Orianthi Sterok

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Name: Orianthi Sterok

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Race: Salamander Faunus

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 170 lbs.

Hair: Shoulder length golden blonde.

Appearance
Clad in somewhat bulky ornate armor while in public or combat, Orianthi does not have any appearance cues that she is, in fact, a woman. The armor isn't quite as thick as a CERTAIN armored individual, but it's more than enough to give her a sense of mystery. She even covers her face behind a mask/helmet, entirely gold in colour with tribal patterns etched all over it. The helmet only has one eyehole, however, for a reason we'll get to later. There are five separate "cloak-like" sections, from the shoulders of the armor. Each comprised of 20 small overlapping blades, similar to the shingles on a house. This allows flexibility, while also enabling her to protect herself from attacks with a spin. The armor has VERY little intention for stealth, coloured in a bright gold and red.

Outside of missions, thus not wearing her armor, Orianthi is a rather tall woman with a muscular but somewhat slender build. She's relatively lacking in terms of bust, due to a long time of wrapping her chest. She has wavy blonde hair that goes to her shoulders, and third degree burn scars on the right side of her face, an eyepatch sitting overtop her eye, and the scars also reach up her right hand, her hand engulfed in them. Unlike many people, it seems, Orianthi tends to have a somewhat wide variety of clothes, like... An actual wardrobe. When not on a mission, or in places she may fight, she will wear usually jeans and one of her various shirts in various colours and designs.

Personality
Orianthi does have two very distinct personalities. Literally, that of her father, and her own. Having currently taken on his identity in the field of mercenary work, she has perfected acting like her father, Thanatos Sterok. The man was cold, his every action seemingly lethal and harsh. Despite having no issue with them herself, when acting as her father, she despises humans, even acting out against them violently at times. He was well known for being the only survivor of several missions, ensuring he was fully jaded to anything that happened. That said, he was extraordinarily strategic, able to think on his feet, and always get himself out to safety with some plan or another. This is fronted by an aggressive bull act, making people believe he is beyond strategy. He seemed to enter a massive rage, mainly to get his seblance going, which his daughter inherrited as well. He despised small talk, preferring to interact with the team when he needed to, but practically ignoring them beyond that. Orianthi has mastered acting as her father, to the tee.

As for her OWN personality, Orianthi's actually moderately nice. She kept her father's jaded attitude, but is far more social. And despite thinking faunus should indeed be better treated, she holds no hatred towards humanity as a whole. Interestingly enough, in the last eight years, she has never entered a mission with her own persona. Of note, Orianthi tends to treat children quite well, acting quite sisterly without knowing them all that well. Ori tends to live quite an average life outside of the money and combat, her father almost being a strange entity she adopts the personality of to distance herself from what she's actually done. That said, numerous are the thugs she's dropped on her own time, oddly enough with a very different style of combat than her central mission combat. The style is far more graceful than her usual heavy force.

Salamander's Scales:
Orianthi's armor, as stated above in appearance, it has the cloak-like blades, but also acts as an excellent insulation for her bodily warmth, important for her semblance. The Armor is capable of heating up to increase Orianthi's own bodily heat, but ensures the metal doesn't touch her skin. It's extremely durable, made up of the same material that the spider droids are made of. The heat functions are controlled with a fire dust crystal, meaning if she's unconscious or out of aura, it will turn off, and starts cooling as with a normal metal.

Ashes to Bashes:
Orianthi's weapons are a pair of special clubs. Each club has fire dust in it, with several nozzles up the side. These nozzles make the clubs spray a "Fan" of flames, easily setting things ablaze and striking powerfully with the standard club part. From the tip of them is a tip of a blade, enabling stabbing attacks.

In form two, they split in half, folding out to make a T hilt, becoming large war-fans. Each fan has three bladed segments, with the flame retardant mesh joining between them. The fire-spouting nozzles turn, becoming pointed in front of the fan, so when swung, increases the area of effect for the fire.

Assorted Chocolates (Explosives):
Never know what you're going to get, but Ori does. Being a master bombmaker, she has several varying levels of explosives, ranging from cherry bombs, smoke bombs, Satchel bombs, claymores, Earth dust grenades (Large shrapnel), plastic explosive, grenades, gravity grenades (Suck things towards them) and a very volatile bomb that explodes with great force, but covers a very small area, creating no shrapnel. It's laced with white dust as well, giving a strong concussive effect.

Semblance: Thermal Amplifier:
Ori's semblance quite simply makes her physical stats increase in correlation to her bodily temperature. There are several methods she can use to do this, the most obvious being simply being in high temperatures. Her armor helps with this, as does her fire weapons, and simply being angry. A standard combination of these things will usually get her to about 1.4x stats if she's playing it safe. If not, and she cranks her armor's heat to dangerous levels, she can reach about 2.5x, though she passes out in a hurry, unable to keep herself conscious through that heat for long. Hilariously, and though she has extremely rarely used this aspect, alcohol makes her body perceive heat weirdly, making her amplifier go up and down at random.

Backstory:
Orianthi was born under a powerful mercenary duo, two faunus who were trying to make tons of money to make a life. Unfortunately, her parents were hired under two opposing sides of a conflict, and with niether willing to back down, they clashed, ultimately resulting in her father killing his wife. Orianthi didn't find out about this until long after, when her father Thanatos had started training her to make her battlefield ready. She idolized her father, and as he started to take fewer and fewer missions, he bought a home in a small town on the outskirts of Vale, defending it from grimm to make a few lien here and there.

From here, Orianthi was about 12 and started to make a friend in one of the neighbor boys named Irving, though he was only 7. She mostly taught him about combat, the boy actually looking up to her himself. Thanatos was quite happy with it, as teaching is one of the best forms of learning. Nevertheless, he continued to train her himself. A year later, this included taking her to shadow him on one of his missions, even assisting him in combat. She had taken a liking to explosives a bit more than him, and crafted plenty of bombs on her free time.

When she was only 14, some of her bombmaking went wrong, blowing up in her face, in the literal sense. Her entire right arm was engulfed, shrapnel obliterating her eye. The screams she let out got everyone in the village over in a hurry, helping tend to the girl as the flames all over her were put out. In shock for well over two days, her father had to leave for a mission, obviously opting to not take Orianthi along, who was being taken care of by Irving. She found a lot out about the kid, including that his father was a violent alcoholic, explaining part of why he enjoyed spending time with other people so much.

As Orianthi healed, she resumed training with him, oddly starting to treat him quite affectionately, like an older sister. She even went so far as to let Irving stay at their place when her father was off on missions. When he wasn't, her father still trained her, but wouldn't let her join him until he was sure she could handle fighting with one eye. Interestingly enough, he then modified his helmet to cover his right eye as well, claiming that if his daughter were to fight with a hinderance, he would do the same. This... Odd bonding actually made the two of them grow closer, and together, they managed to complete many missions for a group Orianthi never really cared to learn more about.

When she was 19, and her father wanted them to move to inner Vale, Irving pitched her an idea late at night, that they'd run off together. Her connection with Irving was extremely powerful, the kid actually keeping Orianthi from losing herself to combat. He often tried to teach her to avoid combat, in counter to her attempts to teach him how to act while inside it. He claimed that both of their fathers were problems for them, and without them, they'd be happy. Orianthi was unsure of what to do, as she did love her father, but at the same time, loved Irving.

She mulled it over for a few days, but where she was supposed to meet Irving on the last day, she drove right by, with her father. She left a note for him, in his house, after she killed his father. She stated that her father wasn't the problem Irving believed him to be, and that she would bring herself to be the solution to his problem.

At this point she arrived in central Vale, her father getting them a new place. For the next few years she'd work with her father from the shadows, not building any form of name for herself, a sidekick at best. They worked assassination jobs, heists, equipment theft, and assault jobs, mostly. Her father had built up a fantastic track record, until he was hired to assassinate the wrong person. They ended up facing off against an opperative of tremendous power, and he killed her father. Uninterested in Orianthi, he simply went about completing what he was sent to do, Ori left to drag her father's body out of there, sneaking him back home.

She was devastated, and even though there were only a few people there, she had a funeral for him. His mercenary identity was still there, but Thanatos himself was gone. After a few days of grieving, Orianthi did what he'd want her to. She took up his mantle, and used his connections as a stepping stone so that she wouldn't have to start anew. She had his rep to begin with, and after a meeting with the head of Leroux Weapons, she had his armor refitted to appear exactly the same, but to fit her body. She had them craft a voice synthesizer, to mimic her father's voice, and she essentially became her father in the eyes of the Mercenary industry. She continues his legacy, assisting the white fang with various missions. She's been doing so for years, and has everyone fooled. She couldn't care less though, as her intention isn't some prank of sorts. She wants the world to know that her father isn't dead.

Trivia
Ori's style is partly from Nice Holystone from Baccano! and partly from Deathstroke of DC fame.

Orianthi mean Beautiful Flower, while Ori on it's own means "My Light".