL (Celestial)

Alias: Celes, Leader

Titles: The Blackened Star, The Star Pupil

Appearance
Celesti appears as a young, orange and blue haired adult Fox Squirrel Faunus with white eyes, wearing a self-woven white cotton shirt, silk blue jeans, and her belt, which holds 5 different Dust ammo magazines for her primary weapon and different small Dust vials for her secondary weapon in sets of 5 each. When her Semblance, Prism Retribution, is activated, her body gains a more black prism-based coloration, which resulted in her gaining the title "The Blackened Star". She also wears brown casual shorts and sleeveless t-shirts when not attending school and not on a mission, but she does wear specially made pants and shirts while working as a weaver. Her school attire consists of a standard red t-shirt with baggy yellow pants, which all of her jeans have a hole for her tail.

Personality
While cheery and kind on the outside to others, she has a case of Moral Instability, caused by being picked on by humans during her time in educational school, in addition to being abandoned at birth and being called many harsh names. She is shown to be protective of young children who are being picked on and resentful to bullies who are picking on said children, especially young Faunus... In the eyes of the wise and careful, Celesti is considered a "ticking time bomb waiting to explode".

In combat, Celesti takes on the role of Combat Strategist, preferring to battle and learn her opponent's fighting patterns and create strategies on the fly, but this doesn't stop her from being protective of her team as well. Every plan she makes she feels extremely confident about and when it goes wrong it can make her bitter, needing to adjust the timing of the plan in question, although the feeling lasts only for a couple minutes.

Separatible Automatic Katanagun Polearm - Taiyo
Taiyo consists of 2 katanas outfitted with automatic pistols that can fire off Dust Rounds while also giving the blades an elemental attribute, the blades themselves are made from 3 different steels, grinded and tempered in a way that gives it a star like design down the hamon, its tsuba handcrafted to resemble the sun, its handle grip made out of mahogany wood and wrapped in orange ribbons. Its design, while complex to some, make up the bulk of Celesti's fighting power thanks to how the Dust from the rounds coat the blades. As the guns fires off rounds, the leftover residue of the Dust Rounds begin to coat the blade from the bottom to the tip, 10 bullets is enough for the blade to be fully infused with the Dust in question. The katanas are capable of combining to form a double ended polearm with the handles are joined together, giving Celesti versatility and prowess on the battlefield.

Dust Weaved War Fan - Tsuki
Tsuki, in the eyes of a novice, look like an ordinary war fan that has a beautiful celestial pattern with stars, but to the trained eye each fold hides a blade capable of cutting at very close range. The design of the fan's silk is special in that it changes based on what Dust Vial is inserted into the bottom, which feeds the blades for mid-range combat capabilities, firing off waves of Dust in a crescent shape. Each pattern relegates to what Dust Vial Celesti has inserted into Tsuki, and these patterns also relegate what strategy to rely on for her fellow teammates, called Lunar Shifts. These Lunar Shifts allow Celesti to guide her team into switching battle strategies on the fly while maintaining momentum. Each wave fired from Tsuki has a reach of 5 meters, roughly 16-17 feet in length.

Dust Ammo/Vial Effects:
As Taiyo and Tsuki rely on Dust Ammo, each magazine holding 30 rounds, and Dust Vials, each vial lasting 10 waves, it is important to know what effect each of the 5 types can do and what Lunar Shift it will entale.
 * 1) Fire: As the primary Dust Round for Taiyo, it coats the blade in fire, giving Taiyo the illusion of being forged from the sun itself. When fired off, it is capable of inflicting minor burns unless protected.  For Tsuki, it changes the pattern to blazing fire and tells her team to focus on a single target and lay the pressure on him/her/it, the Lunar Shift for Fire Dust is "New Moon".
 * 2) Water: For Taiyo, this coats the blade in pressurized water to douse fires and deflect gunshots. When fired off, it fires pressurized water, pushing back and soaking her target. For Tsuki, it changes the pattern to crashing tides and tells her team to go on the defense, avoid physical contact with the enemy and learn their pattern, the Lunar Shift for Water Dust is "Crescent Moon".
 * 3) Lightning: For Taiyo, this coats the blade in electricity and allows it to stun opponents and deliver bigger damage if it struck a soaked target. When fired off, it shoots bolts of lightning that can pack a punch and stun the target for 2 seconds. For Tsuki, it changes the pattern to a thunderstorm and tells her team to spread out and target the lackeys, the Lunar Shift for Lightning Dust is "Half Moon".
 * 4) Earth: For Taiyo, this coats the blade in hard rocks and inflicts knockback to the target in addition to the damage. When fired off, the bullet fired will cause the target to stagger, leaving them open to strike. For Tsuki, it changes the pattern to a mountain and tells her team to strike harder, inflict more damage, the Lunar Shift for Earth Dust is "Gibbous Moon".
 * 5) Wind: For Taiyo, this coats the blade in a strong wind that increases swing speed in exchange for striking power. When fired off, it fires off a localized strong gust of wind to blow the target away and set them up to be combo'd. For Tsuki, it changes the pattern to a gust of wind and tells her team to strike fast when the opposition is on the ropes, or to commense a full-scale retreat, the Lunar Shift for Wind Dust is "Full Moon"

Semblance: Prism Retribution
Prism Retribution is a Semblance that comes in 2 variaties based on the time of day. At the start Celesti's body begins to change to look like a black prism all over, while retaining her Faunus physiology and movement [by her Aura covering her entire body and changing to black], it is then that her Aura flares up in two colors, white for an inner layer, and black for an outer layer. Her Aura's 2-tone coloration serves as a gauge of sorts as while in her black prism state, she is absorbing either sunlight during the day, or moonlight during the night. Absorbing sunlight increases her physical strength, allowing her to dish out more damage with Taiyo, while absorbing moonlight increases her control over Dust by "becoming one with the spirit the Dust represents", increasing the potency of her Dust-based attacks. But when her Aura's white coloration covers the black coloration fully, roughly 9 minutes, she can expel all of the light energy she has collected in her black prism state to emit a powerful shockwave that delivers a large amount of damage to anyone within 15 meters, while the environment around her remains as is. However, once she unleashes the shockwave, she becomes incapacitated upon returning to normal as well as using up 50% of her total Aura to perform it. This drawback leaves her wide open if there are survivors of the attack, so this attack is only used as a last resort. Also she is able to use her Semblance anytime, however any light energy that is absorbed without using the shockwave upon returning to normal is discarded and must be collected anew everytime. As honorable as she is, she tends to use her Semblance for 10 minutes at a time during battle only when it is necessary and will forewarn her team when she'll use the shockwave by switching Tsuki's Dust Vial to Wind and Lunar Shifting to Full Moon, signalling a retreat. She can also use this as an "Intimidation Factor" to instill fear as the "monster" the bullies feared with her prismatic voice in this state, which has a slight metallic sheen that only those who listen very closely can hear.

Vehicle
Her car, which she has named "Rising Star", is a modified Nissan Fairlady 350Z sports car, equipped with the latest in AI Technology, capable of driving the car in Auto-Pilot in the case of the driver letting go of the wheel to take shots at firing at fleeing targets or fighting off pursuers, and military-grade Dust Weaponry, to fend off pursuers and Grimm alike. The AI Unit Model #011421020901 used to interact with the driver takes on the shape of a female canine Faunus wearing Egyptian-styled clothing named "Anubia", with a matching Anubis hood ornament. Equipped with special tires that change to match the land terrain currently traversing, helpful when driving through the desert sands. Its armaments includes 2 Advanced Dust Cannons used in aerial attack ships with an assortment of 5 Elemental Dust types at 40 rounds of Dust Shells per Element. Once depleted of all rounds for all 5 elements, the AI Model can contact any nearby ammo resupplier for a restock on the necessary Dust Shells once danger has been adverted. Anubia is also capable of understanding Celesti's emotions and does what she can to help her out in the thick of battle. The car is mainly used for a tactical advantage, providing range support when needed.

A Place To Call Home
From birth in Mantle, her original parents, who are famous Fox Squirrel Faunus alchemists, saw what they thought to be an uncontrolable monster in their little girl and so gave her away to a pair of Faunus, a lion and a bat named Solga Sundial and Luni Maan, in Higanbana. From there, the two Faunus gave each other a confused look wondering why the alchemists abandoned her and continued to ponder in thought about this for 12 years while raising the young Celesti. However that all changed one day when they got word from the school they sent Celesti to that Celesti was on her way home, suspended for 2 weeks on the account of excessive violance and harming other students. When she returned home, her parents questioned her as to why this happened... she took a deep breath and explained it all. At the school, she saw several students bullying young faunuses like herself, picking on them because of how different they are to themselves. This greatly angered Celesti, being bullied herself for 4 years straight being called a "monster", a "freak", and a "disgrace" to the point of taking action herself, not to harm the young Faunus, but to protect them... however when she did this she unknowingly activated her Semblance, which turned her body into what the bullies described her as a "walking black prismatic Faunus girl with white eyes" and her Aura flared brightly taking a 2-tone approach, one white and one black, with the white slowly but surely covering the black. She approached the bullies and delivered a strong punch which sent one of the 4 back several feet, causing the other three to retaliate but soon suffered what the first bully got, her voice sounding prismatic in the process.

"Don't you ever harm young Faunus, you hear me?! Next time you do, I will do more than just hit you hard, I will outright put you in your place right on the curb!"

The bullies fled as her body returned to normal and her Aura faded, helping the young faunuses up as they thanked her for protecting them, but they soon noticed that one of the teachers watched the whole fight broke out. As the next class had begun and during an important test, the teacher called on her and sent her to the principle's office who told her the reason why she's here, the teacher who watched the fight broke out had told him everything, which made Celesti question the policy of the school regarding a student's decision to help those in need, a moral judgment that teachers should express when handling conflicts. However the principle brushed that all aside, ignoring her questioning and gave her a 2-week suspension and warned her that if she were to do it again, she will be expelled, no questions asked. This angered Celesti even further to the point where her own sense of judgment became very strict to the point where if she sees even one young faunus getting picked on and/or bullied, she will take action with no warnings told and no questions asked. She returned to the classroom to grab her stuff as well as taking the test with her home, and asks the teacher, who was a Dalmatian Dog Faunus, named Avocet Dalmatig, if she could, for the 2 weeks she's suspended, to send her the homework to her house so that by the time she comes back she'll be all caught up, which Avocet agreed on, seeing Celesti as a student of her word, abiding by the school's code, despite what the principle said.

Finishing her side of the story, Solga and Luni knew it was the right thing for her to do, protecting the young faunuses, but warns her not to pick fights unless you have good intention, and to be more thoughtful when you do. However, the more pressing matter was at hand for the 2, Celesti's Semblance and Aura... based on the story she told them, it sounded as if she awokened her Semblance unconsciously when angered to an extent, and as the family of three sat down at the table for dinner, the two broke the news to Celesti, that she had awokened her own Semblance, and in turn, her own Aura and that it was up to her on how she wants to use it, all of this coming to surprise Celesti entirely. For the remainder of the 2 weeks, she worked on her homework as intended while also taking the time needed to practice on controling her Semblance, which have been hit and miss for the most part, but on the last day she has it under control. Returning to the school and keeping her distance, with all of the humans still calling her names and also calling her "a blackened star", which surprisingly tickled Celesti's fancy and started using it as her title, and continued attending her classes as needed with very little physical interactions towards bullies, but every time the young faunuses were bullied within her sight, she triggers her Semblance, which she calls "Prism Retribution" to change her outer appearance and uses it as a visual warning towards the bullies accompanied by a menancing growl, using fear to drive them away. At the end of the school year, she managed to score passing grades and felt that the time has come for her to learn how to fight, by attending Signal Academy. Solga and Luni were surprised to hear her wanting to attend Signal, considering they graduated from Signal themselves as a Huntsman and Huntress pair specializing in mixed combat and Dust Usage. To help Celesti prepare for what Signal entales, the duo trained her in using a polearm, 2 katanas, 2 automatic pistols, and a war fan, hoping she'll be able to fight in a way that uses their teachings in her own creative way, even teaching her combat strategies in addition to her own personal Semblance Training, soon learning that she can absorb sunlight or moonlight and augment either her physical power or her proficency in Dust.

Signal's Welcoming
Months have passed and her training about to come to fruition, Celesti, alongside Solga and Luni, walk up the steps of the academy, with Celesti walking through the doors alone, attending classes as intended of her to do, using her past experiences to try and not cause problems to others, even making a few friends who see eye to eye with her protective ways, however her moral instability would soon rear its ugly head into her life again as there too were bullies, even in Semblance Studies, the bullies in her class used them strictly to tease the younger students, especially Faunuses, which once again angers her. However as classes are mainly scheduled in the morning, she was only able to show off her Semblance's physical power enhancement to the class. but that was enough to see a promising start for the young faunus to the teacher, but before the next student could demonstrate his/her semblance, she addressed the class on one thing and one thing only.

"If I see anyone, and I do mean anyone, teases and bullies even a single Faunus on my watch-" she states and pauses to activate her semblance for the intimidation factor "-is going to have to answer to me." she finishes as she deactivates her semblance.

Even though it sounded like a threat to any and every bully in the school, the teacher understood her passion to stand up for the Faunus as a whole against those who see them as fodder, as the Faunus in the room applaud her in appreciation. As the presentations continued, the liveliness of the classroom rose, and as class ended for the day, the teacher stops Celesti for a moment, which the bullies took as her being in trouble, but it was quite the opposite... The teacher was intrigued to see her absorb moonlight and what effect it has on her to which she agreed to do after school on the training field at night. Her next class was her weapon making class and she knew exactly what she wanted to build, and to impress the teacher even more with her idea, she tells him that she'll make 2 weapons that she'll use, already having concepts she drew herself when she was training with her adopted mother and father, 2 katanas with automatic pistols built into it that can combine into a double bladed polearm, a Separatible Automatic Katanagun Polearm called "Taiyo", and a war fan that can use Dust Vials to not only change the pattern on the silk, but also enable it to fire off waves of Dust, a Dust Weaved War Fan called "Tsuki", both of them representing Solga Sundial and Luni Maan, her adopted father and mother respectively. After the school day had ended, she kept her word and waited out at the training field, holding an ordinary war fan and a Fire Dust Vial, night soon arrived and the moon out in full, the teacher walked up, ready to view her Semblance's moonlight property, to which with a nod and her Aura coming into view, her body changes to its black prism state, activating Prism Retribution and taking in the moonlight, she sprinkled the Fire Dust Vial over the fan and gracefully spins like an elegant dancer, before waving her arms into a crescent shape, launching a wave of fire Dust from the fan hitting the targets and performs the action 9 more times in the span of 3 seconds, exhausting what was left of the Fire Dust Vial, impressing the teacher even further than she did in class.

3 days have passed since she started working on her weapons, her weaving skills taught to her by Luni coming into good use putting the special silk cloth onto the metal skeleton of the war fan, which had a system to use Dust Vials to not only power the blades for crescent-shaped Dust Waves, but the pattern of the silk cloth changes to represent the Dust Vial used, determining the element and what strategy to tell her allies, calling this change of pattern and strategy her "Lunar Shifts". Taiyo, on the other hand, had to take another week to finish construction, the blades themselves are made perfectly fine, tempered, and bathed in acid to reveal the starry patten and a hot oil bath, but it was the automatic pistol portion of the weapon that needed work. Next class started, History with Professor Crucible, Egil Lucian Crucible, a former Hunter who was a member of Team JADE, but that was all 13 years ago, as so he told the class his stories of his time with his team, up until the tragedy where his leader and partner Jack Serac was killed in action... this lead the team to disband and go their separate ways, although not much was said afterwards about Dutch Steiner and Alice Zwaardt, his fellow teammates... Celesti began to feel a sense of guilt within her teacher after hearing about his partner's death, but it didn't stop him from becoming a teacher and a father. It was through Egil that her morality towards humans began to recover, slowly, but surely, she began to see things on the brighter side of the spectrum. The following week afterwards was devoted to getting the gun to work on Taiyo, which took several tweeking moments to get it to work right, using the firing range to test out the guns, that was where she learned that the residue Dust from the spent bullets began coating the blade a tenth its length each time a bullet is fired. She felt that Taiyo was complete now with the work she pulled to make it, but that was just the beginning of what lies in store for her.

Song of Shades and Family
5 years later, nearing the end of her 5th and final year at Signal Academy and graduation in her sights, Celesti, now 17 years old, felt good all around, not seeing any bullies harming the Faunuses that attended the school, feeling that her warning made them think twice throughout the years. All ready for the graduation ceremony the following day, she felt alot more braver after all she had been through throughout her life, dealing with bullies, defending the Faunus, young and teens, even forming a close relationship with Egil as teacher and student, even sharing her life story with him, to which he fully understood, even telling him what she has planned in store, to attend Shade Academy in Vacuo... She felt as if her life had taken her all over Remnant... Born in Mantle, now called Atlas, raised in Higanbana, a city in Mistral, studied in Vale, and now about to make her mark on the world in Vacuo, she's become a real globe trotter, and now with her new Fairlady 350Z and the AI, Anubia, by her side she can travel further than she ever thought. However, another tragedy struck Vale, in the form of the Battle of Beacon, and from what events have happened right after the graduation ceremony, things were not looking good for the people of Vale with both the Grimm outbreak and the White Fang's attack. Celesti couldn't simply stand-by and watch the tragedy go down, she had to do something. As the tower flashed a bright white light, she was blinded for a second, but when she looked to where the light came from, the tower... had fallen.

With nowhere else she can think of to go, she returned home, heavy hearted cause of the battle, but a hug from Solga and Luni calmed her and her tears down, then with a decision the whole family agreed upon, the family packed their things and moved out of Higanbana in the following days out onto the open road. As Shade Academy was where Celesti was going to apply for her Huntress training, they need to get as close as they can get without having to go over the desert sand, but as luck would have it, there is a city close to the desert's edge as well as the border to Vale, the city of Norema, the last stop before traveling into Vacuo. After arriving to their new home and unpacking their belongings, Celesti decided to explore her new surroundings, hardly seeing a bully in sight as she enjoyed a leisurely drive with Anubia. That was when she found a peculiar caravan around the town, singing songs and dancing, which the other citizens loved, Celesti couldn't help but hum along to the song, which softly drew the caravan's captain's attention, Apollo Vox, or as the caravan calls him "Maestro Vox", a 30 year old male Human. Later that same evening, staring at the vast desert that borders Norema...

~to be updated as her story continues

Trivia

 * Her first name, Celesti, comes from the shortening of "celestial" referencing space, the stars, the sun, and the moon, refering to her colors of orange, blue, white, and black [her orange and blue hair, her white eyes, her black prism-like appearance when her Semblance is active, and her black and white aura]
 * Her last name, Cesium, comes from the chemical element of the same name; "Cesium", the 55th element of the Periodic Table of Elements, this also relates to her Moral Instability as Cesium is an unstable element
 * Her Semblance, Prism Retribution, is based on how a black prism works. Whereas prisms refract light and separates it into colors, black prisms absorb light. Black, in terms of color, is the darkest of all, the absence or complete absorbtion of visible light, which black prisms do.
 * Celesti's concept is entirely based around the Mandala, the outline of alchemy, mainly the Tria Prima [Three Primes] of Body, Soul, and Spirit [Mind], with Celesti herself representing Body, which on the Mandala, is depicted as a prism.
 * Celesti's concept is also based around Necrozma, the third Legendary Pokemon in Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon, befitting her Semblance's effect of absorbing sunlight and moonlight, as Necrozma does when absorbing Solgaleo and Lunala, the representations of the Sun and the Moon. Necrozma also represents Corpus/Prism/Body, considering its prism-like body
 * Her weapons, Taiyo and Tsuki, as well as her adopted parents, Solga and Luni, are also based around the Tria Prima, represnting Soul [Taiyo and Solga], and Mind [Tsuki and Luni], which are depicted as the sun and the moon respectively. They are based around Pokemon Sun/Moon/Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon as well, befitting Taiyo and Tsuki's sun and moon-based motif as well as Solga and Luni's lion and bat Faunus physiology as Solgaleo, the representation of the sun and soul, takes the shape of a lion, while Lunala, the representation of the moon and spirit [mind], takes the shape of a bat.
 * Her car, Rising Star, and the AI Unit, Anubia, takes on 2 inspirations, one was from Wangan Midnight, after the main character, Akio Asakura, who rides a Nissan Fairlady Z [Z31] nicknamed "The Devil Z", the other from Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter [Hyper Speed Transformation Gyrozetter] after the partner car to Satori Miwa [also named Anubia], which also takes on the inspiration of the Egyptian God of Cemeteries Anubis.