Xavia Uther

Appearance


Xavia is of moderate height, not being too short or too tall, but has a stocky, well built frame from her work on the farm as a girl. She may not be skinny like some of the other girls in Beacon, but Xavia is by no means overweight in the slightest - her strong build is pure bone and muscle. Broad shoulders taper down to a thinner, almost manly waist, which is mostly covered by her modest clothes anyway. Sometimes she wears a purple cape, though she foregoes it when not practical.

Xavia has dusty brown hair which, when down, falls past her nose. Her hair is usually swept back by a purple cloth headband and tends to spike towards the back. The shortest bangs tend to disregard all efforts to stay back and fall just into her eyes. Her nose also has a slight bump in it from an accident involving a hoe when she was twelve. Purple eyes peer out from beneath her high forehead, not in a threatening manner but with a slight twinge of curiosity and a warm, inviting openness.

A point worth noting is Xavia's ambiguous gender neutrality - on more than one occassion she has been mistaken for a boy, and never bothered to correct it, and sometimes she purposely dresses in a misguiding fashion for comfort. However, Xavia neither identifies as a cross-dresser nor a transgender.

Personality
Alignment: Neutral Good

Social status: Average

Xavia is well known around her year group, not necessarily for her skills, per se, but for her almost constant optimism and effort which she puts into everything. She is also known for strongly standing up for her beliefs, particularly when Rans or his team antagonise her friends. In reality, Xavia is a much deeper character than that. While she prefers to remain on the optimistic side of things, this is partially because she knows if she falls into a depression, it is a deep, almost mentally depraving depression. Scared of the person she becomes when this happens, Xavia pushes any and all bad thoughts away, giving the impression of a ditzy, airheaded, somewhat shy girl.

In a further attempt to protect herself, Xavia built a persona she has kept since she was little; a persona which has become one of her defining characteristics. In front of teachers, she is a quiet but energetic student, in front of friends, she is rambunctious and loud. Her pashion for justice, learning and fighting sometimes cause her to get carried away with herself, usually in bouts of anger, voracity or forgetting social boundaries. As such, for those close to her like team XABR, Xavia is every part an enigma.

Behind her over-compensating facade, of which is uncertain as to just how much of a facade it is, Xavia is sensitive and lonely. She laughs off insults, as joking as they might be, and valiantly ignores anyone who teases or bullies her, however, if one looks closely one could see just how much Xavia hurts after this situations. The only time she will really step in is if a friend or minority is being belittled. Xavia cares more about her friends than about herself.

Background
Xavia was raised by her parents, Tristam and Guinevere Uther. They worked on a farm just outside the small mining town of Cromell. Since she was little, she learned how to work, and run the farm, growing very strong, but uneducated compared to the other children in the town. At the age of thirteen, Xavia was finally sent to a proper school, and picked up her subjects so quickly that the teachers recommended moving to a nearby city to attend the combat school, Flare Academy. She moved away from home and stayed at Flare for several years, until her seventeenth birthday, when she was accepted into Beacon.

The sole reason Ozpin granted her permission to stay, considering her average to low schoolwork, and her lack of any battle prowess whatsoever, is because of her weapon, Excalibur.

One day, at Flare, on a practical assessment, situated near a rocky ravine in the middle of the mountain range, Xavia's group was attacked by a wild Nevermore. The surprise attack forced the teens to flee away from the main group, and Xavia was left alone. She managed to climg down a cliff face to escape the Grimm, and found herself in a dark cave, with a sign: "He who pulls the sword must by bure of heart, mind, and soul."

Without thinking, and in a hurry to find a weapon to replace her old one. Xavia pulled the blade from the stone and consequently sliced the Nevermore's talon clean off, saving a team member from certain disembowelment. After this, the blade suddenly retracted, leaving a wedge-shaped club which was not nearly as splendorous as the blade had been. She now is searching for the person who can re-activate the blade, somebody pure in heart, mind, and soul. Ozpin may just know who this person is.

Relationships
Xavia tends to get along well with most people - until she has to live with them, that is. Her relationship with team XABR as a whole has always been somewhat rocky, although it has gotten better since the first day at Beacon.

Asami Kusanagi: Asami is Xavia's partner, and they do not get along as well as Xavia had hoped. Xavia's attempts at being friendly are often shot down and a source of amusement for the others, though Xavia feels that most every word Asami says shoots down her self confidence even further. This doesn't mean they are hopeless, because the two wil still look out for each other, whether they are ready to admit it or not, and have saved each other's lives on more than one occasion. Xavia often calls her by her last name, and vice versa.

Qing "Blu" Long Dao: Xavia and Blu are practically opposite ends of the morality spectrum; while Xavia believes strong in equality and empowering the weak and individual freedom of expression, Blu is very much a utilitarianist, believing in the rights of the many and adhering to every rule. The two are constantly fighting when they aren't dealing with their own partners, and sometimes arguments can end in full-scale battles, which have to be called off before Blu beats Xavia to a bloody pulp or Xavia knocks his teeth out. Xavia dislikes the word 'hate', but her relationship with Blu is the closest thing to it.

Ridl Volsung: Xavia and Ridl get along surprisngly well, considering how cheeky and random Ridl is. Xavia, though she almost never approves of what Ridl is doing, actually finds her comparatively tolerable, and, as they spend more time together, becomes more prone to causing trouble (Though not to Ridl's extent). Xavia often relies on Ridl to bring her out of her anger or sadness after a disagreement with Blu or Asami, though Ridl is not always sensitive enough to Xavia's needs.

Rans Arch: Xavia has a personal score to settle with the leader of team RCHA. Not only has he personally and publicly humiliated Xavia from day one, but has, multiple times, made direct and derogatory comments towards Faunus, Blu's dad, and Asami's adoptive parents, which is the main source of Xavia's bad feelings. She constantly gives him glares so as to get him to back off.

Cress, Hank, and Angon: The other members of team RCHA are of little consequence to Xavia, as long as they stay out of the way. In fact, Cress has come to make a wonderful sparring partner, and Angon is very good at playing chess. Xavia still would never regard them as 'friends', though, becuase of their involvement with Rans himself.

Fighting style
Of her team, Xavia is the one who fights the least. This is mostly due to her inferior weapon, lack of semblance, and the inability to think on the spot without panicking. As a result, she often stands back, or supports her teammates, and yells strategies and warnings to them when necessary.

When it comes to fighting people, Xavia loses her nervousness. She can handle people because she knows how people think and she knows, or thinks she knows, that a person wouldn't intentionally kill her, rip her intestines out and eat them. When it comes to fighting other people, she is almost scarily focused and determined, often having to be forced out of a fight she is about to lose.

When Xavia does fight, it's often lacking the grace, skill, or fluidity of her teammates and focuses more on brutally attacking openings in the enemy's defence, normally with a few strong, critical strikes. She has endurance to last through a battle but doesn't move quite as fast as her opponent in most cases due to her heavy weapon and clumsy footing. She has talent, but not skill, although she is working on it.

The weapon of Xavia's choice is Excalibur, a legendary sword with only unsheathes for those who are deemd pure. At the moment, the blade is sheathed into it's scabbard, which acts as a sharp club in it's own right.

Extended, the blade of Excalibur is the longest of all the swords at Beacon, and needs a special orb at the end to balance the heavy blade. It can slice through almost anything, with enough strength, although even with the balancing orb, it is too heavy for Xavia to lift with one hand, unlike the shethed version. When unsheathed, the sword glows faintly with a soft golden light. As soon as the weapon touches the hands of someone impure, it will retract again and lose its power once more.

Quotes

 * "It's the rain. I always feel... melancholic, watching it like this... It reminds me of home." - Upon being asked why she was so down on a rainy day.
 * "Hey, step back! Social justice warrior coming through!" - Xavia, after hearing about one of Rans' latest escapades.
 * "Kusan- Asami. Listen. To me. Listen. I know we might not be very good friends, but... you're my partner, right? Partners stay together. I'm not asking for friendship, just cordiality. And a torch. This cave's really dark and I can't see where I'm going." - Xavia to Asami, after being stuck in a cave during a thunderstorm.
 * "Team XABR? ... Team XABR! Come on! We can make it!" - Xavia's first true motivational speech as team leader.

Trivia

 * Like the rest of team XABR, Xavia is based on a famous sword. Xavia is based off the sword of Arthur Pendragon, Excalibur
 * Uther is the name of Arthur's father in Arthurian mythology
 * The blade also draws from the myth of the sword in the stone, which is sometimes combined with that of Excalibur
 * Her headband is made from the same material as her cape, and is a reminder from home.
 * Xavia draws from English influences. She has a slight British accent.