Pallas

Cerise Alkha, better know by her alias Pallas, is a young woman in the employ of the Nightshade Private Military Company as a mercenary, and is one of the three Onyx Trio tasked as the personal subordinates of The Stranger.

Appearance
Pallas has medium-length medium-grey hair with white highlights. She tends to keep it tied up in a ponytail so as to keep it out of her way and to prevent it from getting caught in any of the mechanics of her goggles. She is of average height, with rather pale skin. Her eyes are a pale blue color, as is her aura.

The most striking part of her apparel would be the bulky goggles on her face. They obscure the majority of the upper section of her face, and have a quite mechanical appearance. There are dials above the lenses for the purpose of switching what they accomplish.

Apart from her goggles, she wears a tight-fitting dark grey suit that allows for a high level of flexibility and agility, and does not impair her movements. At her side, clipped onto her suit, is the baton which extends into her HVRS, Kratos.

Personality
Pallas is often calm and respectful whilst on the job or recieving orders, following orders to the letter and never raising her voice with her superior. She is often quiet, not speaking unless spoken to, and often not contributing to discussions.

When not on duty, she acts more carefree and outgoing, often being loud and friendly. This could be attributed due to her repressing her expressive side when she was young, and it's being made up for now.

She holds some measure of disdain for faunus, as she grew up with a family prejudiced against them, and the main event in her life involving faunus was their attack on a party she was attending.

Weapons and Abilities
Pallas' goggles are her main asset. Durable, lightweight, and quite versatile, they aid her in her goals of acquiring information for Nightshade. There are four different lenses that she can switch between: Normal lenses, with the added benefit of darkening to provide an effect similar to sunglasses; Telescopic, which can be further adjusted depending on how far or close a target is; Infrared, allowing her to pick out targets at nighttime and through surfaces based on their heats; and a lense allowing her to detect waves in the air, giving her the ability to see the transfer or emission of energy by a source.

In adition, should the need arise for combat, her primary weapon is a High Velocity Rail-Spear known as Kratos. In its compact form, it resembles a baton or a simple black rod, but when activated it extends into an electrically sharged spear. Kratos' third form is that of a railgun, which Pallas uses when a larger amount of force is required.

History
Pallas, born Cerise Alkha, was raised in a medium-wealth family in Vale. The middle of three children, her parent's didn't have much time for what she wanted, merely wishing her to act to their standards. They aimed for the goal of moving up in society, of joining the elite of the upper class, and to do so they must have the perfect children.

Cerise's father, who owned a small chain of businesses, was attempting to merger with another company and nearly double his income. For this aim, he decided to bring his family with him to a party to meet with the other businesses owner and cement the deal.

As the party neared its conclusion, a Faunus extremist group attacked the festivities. It was well-known that Cerise's father disliked the faunus, and that he often had them barred from shopping at his stores. Both families escaped without harm, but Cerise's father used the attack as leverage to incriminate the opposing family for an attempt to kill him off, and took over their business as a result of the bribes he had payed to the judge.

A few years after this event, Cerise, with no doubt in her mind that her parents were not good people, petitioned to be sent to a combat school. There, she explained, she could gain fame, power, and status, thus elevating the family. Her father, swayed by this argument, agreed, and she was shipped out.

She completed the majority of her years in combat school without incident and amongst the top of her classes, until, at the night of the graduation ceremony, she simply vanished. She never showed up for graduation, and no trace of her could be found. Furious, her father ordered a citywide search by the police and a small army of people he hired for the purpose, but to no avail - she was simply gone.

In reality, as opposed to moving on to Beacon as her parents had intended for her, she had been recruited by a mysterious masked man into a Private Military Company. He gave her her goggles and told her that from that moment onwards, her ties with her family were cut - she was no longer Cerise Alkha, the meek young girl who served her parents. She was Pallas of the Onyx Trio, an information-gatherer and mercenary.

She has gone on to serve him in a number of operations as well as continuing her training on her own, becoming far stronger than when she was when she graduated. Some in Nightshade speculate her to have some form of performance-enhancing substance given to her by the Stranger to explain her rapid growth in power.

Trivia

 * Pallas was a spear-toting Titan from Greek Mythology, often thought to be the Titan of warcraft
 * Kratos was the greek personification of Power, and one of the four sons of Pallas, alongside Nike, Bia, and Zelus