Aliza Valentine

Personality
Raina is a lively woman who has often been know as the life of a party, never sitting still for more than a few seconds. She is constantly flitting around and approaches every situation with maximum enthusiasm. Raina's favorite thing to do when she has the time is to go out in the city to try and meet new people, making as many new friends as possible.

Raina treats her classes like a giant game, leaving her actual teaching skills a bit lacking. However this is compensated by the fact that she treats her students with the utmost care; treating every word that comes from them as if it was the most important thing in the world. She also always manages to find just the right amount of energy to give her students, making her quite the councilor.

She can be quite forgetful at times though, often having to set several reminders for herself to do mundane things. This can lead to some friction between her and the other staff members as she often forgets to file necessary paperwork and reports on the student's progress.

Backstory
Raina was born in a medium sized city in Atlas to a middle class family. Growing up she was always the center of attention and as she got older was considered to be quite a party girl. However she never liked school, finding it boring and because of this her grades suffered to the point where she nearly failed out due to the fact that she didn't do her work. This changed however when she met a huntress one day coming home from school.

Raina had always heard how awesome the huntress and huntsmen were but had never met one in person before. Here was this super cool woman who laughed in the face of monsters and spat in the face of evil! She was a real life action movie hero and got paid for it! It had to be the best job ever and she wanted to do the same thing.

As the woman talked to Raina it became more apparent to her that if she wanted to be as cool as this woman she would need to buckle down and at least get good enough grades to get into a combat academy, and that's exactly what she did. After graduating from her primary school Raina began training to enter the Atlas combat academy in secret, not wanting to have her parents worry about her. After three months of training Raina went to the combat trials for the school and passed them, although just barely.

When Raina got home that evening she informed her parents of the truth behind what she had been doing all summer and her intents to become a huntress, much to their dismay. They begged their daughter not to endanger herself this way and to find a safer, more suitable job for a young woman such as herself. This led to a long and heated fight between the three that lasted for nearly a week before her parents accepted that their daughter had made up her mind and nothing would sway her. As Raina went off to the Atlas academy they wished her luck, told her they loved her, and silently prayed that she would be safe.

At Atlas Raina quickly rose to get top marks in active classes like combatives and semblance usage but scored very low on classroom classes an theory based instruction. This lead to Raina graduating towards the bottom of her class, not that it much mattered to her because she was finally able to do the job she'd been dreaming of for years. And for the first year of it, that's exactly what being a huntress was; a dream job.

Unfortunately as time passed and Raina was finding her time as a huntress to be less fulfilling as she thought it would be. Sure it gave her freedom to work when and how she wanted, but without a steady team she couldn't take on bigger missions and the normal grim she had been fighting though her years of training and school had become a dull grind. Raina was considering a change of careers when she was approached by the headmistress of an academy from the kingdom of Vale. This woman named Carmalita was offering her a job to continue what she was doing while managing to teach a new generation of huntsmen and huntresses. This was a prospect that Raina hadn't considered but sounded as though it could at least be challenging and thus a good adventure and accepted on the spot. So Raina packed up her life, said goodbye to her parents; who were ecstatic to hear that she was getting a safer job, and moved to Vale to become a combat instructor at Refuge Academy.