Cheng Leclerc

"Time is a fickle thing."

- Cheng Leclerc

Appearance
Cheng Leclerc looks like a young huntress not a day older than 25, standing just over six feet in her heels. She wears her hair over her right shoulder to a little below her shoulder, with two shorter pieces that fall on her forehead. Her neck has a very distinguishing black mark above the left collarbone in the shape of her emblem.

Her battle equipment consists of a thin tactical vest with pouches across the abdomen, exterior plate on the chest, a corset style fastener on the back, and protection for Level 3 dust and physical weapons (fireballs, high powered rifles, etc) over a form fitting combat shirt with sleeves ending just above the wrist. Cheng wears a knife on her left shoulder and a grappling hook on the left wrist as well as fingerless gloves on both hands. Her pants have highlights on the inner thigh and are complimented with a belt and cloth concealing ten kunai attached with loops to her left hip. She wears plain boots with decorative straps on the back and two and a half inch heels.

Her casual outfits include a light jacket with pants pair and a black dress with orange highlights and asymmetric split down the front midway between the knee and hip.

Personality
Cheng speaks in flowing but short sentences and avoids talking to people that do not need her attention or help her further her own ends, but is still willing to help those she does meet as long as they do not attempt to establish a long standing relationship.

She is empathetic towards any companions but sometimes comes off as sardonic when people come to a loss for words and pause in the middle of a conversation. Cheng hates being asked about her past to the point of going by the name Jian in every day life and only revealing her true name and title to those who she believes deserve the truth.

Cheng is often prone to staring at sunsets and wandering off for hours on end to look at something that interests her.

History
Born in Mistral soon after the end of the Great War, Cheng was raised in an agreeable household with her parents and younger brother, Hui Leclerc.

She discovered her semblance at a young age and was quickly whisked off by the Mistral government to be part of their military under the Special Operations Command. Cheng and her partner, Raiden Liu, became good friends and even began growing romantically involved with one another over the course of their training. They were quickly put to work clearing Grimm out and doing other "off the books" activities.

At the age of 25, Cheng was assigned a mission to retrieve a vial of Aura enhancing liquid that was rumored to have been developed by Atlas and assassinate all personnel involved in the project. Raiden and Cheng deleted all the data regarding the miracle drug but spared the scientist leading the project. On the return trip, the pair was attacked by several beowolves followed quickly by a squad of Atlas specialists and were soon suppressed and mortally wounded after killing the beowolves and two of the specialists. Raider was killed in the fight, leading the gravely injured Cheng to the decision to inject herself with the entire vial, a lethal dose, in the hopes that it would render the contents impossible to reuse. Her body was quickly consumed by the liquid and the blast from the reaction froze everything in a half mile radius to the instant of detonation. Cheng woke to find herself alive and well without any of her equipment intact and the bodies of the two remaining specialists staggered back in a permanent look of shock. She quickly donned the clothes of one of the dead specialists and ran to her brother's apartment in the town nearby carrying Raiden's body.

The brother and sister buried Raiden in the cemetery with an unmarked gravestone. There she remained, knowing that her commanding officer would discharge her for disobeying orders if she ever returned. After a few years she realized she wasn't aging anymore and that her Aura had increased massively. This revelation followed quickly by the death of Hui's wife angered her brother who cast her out in a fit of rage.

Cheng adopted the name Jian and became a wanderer, helping those in need and keeping no lasting relationships in fear of inciting the kind of reaction she received from her brother.

Weapons:
Lune: a DMR that transforms into a Chinese style Jian. It is worn over the back and will tilt towards the drawing arm to allow for the blade to be drawn from the back.

The DMR form is 44 in long and the sword form has a 30 in blade. It is white and dark gray with orange highlights and an orange tourmaline in the hilt. The sword can be single or dual wielded but must be inside the sheath to actually fire.

Lapin: a PDW that breaks down into a box thetis worn on the back of the hip. Its handle has buttons on either side that allow it to be drawn as a full sized carbine from the right side and a small pistol from the left.

Knives: Cheng wears a utility knife on her left shoulder. It has a gut hook and has a 9 inch blade. It is worn to be drawn with the right hand.

She also has ten kunai on her upper left leg. They can be configured to be inert or explosive, with loops in the base to allow for trip wires. Two put together can act as a shaped charge for blowing through walls or armor.

Abilities:
Cheng can slow down or halt the time flow of objects and people in combat, allowing her to seize any situation and assess her best course of action. This allows her to have lightning reflexes and seemingly teleport around her combatants.

She can also accelerate time, though this is much more taxing than the former use of her semblance. This allows her thawing knives to appear to travel much faster and allows her to heal wounds when necessary though this will also accelerate aging in the area of the wound as well so she usually chooses only to heal herself as she is naturally immune to that side effect. Accelerated aging also allows her to achieve extremely personal and draining executions by forcefully aging an enemy until they are too old to fight. However, this move will leave her exhausted as it drains most of her Aura.

Trivia

 * Cheng derives from the Chinese word for orange as well as the name of the moon goddess Chang'e.
 * Leclerc is from Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the famous French general.