Brunhilde Engelnacht

"In the end, for all the things you've done for others, you're only interested in yourself."

Do not steal nor edit MY property. - Fiernull

Brunhilde is a heiress of the Engelnacht family, a branch family of the Bluthardt family. Her role is that of an intelligence agent and a deceiver with connections to both upper and lower classes in Vale. Although a family member, she shares no firm sense of loyalty like the other members.

Appearance
Whether she does it intentionally or not, Brunhilde's natural smile is described as predatory. Perhaps she found a new toy, an interesting person, or trying to seduce someone, or hellbent on restraining her impulsive mouth. With a black eye-patch over her lost right eye and a glinting lilac eye, these merely gave her the appearance of a temptress.

She has a loose long, silky hair with evenly-cut bangs hangs loosely on her forehead; it's color comparable to that of a very deep night. A glittering flower silver pin decorated her hair on the right side. Sometimes, her is tied in a ponytail by a red ribbon. She possess a slender body, nearly pale in color, with well-defined feminine traits enough to make her a candidate in modelling.

She dons a knee-length, black and white-themed dress with detached flutter sleeves, and black doll shoes. Though they appear plain at first look, they're all reinforced with layers of carbon nanotubes made by ArmorTech. One of her weapons, Todeskralle, are concealed under her sleeves.

For business reasons, Brunhilde wears dark red blouse- ones that emphasizes her chest- tucked into an above-knee black pencil skirt.

Her choice of accessories are all made of silver: necklace with an owl and a pair of small butterfly earings.

Background
Brunhilde was born and grew up in Vale for practical reasons. Her Atlesian mother, Yuzuki Yotsuba, was tasked by the head of the family to establish a footing in Vale to expand networks and create more sources of cash flow. Her father is Phlegethon Engelnacht, a former head of a “reformed” mafia family, whom her mother seduced and married as he had numerous connections at his disposal and a chance of redemption under Black Order Battalion. Another serious reason for her mother's actions was to find traitors lurking in the organization's Vale branch. (w/c led to this rp)

At the age of four, she had started her training as a proper heiress of the Bluthardt family. Well-manners aside, it was emphasized to Brunhilde the importance of wearing different masks. She also grew up learning from her mother how to stroke men's ego while her father introduced to her the “beauty” of savageness in dramatic ways. It didn't take long before Phlegethon was disciplined to extreme by Yuzuki for supervising the gratuitous killing of an innocent beggar at the hands of their 8-year-old daughter.

Under the Black Hounds and her family's guardians, Brunhilde's Aura and Semblance was unlocked after undergoing combat training specialized in assassination. However, she lost her right eye against a target whom she had severely underestimated before her Aura was unlocked.

Later on, her mother took it upon herself to teach her preteen daughter about intelligence gathering. This was where she discovered her interest in such type of occupation, especially in “dissecting” people as means to profile them. Brunhilde saw the need to make herself appear more physically appealing and to observe “normal” etiquette to make her OJT easier. At this point in time, the heiress became more "sociable".

At certain point in time when Brunhilde was 16, she and her parents went to Atlas to attend one of her relatives' wedding. It was the first time she met the whole aristocrat family she belonged to. There, she met Basilia Bluthardt (11), whom she had quickly became fond of. But as for Cyzarine Bluthardt (12), Basilia's older sister, it was opposite. Brunhilde found the older one as childish as a sincere child, and a blockhead social-wise. It took the 12-year-old girl's will and persistence to be friends with Brunhilde to eventually break the ice between them.

Latent Troubles II: Tangled Bonds (To be revised)

Brunhilde joined her father's real estate development company- Engelnacht Corporation- to begin another OJT as an assistant business manager. Her intention though was to widen her area of networking through business-related events. Another was to show off her self-independence to her parents- mostly to her mother's family side since she disliked the rigid hierarchy of the family which limited her freedom on whom she can acquire information.

She soon became one of Black Order Battalion - Vale's intelligence agent after she was recruited. However, she only did it for the sake of abiding by Mona's long term plan to conquer the corrupted organization and finally kill off its equally corrupted benefactors.

Latent Troubles II

Post BoB
After series of events (rps), fall of Beacon, the and Bluthardt family's alliance with the Daybreak Syndicate that led to the family head becoming one of the Dragons, Brunhilde expressed her desire to leave Vale but indecisive whether she should go to Vacuo or Mistral, the kingdoms she haven't visited yet. Such motivation though stemmed from feeling of loneliness when Cyzarine Bluthardt (whom she's closest to so far) was sent to Vacuo, leaving her with Aricia Bluthardt, Casper Bluthardt, and Wynston Arkwright.

As Brunhilde went on to deal with the normalcy of her everyday life, a startling tip-off from one of her long-time informants.

Something about a woman in Vacuo resembling Mona Bluthardt.

Latent Troubles II: Helen's Gift

Personality
Brunhilde is naturally a dishonest person, socially adaptable if you prefer a toned-down version. Give her time to gauge the situation/environment, she can become an interested conversationalist, a seductress, a party animal, a stern manager, or a bookworm while her default appearance is that of a playful but kind heiress. However, she wouldn't be able to play those roles if she isn't interested in "dissecting" people. She gains satisfaction consuming knowledge from people aside from books, and getting them to talk more, her favorite pastime. Her interest in people, however, is usually in the tip of the scale between genuineness (I like you) and practicality (I need you for this).

Despite her skills, she has a constant issue of accidentally revealing what's in her mind (usually offensive and cold) thoughtlessly. Her natural enemies are observant people and those who can read between the lines. She doesn't always adapt easily to her environment, especially when it's sudden, and would take her some time to get involved. Brunhilde also doesn’t have strong resilience to keep up appearances that are outside her comfort zone, horribly short-circuited if speaking with whom she considers stupid people and no helpful information to contribute. When her mask breaks apart, it wouldn’t be an understatement to describe her later on as an intimidating and snobbish bitch. "Haters gonna hate.~" As a family member of the Bluthardt, Brunhilde is fairly obedient, quite wary of expressing her disagreement to them- specifically the adults. But behind the scenes, she's rebellious, doing things that would likely get disapproved. She's also unusually forbidding to some of her cousins, and makes them either uncomfortable or mad (or something else) to entertain herself. Her recklessness in the family can be labelled as an abuse of power since family members complain about her, but cannot do anything against one of the significant assets of the family's next generation.

Powers/Abilities
Brunhilde is a versatile assassin trained to use knives/daggers, swords, firearms (specialized in sniper rifle), and in CQC. Her slim body was polished to fit narrow passages and to be as light as a feather to hide stealthily. Her stats between muscle strength and speed is almost balanced with the latter being a little dominant than the other. She doesn't have the endurance to fight prolonged direct battles, except for the test of patience like a deadly sniper.

What made her a valuable asset to the Bluthardt family are her ability to change masks that contributes to intelligence gathering and network expansion, and to help run the Engelnacht Corporation as a sales manager. Under her intelligence gathering occupation, Brunhilde also possess above average hacking skills.

Semblance: Black Magic



Black Magic is a rune-based type Semblance that allows Brunhilde to unleash barrage of non-lethal, black rays that can draw lines on air, ground, or water with varying effects. Brunhilde's black magic doesn't mean the literal "Black magic". The name is borrowed because of the color of the rune and for the sake of simplicity.

Physical Appearance: The rune of Black Magic is 15-inch in diameter by default. Just as its name implies, the rune itself is black, dark enough that it cannot be noticed in pitch-black room along the swirling sphere of energy (black in color) enveloping it. When the rays are discharged, the rune's four-pointed star rotates clockwise and produces a loud steaming sound like an overheating engine as the rune glows white.

Rune Constraints:
 * Brunhilde can summon 25 runes. However, she can only command 5 runes if she were to manipulate the rays to different directions. To use all 25, she would have to move them as one.
 * Maximum distance from the user: 25 meters
 * Estimated time limit: 12 minutes for continuous use.
 * Maximum number of lasers per rune:4
 * Maximum range of rays: 106 meters
 * Cooldown time: 30 minutes

Variations: Lace - the fundamental form of Black Magic. The rays of the rune draw stationary black lines, nicknamed "Lace", that can slice and penetrate a 4-inch military steel when passed through. The lines last for 15 seconds.
 * Spiked Branch - in this form, tree-like spiky limbs sprout rapidly from the "Lace" with a reach of 5-meter radius. An ideal method of striking the enemies when they avoided (or trying to avoid) the "Lace". Lasts for 10 seconds.
 * Explosion - a C-4-level, bomb version of "Lace", its blast radius being 8 meters. The line dissipates upon detonation.
 * Land mine - TBA
 * Lancer - TBA

These variants set off after the rays complete drawing the lines, and their time limit is directly proportionate to "Lace's". For example, if the rays took 10 seconds to finish "Lace", "Spike Branch" will only have 5 seconds remaining before it disappears.

Black Talisman – an alternate casting version of Black Magic where the rune is written/carved on an object instead of being invoked. Thru this method, casting of rays becomes faster in contrast to added milliseconds of summoning the rune. This is also stealthier and convenient since the inscribed object can be concealed and carried around.

This version is weaker, however. The carved rune can only absorb limited amount of Brunhilde's reserves than the invoked rune, thus shrinking the ray's overall range (from 106 meters to 50 meters) and firepower (can decimate a bulletproof car at most). In addition, the inscribed object must be in physical contact and the carved rune mustn't be altered or destroyed. But due to its limited Aura consumption, the time limit is increased to 15 minutes.

Weapons
Schatten Schweig - Bullet Accelerator Sniper Rifle (BASR)

Default form: Small briefcase

Usual bullets: Raufoss Mk 211 bullets, .50 version of Radically Invasive Projectile (RIP)

It is modeled after Barrett M82- a .50 caliber, short recoil, semi-automatic anti-materiel rifle- with a gun barrel with infused Wind-Gravity Dusts. With such gun barrel, recoil becomes stronger, which decreases the number of bullets she can shoot from 30 to 20 times per minute, but the desired result is a projectile traveling nearly as fast as the speed of sound. Its color is jet black with white highlights.
 * Wind-Gravity Dusts - increases the weight of the bullet (Gravity Dust) and then increases the bullet's muzzle velocity by 100m/s (Wind Dust)

Brunhilde's longest sniping kill: 900 meters

Todeskralle - Exoskeleton Gun-Blade Claws (EGBC)

Usual bullets: Hollow point, incendiary

These mechanical weapons goes in pair, not bulky and light enough to be worn inside Brunhilde's loose sleeves. These weapons are installed on the forearm part of black, long, thin-padded, insulated gloves made of composite graphene that covers up to the user's elbows.

The steel finger claws with Lightning Dusts are positioned above the forearm in its default form, which will wrap around Brunhilde's fingers and cover the dorsal side of the hand when activated. The claws can also be deployed one by one.

The blades are a pair of short swords with .50 Desert Eagles (not including the grips) in the fuller. These are retractable weapons under the user's forearms in which the guns can be used without activating the blades. Brunhilde only use hollow-point bullets with Impact Dusts and bullet accelerator.

In the absence of her main weapons, Brunhilde carries any disposable weapons available in her disposal.

Relationships

 * Casper Bluthardt - second cousin. They recognize each others' talents in gathering intelligence on professional level and constantly share intels with one another. They have a rather neutral relationship.
 * Aricia Bluthardt - second cousin. She and Brunhilde don't go along personality wise. Not to mention, their banter borders hostility and is considered toxic.
 * Cyzarine Bluthardt - second cousin and one of the people closest to her. Brunhilde tends to dote the younger girl a lot like a little sister and is always there to support her. Even going as far as to aid her in covering some of her activities that Cyzarine's mother would disapprove of.
 * Basilia Bluthardt - second cousin. The person whom she's also fond of aside from Cyzarine. Brunhilde has the friendliest relationship with her among the Bluthardt siblings and sees the girl as her "equal". It may be partly because of their similarities, always hiding behind the mask.

Trivia

 * Brunhild is a German name meaning dark or noble; Engelnacht is a German word meaning “angel of the night”.
 * Schatten Schweig means "silent shadow" while Todeskralle means "death's claw".