Dianella Mareggiata

"Even if my life was practically on the sea, I never felt part of it."

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Made by Asriel Liengsky

Dianella Mareggiata is part of the Collaboration Team, RLRD.

Appearance
A teenage, light cyan-eyed girl of fair complexion with svelte figure and notable muscles. She has long black hair, reaching her waist.

Dianella's clothes consists of a dark blue cotton polo vest (basically: a pullover collar sleevless vest) with black collar/lapel, underneath a knee-length blue trench coat with dark brown collar/lapel. Black pants with a brown belt that has a silver buckle and dark brown leather boots. She wears a brown neckerchief and three straps, two brown and one black, each one has pouches which contains dust magazines for her weapon and candies.

Other accessories are a brown hat with a black feather, a golden necklace, and a patch with her emblem on the right pocket of the pants.

Childhood
Native from Atlas, the only child of Atro Leore, a honored sailor from Vacuo, and Libera Mareggiata, a retired lieutenant of the Atlas Milicia, both founders and owners of a weapon & tool manufacturing, and dust minery, Halcyon Trading Company. Her whole life was on the coastal city of Veretria, place where is located the headquarters of HTC and a zone rich of dust.

Having a strict mother, Dianella started training when she was five years old, her wanted her to be part of the Atlas Military after seen a potential on her. A year after practicing melee combat, Atro intervened saying that Dianella is the only one who chooses what she wants to be, then, they agreed that both would train her, and then when she reaches 16 years, listen and accept her final decision.

Welcome Aboard
At her 8 years she forms part of Atro's tripulation (more as a game on those times) on his ship, Solemne Cyclone, being well welcomed by the crew. Solemne its a ship equipped to be a combat ship, so as a industrial one, able to confront mercenaries while some sailors are mining minerals, that happened twice according to one of the Deck Officers. After her first trip, Dianella "felt in love" with the ocean, accompanying her father on every trip he would made. It was a year that she would never forget.

Officer to you
When Dianella was 11 years old, prepared to enter on the local primary combat school, TrIton Academy, her knowledge with weapons was more than enough to pass the exam, being a prodigy with polearms and great dexterity with scout rifles.

Her weapon of choice, created by the HTC, its one of the greatest creations of the company (according to Atro), Forgotten Typhoon. Months later, when Dianella was 12, she readily passed the admission exam and joined Triton.

Months later, during a normal trip on Solemne, Atro asigned his daughter the position of Surrogate Deck Officer after noticed his comrade health state. Knowing that Dianella gained some experience after many years traveling with him, it wouldn't be a problem, all were agreed with the captain's decision.

A Sea of Nightmares
Two years later, Dianella and the Solemne's tripulation suffered an attack, different to the others. During a trip into The Claw, a strait between the Atlesian coast and a long island were it's pressumed that a monster lives there, an aquatic giant grimm suddendly attacked the ship, the size was similar to a nevermore. The ship made it to pass The Claw with several damage. Dianella could injured the beast leaving it a fissure on the bony structure on the upper front of its head, but, after seeing the grimm taking the deck officer with it. From that day Dianella was officially the new deck officer.

One year later, Solemne suffered another attack, mercenaries this time. Something that wasn't frequent but the tripulation was always prepared, however, those mercenaries were... Reckless. A storm was starting when they anchored and berthed Cyclone to their ship, a the battle started. Dianella and Atro were confronting a group of nine bandits on the deck.

After easily defeating them, Dianella was trying to steer Solemne into one of the swirls that the strom was making hoping that could undock the anchors. Instead, both ships crashed on a reef at high speed, but making time to cut the ropes and freeing Solemne from the mercenaries ship. Stopping the swords clashing on the main deck, Dianella thought the battle was over, however, it only gave time to someone who was down the deck to grab Dianella and threw her off of the ship, colliding on a small island, drained her aura after falling.

She couldn't move, she was stunned, confused after the sudden attack, unarmed and without aura, the braggart who threw Dianella came down the ship and unsheathed a giant broadsword, the blade was almost the same height as Dianella, and the width an approximately 15cm. What the braggart do with the sword was cut her arm after saw her hitting his foot. Thinking on the worst scenario after saw her arm being cutted and screaming in pain, she thought that it was her end, until heard multiple shoots coming from the ship, aiming to the braggart, when this one moved away enough from Dianella, Atro shoot an rpg missle right on the braggart's face, knocking him down. Dianella fainted after hearing the explosion.

New World
Dianella was taken to ER as quick as possible after the battle (Solemne didn't suffer much damage after the collision), the wound was cleaned and sanitized properly, also as covered with bandages (obviously). 24 hours later, Dianela woke up and shortly noticed the lost of most of her right arm (hereinafter the elbow) and started panicking. She had to be anesthetized to calm her.

After two weeks (one from depression and the other one of acceptance), she was discharged, but asked to be in rehabilitation. Days later, a doctor suggested Dianella to form part of a small Project that helps students and huntsmen/huntresses with prosthetic limbs to support them to continue their studies/work. After days considering the offer, she accepts.

Without any problems on the surgery, Dianella woke up with her new black/gray metalic arm, with similar shape as her normal arm. Now, she had to practice with the new limb to adapt to the recent change before continuing her studies at Triton.

During her second week of rehabilitation, her father had the idea to use the prosthetic arm as a weapon, crazy idea that Libera wasn't sure about that, however, Dianella (not entirely sure) accepted just to see what Atro could do, after all, he was feeling guilty about what happened.

After days of research, a group of doctors and gunsmiths made the modifications in order to use the arm in combination with Tifone. As for result, the arm turned into a hybrid artillery weapon: Lamentación.

Lowlands Away
After many years of adventures and emotions, Dianella graduates from Triton, and now she must decide what path will follow: Make her parents proud and go to the militia, or be what she decided to be since she lose her arm. The tension of the conversation was cold, Libera didn't show any expresion on her face, and Atro was confused after heard what Dianella said.

"I want to be a Huntress. After all what happened to me, I finally decide what to do with my future. I want to see beyond the sea. I want to go to Vale, and present the test for Beacon. Sorry."

Days after, with only the support of her father, she takes an Airship to Vale in order to enroll Beacon Academy and be the huntress that she wants to be.

Forgotten Tifone
A lance with harpoon blade on the bottom. Transforms into a single-action musket. Leaf shaped blade that flares into two forward pointed prongs at the base (credits to Noct).

The musket variable is a single-action weapon, which means that the hammer needs to re-cocked after every shot, resulting a slower fire rate of 67 RPM, however, this fire rate is compensated with a low recoil and great stability, being the best for long-medium but not a good option on short ranges. Normal defect on scout rifles.

Tifone uses high caliber 7.8x54mm bullets that reaches the 70m on its maximum damage range, stored on a compressed drum magazine located on the stock. The magazines are different, it would contain either only fire/ice bullets, or combined, both are lethals but the difference between both, is that the fire bullets explode on impact, and the ice bullets stun enemies if they are hitted.

Donna Anne's Song
This is a tricky one. Dianella's semblance is basically a "Sonorous Hallucination" one. She is able to make people around at a 15m radius of distance have the sort called "sonorous hallucinations", meaning that every people around will start hearing voices or screams, it variates depending on the person. Someones hear voices of a women, kids laughing, grimm, etc.

She is only able to use Donna Anne's Song IF SHE SINGS a specific song, which is The Parting Glass.

Trivia

 * Dianella is a genderbend version of the American Folk Hero tall tale, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong. Captain of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship purportedly so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.
 * Dianella or commonly called flax lilies, is a type of flowering plants from the Asphodelaceae family, noticeable for its blue petals.
 * Her last name, Mareggiata, it's in italian, meaning Sea Storm, a reference to her allusion.
 * The first part of the Sea of Nightmares chapter is a reference to the folk hero tale. Stormalong had a lifelong rivalry with a Kraken, a huge sea monster from Norse myth who escaped in their first encounter and met with it again years later. Same as Dianella who faced the giant grimm when she was 14 and encountered again two years later.