Serena Ciano

Appearance
Serena is the average height and although she is pretty slim, she is still strong. The only scars she has are small ones on her hands from accidents with maintinence of her weapon. Her hair is a light orange and her eyes are a dark grey color. She keeps her hair in a ponytail, which is tucked into her signature pumpkin hat when she is wearing it.

She wears a thick, white coat with a turtle neck collar and buttons down the front of it with brown, loose fitting sleeves and a dress on the bottom of her coat that goes to about her knees. She wears knee-socks and hiking boots.

Personality
She is bubbly and opptimistic, if a bit overconfident and naive. She is very friendly towards pretty much everyone and, unless they have given her a reason to dislike them, she considers just about everyone a friend-to-be until proven otherwise. Because of this,  she tends to make friends rather easy.

She tends to ramble a lot when she gets on a topic she likes and once she gets going she has trouble stopping.

If she is confronted by a seemingly bad person, she will tend to give them the benefit of a doubt on whether they actually are bad or not, leading to her being decieved rather easily.

Backstory
Serena grew up in a small village to the snowy north. She was always helping her dad out with heavy lifting around the village, helping with lumber and building material moving, among other things, leading to her being fairly strong from a young age, being able to lift 180 lbs by the time she was 13.

When she was about 9, she went to collect some firewood in the nearby forest and was attacked by a pack of Beowolves. She fled them for a minute, but tripped and was cornered. She thought the end was in sight...

It was at that time she was rescued by a couple Hunters and Huntresses. They slew the Beowolves and brought her back to her village safely. From then on, she made it her dream to become a Huntress so she could help people in need as Hunters and Huntresses had so long ago.

She attended [REDACTED] Academy at age 16 and graduated at age 18. She then went on to start her first year at Beacon at the age of 19.

Weapons & Combat
She fights with the Dust Rocket Chainsaw Teeth (DRCT), also known as Winterfall. It is a rocket launcher that uses Light-Blue Dust solid-state warheads to have a freezing effect upon impact, freezing what it hits and creating large ice formations upon detonation and having profound damage to enemies, especially those suceptable to cold. It has an internal supply of Light-Blue Dust, giving it a good amount of ammunition, though shots must not be fired too quickly, as the recoil is high and the barrels can freeze if used too much.

It's other mode splits the gun in half and the user grips the hand-holds in the rear of the gun (found between the two exhaust ports on either half, the housing for the handle covers up to her elbows) and battles with the Chainsaw Teeth, which both crush and cut whatever can fit in the 'jaws' of it.

Serena herself is a strong and agile fighter, being able to fire the Winterfall from a standing position repeatedly without falling over, as well as being able to move around the battlefield rather quickly with one of the halfs of the weapon on either arm.

Strengths:
Due to her weapon and fighting style, she is an exceptional demolionist and can make short work of almost any large structure with a few well placed shots. She is also quite strong, as she is able to carry the Winterfall around and lift large containers with relative ease. This also means that she is dangerous in short range combat. Because she talks so much, she is almost never left out of the loop with communication and will always relay what her current status is to her teamates.

Weaknesses:
Due to her nature, she is not suited for stealthy operations, as she will either give their position away from talking or from combat, since a Rocket Launcher/Chainsaw Teeth are not very quiet. She designed a destructive explosive weapon to make up for her lack of accuracy. She is also quite gullible. If someone were to tell her that they wrote it on the ceiling, she wouldn't be able to help but look. She also has a minor fear of heights and will avoid going up high if she can help it.

Relationships
Outside of her family, she has no relationships as of yet, though this should change over the course of time.

Etymology
Serena directly means serene. Ciano is Italian for Cyan, which i chose to reflect on her cold theme. Her name literally translates to Serene Cyan. It's ironic, since Serene means to be calm and tranquil, yet she is the exact opposite of that.

Trivia

 * Serena can sometimes talk for hours at a time. Sometimes you literally have to shove something in her mouth to get her to stop.
 * She is secretly a bit of a glutton. She can't really make any food that's not cold, as she prefers most of the food she eats.
 * Originally, she was to fight with her Semblance and Dust infused clothing, like Cinder but with Light-Blue Dust, but the idea was scrapped in favor of the Winterfall.
 * Crimmsonblade suggested the idea for the backstory. Originally i was going to try something more tragic, where her village was attacked by Grimm and her Mother was killed in the attack. I didn't like that, so i changed it to something happier and much easier for me to write.
 * Serena originated as one of my characters on my RP Tumblr . I was determined to keep the ice aspect of her  Snow Golem counterpart. For the most part, i kept her the same as much as i could.
 * With her original design, she was going to manipulate and use Ice and Snow as her weapon.