Moira Lynwood

"She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world bui lt up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven." - D.H. Lawrence

Profile
Species: Human

Race:  White/Anglican

Height:  5'4  or 163 cm

Weight:  120 lbs or 54 kg

Age: 26

Likes:  Order, extravagance, luxury, freedom.

Dislikes:  Oppression, manuel labor, disrespect, long hikes.

Fighting Style:  Nevermore

Fairy Tale Inspiration: Mary Poppins

Appearance
Moira is a tiny, slender woman, with most of her muscles in his legs and core. She dresses in loose, flowing clothing to allow for easy, fast movement and -- admittedly -- to make herself look like more intimidating. She has medium-length white hair that is kept up in a ponytail at the back of her head, with the fringe wrapped in ribbons at the front. She wears a skirt that's slit up both thighs and is made of loose, porous fabric that breathes very easily. Her top is more of a maroon jacket that drapes over her chest, kept there with a sash that she hides things in. She wears oxford heels and fingerless gloves, and she always is carrying around her umbrella -- called "Camelia" -- that is her weapon, alongside her specially crafted Dust Powered Accelerators (DPAs). Her DPAs are controlled by small buttons built into her gloves. She often looks bored.

Outside of combat, she dresses in a simple black suit and lab coat, befitting her profession.

Back Story
An high-ranking inventor for a prominent but shady arms company, her goal is to free the control of Dust from the Schnee Company and make it more widely availible to all. However, that's just what she says. In reality, she wants control over the Dust trade and the money and resources to make her invention successful and popular.

During her research, she designed the Dust Powered Accelerators, a device that allows a person to fly for extended distances and control their trajectory with small, controlled Dust explosions. Her design was rejected, citing the difficulty of use and overall impracticality and that it was too wasteful with Dust consumption.

Since then, she has worked relentlessly not only to push her DPAs as a valid combat tool, but also to sabotage the Schnee Company on a public relations level and in the shadows by hiring mercenaries (sometimes leading the groups herself) to steal vast quantities of Dust. She's starting to become recognizable to Schnee Company guards due to her unique weaponry and her signature DPAs.

As a child, her parents had trained her to be a huntress, having her study Grim Chance from a young age. She attended Beacon and quietly dropped out after two years, claiming to have better things to do with her life than fighting monsters.

Personality
She's vicious when it comes to combat and excells in executing dirty tricks and catching her opponent off-guard. Moira is quick to snap and won't hesitate to punish insolence with a slap. She is a stern leader and will not tolerate misbehavior or derivating from the plan.

She loves flight more than anything else, and when soaring through the air assisted by her DPAs, she often experiences euphoria. She's happiest in the air.

Moira finds solace in books and likes to study architecture, finding new ways to make things lighter and more structurally sound at the same time.

Her morality is a darker side of grey and she believes that the means justify the ends.

Weapon

 * "Camilia"

Her umbrella is made with sturdy, moderately light materials and the fabric between ribs is woven with titanium alloys to keep it from breaking easily. The ribs themselves extend at the push of a button to reveal blades that she laces lightly with Dust. The arch of Camilia is very flexible and go from being extended like a cheap, wind-blown umbrella (note: it will not do that without a button being pressed) to extending out completely straight like a spear, to fanning out like a bamboo parasol, to being like a normal umbrella. It is mechanical for the most part and runs mostly with natural forces such as tension, but sometimes, to add a little power to the transformations there is a small reservoir of Dust that can be used if the button on the bottom of the handle is revealed from its compartment and pressed.

Camilia also functions as a sniper rifle, which Dust-laced bullets loaded into the angular, square handle of the weapon and shot down the tube and out the end, with the trigger in the crook handle.


 * Dust Powered Accelerators (DPA)

DPAs function similarly to jetpacks, except they're a little more intuitive. Even when the propeller are not being used, the device still consumes an amount of Dust to keep the device more lightweight and to keep the propeller chambers suspended (the hovering external parts are also assisted by electromagnets). DPAs have six propeller chambers formed by two sets of three, one default at fourty-five degrees, another perpendicular, and the third at more of a one-hundred-twenty degree angle to the user. These positions again can be controlled by the buttons built into the gloves on her hands. In order to prevent accidentally activating them while fighting, the system will automatically detect a weapon in the user's hand and isolate controls to the opposite hand.

Propulsion is achevied with small, contained dust explosions in the propeller chambers. Normally, this would be perfectly safe, but there is always a chance of depository Dust build-up in the propeller chamber, causing the dust residue to build up over time and eventually become unstable. During trial runs, two testers ended up gravely injured and the device was deemed to dangerous and impractical for use in battle. Ms. Lynwood insists that the supposed impractically is merely because they didn't bother to take the time to figure out how to suit it to their battle style, and should not limit the public from using DPAs and that the buildup issue could be easily resolved with a few more runs. However, the issue has never been resolved and cleaning the propulsion chambers is a frequent hassle.

Eventually, the funding for the formal, commercial development of DPAs was cut completely and now any improvements made to them are by Ms. Lynwood herself, to her own prototypes.

With the assistance of DPAs, Ms. Lynwood can reach nearly nine-five mph when propelling downward. This speed is unsafe and usually used when she's using her DPAs to put more momentum into her strike.

Trivia

 * "Camilia" is a reference to Camilia Japonica, which in the language of flowers means "unpretending excellence."
 * Her weaknesses lay in how lightweight she is, and thus easy to toss around.  Her quick temper can easily be taken advantage of.