Carolina Reaper

Carolina Reaper is a former student at Beacon Academy and one of the remaining members of Team HCKR. After the Fall of Beacon, she moved to Shade Academy and is now the leader of Team CLUV.

Appearance
Carolina Reaper is a fair-skinned woman with a slim and slightly athletic body. She ties her hair into a ponytail, especially when she's fighting or traveling and always wear her gauntlets in case of an enemy attack. After losing her arms, she replaces it with red and white colored mechanical ones forged with her gauntlets.

Normally, she wears a pair of black wristbands when she's working out, and not fighting and going places. She wears a black short-sleeve backless shirt, mini denim shorts and a pair of red laced shoes with white socks.

Personality
Carolina Reaper is a very determined, level-headed, happy-go-lucky girl with a fickle attitude. She always changes her mind when she fails or understands that things don't go as planned. She sometimes changes her thoughts on someone or something she loves or hates. However, she always keeps her head in the game, regardless of how bad the situation has gotten.

She's a very energetic girl, always loves to do hardworking activities when she feels like it. In her spare time, she goes on a man hunting spree, which is one of her goals in life. She sometimes plays with a Rubik's cube or does some workouts when nothing peaks her interests.

Like Hydra, Carolina is also a clever person, loves to fight smart and thinking ahead of others. When things aren't doing well, she steps up and suggests something clever to her teammates if their plan starts failing. She's also the one who suggests what she and her teammates should do when they're hanging out.

In her younger days, Carolina used to be a happy-go-lucky girl, but after she lost her arms, she became serious and less energetic, focusing more on her goals in life than having fun. In addition, she now has a strong fear of enemies that carry razor-sharp weapons.

History
Carolina Reaper and her parents, Chilia Reaper and Dragon Reaper, lived in a small house near the waters in Vale. Since her childhood, Carolina dreamed to be a huntress like her parents to make a name for herself while living a peaceful life among friends and family. After unlocking her semblance, her parents trained her to the fullest and enrolled her in Signal Academy.

A year after she graduated at Signal, Carolina went out on a man hunting spree while honing her skills before enrolling at Beacon Academy. She hoped to be the leader of her team due to her incredible thinking skills, but instead, Hydra Larkspur was the one chosen. Carolina didn't expect anyone other than herself to have an incredible intellect and believed Hydra wasn't a gifted one, but after learning about Hydra's lack of leadership and superiority towards others, she changed her mind about him and suggested that they should all support and comfort Hydra whenever he's having trouble commanding his teammates.

During the fall of Beacon, Carolina and her team were struggling against a group of griffons. She suggested that they should all retreat to recover and come up with a plan together. However, Hydra started to hesitate again while a griffon Grimm was approaching behind him, forcing his teammate, Kobe Vulpex, to push Hydra out of the way before getting swallowed by the Grimm. After the battle, Hydra apologized for his mistake, Carolina slapped him and left the team after telling him how disappointed she was.

Carolina decided to move to Vacuo to study and graduate at Shade Academy after she abandoned her team. Her new life there was much better than what she had because of her new friends and the new team that she is currently leading. One day, she and her team went out to get some food. Carolina and her team were attacked by a couple of bandits and one of them separated Carolina from her teammates. After hours of fighting, Carolina's aura got weaker, giving the bandit a chance to steal some of their belongings and retreat with his comrades on a vehicle. Carolina chased after them even though her aura's depleting. This allowed the bandit with the sword to cut both of her arms when she jumped over their vehicle.

After the incident, Carolina felt depression and sadness in her heart after losing the two most important things that she always relies on. Thankfully, she had enough money to forge her weapons with her new mechanical arms, but even with these upgrades, Carolina was still not feeling well and was all out of money and became poor. Fortunately, her team was willing to help her recover and took her to one of her teammate's house. Despite all of this, Carolina moved on with her life and focused on achieving her goals.

Powers and Abilities
Carolina Reaper is very good at close range combat. Her fighting style is similar to boxing, Muay Thai with a little bit of Taekwondo. She learned most of it from her parents. Carolina mostly focuses on using her strength and her steel-hard hands as an advantage rather than speed. When fighting against Grimm, she goes all out with her strength, knocking very large creatures of Grimm down or smashing them when she's on higher areas. She only uses her kicks to push enemies away or pin them down.

Her speed isn't the best, but it supports her attacks by delivering them with greater force. She's also quick enough to block and dodge automatic fire.

Carolina's pretty acrobatic when avoiding and evading attacks. Even though she's not very good at it, she's improving every time she trains.

Her senses are heightened and greater than normal people. It gives her a small advantage over long-ranged and agile fighters, allowing her to detect an incoming attack much faster and sense enemies from a distance.

Carolina is also a clever person, leading her new team every mission they go and coming up with plans to defeat their enemies. She's also capable of thinking straight while her enemies try to distract her.

Semblance
Carolina's is called "Solar Charge". With it, she can augment her strength by exposing her skin to solar radiation or a fire. This allows her to lift or break objects and obstacles easier, take massive attacks, carry heavy people, weapons and things and gain an advantage in strength without letting their enemy know.

Weapons
Hellfire Torch is a pair of gauntlets colored in black and red. It has a compartment where fire dust can be loaded. The gauntlets are then upgraded with Carolina's new mechanical arms that have additional modifications and recolored with red and white trimmings.

The upgraded mechanical arms contain multiple ports that allow Carolina to fire large fireballs and incredibly powerful streams of fire, usually in the palms. The weapons are also armed with large razor-sharped sickle blades on each arm.

Combined with her semblance, Carolina becomes a much stronger fighter. Enhanced by her physiology, she possesses greater physical strength, capable of breaking large stones, leaving large dents on heavily armored vehicles and capable of lifting heavier objects and larger Grimm.

Weaknesses
Despite her heightened senses, Carolina has little to no defense against long-ranged and extremely agile opponents and after losing her arms to a swordsman, she now has a strong fear of enemies carrying razor-sharp weapons.

Carolina's semblance may give her extra strength, but she can't increase strength via a warm environment. Hotter fire or getting closer to the sunlight consumes more aura. Furthermore, she can't store solar energy for later use and it might take a while for her to augment her strength after not being exposed to sunlight for a long time or sleeping.

Trivia

 * Carolina alludes to Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun and the universe.
 * Carolina Reaper came from the world's hottest pepper.