Summer Astraea Aurora

Summer Astraea Aurora is a second year Beacon student and member of Team SSAN.

Appearance
Astry is tall and has a well-rounded body and has white hair that fades to a golden hue at the tips. Her hair is spiky, with a group of strands standing up at the top of her head. Her bangs are long and tied in a braid at the left side of her face to keep them from blocking her vision. Covering her neck is a plumage of feathers with the same coloration as her hair.

She wears a complex suit of armor woven into a thick, buttoned-up, long-sleeve, tailcoat reinforced by a metal skeleton (which is needed to fit in her armor to her clothes) woven in between two thickly woven, strong fabric and is akin to a bulletproof vest. To cover her legs, she wears pants made of the same material as her shirt, as well as reinforced by a metal skeleton.

Covering her chest is a fitting breastplate that has her emblem painted on the middle, while covering her shoulders are small shoulderguards that also have her emblem painted on in the middle. Her forearms are covered in thick metal gauntlets lined with a thick, heat-insulating fabric.

Her waist is protected by petal-shaped armor connected to a guard that covers her crotch. Her thighs are covered by a thick metal-plating held together via belts, while her lower legs are covered with modified greaves while her feet are covered in sabatons.

Backstory
Summer was born in poverty, in a town ravaged by civil unrest and racial discrimination. Her parents, for unknown reasons, left her in an orphanage when she was very young, with her first name being the only thing she knows.

After a few years she was suddenly adopted by a military officer from a camp nearby and was taken to his home in Vacuo. Despite her race she was easily accepted into the soldier's family and was given a new name, Astraea.

Due to her step-father saving her while working, she has gained an interest in anything military-related like weapons, vehicles and people, and has since dreamed of becoming someone like her adoptive father.

During her teen years she began to question her true parents' whereabouts. This brought her to her step-father, who also didn't know but tried to help her nonetheless. Sadly, he soon found out that he accidentally killed them during an escort mission via grenade. The news greatly saddened him and filled him with both guilt for killing them and fear for losing his step-daughter's love. Yet, despite this, he still told her, saying that she "deserved to learn the truth."

As he expected, the news caused outraged her and she quickly distanced herself from her father. However, her father was persistent, and constantly asked for her to talk to him. This request was ignored until a month afterward, where she finally gave up and listened to his message.

"I was the reason you lost your family, and because of that you may never forgive me. But even if you despise me for the rest of your life, even if you hunted me down and killed me later on in your life, I will still love you. So please let me, even for just this one moment, give you my love, not for me nor my family, but for your's."

Her father's words reached Summer, and she soon enough forgave him with a hug. Afterward, her relationship between her step-father improved. She was now even more determined to become like her step-father, who retired when she reached 13.

During her previous school years, she was known for wearing military-esque outfits and armor, and created her own weapon, the Daring Damsel. When she graduated she asked her step-father if he knew any good schools, and he answered with a few famous schools. She decided on attending Beacon Academy, due to the school's reputation.

Daring Damsel (Heavy Ballistic Machine-Buster Hoverboard)
A weapon described as large enough to hide an average person behind it, the Daring Damsel is Summer's one and only weapon. It is a large buster sword with a complex set of handles that enables her to hold the weapon in many different way.

The weapon is around 5 feet long and 1 feet wide. It is double-bladed, with a set of two blades: an outer blade and inner blade. To give the weapon strength while also keeping it relatively light, both blades are hollow and have a thickness of 3 inches. To increase the strength of the outer blades even more, they were configured to sit on top of the inner blades. The outer blades are connected via a T-shaped mechanism (Or simply T-mechanism) in the middle of the blades with a function that moves the outer blades allowing them to spin 180° into what she calls the Ex-Damsel, as well as shifting the Damsel into it's gun form.

Daring Damsel's gun form is a light machine gun that keeps its ammo in a small drum-magazine placed at the right side at the base of the weapon's right inner blade. The gun can fire two bullet per second, with each magazine holding around 50 machine-gun rounds.

Lining the weapon's inner blades, as well as the guard and a few revealing parts of the T-mechanism are thick lines of dust that glow and enables the weapon to act as a hoverboard, giving it maneuverability to compensate for its size and weight. These parts, when using wind dust, also alleviates the weapon's overall weight.

The weapon, despite its size and utility, is very difficult to use and needs a user to be both strong and experienced in using large weapons similar to it, like being able to shift the weapon's weight around efficiently, as well as keeping in mind the weapon's dust levels to use it at its full potential. It is also a pain to repair, as most of the parts are needed to be disassembled to be able to effectively repair its many parts and mechanisms.

When unneeded. the Daring Damsel sheathes into a relatively smaller, box-shaped blade with the handle being kept unchanged.

Prowess
Summer is a strong and sturdy warrior with a well-toned body. Her arms are somewhat shorter than the average person's, but they are built to handle a great amount of weight, like her weapon. Due to her weapon she moves rather slowly if not for it having a hoverboard feature, thus giving her the ability to switch between locations quickly with little effort.

After creating her weapon, she discovered it was large enough to be used defensively. Due to its large size, it can hide a person like herself behind it, thus making it a portable makeshift shield that she can carry around to protect others. This only improved when she activates the dust on the weapon and giving it effects like blowing away anything in close proximity.

Thanks to the multiple handles she can hold it in many ways. This eases her use of the weapon, as she now only needs to apply pressure at a specific handle rather than just forcing her whole body into it.

When using the weapon's gun form she prioritizes giving cover fire rather than actually hitting something. The weapon's gun form is very effective against Beowulves and Nevermores, but lacks the actual punching power to pierce through the tough armor of a Deathstalker.