Elysia Byrd

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Elysia Byrd is an original character by KyranKandosa2 for his Silver Moon Chronicles fan story. Elysia is a member of Team BEAR, and is partners with her fraternal twin sister, Adena Byrd.

Appearance:
Elysia has an slim figure and athletic body with aquiline facial features. Her eyes are an rich dark blue, and her page-boy style hair is a golden blonde. For civilian attire, she wears an pair of knee-high grey boots, white pants, a yellow shirt and belt, and electric blue headband. For her combat gear, Elysia dons an electric blue jacket with pockets on the short sleeves. She also wears an grey combat harness on top of the jacket, fitted with pouches and hardpoints for her backpack, and a utility belt/fanny pack. She also wears grey thigh pouches to carry extra gear.

Elysia's formal attire is an longsleeved dress with an skirt down to mid-calf. The sleeves start widening into bell bottoms at the elbow. The skirt and lower sleeves are made with three layers, each longer than the one above it, and the last is segmented to give the appearance of feathered wings. The elbow-length mantle has an identical design, with an beaked hood. The feathers are embroidered with gold borders and flames. Opera gloves and leggings are also worn, as is a choker necklace with a cloth band and a gold pheonix pendant. An gold circlet, waistlet, and bracelets for the ankles, wrists, and upper arms are also worn, with the bracelets being decorated with feather charms. The dress and mantle are electric blue with white feathers.

Weapons:
Bolt: Thunder:
 * Weapon: Dual Dust Projector Gauntlets
 * Type: Dust, Ranged, Melee
 * Weapon Derivation: Gauntlets, Flamethrower
 * Description: Bolt is an pair of spike-knuckled gauntlets with a built in Dust projector. The Dust projector's nozzle is on the palm, with the main mechanism on the inner forearm. It is fed by a belt of Dust cartridges just below the elbow. Elysia prefers to load hers with Lightning Dust. The gauntlets can discharge Dust as a flamethrower-like device, or to fuel Elysia's electrokinesis.
 * Weapon: High Caliber Sniper Rifle
 * Type: Ranged
 * Weapon derivation: GM6 Lynx Semi-Auto .50 BMG Bullpup
 * Description: Thunder is an heavy-caliber sniper rifle capable of destroying lightly armored vehicles, built with a bull-pup configuration. It uses 5-round magazines, with an ready-mag slot in front of the primary grip. It can deploy a bipod, and the barrel can retract when compact mode is selected, allowing for easier storage. Thunder is typically holstered magnetically on the side of Elysia's backpack. True to it's name, Elysia typically loads Thunder with Lightning Dust.

Notable equipment:
Elysia wears an semi-mechanized backpack designed to holster Thunder on either side, and dispense spare magazines from the bottom. The backpack loads 3 rows of four clips, for a total capacity of 60 rounds.

Semblance:
Elysia's Semblance is Electrokinesis. Though unable to generate it on her own, Elysia can manipulate electricity. She uses it to execute ranged area attacks and enhance her melee capabilities by generating electrically charged strikes and blocks, as well as wreathing herself in lightning. She can also redirect the path of electricity to protect her allies. The energy cost increases with distance and the amount of electricity being manipulated.

Abilities:

 * Electric resistance: Due to her Semblance, Elysia is effectively immune to electric shocks.
 * Dancing: Like her sister Adena, Elysia picked up dancing as a hobby to practice her Semblance as performance art.
 * Cooking: Elysia has been taught how to cook by her father, and is a competent chef.
 * Management: Another set of skills taught to her by her father, Elysia is adept at organization and other traits needed for running a business.
 * Electric Armor: Elysia can wrap herself in an shell of electricity to discourage close-in attacks and intimidate opponents, though it costs a lot of energy to use.
 * Martial Arts: Elysia fights with a fighting style similar to Jeet Kune Do, relying on explosive movements to surprise and overwhelm her opponents with speed.
 * Intelligence: Elysia is good at using pieces of data to deduct the nature of a situation and reconstruct events, making her effective at intelligence analysis and strategy.
 * Mechanical engineering: Elysia's youthful experimentation with electricity has given her a modicum of experience in the workshop, allowing her to at least assist her friends with their engineering projects.

Battle style:
Elysia typically opens up a fight with Thunder and tries to stay out of her opponents' rang, hoping to make full use of her sniper rifle to deliver heavy blows and quickly take down more threatening enemies. When she can't maintain her distance, she switches to Bolt and uses her Semblance to unleash area attacks and try to force her opponents to retreat. When melee combat is forced, she tries to supplement her strikes with her Semblance, bypassing the opponent's armor to damage them. She will also use more pinpoint strikes as needed to stun enemies and open them up to being finished by her teammates, and is relied on heavily during engagements where capture or otherwise subduing an foe is preferred to killing them.

Personality:
While her sister Adena was preoccupied with fire and heat, Elysia was equally fascinated by electricity, occasionally tinkering to make devices with which to experiment with electricity. This more intellectual bent is also seen in that she is a heavy reader of mystery novels, enjoying the suspense of trying to puzzle out the plot as it develops. Like her sister, Elysia tends to be energetic and friendly, though she strikes with all the speed of her lightning when roused to anger. Her ability to make connections between pieces of information makes her good at figuring people out, though she also tends to go off on tangents at times.

Backstory:
Elysia was born to Fenix and Raven Byrd. Fenix is the owner of an restuarant in Vale, the Byrd House, while Raven was a Huntress and cousin of Albert Snowden. Raven entered semi-retirement to help raise her children, teaching them what she could about being a Huntress, first for their own protection, and eventually as future Huntsmen and Huntresses. Fenix taught them about cooking and business management. Their brother, Griffin Byrd, was born when they were three years old. The children took jobs in their father's restuarant as they grew old enough, eventually becoming performers when Fenix had an stage built in the Byrd House so they could show off their Semblances and entertain the guests while they practiced using their powers. They also took to sparing with their cousin, Richard Snowden. Eventually, they enrolled in Signal Academy, where they performed above average, though not overly exceptional, due to their previous training. Signal is also where they built more refined versions of their gauntlets, as well as their secondary weapons. After this, they enrolled at Beacon Academy.

Trivia:

 * Elysia's first name means Lightning, while her last means Bird. Together, they reference the mythic Thunderbird.
 * Elysia's color reference is white, yellow, and stormcloud grey, all colors associated with the rainbringing Thunderbird of Native American legend.
 * Elysia's formal attire is modeled after the Armor of Altair outfit in Assassin's Creed.