Pigmi Canvas

"You know what's beautiful with the world? Its colorful and vibrant, yet monochromatic and dull. These two, despite their differences, come together to balance nature. If only we followed this examples, then maybe this world would've be a better and more beautiful place." Pigmi Canvas, Beacon Student, 3rd Year.

Appearance
Pigmi is a tall squirrel faunus with decently fit physique with short chocolate-brown hair that clumps in between her eyes, long and curly brown squirrel tail, startlingly emerald eyes, and well-endowed breasts that are well hidden in her outfit.

Her normal wear is that of a long orange and brown kimono with long sleeves under a thick, white robe with golden accents around the sleeves and neckline, with the sleeves length being a bit shorter than her kimono's, making its brown sleeves peek out from the coat's white sleeves. To enable her tail from being an obstruction to her clothes, she cut the back of both of them from the bottom up to a small hole for her tail and lined both of their edges with velcro tape.

She usually doesn't wear any pants or skirts below, either wearing just her underwear, which may also be with spats, or nothing at all if she's too lazy to wear one on that day. For footwear she wears elevated, wooden slippers.

Personality
Pigmi is quite a lazy bum who usually doesn't do anything other than paint, take walks to find places to paint, or going around shops to find paint for her paintings and/or other artistic creations. She has quite the laid-back attitude, always looking for ways to do something else other than the task at hand, unless of course if said task is making art. She's also quite the drunkard who loves to tease her peers, especially whilst drunk, like playing pranks or perversive actions like fondling random women's breasts (only when drunk).

Despite these bad quirks of her, she does show a great sense of responsibility as her team's leader. She doesn't show it, but when it comes to handling a girl going through an emotional breakdown, she's probably one of the best there is. She shows great insight and will use this to either help others or get an advantage, whether in the battlefield or in a heated argument. She's also very calm almost all the time and despite being seen mostly with a laid-back smile and slightly closed eyes, she can quickly change this in a heartbeat if needed.

She is also very wise thanks to experiencing so many things happening around her and taking them all very well, like being able to understand the decision behind killing someone or knowing what's a bad plan from a good one. She also knows that she's not as smart as her other teammates are, and as such lets them also handle their own load. As well, she seems to not hold onto things like morals too tightly, simply stating that she only needs to know what she believes is right and wrong to continue living normally.

Backstory
Pigmi's was born in a decent family, with her father having been a well-known painter at the time. Even before she was born, her parents were usually tight with their budgets even with her father's works due to him having to pay off many of his debts to get to where he is. Although this took about 5 years after being born, her father soon enough payed for all what he owed and took the family to a more "natural" setting.

He found this perfect location in an island called Zen. There, she lived the rest of her childhood, which is mostly her bonding with her father who, seeing it as a good opportunity, taught her how to paint. Pigmi liked painting, and it soon enough became her hobby whenever she has nothing to do.

As Pigmi grew, so did her imagination and need of expressing it. However, unlike her father, she found out her own unique way of creating such art after seeing a local teen fighting a group of cops whilst painting the ground and walls around him with spray paints. Despite his inevitable defeat against the law, Pigmi found his work as inspiration and with that, decided to create her own style of art. A mix of martial arts with painting.

However, she found a problem with realizing this. She may have been taught by one of Remnant's best painters, but she does not have the physique to handle extensive work. She tried asking her parents, but due to their jobs being outside the realm of fights, they couldn't help her much.

Fortunately, she does have an uncle that is a hunter, but he is usually at work and whenever he has a break, he does so alone with his family and doesn't usually let even his own brother in. Luckily though, he gained an extensive leave due to an injury, and since he was going to be at home for a longer period now, he also decided to see his brother again.

Their families soon met, and Pigmi was quick to notice the relationship between her father and uncle. They were very close, but due to his job her uncle couldn't find time to visit them until now. Pigmi then asked, if a little shyly, if he could teach her how to fight. Her uncle was quite confused by this but after hearing his brother's explanation got intrigued by her. He liked to entertain, so he accepted her request.

At first, he only saw this as little playtime with his little niece that he's not seen for years is now a revelation of how well should be as a huntress. She was a surprisingly fast learner, which was stated by her father beforehand. Seeing the immense potential, he had his vacation extended to teach her as much as he can. Though the girl was only 11 years old at the time, she was able to gain sufficient knowledge on using weapons and has basic knowledge of martial arts, but he knows that she'll need to train her body more in order to truly reach her goal of creating her own unique style.

So she got enrolled in a local combat school to assist in her in her training. She did quite well, having tempered her fighting style of both painting and fighting. She usually gets in trouble because of this, cause the arenas used are always painted. She also discovered her semblance here, after trying out dust-infused paint, which was a success for her and was quickly added to her weapon. After her graduation she sought out Beacon, due to its reputation as well as it being supposedly the best combat school there is.