Cerise Sangestre

This OC belongs to JayHart!

=Cerise Sangestre=

"As clear as amethyst," "Is the voice of the singer" "Her music so haunting," In their souls will linger.

Basic info

 * Name: Cerise Sangestre
 * Team/occupation: Team ACCA, student
 * Species: Human
 * Age: 16
 * Sex: Female
 * Handedness: Right
 * Aura/Effects: Violet in color.  Sometimes causes music notes to visually appear when singing, humming along to, or playing music.
 * Symbol: A black G-clef on a silver background.  Featured on the silver brooch she pins to her jacket, and on the case and side of her violin.
 * Physical traits:
 * Misc traits: A birthmark in the form of a small patch of dark skin just below her left ear, slightly behind her jawline.
 * Nickname(s): The Silent Bard

Appearance

 * Height: 60 inches
 * Weight: ~100 pounds
 * Eyes: Forest Green
 * Face: Fairly average; slightly pointed chin and nose
 * Hair: Chocolate brown; kept in a long braid
 * Physique: Slender and athletic build
 * Combat Outfit: Form-fitting black jeans, dark top with long sleeves and a black leather jacket, and knee-high leather boots.  Wears a cloak during colder weather.
 * Casual Outfit: Form-fitting blue jeans or loose sweats, a long-sleeved tee shirt (normally of dark color), and low black tennis shoes.  Often accompanied by a lightweight black fleece jacket.

Personality
Very reticent. Due to an incident in her childhood, Cerise has developed a fear of using her voice. Nervous and deferent, Cerise fades easily into the background of a crowd, preferring to single out one person from a group to befriend and rely on. She very rarely speaks more than is necessary. Cerise shows a remarkably mature outlook on life and death for one so young, but is still fairly childish and immature in other aspects, having a penchant toward making codenames and acronyms and being especially inexperienced in matters of romance. She excels at nonverbal communication.

Cerise is an audiophile, loving music in all its forms, and is quite skilled with her violin, upon which she dotes (and often tries to come up with a name for). The most likely to space out when listening to music. She typically stays out of harm's way, but will put herself in the way of harm for someone who has done the same for her. Has a tendency to blame herself for things that are not her fault. Despite her tragic history, she strives to keep a bright outlook on life - though she does not always succeed. She has a very give-and-take sort of attitude, and hates the idea of owing anything to a person (or vise-versa).

Childhood
At a very young age, Cerise displayed her love for music and song. Her father, Neth, had lost his first wife when she died giving birth to Cerise. When Cerise was five, Neth met his second wife was Asha Brennie, mother of Mauve Brennie (who was of an age with Cerise) and married her a year later. The two girls were quite different from each other - where Mauve was quiet, reserved, and calm, Cerise was boisterous and emotional. Despite their differences, the stepsisters got along surprisingly well. When Cerise turned nine, her Semblance first started taking effect, though it would not be known for several more years. At only eleven years old, Cerise's talent for singing was astonishingly great, and by age twelve she was participating in concerts. Through it all, despite being largely eclipsed by her sister's shadow, Mauve stayed by Cerise's side in support.

Teenage Years (Before Beacon)
When the girls were fourteen, everything fell apart when Neth was murdered and Cerise taken and held captive by a deranged fan. Her sister was nowhere to be found, and the authorities could gather nothing on the event from Cerise herself, who refused to speak at all for a full year, blaming herself and her voice for her father’s death and supposedly for her sister’s absence. Asha, despite being torn by grief, did everything she could to support her stepdaughter through the hard times, and fully supported Cerise when she decided to begin attending a combat school at age fourteen with hopes of atoning, though she did not phrase it so to her mother. Cerise opted to fly under the radar at Signal Academy, doing her best and mostly succeeding at staying unnoticed and silent as she worked hard to make up for lost time, even attending summer schools to earn access to Beacon a year early.

Combat info

 * Position/Class: Unifier; Bard/Assassin
 * Landing strategy: Uses acrobatics to parkour off nearby obstacles, or uses her semblance and Aura to strengthen her body for a rolling landing.

Weaponry
Shadowsong
 * Wielder: Cerise Sangestre
 * Maker/Smith: Atlas Weaponry Co; custom modifications.
 * Type: Silenced Variable Ballistic Dagger (SVBD)
 * Weapon Derivation: Gambol Shroud; B-93R
 * Form 1: A long dagger with an eared pommel with trigger assembly and guard, with a magazine well in the hilt.
 * Form 2: An Atlas 93Burstfire pistol with built-in suppressor and bladed hand-guard.
 * Holstered/Sheathed Appearance: Sheathed at the waist in dagger form.
 * Features/Capabilities: Can be fired in blade form for extra damage.  The eared pommel allows for more force behind back-handed thrusts, and Dust rounds can be used for additional effects.  3-round burst or single-fire mode, with 21 round magazines.
 * Usage: Cerise uses a stealthy, acrobatics-based fighting style, relying on avoiding enemies’ lines-of-sight and flanking them for fight-ending strikes.  She normally holds Shadowsong backhanded when in dagger form, making it difficult for her to fire in this form but allowing her to maximize the eared pommel’s intended use to drive it into enemy weak points.  When in gun form, she uses the gun’s recoil to ensure the third round in a burst is the last one that is needed.
 * Planned/Possible Upgrades: Due to the built-in suppressor, potential upgrades are limited.  May eventually be paired with another like it.
 * Notes: Transformation process is very similar to that of Gambol Shroud.

Semblance
Bards Soul/Siren’s Song
 * User(s): Cerise Sangestre
 * Type: Aural/Physical
 * Visual effect: Sometimes causes musical notes to appear, floating in the air around her.
 * Starter ability: Ability to affect the spirits and Aura of listeners through music.
 * Passive ability: Any songs or music sang or played will have an emotional or mental effect on the listener.
 * Active ability: The user gains the ability to influence the Auras of those around her through sound. While it is possible to exercise minor influence by speech alone, the effect is quite small compared to that brought by music.  The user’s songs allow her Aura to interact with those of people around her, strengthening/quickening allies or weakening/slowing enemies.  The effect may also be applied to the user, as long as no others are targeted.  Advanced skill allows more powerful songs with fewer drawbacks, and allows her to power up others’ semblances or stun-lock a single enemy in place.  Mastery allows even greater effects, such as further enhancing others’ abilities (to the point of enhancing semblances to grant a wider array of abilities) and disorienting large groups of foes.
 * General limitations: The more powerful the song the user plays or sings (that is, the more Aura that goes into it) the less the user is able to focus on other things, such as moving. Consistent use can significantly drain the users Aura.  Overuse can cause strain to the vocal cords and/or unconsciousness.

Fighting style
Highly acrobatic when not focusing on her semblance; she relies on staying out of her opponents’ line of sight, using stealth to dispatch enemies quickly whenever possible. When using Shadowsong in dagger form, she holds it backhanded, maximizing the eared pommel’s effectiveness in driving it down into enemy weak points. With her weapon in gun form, she aims to get the third round of each burst in a weak zone, preferably the head.

Trivia

 * Relationships: Team partner with Celeste Burne. Uncertain of her own sexuality; simplified as bisexual.  Being easily inexperienced in romance, she ends up somewhat torn between Aurum and Celeste.
 * Notes: Cerise is a shade of violet, while Sangestre comes from the Old English word meaning Singer or Bard.  Excellent musician.