Maroon Blacktalon

Maroon Blacktalon was a student at Beacon Academy and a former member of clan Blacktalon. Her weapon of choice is the Aura Siphon Claw (ASC) called Iron Talon which was invented and used by Blacktalon Witches.

Appearance
Maroon is a teenage girl of average height and build. She wears a black leather jacket with a red shirt inside. She also wears black leather pants and black boots. She also wears a silver cloak belonging to the Gainsboro Clan. Her Faunus traits are a set of retractable claws and teeth.

Personality
Maroon is quiet, reserved, anti-social and not easily trusting.

Background
Maroon was born to the Blacktalon Clan of witches, which as a whole is part of a large community of people who use semblances, aura, weapons and dust in more arcane ways, living in small villages sprawled within a dense forest in Mistral. Her mother was a Blacktalon Witch while her father was Gainsboro Sorcerer, who were rivals to the Blacktalon Witches. The Matriarch of Clan Blacktalon was furious to learn of Maroon's heritage and imprisoned her mother after she was born and raised her as her own.

After years of growing up in a harsh, brutal environment and being taught how to kill, when Maroon was 15, she and her "sisters" discovered her mother was alive and imprisoned by the Matriarch. Her mother revealed to her the truth about her parentage, before starving to death. Soon afterwards, her father successfully made contact with her, and both of them had been secretly in contact ever since. However, by the time she was 16, the Matriarch found out and was about to execute her, but was interrupted when the Gainsboro Clan attacked Clan Blacktalon, led by her father. Her father gave her his Gainsboro cloak and told her to run as far away as possible. So she ran deep into the forest where she fell into a hole into a moderately deep cavern with a very deep underground lake. Maroon attempted to swim back up, but a mysterious figure appeared above the water and froze the entire lake into a solid sheet of ice, then it collapsed the cavern so that no sunlight could reach the ice.

Maroon woke up 100 years later in modern-day Remnant, discovering the entire arcane community was gone, replaced by a large town. Maroon spent a year travelling around Remnant before finally settling down in Vale to attend Beacon Academy.

Carmine Steel
Carmine is Maroon's friend. They share many similar interests such as books, genre of books. Carmine slowly makes Maroon talk more and open up.

Etymology
Maroon is a dark shade of red.

Trivia

 * Maroon's appearance, story and personality are heavily based on Manon Blackbeak from the Thrones of Glass book series.