Dalia Kulde

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Appearance-Physical
Dalia is a good-looking girl, but she is not the prettiest or the thinnest. She is athletic, not heavy set, but looks strong. She has thick dark blue hair, which she has tied back in a ponytail, which is held in place by a dark blue leather band. One strand of hair is white, which goes across the top her head, but often falls to her left cheek. Her skin is a fine ivory, which looks and feels soft to the touch. She has a bright smile and perfectly kept white teeth. She likes to take care of her appearance, as it means allot to her. Her eyes are a sterling silver, which help to give her a look of rich beauty.

Attire
Dalia takes to battle in the attire she trained in, whilst living in Northern Atlas. She wears a dark blue tunic, which stops just above the knee and has long sleeves which stretch over her hands to incorporate her thumb. It is delicately decorated with fine white thread to create a diamond like pattern at the skirt of the tunic. Across her waist she wears a thin brown leather belt, which connects to another belt which goes across her left shoulder. On her legs, Dalia wears a pair of light grey legging, which are met at the knee by her tall brown leather boots. Over her shoulders, Dalia wears a sleeveless piece of white fur. On her upper arms, she wears three sheets of silver plate armor, a vambrace, lightly inscribed with a white metal. These reach down as far as her elbow. On her wrists is her weapon set. On her head is a fine silver metal lace with a sapphire as its center piece.

Personality
A girl who was raised to be a respectful and honest young woman, Dalia has followed on from her parents’ teaching. She is well-spoken, honest and respectful to everyone. She dedicates herself to attaining good grades, working hard, being a valued student, being helpful and of course making sure she proves herself a worthy huntress. Dalia is a kind soul and selfless, which does make her a target of people who would want to abuse her nature. She really wants to appease everyone and hates if someone doesn’t like her. Dalia’s desire to be liked, does leave her exposed to being influenced by popular people, in order for her to feel liked. However, Dalia is a very hard worker, which makes a great asset to any team. She always wants to help teach others or assist others with their work, often to the point where it makes others lazy.

Being trained well since a young age, Dalia is a commendable fighter. Dalia makes effective use of her mobile cover to lay down a hail of ice quarrels. She is an effective supporting shooter and can move swiftly to different positions on the battlefield. However, her supporting fire is better used on smaller targets and her efficiency is combat is tested, having only her gauntlet as an offensive weapon. Despite this, Dalia is a well-composed fighter, who keeps a cool, confident head in battle and will never charge headlong without assessing the situation first. She isn’t the most tactical in battle, but when given orders, she is quick to follow them.

Weapons and Abilities
Weapon(s): Grail - One of Dalia’s twin silver gauntlets, Grail is the smaller of the two. It is also the only gauntlet to be decorated by a large dark blue metal cross. The cross extends outward in every direction roughly twenty centimeters, before unfurling several metal plates to create a shield. This shield is silver in color with the blue cross dominating the shield. The unfurling of the shield is quick and the metal is light enough for swift maneuverability in battle. Even without a shield up, the gauntlet itself is still strong enough to deflect attacks or break through a defense. Obvious floor with this weapon is range.

Weapon(s): Shroud - The other of Dalia’s twin silver gauntlets, Shroud is the larger one, as it is often used in its usual form. Unlike its smaller counterpart, Shroud does not bear a cross but rather a small crossbow. The crossbow is folded back behind the hand, so that it doesn’t interfere with the fist in combat. The crossbow is folded inward until the small dark blue flower on the bottom of the gauntlet is twisted inwards. Once this happens, the crossbow unfolds and works on a small 6 quarrel ammo system. The crossbow fires with a latch that extends toward Dalia. There is a four second pause between each quarrel firing and loading. The ammo clip is placed side on in the crossbow and falls out when empty. Ammo clips are placed on Dalia’s shoulder belt, so that she can reload one handed. Through practice she has perfected reloading straight from the belt. The quarrels have been crafted with a certain pale blue dust, which ensures that they freeze on impact, as well as pierce the skin. Although the effects of freezing are instantaneous, they do not last long and can be broken easily after three seconds. However, it is the sheer weight in number, which help to bring down an enemy.

Abilities: Farsight - This semblance grants Dalia with the ability to see over great distances or spot unseen enemies (E.g. through walls, in buildings). However, the ability has been known to induce extremely vivid nightmares, which have plagued Dalia since she was a child. These vivid nightmares have thought to be real imaginings as they do feature people from her life, but this is unsure.

Back Story
Born into a well-off family in Northern Atlas, Dalia’s parents have always wanted her to succeed. They have never wanted anything more than for their daughter to succeed in life and do well for herself. Therefore, right from her birth Dalia’s parents have been pushing her to work hard. She was taught to read and write from a very early age. She learnt history, geography, science, art, literature, maths and technical engineering, from a number of different tutors. She was taught how to play the violin and the piano between lessons, as well as how to paint. Yet despite all of this direction toward the sciences and arts, Dalia had greater fascination with the stories of the huntsmen and huntresses fighting the endless Grimm. So it was with great reluctance at first, that Dalia’s parents allowed her to be trained by a Huntress, who went by the name of Algalia. She was a woman still in her early thirties when she was hired by Dalia’s parents to train her. Dalia was only seven, when the intense training began.

Algalia taught Dalia without much enthusiasm. Every time Dalia believed she was doing something right, Algalia would correct her mockingly, making Dalia depressed and upset. However, Dalia believed that her mother and father had convinced Algalia to train her like this, so she would give up trying to be a Huntress. So Dalia began to be spurred on by this reluctance and perfected her technique until Algalia could say nothing but praise for her. Algalia unfortunately would not break her compassionless teaching and brutally pointed out that Algalia had no weapon of her own, so was no Huntress. Undeterred, Dalia set about designing her own weapons. Using history books and weapon schematics, Dalia designed Shroud and Grail aged only 13. However, it took Dalia a year to convince her father to get the plans designed, but once they were designed, Dalia felt she could take on the world.

Finally believing that she was worthy in Algalia’s eyes, Dalia revealed her weapons to her proudly. Once again, Algalia denied her any recognition, causing Dalia to explode in a fit of rage. After shouting and raging with seven years of pent up rage, Algalia smiled and left seeing the kind, little kitten reveal her claws. Knowing that she still had work to do, Dalia worked hard to ensure she knew everything she could about being a Huntress. She studied for hours on end, hoping to ensure she was ready to attend Beacon. Finally aged 17, Dalia applied for Beacon and bested the rigorous tests to win her place. So Dalia set out for Beacon, her parents scared for well-being, but at last proud for her success.

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