Amphitrite Pickerel

Appearance
Amphi is of average height, though she's a lot more top-heavy than most girls her age due to extensive work with her weapon. She has long black hair that she ties into a fishtail bun behind her ear and seawater colored eyes.

Her school uniform is the same as all Atlas' huntresses-in-training - a white long-sleeved shirt underneath a grey sleeveless dress. Aside from some dirt perpetually staining the knees of her tights and the toes of her boots, she blends in fairly well.

Weapon
Amphitrite's weapon, The Nekton, was built by her when she was 14 at her old school. She built it based off of an old story she heard from her father and made a few creative liberties.

Nekton 's primary form is a silver/blue speargun. The barrel of the gun is silver and engraved with several images - a lighthouse among them, representing her house. The actual spear is loaded into the barrel and leashed through the trigger mechanism. When shot, the Nekton springs straight-forward toward the designated target until the line runs out - at which point the spear suddenly stops and falls. It can be summoned back to the gun by pressing a button, at which point the line begins to reel itself in.

Atop the gun is a sort of scope apparatus. Inside is a wide chain net that works similarly to the spear - attached to a different lead and can only be shot out so far before it has to be reeled back in. The net's wiring system is strong enough that it could easily pull an enemy up to 300 lbs. closer to her - though anymore and the mechanism might jam.

Nekton's second form is a similar to an extended cleaver. It retains the carvings from the gun's barrel, only the transformation of the two ends up showing more of the full design. Notably, the net chamber is still functional even while Nekton is in sword form, making it easier for her to pull enemies close and slash at them.

Semblance
Amphitrite's aura is royal purple.

Her semblance is called Undertaker.. To activate, Amphitrite slams her weapon into the ground (either spear-first or cutting edge first), creating a fissure in the ground in front of her. She can adjust the distance the fissure reaches in exchange for making the fissure more shallow and vice versa - a smaller fissure, but with a much deeper chasm.

She can also choose to close the fissure by slamming her weapon into the same spot, but this involves expending a lot more energy than it does to simply create the fissure, so she normally will not.

Background
Palaemon "Pal" Pickerel was a bit rough around the edges. His initial plan was to have one child - a son - to eventually take his place on the ship Triton's Arm. His first wife was a fellow sailor and eventually they did have a son, Aphros. The three of them were happy enough delivering cargo and fishing for Atlas. Until the storm, at least. A rough storm launched Aphros and Pal overboard, and left Aphros' mother stranded in the downstairs area of the boat. The accident forced Pal to have his arm amputated, and since then Aphros was afraid of the ocean. The duo decided to move to an old building connected to a lighthouse, having lost everything in the storm.

Nerites and Amphitrite were the product of Pal's third marriage - his second having given them Nikon. Pal was in his late fifties when Amphitrite was born, and him being old was enough to deter him from spending time with his children until they were plenty older. His condition seemed to be rapidly deteriorating as the years went by, and he soon forgot about the likes of his current wife and his three most recent children. As such, she was raised partially by her mother, Doris, and partially by her half-brother, Aphros, who was in his late thirties.

Nikon left the house to pursue a career in arts at age 19, and because someone needed to man the lighthouse now that most of the family was rapidly entering their elderly years, someone had to take over. Nerites, being the oldest, took the job. Amphitrite would often meet him in the watchtower with got chocolate and they would sit around all night, though Amphitrite was usually out cold before 2am. It was during these late times that Amphi and Nerites met the most interesting people - not just fisherman and tradesman like their father and brother, but hunters and huntresses. They would often dock if the sea looked too rough and the kids would speak to them from the top floor via intercom. Nerites and her were romanced by the tales of adventure and action that the hunters would weave for them, and in the end both decided that was what they wanted to do when they grew up.

Amphitrite met with her father one evening and told him other plans to attend a school that would train her to become a full-fledged huntress, with the idea that Nerites would stay behind and take care of the lighthouse that Pal had spent so long renovating. Her father inertly replied that so long as Nerites continued working, he would allow it. Nerites saw this as an act of betrayal, like she'd used him as a foothold to reach their shared dream, and rarely spoke to her during her last few months at home. Doris was none too happy to lose her daughter either, though Aphros believed it would be good for her to get out of the gloomy cliff side manor.

She trained for three years before advancing to her current combat school.

Trivia

 * Amphitrite's name:
 * Amphitrite: Greek goddess of the sea, consort of Poseidon
 * Pickerel: From pontederia, a genus of aquatic flowering plants that grow in shallow water and mud.
 * Every name in Amphitrite's family derives from mythology surrounding the sea in Ancient Greece.
 * 'Palaemon' was the "guardian of ships", ironically
 * 'Doris' was the mother to only one son, the god Nerites, as well as the fifty Nereids
 * 'Aphros' was the foster-father of Aphrodite, having been the "sea-foam" that brought her to life
 * 'Nikon' was one of the twelve Telchines who was killed after turning to "evil magic"
 * 'Nerites' was a sea spirit who drove the chariot of Poseidon and was turned into a shellfish after Helios became jealous of his speed
 * Amphitrite's weapon, The Nekton, was named after the Bathyscaphe Trieste research submarine. The sub, code-named Project-Nekton, became the first manned submarine to reach the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.