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ABOUT:
Name: Kurana (her community was small, and surnames were unnecessary)

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Height: 4'8"

Weight: 120lb

Hair: Jet black

Eyes: Milky white

== Appearance: ==

Kurana is a petite and slim girl, but with ropes of tough, well toned muscle, as a result of a lifetime of martial arts training. Her hair is shoulder length, though it is extremely rare to see it out of her typical high ponytail.

Her most striking feature is her milky white eyes, caused by a birth defect that resulted in being born with no lenses.

Her customary clothing is a simple black robe with white trimming, (in the style of traditional Shaolin warriors) that she wears tightly, so as to allow ease of movement. She also carries a long thin stick that she uses to feel her way around. She flat-out refuses to wear shoes, even in harsh conditions, as she says she cannot feel the ground when wearing anything on her feet.

Personality:

Kurana is very reserved when around most people, due to her being treated as less than able, because of her vision. She steadfastly refuses help when she knows she can accomplish her task, and will only ask for assistance when she has tried it herself repeatedly.

She is fiercely loyal to those whom she names friend, and becomes less guarded about herself. When she gets comfortable around someone, she is a very caring and kind person, and is absolutely loyal, to the point of self sacrifice, should the situation call for it. She’ll even pop the occasional blind joke, if she feels in a particularly good mood that day.

When she is treated as "the poor blind girl" by strangers, there's a very good chance she'll make rude remarks on their appearance, and walk away without another word. She does not stand for people treating her special. She simply demands that you treat her like any other being.

All in all, she can be hard to make friends with, but once you earn her trust, there is very little she won’t do to help or assist you.

== Weapons/Abilities: ==

The first thing that people notice when Kurana fights, are her uncanny reflexes. Her semblance is extreme reflexes, and she uses this to great advantage in combat. Anything moving within a 15 foot radius of her will be sensed using aura, and more than likely dodged or deflected if they are hurtling towards her. She excels in melee combat, and dodging flying projectiles. It is unlikely for most people to even land a hit on her. She can even dodge/deflect machine gun bullets, though she will tire quicker against high rates of fire. Close range sniper bullets also move too fast for her to fully protect herself. However, she can elect to take some bullet hits, which will increase the duration of her dodging/deflection, with the trade-off of getting hit.

Due to a lifetime of martial arts training, her strikes are significantly stronger than the average fighter, however, she does not empower her strikes with aura.

She does not wield a weapon, as she prefers to use her own limbs to deliver her hits. It gives her more contact with her opponents, and thus a better understanding of their body. Her body has been conditioned into figurative rods of steel, which allows her to redirect blows without breaking or cutting herself.

Her weaknesses are her inability to notice silent things that aren’t moving, or silent things outside of her radius of aura. As well, she cannot effectively dodge area of effect attacks, because there is generally no projectile or weapon coming towards her.

Because things must be moving in order for her to sense them, she still uses her stick to get around, though she can definitely avoid running into fellow walkers on the street. Her hearing  is exceptional, and can use limited echolocation to aid her in getting around, and can listen for nearby opponents.

Backstory:
Kurana was born and raised in a mountain temple for the majority of her life, and would have stayed there, had grimm not overrun her home at the age of 12. Herself and most of her community managed to escape, but the temple was irreparably destroyed, and so they had to leave.

At first she thought it would be a grand adventure, filled with new friends and interesting places. That all changed when she encountered her first village outside of her temple.

The people there treated her as if she couldn't do anything, when she knew she could do it. Her parents had taught her ways to utilize her aura to "see" the world. No-one seemed to get it, and she spent unhappy months being treated like a subhuman.

 

It all came to a boil one night, when she heard her mother arguing with the village medicine man. He insisted that Kurana should be put in his care, to prevent her from getting injured, and her mother kept yelling at him that her daughter could do whatever she put her mind to.

The yelling kept escalating, until Kurana could barely handle it, and suddenly she heard a loud slap, and heard her mother fall to the floor. The man muttered something about terrible parenting, at which point she suddenly fell into a blind rage. She attacked the man. She brutally attacked the medicine man, who had insulted the most important people in her life. She attacked with everything she had ever been taught, and when she came to, she felt warm sticky liquid on her hands, and realized what she had done.

She fled into the surrounding woods, and kept running and running, for many weeks, which bled into months. She survived scrounging edible roots and berries, and learning through trial and error which ones were not good to eat. Be it by some act of divine mercy, or by pure luck, she arrived at beacon academy, whereby she threw herself into studies, in an attempt to forget her tainted past. She has never revealed her past to anyone, and she desperately hopes that her parents will not find her, as she could not face the shame.

To this day, she still remembers, and it gives her a haunted look whenever she looks back on that fateful event.