Danica Lyall

-WIP until further notice

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Danica Wolfe is a member of Team CADM and a student of Beacon Academy.

Appearance
Danica appears as young woman with pale skin, long silvery-white hair, and is of average height. As a Faunus with the characteristics of a wolf, she has a second set of wolf ears. She typically wears a hoodie on top of vests and shirts, and shorts with leggings, and ankle-length hiking boots.

Personality
Danica is what one would describe as a snarky, calculating person.

That being said, she is one that believes in fairness, rationality, and equality for all, mostly due to the hard work and supportive upbringing from her parents.

Background
Danica was living the dream as a Huntress-in Training in Sanctum Academy, when a crime committed by the White Fang or equivalent Faunus-led terror cell - she forgot which; was witnessed by her parents. And they were not happy about it at all.

Her family was a rather peaceful sort - they respected others, and aside from a few bigoted neighboring families, were mostly respected back. And they also stood for moral values. So when Danica's parents decided to testify against the suspect, the terrorists privately declared an ultimatum against them. They had several choices.

First, they could withdraw or falsify their testimony, otherwise, the entire family and their friends will be eliminated, starting with Danica herself.

Second, they could proceed with an unbiased testimony, but their daughter must be recruited in their ranks as an exchange.

Additionally, in both scenarios, they could be labeled as race traitors, so that even if they were alive and unharmed, their social status would be in ruins, especially with the rise of the violence in the White Fang.

Ultimately her parents stood for what was right, and refused both offers, dying in a gruesome manner, and received the label of race traitors.

Danica was promptly orphaned and adopted by a surrogate family who were radical members. They forced her to join, after failing to indoctrinate their ideology towards her. Soon, after learning the tricks of the trade, she performed each mission with effectiveness and cruelty, under the codename "Lupus", earning the sobriquet "The White-Haired Wolf."

But really, what she was doing in these missions was venting her frustration, her rage, and her sadness at the targets of these ops. She hated being in the White Fang, and worse being alone with an army full of bitter Faunus who held a grudge against humans, and those who would gladly turn members of their own kind for the glory of the cause.

So, in the midst of one heated battle, she disappeared among the chaos, and applied to Beacon Academy. She would continue to live her dream, a normal life, and nurse a bitter hatred of the White Fang and its splinter groups, who not only were threats to peace and humanity, but to any moderate Faunus who disagreed with their dogma and methods, under Team CADM, for the next two years ...

... unless the radical fiends could find her first.

Abilities
As a fighter, she is able to move rather swiftly, and possesses a great deal of strength.

Her weapon is a set of gauntlets called Fang Shui. These take on the form of vambraces with attached gauntlets, that wrap around her arms (think of a second pair of forearms on top of her flesh and blood arms). These gauntlets are outfitted with sharpened, retractable claws, a power piston that allows for increased punching power, and a ranged mechanism in the fingers, knuckles, palms and wrists for ranged offense, along with sharpened spikes at the knuckles for extra melee power.

The weapon has its weaknesses, barring range. It does not provide a large enough surface area to adequately defend the user from enemy projectiles, so enemies with high ROF weapons, shotguns or anything that shoots multiple projectiles will be able to seriously damage the user.

However, the weapon is durable, and can withstand several blows from projectiles and melee weapons.

The weapon can shoot ballistic or Dust rounds at close to medium range at about a maximum of 850 RPM per gauntlet. The ballistic rounds, and the Dust rounds (when fired normally) are equivalent to 10 mm Auto pistol bullets, both in terms of size, travel velocity, and stopping power.

Her Semblance is called Split End. This allows her to utilize her long hair as an extra appendage, or an improvised weapon. Their effectiveness depends on the number of locks used as appendages and what she uses them for.

If she needs to use her hair as a large whip or to hold on to one or two enemies, she will use all of her hair as a single appendage or at most, her hair in two large sections for maximum strength.

Trivia

 * Danica means Morning Star, or Venus in Slavic. According to the former, stars are ofren portrayed as white, and so has the morning. This ties in her color motif.


 * She is based off of the White-Haired Witch, Lian Ni-Chang in the Chinese novel Baifa Monü Zhuan (The White-Haired Bride) by Liang Yusheng, later reappearing in the 2008 movie The Forbidden Kingdom. Her being a Wolf Faunus and her surname all tie in to this character, who was raised by wolves as a child.