Opal Glass

Appearance
Opal is quite tall for her age (and yet isn’t even the tallest!). She has long, white hair tied back into a braid and light brown eyes. She has tan skin with birthmarks scattered.

Casual Outfit: white mid-sleeved chiffon dress with black bow.

Prom Outfit: white suit

Battle Outfit: white and black sneakers, black and white striped tank top, black half jacket, and black pants

Pajamas: gray sweatshirt and black boxers, braid bun

performance outfit: white chiffon scallop dress and black shoes, hair out

Personality
Opal likes things to be calm and relaxing and idealizes comfort. However, she hates being stressed and hates cleaning, as she would prefer to ignore it or even have someone else clean up for her. She likes leading people, but in reality she was never so much a leader as she was a boss. She can get very fussy and even obnoxious when not given what she wants, so she was usually just given what she wanted.

She is very open and extroverted, but has trouble realizing other people’s boundaries. Her combination of poor social skills and bossiness made many people not like her so much growing up, so she never really had any close friends until joining Beacon. Upon her arrival, she quickly realized her flaws and for the first time in her life started having doubts on her worth as a person.

Biography
Opal was born in the high-class area of the city. Many people would try to get to know her because they knew her family had a lot of great business connections. However, her parents didn’t own any part of a company or some fortune, they just held nice jobs. When Opal was 7, her parents realized they were spoiling her by giving her everything she wanted and they told her she had to start earning what she wants. Her way of earning ws excelling in school, and she was very proud of herself. At age 9, she started learning the flute, simply because she wanted to. Opal decided to become a Huntress when she learned about how so many people in the world had lives so much more difficult than hers.

Opal loved being in charge, especially in important projects. She commanded people and her peers really didn’t like it, but they allowed her to because she got things done and in an orderly fashion. Opal chose to become a huntress because she thinks it is a role only the greatest can take. Opal likes anything calm and relaxing. It makes it difficult for her to get along with Team leader Lava, especially with their polar tastes in weather and music. The issue turns out, however, that Lava can easily meet halfway with her, but Opal has problems with seeing eye-to-eye with her (doesn’t help that she’s four inches taller). Her problem is that she is so used to being in charge and the leader, and everyone around her would just do as she says. Her not being the leader has given her-for the first time in her life- doubts on herself.

Weapon and Abilities
Opal’s weapon is her flute, which transforms into a sword and shield. To transform it, she breaks the “foot” of the flute off from the body. The foot becomes the Rainbow Shield and the head and body become the sword.

Opal’s semblance is The Breath of Life. While not very useful during battle, she uses it to heal herself and others. To use it, she has to breath on an open wound. The larger and deeper it is, the harder it is for her to heal. Ultimately, she can’t mend broken bones or internal damage.

Relationships
Lava Rubio: Opal becomes quickly jealous of Lava after she is assigned leader, and they quickly learn that they have completely polar tastes in everything. Opal makes a continuous effort to not compromise at first, but eventually she gives up fighting her and learns to be content.

Valentine Pinch: Opal has trouble taking Val seriously at first because she “looks twelve” and her behavior matches. She teases her for it and Val is okay with it, but eventually tells her to stop if she isn’t going to treat her as an equal for it.

Ebony Smith: Opal’s partner in the initiation, Ebony has trouble talking to Opal because she tends to takes the conversation by the reins and lead it wherever she wants. Opal finds that she has little in common with Ebony so she doesn’t really bother trying to talk.

Trivia/Author's Notes
-Appropriate to her name, Opal’s birthday is in October. Her birthstone? Opal.

--Her weapon name refers to the “Key of C-Sharp Major.” In this key, every note is sharp. And it’s a sword. So it’s sharp. GEDDIT?!?!

-Rainbow Shield is named after the colorful pendant made from- you guessed it- Opal.

-Like Opal, I play the flute!

-Although it was unintentional, it seems that parts Opal’s design and personality were inspired from Maggie Lacivi from Ava’s Demon, my favorite webcomic.

-Opal is the only character who’s theme song is classical and instrumental.

-Opal originally had a long ponytail and her color was more “blue,” but I decided it was too similar to Weiss.

-Opal’s can be many colors, but they are most commonly associated with being white with a Rainbow of colors.

-Opal’s symbol is an old-fashioned F-clef, which has been used as recently as the 1980’s. My mentality in using this as her symbol is that it “changed very recently.” Also I think it looks like wind, and flutes are wind instruments. However, as a flute player Opal wouldn’t be seeing F-clefs in the first place!