Lila Stein

"He's powerful. And capable of killing those who don't follow him. I can't allow myself to die."

- Lila to Johannes

Lila Stein is a Knight of the Chamber of Requiem and a former Assassin Lieutenant of the same organisation. Her weapon of choice is a large Rotary Spear Gatling Gun(RSGS) named Syringa Vulgaris.

Appearance
Lila is a woman with a slight muscular tall build. She has large medium lengthed purple curly hair that reaches to her neck. Lila has bright large green eyes and she has quite a mild white skin tone.

For her outfit, Lila usually wears a short sleeved blue undershirt with a sleeveless purple flak jacket. Inside the flak jacket has mesh sleeves which fully cover her undershirt sleeves just halfway to her elbow. Lila wears black trousers which contain a few pockets. She also wears a large purple sash to store her weapon in it's spear form on her back to be easy to carry.

Personality
Lila is extremely polite, usually trying to be friendly to everyone she meets. She prefers to refer to those who she isn't on friendly terms with their titles added onto their name as a form of respect. She tends to try not to speak over people in a conversation. Whenever she makes friends, Lila will try nice things for them such as baking them food or buying gifts for them.

She is quite shy at times due to not being able to make many friends as a member of the Chamber of Requiem due to the age difference between her and a few Lieutenants. Lila usually tries to remain quiet since she feels like people are intimidated by her. When Lila does feel comfortable with a person, she will sometimes joke with them.

Lila can be sometimes very expressive when she does talk as she tries to take everything seriously. She can be very emotional at times as she can feel hurt when she's been betrayed by friend. However, Lila will try to mask her emotion due to her being a Chamber of Requiem member.

However, Lila is very submissive as she will follow orders blindly without questioning them because of her want to survive. Due to her being conditioned by the Chamber of Requiem to follow orders, Lila usually very accepting even when she doesn't need to be, especially when she allows Johannes and Audra to have a two on one fight against her.

History
When Lila was quite young, her village was being burned down by Grimm and her parents had died in the attack. She was then rescued by a man known as Redmond Tate, who was an Officer of the Chamber of Requiem. Since she was an orphan, Lila was inducted as a member as the Chamber of Requiem. She willingly obeyed orders because she was afraid of being punished and realised there was not really any for her to escape. As a result of this, Lila ended up becoming indoctrinated by the Chamber of Requiem, believing their propaganda. The children that was brought in with were two to four years older than her so therefore communication with quite hard. She was bullied by a few of the children which resorted to her being quite reclusive and shy.

Since Lila didn't want to be punished, she trained harder than the other candidates in the Chamber of Requiem, especially because Lila was the youngest out of most of the candidates. She also did extra training lessons with Officers which resulted in her being in the top of her classes. Lila was then considered for going into the advanced classes and managed to gain average scores. Originally, she was considered to be a Rounder Specialist but she instead choose Assassin Specialist. This suprised other members of the Chamber of Requiem who tried to isolte themselves from Lila because they were either intimidated by how good she was or tried to bully her because of her age.

At 17, Lila was approached by Johannes Leictreach and Pontius Panner to train them. She was quite flattered that these two personally came to her and that they thought she was impressive. Lila accepted and helped the two train, becoming friends with the two of them. Lila was happy that the two of them valued her as a friend rather than feeling as if the age gap between them was factor in their friendship.

Three years later, Lila managed to reach the rank of Officer. She was in the Knight's den, trying to convince Johannes not to kill Pontius. This is because Johannes was tasked with doing so to get into Beacon. Johannes had told her that Pontius had broken the rules so it had to happen. Lila realised at this time that friendship was pointless because people can change and therefore trying to form a lasting relationship would get in the way. After Johannes has killed Pontius, he had left for Beacon, therefore rendering Lila alone. Lila did not speak to Johannes after that.

Later, Lila was considered for being an Assassin Lieutenant after completing many missions afterwards. She fought an Assassin Lieutenant and defeated them, having one of the fastest times in a Lieutenant fight. The Knights doubted her ability until they forced her to fight five more Lieutenants which she defeated without much difficulty. She became known for being the strongest Lieutenant the Chamber of Requiem had.

Battle of Beacon
After Vale became overrun with Grimm, this meant that criminals could thrive through thievery and robbery. Lila, due to he Lieutenant status was tasked with taking out criminals who were still causing danger to the people of Vale.

Chamber of Requiem
The Chamber of Requiem is a secretive special operatives organisation that uses it's members to be hired by those that they trust to special type of work. The organisation is known for having Escorts to protect valuable items and people during certain occasions when they are paid or sending spies to gather intel or infiltrate criminal headquarters. Members of the Chamber of Requiem however are kidnapped orphans and the group has around 800 members. The Chamber of Requiem members are treated quite harshly and could face torture or death as punishments for failure. This keeps the members of the Chamber of Requiem on tilt. Despite their abuse with it's members, the Chamber of Requiem has been quite effective with their tasks.

Lila has been in the Chamber of Requiem since she was five years old, having been there for 17 years of her life. She used to be an Assassin Lieutenant which meant that she carried out high target assassinations or multiple assassinations Lila was quite subserviant to the Knights and The Master, constantly listening to ever order and would follow them constantly in order to avoid death. However, after the assassination of the Master, Lila became a Knight.

Johannes Leictreach
Lila respects Johannes' bravery and politeness. She liked the fact that Johannes was willing to befriend her despite their age difference and their differences in terms of strength. Lila also looks up to Johannes, liking his confidence when it comes to battle.

She ended up disliking Johannes after he had murdered Pontius Panner as they were all good friends. Lila was more hurt when Johannes' motivation was to go to Beacon Academy to become a huntsman which left her completely alone in the Chamber of Requiem.

Athletic Abilities
Lila's most devastating ability is her strength. She is capable of throwing those who look quite heavy and she is able to put enough strength with her weapon to cause a lot of damage. Lila is capable of throwing many people of balance when she strikes and even when the opponent parries. This is more apparent with opponents who use lighter weapons which makes it harder. Lila's strength is also notable due to how heavy her weapon is however, she is still quite mobile with Syringa Vulgaris.

Lila is known for having quite fast reactions. She is able to quickly move and dodge in time from her opponents attacks. This is usually helpful during asassination missions where her opponent hasn't been taken down in one shot therefore it allows her to try and attack again. She uses her fast reactions in conjuction with her semblance to try and catch opponents off guard.

Her acrobatic skills are quite noticable too as she is capable of making jumps and flips despite how heavy her weapon is. She uses her acrobatic skills to dodge attacks or move away. Lila can sometimes uses her acrobatic skills to and subdue an opponent.

Despite this, Lila lacks agility. She isn't quite fast at turning behind her. This is mostly due to how heavy her weapon is but she is able to mask this by forcing her opponent into narrow areas where her weapon will decimate her foes. Lila's agility though doesn't help when faced with multiple opponents that are surrounding her so she will try to use her semblane to supplement this.

Weapon
Lila's weapon is a Rotary Spear Gatling Gun called Syringa Vulgaris. Her weapon takes the appearance of a large purple spear with quite a large sized pole. The spear is noticeably large which requires Lila to usually hold it with two hands but she does sometimes use the spear with one hand. The spear can also turn into a gatling gun with a rotating barrel which is capable of using different forms of dust. Syringa Vulgaris can be quite powerful when used in narrow corridors which is where Lila strives.

Aura and Semblance
Lila's aura is a lilac colour and she has quite alot of reserves. Her aura sensing is slightly above average, being able to sense danger from quite afar to take down opponents. Her semblance allows her to summon a fast moving barrier that pushes outwards from Lila's hand. The barrier is destructible, usually taking four sword swings to take it down. However, Lila is quite intelligent with the barrier as she uses it when an opponent is approaching near her at a fast speed so she won't be able to move in time. She uses it whenever someone is behind her too. Due to Lila having quite a good amount of aura, she is able to increase the speed of the semblance, causing it to move faster. However, she can only use one barrier at a time and the barrier is really only stomach length. If she does overuse the barriers, she runs the risk of becoming fatigued.

Trivia

 * Lila is German for purple.