Mary Schino

Appearance
Mary is a short and svelte woman with pale skin, bright red eyes, and long brown hair tied in high pigtails by red ribbons.

She wears a white short sleeved blouse with a red ribbon tied at the collar. Over the blouse is a black pinafore dress with plate armor over each hip. She also wears white knee socks that have red ribbons tied around the top and black shoes.

Personality
Mary comes off as an energetic and cheerful girl. She eagerly wants to be involved in exciting activities and gives her opinions on most every topic. At times she is sassy and snarky with her remarks and can be quick to loose her temper. She is also fairly scatterbrained, shown by her short attention span. Although Mary is a go-getter, she's not suited for leadership positions. She needs a level-headed figure to keep her focused.

Matching her volatile personality, Mary has a powerful interest in pyrotechnics. Even she can't explain attraction to it, but it might be a curiosity towards her deceased parents, who died in a fire.

History
Mary was raised by her grandparents in Vale after her parents died in a burning building when she was an infant. She lived a happy life with her grandparents, helping in their bakery, gaining many domestic skills, and learning from their life knowledge. However, she was always restless and always wanted to experience new things. At a young age she was inspired by her grandparents' stories to become a Huntress, and she kept that dream until she was old enough to join Signal.

Although she was not the best student, she never gave up her dream. She was accepted into Beacon and was immediately awe-struck by the older Hunters and the Huntresses in her team, soon forming especially close bonds with them.

Weapons and Abilities
In battle, Mary is quick and nimble, capable of dealing heavy damage while avoiding hits. However, she can't take heavy hits herself, making her a glass cannon.

Weapon
Mary wields a red colored AA-12 shotgun capable of firing explosive rounds. For melee combat, the shotgun can rearrange itself into a baseball bat.

Semblance
Mary's semblance, named "Cherry Bomb", enables her to manifest her aura into red spheres of volatile energy that explode on contact with an enemy or at her own will. The spheres can't move on their own, so Mary needs to propel them either by throwing them manually, hitting them with her bat, or with a kinetic sweeping force during their manifestation. The bombs can be combined with Dust for various effects (i.e. Ice Dust will freeze an enemy caught in its explosion). Mary also sometimes uses the Cherry Bomb to launch herself into the air.

Other Skills
Having been raised in her grandparents' bakery, Mary is a decent cook, albeit most of specialties are sweets and pastries. She also knows how to mend garments and fix common appliances and mechanisms.

Trivia

 * "Mary" refers to Bloody Mary and the color red.
 * "Mary Schino" is a pun for maraschino (candied cherries).