Daifuku Shimizu

"The purest of souls are found within the heart of gold. Now go back to kitchen and redo this again!"

- Daifuku Daifuku Shimizu is a pastry chef and owner of Aika Cafe. She's also a former huntress hailing from the Southwest Region of Mistral.

Appearance
Daifu has pale green long hair is tied back in a ponytail by a white ribbon. She has pale pink eyes that are beautiful as pearls and her complexion is smooth and pale like snow during winter. Between her breasts is a faded scar that runs down vertically to her stomach. She also has green and pink painted fingernails. She has a rather small stature that could make her seem petite but has a matured body.

She wears an white chef's coat with pale green trimmings, white trousers, and black shoes.

On her free time, her hair is tied up in a bun at the back. She wears a unzipped pink hoodie with a white shirt. She also wears white shorts with black thigh high stockings and white shoes.

In combat, she has a different appearance. Her long pale green hair reaches down to her shoulders. Instead of her chef's outfit, she wears an short sleeve white shirt with a pink ribbon underneath a dark green hooded cloak. She also wears black shorts, pantyhose. and brown boots. She wears a belt that carries different kinds of grenades and bombs. Her left forearm is wrapped in bandages and wears black fingerless gloves.

Personality
Daifuku is a sweet and calm woman who always willing to lend an ear to the helpless. She takes great care of her co-workers and friends and willing to extending her hand to anyone. Even outside of work, she is usually seen with a cute smile on her as she would stroll down the sidewalks. She is sociable and would never judge someone based on appearance. Underneath that outer layer is an woman with fierce determination and strong will. She never reveals her real strength unless she has to. Due to her uncanny charisma, she be very persuasive with her customers and even criminals. She also has a sharp tongue and isn't afraid to speak her mind.

Violence is something she rather stays away from and uses it as a last resort. One of the main reasons she became a pastry chef was to stay away from her family's criminal background. She dislikes getting involved in those kind of things as it endangers her life and many other lives in the process. Despite disliking the criminal lifestyle her family lives in, she is still willing to stand up for them when the things get rough.

Preferred to be called Daifu as it can be too long for people to say her name. Besides her love for sweets, Daifuku is an

Backstory
Born In Mistral to an upper class family, Daifuku lived an above average life as the middle child of five siblings. She had access to many of the benefits that come with the status. She was taught under the best teachers and pro huntresses money can buy. She studied and worked up to have top notch grades in multiple fields of study. Her family is a renowned and infamous criminal organization and part of the crime syndicate in Mistral. On the surface, they were one of the richest families in the whole kingdom. They owned clothing stores and one of the contributing factors that helped improve Mistral's lifestyle after the Great War. There were able to lower the tensions between Pro and Anti Great War Activists and ensured peace among the society. They were idolized in the Southwestern of Mistral as saviors. At its depth, the Shimizu Family are one of the crime families that runs Mistral's Black Market. The Shimizu Family were artifact and gem collectors, owning many weapons and items from the Great War and Pre-Great War Era.

As a child, Daifuku would wander in her mansion filled with so many antiques encased in glass. However, she was never interested in her family's line of work. She wanted to have a peaceful life where she doesn't worry to be in danger. This caused her father and eldest brother to look down upon her. While she wanted to stay away from the criminal organization, her father had different plan in mind. She wanted her to become one of the supporting pillars that keeps Shimizu Family from crumbling in Mistral's underworld. At the age of 17, she challenged her father in exchange for her freedom. In her father's place was her eldest brother. With their steels swords, the siblings clashed and only one of them was able to escape their fate. Daifuku managed to beat her brother, earning her freedom while sustaining a scar from the duel. So she decided to moved to Vale and went to a culinary school to become a pastry chef instead.

After four years, she graduated and bought a two story building in the commercial district of Vale. In the first few months before opening her cafe, Daifu persuaded and secured connections with local farmers, hunters, and fishermen in Vale. She also made connections with traveling merchants who came to port. After completing the paperwork to establish her cafe and securing reliable sources to restock ingredients, Daifuku was ready to open up her newly opened Aika Cafe. One day, she was preparing to open up her cafe however the sound of glass breaking halted her process. She exited her building to see the commotion. A few blocks down from her place, she witnessed a group of faunus were protesting in the streets, carrying signs. Police were also on standby to ensure it didn't get out of control, who were already placing their hands on their pistols. Before she went back, Daifuku heard a gunshot. She turned around to see that a male faunus from the group was shot in the shoulder, lying on the ground. It sparked a conflict between the police and the faunus protesters. She quickly ran to help the injured female faunus and brought her back inside the building. She patched the female faunus' wound and took care of her till the conflict calms down. She went outside

After the two weeks has passed since the riot,. As she was opened her shop, the male faunus who she saved came back. The female faunus' name was Elain, who was immigrated from Menagerie, looking for a job in Vale. Daifuku decided to hire her as a server as she doesn't have any workers.

Yukimi and Shio
Yukimi are a dual one handed single shot sawed off grenade launchers with metal guards on the handles. On the side of the handle is a switch that changes the shooting function, changing from a single shot grenade launcher to an high power laser cannon. The handles are detachable and its where she can place cyan-colored dust crystals to shoots blasts of kinetic energy.

Shio is an double edged blade, with another curved blade near the hilt at 45 degree angle. Its attached to an 18 feet of rope which then ends in a large metal ring.

It shoots out sticky grenades that sticks to any hard surfaces. It has a button on the side of the handle that detonates it. When it explodes, it releases small deadly dark red spikes at high velocity. The initial explosion doesn't do significant damage. She can also switch grenades types, giving her more variation of bombs and explosives. Pulling the triggers while the Yukimi is in its sword form ejects the blades to a distance of several yards.
 * Fire Dust Grenade: It makes the initial explosion more stronger and at a bigger area of effect.
 * Steam Dust Grenade: This uses more of utility as it acts as a smokescreen for escapes or taking down opponents without being spotted. Due to the humidity, it can dampen fire dust and make it unusable in combat.
 * Ice Dust Grenade: When it explodes, it will slow down and freeze enemy movement in a three meter radius.
 * Wind Dust Grenades: When it explodes, it releases a wind blast that doesn't do any damage but can is able push people at the maximum distance of ten feet. This is useful for groups as it can make the group split, making it easier to take them down one by one/
 * Lightning Dust: When it explodes, it releases an electric blast in a two meter radius that stuns opponents or temporarily shuts down any electronics within its radius for three minutes.

Strengths and Abilities
Daifuku is a fierce huntress when in combat. Despite being inactive, she is still capable of going against well trained assassins and soldiers.

Trivia

 * Daifuku is an Japanese sweet that consists of small mochi stuffed with a sweetened, red bean paste.
 * Shimizu means "pure water" in Japanese
 * Her secondary weapon is an Kyoketsu-shoge, which was developed and used before the kusarigam (sickle and chain)
 * Aika is a Japanese name meaning "love song".