Alice Vermilion

Biography
Alice Vermillion is the cheerful, mischievous, Hyena Faunus of New Beacon Academy's freshmen team, Team DARK and Duran's partner. She is known for her Faunus trait which includes a joyful laughter and a joy for pranks and tricks.

Background
Being born in the outback of Vacuo, Alice lived with her mother and father. Her father was a former member of the White Fang who served Adam Taurus, but with it's falling, he grew hateful and abusive.

The fact that her father served Adam to the end didn't make things easy living for Alice and her mother. While her father attended rallies, she was raised by her loving mother who was often pulling her out of trouble for her mischievous funny tricks. Alice remembers her mother being one who would laugh at her tricks as they lived happily together.

Unfortunately one day, Alice returned home to find that her mother was said to have committed suicide. Though unsure what to believe, she was forced to live with her abusive father.

Alice's time with her father is not something she wants to remember. Aside from not having any "real" friends, she suffered physical and mental abuse from both at school and her father who wanted nothing to do with his own daughter.

Eventually one day, Alice suffered a brutal attack on her way home from school and afterwards her own father locked her in a cage for "being weak". At that moment days after Alice's absence, she was found by a friend of her mother's.

After watching her father beaten senseless, Alice was removed fro her father's custody and was moved to a orphanage in Vale.

During her time in Vale, Alice got better after a while, slowly returning to her mischievous self. One day while walking from a certain Diner, Alice looked up at a picture on a building and made a life changing decision.

She decided to become a huntress.

Personality
As a front, Alice is mostly known for her mischievous and cheerful behavior, which is a sharp contrast to her partner Duran who is quiet, but stoic and crude.

She has a great love for fun and harmless tricks here and there, specifically known for finding trouble. She's not 24/7 prankster mind you, however Professor Belladonna's referral stack would say otherwise.

Keep in mind that though Alice is considered a bubbly person, she truly lived a hard life alone after her mother's death. Alice in truth is afraid of being alone. Not the alone thing, but it's the "alone and the thought that no one cares for you" feeling that scares her. Because of this, Alice comes to attach herself to others and her friends with the fullest of heart, such as Duran who she can relate to.

In addition, Alice is a very emotional person. She can be easily emotionally hurt.

Semblance : Density and Diffusion Manipulation ( or Wisp )
If you think dealing with one of Alice is enough, try dealing with a gang of her.

Alice's semblance allows her to separate herself into multiple solid clones of herself, seemingly creating a max of four to five at a time, though she tries to keep it at two to three at a time since using this semblance splits her aura by half with each clone she creates.

It's been noted that the clones are capable of conversing with one another individually and like hyenas of which Alice takes her traits from fight as a pack or separately. Though each of the clones speak, they tend to speak in third person thus referring to themselves as "Alice" rather than "I", "me", or "you".

They vanish when they receive a certain amount of damage or the original cancels them to recover her own aura at will.

Lilith's Trace : Garrote Wired Combat Claw Gauntlets
Alice's weapon, Lilith's Trace, are two hand worn combat gauntlet claws with wire threads running through them. Though the claws on the end of the gauntlets serve as a close combat means of offense, the weapons true function lies in the use of the threads - Which Alice uses to snare and trap enemies as well as creating a perimeter to detect anyone who crosses through them. The threads can easily be tied to another object, such as her combat knives, to control their course of flight when thrown, thus catching her foes by surprise.

The threads are razor sharp and can cut through most things if force retracted. The activation and control of the threads is done through the trigger of "Muscle Activation" Alice created.