Spring Apsat

Spring Apsat (pronounced "Spring Ap-saht") is a Huntress-in-Training, who attended Beacon Academy until it's destruction during the Fall of Beacon. She is the current leader of Team SLVN ("sylvan").

Appearance
Spring is an 18 years old Huntress-in-training at Beacon Academy and the leader of Team SLVN (“sylvan”). Her stature is quite muscular and she reaches a height of 171 cm. Her light brown hair is always tied in a ponytail. Her nickname “Eagle” originates  from her trademark stare - dark green eyes which are always following every movement, tracking her opponent like a predator tracking its prey. She has a lightly tanned complexion, fairly normal for a girl from southern Vale.

Her outfit consists of the so called “Sylvan Look” - the standard outfit her team wears at nearly every occasion. Brown pants, beige t-shirt, dark brown leather boots, fingerless gloves of the same color and material and a brown leather belt. Combined with her personal dark green leather jacket, Spring can perfectly vanish in the green forests of Vale.

Personality
Spring Apsat leads her team with a hard and resolute style. Like an army officer of old times, she inspires them with her stubborn, iron-willed nature and her no-nonsense attitude. If there are people causing trouble for her team mates, she will find them and she will definitively make sure that they never mess again with her friends. She often pushes her team to total exhaustion, but she won’t enforce hardships she won’t go through by herself. Within one year as a leader she gained not only the respect and admiration of her own team but of many students and teachers at Beacon Academy.

Spring’s sparetime consists mostly of physical training but she is an avid reader too. In her opinion there has to be a perfect balance between mind and body to achieve true perfection, so she puts every ounce of effort into improving her abilities in every field of knowledge and skill.

History
Born as the only child of a Huntress and a local forester from Southern Vale, Spring grew up in the dark forests around the small village of Hedge. From early on she learned the skills which are needed to survive in the wilderness - combat, herbalism, stalking prey and orientation in the woods. At the age of 12 she was send to the Combat School of Signal to start her training to become a real Huntress like her mother. In time she showed her abilities as a natural born leader and strong-willed warrior, but also the skill to unnerve nearly anyone with her cold emotionless expression and the piercing look from her “Eagle eyes”. At the age of 17 she graduated from Signal as one of the best in her grade and applied to Beacon Academy for further training and education. With the formation of Team SLVN and her appointment as team leader she looks forward to new chances to improve the skills of her team and herself.

"Heartpiercer" & "Woadstalker"
Two short spears, one carried in each hand. The spears are lightly built, easy to carry and perfect to swiftly pierce the vital points of prey and enemy alike. While Heartpiercer, the right-hand spear, is imbued with Crimsondrop-Dust, a special mixture which slows the victim’s bloodstream to a minimum, Woadstalker, the left-hand spear, is imbued with Azuredrop-Dust, a poison-type Dust, which damages slowly the victim’s nervous system by overloading it with tiny impulses. Using both spears effectively makes the wielder one of the most dangerous predators in the wilderness, perfectly capable of taking down any prey he or she encounters.

"Birdcatcher"
Spring has the natural ability to create several kinds of nets from plant fiber, some sticky and flexible, some nearly invisible and some hard as steel. When trapped in one of her nets, her prey can only await its demise. The main weakness of her Semblance is the need for natural plant fiber - be it tree bark, leaves or grass - in the area to create the nets. The ability is nearly useless within non-vegetated areas, which limits the user to a certain type of region.

Trivia

 * Her given name originates from the color of "Spring Green".
 * Her surname is inspired by the Georgian hunting deity "Apsat".
 * The Semblance "Birdcatcher" is inspired by the mythological Apsat's role as Lord of Birds. This is also the origin of Spring's nickname and symbol, the eagle, which is also called "Lord of Birds".