Amethyst Aurochs

"There are many things I'm willing to do for love"

- Amethyst Aurochs Amethyst Aurochs is a second year student at Beacon Academy and a member of Team Opal. She fulfills the role of close range fighter and is often responsible for reconnaissance. Her inspiration comes from the Cretan princess and wife of Dionysus Ariadne and the myth she appears in of Theseus and the Labyrinth.

Backstory
Little is known about Amethyst's birth and earliest months of her life. She was found by the Aurochses, a family of ox faunus who went for a walk in the woods several hours outside the city of Vale and heard the cries of a small child. They followed the cries and found a small baby, swaddled in a pinkish-purple blanket. There was no note or any hint as to where she came from. Fearing for her safety and being kind hearted people, they took the little girl in and named her Amethyst, after the colour of the blanket she was in, the only indication that she had been cared for.

Growing up in Vale, Amethyst quickly became aware of the prejudice many faunus faced. Her old brother Cedar, whom Amethyst was very close to, suffered constant torment at the hands of his human classmates. Amethyst would always stand up for her brother, but to no avail. One day, when Amethyst was ten and Cedar was thirteen, a group of older students ganged up on Cedar and became to verbally abuse him before throwing rocks. Finally snapping after years of bullying, Cedar flew into a rage and attacked the students, wounding them with his horns in front of his entire class. By the time the news had gotten back to Amethyst, Cedar was long gone, having fled the school and disappearing into Vale. There was a virtual manhunt for Cedar, who had been slandered by the media, despite the fact that all of the older students were in stable conditions and were back to full health within three days with only one of them needing stitches. During this time, Amethyst scoured the backstreets and alley ways of Vale to try and find her brother and also did her best to throw the police off whenever she could. She eventually found her brother living in an abandoned warehouse, suffering from immense guilt at what he had done, even after he learned the classmates he attacked had fully recovered. After seeing her brother could not be persuaded to return home, Amethyst agreed to keep his location a secret and to visit him as often as she could.