Leng Yu

== Appearance == Slim and a little gangly, but well-muscled. Yu has a fairly androgenous appearance, with a thin face and nose. Is usually smiling, and commonly hisses at others with a thin forked snake tongue. Their long black hair is pulled back in a tight, low pony tail, with only small wisps around their ears falling around their face.

Yu typically wears an un-tucked white button-up dress shirt that has the sleeves ripped off to t-shirt length and the first few buttons undone. They wear steel grey cargo pants that are tucked into knee-high black convers, as well as finger-less black gloves and a light blue handkerchief tied around their right arm. Oer all this, they wear a dark navy pirate-style long coat with cold buttons, the sleeves rolled up to their elbows. They also wear a plain, dark brown tri-cornered hat.

Yu sports quite a few piercings- a silver hoop on the right eyebrow, black cuffs on the upper part of both ears, a gold hoop helix on each ear, and a hanging cuff-to-lobe silver chain on the right ear. They also have a black ring on their right middle finger, and other simple gold or silver bands, some with blue or white insets, on the remaining fingers of both hands. Yu has a small scar going over their left eyebrow, and other small scar nics up and down their arms.

Yu has a tattoo of black and white striped snake scales from the base of their neck to the small of their back, filling most of their back. on their left upper arm they have an anchor tattoo with a yellow-bellied sea snake wrapping around it in a infinity sign, eating its own tail(an ouroboros).

Background
Yu grew up on the sea off the coast of Vacuo, on their father's pirate fleet, and much prefers boats and the sea over land any day. Yu's father ran a small fleet of pirates, most of them either family members or close enough that they acted as such in Yu's life growing up, the captains of individual ships practically being Yu's uncles.

Before the change in leadership, Yu's father and his pirate fleet counted themselves as part of the White Fang, but left as the ownership changed- 'We are feared for being pirates, not for being Faunus.' their father told Yu. A year later, when they were 13, Yu's father died, leaving Yu to think they would take charge of the fleet as captain when they came of age, since they were an only child. But due to Yu biologically being female, most of their fleet and family told Yu they would not inherit the title of captain since they were a girl.

This was a shock to Yu, because they barely thought it mattered, and Yu had been trained just as any boy had been. This upset led them to decide they didn't want to be just a girl, but a guy too. Not one, or the other, but both- at least in identity. They began to bind their chest and shun others that didn't adhere to the change. On top of this, they wrote up a transcript for themselves(putting down their fleet-taught combat instead as 'proper' combat school), and decided to enroll at Becon, planning on becoming a respected Huntsman and proving to the fleet that they could be a great captain, as their father was. And if the fleet still didn't respect Yu as a captain, they had better respect them as a Hunstman.