Lamia Reiner

Appearance:
Standing at a height of 5’4 and weighing 60 kilograms, Lamia is a short but athletic girl. Her skin complexion is pale, and her hair is naturally black, usually kept at shoulder length and tied by ribbons into two little buns on the side of her head.

She prefers to dress in revealing or skintight, but comfortable clothing that allows her to move easily in a fight and use her semblance, which requires exposed skin to work. She also wears very little jewelry or accessories, seeing them as only uncomfortable and hindering movement.

Her top is a blue silk tube top that exposes her shoulders and belly, while her bottoms are plain blue silk tights. She also wears long fishnet gloves on both arms, reaching just past her elbows and fingerless, brown leather sandals, and a cotton jacket normally tied around her waist which she sometimes wears when it gets cold. She keeps her weapon, a large knife sheathed on her thigh when not in use.

Her faunus trait are a pair of snake eyes, specifically from a reticulated python. Bright yellow and with narrow slitted pupils that give her a permanent unsettling death glare.

Personality
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Backstory:
Being born to a prostitute mother and an unknown customer who failed to take proper protective measures before “doing business”, Lamia never knew her father, and was unwanted by her mother. She was abandoned at a small, humble orphanage since a very young age, where her miserable childhood only worsened.

The orphanage had ties to a child beggar racket run by a small gang, kids at the orphanage were often made to beg for money in the streets or sell small trinkets to raise funds. But being a reptile faunus in Mistral, she faced severe racism ever since a young age. People often refused to buy her goods or give her money, making her one of the lowest contributors to the orphanage, and mocked by the other kids and the adults.

She did make two friends at the orphanage though. One being a younger crocodile faunus boy named Basilisk who faced similar abuse. The two reptile faunus made a close bond with each other in their misfortune, with Lamia even treating him as her little brother and going to great lengths to protect him.

The other was an old crippled janitor, and a former huntsman that retired due to leg injuries and old age. He took pity on her, sometimes stealing food for Lamia and Basilisk, and teaching her martial arts to defend herself from the other kids an adult’s bullying.

She manifested her semblance at the age of 9, as a means of protecting her body during a fight with a bully. The adults quickly noticed her ability to create crystals that looked almost identical to diamonds, the difference hardly noticeable unless closely examined or broken, and saw an opportunity in her.

Instead of begging for money, they made Lamia a living gem deposit. Every day they would force her to use her semblance and make crystals for them, which would be taken and sold as fake diamonds. Lamia found this incredibly painful and humiliating, hating every second of it. She tried to refuse the gang’s demands many times, but they already knew of her soft spot for Basilisk and threatened to hurt him until she cooperated.

Slowly Lamia developed her anger towards those with power over her. She came to realize that in her world, those with power were the ones to dominate, while the weak were only servants and had no control over their own lives. This way of thinking drove her to train harder and harder with the old huntsman, becoming a skilled fighter by the age of 16 and finally managing to escape with Basilisk from the gang’s reach.

Realizing that alone they would only be caught and taken back eventually, she allied herself with another powerful drug cartel in the region, the Golden Heaven Syndicate. Lamia was glad to give them all the information she knew about the gang’s inner workings from her years working with them, eventually allowing the GHS to destroy the gang and take over their territory. In return, she was guaranteed protection and work for them as an ANGEL.

Presently, she still works with the GHS and ANGELs, acting as one of their main enforcers in Mistral city. Her duties often include brutal beat downs and murders of members of rival gangs, and she relishes the chance to fight many strong opponents, defeat them and prove her own strength and dominance.

Weapons:
Low funds, expertise about complex weapons and a distaste for firearms make Lamia choose not to own or use any customized transforming weapons. Instead, she relies on her own martial arts skills, semblance and only a simple knife to fight.

The knife is made of plain steel, with a 20 cm curved single edge blade and 15cm black cloth bound grip. Its only notable features are a ring just below the guard where a finger can be inserted to quickly spin the knife, switching grips rapidly.

It also has a small Dust slot in the pommel, where a single crystal can be placed to fire up to 6 Dust based projectiles. The Dust type can be switched out depending on the situation, but takes a long time and cannot be done in the heat of battle, it is more of a preparation before headed into a mission. Usually Lamia prefers using Fire or Lightning Dust crystals.

When unused, the knife is kept in a leather sheathe on Lamia’s right thigh.

Abilities:
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Semblance: Solid Snake
Lamia’s semblance is named “Solid Snake”. It allows her to form a crystalline layer over her skin that, acting as armour to defend against attacks, hardening her limbs to deal more powerful blunt force strikes to enemies, or shaping them to sharp edges and points like claws on her fingernails as weapons. The crystals are clear and look almost identical to diamonds, but though still very tough, are not as hard as real diamond.

Recently, Lamia has also been learning to better control the shapes and structure that the crystals form on her skin, allowing her to use special techniques like crystallizing strands of hair and throwing them like needles, or creating a patch of crystal in the shape of a throwing star, which can be torn off and thrown at a target.

The main drawbacks of this semblance is the weight and rigidity of the crystals. Covering too much of her body in the crystals makes movement very difficult for Lamia, as they weight her down and make her unable to bend her limbs. They’re also fused to her skin, and though she feels nothing if an attack is blocked with the crystal, breaking or tearing them off causes great pain to Lamia.

Like most semblances, creating the crystals also drains Lamia’s energy, and she has a limited amount of skin surface area she can cover before severely exhausting herself.

Trivia:

 * Lamia is derived from the cantonese word "Lam" ( 蓝 ), meaning blue.
 * Reiner is in reference to Reiner Braun from the anime series Attack on Titan, the Armoured Titan who inspired her semblance. Though her fighting style resembles Annie Leonhart from the same series more.
 * This character was made to reflect on my personal views on power, violence, martial arts and self defense, as well as being a foil to Helia Natasha, another OC of mine.