Cerulea Sahm

Cerulea Sahm
"You cannot change the past, but you can always change your future."

- Unknown ________________________________________________________________________________________

Physical:
Cerulea has neck-length dark brown hair, styled to keep her bangs out of her eyes to aid in her accuracy, and a medium olive skin tone. Both of these contrast her silver-blue eyes, though not overly noticeably. She wears very little makeup, just enough to cover the minor blemishes on her face to maintain a "natural" look. However, a claw mark scar is still visible along her left cheekbone, following a slight curve.

Her body itself is well built and athletic. While not anywhere near a body builder, Cerulea is toned and posses well built arms due to the stress they face during saber combat. Her legs are built like that of a runner, aiding her in her acrobatic hand to hand combat as well as allowing her to run quickly to cover should she wish to switch to ranged combat.

Outfit:
Cera's school uniform is the same as every other female student of Haven, a black jacket with gray trim over a white undershirt and with a white band beneath her arm. Additionally, she wears the standard gray and black checkered skirt.

Her combat uniform is a light set of cloth and leather armor. The lowest layer consists of a simple tunic of peacock blue, trimmed by a pale yellow. The tunic reaches as low as the mid thigh at its deepest, and slightly below the waist at its shallowest, with its sleeves reaching halfway down Cera's upper arms. On top of this sits a simple leather armor vest, reaching down to just above her midriff and lacking sleeves to allow for mobility, that covers her upper torso. It is reinforced on her left shoulder by a rounded metal spaulder, and her right shoulder by a strip spaulder reaching over her shoulder from shoulder blade to the start of her breast. The vest itself is latched slightly to the left of her sternum, much like the tunic beneath it. From the right spaulder, a red sash hangs behind her, trimmed in the same pale yellow as her tunic. Additionally a brown leather hood follows up off of the collar of her armor vest, reaching around front into a mouth cover of the same peacock blue of her tunic.

Around her waist is another sash of the same coloration as the one falling back from her shoulder. This sash is held in place under a leather belt which connects up to the right spaulder by a bandolier utilized for storing extra dust cartridges for her weapon. On the right side of her belt, to allow for ease of access due to her left handed nature, sits her scabbard for her weapon, Masmavi Civata.

Her forearms are protected by two layers. The first layer is a simple set of peacock blue cloth fingerless gloves, designed to help her grip her weapon better. On top of this, a pair of leather gauntlets is worn to defend her wrists and lower forearms against attack. The leather spikes forward over her knuckles to add extra damage to any punches she throws. Additionally, the gauntlets have leather spikes raised forward to allow for her to catch blades with the armor pieces. Both of her gauntlets have a full color version of her emblem engraved and dyed on them.

Her lower combat outfit consists of a simple set of tan cloth pants that reach up under her tunic. To protect her legs from attacks, leather armor pieces are added to her thighs and shins, leaving her knees free to move around. The pants terminate as they enter a set of leather boots, padded by fur, which are strapped into place. Carved and dyed into the back of her armor vest is her emblem, two peacock blue birds on a branch. The bird and branch represent her connection to nature. Additionally, the birds are supposed to symbolize the Cerulean Warbler, one piece of inspiration for Cerulea.

Personality
When it comes to relations with other humans, Cerulea maintains a reserved, but respectful view of the subject. She'll hardly be the one to approach someone first, but should they approach her, she'll listen to what they have to say and make judgements from there. Should you manage to earn her trust, she will be quite loyal and aim to develop a way to benefit from that trust, believing that everyone should have a purpose within a group, be it cooking, defense, offense, or anything else that could be of use.

However, this all goes out the window when it comes to Faunus. Raised to distrust, even hate, the demihumans, a trait only reinforced when one gave her the scar along her cheekbone, Cerulea is outright rude, even bigoted, towards them. Although not directly bullying them as many others do, she ignores them, feeds them false information if they ask for her assistance, and will gleefully accept any opportunity to spar against them, giving it her all when she does, and often losing her temper should she lose, as she believes the Faunus to be an inferior species. Additionally, should one approach Cerulea in attempts to hold a conversation her remarks will be underhanded and sarcastic, deriving humor from frustrating the Faunus.

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Weapon:
Cerulea's weapon, Masmavi Civata, a Dust Enhanced Saber Bow, appears at first to simply be a standard cavalry saber. However, upon closer inspection of the hilt, trigger can be seen as well as a latch to open up the pommel. These features allow for the imbuing of the blade and the supplying of the weapon, respectively, with dust of any variant, though Cerulea chooses to use blue dust for its ice powers most often, stored in capsules on her bandolier. When the trigger is pushed, the blade absorbs the dust's power.

Additionally, the pommel of Masmavi Civata can slide along the handguard to the base of the blade and allow the saber to connect to the scabbard of the weapon to create a dust bow. By pressing the trigger in this form, she can imbue both the blade and scabbard with dust and then "pull back" between the two to draw a "string" of dust energy and fire a dust "arrow" towards the target. In this form, the weapon can be reloaded with dust by ejecting the spent cartridge out through the scabbard and placing one in much like a breech loading shotgun shell through the upper portion of the scabbard.

A colorless etching of her emblem can be found on her blade towards the hilt as well as being present in its fully colored form on the upper portion of her white scabbard.

Aura:
Cerulea's aura is a deep shade of cerulean. While strong, she rarely, if ever, harnesses it for active offense or defense, instead relying on her weapon and mobility for each, respectively. Instead, she focuses her aura on the healing of herself during combat, and the unlocking of the auras of others, though her reserved nature often keeps the second aspect from coming to the surface for anyone but her closest friends.

Semblance:
Cerulea's semblance is Ergokinesis, or the ability to manipulate energy. However, she requires her weapon to channel the ability. Presently, she simply utilizes it to manipulate and move the bolts of dust energy fired from her weapon in bow form or the imbued dust energy while it is in saber form. However, it is unknown at this time if the ability can be developed further to allow for the potential manipulation of further types of energy, such as aura, though attempts in the past have failed. This could simply be due to Cerulean's relative inexperience, or it could simply be impossible to do so.

Trivia

 * Cerulea is inspired by both the ranger archetype from fantasy fiction and role playing games (DnD, Guild Wars, etc.) and the medieval Nizari Ismailis assassins.
 * Outfit design (armor) is inspired by several images I found of leather armor blended together as well as the sashes, face covers, and hoods found in images of the Nizari Ismailis assasins.
 * Her given name is derived from the species name of the Cerulean Warbler "Cerulea" and her surname is the Arabic word for "arrow" reinforcing both the ranger and Middle Eastern inspirations of her character.
 * Her weapon's name, Masmavi Civata, is Turkish for "Azure Bolt" referencing her Middle Eastern inspiration, as well as the color of the dust she uses for her weapon and the "bolt" it launches from its bow form.