Tawny Lettel

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Appearance:
Tawny was a young girl of average height with an athletic build. She had long, light brown hair, large pale yellow eyes and lightly tanned skin. She also had a beauty spot under her right eye. Her main outfit consisted of:


 * A sleeveless white shirt with brown ruffles and trim


 * Brown pants with a LOT of pockets


 * A white belt with a gold buckle and studs


 * Knee high white boots with a small dagger strapped to the side of each


 * A white arm band on her left fore-arm emblazoned with her personal emblem


 * A white head band


 * White finger less gloves with back hand cutouts


 * A pocket watch/ compass that hung from her belt

Personality:
Tawny was an incredibly compassionate, caring and fiercely protective young woman. Very much a mother figure to those who were lucky enough to have her in their lives, Tawny was always the one her friends and team mates went to for advice or for when they simply needed a person to vent to.

Despite her often calm and caring nature, Tawny wasn't afraid to speak her mind or dish out some tough love when she felt it was needed. Her loyalty and fierceness in defense of those she cared about made Tawny a valued friend and a stead fast ally on the battlefield. A good student, Tawny was also known to help others study in her free time.

History:
Tawny was born in the city of Vale, her brother having been born three years earlier. Her mother, sadly, didn't survive child birth, leaving her father to raise both she and her brother alone. Several years later, tragedy once again struck the Lettel family. It was the middle of the school holidays, and because their father was busy working at the Vale Police Department, Tawny (who was nine years old at the time) and her brother decided to go adventuring in Forever Fall. Tawny's brother was in his first year at Signal and was training to be a Hunter. He wanted to show off the weapon he'd made to his sister, a bow that could split into two blades called Reperio, but Tawny was more interested in the white anemone flowers growing beneath some of the forest's red leafed trees.

The two were walking through the forest when they were suddenly set upon by two Ursa. Tawny's brother managed to kill the first one, but was killed protecting his sister from the second. Terrified but wanting to avenge her brother, Tawny grabbed Reperio and scrambled up the nearest tree. As the Ursa clawed at the trunk, trying to swat her down, she fired a single arrow and, having never used a weapon before, managed to hit the beast between the eyes, killing it. Scared and alone, Tawny stayed in the tree all night. Her father and a search team found her the next day by following the trail of white flowers that she'd been picking and discarding as she walked through the forest.

Since that day, Tawny decided that she wanted to follow in her footsteps and become a Huntress and dedicated herself to that goal. She studied and trained hard while attending Signal, choosing to forgo forging her own weapon and deciding to wield Reperio in honor of her brother. After graduating Signal, she received her acceptance letter to study and train at Beacon Academy.

After becoming a member of Team VYLT and the partner of Leonardo Cambridge, Tawny began to realize and later accept that becoming a Huntress wasn't a future she'd chosen just to honor her brother, but a future she'd chosen because of her want to protect those from suffering loss because of the Grimm as she and her father had. However during her second semester Tawny suffered yet another devastating loss with the death of her father while he was on patrol. Having lost her biological family, Tawny made a vow to protect her team mates who she viewed as her adopted family with her life. In particular, she became quite close to Leonardo and the two eventually began dating. Tawny decided to sell her father's house and keep the money for when her time at Beacon was over.

Tawny, along with Midori and Leonardo, died at the fair grounds during the Grimm invasion that occurred during the Vytal festival. She and the others had been unable to secure transport back to Beacon with the skies being full of Nevermore and so stayed, giving their lives in defense of a large group of children and their parents.

Weapon:
Tawny carried a dividable recurve bow (DRB) called Reperio, a weapon that was originally forged by her older brother and which she took possession of following his death. The weapon had two forms:
 * The first form, which was also the form Tawny carried it in outside of combat, was that of a standard recurve style bow but with bladed limbs. The bladed limbs allowed Reperio to be used in melee combat even in bow form, giving Tawny extra versatility. Tawny used several different types of Dust tipped arrows with her weapon, the color of the fletching on the arrows corresponding to it's elemental tip.
 * The second form saw the bow split into a pair of curved blades, though Tawny rarely used the weapon in this form as she was far more adept at and comfortable with long range combat. The blades were forged using Lighting Dust infused metal, giving the blades to deliver slight jolts and shocks to whatever enemy they came into contact with.

Abilities:
Tawny had impressive speed and agility, both useful in her primary role as team scout and long range specialist. She was also quite adept at free running and parkour, able to make use of even the trickiest terrain during combat. Her stamina was also quite impressive, though she was lacking in both strength and endurance.

Tawny's Aura was light brown in color.

Tawny's Semblance was called Trajectory. It initially enabled Tawny to be able to see what the path of her arrows would be before she shot them, allowing her to line up and make difficult shots that others normally wouldn't be able to. However, before her death Tawny was learning to apply her ability to judging the paths of projectiles coming towards her.

Trajectory didn't enhance any of Tawny's base attributes, so she still had to be skilled enough to dodge incoming projectiles regardless. Also, as an ocular Semblance, Tawny had to be highly careful in terms of over use. It was possible that this could have led to tunnel vision and even ocular damage, which is why Tawny preferred to use it for singular attacks and only for a few seconds and not to have it constantly in use.

Solo:
Tawny preferred to keep her distance from her enemies, using her skills in ranged combat to either weaken them so she could flee or outright defeat them. Her skills in free running and parkour also made it easy for her to navigate difficult terrain.

With Team:
Tawny was her team's scout and primary ranged fighter. She would attempt to secure the highest ground she could during encounters to better cover her team mates or bring down airborne enemies. Tawny was also adept at crippling enemies that her team could then finish off on their own or using combat attacks. Tawny was also the one who came up with most of the team's combination attacks.

Relationships:

 * Viola: Tawny and Viola were like sisters and there fore liked to pry into each other's relationships with Leonardo and Midori respectively. Tawny would often go on food runs into Vale with Viola and the two liked to practice their combat skills together.


 * Midori: Nicknamed the 'Brains Trust' by Viola and Leonardo, Tawny and Midori would spend hours in the library studying, or at least they would plan to and then get side tracked talking about their families and plans for the future. She and Midori were also the ones who managed to get Viola and Leonardo (more commonly Leonardo) out of trouble.


 * Leonardo: Tawny had an instant connection with Leonardo, one that eventually evolved into a romantic relationship. The two of them were like two sides of the same coin, able to bring balance, strength and fun to each other's lives. They had planned to travel Remnant together after graduation.

Misc:

 * Tawny loved the outdoors and would spend as much of her free time out there as possible.
 * Tawny loved sour sweets and would often sneak some into Leonardo's overly sweet ones to watch his reaction.

Trivia:

 * Tawny was based on Gretel from Hansel and Gretel.
 * The name Tawny means golden-brown, and that is how her name follows the CNR of Remnant.

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