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 and loves dancing, to the point that she's combined it with her fighting style. She doesn't like having her dancing skills be belittled, as she's quite proud and serious of her skills in dancing. She's also very bossy when she's in charge of dance lessons.

She is quite the intellectual, having been the one of the smartest students 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 large triangular bat ears on top of her 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 filled with multiple little glass holders for liquid dust on one side and another side filled with dust crystals for her rings. These two sides are separated by a leather cloth, with the whole bag being held on to her leg via two buckle 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 saved her first victim, who happens to be Nymbus, who also was her first close friend in school.

During her time in Signal she found a peculiar hobby. A hobby that she promised to never tell others about but in the end fully accepted it and even began showing it off in many different ways. Dancing. Pulled in from seeing someone else literally dance his way out of a fight and win, she felt compelled to be taught by that person. That person happens to be a retired hunter turned full-time dancer who competes in Dancesport events and similar competitions as a career. Despite his old age, he was no laughing matter when it comes to dancing as his body moved like it was still many years younger. He was quick to accept Scarlett as his student and with little over a year taught her many different dance styles that she will soon enough incorporate into fighting in the future.

During their time together, Scarlett helped Nymbus by helping her change in attitude and appearance, as well as being able to fight back. She soon discovered that Nymbus was very fit to become a huntress and urged her to join her in becoming one. When the two graduated, with she being one of the smartest in their year, they were both recommended for Beacon, which she accepted wholeheartedly.

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.

Bloody Glamour
Scarlet can imbued her nails with dust, either by dunking them in her specially-made dust-nail containers (most effective way) or directly from her dust rings (least effective way), sharpening them and gaining a special design and color based on the type of dust used. She can have one dust type on one hand at a time, and trying to use another type will remove the previous. The amount of dust within the nails are split up for each nail, and using it causes the color to fade from the nails. Once all of the dust is gone, the nails revert to their original state. She can also continuously create a trail as long as she has enough dust for it.

The ability enables Scarlett to create dust trails whenever she attacks with her hand or nails. Activated by Scarlett's aura, the dust trails will react and activate the dust's effects. The effects vary but its usually an elemental explosion. She usually creates trails from slashing with her nails and activates it quickly afterwards to quickly and easily add in more damage.

She can directly affect these trails and be activated by her as long as she's within close proximity to a part of it, as the dust trail activates like a fuse that goes from one side to the other but the activation is quite fast, almost instantly in fact. For one she have the trails behave like ribbons, but can't have them touch anything as touching something causes the dust to stick to it as well as break the trail. She can also activate and launch it using her aura and body movements like kicking, and does this technique frequently to give her more range.

These trails, however, can be affected by outside variables like wind, which can cause them to move or deform, objects, as they can break the trails, and water, especially if its rain. Due to these, Scarlett tries to make her dust trails as long as possible and done as quickly as possible before immediately activating it, all before any of the possible aforementioned variables can take effect, if possible of course.

Prowess
Scarlett is small but very nimble, and is surprisingly strong for her size. 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.

Scarlett has an unconventional way of fighting, which is mixing her taekwondo training with multiple dance styles, essentially fighting by dancing. This makes her quite unpredictable and surprisingly daunting to face off against as her agility and short stature makes her a very difficult opponent to hit. She's also quite skilled in her use of aura, and can manipulate it well to give her an bigger edge in a fight.

She is also a great Dust-user, having focused most of her free time in her earlier years learning and training her skills with dust. She uses these in a variety of ways but often in close quarters. This may seem like a risky tactic given her physique, but mix in her dancing skills, cunning, and agility, and her once dangerous approach is now not only very effective against most opponents, but makes her able to open up opportunity for her allies to follow up.

She's quite a force to be reckoned with in environments where she can move easily around or has cover for her to use, as she can quickly and effortlessly move around and through these obstacles with little worry, but consequently she's not that effective on unstable terrain and is susceptible to tripping, as well as against opponents that have range. She's especially wary against flying Grimm, or any Grimm that can take her by surprise or from afar.

Most grounded Grimm are easy targets for her however even if their in a pack, as her dust proficiency and unconventional fighting style makes her able to move around and dodge multiple attacks from many different directions gracefully and add in her semblance, she's a dancing storm of elemental fury that can wow a crowd without trying.

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 gave her reasons to tease others with.