Heather Sunrise

Heather Sunrise is a member of Team SHIN. The other members are Shell Stillwater, Iola Sky and Nelia Golden.

Appearance
A friendly smile will meet you as you encounter the green-haired girl named Heather Sunrise. Surely, like a sunrise her bright smile and pleasant look she gives everyone can brighten up your day, and like evergreen plant the name Heather means she looks calm and patient, and above all very, very green. While her bangs are drawn aside to show her forehead, her hair otherwise is very long. Her flowing green hair reaches back towards the middle of her back, and she typically binds two loose front twin-tails from her side-hair with white hair-bands at half-length and lets them hang there decoratively. Her hair is kind of rough, but still has flow to it, sort of the same organized chaos that plants get when it grows, and it all adds to her kind smile and outlook. But, it cannot be helped to say that, even with how much she looks like that... Heather looks mysterious, no two ways about it. Like there is a secret behind her, that she doesn't tell anyone, just... smiling...

Heather will typically be wearing clothes that long green cloak which reaches down behind her down past her knees. However, in the front it divides from where it is bound together by a small string just below her neck and will then divide further the further down you go until it rejoins that behind her knees. This is to allow her legs to move forward. The cloak typically covers her arms, but it rises with her arms when she lifts them. Underneath, Heather wears what almost appears to be another cloak or a form of dress, since the garment appears to go around her body under her arms at roughly just above her chest, and the slightly darker shade of green cloak goes down to end just beneath where her legs starting with a little V over her crotch but showing enough to inform that she is wearing dark-green shorts underneath. The second cloak/dress has a belt bound around it by her waist, Heather needing somewhere to put a pouch on. The back of the main cloak has her emblem on it. All three garments, main cloak, under-cloak and shorts have bright red lines going along the edges to bring some other color to all the green. Heather's legs are constantly exposed, and they end in a pair of moderately long out-door boots. Behind her back, under the main cloak, she hides a few straps which allows her to carry around the parts of her weapon.

Personality
A smile. That is the first thing that you will encounter when you meet the girl called Heather Sunshine. For the most part, Heather likes to be on the sidelines and watch over the others. It is with calm amusement at watching the world around her revolve that Heather watches on. She prefers not to influence the actions of others too much, and just hang on the amusing situations that she might encounter. The smile always remains, unless something she dislikes happens. Of course, in battle Heather will take her part and ensure that the people she cares about makes it through the day so that she can witness the drama of life on a more personal level. Of course, Heather also intends to take part and mildly influence them in the direction she desires and possibly put them through some tests. This, of course, means that Heather would rather not be in the center of attention and avoid doing anything else than personally support those around her. Of course, if the situation requires it, Heather is more than happy to take charge, likely to just comment a little personal "Oh, well~" and then get to action.

Heather lacks an absolute goal with her life, which she will realize shortly after enrolling in Beacon. Become a Huntress? Defend the world? That doesn't exactly appeal all that much to her. The reason she went to somewhere where she could fight Grimm was to munch on them. Sure, she could write a cook-book, and kind of intend to. But Heather seeks in people around her for a bigger purpose, and by that she will analyze them, and see if things take form. The green-haired girl is quite capable of socializing, making herself look pretty and stay perfectly rational even in the most intense of situations. Heather doesn't even seem like she's capable of feeling fear or pressure. Sometimes the green-haired girl can blow over the top and join into the more crazy happenings around her, she very much reflects the personalities of those around her as it fits her and if she thinks is fun, but always she remains in control of any and all of her childish urges. That is, baring a single really major one.

Eating the Creatures of Grimm. It is something which Heather learned to do once, and is not capable of stopping. After a battle (or even during a battle) the green-haired girl may cut off parts of the enemy beings of darkness, properly fry them and eat. Apparently, Heather considers it thoroughly delicious and encourages others to try the same. She has several recipes prepared which she has made herself, and therefore brings all the necessary ingredients to battle. It is the single one largest and strangest oddity that this otherwise mysteriously sane individual seems to carry, but she seems rather morbidly aware of what she's doing. If you're supposed to get sick from eating Creatures of Grimm, then one can simply assume Heather is immune to that. Other than that, it is confirmed that she is very good at reading people, and Heather can understand almost all of a person's personality and distinguish events from their childhood by just listening to them talk, hearing their experience echo through their voice. That has made it part of her personality to listen in on people, spying on them from a far distance yet so close.

Weapons And Abilities
The weapon of Heather Sunrise is called Tylus Avinelis and is, to begin with, a large automatic sniper-rifle with two ends. It is really powerful, and has a slightly unique look. See, it doesn't seem to have a correct direction to be held. There is a handle for the weapon to be held in both directions, there is a scope and a barrel to look through and shoot in both directions. This sounds pointless, but it should be noted that Heather is pretty good at multitasking. She can sit on a range and snipe out enemies on a moment's notice, but she can also do this while standing and just having shot the enemy behind her. The sniper is really powerful, capable of blasting a hole in most and, for the most important thing, it fires in both directions at once if desired to. This allows Heather to pack heavier rounds, for any force aimed backwards will be neutralized by the force forwards in the opposite direction. It also allows Heather to do really amusing stunts when surrounded, blasting enemies on both sides of herself, and she is more than capable of using the two-ended sniper-rifle as a battle-staff to hit enemies with the blunt barrels, it is powerful enough to handle that.

But when push comes to shove, Heather has an even larger weapon. She can detach the scopes and handles and hide them under her cloak behind her back where she has several holders for these, and take out the huge meat-cleaver slab which hides there and attack to the twin-barrels. The weapon now becomes considerably heavier, but Heather carries this weight constantly on her back anyway. The weapon is now a giant meat-cleaver instead with two barrels of a sniper-rifle in both directions. It is not near as subtle or fast, but she can carve through bones and meat alike and split her enemies into pieces with this heavy axe-like weapon. In addition, she can still fire the sniper-barrels in both directions and use the bullets or the force of the shots for clever tricks and tactics. A personal favorite of Heather's is to lodge the blade as deep within a Grimm as possible from above, and then repetitively blast the top and bottom sniper-barrel to make the cleaver saw back and forth through the body of the beast. Also creates really nice pieces to eat later.

Heather's Semblance is the Semblance of Omnisense. She can use her Aura to sense the presence of other people and beings and how things look around her without needing to get any form of input from her other senses. This means she will be able to locate that stealthy person without even moving a muscle, when she has it activated. When activated, it makes her impossible to sneak up on, makes her not need to use her eyes to know everything that goes on around her and it does mean she will know when any of her friends is in trouble without needing to confirm in a tight spot. Of course, it isn't always Heather can act fast enough to counter whatever she senses, but the knowledge counts. She uses this to spy on people that doesn't know what she's sensing, and to get a better sense of a battlefield around her. Effective range is 20 meters. However, all she gains is knowledge of the shape of objects where she is sensing, she cannot read written words with this power or hear spoken words. She'll have to use her eyes or ears for such things. In addition, keeping this active exhausts her, so Heather will need to pick good times to activate this power of hers.

Heather is rather skilled a fighter and a rather strong girl. If nothing else, she is a very good learner and as such has quickly learned to do the things she needed to do in a short time. Using her ability to learn quickly, in the beginning of her life the green-haired girl learned to handle economy and everything about deals and the rules of the law, well enough to be able to pull fortune in the direction of her family. She also learned that she needed to be able to read the other businessmen, and therefore learned how to read them and now has an additional ability of being able to read a person and what they might have experienced by listening to them talk and watching them move. After having been stranded in the wild, Heather was forced to learn how to survive in the wild and how to fight, and this she did too. All of this are things that the green-haired girl simply needed to learn in order to survive, and it is with these skills she now goes to Beacon. ... ... ... She also has learned how to cook and eat Creatures of Grimm.

Strengths
Heather is a strong fighter that can naturally learn the enemy by watching them. Her weapons are deadly, her strength considerable and her calmness in battle combined with that Semblance makes her able to assist her team-mates in their time of need. Should she need to, Heather is more than happy to step in and deal with the enemy, reading them and defeating them efficiently. She is also very good at talking and manipulation, and can do things to turn the situation she desires into one in her favor. Heather is good at making friends, and with her ability to reflect the mood of other people, she will quickly turn into a capable diplomat who can get on the same page as a lot of others. They key-word is learning. Heather is good at learning what she needs to know to survive, and all above is a result of this ability to learn...

Weaknesses
That said, Heather can be overconfident. She might think that she's more than what she is. The thing is, even if she has learned these things so naturally, she may have spread herself out too far. She's a good marksman, a good frontline fighter, a good diplomat, a good reader of character, but... Not the best in any of those features. A powerful frontline fighter will overpower her. A powerful focused long-range combatant will out-shoot her. A brilliant diplomat with lots of experience will outwit her. A person used to people that can read other people can trick her into thinking s/he's something s/he isn't. In addition, Heather can be rather slow on the battlefield, and may not be able to act on all the knowledge she gains. Highly annoying to her.

Backstory
Heather was born on the edge of the city, to a rather poor little family. They had their own little bakery that they dedicated their hearts and soul to, and with a lot of work they managed to scrape by. They never were very great at the thing called economy, and they paid for it in spades. But they did scrape by, and that was all that was needed. It was a happy little family, with two parents and their two daughters doing their best together to get what was needed and bake their bread that the customers used their money to buy. Heather learned a lot of valuable lessons from those years, turning more efficient at shop-managing than her parents and even outsmarting a number of other businessmen and fairly and squarely fooling them into taking deals that would in the end fail them.

Heather is really good at reading people and making them do what she wanted them to. So with her on top, her family grew in wealth. Unfortunately, one of these businessmen realized he had been played, and didn't take this kindly. He cut off a trade shipment which the Sunrise family was taking and managed to strand them all out in the wilderness. He had pretty much sentenced them to die, eaten up by the Creatures of Grimm or otherwise starved as people from the city with no survival knowledge out in the wild. Luckily, they happened to be travelling with a hunter. ... A completely incompetent hunter who got killed by the first Ursa they encountered, but not before he had awoken Heather's Aura, just in case. So, with that, it was now up to Heather to fight and protect her family.

And so she did. Despite no previous training in the world of combat, Heather quickly proved herself a fast learner as she picked up the dead hunter's weapon and blasted the Grimm to pieces. As the Grimm started to evaporate from smoke, the rather famished Heather was hit with a rather... controversial idea. How about they eat the Grimm? There did, after all, appear to be flesh and blood inside of them! Now, the player cannot for one ounce even the slightest imagine the problems or otherwise thoughts surrounding eating the Grimm, and the player certainly has no idea how the Grimm would taste like or if it does anything against hunger... But there was one thing for sure, a fact that no person could deny. Heather tried it, and found the taste... inexcusably delicious. Better than she could ever have imagined.

Heather and her family eventually returned home after many hardships where the businessman thought they'd die, and he got to learn from his mistakes the hard way, Heather made sure of that. But... after all this, Heather had become a rather proficient fighter. And as well, there was that taste of Grimm which she'd never get to taste again if she returned to her normal life with her normal family. So, the green-haired girl consulted with her family and eventually it was decided. Her family would continue the bakery while Heather went off to Beacon to attempt becoming a huntress, so that she could spend her life fighting off the Grimm in the same way she had proved efficient at and fight for the forces of good. ... And then there were that fact she's bringing an entire cooking set to cook Grimms on the battlefield, but she didn't tell her family that part. Tihi.

Trivia

 * Heather is an old English name meaning "Flowering Evergreen Plant". Green is in there.
 * Heather was based on Hannibal Lecter, following the theme of famous killers. Hannibal in particular was famous enough a fictional killer to be allowed on the team regardless.
 * Tylus Avinelis is Lithuanian and means Silent Lamb. The Silence of the Lambs was the second book about Hannibal. I did not use the first one, Red Dragon, because the word Red is in there and Heather is green.
 * Image made using the Mega Anime Avatar Creator by Rinmaru. Surely, a shame I cannot draw myself...