Kandice Whittle

"that makes twice this week, why am i not surprised"

- Kandice after hearing jack got in trouble Kandice is a former student of Beacon Academy and the second member of team JKLT. Her weapon is a harpoon fishing hook sniper rifle.

Appearance
Kandice has a slim pale face and Extremely light grey eyes that look white. She has long blonde hair that reaches to the small of her black. Her bangs cover her right eye but in combat she ties her hair in a pony tail and uncovers her eye. She usually wears black lipstick.

She wears a white tank top that has her emblem printed on the chest. Over this she wears a beige sweater with a white scarf. In combat she trades this sweater for a white jacket with a hood and collar covered in short beige faux fur. on the front of the jacket is a light chest plate that only covers her chest. the jacket also has small shoulder guards.

on her lower body she wears a pair of light blue jeggings. She keeps these in combat as they allow for maximum mobility. she also puts on a pair of light knee guards. She also wears a pair of beige ugg boots with a mix of air and gravity dust woven into the sole of the boot. The air dust makes her faster and the gravity dust gives her kicks and added punch.

Personality
Kandice is a serious. no nonsense girl. she acts slightly stoic. she usually talks with a monotone voice almost like Raven from teen titans. She has trouble talking to new people as she may come off as shy or self-centered. in reality she is just a bit blunt and as said before no-nonsense. This is due to her upbringing

However when she is around friends she opens up a bit and becomes very friendly in her own way. She can at times to attempt to joke but shes not very good at it, but her teammates still love her. She is genuinely caring of her teammates and just has trouble conveying that at times

When she is around people she doesn't like she makes herself as unapproachable as possible and attempting to make said person uncomfortable.

Backstory
Kandice was born to two faunus parents in Atlas. Her father is a killer whale faunus and her mother is a leopard seal faunus. She did not grow up in the city of atlas but instead grew up in a tribe of nomad sailors on the coast of the continent of solitas. Her tribe would periodically move around on the coast. She grew up sailing.

she began to sail on her families ship from the young age of 8. She started by swabbing the deck, but as she got older she moved on to higher and higher positions. At the age of 10 she was assigned to the crows nest. This is where her training truly started. Her family would sail out into the ocean to fish and to hunt down any Grimm.

They did grow up poor so they did not have access to radar technology so instead they used Kandice in the crows nest. Her parents gave her a harpoon fishing hook combo as well as a L42A1 rifle. She took her position at the crows nest. When they would go out she would look out for signs of either schools of fish or any grimm. Growing up as a sailor made her used to be a no-nonsense person as fooling around could mean the loss of supplies and in extreme cases life. Because of this she became the way she was,

one day when she was 10 she and her family were out hunting a large shark grimm that had been causing problems to the other fisherman. She was up in the crows nest looking through her scope when she spotted it. It was swimming after a pair of dolphins. She shouted down to her father who was captaining the ship as they steered the ship towards the shark. Kandice took aim and fired at the shark signaling to the rest of the crew to its position. Harpoons were fired at the shark one of them hitting the shark and starting to real it in however while it was being reeled in it actually broke free and charged the boat. Her father maneuvered it out of the way but the shark managed to clip the side of the ship. The strength of the impact was enough to rock the boat and also knock Kandice off the crows nest and into the frigid waters bellow. She went into shock almost immediately she started to sink bellow the surface and before her eyes closed she managed to see the shark Grimm turn in her direction and begin to shark.

Her vision went dark as she prepared for the end. Kandice felt something deep inside her, it was warm and it was spreading throughout her body. Her eyes shot open as she began to glow white, she could still see the shark racing towards her. Then it hit her. the impact hit her like a truck and by all means should have killed her but it didnt instead it sent her flying through the water. the shark gave chase after her, and at that moment she wished she could just disapear. The shark infront of her all of a sudden ground to a halt. It looked confused and looked left and right but it didnt seem to notice her. it was so close she could touch the things snout. The shark chose to rush back to the boat. Kandice looked to her hands and noticed that she was faintly glowing white. She also noticed that she could no longer feel the cold, or at least. not as much as before.

She watched as more harpoons plunged into the water and the grimm. She also watched as a large canon was fired straight into the grimms head killing it. Before she knows it a pair of arms wrapped around her and started to drag her back to her fathers ship, turns out her dad had jumped into the water after as soon as he saw her plunge into the water. he had only just now gotten to her. Once on the ship she was quickly wrapped up and taken care of. She looked to her father who seemed tired. "thank goodness i managed to unlock your aura from a distance" her father said, he looked tired. "Not only that, but you got your semblance" Kandice was shocked at her fathers words. Her Semblance was that what that was.

She continued to work on her fathers ship but decided to also take up combat training from her tribes milita leader. She learned to fight with her harpoon and rifle. Her mentor taught her how to be as accurate as possible. She even leared the odd conditions for her semblance to work. Over the two years she trained with her mentor she began to like the idea of becoming a huntress.

One day a large ape like grimm attacked her village her father along with the rest of the militia confronted the beast but in the ensuing battle her father was severly crippled by a broken femur. but it didnt stop there as the half of the militia was killed. Kandice ran at the beast but before she did she asked one of the soldiers to slap her. he did as she asked albeit being confused about it. she didnt have time to explain as she vanished from sight including her weapons, she ran at the beast undeteced and jumped on its back. she Hooked the fishing hook end of her harpoon around the neck of the beast. she jumped off pulling the weapon with her puncturing the monsters throat and causing it to die. She reaperred and ran over to her father. "DAD, DAD are you ok" "aye gitl it, it doesnt hurt yet, that be the shock...and the booze" her father laughed a deep baratone laugh. "Kandice do me a favor, become a huntress girl. there is more in this life than sailing, go out and live." he said stroking her cheek "well the booze and shock are wearing off, hey Kandice im going to pass out now please take me to our healer, ok yea im going down" her father said as he went limp in her arms, but was still breathing. She took her father to the healer as he asked

on her 13th birthday she did as her father asked and applied to a begginers huntsman school in the city of atlas, it was here that she learned to build weapons. Kandice built the weapon she would use throught the rest of her huntress career. Her weapon was a combination of her old pair of weapons. It was a harpoon fishing hook combo but could transform into a L42A1 sniper rifle. Kandice also updated the internals of the rifle incresing its range from the typical 800 meters to 1000 meters. Kandice also significantly increased her combat prowess as well as became much more accurate and skilled with her rifle. After she turned 17 and graduated from that school she applied to Beacon Academy and got in

During initiation she met a boy named Jack and they became partners. on their way to the temple they met a another pair, a girl named Lina and a boy named Thatcher. they retrieved the white bishop pieces. On their way back they encountred a pair of king taiijitu Kandice helped by staying back and helping to blind the beast by shooting out their eyes. she also helped by landing critical headshots.

They were declared team JKLT. It was here at beacon that she doubled her combat abilities and became a master sniper. Not only that but she updated her rifles internals even more. She managed to use modern internals bumping up the rifles range from 1,000 to 1,500.

During the fall of beacon she and her team helped to fight of the Grimm and rouge Atlas tech. She focused on taking out robots sensors essentially blinding them.

afterwards they transfered to shade academy where they are continuing their studies.

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