Kou Bakuren

 Kou Byakuren was born in to a family witch very quickly endorsed the new white fang’s ideals of violence, having been trained to at least defend herself since she was little, she had little issues following her family’s beliefs of the new white fang. Her weapon of choice is a Crossbow named Star's Fury and the blades silted in the side of the crossbow.







''' Appearance '''

 Kou Byakuren is about 5’ 6, has purple eyes and white hair. Often seen wearing a white trench coat with witch to hide her weapons out of old habits form being in the white fang also has a bandana which is most of the kept over her face to refrain from being easily identified by facial features. The pants she has on have several pockets witch keep dust crystals and different dust tipped cross bow bolts for varying purposes.

   

   

''' Personality '''

 Due to her time fighting alongside members of the white fang Kou is still very weary of most humans mainly out of fear. Other than that Kou Is mostly a open person, quite at first but opening up more the longer she knows or gets along with people. Mostly preferring quite places to be alone and enjoys reading. When in battle she becomes more open due to having to communicate with allies on the battlefield,  often keeping distance everyone but still close enough to call something out should the need arise. If approached by another faunus she will most likely be much more open and less wary than if approached by a human, but always trying to keep conversations to a minimum regardless.  

   

''' History '''

 Being born a faunus does not make life easy, even more so if you part of the white fang. The Byakuren family has been part of the white fang since the start being part of a large portion of the civil rights protests. Whenever a new leader rose to power in the white fang the family continued to support it, though its beliefs vastly changed still has support. Kou, being part of the white fang since she was young, participated in many attacks the white fang organized.

The Byakuren family used to have 5 members, Kou her parents and her brother and sister. One night the family was a woken by a blood curling scream, come to find out  it was her sister, who had died “under mysterious circumstances”. Kou reimbers hearing her sister speaking about how she did not approve of the new white fang’s use of violence. A large amount of the personal time Kou had was spent battling her own thoughts, where they truly fighting for peace, or to wipe a humans out and more importantly, who killed her sister? Of course she could not speak openly about this out of fear of discrimination or rejection by her family and friends or worse, sharing her sister’s fate.

When she was 14 she had made up her mind, she grabbed her coat and weapon, and ran away from home. She lived on the streets for about a year and a half until overhearing a conversation about signal, after forging a few papers and a conversation with the head master, she was in. After graduating from signal she applied for beacon the same was she joined signal, was accepted in and is now a first year student.

Kou still often goes to quite places like the Beacon library to wonder, did she make the correct choice or was it all misguided actions and paths? Kou’s decision to join beacon was mainly fueled by her want to redeem herself for the wrong she had done while in the white fang and perhaps vengeance on whomever it was that killed her sister.

   

''' Abilities and Fighting style '''

 Kou’s semblance enhances her vision allowing her to take more precise shots or scout ahead more so than most others.   

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Kou is a mostly offensive, mainly ranged and sacrifices armor for speed and mobility allowing hits to be avoided, but If hit with enough power hit  it would do more damage to her than it would to others due to having very light armor compared to most others. Though no expert at close range she is capable of holding her own against one foe anymore and she will resort to running to get to a better position to engage with Star Fury instead of trying close combat against mutable foes. Kou has a rope dart coil allowing her in one fluid motion to shoot the dart and use it to either gain a vantage point or distance from a foe. Kou learned most of her tactics form both her father and brother.

''' Trivia '''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Byakuren in Japanese is White Lotus