Mizuki Nex

"If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong." Mizuki Nex is an original character created by Aldrasos.

Appearance
Mizuki is a mid-height young lady with a statuesque and willowy body and long hair tied back in two braids. Her hair is naturally pure white, but she dyes the hair on the top of her head and her fringe a solid black, in stark contrast. She tends to have her fringe brushed from left to right so that it almost covers her right eye, but not quite. The left braid is black, while the left is white, as are her eyes, with the left having a black contact lens while her left is her usual light grey.

Her combat gear consists of a reinforced black leather chestpiece which covers her chest and stomach, leaving her hips and lower back bare. She wears pure white, tight-fitting trousers and black boots which reach halfway up her lower legs with silver buckles running down the front. Beneath her chestpiece she wears a sleaveless white tanktop with an exposed midriff.

She also wears white leather armour pads on her outer arms and two fingerless, open-palmed gauntlets with a white design. Around her waist she wears a belt holding many vials of mixed black and white Dust. Her Faunus trait is a pair of cat ears in addition to her human ears.

Personality
Mizuki prefers to be left to her own devices the majority of the time, except when training. Her most significant part of her personality is her motivation, and her determination to be the absolute best she can be. Not only does she train in practically all of her spare time, but she enjoys it immensely and gets satisfaction after each session as she feels herself improving.

She prefers to not interact with people if she can avoid it, but puts on a air of cold tolerance when she has to. She pretends to be friendly, but it is evident that she has little to no interest in most people. She has a habit of smirking when someone is talking, and will often laugh outright when people talk to her in a negative tone.

The only person Mizuki does not react normally to is Lucri Rellik, who she refers to as simply 'Sir'. Rellik has her utmost respect, and she idolises him to the fullest extent, to the point where she even modelled the style of her armour to match his. However, Rellik is aware of this and firmly ensures that her idolisation does not go into obsession. The reason for her admiration for him is because of his brilliant fighting ability and wit, and in turn Rellik acknowledges Mizuki as his top student, and takes time out of his day to train her to become even more powerful than he was in his prime.

Background
Mizuki was born in the city of Vale, not far from the academy. Her mother was a painter, and his father a skilled sculpter, and she grew up loving to make things and creating fine pieces of art. She learnt at an early age her Semblance of Sculpting, which was to use Dust and create long-lasting creations out of it. She quickly got the hang of it, and used her ability to create masterful sculptures - many of which were of creatures of Grimm, which she had become fascinated with - out of her own a special blend of ice and earth Dust which made a bone-like substance similar to that which covers Grimm. Her masterful sculpting quickly gained her a following, and soon her sculptures were selling for ridiculously high prices, making her very rich and widely known in the world of art.

However, on the eve of her 12th birthday, an evil man visited her father's shop. He introduced himself as Decadere Diaboli, and expressed an interest in The Maxim - Mizuki's greatest piece of work which had taken weeks to finish. However, rather than buy the sculpture, he stole it instead. He used his whip-hand to choke Mizuki's father and threatened to kill them if they dared report him to the police. On his way out, Mizuki blocked his way, and demanded that he return the sculpture. Unimpressed, Diaboli batted her out of the way and left, shouting over his shoulder that he would return the following year.

And return he did. The day before each of her birthdays, Diaboli would return to Vale and making a point of taking Mizuki's next greatest model to add to his collection. On his second visit, Mizuki's parents had called the police, despite his warnings. However, Diaboli didn't turn up. Instead, he waited for them to leave the following day, and broke into the shop the next morning. He whipped Mizuki's father for reporting him, and threatened to do the same to Mizuki herself. However, he held back at the last moment, showing some humanity and leaving the shop in a huff.

Every following year, Diaboli would return, and the Nex family no longer dared to resist him, except Mizuki, who opposed him every time. However, at every confrontation Diaboli would simply brush her aside, despite her having trained herself to become stronger in preparation for his next visit. Soon, Mizuki began to wonder whether Diaboli visited to take her sculptures or to simply test how strong she had become.

However, on Diaboli's fourth visit the day before Mizuki's 15th birthday, the shop was not empty. Admiring one of Mizuki's models was Lucri Livion, a new substitute teacher at Beacon Academy. Diaboli made the mistake of not checking the room when he entered, and was caught in the act of taking the sculpture. Before Lucri could interviene though, Mizuki stepped forward and blocked Diaboli's exit. As the thief swung his whip, she ducked the swing and punched him in the jaw, knocking him back and breaking the model. Before Diaboli could react, however, Lucri made short work of him, throwing him out of the store in a bleeding mess.

Diaboli didn't return the following year.

Lucri praised Mizuki for her bravery, and she explained her family's situation and her growing desire to attend Beacon Academy, so that one day she could get revenge on Diaboli. He admired her determination, and agreed to take her on as an apprentice, although he made the point that two years was hardly enough time to prepare her for the entrance exam.

Luckily for Mizuki, Lucri was a brilliant trainer, albeit quite harsh and uncompromising. However, she proved she could handle the strict training sessions he made for her, and showed that she was a quick learner. Using her Semblance as a weapon, she progressed faster than Lucri had expected, and by the time of the exams she was only slightly behind the other students. She passed the exam and was accepted into the academy, and continued to hone her skills under Lucri's guidance, both as his student and apprentice.

Triple Entente
Triple Entente is a pair of Dust-casters attached to her wrists. At their base are three vial holders for Dust - one for her 'Bone Dust', one for a blend of electricity and water Dust, and one for fire Dist. The casters are voice-controlled, and release the Dust after she speaks the words 'Bone', 'Smog' and 'Burn', respectively. Bone Dust is used for creating her sculptures, while Smog is used to create a smokescreen of elecrified water vapour and Burn is used simply as a short-range flamethrower.

Aikido
Mizuki has trained extensively in unarmed combat in the event of her being unable to sculpt a weapon. He fighting style is based off of Aikido, which revolves around avoiding attacks and using the opponent's attack against them. In particular she focuses on breaking her opponent's bones through joint locks. However, it is still a very defensive fighting style.

Sculpting
Mizuki's Semblance is of Sculpting. It involves creating a glyph between 20cm and 3 metres in diametre on the ground, which will act as a sort of building platform. Bone Dust in then used from Triple Entente on the glyphs, which acts as the material she uses to sculpt with. Her sculptures can range between large tooth-like pillars and smaller hand-held melee weapons. At her current mastery, she can create roughtly fourty glyphs before she collapses from exhaustion, and her limit is five at any one time. The size of the glyphs does not effect how much fatigue it causes, but there are limitations.

Firstly, larger sculptures take more Dust and time to create, but are more hollow and easily broken. At the other end of the spectrum, weapons created out of Bone Dust are more durable and are created more quickly, usually after a second or two. However, they tend to break multiply times in every fight, and can only take roughly ten hits before they shatter. Also, weapons created are currently limited to simple melee weapons, as ranged weaponry are too complicated and difficult for her to create.

Her sculptures are not only used to create temporary weapons, but also to alter the terrain in which she is fighting to her advantage, such as creating barricades and splitting up attackers. The range of her glyphs are thirty metres from her position.

Trivia

 * Mizuki is Japanese for 'Beautiful Moon'
 * Nex in Latin has many meanings, revolving around death and pain, possible alluding to what Mizuki could cause if she continues her quest for power