Yue Midnight

Name: Yue (Chinese: moon) Midnight

Age: 21

Color: Midnight Blue

Race: Human

Influence: Bastet, Egyptian goddess of the moon and nurturing, and the parallel of Sekhmet, goddess of war and pestilence

Setting: Beacon, 4th year

Gender: Female

Appearance
Standing just under five-eleven, Yue is of a lean and lithe body. Her movement and physique scream grace and balance. Her skin is a pale color, though not sickly or unwell. Blue coloration tips her long raven hair, braided down until it reaches the small of her back. Her bangs, also tipped with blue, cover her left eye. The irises themselves are of a darker blue, almost violet or black depending on the lighting.

As far as clothing goes, she is not difficult to spot. A short electric-blue leather jacket rests on her shoulders, her emblem adorning the back in black. Black Capri pants are held up with a large belt, weapon holster attached at the back. Large combat boots, black with blue soles, are perhaps the most out of place bit of clothing. Nonetheless, they add an extra two inches to her height.

Personality:
On the surface, Yue is the sort of girl your mother told you to stay away from in high school. She’s a sarcastic and sharp-tongued girl with a penchant for being a bit too honest. Inside, though, she’s a softer and kinder version of the outward appearance. She’s convinced that to be heard and taken seriously you need to be a man or a bitch. If she can be a nicer person to the ones that earn it, she can just as easily tear you to shreds if you deserve that. Though she accepts many lifestyles and ideals, she will not suffer fools and bullies lightly.

The conflict of her personality is a commonly recurring theme within her life. Many times she’ll distance herself from the nicer people to maintain her façade of arrogance, hoping not to give them any hint that she’s not a punk in her personality, just her style. It gets to the point sometimes where she’ll do ridiculous things (like going off into the forest alone to capture live Beowolves) just to prove she’s not weak and helpless.

If you’re a self-righteous and arrogant prick/bitch, expect to be treated like an idiot and a villain by Yue Midnight at all times, often with a heavy dose of dark sarcasm and snark. For those who are strangers to her, however, she will more or less ignore you. If she must interact she’ll show a grudging respect and acceptance. To her team, and the few friends she can relate to well enough, the bitchiness comes in small doses and is dispersed cleanly within a kind and caring persona. She became a Huntress to help people, after all, and if you deserve it she will never hold out on kindness.

Skills and Abilities:
Her skill-set makes up a surprisingly long list, and well-rounded also. While she can’t cook to save her life, she can sew, clean, and organize a party with ease thanks to the “lady” lessons her mother forced upon her. She also has taken up the guitar in recent years and can play relatively well. As the resident ninja of the team she can also sneak and hide almost anywhere.

Weapon and Fighting style:
Yue wields a single snakesword-blaster, dubbed “Shadowed Moonbeam.” The barrel of the gun runs through the middle of the blade, and disconnects into segments as the sword itself does. Though the firepower itself is less than many other models, the gun mode serves another purpose; being a snakesword, the blade can be shot out like a bladed grappling cable along with the usual flick of the wrist to activate the whip. The unique design of the top blades allow for hooking opponents or walls, and the retract speed (when aided by Yue’s Aura) is fast enough to use its function as a swinging mode of transportation in some situations.

Yue is an expert in the longer-range attacks, using the whip and grapple-cable function to slice and pull an enemy exactly how she wants. She is adept at closer range attacks, though, and should not be underestimated in this regard. She is most dangerous, however, when using sneak attacks. Moving into position and using the terrain to her advantage she is best suited for ambushes and striking her opponent unawares. If need be she will cause distractions and disturbances with her distance attacks to further confuse the opponent.

Aura/Semblance: Shadow Shroud
Being an expert in stealth, one would expect perhaps invisibility as a Semblance. The truth is not far from that. Yue can alter the light around her to actually make it disperse, creating almost a shadowy form of concealment. To the untrained eye she appears as simply a bodiless shadow, a darkened area in her general shape. In areas of low light and constant natural shadows, no one can find her.

Backstory/History:
The Midnight family is an old-age affluent family with ties to the original royal families of the Four Kingdoms. A man born into the family is expected to marry and become an outstanding individual of the world, adding to the wealth of their name. A woman is expected to marry and be a proper woman in the world. Yue grew up with two sisters and a brother, the middle child of them all and constantly in conflict with her mother. She didn’t want to be proper, to be a lady like her sisters and her mother and aunts. She rebelled, finding any way to escape the house that she could find. In the end it was her brother who was her salvation. He told his family he would become a Huntsman to bring great honor to the family, and instead allowed his sister to take his private lessons and custom-made weaponry. She was a natural, and when her acceptance to Beacon came through she swore to return the favor to her brother some way. To this day she has not spoken to her mother, and there are doubts if she ever will.

Team:
Member of Team ONYX

Partnered with Nero Morningstar

Quotes:
“Whoever you are every day, the minute you start a fight you forget them. We can’t afford to be sweet or silly or artistic when our lives are on the line. Whoever you are when you woke up this morning, you’re just a Huntsman the moment the first bullet fires.”