Hayate Alya

Hayate Alya is a young huntress-in-training hailing from Haven Academy.

Appearance
Hayate is a rather fit and nimble girl, training more on endurance and agility and does so daily to keep in shape. Her skin is quite fair and light, and she bathes rather frequently despite her clothes looking so dirty and tattered. Her hair is rather unkempt due to wearing a hat most of the time, and is a bright teal which gradients to a darker shade at the tips. Her eyes on the other hand are a strikingly bright bronze,while her eyelashes are long and colored similarly to her hair.

Her clothing is rather odd despite her cleanliness, a contrasting palette of dark and dirty browns, grays, and whites. She wears a white long-sleeved buttoned shirt, the cleanest of the articles of clothing she wears, underneath a maroon leather vest with a few tears here and there. Covering most of her upper body is a poncho with a large turtleneck collar that's dark gray with a dull green tribal design of a heart and a bullet with thorns wrapped around them sewn on the back. Attached to the left side of the poncho is a large brass button-clip styled like her emblem.

For pants she then wears maroon batwing chaps and dark grey trousers, and finishing her outfit off are dull brown cowboy boots with a tribalistic gun design colored dark brown going down from the shaft towards the tip of the boots with brass buttons stamped all around the sides.

Sitting firm atop her head is a generously wide-brimmed hat tattered at the edges and hanging around her neck and hidden behind the poncho (whenever she isn't using it) is a brass-plated gas-mask that covers her mouth with hoses connected to an oxygen tank hidden behind her waist.

Backstory
Hayate is born as the only child of the Alya family, a family in charge of a dojo that teaches the family's variation on Iaijutsu, and because of such she has been chosen to become the family's next heir.

For much of Hayate's childhood she had been raised as a boy, and was given training once she hit 5 years old. The training was rather harsh for a little girl at her age but she was able to persevere through all of the sessions. Fortunately her family isn't careless to their child's well-being, as she they would often times at the start of her regime would lower the bar so that she can get used to it before giving her the full treatment, as well as give her a generous amount of free time afterwards, allowing her to play outside with the other kids.

She was pretty much the definition of a boy when she was around 6 to 12 years old and usually plays around with the other boys of her neighborhood. She was also very competitive, becoming quite notorious with her peers. Before, her attitude was more straightforward, loud, and highly competitive.

However, as she got older her friends start to notice her more feminine features, which got the girl to ask her parents. Said parents had to then break it down to her that she was, in fact, female, and that her parents were simply treating her as a male because of circumstance. She was shocked to learn this, and her family feared that she will revolt against them because of it, but thanks to being innocent she simply asked to be treated like a girl for now on, to which the family gladly accepted.

Around 10 or so years old she met an interesting boy who wished to become a student. He was rather frail-looking and had eyes that looked as if he went through hell before getting to the dojo. She was shocked to find the boy requesting to become a student in the dojo. She thought it was a joke but her father accepted him rather easily, which surprised her since he's rather picky with accepting students.

She found the boy to be quite hardworking despite his disheveled and weak appearance, and usually challenges him whenever she gets the chance. Due to their frequent interactions whenever he came to train, they ended up being great friends and rivals.

Also while she was ten, her father decided to send her to a full year of extensive training and during this she isn't allowed to leave home, with the exception of going to school. This training focus a lot on improving and master her family's swordstyle. Along with physical training she was also trained in her use of aura, and it her father stressed a lot about aura being just as important as her own strength and skills.

Since the town she lives in allows anyone within its borders to organize duels (except for death matches), and the chief of the town even encourages the people to solve disputes and/or arguments with these duels, she has had way more than her fair share of fights just going to school in one week alone. She also frequently challenges Akiba, who is also her classmate, to the point that the poor boy began avoiding her outside of the school or dojo.

As she got older she began acting less boyish, though she does have some tomboyish tendencies here and there, and started acting more feminine. She started taking care of her body more than she did before, and started getting conscious of her own appearance. her father started noticing her change of attitude and decided to leave it to his wife to help her.

Hayate loved her mother just as much as her father, but she never got to interact with her much due to her job working as a researcher, but as Hayate started to discover herself as a girl, her mother began to interact with her more, assisting her in acknowledging these new things, and thanks to her she was able to focus in training again.

During one time when her mother asked her to help with tidying their home's basement, Hayate was astonished at the amount of dirt-covered, worn-out things her family have been storing for so long.

It was in school back at the second year did Hayate learn the usage of dust, and frankly she was quite confused of it, but when she found her rival handling the subject with relative ease, she couldn't allow herself to be outdone, so she began studying extensively about dust and its uses whenever she has the free time. After her research into Dust did she realize the bountiful uses it has and quickly tried to find ways to incorporate it into her sword technique. It was during this that she discovered her semblance after getting frustrated with trying to use wind dust but getting failed results.

Unfortunately, the semblance is sensitive to the user's emotions and she only discovered this when having a spar with Akiba. The feeling of defeat caused her semblance to lessen the air around her and this caused Akiba to hyperventilate and nearly faint. After this incident, her father had to address the dangers of Hayate's semblance and found its sensitivity to emotions, which means that Hayate has to shut out her emotions in order to keep others around her safe.

This was the new grim reality for Hayate, but she didn't complain. Her father began training her mentally first, so that she can at least return to school. She had to take a week off from school just so that she could focus on this training, and her father promised to help her train her semblance so that she can prevent her semblance from reacting from her emotions. When she came back to school it was as if she was a completely different person.

Most of her friends found it was difficult to interact with her due to her blank expression and some of them drifted away from her circle because of it. She felt devastated and much of her school days ended up becoming dull and painful to handle, forced to keep everything to herself. However, as days passed she started getting more and more used to showing no emotion but it was still tough to control at times.

When Akiba was attacked, she was on the the people who were able to save him from the attacker. However, the attacker was no pushover and gave her and two others a difficult fight before retreating. After the ordeal, she got depressed at Akiba's condition but was rather surprised to find him quickly recuperating from the near-death experience.

After graduating from the school, she went on to Haven Academy but vowed to fight against her rival at the Vytal Festival. However, at the Vytal Festival held in Vale it was attacked by some unknown organization and brought the Grimm with them.

Personality
Quiet is probably the best word to describe Hayate. Known by her friends for her reserved and silent nature who always keeps a blank expression at all times. Hayate is very honest with herself, and voices her thoughts and feelings to others since she has suppressed her emotions to the point that she can't 'feel' them at moments when they should.

Constant training with her father made Hayate into a very loyal, responsible and disciplined individual, and is highly cooperative towards her teammates and others. This is largely due to her upbringing as a boy, along with her competitiveness and strong sense sportsmanship but as a result she's a tad tomboyish. She's also a hard-worker and over-achiever who will always go the extra mile to reach a goal.

Hayate is very attached to her family, and loves them greatly that she is nicknamed Daddy's Girl by her teammates for frequently referring to her father and his teachings. She looks up to him highly, but aims to surpass him so that she can relieve her father's worries over her.

Ever since gaining her semblance, she had to keep her emotions in check. Since its affected by it, she tries to keep a calm demeanor and a clear mind lest her semblance does something she doesn't want especially after what happened with her rival in the past. This means much of her herself has to be kept within, which leads to these held-back emotions accumulating within her.

Rarely does her guard be let down and her emotions seep out, but this can either be a soft feeling of one or a few emotions or a tremendous amount of accumulated mixed emotions. To keep herself from becoming a ticking time bomb, she has to release her pent-up emotions somewhere far away from people in an open environment.

However, this does not mean she doesn't show care to her friends. Rather, she holds onto the friends she still has or made just as deeply as her parents. Her closest friends back at her previous school have kept her from drowning in the loneliness and depression her semblance has forced onto her, and because of that she is willing to do practically everything to protect them even if taking the lives of others or her own is necessary.

Mechanical Six-gauge Air-compressor Sheathe-Gatling Gun and Katana
Muramuko is a 3 and 1/2 ft sheathe and air-compressor capable of firing highly compressed air in a similar fashion to that of a revolver while Susanowo is a 70.8 cm, masterfully crafted, glistening katana with a unique blue hue around the blade's edge and a groove that runs along the spine of the weapon from base to tip.

Being the more complex of the pair, Murakumo is a large stainless round cylinder lined with a golden plate covering most of the body of Murakumo which is covered in intricate carvings that acts at Susanowo 's sheathe. The opening for the blade is found in the middle of the sheathe with a hole on the other end to allow air to be released at a pull of a brake trigger beside the blade's opening.

At the base of the sheathe, where the blade goes into, is a large, thick metal drum that takes up most of the top part of Murakumo connected to vents around the sheathe to allow air to enter it. After that is essentially a gatling gun hidden behind the sheathe's round metal exterior, multiple barrels connected to a rotating shaft at the middle powered by a dust-powered engine but rather than bullets, Murakumo fires highly pressurized air with the help of Hayate's semblance.