Lila Bloome

"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."

Lila Bloome is an original character created by WeissSchnee. She is a member of Team C.B.L.T and alludes to Pandora.

Appearance
Lila is a young woman with a slim build, purple hair, blue eyes and fair skin. People often comment that she is very beautiful. Lila is the shortest of her team mates and compensates for this by wearing platform boots. Lila's main outfit consists of a white trench coat with purple accents and straps, a zip front sleeveless purple top, black leather pants with multiple purple straps and black platform boots with purple and white accents.

Biography/ History
Lila was born and raised in Mistral by her mother. Her father was never in the picture, having left her mother before she was born and stating that he didn't want anything to do with her, or so she was told. When Lila was young, she became curious about a box that her mother kept locked in her office and always told her never to touch. One day, her curiousity got the better of her and she stole the key for the box. Inside, she found letters that showed her father had been married to another woman when she was conceived and that her father's wife had paid her mother to leave. She had also continued to pay her over the years to ensure Lila and her father never had any sort of contact. Both upset and angry, Lila confronted her mother and the two had a massive argument. This resulted in Lila leaving home to find her father. The two were eventually met for the first time and instantly got along. Lila learned that her father had once been a Huntsman and after learning that she too wanted to become a Huntress, her father encouraged her to follow her dream. Lila took her father's advice and after completing four years of training at a combat school in Mistral, she applied to and was accepted into Beacon Academy.

Lila and her team were out in the field on a mission when the Fall of Beacon occured. They returned to Vale once they learned what had happened to assist with clearing out Grimm and helping to secure the city.

Personality
Lila is, for the most part, seemingly cold and distant. She says very little, even in the company of people she knows and feels comfortable with. She has somewhat of an inability to open up to others, but is working on it with the help of her team mates. Her quiet and calm demeanor is often the only thing that can temper Tanner's very loud personality.

In Combat
Abilities:

Lila is the powerhouse of her team. She is capable of inflicting tremendous amounts of damage and destruction in a short period of time. In combat, she wields a split blade assault sword (SBAS) called Misery. The weapon's default form is a large, two handed sword. The second form of this weapon see's the large sword being split and the two halves transform into machine guns. Lila's above average strength makes this weapon a devastating tool in her hands.

Lila also often takes up defensve roles n the battlefield, her stamina and endurance coming in very useful when she has to hold a certain choke point or defend a team mate.

Aura: Lila's Aura is purple in colour.

Semblance:

Lila's Semblance is called Momentum. Lila is capable of increasing her own momentum, which assist her in combat by allowing her to carry out heavier and more powerful strikes with her weapon. Lila can use Momentum for five minutes before becoming too exhausted and needing to regain energy before using it again, but because of the toll it takes, she prefers to only use it for individual attacks (usually to end a fight) rather than use it continuosly for a period of time. She has thus far been unable to apply the effects of her Semblance to anything or anyone but herself.

Trivia
- Lila's name is Arabic for 'From the lilac tree'.

- Lila is based on Pandora.

- Lila has a pet cat that she found as a stray shortly before coming to Beacon. It's name is Hope. This is another allusion to the story of Pandora, where the only thing left in the box after she'd opened it was hope.