Asharah Maika

"My dancing is pure tranquility, and my dancing is who I am. I am tranquility."

"The three of you really like disrupting my dancing in order to force me to interact with people. Keep it up."

- Asharah to her teammates.

Appearance:
Asharah is a young woman with a slightly above average height and a slim figure and dressed mostly in red and yellow, with some black and white. She stylizes her dark orange hair in a spiky pixie cut.

She wears a cut-off red shirt, a white short jacket with no left sleeve and faded yellow denim shorts, with black heeled boots that run up to her knees and a red stocking on her left leg with holes. She also wears a black lace glove on her left arm that runs up to her elbow, and always has a pair of black and yellow large headphones around her neck.

Personality:
Asharah can be an easy girl to understand, but a difficult girl to tolerate and befriend. She is very peaceful, patient, and has a calm demeanor, however she has a short attention span which is worsened due to the headphones she is always wearing that constantly play classical music. Because of this, it can be difficult to hold a conversation with her, or even get her attention in the first place.

She is extremely devoted to her dancing and will always make the time to practice every day, even if it means putting off more important duties. She also has a habit of ignoring social invitations, and isn't quite sure how to interact with people her own age, often acting more mature and adult-like, serving as the moral compass of her team.

However, she does greatly enjoy the company of people her own age when it occurs, and wants to have many friends. She just isn't sure how exactly to do so, or what it means to be a friend.

History:
Asharah was raised in an elegant upper class lifestyle with her parents and two older sisters. She grew up wearing formal dresses, listening to classical music, being surrounded by people older than her and attending social balls and elegant parties alongside her family. She grew up obeying her parents and understanding the importance of social class.

At the age of fourteen however, Asharah started to become her own individual persona instead of just being what her parents told her to be. She kept the fondness of the music and the dancing, but started wearing more casual attire, often dyed and stylized her hair, and became much more independent, doing things on her own without asking her parents for permission. When she was at home, she would practice her dancing non-stop, which distanced herself from her family. The constant strain of the two sides grew and grew, with her parents becoming increasingly irratated with her disrespect and her sisters percieving her as being naive and childish.

After a year of constant bickering with her whole family, Asharah, finally done putting up with it, packed her bags and ran away from home to live with her loving aunt and uncle, who never liked how superficial her parents had become, being too selfish and obsessed with their image. They looked after Asharah with a love and support she had never experienced before, and she loved it. She was able to do what she wanted undisturbed and was treated as an equal with respect.

She also began taking an interest in her uncle's tales of Hunters and Huntresses, how they protected this corrupted world and shined light through all the darkness. Asharah became inspired to become a Huntress, to help people and be someone people could look up to with admiration and respect.

Therefore she began practicing how to fight with her uncle teaching her, using her love of dancing as a way to create her own fighting style. She quickly loved this new combat dancing and became fully dedicated, training every day and night. For her sixteenth birthday, her uncle got her her very own weapon which she instantly liked and treasured. After two years of training to fight, at the age of seventeen with the help of her uncle, she applied and was accepted into Beacon Academy.

Weapon:
Asharah's weapon of choice is a Jiu Jie Bian nine section Chain Whip, which she calls Petal Flourish. The whip, infused with Dust, has a switch that when pressed, protrudes spikes that cover it all. The whip also can be morphed into a high-calibur rapid fire pistol which uses Red Dust rounds.

Abilities:
Asharah is very flexible and uses her dancing as her own style of combat, which both overwhelms her opponent while making herself very well protected. She controls her whip to snake around her body, the two dancing together in a perfect harmony.

Her Aura burns like a fire and might even lightly scorch the area around her.

Her Semblance is "Leisure": She focuses her Aura around her and makes any opponent in a five foot radius become extremely sluggish, making it appear that she has increased her speed when really she has just slowed down her opponent's speed. However, the weakness is that she becomes extremely vulnerable to ranged attacks, as the semblance can only affect one thing, forcing her to choose, and it takes a great amount of concetration that if broken even for a moment will end immediately.

Relationships:

 * Asharah will often clash with Haylee, due to their different tastes in music and clashing tones, with Amber being a quite girl while Haylee is rather loud. They will usually bicker about music, and mock each other's volume. However, Asharah does enjoy dancing while Haylee plays her guitar, and they do get along when it comes to fashion.
 * Asharah can get very irratated with Scout's energy and volume, much like Haylee, but finds Scout much more amusing to watch, and likes his innocence. She is the most prone to being exhausted with his hyperactive attitude, often giving up and just letting him do whatever he pleases, not wanting to get involved, but still values him deeply as a friend.
 * Asharah will admit that she finds Pierce attractive, but will always follow with how he is egotistical and not her type. She respects his tactical mind and will follow orders, and usually has to keep Pierce in line to be polite and respectful.

Trivia:

 * Her last name, Maika, is a loose meaning for dancing fire in Japanese, which is her color, Orange Red, the color of flames.
 * Her attire is based on Elesis' Blazing Heart class from the game Elsword.