Belliciste

Appearance:

Belliciste (belli-C-stay), or bell for short, is a tall, dark skinned woman, with medium length black hair done up in a tight bun. She wears a dark red linen shirt with a black long sleeved leather jacket over it. The shirt is tucked into black jeans held up by a red leather belt. She also wears black steel toed combat boots.

Her eyes are a dark gold, that takes on a red color with faint fiery shapes dancing across them when she activates her semblance. Her face is soft but defined, with high cheekbones, and a pointed jaw. She is 6ft 2in and 180 lbs and is extremely lean and muscular

Personality:

Bell is prone to keeping her feelings to herself, with the exception of anger, which she very quickly throws at others. She is most at home in the middle of a fight, and finds social situations uncomfortable and frustrating.

She is brash and will often force her control on a situation even if it means decimating a laid out plan. She is constantly seeking fights, the more dangerous the better. But she will also help people she seems trustworthy.

Background:

As a 6 year old child, Bell's countryside village I'm Vale was attacked by raiders who burnt the village to the ground. When help arrived, she was found jus outsidet her bedroom with three of the raiders who actually died to carbon monoxide poisoning from the smoke, while bell managed to avoid that fate as a hole in the wall had been burnt through that she escaped from and cowered. The forms of the burning raiders is what dances across her eyes when she uses her semblance.

After recovering from the trauma with the help of doctors, she wandered around looking for a life to live when she found a group of fighters who gladly took her in in exchange for a promise to help out around the camp. At first she helped out by cleaning weapons and helping with chores, until she was about 12, when she started learning the basics of fighting from a man who liked how efficient she is with her work. He helped her by unlocking her aura and showing her how to not waste movement.

She offered the idea of pit fighting to establish who would get the first pick of food and spoils they won. After a year, she started fighting in the pit. She fought with them daily for food and gold until she was 19, with opponents ranging from grim, to other fighters, and towards the end of her time there, lifetime mercenaries and ex-hunters with mixed results throughout, 1000 losses, 1300 wins, and 250 draws. Her first month of matches were fought with a rusty straight sword and were all losses. After eating badly enough to survive, she finally won a match against a fellow fighter, and took his greatclub as a reward. She then fought two fighters at once for their shares of food and won.

After leaving, Bell traveled around looking for more interesting people to fight, and wound up in a bar watching the tournament fights just before the battle of beacon, in which she fought off many Grimm outside the city walls. At this time, she was 26

Weapons and Abilities:

Her main weapon is her greatclub, Giselle, that she won in her fights. It is a two foot long, treated wood and steel club with three circular steel pieces towards the top with four rivets driven into each. The striking end is about as thick as her arm, while the handle tapers down to a standard grip size.

Her rarely uses sidearm is a collapseable hand crossbow that she carries on a special made slot in her boots. She typically carries thirty bolts for it on her belt, in a quiver with a snap on cover.

Her semblance is traumatic light, and while it is active, she locks her mind onto the fight at hand, hyperanalyzing every movement made by opponents, allowing for highly boosted awareness and reaction times. When she activates this state, she cannot focus on any opponents not in view when she started it, and almost cannot even sense them. She can only keep this up for a two minute period, can only activate it after thirty seconds of  open combat, and cannot cancel it for another thirty seconds after activating it. If an opponent dies while she is in this state, her eyes will lock onto that single person, unable to move or look away. This lasts for either one minute, or until she is struck.

Fighting style:

Belliciste has developed two distinct fighting styles based on the person she is facing. The first she uses against foes who try to keep her at a distance. She will leap violently, launching high powered attacks that very quickly breach long distances.

The second is for foes that attempt to apply pressure to her. She brings her club in close to her chest and uses both the top and middle to deflect blows to either side of her body, then using a sholder, fist, or whatever else is avalible to strike at the opponent, before delivering blows with her weapon or returning to her defensive stance if the opponent recovers quickly.

Name explanation:

Belliciste is French for warmonger, and war is typically paired with red, which is her color.