Valentine Amaranth

"'Love hurts. And so will this.' - Valentine Amaranth"

APPEARANCE:
Valentine's pale face and clear blue eyes are framed by thick brown curls. Her bangs are kept braided away from her forehead and clipped to the side of her head with a little pink pin. One streak of hair in this braid is dyes pale pink, much like the color of her dress.

The dress she wears is low-cut and hangs from her shoulders and ends a few inches above her knees. It is two different shades of pink - a darker shade for the sleeves, breast, and skirt ruffles and a lighter shade for the torso.

She usually wears pink flats, but will occasionally exchange these for heels or boots.

PERSONALITY:
As far as first impressions go, Valentine comes of as a silly flirtatious airhead. She's very emotional and overdramatic and can make a big deal out of nothing. She's rather high-maintenance and fussy; she needs everything to be just so.

Valentine is a perfectionist in all ways, always watching the details and intolerant of failures. She's possessive and extremely obsessive of the things and people she loves, and as shown in the situation with her ex-finacee, when she's heartbroken or angry her rationality goes out the window.

She's rather vain, but not to the point where she ignores criticism. In fact, she welcomes it, as she's never satisfied with her skill level and has a constant desire to grow stronger. Still, when it comes to a fight she tends to be overconfident in her skills, which can land her in pretty sticky situations.

EMBLEM:
Valentine's Emblem is a pink heart, cracked with blood red streaks. Overlaid on top of it is a silver arrow, the tip drenched in blood and the feathers a delicate shade of pink.

Weapon: Eros's Aim
Eros's Aim is not the original name of this extra-long-ranged longbow, nor was Valentine it's original owner. The weapon was originally called Star Launcher and owned by her ex-fiancee.

Unlike most bows used by Hunstmen and Huntresses, Eros's Aim does not have any secondary form. This is it's greatest strength, but also it's greatest weakness. It's essentially an anti-tank sniper rifle in bow form. It can easily hit a target that's more than 3000 meters away with immense power, but it's long bladed edge is the only defense it provides in close range combat.

Eros's Aim is equipped with a target locking scope, helping increase her accuracy. The bow is also engraved with fire and ice Dust, and the type of Dust she has active determines the type of arrow she shoots.

Because of her weapon's lack of melee combat abilities and her own weak defense, Valentine always tries to take her opponents out from afar and avoid any direct confrontation.

Aura:
Valentine's Aura is a pale shade of Blush Pink. Her aura isn't very strong and is easily depleted either by using her Semblance or simply taking a relatively small amount of physical damage.

Semblance: Lovestruck
Valentine's semblance only works against humans and Faunus, although that's not really an issue for her since she only rarely has to deal with Grimm. Lovestruck only effects men and women who are attracted to women.

Essentially, Lovestruck instills her target with an artificial (although powerful) infatuation for her. While under this infatuation, the target is nearly completely under Valentine's control and will do almost anything she asks of them. However, if she commands them to do something that is in direct contradiction with the person's morals or personality, they can resist and disobey. So, for example, unless the person was already suicidal, she couldn't just command them to jump off a building and kill themselves.

To activate Lovestruck, Valentine must kiss the person she wishes to control, and it's not really something she can use effectively on the battlefield. She can keep someone Lovestruck for as long as her Aura will last, but unfortunately keeping someone Lovestruck for more than thirty minutes can deplete her Aura entirely.

Valentine primarily uses Lovestruck outside of combat, using it to gather information on her targets from their friends and family before going after them directly.

Stats:
Speed: 7/10

Agility: 8/10

Accuracy: 10/10

Strength: 7/10

Defense: 2/10

Dust: 7/10

Total: 34/60

BACKSTORY:
Growing up, Valentine was enamored with stories of true love and happy endings. When she was fourteen, she met a young Fox-Faunus Hunstman in training named Romeo Scarlight. The two became close friends, and before long Valentine had fallen completely in love with him. To her, he was everything she could ever want: clever, handsome, brave, strong, all around her perfect prince-charming.

When she was fifteen, she confessed her true feelings to Romeo, and shortly thereafter the two of them started dating. Valentine's family disapproved of the match. She was a wealthy lady from one of the leading families in fashion design in Mistral, and he was some lowborn Faunus Hunstman wanna-be. However, her parent's disapproval only made it more romantic in Valentine's eyes, a forbidden love that would lead her to her happily ever after.

Romeo often took her out to open fields and taught her archery, and she proved to be a quick and eager learner. Even though he only let her use normal bows, she was enamored with his Star Launcher and would occasionally sneak off with it and taught herself to use it without his knowledge. Romeo also taught her a bit on how to use her Aura, and even helped her unlock her Semblance.

After Romeo turned 18, he applied for and was accepted into Beacon Academy. Valentine was heartbroken that her darling would be moving away, but before he left, he proposed to her, and of course she accepted. He vowed that once he graduated he would return and the two of them would get married, no matter what her family thought. Unfortunately, Valentine would never get her fairy tale wedding.

Two years into Romeo's training at Beacon, Valentine got an opportunity to go to Vale and decided to pay a surprise visit to her beloved fiancee. She walked into the dorm where Romeo and his team lived only to find Romeo locked in a very... intimate... moment with one of his teammates. Heartbroken and furious, Valentine left, and Romeo never even knew she was there. Back home in Mistral, Valentine began formulating a plan to get revenge. In her rage and heartbreak, she could only see one answer - terminating those as who had taken her beloved away from her, and then ending Romeo himself.

She waited until Romeo and his teammates had gone out on a mission, and she followed after them. While they were sleeping, she snuck into their camp and stole Star Launcher, and proceeded to use that to kill Romeo and his whole team as they slept. Of course, no one knew it was her who did it. Most blamed their deaths on the Grimm they had been hunting.

Valentine took Star Launcher as her own and renamed it Eros's Aim. This marked the beginning of her career as The Assassin in Pink, as with the murder of Romeo and his team she discovered that she was quite good at and almost even enjoyed killing.