Xanthia Esen

"Why would someone even rob a soft drink stand, what's even the point?"

- Xanthia Esen

Xanthia Esen
Xanthia Esen is the 17 year old leader of Team XNDW who is very adaptable to all situations, but a liar and easily manipulated. She comes from an average family with one deceased twin sister, Dym Esen.

Appearance
Xanthia has long, wavy golden-strawberry blonde hair that is hidden by a helmet that covers her entire face except for her eyes, which are a very deep shade of blue. She has a medium complexion and stands at an average height of 5' 5", and she weight 144 lbs. She's rather muscular compared to others.

Before FoB
Before the Fall of Beacon, Xanthia was normally clothed in a full armor set with a golden chestplate, shoulder plates, helmet, and leg plates; the rest of the armor was black. Her emblem was displayed on the chestplate.

After FoB
After the Fall of Beacon, her uniform had a multitude of adjustments. The once empty eye holes in her helmet had panels of a strange type of glass added. When Xanthia says a command, the panels recognize her voice and change to x-ray, nightvision, or thermal depending on the command she specifies. A button on her left palm allows the suit to recognize her surroundings and camouflage with them as well, although this does not work with her weapon, so it would have to be elsewhere when she camouflages.

Beacon Dance
At the Beacon Dance, Xanthia wore a yellow kimono with many flower designs scattered around the kimono. The obi was a deeper shade of yellow. Underneath the kimono, she wore a cream short sleeve shirt and black short shorts in case of a sudden attack. Her hair was tied in a double braided half crown, and she was wearing a long necklace with her emblem on the bottom.

Pajamas
To sleep, Xanthia is typically clothed in a gray nightgown that belonged to her sister, and black shorts underneath with her emblem on the sides.

Personality
Xanthia is alert and physically strong with an adaptable weapon and mind. However, this also causes her to be more prone to manipulation and lies, and she herself lies often about her current state and trust in others.

She hardly trusts anyone in the beginning, although she trusts most of their words, but this changes as life continues with her team, and she trusts and cooperates with them more. She never loses her alertness, though, which, after the Fall of Beacon, is increased, along with her intelligence.

She has a fear of heights that prohibits her from many activities and challenges the team faces. She beats herself up for it and desperately attempts to get rid of it, but learns to accept it later on.

In combat, she is a great leader and usually cooperates well with her team despite her lack of trust. She is aware of her surroundings and what she is facing, although sometimes memories snap at the wrong time and bring difficulty to the battle.

Semblance
Xanthia's semblance is Gravity Touch. This semblance allows her to remove the gravity from any object under 25 lbs that she touches. This does not apply to living things, even animals under 25 lbs, but in combat, she can stand on these small objects to boost herself, or levitate something to launch it at an opponent.

Applications

 * Stand on object/boost self off of object
 * Blocking eye contact with another person using an object
 * Launch/boost object towards opponent
 * Fight flying/levitating/higher ground level opponent

Limits
After using her semblance, whichever hand (or both hands) she used to levitate an object feels numb and trembles slightly. If she attempts to float an object over 25 lbs, her hand typically suffers immense pain, and it rarely works. An exception to that would be something 30 lbs, although it would still cause pain in her hand.

Before FoB
Xanthia's weapon was a small cube with a button on each side except for one, where there was a slot for dust crystals. The weapon was called Tekio Suru. The buttons morphed the object into multiple types of weapons; blue made it a shield, red made it a sword, green made it a pistol, yellow made it a bow with arrows that regenerated every 20 seconds, and purple made it a whip. The handles on each of the weapon choices had the same buttons to switch, plus one to make it a cube again. However, only the sword and pistol have dust slots in the handles of the weapons. She can also throw it at people, but she doesn't do that very often.

Dust Usages - Sword
Air: When the weapon was swung, a gust of wind would be sent through the air, normally knocking the opponent backwards.

Burn: The sword would glow red and burn anything it touches.

Lightning: An electric blue glow is emitted from the sword and it gives a severe shock to anything it touches. When swung, a wave of electricity would come from the weapon.

Water: Although not used often, water dust causes a small wave of water to come from the sword when swung. Xanthia uses this more for playing than battle.

Ice: Anything the sword comes in contact with is frozen if possible to freeze, and the weapon is pale blue.

Steam: Xanthia does not use Steam Dust with the sword.

Earth: Earth Dust brings a thick brown coating to the sword, making it stronger and harder.

Dust Usages - Pistol
Air: When a shot is fired, the shot is white and made of compressed air.

Burn: The bullet is on fire, literally, and explodes on contact.

Lightning: The bullet is surrounded by electricity, and shocks anything it comes into contact with, sometimes setting things on fire or exploding.

Water: The bullet is basically a water balloon. A miniature sphere of water splashes anything it comes into contact with.

Ice: The bullet leaves mist in the air and leaves a large ice mark in whatever it comes into contact with. Xanthia normally uses this to stick people in place by freezing their feet to the ground.

Steam: When Steam Dust is used, the bullet acts as a smoke bomb. Once it reaches something, a large cloud of thick smoke instantly forms, allowing her and her teammates to escape easier or trick others.

Earth: The bullet is brown and incredibly hard and thick.

After FoB
The weapon mainly stays the same, except Dawna Gronchi makes the attacks stronger, and the weapon's name is changed to Allagi.

Childhood
Xanthia was incredibly close with her twin sister, Dym, and whined when the two of them were seperated. At the young age of 8, however, the two had snuck out together in defiance of their parents. They had traveled to a cliff (not to do anything bad, mind you) and sat there for a while, staring over the edge. Still upset and angry, their negative emotions attracted Grimm, and a group of Beowolves attacked the twins, pushing Dym over the edge and giving Xanthia serious injuries. The cliff and death of her sister also gave her a fear of heights.

Their mother, Liadan, saved Xanthia and brought her to a hospital to recover. For the next few months, Xanthia had been deeply saddened, her grades dropping to their lowest. When she discovered her semblance, she became more determined and furious at Grimm and decided to look into the huntress career.

Her father, who used to be an incredibly talented huntsman, taught her strategies and information about Dust, Grimm, and weapons. As she learned, she became even more determined, and excelled at weapons and huntsman/huntress-related studies at school. Memories still haunted her life, though.

Enrollment
Only a week before graduating from Signal, Xanthia's parents had called Professor Ozpin to ask if she could go to Beacon Academy. Ozpin had asked to interview Xanthia, and once school had ended, she did so. She showed him her weapon and nervously expressed her enthusiasm about Beacon. Once Ozpin had dismissed her, he looked over her history and performance in school, and a few days later, a letter of acceptance was sent to her home.

Skills

 * Good fighter
 * Adaptable weapon
 * Understands semblance
 * Fairly intelligent
 * Understands quickly
 * Physically strong
 * Very alert

Weaknesses

 * Nervous
 * Manipulated easily
 * Liar
 * Fear of heights
 * A bit too alert
 * Doesn't trust others easily
 * Sometimes has hallucinations/visions of bad memories

Dym Esen
Xanthia's deceased twin sister, Dym, was someone who she used to be incredibly close to and did not like being separated from. She sometimes sees her sister in young children or when she is fighting an opponent who's frightened, and whenever she looks down from a large height, she sees her sister and herself at the bottom.

Liadan Esen
Liadan Esen is Xanthia's mother, who saved her from a near-death experience at the age of 8 and took her to the hospital for her injuries. Although not the best huntress, Liadan was a great teacher, and helped Xiantha understand things she was having trouble with.

Blanford Esen
Blanford Esen is Xanthia's father. He taught her most of what she knows about weaponry, Dust, and Grimm, and helped her through the trouble of her sister's death more than anyone else did. He is the main reason why Xiantha wants to be a huntress.

Nitesh Amiksh
Although she denies it, Xanthia has a mild crush on Nitesh Amiksh, who she worked with in the Emerald Forest and is on a team with. However, Nitesh does not return her feelings, which, although she has never stated, are rather obvious.

Dawna Gronchi
Dawna Gronchi is one of Xanthia's teammates and is a very close friend of her. They talk to each other more than the others, and Xanthia trusts more quickly than the rest of her team.

Davy Wither
Davy Wither is another teammate who Xanthia respects and admires. Although her skills are superior, she refuses to admit this, as Davy is an incredibly good manipulator and is a genuinely nice guy.

Quartz Limpyd
Although on another team, the two get along well and talk to each other commonly. They like to tease each other and are fairly comfortable with one another's presence. Although the others on team XNDW ship them, there is no romantic affection... for now. I really haven't decided this whole thing yet--

Matsuko Hayashi
Despite Team BBGM being disbanded, Matsuko Hayashi was a friend of Xanthia's, and was the one who designed her Beacon Dance kimono. As Team BBGM became more distant, their friendship began to fade away.

Quotes
"I've never been to a dance, so I'm just going to follow you guys."

- Xianthia Esen "I don't care if you join them, but I don't want to clean that mess up, so I'm leaving."

- Xiantha Esen, food fight ".....team."

- Xianthia Esen "Sometimes, it's not hands that are stained with blood, it's minds."

- Xianthia Esen "I want to say 'nice try', but was that the best you could come up with, really?"

- Xianthia Esen

Trivia

 * Despite the gray theme of her family, Xanthia's color is yellow--more precisely, xanthic, which means "colored with some tint of yellow".
 * Tekio Suru is Japanese for "to adapt".
 * Allagi means "change" in Greek.
 * Her sister's name, Dym, is pronounced as "dim" and means, well, not bright. Dym's color was dark gray.