Cerise Sirene

"Eugh... Boring! Come on, surely you can at least try to make this fight a little interesting?"

- Cerise Sirene Cerise Sirene is a seventeen girl who was born within the City of Mistral. After a successful singing career, Cerise felt the need to change trades and so decided to apply to Beacon academy. She is the leader of Team CRCT.

Appearance
Cerise, as a professional dancer, is very physically fit with a slim figure. Her skin tone is quite neutral, being neither tanned nor pale. Her eyes are a bright teal in colour, whilst her hair is navy blue. Her hair is cut into a straight fringe, with the rest of her hair cascading down her back. Cerise wears a white cropped jacket with short sleeves, that is lined with pink highlights. Underneath that is a grey corset with the bottom half left purposefully undone to show off her star-shaped navel piercing. She also wears a pair of white, baggy cargo pants are held up by a grey belt that features a silver buckle. Another belt around her hips is attached to a pouch that rests on her left thigh, used for holding supplies.
 * Huntress Attire

Cerise also wears a pair of pink fingerless gloves that have silver pyramid-shaped studs on the knuckles, whilst her lower forearms have white ribbons wrapped around them. Her boots are also pink, with white metal plates around the sole, over the bridge of her feet and at her heels.

Cerise is never seen without her signature pair of her own brand headphones. Her pair are mainly white with pink highlights on the band and the ear pieces (Other colours and styles are available.) School keeps her own vivid boots and gloves with the uniform, alongside keeping her headphones with her, either around her neck or back in place on top of her head.
 * School Uniform

Character
Cerise just loves to be happy. Even when she's singing a deep, depressing song she's doing so to get the feeling off of her proverbial chest and get back to feeling herself again. And from that love of being happy comes Cerise's personal mission in life: To try and make the people around her happy, to the best of her ability.

That being said, Cerise works on a trust basis when it comes to people. No matter what, she would be kind to someone from the moment she met them. It takes a lot to push her to her limit, but when that line is crossed there is little chance of coming back. A lot of time and work would have to be placed in regaining that trust. The only time that rule isn't true is if anybody mentions of her physical 'flaws', all of which Cerise love as part of herself. Any comments on this will leave Cerise angered for a short while, before she would spring back to her normal self.

Backstory
Cerise was very fortunate to be born into a loving family in Mistral. Even as a young child Cerise loved to sing, and her parents were only too happy to film her. Eventually these home videos caught the eye of talent agencies looking for their next big thing. Cerise was still young and her voice was only developing, but one company took a gamble.

This gamble paid off as Cerise suddenly made it big as she hit her teen years. Slowly people were falling for Cerise as one of the latest singing hits, with what had only been a small following within Mistral suddenly jumping to a major fanbase worldwide. The best part was that Cerise was loving every moment of her life. Not only was she doing something that she loved, but she knew that around the world people were enjoying her songs.

Eventually Cerise was contracted to go on a tour. Four stops in all four cities. Four major concerts. Cerise organised the staging and the choreography of herself and her backing dancers herself, whilst her screw arranged everything else. The Vale and Vacuo concerts were some of the best nights of Cerise's life, and went by without a hitch. However, the Atlas concert became memorable for all the wrong reasons, as after the concert one fan broke through a barrier in his desperate attempt to get to her. Without a security team Cerise was exposed with nothing else to do but punch the man herself. She hadn't wanted to do it, and it threw her off for a while. Cerise, along with her crew and her parents, agreed that should a security slip up happen again Cerise would need need to protect herself. Cerise started to take self defence lessons in various forms of martial arts.

When Cerise turned sixteen she decided that as much as she loved singing, she wished to take a break from being in the public limelight all the time. Seeing as she was no longer bound by a contract, Cerise decided she would stay with the record label for one more year. After that, she would put the skills she had learnt to good use, training to become a Huntress. As always her family were happy for her to head out and adventure the world, and helped her acquire both her weapon and safe passage into Vale.

During the initiation Cerise found herself literally falling into her new teammate, Russet Drake. After the initial friction between the girls had passed the pair actually found themselves getting along. It was Cerise who picked the Black Pawn relic for the pair. Cerise wouldn't meet her other two teammates, Chloe Liakada and Tsuki Sukaretto until the ceremony later in the evening.

Cerise's school life was rather average. She found herself enjoying the Vytal Festival a lot, especially the Ball and the tournament. During the Battle of Beacon Cerise stayed with her team to help them fight until the mandatory evacuation. In Vale Cerise then chose to stay and help in any way she could, refusing multiple offers of transport back to Mistral.

Weapon
Cerise's weapons, known as "Cherry Bomb", are actually her boots. The overly large sole of the boot is used to store various mechanisms. In active mode, the metal plates on the back of the blade slide inwards but also rotate out, forming a single blade down the back of her heel. A short white blade also sticks out at the toe of the boots.

Fighting Style
With no form of ranged weaponry, Cerise relies entirely on CQC tactics. Her main style is based around kick boxing, with dance moves and flips added in. Cerise also uses her flexibility used before for dance moves in order to dodge attacks or even attack at unusual angles. However, no matter what she is doing, one rule almost always stands. All of her strikes are done in time with the rhythm of the music.

Semblance
Cerise's Semblance is called "Up-Tempo". When she activates her Semblance, a spinning white ring of light will appear at her feet, quickly moving up the length of her body. When the ring vanishes Cerise becomes covered in a pink glow. In this state, Cerise's speed is doubled and she leaves a slight pink trail in her wake as she moves.

However, Cerise cannot use her Semblance too long, or for long bursts as energy is still required for all of her actions. Her increased speed means that she is completing more actions within an equivalent time frame, and is therefore still using the same amount of energy, just at an increased rate. For this reason Cerise only uses her Semblance in short bursts, either to get to a location quicker or to overwhelm an opponent.

Trivia

 * Cerise is a shade of pink, as well as being the French word for cherry. Sirene is the French word for Siren.
 * Cerise is based off of various female Vocaloids, most prominently the ones featured in the 'Project Diva' series of games. However, the umbrella does include those who are fanmade or simply not featured in the games.
 * Specifically Cerise's outfit takes design influences from Megurine Luka's "Cybernation" module.