Raina Bowman

Appearance
Raina is a young woman with fair skin, heterochromia iridum; giving her a purple left eye and a green right eye, and blonde hair that is dyed a multitude of colors. She has a small frame and slender build complimented with a modest bust. Raina's sense of fashion has been considered to be nonexistent by some, often wearing mismatched clothing and clashing colors. Her usual outfit consists of a purple jacket, a yellow tank top that is cut short showing her belly, pink camo shorts that go down to her knees, a bright blue belt, red fingerless gloves, bright orange sunglasses, and tan sandals with straps that go up to her ankles.

Personality
Raina is a lively woman who has often been know as the life of a party, never sitting still for more than a few seconds. She is constantly flitting around and approaches every situation with maximum enthusiasm. Raina's favorite thing to do when she has the time is to go out in the city to try and meet new people, making as many new friends as possible.

Raina treats her classes like a giant game, leaving her actual teaching skills a bit lacking. However this is compensated by the fact that she treats her students with the utmost care; treating every word that comes from them as if it was the most important thing in the world. She also always manages to find just the right amount of energy to give her students, making her quite the councilor.

She can be quite forgetful at times though, often having to set several reminders for herself to do mundane things. This can lead to some friction between her and the other staff members as she often forgets to file necessary paperwork and reports on the student's progress.

Abilities
Raina is highly acrobatic and agile, constantly moving and bouncing around both in combat and in every day life. On the battle field she's often seen flipping around from enemy to enemy, attacking them swiftly at close range before hopping away to her next target. However her lack of attention to her surroundings has been known to get her into trouble from time to time, having backed herself into a corner on more than one occasion. As such she needs to operate on a team so that someone can keep her in check in battle.

Outside of combat Raina is often seen running to and from place to place, using a mix of parkour and gymnastics as her main means of transportation. While running Raina chooses the paths that she believes will be the most fun to take, rather than the easiest or fastest.

Mentally Raina is quite intelligent but is often scatter brained, tending to loose her train of thought easily and forgetting about things that don't interest her quickly.

Equipment
Raina's weapons is a double barrled, over/under 12 gauge shotgun with 24" barrels called the Crank Squirrel. The name comes from a nickname she got as a child from her constant movement and habit of climbing walls and trees to move. The shotgun can transform into a spear by having the top barrel of the gun fold forward on a hinge and clamp down to the bottom barrel. When this happens a blade protrudes from the top and butt end of the stock. the gun can still be fired in this form, functioning as a single shotgun rather than a double barreled shotgun.

Backstory
Raina was born in a medium sized city in Atlas to a middle class family. Growing up she was always the center of attention and as she got older was considered to be quite a party girl. However she never liked school, finding it boring and because of this her grades suffered to the point where she nearly failed out due to the fact that she didn't do her work. This changed however when she met a huntress one day coming home from school.

Raina had always heard how awesome the huntress and huntsmen were but had never met one in person before. Here was this super cool woman who laughed in the face of monsters and spat in the face of evil! She was a real life action movie hero and got paid for it! It had to be the best job ever and she wanted to do the same thing.

As the woman talked to Raina it became more apparent to her that if she wanted to be as cool as this woman she would need to buckle down and at least get good enough grades to get into a combat academy, and that's exactly what she did. After graduating from her primary school Raina began training to enter the Atlas combat academy in secret, not wanting to have her parents worry about her. After three months of training Raina went to the combat trials for the school and passed them, although just barely.

When Raina got home that evening she informed her parents of the truth behind what she had been doing all summer and her intents to become a huntress, much to their dismay. They begged their daughter not to endanger herself this way and to find a safer, more suitable job for a young woman such as herself. This led to a long and heated fight between the three that lasted for nearly a week before her parents accepted that their daughter had made up her mind and nothing would sway her. As Raina went off to the Atlas academy they wished her luck, told her they loved her, and silently prayed that she would be safe.

At Atlas Raina quickly rose to get top marks in active classes like combatives and semblance usage but scored very low on classroom classes an theory based instruction. This lead to Raina graduating towards the bottom of her class, not that it much mattered to her because she was finally able to do the job she'd been dreaming of for years. And for the first year of it, that's exactly what being a huntress was; a dream job.

Unfortunately as time passed and Raina was finding her time as a huntress to be less fulfilling as she thought it would be. Sure it gave her freedom to work when and how she wanted, but without a steady team she couldn't take on bigger missions and the normal grim she had been fighting though her years of training and school had become a dull grind. Raina was considering a change of careers when she was approached by the headmistress of an academy from the kingdom of Vale. This woman named Carmalita was offering her a job to continue what she was doing while managing to teach a new generation of huntsmen and huntresses. This was a prospect that Raina hadn't considered but sounded as though it could at least be challenging and thus a good adventure and accepted on the spot. So Raina packed up her life, said goodbye to her parents; who were ecstatic to hear that she was getting a safer job, and moved to Vale to become a combat instructor at Refuge Academy.