Eudesmé Pedirka

Appearance
Eudesmé has dark skin and wide hazel eyes. She's short and leans a bit toward the heavier side, as is expected of the Koala Faunus, though she istoned after years of training to become a huntress. She has a pair of huge grey koala ears on top of her head and often cuts the hair on it to keep it at a professional, manageable length. Since graduating, she has begun typing her long grey hair into a bun and wrapping a braid around it.

Weapons
Eudesmé's weapons are Pressure Triggered Dust Claws (PTDC). When unactivated, Eudie appears to be wearing two or three rings on each of her fingers except the thumb. The ring closest to her hand appears to have a small inch-long claw sticking out from it. In order to activate the claws, Eudie has to squeeze her hands into fists - a maneuver that is largely imperfect, and has caused her weapons to activate at impractical times to say the least.

When activated, the claws extend to their full length at 12 inches. To deactivate, Eudie has to press the small compartments at the base of each lower ring. As the claw re-enters the compartment it collapses in order to fit.

The claws have a small divot on the side facing her fingers, which prevents her from accidentally cutting herself on a claw if she extends her fingers. The area could also be filled with a specially-cut chunk of dust, which allows her attacks to have more impact, but the cost of getting specially cut dust isn't worth it, so Eudie mostly bypasses that function.

Semblance
Eudesmé's aura is pitch black.

She actually made her name in part due to her semblance, called Somnium. Using a type of wind magic, Eudie is able to lift copious amounts of dirt, sand, or dust (the natural kind, of course) and channel it toward a single target or a wide area with mixed results. The idea being that the particles temporarily blind the opponents and/or send the opponent to their knees, allowing the team to strike.

She carries two small pouches full of sand on her hips in case she fights in an cleaner area, or in a battleground-type arena.

A concentrated shot using Somnium is almost assuredly going to force the character to be blinded. It can reach much further than a wide attack, ~30 feet, though the further the debris goes the less of an impact it will ave on the target due to possible diffusion in the air.

A wider shot can expand about ~20 feet on either side of Eudie and ~10 feet ahead, allowing her to strike multiple enemies at once. This is better when she is clearly outnumbered, the draw being that the particles are less concentrated and as a result the targets are incapacitated for a shorter time.

Background
Many rumors surround Eudesmé and her mother - and she finds that downright hilarious. Growing up, the most popular theory was that Eudesmé was a synthetic faunus, built to cure her mother's loneliness. Camellia Karla was a recluse, having seemingly never left her house for several years since moving into their neighborhood in Vale. What the others did see of her - if anything - was short, choppy brown hair, matted and greasy. Wild eyes and long black nails. The kids on the block would often call her a witch and attempted to ding-dong ditch her nearly every Halloween to prove their bravery. They never received an answer.

According to Camellia Karla, who rarely spoke to anyone other than her daughter, Eudesmé was the product of an affair between herself and Cedar Arylide, who was supposedly a high-ranking member of the White Fang. He often led Faunus protests in Vacuo, which was Camellia Karla's native kingdom. She'd attempted to send him letters to talk about their daughter, but they were almost always returned by the postmaster about a week later. As a result, the families still doubted the existence of her father and continued gossiping behind her back.

Eudesmé decided to become a huntress after meeting a team of huntsmen during her last year of regular school- their objective was to inform kids of Signal Academy, as they were reaching the age for enrollment. She noticed that all the kids seemed to like these people, and in turn the people liked them despite the fact that they always seemed to be bullying her or her mother. She decided that the best way to get the proper recognition was to become a huntress.

Years later, she was enrolled in Beacon as the leader of Team EBNY alongside Bruna Valentine, Nella Maius, and Yolanda Sheridan. Halfway through their senior year at the academy, Bruna Valentine was forced to leave the school in order to attend court after being convicted of reckless behavior and the endangerment of the kingdom alongside her father and his associates. Without Bruna, the team worked harder to fill her shoes until they all graduated. Eudesmé and Nella, partners in Beacon, applied to becomes official Huntresses. Yolanda was originally to be part of the group, however at the second she disappeared - leaving a message for Nella that simply said she was going to Mistral with her fiancee. Bruna was released and forced to spend an additional year at Beacon.

The two work well together, however tensions have grown higher between the two. Eudesmé recently recieved word that her mother went looking for Cedar again and wound up joining the new order of the White Fang in an attempt to get in his good graces, seemingly unaware of the great change the faction underwent in the past five years. Some huntsmen are making bets on when the last members of Team EBNY will finally split apart.

Trivia

 * Eudesmé's name:
 * Eudesmé: A portmanteu of 'Eudesmia', a scientific term for the Eucalyptus plant, and the name ' Esmé ', meaning 'esteemed' or 'loved.
 * Pedirka: From the Pedirka Desert, located in Australia.