Weldon Dread

Appearance
Her hair is straight, golden blonde and sloppily chopped at chin length while her skin is tanned with freckles all over from being out at sea. Westley has a pair of small round ears on top of her head that match her hair colour and she often hides them beneath a black bandana. Her eyes are an ocean blue and her eyebrows are thick and bushy. Nose is large and is the most notable feature on her face. Her lips are plump, round and coloured a blood red. Westley’s taller than the average female at 5”7’ with wide shoulders and small breasts. She has enough muscle in her arms to support her small weight, but not enough so as to decrease her agility. Along both of her ears are many black studs and piercings to make her seem more intimidating. She also has a plethora of tattoos, mostly of black dragons, also for the purpose of intimidation. Westley has a series of scars along the left side of her face and torso from a Beowulf attack that she was lucky to survive. Her nails are ragged and rough while her hands are calloused due to work.

Westley wears a black collared shirt; the torso being black and the collar being blood red. The sleeves have round cut outs trimmed with red from just below the armpit to the elbow joint and from just below the elbow to the wrist. She also wears dark grey gloves underneath her sleeves that stop at her wrist. Her shirt stops just above her belly button to hide her scars, but show her tattoos. Westley wears a dark grey belt over her shoulder and across her chest, on her waist, and has two smaller grey belts on her thighs. These all have blood red buckles and are used to hold her marlin spikes. Westley wears skin tight black pants and knee high black boots with thick fold at the top that is red.

Personality
Westley is a very headstrong and curious person. She has been since a young age and her fatherhas always disapproved of her for it. Her aggressive nature was revealed at a young age and her mother pushed her to try swordplay to channel it. Westley quickly found that she enjoyed it and became handy with a sword. She knows how to use all of the common types of swords and even a few less common ones. While she excels at physical feats, she’s not very good with book smarts. Westley is far from stupid, but just hasn’t honed her intellectual skills in favor of practicing her weapons training. She can perform basic math and she can read, but she isn’t very knowledgeable in other areas. Westley is more of a street smarts person than a book smarts person.

Westley is very adept at reading people and can tell when they’re lying. She also has an impressive poker face, which makes her hard to read. Her stoic nature leads people to believe that she is cold and uncaring, which to a certain extent is true. Westley does not trust easily and if it is broken once, she will not trust again. She’s very good at holding grudges and resentments, even towards her own family members. Westley does not love easily in a familial or a romantic sense. Even though Westley is ruled by emotions, the most common being anger, she can easily hide them from others and shows selectively. Very few people have seen her true smile, mostly just her smirk or smug smile.

Westley doesn’t like to stand out, finding it easier and more beneficial to blend into a crowd. She has a penchant for blending in and uses this to her advantage when on a mission. She’s very good at lying and can bluff her way into or out of any situation. She also has a very nasty cruel streak and doesn’t hesitate to eliminate people in her way. On her journeys as a pirate, she’s killed many a person. She tries not to let other people’s opinions affect her too much and there are very few things that genuinely bother her. The most notable one is people questioning her skills due to her age or gender. From a young age she's been able to hide her emotions and has only gotten better at the skill.

Weapons and Fighting Style
Her main weapon is her black and red scimitar named Shakespeare that she wields with her right hand. The hilt is black metal with ornate dragon carvings while the blade is tinted red. Shakespeare was given to her by the previous pirate captain of the pirate ship Revenge, who handed the sworn and his name down to her, as is tradition. It’s simple and does not change or transform into another weapon. On her left arm, Westley has a bracelet that transforms into a black metal buckler named Prince. She uses it in tandem with her Scimitar for close quarters combat. Her secondary weapon is a plethora of red marlin spikes that are filled with dust, mostly fire dust. These marlin spikes have small fuses at the end that, when lit, activate the dust inside of them. These are used at a distance and discretely in order to weaken an opponent before she attacks. Westley lights the fuse using her semblance.

Westley’s fighting style is quiet, quick and close. Before she engages in close quarter combat, she weakens her open using dust filled marlin spikes. Once her opponent is thoroughly weakened or she is spotted, Westley closes in for combat with her scimitar. She is very agile, quick and flexible which allows her to strike quickly and retreat momentarily by flipping away. Westley has much stamina and can tire her opponent out during the fight. Even though she is a fairly skilled fighter, Westley prefers to talk her way out of confrontations before charging in recklessly.

Aura and Semblance
Her aura is a blood red colour. Westley was never formally trained to use her aura and, as such, doesn’t know how to wield it to its fullest affect. She can make small deflections, but cannot do anything major with her aura.

Westley’s semblance is called Azar and allows her to produce fire from her body. Without formal training, Westley can only produce a small flame on her fingertips to light fuses and cigarettes. More training would mean being able to make a larger flame and from different parts of her body.

Backstory
Katherina grew up on a small island named Padua just north of Vacuo. She was born to the esteemed Plata family, the largest producers of silver in the world. Her mother, Verona, died giving birth to her younger sister, Bianca, and she has always resented her for it. She also disliked Bianca because their father favoured her over Katherina. Bianca was favoured because she is a carbon copy of their mother with brown hair and deep blue eyes. Katherina was born a Faunus, like her mother had been, and was forced to keep it a secret, lest her father’s business partners use it against the company. For many years, she wore a large silver bow to cover her ears.

Katherina was tutored in many things such as geography and history, but couldn't focus. She was filled with too much energy and aggression to be able to sit still for the long hours studying required. This was when her mother decided that she should take up swordplay to release her pent up aggression. Katherina was thankful when her educational studies stopped at 15 in order for her to be present in high society. While she hated her studies, she hated the social scene even more. Eventually, Katherina learned to lie through her teeth to her father's business partners and weed out information from higher ups.

When Katherina was 17, she fell in love with a servant named Zhabine. They met in secret because she knew that if anyone found out, they would both be disgraced. The eve of her 18thbirthday at a public party, her father unexpectedly announced that she would be marrying Petrich Ore, the son of the largest iron company in Remnant. He had hoped to unite both of the companies and become even more successful. Doing what she was taught, she pretended to be happy and accepted the congratulations graciously.

That night, she talked to her father and asked him to break off the engagement. Her father refused, saying that she would never get a better offer because of her personality. The next day, Katherina began making secret plans to run away with Zhabine. He was hesitant to leave his comfortable life and venture into the unknown. She made arrangements to leave through the southern port, but she had to travel through the Grimm infested forest in order to get there. On the night before her wedding, Katherina and Zhabine prepared to leave together. On the edge of the forest, he backed out; saying that, while he does love her, he cannot go with her. She told him to wait for her and said that she needed to lie low and then she’d come for him

Katherina snuck through the forest in the dead of night. Three Beowulfs picked up on her scent and quickly surrounded her. Armed with only a scimitar and her wits, she faced off against them. Katherina had only been able to kill one when she was overwhelmed. One Beowulf rushed her and she barely missed its claw, only taking a deep gashed on the left side of her body. Just as the Beowulfs were about to charge her, they both dropped dead. Katherina looked to see a man, dressed in all black and holding a rifle.

He introduced himself as Captain Dread, captain of the pirate ship ''Revenge. ''He asked her why she was out in the dangerous wood so late and, upon hearing her story, he took her back to the ship. Katherina quickly found a home there as she was trained to become a pirate. She enjoyed her time at sea, but her heart still lied in Padua with Zhabine. Five years later, she heard of Bianca Plata’s marriage and decided to return home. On her journey, she’d realized the resentment she'd felt towards her sister was childish. When she arrives in Padua, she looked so different that the citizens didn't recognize her. Katherina's hair was now a lighter blonde from the sun, her ears pierced, and skin tanned with freckles. She also had a large dragon tattoo on her left bicep.

Katherina walked up to the Plata estate and her father immediately recognized her. He was furious at Katherina, calling her selfish and a disgrace to the Plata family name. They get in a large argument which forces Katherina to flee the Plata estate. She asks around town, hoping to find out where her sister was in order to make amends and congratulate her. Eventually, she finds out Bianca's new address and quickly rushes towards the home. Katherina is heartbroken to find that the man Bianca married was Zhabine, the servant that Katherina loved. Bianca relayed the story of how Katherina's escape inspired her to run away from their tyrranical father and that Zhabine has helped her. The two fell in love and Bianca was with child. Faking a smile, Katherina says her congratulations to the couple and leaves.

Not wanting to relive her heartbreak, she runs away again to the pirate ship. Katherina tells nobody of the story, saying simply that she no longer wanted to dwell in the past. As a symbol of her new life, Katherina chops off her long golden hair. The other crew on the pirate ship know something is wrong and silently comfort her without prying into her business.

Captain Dread knew that Katherina needed something else to focus on and he considered her his daughter. He decided to retire from a life at sea and handed over the Revenge to Katherina. She gratefully accepted the ship and was declared the new captain. According to tradition, she took up the name Westley Dread and the captain's scimitar named ''Shakespeare. ''The now retired Captain Dread settled on a small island called Patagonia.

As the captain of Revenge Westley ruled mightily and cruelly for two years before the ship was taken down. During an attempt to steal from a Schnee dust ship off the coast of Vale, her ship and crew were taken hostage. Westley managed to just barely get away and, not having anywhere else to be, decided to stay in Vale.

Now, she's living in a small apartment on the shady side of Vale. She's become a petty thief, stealing dust and other valuables from the rich. Due to Roman Torchwick's string of dust robberies, the price of dust is high which gives Westley a lot of money to play around with. She secretly sends most of it to Bianca and Zhabine in order for them to live a nice life.