Panama Slate

"Laziness is easily treated, just take a healthy dose of hark work or two doses of fist from these pythons!"

- Panama Slate while flexing her arms



Appearance
Panama Slate is a 17 year old Harpy Eagle faunas, whose beauty is only matched by her strength. Her hair is long and slate black, with two small groups of pale grey feathers protruding from her head that stick straight back. The feathers match that of her faunas species, giving the impression of a harpy. He also has two feathers down her neck, these being black. Panama is rather muscular, being quite strong for women her age. She wears a pair of pale yellow knee-high boots, pointed at the toes with buckled straps going around the leg portion of the boots all the way to the top. Along with this she wears white shorts as well as a white tanktop. Around her shorts is a slate black belt, and around her neck is a gray scarf that wraps around with two feet of extra in the back. On the bottom extra of her scarf is where he symbol lies, the silhoutte of the eagle harpy's head. On her arms are a pair of white metal gauntlets, coming to a point at her elbows. The gauntlets are layered over with black steel in the shape of long feathers.

Personality
 Panama is a very smart, hard working woman. She knows the value of work and how it can change someone. Panama is well known for having a short temper, and is intolerant of laziness, sexist remarks, and unequal treatment of other faunas. She acts very proud of her strength, especially when she can prove herself stronger than a guy who believes himself stronger. She can be nice at times, as long as no one makes her made. Panama is a team player, having some signs of leadership and can solo easily but works best when she knows that equal work can accomplish a task better.

In battle, Panama acts like an apex predator and can be ruthless in battle. She works best as part of a team, her ideals of working side by side with others to get the job down very prominent. Panama works best as a close range fight, using her twin swords along with her fighting style to defeat her enemies

Weapons and Abilities
 West Wind- West Wind are a pair of one edged short swords. The blades themself look like the wings of a Harpy Eagle, the blades made of hard black steel. On the pommel of each blade is a four taloned claw also made with black steel. The claws are able to open and close allowing for a gripping action in battle. The triggers to open and shut the claws are located on the handle side of the pommel. In Battle, Panama wields West Wind in two ways, Reverse grip and a standard dual sword stance.



 Semblance- Synchronized Assault: When Panama uses her semblance, she observes an ally’s fighting style in extreme detail for 2 to 3 minutes. While she observes the fighting style, she will learn everything she needs to know about the fighting style correctly use it in tandum with her weapons and use the fighting style in exactly the right way for a period of time of 5 to 6 minutes. The semblance is restricted in such that she cannot observe and learn high difficulty level fighting styles like Grimm Chance. The semblance wears off when her stamina drops a significant amount, and Panama will forget the knowledge of the fight style she learned.



 Aura- Panama’s aura is black and can be used as an outward force.

Backstory
 Panama Slate was born on to a honest work family outside of Vale. She was the youngest sibling of three children, her two older brothers being twins and a year older than her. Her family was known for hard work, in any work they did. The family specialized in moving equipment on sites. Panama and her two brothers didn’t begin helping until they were around five or six, when they could carry small things. As they got older, the three of them helped with heavier stuff. Panama was always given the bad end of the deal on jobs, teased by her brothers that she couldn’t help lift as much as they could. This made her furious every time it happened. It became even worse when they took advantage of her, making her do their work as well while they would lay around. What the two of them didn’t know was that their laziness would make her stronger.

 At age twelve, Panama saw her two brothers go off to a school in Vale named Signal academy. She knew that the school was meant to start training hunters and huntresses, which made her a bit envious, as well as angry. Her two brothers, lazy and always ready to ditch the work on her were going to become hunters, a job that probably would demand hard work. The idea infuriated her, especially since they had told her she wouldn’t ever be better than them. From then on she decided to prove them wrong and become a better huntress than the two of them would ever be. It was a year later that Panama joined Signal Academy and began her journey to become the best huntress she could be.

 Panama could feel the pressure right away at her first day at Signal, her older brothers a year ahead of her and already downing her. She intended to prove them wrong. She studied hard, trained everyday, and practiced every chance she got. When the time came to create weapons, Panama knew what she wanted from the training she had done. She created West Wind, her dual Harpy Eagle style swords. By the end of her first year, she was in the top ten of her class and in her next two years she became even stronger, learning how to use her aura and semblance. She had trouble with her semblance, the stamina necessary always so much. She focused hard on mastering it, but knew it not a big deal if she relied on her swords and aura more.

 As she steadily grew stronger in her third year, she closed in on her brothers, their skills high but lacking because of their laziness. It was that same year that Panama began to see the fruits of her labor, and her personal goal to excel past her brothers coming fast. She got her first chance during the middle of the year when several fourth year students came and demonstrated their skill to the third year students. Panama laughed a bit on the inside when she saw her older brothers walk in, hoping to out prove themselves in front of her and the other third years. As they fought, Panama could easily see they weren’t in complete focus and even joking when the two of them would team up against other fighters. Out of pure anger, she stood up and challenged her brothers to make them understand the fault of their laziness. Her brothers accepted the challenge and lost the match against Panama, badly. Embarrassed and shamed, the brothers went off, taught a lesson by their younger sister. For the rest of her third, Panama saw a change in her outlook, she realized she had proved herself but wasn’t going to stop till she was number one.

 Her last year at Signal came and her labors and hard work paid off, she was number 5 in her class when she graduated. Now Panama had a decision to make; go back home to the family and live the normal life or pursue the life of a huntress. As she pondered the thought, she realized that there was only one logical choice. So she filled out the paperwork and submitted the forms to Beacon.On the day of the orientation she entered the gates of Beacon, ready to face whatever challenge came her way

Trivia
- Panama’s name refers to the county of Panama, where the Harpy Eagle is the national bird.- West Wind name is a reference to the West Wind Zephyros, the greek god of the West wind who had a harpy who was the mother of the horses he sired.- Panama’s last name “Slate” refers to slate black, a shade of black.