Cherry Azul

Cherry Azul is a brash, headstrong girl who knows no fear. Running head first into things, she hopes to be a huntress in the future. Studying at Beacon is a huge accomplishment for her and she could never be more proud.

Appearance
Cherry is a small-bodied person, but by no means bony or skinny. She's in fact quite lean and definitely has some muscle built up from exercise. She isn't entirely flesh though, and seems to have lost her left arm. Instead, attached there is a robotic arm which is capable of all the basic movements. It's capable of lifting heavier things than she can, but not to any extremes.

Her complexion is slightly tanned, with groups of freckles over her skin, especially over her cheeks and shoulders. They are incredibly obvious to spot as they litter her skin heavily. Along with the freckles and tanned skin, she has blonde curly hair that comes just past her shoulders. Usually her hair is tied in two low pigtails behind her ears. Paired with it, she has bright, royal blue eyes that speak of bravery and strength.

She has a usual outfit that she fights in, sporting a hooded varsity jacket, in a very common red and white. Onto her head is a baseball cap, coloured blue. She has her symbol on her hat, resembling her choice of weapon closely, looking much like a bat. She wears a pair of blue shorts, and white thigh high socks. She also wears a heavy pair of red boots.

Personality
Cherry is generally a friendly person - she likes hanging out with people and having friends. She's loud and confident, never letting a fun opportunity pass by, looking for the best out of life. She pushes herself to do everything she can, and she will not dare to slack off, finding it despicable and lazy. She faces challenges head-on, never backing down until she completes it. She is most definitely a competitive one, and this sometimes even extends to combat. She will do anything it takes to win, sometimes things that are morally dubious. She sometimes struggles to see the line and goes too far.

In combat, she's an effective member, but seems to take it lightly, making the combat more fun than anything. She plays around, messing and taunting her opponents. She knows when to be serious though, and when she's serious, she's a force to be reckoned with and will not give in until she's exhausted, immobile or won.

She seems to have a strong desire to protect others, especially people smaller, younger and weaker than herself. Still, she won't speak of it a lot, keeping it to herself mostly.

Weapon
Cherry's weapon is a baseball bat, which is lightweight, and easy to swing around. It's made of durable material. It doesn't transform and stays as a baseball bat, being her only weapon. There is a slot in the bottom that allows her to add dust to her weapon, but she rarely uses dust, not really liking it.

Her weapon is called Kingpin, which shows her feelings towards herself. Upon choosing her weapon, she called it Kingpin because she felt like the weapon would help her be stronger and essential to protecting everyone around her, so they wouldn't be hurt like her.

Semblance
Cherry's semblance is one she uses in complete conjunction with her weapon. It allows her to manipulate the weight of certain things, usually herself or her baseball bat.

Fighting Style
Cherry has a very head-on fighting style. Although she can fight with strategy, she chooses brute strength over smarts. Her weight manipulation allows her to increase her own and weapon's weight. She'll often use her left arm to be capable of carrying the weapon when under her semblance, allowing her to bring down heavy blows on her opponents. She seems to lack a defensive tactic though, and chooses to dodge rather than block. Taking hits really slows her down.

Even though she has no defensive tactic, she has a lot of agile mobility, allowing her to rush around the fight much quicker than some of her opponents. Her small size and stature seems to also be a strength. When fighting people, she often taunts and pokes fun at the people she's fighting, trying to annoy them and throw off their game.

History
Cherry came from Vale, but from a poor background. Her family struggled with their lives, finding it hard to get by. Her parents never got along either as their family life became harder. When Cherry was still very young, her parents left her in the care of her uncle, brother of her father, and left her behind. She never saw them again. Her uncle, Steele Azul, was a hunter, and was often leaving Vale to help with Grimm issues. Sadly, with no one to care for her, she came along with him a lot of the time, and learnt about the Grimm at a young age, even beginning to learn how to fight.

When the White Fang went corrupt, Cherry didn't take much notice to it. That was until she realized her father was a part of them. This seemed to make things complicated for Steele as he wanted to protect people from the White Fang, but his brother was also a part of them, being a leopard faunus. Steele disappeared, taking Cherry with him. The now 10 year old girl had learnt to fight by her uncle's side, and was showing more interest in becoming a Huntress. She seemed excited.

Her decision was decided when she lost her arm. Her uncle was fighting some Grimm, some that seemed powerful even for him. They were the biggest Grimm Cherry had ever seen. As usual, she hid like her uncle told her, but her fear was growing the longer he fought, and this negative emotion began drawing the Grimm attention to her. Unable to escape, she screamed as the Grimm easily clawed her arm. She barely remembers any of it, her memory drawing a blank about the event. All she knew was another Hunter had saved her and her uncle.

When she awoke, things were hard for her. Losing an arm was traumatic. Painful. But her desire to fight only became stronger. When she was well enough, she wanted to be able to fight. It was her only goal at that point. With her uncle's help, she got in contact with some people who knew about robotics, and was capable to be given an arm back. It was just for movement. It did nothing more than a normal arm. She didn't even wait for her to be used to the arm before attending a combat school.

Combat school did not exactly go well for her. She already knew how to fight, so that wasn't the problem, but getting along with others was a struggle at first. She found that she seemed to heavy-handed and serious with others, but as it went on, she finally loosened up. She found herself losing the seriousness, and finally becoming more like herself again. Finally becoming more relaxed, Cherry found herself trying to get into Beacon once she hit 16, and succeeding!

Once getting to Beacon Academy, she wasn't actually sure what to do. She knew no one, and her friends had gone to other Academies. When the teams were being decided, Cherry met Wisteria Lila in the Emerald Forest, meaning the two would be together. Their joint headstrong and competitive nature made them quite a pair, and working towards the goal, the two worked well together, capable of joining their harsh fighting styles together. After this, the other pair for their team, Lily Fair and Mint Rook, join beside them and become Team FLRA.

They go through their own troubles, especially at the start of the year. Lily seemed to not want to fight originally, but she slowly saw their way and become a bold, confident leader for the team. By then, they were becoming well-coordinated and strong. They impressed their teachers and school.

When the Vytal Festival came, Team FLRA would have likely not competed. Wisteria and Cherry are both very aggressive fighters, and find fighting other students to not be to their taste. Mint and Lily don't have much interest in a competition. When things started going wrong, they would have joined the students in fighting the invading Grimm.

Once it was over though, things would quickly far apart for the team. Cherry is unsure where her teammates go, but she leaves the team to search for her uncle Steele Azul.

Lily Fair
Cherry likes Lily. She thinks Lily is sweet and nice, but she also sees the girl as extremely naive. She desires to protect Lily due to that naivety, and can sometimes take things too far. It's not often they fight, but when they do, a lot of the time it's because Cherry is fed up by the way the other acts.

Wisteria Lila
Cherry gets along with Wisteria, but doesn't know a lot about her. Although the two seem to share a competitive streak and frequently charge headfirst together, Wisteria maintains a sense of maturity that Cherry lacks. Often she's the one who pulls Cherry back from crossing a line and making a mistake. The two act very much like two sisters.

Mint Rook
Originally, Cherry couldn't like Mint at all. She found Mint to be weak-willed, despite wanting to be a Huntress. The way Mint acted was weird to Cherry, but as she learnt about Mint, Cherry realized Mint had a similar goal in mind. Since then, the two are solid friends.

Trivia

 * Cherry has theme around baseball, but don't expect her to play by the rules.
 * Her outfit has a lot of detail to it, that will be shown when it's drawn.
 * Her blonde hair, blue eyes and baseball bat weapon resembles Harley Quinn, but was not intended.