Esmeralda Semilla

Esmeralda is a 18 year old second year at Beacon academy who finds herself living the life of a huntress and Pop Idol.



Appearance
Esmeralda looks like your typical 18 year old; young, beautiful, kinda cutsie. She has white hair with a very light white green tint, styled in a medium length which spreads at the bottom, the top curving upwards somewhat. She has somewhat tan skin, which on her face is matched by her large brown eyes. She has a short but small figure, only having an A cup size and being 5ft even.

Her attire starts with her earrings, which are shells of seeds carved into diamond shapes. She wears a white short sleeved shirt which is ruffled somewhat low collar, along with a pair of light brown mid-thigh shorts, and two inch wedges. On her forearms she wears clip holders to hold spare clips for Earth's Support Beams. Over this she wears Steel Curtains, her speciality Gravity Dust infused jacket. The jacket hangs on the top of her shoulders, coming down to below the ruffles of her shirt while the lower torso hugs her. The sleeves hang down four inches below her fingertips, with the sleeves being wide at the bottom and narrowing as they go up. The jacket has designs of the Diamond suit and earthly symbols. The bottom of the sleeves are steel gray along with the back up the elbows of the sleeves.

Personality
Esmeralda isn’t your typical girl. As a school idol, one would think she is sweet, innocent, friendly, and maybe even cute. She can be all these things, though she does have a bit of a bad side. She is a bad girl at heart, loving to cause some mischief from time to time, whether it be in battle or off the stage. When she is not embracing her inner self, Esmeralda is nice, fun to be around, and can be very feminine. She can be very patient as well, due to her love of sewing.

When she is in battle Esmeralda loves to sink to her bad girl ways, being brutal to grimm and toying with her human enemies. She enjoys dishing out the pain, and loves to dive first in on Solo stuff. Due to her being an Idol, she understands the pro’s of working together, and tries to bring it to her battle style.

Weapons and Abilities
Earth’s Support Beams: Esmeralda's primary weapon, which are a pair of semiautomatic pistols modeled after the M1911 that transform into collapsible batons. The baton form are 22 inches in length with extending. The pistol form uses .45 ACP gravity dust rounds with a clip size of 7 bullets per magazine.

Steel Curtains: specialty made shirt with sleeves that go past her fingertips for four inches. The collar (about 5 inches from the end) and the backside up to the elbows (three inches) of the Sleeves are imbued withGravity dust, which Esmeralda can activate with her aura. When she activates the dust, it will gain a gravitational pull to the other dust, causing the sleeve ends to flatten and sleeve-backs to for an edge, which stiffen to the toughness and sharpness of a steel katana. This essentially makes the dust imbued areas into blades for melee use in battle as long as she applies aura to them.

Esmeralda has not discovered her semblance yet, but has unlocked her aura and can use it efficiently, such as enhanced senses and to activate dust clothing. Her Aura is white with a green hue.

Backstory
Esmeralda Semilla was born in Vacuo to a large family. She was the middle child of her five sisters. Being the middle child meant she was looked over easily, but she was still seen as important. Being home schooled for most of her life, she was raised learning to read and write by her mother and older sisters. Esmeralda also learned how to sew at a young age, as well as sew dust clothing for the family business.

Being the middle had it’s benefits; Esmeralda wasn't the first picked to do chores or to run errands, but it did mean she was looked over a lot. She felt like she didn't get enough attention and began to act out to gain attention. It helped, and through this she gained a inner bad girl personality. Esmeralda’s parents and older siblings didn't appreciate this, and advised her stop. Despite their warnings, she continued to act out and cause mischief. She did for two or three years till she realized that her younger sibling were starting to copy her. She tucked the badgirl side away for the better, making sure to act nice and good around her sisters.

A few more years passed and after working in the family business, Esmeralda was given the opportunity by her parents to attend a real school. She was a bit curious why she was offered the opportunity, and her parents explained that her older sisters wanted to continue the family business, so they would give her a choice. After alot of thinking, Esmeralda happily accepted, feeling this to be one of the happy times her parents noticed her specifically. Within the next few months, she was attending combat school.

Over the next four years Esmeralda trained at combat school, learning how to fight grimm and save the world. Over those years she found her fighting style to be upclose, and when it came time to craft weapons she crafted two; a pair of pistol batons and specially wove dust clothing. She was skilled in the technique and was able to create something that would fit her style of fighting and design. She took what she had and became one with upclose and mid range. However she was never able to find her semblance, no matter how much she practiced and trained. One of Esmeralda’s teachers said it will come in due time, and she just took the teachers word.

When it came time for graduation, Esmeralda was given a choice in what school to go to. She couldn't decide and decided to talk it over with her parents. Her parents and siblings told her that staying close to home would be nice, and Haven was a good school. Esmeralda saw a chance though, and decided to take it. She decided to go to a academy outside of Vacuo and in the process help her family by spreading the family name around Remnant. She eventually decided to go to Vale and attend Beacon academy, where she applied and was accepted. In her first year she joined Team MUSE with three other girls. Now she’s in her second year

Trivia

 * Esmeralda is partly allusioned to the diamond suit of the minor arcana tarot card; Diamonds (or pentacles) stand for Merchants and material possesion.
 * Esmeralda is also partly allusioned to the element of earth, which is somewhat present in weapon design but more present in her appearance.
 * Her first name, Esmeralda, is a reference to a type of wine called esmeralda wine, which is a white wine.Her last name, Semilla, is spanish for “seed” which is typically green or brown in color.
 * Esmeralda’s weapons, Steel Curtains and Earth;s Support Beams, both have references to parts of a stage that would be used by an idol. Steel Curtains refers to the curtains on a stage and metal found in the earth. Earth’s Support Beams refers to the columns that hold the top part of a stage where lighting and props are hung, as well as mentioning earth as the element.