Tikba Jack Lantern

""Grimm? Mercenaries? Criminals? Who gives a crap about them! When compare to the Big Bad Witch of Hallow's Eve they don't stand a CHANCE!""

- Tikba expressing herself.

Tikba Jack Lantern is a member of Team SPRT.

Appearance
Tikba is known for wearing the usual witch get up. Her mid length black hair contains orange highlights that match her mix of Amber and orange color eyes. Tikba is about the average height for someone her age, 5'1" and weight, 125 lbs with a cross between pale and peach colored skin.

She wears a black colored witch hat with an intriquite gold design stampted on it almost looking like a magic circle. Her dress is mainly a white dress with a black jacket, the insides purple and orange. The black boots she wears are about thigh high, steel toed with intricate orange designs around the rim of her ankles and near the top of the boots.

Personality
These three words can sum up Tikba entirely: confident, optimistic, and above all else, clumsy. Despite her prideful and bright nature she has a tendency of screwing up quite often so needs someone to constantly watch over her. A handful in both personality and her spells.

She is also a tad greedy and a money grabber. She will do anything for money. Reason for being is that the moment she has money she needs to spend it on something, making her a compulsive buyer. As such her family has cut her off form her allowance and instead handles the money issues for school or things she absolutely needs and not wants. As such, because of the cut off, Tikba is slowly learning to work with money instead of buying everything she sees, but not fast enough. Her partner tends to look after her money issues.

Her parents own the training school Lantern Academy, and is well versed in its signature style of fighting and how to handle both Grimm and People. As such she is social and a friendly person, however first impressions mean a lot to her. You attack her friends, expect a horror lover to stalk you for the rest of your pathetic existence. You meant it as an accident, or on purpose and try to make up. You have a troll for the rest of the school year. She is not one to easily forgive people.

Even so, her determination is a key point of her personality. Her confident is not empty, a she has trained long and hard to be the person she is today. Even if she makes mistakes, she continues to try and improve herself, fully believing she can be a better 'witch' than most people think. Her confidence in herself is supreme.

She, like her partner, has a soft spot for children, and a talent for scaring people. She enjoys new things and loves to break the status quo for her own enjoyment. Because of this some call her a chaotic individual.

Backstory
Tikba comes from the Lantern family of huntsmen who own Lantern Academy Training School for huntsmen. From a young age she was taught the ways of a huntsman, her parents expecting her to continue the family legacy alongside her sister. Since she was young Tikba has had an odd fondness for anything considered to be scary due to her love of the horror genre.

One day when watching her older sister train, Tikba was introduced to dust. Seeing how her sister 'performed' with the 'magic' inspired her to try and learn how dust is used as well.

Team SPRT
Snow Klaus: Her partner in crime, the dashing hero whom rescued her when she took on a job (self employed) to destroy a pack of beowolves. After the display she decided to drag him with her back to the city to get him accepted into Beacon as her partner. At first Tikba found it hard to get Snow to open up, but she did manage to get the boy to 'warm' up to her, as she puts it.

Paddy O'Day: Paddy and Tikba have a lot of things in common but the main thing is, money. Both are stingy people that refuse to give money away but love to spend it on whatever they can. As such they get along nicely when they go out shopping, or planning pranks to play on students and teachers.

Rosen Valentine: If there is one thing she dislikes, its flirts. Why? Because her sister is a massive one and flirts usually come with trouble. Rosen is no exception as the first five seconds of a meeting, the boy was hitting on her...until he heard Tikba's sister was the Queen Halloween. Tikba's opinion remained the same, treat with distance since he flirts with anyone with curves. However, she will admit the boy is a rather adept sharpshooter and if needed she can rely on him to watch the rear guard.

Family
Tale Lantern: Tikba's older sister and the one who taught her how to best wield Dust. Tale and her have a love-hate relationship and will do nearly anything to one up the other. However, Tikba still greatly loves her sister, even if the woman gets on her nerves.

Abilities and Weapon
Abilities: Tikba is a quality over quantity type user of dust and yet mostly uses it to cause massive explosions and magical effects. She mostly uses Fire, Ice, Lightning/Electricity, and Gravity with her Semblance and weapon to accomplish certain effects, whether a flamethrower, ice bombs, lightning balls or flight.

Her other helpful trait to her team is her stamina. As being an active user of her Semblance, she has a rather startling amount of endurance and can take hits, uncommon to those of natural users of dust. Her speed, physical attacks are average along with her evasion but she more than makes up as a center guard, being able to help anyone at any time due to her wide range with her semblance and near mastery of her Aura. Her strength is average at best. While acrobatic and a good jumper and having excellent coordination and balance, she can't dodge forever and can be caught off guard with something shiny or something new enters her line of sight.

Besides that, Tikba is skilled in finding things. She loves telling fortunes and will use various techniques to do so, ranging from crystal ball gazing, jumping sticks or tarot reading. Tikba also possesses an ability to frighten people, whether for fun or intentionally, and these scare factors have been able to be particularly useful when dealing with people she doesn't like.

Semblance: Jack-o-Lantern. Her semblance allows her to materialize several spectral, cackling jack-o-lanterns. She can use these to crash into the opponent and cause explosions, but she also uses them to scare people around her just for kick. She can control several at a time, however she can fuse the projections to become a massive jack-o-lantern that can swallow things whole, ranging from living beings to non organic items, but the effects take place within the pumpkin before the lantern vanishes, it does not actually digest things. Another method of using them is with dust. Depending on the dust she uses, she can cause her spectral lanterns to have several effects:

Fire: Red dust causes the Jack-o-Lanterns to take on a flame like appearance, nearly looking like will-o-wisps and act as portable flamethrowers. They have fire pouring from their mouths and eyes as they float around waiting for order.

Ice: Cyan dust can cause the Jack O Lanterns to take on a bluish-white effect, and while appearing as crystallized pumpkins, they can still cause ice explosions to occur that could cover the area in ice.

Lightning: The lanterns turn white as they cackle from the electricity coursing through them. Lightning sparks from them and they can cause either paralysis or damage anything it comes into contact with.

Gravity: Can cause the person to collapse onto the ground indefinitely, more of a gravity bomb where everything is sucked in, can increase or lower gravity. Rarely ever used as the effects varies and Tikba doesn't have control over it. The Jack O Lanterns are only colored black, but their eyes and mouths glow orange continuously.

Weapon: Trick or Treat is Tikba's weapon, a Semi Automatic Dust Wand (SADW). The weapon contains a sturdy plastic cylinder/barrel in between the blades of the weapon with a hole to release crystallized pellet dust. The weapon can hold up to 12 thumbnail-sized pellets which can be ejected itno the crystal cylinder pumpkin at the top for spell casting, or the pumpkin head can open up to be used to fire the pellet either at an opponent, or at one of her spectral jack o lanterns to be eaten like candy for special effects to happen. The main form, beng the Athame/Wand mode is mostly used for activating dust in a spellcating type manner or self defenseshould she be forced into a close combat situation. Her Gun mode is activated when the handle of her gun is pushed down and the daggers cover the cylinder to reinforce it. The pellets are fired through an air compressor powered by a wind dust located within the handle that can be reloaded through the bottom of the handle. The pellets can be launched in either form due to the trigger but it is best to do so in gun mode as the pellet travels farther. In essance it functions like a paintball gun.

RPG Stats
Class:
 * Strength: C
 * Defense: C
 * Dust Usage: A+
 * Aura Usage: A
 * Dust Resistance: A+
 * Speed: C
 * Evasion: B
 * Luck: C
 * Intelligence: C+

Trivia

 * Tikba Jacky Lantern, when going by her nickname Jacky, references the Jack-o-Lantern and the color orange.
 * Tikba is Russian for pumpkin.
 * Tikba is a reference of Halloween and Witches, along with Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King and Avatar of Halloween from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
 * Kingdom Hearts was more than responsible for what kinds of magic she uses, having the same skillset as Jack does.
 * She has a hobby of telling fortunes, using various methods such as jumping candlesticks, tarot readings, or crystal ball gazing.
 * Tikba's weapon came to mind after a lengthy discussion with DarianNightshade, a look into Wiccan tools, and Ojamajo Doremi.