Marsali Roane

Profile
Name: Marsali Roane

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Race: Faunus (Fox)

Height: 5'0" (5'2" with ears)

Weight: 125lbs

Hair: Orange-Red / White

Eyes: Dark Violet

Symbol: Encircled Fox Tail

Appearance
Marsali has a heart-shaped face and an aquiline nose. She has two fox ears marking her Faunus heritage. Her long orange-red hair is tied into a ponytail that ends at the small of her back, and the last two inches of her hair is bleached white to resemble a fox's tail. She has an athletic build. Marsali has a burn scar on her left forearm that starts fairly thin near her wrist and wraps around her arm as it gets closer to her elbow, where it ends.

She wears a dark violet track jacket over a white tank top, with matching track pants. Her jacket has her symbol on the back in dark grey and thick white stripes around the arm near each shoulder, while her pants have white stripes going down the side of each leg starting just below the pockets. On her left arm, she wears a dark grey glove that ends just past her elbow.

Personality
Marsali is a quiet person who is not likely to try and interact with people outside her close-knit group of friends, and even with those close to her, she tends to keep her thoughts and opinions to herself. She generally focuses on her weapons training and ignores those who try to approach her unless they are offering to spar with her.

During late spring and early summer, Marsali becomes notably more irritable and hostile. This is due to her allergy to flower pollen, which is abundant in the air during those times.

Weapon
Name: Whisper

Type: Single Edged Gun Knives

Marsali carries two identical semi-transforming gun knives collectively called Whisper. The hilt is the same dark violet as her track jacket and is shaped like a pistol grip. It is able to adjust its angle from a gun-like shape (about ~112° angle between barrel and grip; for better accuracy when shooting) to be in line with the blade (for an easier time cutting or stabbing with the blade.) The barrel of the pistol component runs along the spine of the blade about four-fifths of its length. The blade is 7" long and is dark grey in colour. The pistol fires a .40 calibre dust rounds.

Fighting Style
Marsali is notable in that she focuses on cross-discipline with her weapons training, though her main weapons are twin pistols, she can use multiple types of weapons to varying degrees of effectiveness. Her main focus is with knives, daggers and shorter swords that are just too long to be called daggers. The weapons that she is weakest with and has training in are polearms, though she has a basic understanding of some stances she has no practical experience with them. She has not yet had the chance to start training with clubs, maces or axes as of yet. She is generally considered to be closer to the lower end of the rankings for other students of her year.

Marsali generally focuses on quick movement in battle, having great spatial awareness she is a keen dodger and is able to close distance fairly efficiently despite not being as many of her peers, though she is usually not able to maintain an effective distance with her weapons for long, mainly due to her opponents usually having more experience with their weapons of choice than her.

Semblance
Marsali's Semblance is Sound Nullification, allowing her to nullify the sound she makes through the use of destructive interference. She wraps herself in her aura and it acts as a directional speaker outputting sound waves towards the source of the noises she makes nullifying the sounds. She can use her semblance to effect other people (nullifying the sound they make instead), but it drains her aura faster the further she is from the target, and as such doesn't use it this way often.

Backstory
Marsali was born and raised on a farm in Patch. She was the second of three children, having an older brother and a younger sister. Her father was a botanist and farmer, while her mother was a huntress. Despite her allergies, Marsali was very keen in following in her father's footsteps early on, often following around through the farm and watching him work. Her mother, being a huntress, unlocked Mars' aura at a very young age, and this allowed her to discover her semblance relatively earlier than most people. Her semblance manifested from her desire to watch her father work without disturbing him, allowing her to silence the sneezes and sniffling that were caused by her pollen allergy.

Marsali's allergies slowly started making her more and more irritable. One day she got into an argument with her parents that led her to run away from home. She was gone from home for a week before hunger overcame her pride and she decided to return home. She never got the chance to apologise to her parents, as when she made it back to the farm, she found it in flames and her parents were killed. When the police arrived they informed Marsali that her younger sister was safe because she had been spending the night over at one of her friend's house, but her older brother had gone missing.

The following investigation turned up that the fire was caused by arson, but the police were unable to find enough evidence to suggest any suspects. About a month after her parents died, Marsali received a message from her brother along with a sizable amount of money. The message asked that she look after their little sister, that the money would be a sort of living allowance from him that he would send to her once a year and if she needed more that she'd need to find a job and start working.

Marsali decided then that she would become a huntress, like her mother, and find the person, or people, who killed her parents and bring them to justice. She enrolled in Signal and began her training. At first, she had trouble deciding on a weapon to use and enlisted in multiple weapons courses to find what fit her the most. It took her a few years to decide to focus on knives, yet her instructor implored her to continue with her cross discipline training even though she had decided on a weapon stating that though it would be difficult for her right now it'll only make her a more capable huntress in the long run.

Trivia

 * Marsali is a Gaelic word meaning pearl