Artoria Glasdragon

Artoria Glasdragon is a young huntress-in-training hailing from Mistral.

Appearance
Artoria is a bespectacled woman with an above-average physique with muscular legs, very long light-blue hair tied in a large braid that she loosely ties around her neck like a scarf, and strikingly bright bluish-green eyes. Her skin is slightly pale, but most of her body like her back and the left side of her face is burned.

Her normal wear typically consists of a snug-fitting blue windbreaker jacket with two large golden streaks on the left side and one streak on each sleeve while on the lower right side is her emblem woven in white. For pants she wears jeans with the left part being ripped at the thigh area to reveal her left leg and finally knee-high, steel-tipped leather brown boots.

On her back is a navy blue backpack and a sheathed sword hung diagonally under the backpack.

Backstory
Artoria was born in a not so happy family in Vale on the verge of falling apart. Her father can be best described as a backstabbing con-artist who was found to be secretly stealing money from her hardworking mother who works for the family.

At this time, Artoria was just around 5 or so and she has been forced to cook, clean, do the laundry, and later on handle the money her mom gained to prevent her father from stealing it.

For most of her early childhood she was, essentially, the substitute of what her father should be doing. To escape from all the work or at least be at ease from the hardships of having to work in place of her parents (since her mother can't do any household chores due to her job and her father just lazes around and waste money) she listens to music, to the point that when she was gifted by her mother with headphones on her birthday never went out without them.

When she started going to school at the age of 11, her mother was able to finally get divorced with her husband, which was very difficult as the man wasn't gonna let her do it so easily. Even at the end, it seemed as if he just playing with them one last time, and that made Artoria hate her father even more.

In school she was alone due to her appearance being someone who is "hard to approach" but she did end up having one friend. She was a girl who looked up to Artoria, who saw her being bullied and decided to protect her despite her not being strong. To protect her, she needed to exude an air of intimidation and strength, so she acted like a delinquent to scare people off.

However, this facade can't convince everyone forever. When she, along with her best friend, got intercepted by a group of other delinquents at a park they usually go through as a shortcut, Artoria didn't stand a chance and was quickly beaten down, leaving her friend to get harassed by the group, who took her behind the trees and bushes. For Artoria, she felt like she couldn't do anything, but the screams of her best friend getting sexual assaulted made her rage grown inside inside.

She noticed one of them having a lighter on their pockets, and immediately went for it. She got beaten down again when she did this, but got what she was aiming for. She, in a last ditch effort, lit the closest bush alight, which caused everyone to run away.

Her victory however was short-lived, for the flames soon enough engulfed the area around her best friend and caused everyone else in the vicinity to run off. In her desperate attempt to keep her best friend from getting burned, Artoria shielded her with her own body, causing her to get burns all over her back and a bit on her left side due to the wind but luckily they were both saved when the fire department arrived.

Artoria was quickly sent to the hospital along with her best friend who only suffered mostly first degree burns with a few second degrees here and there. In the hospital, she told them about the delinquents, her harassment, and how Artoria saved her. The delinquents were soon enough identified a week later and were all sentence to juvenile detention for their assault.

Artoria recovered from the ordeal with a lot of second and third degree burns around her back and limbs. The doctors commented that she was lucky to be alive. Whilst in the hospital, Artoria was in a state of depression and lucidity for having been unable to do anything to protect her best friend and trying find out what she's going to do for now on. So, after a week of thinking she decided that she needed to be strong, truly strong. Most of her time was spent contemplating on how to become stronger, which was answered when a special TV interview of a hunter appeared on the screen in her room.

Huntsmen were strong, strong so that they can protect the people. If she is able to become a huntress then she can protect far more people than just her best friend. It was going to be grueling however, but the training would be all worth the pain, not that it could be more painful than the burns on her back.

The month in the hospital was the longest time she was away from music, and once she was discharged from the hospital and returned home she immediately played her favourite song. At this moment she realized that her headphones were not with her, probably lost during the fire. The music was calming, but she felt that there was a song that better suited the feeling she was having.

So she tried to make the song herself, and found it to be fun. She thought to herself that she could become a DJ if she couldn't become a huntress but that would mean she would be weak, and she didn't want to be weak again. When she returned to school and discussed this to her best friend she simply suggested "Why not try doing both at the same time?".

It was a crazy notion to try being a DJ AND being a huntress at the same time and looked at her best friend like she was crazy, so she tried to better elaborate on her idea. She explained that she's stumbled on a lot of huntsmen and huntressess and found that they would usually have something unique with each of them. She even stumbled on a huntsman who is also a chef.

These words circled in Artoria's head for a moment before she decided to trust her best friend's words. She would then on train on both her music-making skills and physical prowess, creating a weekly plan to better organize her self-training regime. Her mother noticed this so she recommended her to go to Signal Academy in Patch to further her goal, which she hesitantly accepted since her best friend would probably not be there.

She was surprised to find when she got there her best friend who also decided to become a huntress like her, once again inspired by Artoria but kept it secret from her. This delighted Artoria since it means that she can look after her and also not be alone in the new school.

Here, in Signal, is where she created her signature weapon, a cross between a longsword, backpack, and DJ set, combining two of her passions into one magnificent contraption. It was also here that she could finally test is her training has paid off, which has and more. She also formulated her very own fighting style in this school along with her best friend.

When the two graduated, they set out for Beacon Academy. Artoria was accepted but her best friend was not sadly, but still gave her best wishes to her close friend to go for it. Artoria didn't feel like doing it however, since her only friend isn't coming, so she instead waited until her best friend was able to find one, which she would then enroll in. That school was Haven Academy.