Carmine De Luca

"'I like my men like I like coffee... I don't like coffee.'"Carmine De Luca (Pronounced Car-Min-Eh Deh Lu-ka) is the second member of Team TRQS, Designated as the team's Fighter and main offense. Studying at Beacon Academy, Carmine wields a large Halbred-Marksman Rifle dubbed Trancilo, however she changed to a flamethrower-mace weapon during Beacon's fall, her weapon destroyed by an attacking Grifon, dubbing it Pyrengel

She is best known for being a rather mysterious and "B****y" character, and is the personal "Hothead" of TRQS.

General Appearance
Carmine has a rather tough and scaly feel to her, every inch of her skin being guarded by scales, which act as a sort of second line of defense if her Aura is knocked out of commission. They are especially prevalent and spiky around her forearms, calves, elbows, and the back of her head. The spikes are of a reddish color, giving her a brown skin tone.

The spikes on her head act as a stand-in for hair, and are swept back as if being blown in the wind. She isn't insecure about it, but hates it being made a joke of.

Compared to Quinacridone, Carmine is a more action-oriented version, having a more muscular build and many scratches around the scales. As scales don't grow along with her body, she often needs to shed every now and then.

Huntress Attire ("Scab")
Carmine's huntress attire is a more knightly and medieval approach compared to the other's Military (Slate), Practical (Temnosiniy), or Symmetrical (Quinacridone) styles. This mostly serves to ensure her scales are a last line, as even though they are tough they are vulnerable to blunt attacks.

Starting with the upper body, Carmine has a metallic, segmented cod piece that guards and leads blows away from the chest, lacking any sort of fashioned breastplate. The segments are designed to give her ventilation and allowing her to stay cool, furthering her ability to stay in combat. The armguards and shoulder pads are linked together by a gear mechanism to ease how much lifting she has to do, allowing her to focus on being the team's Fighter rather than struggle in lifting the heavy piece of metal. Around her back is a frame that supports the back when she's firing her weapon, as Marksman Rifles tend to have a ridiculous amount of kick to them.

The leg pieces have spiked kneepads, allowing for more punishing close range combat, and boots have some spikes to them, also allowing for harder strikes. Very little is exposed, as she also covers her face with a helmet is specially designed to fit her head.

School Attire
Carmine wears the standard Beacon Academy uniform, but it lacks sleeves and makes use of cargo shorts of similar plaid coloring rather than a skirt. Why there are no sleeves are due to her spiky forearms, and she makes no effort to hide her heritage as a Faunus, due to it being near impossible to hide all the spikes and scales on her person.

Pajamas
Carmine does not wear pajamas, and simply wears basketball shorts and a shirt. Her scales are already clothes, and due to her unconventional outfit choices many find it uncomfortable to look at her sleeping, because somehow she manages to get by sleeping on literal marble.

Voice
Gravelly, rough, and very, VERY annoyed, Carmine sounds like wet sandpaper when she talks, and a roaring dinosaur when she yells. Due to being born with slightly damaged vocal cords, Carmine is more skilled in communicating with animalistic noises rather than English, making it a struggle to communicate with her. While her English isn't broken, she finds it tiring and defaults to animal growls if she needs to talk.

Personality
Carmine is... unforgiving to say the least. While she follows Temno's path of militarism, she takes it a step further by literally THREATENING her teammates lives if they do not match to standard. Her rather powerful presence instills fear upon others, something she uses well enough to make her presence known. Despite being a Faunus, which could get her bullied, she chooses not to hide it... because really, who would fight an angry lizard woman who has a halberd gun?!

Considered the "Silent" Badass of the group, Carmine can easily take on a Beowolf, Boarbatusk, and Beringel. This is mostly due to the fact she engineered her gun specifically to fight grounded opponents, making use of both the solidity of the surface and the weight of her halberd to deal extra damage to targets via concussive force, further made when she uses her Weighted semblance.

She sees her duties as a huntsman important, but more to Faunus than Humans. She is penchant to assist Faunus caught in the crossfire, which can sometimes be an annoying habit if she is needed somewhere else

Trivia

 * Carmine De Luca bears a slight resemblance to Susie from the DELTARUNE game, in terms of her inability to restrain herself.
 * Carmine is a fusion of Blake Belladonna and Weiss Schnee regarding character: Badass and somewhat misanthropic, yet kind of b****y.
 * While she likes combat, Carmine dislikes it when it's extended; Being unable to sweat due to her scales means it's tougher for her to stay active for longer periods of time, and thus she overheats. Bathing in cold water is the only way she can cool off, which is why she also likes rain.
 * Like the rest of team TRQS, the events of the Mistral Hangout in the Discord Server are considered non-canon to the character.
 * Due to the recoil of the marksman rifle section of the halberd and the relatively heavy (at 10lbs) axe blades, Carmine frequently suffers lower back pain.
 * She often tells people to "Lift With Their Groin" when holding something up, which likely explains her suffering as one should lift with their legs to avoid injury.
 * Carmine's favorite season is winter, playing into her preference for cold. This is entirely opposite to Quinacridone, whose favorite season is summer.
 * It is debated where Carmine is from. Some say she is from Vacuo, given her threatening nature, yet others believe she is from Atlas with a military background. Slate gives a more reasonable hypothesis that Carmine is from Menagerie.