Vienna Stahlern

"'I will not hesitate to put you in a cast, taking out your teeth is the least I can do.'"Team: VYPR (Pronounced “Viper”)

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Height: 5’10”

Weight: 152lbs

Hair: Dark Brown

Eyes: Ice Blue

Appearance:
Vienna is most remarkable for her facial features and the miraculous way in which they are set to perpetual dissatisfaction. Her looks would, under most circumstances, be regarded as slightly above average, round cheeks, button nose, soft lips, and lightly tanned skin. Her expression of those features however, turn tantalizing into terrifying. Her mouth is always turned slightly downward and her knife sharp eyebrows tend to match. Last but certainly not least are her eyes. The ice blue irises are flecked with black and seem to smolder with perpetual cold anger. Her lair is a luscious dark brown that curls gently past her slim shoulders. The wholesome color of her hair is slashed with a streak of bone white that cuts through the left side of her head. Her figure is strong but not overly muscled, the product of many years of hard work that naturally built her up over time. Her figure is slim but by no means boyish, anyone to tell her otherwise would end up picking their teeth up off the floor. Her arms are strong and end in a pair of hands well worked from years of ax swinging. Her hands are not huge, but are more than big enough to pin your neck against a wall.

Her outfit is a little out of place in the modern world of Remnant, but very few huntresses stay in stile anyway. It seems a little like something you would find in an alpine village just as the industrial revolution was hitting the rest of the world. Obviously someone forgot to pass on the word that fashion had evolved. Her outfit comes in mostly one piece: a black combat skirt with white frills and a berry blue apron connected to a black corset with a white blouse underneath. She wears white stockings and the only piece that doesn’t really seem to match are a pair of black leather woodsman’s boots. The outfit is functional in both combat and civilian life. Her haven uniform is worn plainly and cleanly. Vienna keeps her weapon strapped plainly across her back.

Personality:
As one could probably guess, Vienna has a bit of a temper. Her fuse is shorter than a toothpick is wide and when she goes off she really goes off. This leads to a couple of unfortunate habits that include knocking people’s teeth out and pinning them to walls by their necks. However, when you get around these slight issues, Vienna can be a really nice person. She tries really hard to be cheerful and friendly but has a little bit of a hard time doing it. In making friends, she tries really really hard time, her terrible case of resting bitch face doesn’t help either. She’s active in conversations and often starts them up herself. Deep down, she’s a very good leader, she just gets distracted sometimes and… breaks stuff. When she does get a friend she clings tightly to them and does her very best to keep them safe. To hurt a friend is to do ten times as worse to her. Her friends tend to be those who she has a hard time getting angry at and are people who have enough brains to stay out of her way when she’s mad. She also depends on her friends to keep her in check when she goes too far or hold her back when necessary.

Vienna’s inclinations can mostly be described as chaotic good. She destroys a lot of stuff, but with good intentions. She does her best to remain on the straight path and works tirelessly to help those in need. She is fiercely loyal to her allies and would never consider being a turncoat. In her eyes a traitor is the worst scum of all. Vienna also holds the very basic moral ideal of give and take. She keeps close track of those to whom she is indebted and those who have done her well. This also results in her holding some incredibly strong grudges, the word mercy has no meaning in her life. In general, she lives with a lot of absolutes, it’s good or bad, and it’s protected or destroyed.

Weapons and Abilities:
Vienna’s one and only weapon is called the ''Zorn Faust, ''a 9mm sub-machinegun with a very high rate of fire that can transform into a long handled battle ax with a long flat blade on one side and a square hook on the other. This weapon is good at medium and close range. The 9mm bullets come in short bursts that can chew up wood or maybe even concrete after sustained fire. The device is held tight to the body with the trigger before the clip within a large guard. With a short barrel, it is made for close quarters combat and is used for firepower not accuracy. The blade form is all about power. With a long handle it comes in long wide swings. With her significant strength and training, Vienna can wield the weapon with speed and accuracy. Her hook is used to lock weapons and throw opponents while the main blade can be used in a full swing to cut through upwards of four inches of steel. Vienna has no reservations about briefly switching to hand-to-hand if the moment suits her.

Vienna’s aura manifests as a cold dark blue. It provides her with a strong defense and extra endurance. Her semblance is simply known as Wrath. The semblance converts anger directly into physical strength without any detectable threshold. The semblance is completely passive and therefore takes affect at all times. As Vienna becomes more and more enraged she becomes enveloped in white and blue, immaterial flame and the white steak in her hair becomes a darker and darker shade of blue. Whether or not her semblance correlates to her short temper is unknown although it definitely creates some more bizarre effects when she does become angry. When Vienna is truly enraged, she takes up almost a completely different personality and loses the majority of her control. The three downsides to this are that, first of all, it can’t be turned off. This has a lot of easily foreseeable consequences. Second is as she gains strength she becomes less and less able to control it. This too results in a lot of easily foreseeable consequences. Lastly, as her strength and endurance increase there is no change in her physical durability. This means that even with her aura she can potentially injure herself with her own attacks. At the height of her rage she could shatter concrete with a punch, but she could potentially shatter all the bones in her hand at the same time.

Backstory:
Vienna was born in the mountains of Southern Mistral in a small village that occupied itself primarily with the lumber industry. Her mother was the daughter of the local tavern keeper and would eventually inherit the tavern. Her father was a traveling hunter of somewhat mysterious origins who was hired to help exterminate a pack of beowolves that had moved into the area. He worked under an alias and continued to do so for all the time in which Vienna knew him.

Her parents never married and her father eventually moved on. He occasionally visited afterward to contribute funds and assist in the raising/training of Vienna. Eventually, Vienna’s mother married someone else and as a result her father stopped showing up. With her new husband, Vienna’s mother had a second daughter. Vienna’s father has vaguely alluded to possibly having other children.

Vienna’s village, being outside the kingdom, was filled with competent fighters and largely defended itself. The old saying “it takes a village” held much sway in Vienna’s childhood and she still considers every resident of her home town to be close family. The village largely raised her in its own image. Her childhood was split between study, play, and chopping lumber. Although her academic schooling my not have been top notch she eventually left home with a wealth of life skills. In addition to training as a woodsman she received practical combat training. Her training was largely managed by two hunters who had come to settle in the village and build a life there, although the entire village knew how to fight and she received tips from all around. Her weapon is standard equipment for every villager of fighting age and she saw no reason to develop something of her own.

Vienna’s teen years involved a lot of attempting to find where she belonged. Mostly she tried to occupy herself with work. She acted as the bouncer in her mother’s tavern and chopped lumber as a day job. She got the nickname “One Swing V” as she took up the habit of felling trees in a single motion of her arms when in a particularly foul mood. Against the better advice of many of her elders Vienna enjoyed climbing the cliffs against which the village was built. She would often spend hours in a small alcove nearly three hundred feet off the ground when she needed quiet time.

The great coming of age moment of Vienna’s childhood came days before her seventeenth birthday. Vienna was having a simply horrible day. Life was just generally throwing crap in her face and a little after noon she became involved in an argument with her step-father. This led to an argument with her mother about her real father. Eventually, after storming out of the tavern she came across some boys of around her age tormenting her half-sister. For the first time in her life, Vienna experienced her blue flames. Between three boys there were seventeen broken ribs. That’s were things got bad. Her anger was apparently great enough to attract a swarm of Grimm larger than had ever attempted to attack the village before. At the head of the attack was a Nevermore, a Grimm thought to be exterminated from the area. Fortunately, no one died, but a good number of people were injured and the village sustained extensive damage. Some (including three boys with a lot of broken ribs) began to accuse Vienna as being the cause of the attack. They weren’t really wrong. As a result, Vienna decided it was time to leave the village. She packed up her personal belongings and her savings and made her way to the kingdom proper, determined to enter Haven. By becoming a huntress she hoped protect others and someday find her father.

Vienna’s great gambit succeeded and she was admitted into Haven academy. Here she was partnered with York Henry, a boy of remarkable understanding for her issues. They quickly formed friendship of amazing balance. To her great surprise, Vienna was made the leader of team VYPR. The beginning of her school year was fraught with conflict, but she survived. Her team formed an eventual alliance with team HMLK.

Trivia
Vienna comes from the Dutch word for "Forest Stream"

Stahlern is German for "Steel"

Zorn Faust is German for "Fist of Wrath"

Official colors are black and blue