Noire Mauveine

Noire Mauveine
“Not every rich girl is a spoiled brat, you know.” -Noire defending herself.

A member of Team RCNL, and the last living member of the Mauveine family. The current owner of the Mauveine Dye corporation.

Appearance
Noire is described to have the skin of porcelain: completely unblemished. Despite her elegance in that area, Noire’s Huntress garb is a split between elegant and masculine. On one hand, her black hair is neatly tied into four ponytails with yellow bows; she wears a sleeveless black blouse with a white ribbon around her neck, a yellow brooch clipping it to her front. However, this is counterbalanced by her having a leather corset and skirt, iron vambraces and greaves that cover most of her limbs, and tattoos on her arms and legs to channel Dust. Attached to the back of her corset is a sheathe almost the size of her body, designed specifically to hold Bloodline with ease.

Personality
Noire is much like a shattered mirror: beautiful, but sharp. She doesn’t hesitate to put people in their place, making demeaning insults and abusing their own flaws so they know they’re in the wrong, flaunting her slight inclination towards cynicism. Unlike Weiss, she doesn’t care about making professional appearances, and will make it a goal to stay as far away from the term proper as possible. Despite this, she will still be civil to those who have proved themselves in her eyes, such as her one-sided rivalry with Ecruteak becoming a friendship built on trust. She is also extremely intelligent and observant, and has a lot of patience for those who accept their misdemeanors and don’t continuously flaunt their egos.

Background
Noire was born the only daughter of Ebony Mauveine, the male head of the Mauveine dye company, her mother having passed hours after childbirth. Ebony, despite being a single father, always made time for his little girl, and the two lived a happy life for years together, even in a high class Atlas society, and Ebony, as a business partner to the SDC, managed to support his daughter well. When attending a Weiss Schnee recital, Noire noticed how many of the adults paraded their children around like trophies, but such never happened to the youngest Mauveine. Noire had an extreme respect for her father, because as she grew, he treated her like a person instead of a symbol of success, and lived a pampered, albeit happy life until the age of seven, when a group of White Fang members broke into her family’s estate and killed her father before her eyes. Hiding in the closet, she wished only to make them pay. As the high class of Atlas was a cutthroat society, Noire forced herself to survive.

Taking over the Mauveine dye company from a young age with minimal help from her father’s advisors, Noire became colder and more serious after dealing with hundreds of different characters and personalities. She progressed the Mauveine company to a solid standing after years of hurdles, then focused all of her other time researching her father’s history to understand why he’d been a White Fang target. As he’d refused a Faunus a job over his credentials rather than his race, the White Fang twisted the truth to declare him a racist and had killed him, a reference to the story Weiss tells about her hatred of the White Fang.

Noire demanded retribution for her father’s undeserved death, and knowing of each kingdom’s failure to deal with such attacks, she decided to take matters into her own hands and train herself to fight. She trained extensively for years, honing mind, body, and Aura. Knowing her Semblance had no useful combat capabilities in tight situations, she had fire Dust tattoos drawn upon her arms and legs, and trained herself to use a large greatsword with full mastery, naming it Retribution.

Tracking down and beating a small Atlas’ group of White Fang, they fearfully directed her to Vale, where the White Fang Lieutenant Conan was. Now with the location and name of her father’s killer, she goes to Vale, and when she clears out a small White Fang outpost, is taken in by the police. Ozpin arrives at her interrogation to give her a chance to do things a more legal way, and knowing how her father had admired Huntsman, takes his option.

Weapon / Semblance
Noire’s weapon is a large greatsword named Retribution, with no special features. It is just smaller than her size and height, but is swung by the girl by using her momentum built up from swinging the blade to use it effectively. Despite Retribution being her main form of combat, Noire uses her Dust tattoos to protect herself more effectively, as both her ranged option and as a way to use Retribution more effectively. As superheating her sword and vambraces makes it hard to breathe, she uses the mask connected to the blade’s hilt as a breathing respirator.

Noire’s Semblance is known as View. The soul, Aura unlocked or not, changes when it experiences extremely impactful situations, and the soul remembers these scenarios. View allows Noire to view these events through physical contact and the fluctuation of Aura, such as her punching Ecruteak allows her to see him fighting his way out of the Deadlock. View cannot let Noire see the entire history of someone, and it has little to no combative usability. Also, as it only activates by skin contact and Noire herself focusing on activating her Semblance, and as Noire is the only one to see the past, the easiest way to counter the ability is by breaking contact.

Relationships
Cerulean Arealis: Noire and Cerulean have found a small friendship over the fact that they’re the only ones vaguely attempting to teach Ecruteak about society, and enjoy the presence of the other.

Ecruteak Personne: Having originally been under the impression that Ecruteak’s unfamiliarity with society was a ploy to get attention, Noire hated him. However, through her Semblance and viewing his escape from the Deadlock, she realizes that he is a genuinely good person just struggling to fit in. Taking pity on him and his past, she befriends him and knowingly declares him her best friend. The Mauveine president is the most influential in teaching Ecruteak about society.

Amethyst Ilex: Noire gets along with Amethyst well, both understanding and respecting one another’s goals and ideals. Amethyst usually helps gather information on Conan to help Noire’s attempts for retribution.

Sylvia January: Noire dislikes Sylvia for her immaturity and penchant for pranks, but doesn’t make a point about it because Ecruteak holds her in high regards.

Raven Nosgard: Noire follows Raven’s orders because her fellow Atlesian understands that respect must be earned, and her leader never takes questions or gatherings too far.

Cano Verdant: Cano is acceptable in Noire’s eyes, as the girl reminds her of a time where she was happier, yet also has a serious side. It is usually up to Noire to explain Ecruteak’s unknowledgeable tendencies.

Charon Lunar: Noire’s partner. She initially didn’t trust him due to his race, but after determining that he has nothing to do with the White Fang nor her father’s death, warms up to him. His willingness to prove himself through letting her look at his past with her Semblance, under the impression that she saw into his entire past, leaves Noire to trust him completely.

Trivia
The name Noire is a reference to Noir movies and their focus on cynicism.

Mauveine is a type of synthetic dye.

Noire’s character and inspiration was that of Mordred from the Round Table, as her desire for retribution is traitorous to the teachings of a Huntress, who are supposed to be extremely noble protectors.