Megan Candelaria

Appearance
Megan usually wears an armless white shimmering crop top with ribbons wrapping her exposed midriff. She complements this outfit with white yoga-pants and a triangular piece of white cloth with light blue trim wrapped around her waist as a skirt. On her feet she wears a pair of knee high combat boots with light blue laces and soles

Physically, Megan is often found to be rather attractive with her slim yet curvy body and tall build. Her blond hair is almost always left loose with five bangs hanging out from the front, two on the left and three on the right. Her faunus lineage is displayed by the translucent fins around her midriff and the smaller ones behind her ears

History
Megan was born in a lower class family in windpath, near mistral, she was happy with her family but always saw how the people with who lived in the better parts of mistral seemed happier. Quickly her life’s goal became apparent, to rise up to the upper class in mistral and become a well-known person who’s presence would be appreciated. Though her journey started badly, the only connection she had to the upper class being a family friend whom they barely saw anymore named Brann Hakesley. Meanwhile due to the family’s income that was just insufficient for them they had to resort to less legal methods of gathering money like stealing.

This all changed when Megan discovered her semblance allowing her to create gems. Next time Brann came to visit her parents encouraged Megan to demonstrate her special ability. The man was happy to witness Megan’s trick as he himself was a jeweler, Megan immediately got a job with him in mistral to supply him with gems. The two set off to the main city that day and in that day the man saw more gems than ever before.

Taking a day off to celebrate Brann and outfit his new accomplice Brann went to work with his dust-based tools the day after. However the crystals would rupture and burst soon after they were cut, this angered Brann deeply and he kicked out Megan to sleep in the gutter for ruining his work. Megan disagreed though and thus she tried to sell self-made gems quickly, this didn’t go according to plan as a 10-year old child in poor people’s clothes trying to sell giant gems just after being kicked out by a jeweler seemed a little sketchy. Therefore she resorted to pickpocketing people and leaving gems to replace the stolen money. She used the money to rent a hotel room and after several days Brann called to apologize. Megan, disgusted by what she did the last few days to pay for her hotel suite returned with a friendly smile. Brann explained that he worked out what went wrong and explained that he shouldn’t have used dust for cutting the gems and proceeded to work with old-fashioned tools. Brann became faster and faster and Megan observed the process and often sold Brann’s works whenever she had the time.

Feeling downed by not being the face behind the counter of his own store Brann thought Megan how to cut gems. Putting Megan to work making and cutting gems he himself could do the more laid-back work of managing the counter. Furthermore Brann started to make much more money but yet refused to pay Megan her fair share and every time she brought it up he’d pay her a little less. After trying to escape and leave mistral for her home Brann caught her and told her that they died because the white fang killed them in revanche for her parents stealing from them. Megan then returned to the shop and saw her conditions becoming increasingly worse, Being payed less, having to make work more and generally being treated like scum. After several weeks she tried to run away, this present could never be worth whatever future awaited her, she thought. Brann tracked her down and started to drug her in her sleep using his semblance until she became an addict. From then on out every time she’d run, she’d have to return or else she’d face insufferable pain. Every time she’d return she’d face worse conditions until eventually she snapped. Using her semblance she immobilized her master and used him to drink from his blood to sate her addiction. Now having access to a source of the addictive and knowing what was going on she lessened the dose each time to deal with it.

Several weeks after she struck back she’d find her shop smashed to bits and stolen from. Brann was eager to explain the major fault she made. He insured his store with a biker gang, whenever he missed a payment he’d find his shop in ruins, Brann was also smart enough not to tell her who to pay, meaning she wouldn’t be able to have enough items to sell to afford to live. Megan was a problem solver though, and seeing as she couldn’t contact the police since she’d be incarcerated for assaulting Brann. She got a gun and plenty of dust back in windpath and decided to defend her own store. After chasing off the bandits several weeks she was charged with assault. Explaining her story and proving it to the authorities she was still incarcerated. However after several days she paid her own bail in triple to a warden and was let out.

After being freed Megan went back home, to find her parents still alive despite what Brann told her and she lived with them for several years, one day during a camping trip the family was assaulted by grimm and a team of huntsmen in training, paired with a professor attempted to save them. Megan however, not willing to be a damsel in distress, helped out with providing cover and offensive support using her semblance. The professor present saw this and saw the smile it put on her face and offered her a scholarship. With no better plans to accomplish her life’s goal she accepted it and joined haven academy after having a weapon crafted for her.

Her time at Haven was troublesome, she was forced to retake the first year twice because she lacked the training her peers did have from their time at sanctum and other comparable schools. After finally passing her first year she passed all subsequent years with no issues, however the same couldn’t be said for the rest of her team, one was killed during initiation by grimm, two others failed classes and were forced to retake the semester in the end leaving only Megan left over.

She became a Huntress the year before the fall of beacon, taking any missions she could perform with the intent of becoming a professor at a combat school later in life. She was present during the vytal festival as a spectator and helped with evacuation during the fall of beacon. After this event she started traveling the world, performing odd jobs for smaller villages and trying to figure out how corrupt her world of huntsmen really was.

Personality
Megan isn’t overly trusting, perhaps even a bit paranoid, whenever someone remarks that she’ll condescendingly tell her how and why this has come to pass. Otherwise she’s usually very courteous, even when someone’s rude to her, her first response is to try and put them back in their place politely. Furthermore Megan’s second most important feature is her lack of emotion, displayed almost always she will try to not show how she feels as deep down she sees it as a weakness that can be exploited. She does however have trouble keeping up this masquerade when initially confronted with shocking news.

Another important feature of the huntress are her observant skills and her skill of logical thinking, which have helped her often during her time as a huntress with picking out who’s jobs to take, as she likes to discuss the job further after taking it, especially when it concerns other humans. However sometimes her own logic fails her and in these cases she rarely notices her own failed thinking process, even worse, whenever she does find out she was wrong she’s often too proud to admit it

Socially Megan is a wreck, she often comes across cold and distant, sometimes even hostile making her not the most pleasant person to be around.

Weapons
Megan’s primary weapon is an collapsible polearm, one end has a spike and can be shot out like a harpoon while the other is a crescent moon shaped form and used to store her secondary weapon as well as used to crystalize another type of weapon on. The two ends of the staff and the middle part are each 40 centimeters (approximately 1.333feet) with the extending staff parts being the same length and sliding out from the middle. The crescent moon shaped end is also capable of discharging fire and wind dust from any part of the end through a series of vents along the outside, the dust is stored inside the rods along the length of the full weapon

Megan’s secondary weapon is a Chakram, it’s a simple circular design with just 3 groups of 3 sharp spikes around the edge distributed along the circle equally. The Chakram is imbued with wind dust to keep it flying and earth dust to allow Megan to form crystals at range.

Semblance
Megan’s semblance allows her to conjure up white crystals of varying sizes and shape them however she wants to. To do this she does need to charge up by being in contact with any land. When charged up glowing white lines will start to appear around her body. After 20 seconds of not being in contact with the ground her charged energy will start to decrease rapidly. She can offset this by carrying earth dust with her while airborne as a substitute for real ground. Once charged Megan can form crystals in a 3 meter (10 feet) radius within line of sight. Alternatively she can charge an object imbued with earth dust to form the crystals, doing this will tire her less. The time it takes to form a crystal is directly proportionate to the mass of it though the more crystals she has formed at any time the faster they can grow, forming them faster does tire her more though.

<p class="MsoNormal">Crystals will react with dust, replicating the effects of any dust applied to it and being triggered by aura, however her crystals can also be triggered when exposed to too much dust of the corresponding type. E.g. a crystal imbued with fire type dust cannot burst due to ice dust but can be triggered with enough fire dust

<p class="MsoNormal">The amount of dust it takes to burst a crystal isn’t related to any observable properties of the crystal and set by Megan herself. All dust crystal types except for earth dust can rupture releasing the same effect as the corresponding dust but possibly with greater magnitude depending on the size of the crystal. Earth dust becomes very dense instead and makes for excellent protection.

Trivia
<p class="MsoNormal">Brann’s semblance allowed him to drug people with his blood by smearing it on them, it causes them insufferable pain when they don’t get it at least daily and weakens them, furthermore it clouds the victims judgement, though it is easy to rehabilitate from it and does drain Brann’s own aura <span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Megan is a pet form of “Mared” which means pearl which are typically white