Phoena Alumina

Appearance
Phoena is an eagle faunus with large golden wings. She dons bright blue eyes and long red hair lightened by streaks of blonde. Her battle attire consists of a short royal purple base with lavender decal kimono and thigh length leather boots.

Personality
Due to her past, she is a very strong and outspoken individual. She has no patience for injustice and the suffering of others. On the flip side, she has extreme difficulty letting others into her life, as she is too shattered on the inside to trust anyone not to hurt her more than she is already. Because of her being berated for her flaming incident 11 years ago, she is ashamed of her faunus heritage. Although she can't hide her giant wings, she is often seen apologizing for not just her mistakes, but the identity of her ancestors. She is confident in combat, often surveying the battle ground at the very start, but she lacks such self-esteem in her own life. Maybe one day she will be able to put her own pieces back together and look up in the mirror and flash her first sincere smile since the death of her brother.

Backstory
Phoena first discovers her fire power by burning down the house at the age of six. Her father dies in this accident. Her mother holds resentment towards her from the loss of her husband and physically and emotionally abuses Phoena as a result. Her brother, Blaz, being three years older stood against their abusive mother in an effort to protect Phoena. For years it seemed like a temporary solution, but one fateful day four years later, their mother beat Blaz a little too severely. And he did not recover. Days later, police arrived at the house and took Phoena's mother away in handcuffs. She was to spend the rest of her life in prison. Phoena was, in turn, taken to an orphanage and spent the next several years bouncing from foster home to foster home, never finding the proper shelter and care she so desperately needed. While displaced in a foster home, she would often run the streets, picking up useful real life skills, often focusing around survival. She quickly took up arms and began sparring with others, whom she later considered great distractions from her much deeper problems. At the age of 17, she was deemed too old to be cared for by the orphanage and was kicked out. As she never considered this building a proper home, she took this news with a smile on her face and a kick in the right direction. The next day, she applied to Beacon Academy.

Weapon
RememBrinnan A urumi sword laced with dust that poisons those it cuts. It is capable of straightening out to become a longsword. When out of combat it rests as the belt to Phoena's kimono.

Phoena holds mastery over the element of fire. She can conjure it at the snap of her fingers, but chooses only to do so as a last resort. It is unknown just how powerful her semblance is, but it is certain to be destructive.

Her aura has no deflective properties, so in that aspect it is weak; however it instantly disintegrates any wood based object that touches skin over her vital organs (arrows, quarter staffs, etc.). All non-severing wounds are healed nearly instantly. Her aura is always visible; it varies in intensity with her emotions but always manifests as a flame surrounding her.

It is unknown if Phoena has mastered the ability of flight yet.

Trivia/Author Notes

 * Phoena meaning purple, mystical bird; and Alumina meaning the basis substance of such gems as ruby, sapphire, and amethyst. "Lumina", the source of the name, is the Latin word for "light".