Scarlett Mircea Eredet

Scarlett Mircea Eredet is the only daughter of the Eredet Family and is a second year Beacon student. She is the leader of Team SSAN and is alluded to Vlad the Impaler.

Personality
Do not look down on her just because she's short, nor should you even call her short for that matter. Scarlett is very confident of her own ability and is quite the braggart. She is also playful and loves teasing her friends whenever she has the chance. She has a sweet soft for sweet buns and a nice cup of tea.

She is quite the intellectual, having been the top student of Signal during her time. She likes to brag about this whenever asked. She exemplifies this in class by being focused and willing to question even the littlest of details. She is quite bossy when acting as leader, but this is always for good intentions.

She has a great hatred towards those who hurt people who are weak, and hates being called weak herself. She also developed some sadistic nature after beating up so many bullies during her time. She now gains a bit of pleasure every time she hurts someone she hates.

She loves a little competition and will accept any challenge whether its written or in skill but will not accept when she knows she can't win (e.g. games of chance). However, if her cause of defeat is through unfair tactics or cheating, she will try to expose the person responsible until justice is served.

Past her bossy and confident nature she is very nice and surprisingly looks up to many of her friends. Inside she is actually quite self-conscious of her current personality and wishes to change it, and has made it her goal to become a better person, as well as a better leader, for her teammates and friends.

Appearance
Scarlett is a petite 5'3 ft. tall bat faunus with flipped baby pink hair and scarlet eyes that (somewhat) glow in the dark. Her bangs are long and usually get in the way of her eyes.

She wears a rather complex red and white dress that has two parts. The first is the middle part which is basically a long polo open at both sides and ends in a triangular point. The second is basically a copy of the first part, with its edges lined with frills. These as well as add a hood, mantelet that reach below her shoulders, long sleeves with frills on the ends, and is worn like a jacket and connects to the first part via snaps on the edges of both.

Her pants are just simply black biker-shorts attached to knee-high boots by an elastic band on the front and the back. Around her left thigh is a small bag attached by two straps. Her boots were designed and colored (and frilled) to match her dress, with the frills laced along its edges.

Backstory
She is born from a wealthy faunus family with a father who is a renowned hunter from the northern kingdom. Her father, Dracul Eredet, was a very strict hunter when it comes to his work but retired to raise her after her mother died giving birth.

Her father cared for her greatly and did all he can do make her happy. Through most of her childhood she was kept sheltered in her home and was given almost everything she asked for. Her father also told her stories of his adventures with her mother, whom she never knew nor met.

She learned that her mother's name is Atesha Mircea and is fond of using dust in her line of duty as a hunter alongside her father. After learning of her mother she also gained an interest in her family's history. Her newfound interest in knowing her mother, as well as her family's lineage, ultimately led to her interest in becoming a huntress.

When she started going to school she immediately learned of her kind's discrimination after being bullied by a group of humans kids within the first few days of the school year. She couldn't do anything to stop them so she tried to ignore them and also kept the fact hidden from her father, in fear of losing her freedom.

But when her bullies targeted other fauna, she didn't let it slide. She tried to fight back against her attackers and won after easily beating up the group's leader with a kick to the groin. This heroic act gave her a reason to become a huntress and to help that, she asked her father if she could be taught by him, being a hunter himself.

She then enrolled in Signal Academy and was quickly given the moniker " The Deadly Red-eyed Honor Student." or simply "Red-eyed Honor Student" for her excellent performance in class and amazing skills in combat. She graduated from Signal as one the top students and was given a later given recommendation to enroll into Beacon Academy, which she immediately accepted.

Legacies 「Specialized Crystal Dust Rings」
Legacies are three rings with a crystal dust gem in the center. Each of the three are different in design but share the same function. Each have a slot where a small dust crystal stylized into a rectangular gem can fit in, and are kept on via 4 hooks that are placed around the rim of each ring.

The rings help Scarlett cast dust faster and more freely. Though the rings themselves were made only as vessels for her dust they are surprisingly strong, capable of withstanding attacks from other weapons. If left with no choice, she may use the rings like brass knuckles or to deflect weapons away from herself.

Dust
Scarlett can only use small dust gems for her rings, and are limited to only that type for them. She keeps all of these inside a special pocket-sized bag attached to her left thigh. She also uses vials of powdered dust which she may use in conjunction with Legacies or independently as bombs.

Prowess
Scarlett is small but very nimble, and is surprisingly strong for her size. She knows taekwondo and coupled with her faunus trait makes her a tricky opponent to fight against. She also uses her wits and cunning to take down more stronger (or rather larger) foes. She may lack in raw power, she makes up for it with her ability to quickly think on-the-go and outsmart her opponents.

Due to being a bat faunus, she has gained a latent ability of echolocation as well as a heightened sense of hearing. Her large bat ears can pick up vibrations in the air many times better than that of a normal human. She can also calculate, or at least guess, the distance of the sound. She can pinpoint her enemies locations within a 50 feet radius around her and even predict their next attack just by listening to the sound of the air.

She is also a great Dust-user, having focused most of her free time learning and training her skills with dust. She uses these in a variety of ways, but often in close quarters rather than hiding behind her allies. This is a risky tactic, but it has almost never failed her and usually yields great reward if done correctly.

Weakness
Her main weakness, as well as the most noticeable, is her small physique. Her strength is greatly inhibited by this despite showing that she is stronger than most her size. She also doesn't handle insults nicely, as she lashes out at others, including her own friends or people who have nothing to do with it in the first place.

She also has a habit of teasing others, and this is very frequent and sometimes completely of out habit rather than playing around. She has, however, started to do less of this thanks to her friends' help. Though her patience needs more work than her teasing however, but this too has turned down a notch.

Another thing she is lacking is owning an actual weapon. Her "weapons" are simply rings with a dust crystal in the center. Though it makes her able to summon and control her use of dust more freely and easily, it doesn't make for a good independent weapon whenever she's out of dust.

Etymology
Scarlett is derived from the color scarlet- a bright red with a slight orange tinge while her surname Eredet means spring, but can also mean lineage or origin. A little jab on her interest of her own family's history.

Mircea is taken from Mircea the Elder - who was Vlad the Impaler's grandfather - and is used for some of Vlad's succeeding descendants like his grandson, Mircea III Dracul.

Trivia

 * Scarlett is loosely based on the character Slayer, from the video game series Guilty Gear. 
 * Scarlett used to wear more revealing clothing because it gives her reasons to tease others with.