Tristan

"I'll kill them. They'll be dead - every single last one of them, man, woman, or child! They're like disgusting animals, so I'll slaughter them like the goddamn animals they are! I HATE THEM!"

- Tristan, paraphrasing Anakin Skywalker when describing the Faunus race

Tristan is a former Huntress and a key figure in the human supremacist movement.

Appearance
She is a dark-skinned human woman with blue eyes and matching long hair. Her body bears scars from a traumatic event explained in detail below.

Personality
At first glance, she is an insane, faunophobic individual, prone to outbursts and rants of rage and sorrow. She is full of hatred towards them, comparing them to disgusting vermin and using racial slurs like "critters", and will take any opportunity to inflict any cathartic sadism on any Faunus out of sheer spite.

However, deep down, she is an emotional wreck who was traumatized by events that have inflicted miserable pain upon her, which conflicts with her upbringing that taught her tolerance and love. As such, she is full of emotional turmoil, as her conscience tells her it's wrong to swear vengeance on them, but she cannot bring herself to tolerate, let alone forgive the tragedies she has suffered by their hands, as her bigoted outrage is a form of lashing out in response to her own internal suffering.

Background
When she was young, she was pursuing a career as a Huntress in Beacon Academy. Her parents taught her the notion of tolerance, and co-existence with the Faunus population, which she was willing to follow. However, with the White Fang's rise to violent extremism, the number of Faunus and human sympathizers willing to accept their rhetoric increased, along with the number of victims.

Among them were her parents, who died in a bombing caused by Faunus terrorists inspired by the Fang while she was in her final year. As the situation worsened, she tried to offer solutions that called for co-existence between the races. They fell on deaf ears as she was instead shunned for being a human attempting to speak on issues concerning Faunus, citing her average but relatively fortunate upbringing as proof that she held no authority to speak on these matters.

The worst came to light when a group of older Faunus huntsmen subdued, kidnapped and tortured her (among other heinous and unspeakable crimes) for daring to speak out and attempting to propose a non-violent solution, publicly humilating her by broadcasting the live event before the gang was arrested by the police.

Because the judge was either sympathetic to the suspects being Faunus, or feared reprisal from the Fang, they were given lighter sentences, which fanned the flames of uproar. There was rising sentiment making excuses and attempting to justify the gang's criminal behavior because they were Faunus, and victim shaming her solely for the basis that she was a human. Her emotional state, already traumatized by the loss of her parents and her horrible ordeal, sunk even lower when she received little sympathy from the public at large.

This sent her over the edge, causing her to lash out at the entire Faunus race for either being the cause of her plight, bystanders, or attempted to justify her suffering. She eventually tracked down her assailants, and retaliated with cold-blooded murder, before becoming a key figure and a symbol in a reactionary human supremacist movement hellbent on giving some old-fashioned disproportionate retribution on every Faunus. Thus, when the Fall of Beacon occurred with the White Fang's involvement, she felt not only anger, but vindication that she had every right to distrust the Faunus for inflicting so much pain on the population at large, many of whom were innocent civilians that just so happened to be humans.

The question is, can she bring herself to fully commit against the teachings of her parents? And can she be stopped, let alone find closure in this horrible tragedy?

Trivia

 * Her last name, Tristan, comes from the French word triste, meaning tears, implying her past.
 * Her backstory is derived from several real-life events in recent history, which I will not name here.