Quill Quenn

"The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill   

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom."

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Appearance
Quill is a dark skinned, feathered Raven Faunus with hollow, brittle bones like a bird. Her eyes are grey with slit pupils. She wears a white, zip-up vest with black piping and collar, striped gloves, and camoflage combat pants. Quill has black, bobbed hair with bangs so it doesn't get in her eyes too often, and if one looks close enough, you can see that not all her hair is actually hair. Parts of her hair are actually smooth feathers.

She's tiny.

Personality/Background
She began training as a Huntress to escape her family's crippling poverty and zealous involvement with the White Fang. Quill had always been frightened by the idea of fighting monsters and her brittle bones didn't exactly make her fit for combat, but anything was better than remaining at home. However, she also fears that becoming a Huntress will just turn her into some sort of run-of-the-mill soldier, a slave to the military, but so far she's seen nothing in particular to confirm these fears.

Picked on by her human peers for her bizarre features, Quill endured years of torment and mockery and she feels that she's a better person because of it. In her youth, she used to try to shave off the feathers, which resulted in many bloody messes, especially on her face. That, and they'd remain bloody afterwards due to the new growth of feathers irritating the skin. After many attempts at removing her feathers and subsequent severe blood loss, her mother made her wear white so she could tell if Quill had tried to shave them again. Even after Quill stopped trying to cut of the feathers, she kept the habit of wearing white.

She was urged to learn how to properly manipulate her aura due to her brittle bones. After countless broken bones, she made her main focus aura manipulation. Eventually, she grew to be a near master of the art, and has reached new heights because of it.

Quill is the strong-silent type and isn't very good at communicating verbally. She's very smart and educated and keeps up with current events. Her main concern is the civil unrest among Faunus and she fears civil war. She's an avid current events blogger and has been writing a memoir detailing her early-childhood in a family involved in the White Fang which she already has a publishing deal for and plans to finish shortly after she graduates Beacon.

Combat
She's fast and hard to hit unless she's falling. Due to the exposed feathers on her arms, she descends at a slightly slower rate. But otherwise, she has the muscled body of a fully-grown Huntress and the light-weight structure of a preteen, except her bones are hollow and easy to break. One good hit when she doesn't have her semblence activated, and she's down and needs medical attention.

Her semblence causes her aura to flow through her bones, reinforcing them and keeping them from breaking under duress. She can keep this up for vast amounts of time, but if she wants to do something else with her aura, then she has to let it fall.

She fights with kunai knives that don't have anything special about them.

Trivia

 * Most of Quill's physiology is based off of the Maximum Ride series, sans a few modifications.
 * The Team QKSR is pronounced "Team Quicksilver."