Candela Quitral

Appareance
Candela is a young woman with wavy shoulder-length burgundy hair and fair skin. She has brown eyes and has a curvy yet tonified body. Since she's a dog Faunus, she has a pair of black ears over her head.

Her outfit consists of a long vintage dress in shades of wine red, burgundy, dark orange and black, a red/burgundy/black corset, black/light brown leggings, and vintage boots that have the same colors of her dress. She also wears a red/black choker with a lapis lazuli stone, a hairnet with little lapiz lazuli beads, a black hat with flower and feather decorations (therefore hiding her Faunus ears), and light brown lace gloves. She also has some earrings and a eyebrow piercing in her left eyebrow.

Personality
Candela is, funnily enough, a warm and understanding person. While she seems to be very lady-like and formal in her exterior, she's actually the opposite when you get to know her. When she's with people of her age, she behaves in a more carefree, shameless way; she even becomes more foul-mouthed and crude in her expressions.

Candela isn't a fan of conflict and therefore she tries to keep her team as peaceful as posible.

History
Candela belonged to a upper class family, and while they sometimes experienced racism because of their Faunus traits they always were resilent and never cared about those comments; not to mention all the family possesed fire-related Semblances for defending themselves (...)

Weapon
Candela has a Dust Ignition Zweihänder-Cross (DIZC) called Cristo de Mayo as her weapon of choice. It's a cross-shaped weapon that on its collapsed form is around 155 cm tall. Besides its idle/collapsed form, it has 3 modes:
 * Cross form, which is the default one;
 * Torch/trident form, which is the option that produces the most fire;
 * And Zweihänder mode; the shaft of the cross acting as its sheath. In this mode, Cristo de Mayo is around 180 cm long.

It has several fire Dust crystals incrustated, which turn the weapon on fire; though these can be changed for other types of Dust crystals if Candela wishes to, and Candela herself can change the intensity of the fire on the weapon with her Semblance. Since Cristo de Mayo doesn't have a long-range/shooting option, Candela can only rely on fire breathing for long-range combat.

It's named after the Chilean religious icon of the same name.

Abilities
Candela can be very destructive in battle thanks to both her weapon and her Semblance, and has good defensive capabilities as well because of this. However, she's a slow fighter in comparision to her teammates, and can be deficient at ranged combat as if her weapon can't reach her objetive she must rely on fire breathing, which takes a considerable amount of time.

Her Aura's color is copper, and her Semblance is called Playing with Matches. It consists of herself becoming inflammable by will; when she activates her Semblance, everybody who happens to touch or rub against her will get burnt or even set on fire; a faint touch will only burn slightly, but a strong friction against the foe's skin can set them on fire and cause severe burns. Her eyes get a slight copper-colored shine as a side effect when she has her Semblance activated.

Relationships

 * Paz Himeyuri: Even if Candela is the leader of the team and they have an OK relationship, she's secretely scared of Paz and her cold, merciless attitude, and because of this she hides her Faunus ears.


 * Victor van Rijn: She has a good relationship with Victor, as she's the only person of the team he talks to in a good way. They're pretty close friends.


 * Colby London: Candela is one of the few people Colby treats with respect, and she's careful of having a good relationship with his partner as well, even if she wished she could defend Victor more when both men argue.

Trivia

 * She alludes to the Church of the Company fire, considered the deadliest fire in history.
 * Her emblem is a mix between an oil lamp (an oil lamp caused the fire) and a Chilean bellflower. Candela also happens to have Chilean bellflowers on her hat.
 * Candela's appareance is somewhat based on La Quintrala's. Her weapon's name is also taken from the sacred icon that according to legend belonged to her.
 * The eyebrow piercing she has is wink to Chilean gymnast Tomás González.
 * "Candelaria" is the Spanish word for Candlemas. "Candela" is an unit that measures light intensity, and also means candle in Latin. Since candles are on fire, fire alludes to the color red. "Quitral" is a surname mostly found in Chile that comes from the Mapudungun word kütral, which means "fire".
 * Her name is pronounced kahn-de-LAH-rea KEE-trahl. "Candela" is pronounced kahn-DEH-la.
 * She's specifically a Chilean Terrier Faunus, the first dog breed from Chile.
 * Funnily enough, it happens to be a hunting breed. Chilean Terriers mainly hunt mice.