Celina Cavell

"Because, like it or not, the world needs us. Hunters are more than just soldiers; we're heroes to the people. The moment we betray that is the moment we betray all of Remnant. If that's what "justice" is, then I want nothing to do with it."

- Celina being propositioned to by the Military

Celina Cavell is a first year student at Beacon Academy in the RWBY Fanverse Argence, and the leader of Team CRVN. Her weapon of choice is a Multi-Armament Ballistic Lance known as Moon Glade. Born with a legacy to fulfull, Celina's ambitions know no bounds as she strives to climb to even greater heights. Her partner is Aurelia Riore.

Appearance
Celina appears as a slim teenage girl with striking silver hair, falling straight down to her shoulders and tapering off near her back. Her asymmetrical bangs are brushed to the sides of her face, save for a short lock curving down her forehead. On the right, it hangs down to her neck, while the shorter one to the left is tucked neatly behind her ear. Her eyes shine with a glossy blue, sparkling like water even with her light complexion. Often times, she will carry a simultaneously solemn yet curious expression on her face.

She always wears a silver pendant of her emblem around her neck, strung with a black cord. A blue moon buckled belt sits snuggly around her waist, carrying a holster for her weapon regardless of her dress. Celina wears the standard girl's Beacon uniform with black socks and brown loafers. When not dressed for school, her usual attire consists of a violet shaded collared jacket outlined in silver. An argent cross spreads over most of the coat, centering on the left flap. Underneath, she sports a plain baby blue blouse with frilly veils covering the tops of her thighs. Black pants wrap tightly around her legs, showcasing pearly white boots with silver armor plates on the ankles and heels.

Once winter emerges, Celina has a cream colored turtleneck sweater with sleeves slightly too long for her arms and sky blue mittens. On her head, she wears a fluffy set of violent earmuffs with her emblem emblazoned on the sides. To keep her legs warm, Celina takes on black tights and white winter knee high boots. Overall, she wraps a pearl winter coat with blue fur along the hood.

Personality
Upbeat, candid, clever, and above all hard-working, Celina impacts most as someone who's hard to forget. She spends most of her time reading while indoors, devouring one book after another. Though she prefers fantasy and science fiction, Celina tends to tear apart any genre in record timing. She grasps onto new concepts and information naturally, coming off as book-smart and earns high grades in classes. Despite her competitive drive, Celina does terribly with sports, as she always loses herself in the rush of action, forgetting the rules. Because of this tendency and nearly always injuring someone, the rest of her team has barred her from joining in casual games of soccer and basketball.

Straightforward and direct, Celina doesn't hesitate to speak her mind. She finds hiding emotions more stressful tan dealing with the aftermath of displaying them, though she rarely finds herself angry or majorly depressed. Celina's unfortunately narrow-minded in terms of social experience, often leading to her judging others preemptively and unwittingly starting fights. This has caused a fair share of conflicts with several other students, such as her own teammate Vesper before coming to an understanding.

Always hoping to be upstanding and prove herself, Celina constantly looks for opportunities to grow. Self-assured in her fighting ability, she never turns down a challenge, regardless of her chances at winning. Though appearing self-confident, Celina fakes a good portion of it. Taking command of CRVN over most situations, Celina wishes to both exercise her leadership and learn, only handing over control to normally Aurelia on some occasions. She has an inferiority complex towards her elder brother, but overall doesn't agonize over anything. Regardless of all her adherence to order, Celina isn't above stepping out of bounds when needed. She'll gladly ignore guidelines to do what is necessary (at least, according to her).

Contrary to most stereotypes, Celina is a complete miser when it comes to money, despite her family's vast wealth. Much to the chagrin of her team, she'll hesitate to pull even a single Lien out of her pocket. This habit has driven her to reach an incomprehensible level of "Do It Yourself" in order to save as much as possible. After spending time with her team and making fond memories, Celina begins to loosen up on this regard, even paying for drinks at Moonshine to visit Nyx at work.

Confident of her own skills, Celina enjoys leading the charge when it comes to fighting, though she'll hold back and adhere to useful strategies and plans. As she spends time with CRVN, she learns to become less of an individual combatant and more of a team player. Even amidst the thick of battle, Celina will never let her friends wander out of her mind, making their safety her top priority.

History

 * All information here is Argence canon.

Born as a Cavell in the big thriving city of Brunus, Celina came into the world with a legacy to fulfill. Growing up in the manor, Celina wasn't granted an easygoing life like many would assume. From a young age, she was taught that she needed to earn her place at the table, both in practice and theory. Following in her brother Elion's footsteps and falling under his care, Celina learnt the basics of supporting herself by the time she had entered junior high. With the ability to cook, clean, do laundry, and other essentials, she

All the while, she was attending school. Celina made several close friends.

For her rite of passage to Cavell adulthood, Celina was exiled from the manor and cut off in the big city. She needed to last two months on her own without support from the family; her return before the time ended would be met with disgrace and disappointment.

Wishing to break away from Elion's path, Celina instead opted to apply to Beacon rather than follow him to Haven. This choice became the first step she had taken outside of the path he walked before her.

More details to come.

Weapons
Celina wields a MABL (Multi-Armament Ballistic Lance) named Moon Glade, designed as primarily a halberd. The frame is mainly colored a sleek silver with and runes across its plating, while the pole is jet black. The blades are a shiny steel, glinting light reflecting off of the surface. The two geared wheels are fitted with dust, which feed into the blades them the capability of firing shockwave projectiles combined with aura once Moon Glade reaches enough speed.

Moon Glade was created with the properties of a converting frame, allowing it to shift between three modes:
 * A "storage" mode, compacting the entire weapon into a conveniently sized form for easier transportation. It takes on a disc-like appearance that also allows it to be used as a shield to an extent.
 * A "halberd" mode, its largest form, expanding into a crescent bladed halberd with four wing blades as hand guards near the top. It's primarily used as a close-to-mid range bladed melee weapon. A chain hangs from the base of the pole, allowing the entire weapon to be swung by a cord for increased range.
 * An "anchor" mode, where the pole compresses while the wing edges turn and slide up to the rounded blade. Despite the name, the form appears far more like a guillotine, and is used as such. The momentum from swinging the chain combined with the smaller size turns it into a destructive pendulum.

Celina typically keeps Moon Glade in its halberd mode for her fights, given that she specializes in quick melee combat. Her dexterity and sense of balance allow her to shift from one move to the next, never losing momentum with her attacks or parries. Due to her non-muscular build, Celina relies heavily on gaining momentum for combo attacks to put power into her strikes. Losing the speed will offset her rhythm, forcing her out of her primary combat style.

She can half-shift the weapon between it's two offensive forms; Moon Glade's bladed wings swing out, decreasing its thrusting aerodynamics but increasing its force and range. Its shape appears to resemble less of a halberd and more of a guillotine poleaxe.

When the pole compresses into the anchor mode, Celina can use Moon Glade as a pseudo grappling hook to pull herself to enemies or to terrain.

Note: Current image is a basic concept artwork of Moon Glade's halberd form, credited to Sylvain Klein. Other concept images including transformation and other forms will be updated when available.

Semblance
Celina's semblance is known as Luna. While activated, Celina is able limit the amount of light at an area and store the photons temporarily to be released at another point. The distance of usage is held back by the amount of light she targets. The closer she is to her target or influenced area, the larger the brightness she can affect. This decreases exponentially with proximity, severely limiting her capabilities at a distance.

The absorption is gradual and can never be instantly done. When being used, the brightness diminishes much like how a light would behave if someone were to slide a dimmer switch, rather than instant darkening by a flick switch.

Celina is unable to absorb enough to make a sizable space pitch black; if she were, the area would be the size of a baseball and be limited to half a meter of distance to her. Her most common action is creating a nightly lit sphere surrounding her and her main opposition with a radius of 8 meters.

While Luna is activated, Celina's breathing must be steady or else she loses control and the semblance is negated. In order to compensate for this weakness, she regularly does breathing exercises in her free time to increase lung capacity and endurance. However, Celina still has no defense against exhaustion, shock, or even getting the breath physically knocked out of her.

Combat Skills
Celina's primary fighting style revolves around speed and rhythm gained from her strikes. Due to her lack of natural physical strength, she compensates with torque and momentum. Celina's attacks often string together numerous consecutive swings, combined with the length of Moon Glade's range.

Celina has trained only a single signature combat move aptly named Paraselene, originally devised to counter her elder brother's own style, Prominence. By using Luna, Celina can darken the area within an 8 meter radius around her for 15-30 seconds depending on brightness, entrapping both her and her opposition in a murky arena. She then redirects all absorbed light at the blade of her weapon at a single point. The light tails the movements of the blade for a few seconds, creating a trail of its paths. Combined with the pattern and speed of her attacks, the contrasting darkness, and the brightness of the focus, Celina can disorient opponents reliant on sight, creating a blinding string of attacks.

Personal Skills
Celina is noted to have particularly good eyesight for a non-faunus, even in the dark.

Due to her strong sense of rhythm from her fighting style, Celina is a great dancer, despite how much she hates it.

She has an almost omniscient ability to sense sales and discounts, enforcing her miserly habits.

Celina possessed a motorcycle, gifted to her after her graduation from high school by her parents. She had enough skill to ride it competently, and read books on vehicle care to keep it from breaking down, just to save money from leaving it to the mechanics. However, the motorcycle was destroyed in the events following the Vytal Festival.

Relationships
Team

Aurelia Riore


 * Celina looks up to Aurelia as an elder sister, and have the best relationship in the team. Even as CRVN's leader, Celina places Aurelia's unbiased and broad opinions highly when making decisions.

Vesper Alice


 * The two constantly butt heads whenever they're forced to converse with one another. Constantly getting into fights and matches, the Celina and Vesper never back down from each other's challenges. Though Celina recognizes that she can't truly relate or understand Vesper at heart, she offers to always be there as her friend.

Nyx Astraea


 * While the two get along for the most part, Celina is often offset by Nyx's peculiar tendencies. She gets berated by her teammate, calling her a cheapskate and miser for avoiding extra activities that involves spending money.

Family
Elion Cavell


 * As the younger sibling, Celina grew up Elion's shadow, who was often considered the ideal child. Excelling at everything he did, Celina struggled to keep up under the judgmental eyes of their parents.


 * After the events of the Vytal Festival and its aftermath, their relationship seems to have improved. As a final gift before heading back to Haven, Elion sends Celina a violet car to replace the Artemis after its destruction during the Breach.

Other
Perseus Lucille


 * Prior to their first meeting, the two had only heard about one another from their respective teammates, Verona and Nyx. Celina had her first run in with Percy during the Breach of Vale, teaming up to stop the Grimm assault on the rural districts. After being assigned a sudden A-Rank mission by Professor Grayback, the two rode across the city on Artemis hoping to save a school. Along the way, the two shared their views as hunters and their duty to the people, even at the cost of their own lives. To prevent the Grimm following them to the children, Percy stayed behind to stall them while Celina reluctantly pressed on.


 * After the battle was won, Celina ran into Percy again at Moonshine while visiting Nyx. He congratulated her for being recognized as the hero who saved the school, though she regretted Percy not receiving any acknowledgement in his role. Once again repeating the selfless hunter's duty, he bringing the two teams closer together.

Etymology
Celina is an alternative form of 'Selene', recognized as the Greek Goddess of the Moon. The name itself is derived from the work selas meaning 'light'. Selene had a brother named Helios, the Sun god, who was heavily associated with Apollo. Like how Apollo rode his chariot, bringing the sun to the heavens and back across the horizon, Selene herself mirrored Artemis and pulled the moon across the night sky. Her moon representation was deeply entwined with that of the ocean.

Cavell sources from the Italian term 'cavalier', meaning 'knight'. In Old English before the 7th century, Cavell was synonymous with cafeld. At the time, ca was a term for jackdaws, a bird of the genus Corvus, relating to the team's name. The second half feld meant 'field', turning the complete word into 'a field of crows'.

Her whole name can be translated to mean 'Knight of the Moon'.

Her weapon's name, Moon Glade, is a term used for the reflection of the moon in a body of water, and also a pun on the weapon Glaive.

The semblance Luna is the Latin name for the moon. The semblance hints to the celestial body's observed nature to reflect the light of the sun, creating moonlight even though the moon doesn't produce its own luminosity.

Celina's combat skill, Paraselene, is also known as moon dogs or mock moons; halos of light that appear around moons when light refracts off ice crystals in the atmosphere.

Trivia

 * Unsurprisingly, her design is based off of lunar related terminology.
 * Her appearance is partially inspired by Alice Nakiri from Shokugeki no Soma.
 * Celina's design colors are Celeste Blue, Violet, and Silver.
 * Her fighting style was inspired by the Fury systems in games, where uninterrupted attacks become stronger and quicker the more they are used.