Russet Dolce

"(She gives you a look like the look one gives gum they have discovered on the bottom of their shoe.)"

Appearance
Russet is, in a word, ''flashy. ''She wears a white sailor's outfit with about half the fabric removed, exposing her midriff and chest. Her skirt is ruffled and multi-layered, with a sheer sheet of pink cloth trailing behind her. Starting at her upper-arm, dark teal armwarmers edged with golden buttons extend to the very edge of her palm. A dark eyepatch covers her right eye, and she wears a small white sailor's cap. She wears scallop-edged teal thigh-high socks and white strapped heels. Russet wears her reddish-brown hair freely, save for a single braid tucked behind her right ear.

Personality
Russet is prickly in nature and prefers solitude. People irritate her to no end. They never quite measure up to her sky-high standards and attention to detail. She will completely disregard orders from someone she doesn't respect. At the same time, she is unsuited to leadership, as well -- once she loses her patience (which is fast), she becomes completely uncooperative. When given a goal, she'll attack it single-mindedly and leave others behind without a second thought. Her greatest strength and flaw is her work ethic -- she is great at making plans and completing them, but she will run herself ragged with little concern to achieve her ends.

As a result of being awful at working in a team, Russet is extremely independent and skilled at coming up with unorthodox solutions to problems, especially to spite another person. She has a complex of sorts, and refuses to accept help from others because she feels the need to prove that she is capable on her own. Above all else, she detests being pitied or patronized.

Despite judging others harshly, Russet judges herself even more severely. For all that she is sharp-tongued and rude, Russet is humble and will take blame when she feels like she deserves it. She's the type of person to let herself be plagued by guilt if someone were to be injured because of her, so it's all the better that she stay away from people.

Russet is logical when she is calm, but she is also hot-headed and quick to lose that calmness given the correct annoyance. She expresses her anger in very concentrated bursts of violence, or sharp glares.

This is Russet in her natural state. She has a remarkable talent for acting, and is great at internalizing negative emotions when she makes an active effort, but people are rarely worth making an active effort for, so she would rather punch their necks.

Backstory
Russet was the only child of a well-established actress. She never knew anything about her father, and was the subject of myriad tabloids and gossip magazines when she was born. She wanted to be an entertainer like her mother, and by the age of twelve, she had a decent career as a child actress and a breakout pop singer. However, when performing at her mother's birthday celebration, a faulty light came loose and hit her, severely injuring the right portion of her face and scalp, and putting her into a coma.

She was fortunate enough to wake up from her coma and heal from her injuries, but she found herself unable to articulate words, and her writing ability was severely impaired. Russet was diagnosed with expressive aphasia. Her career came to a halt. She found herself to yet again be the subject of gossip and tabloids, so her mother sent Russet to live in a rural area with her grandmother.

Feeling abandoned, betrayed, and worthless, Russet stewed in self-hatred for a few months before resolving to become successful despite the media condemning her as a cripp''le. ''The overwhelming sadness converted to anger and spite. She went through intense physical therapy and regained a good portion of her former dexterity back. She would become a Huntress, she decided. A paragon of fitness and strength, to prove that she wasn't weak.

Russet's mother was plagued with guilt after her daughter's incident, and instead of supporting Russet, fell into a deep depression and buried herself in work. Because of this lack of communication, Russet thought her mother was ashamed of her disability, and grew to resent and hate her.

Russet's hard work and life savings paid off, and they allowed her to enter Signal Academy, albeit two years late. Her status as an outsider and her hostile nature cemented her friendlessness, but her strength and violence saved her from bullies. She was truly alone, but preferred it that way. By completely devoting herself to her studies and taking extra classes, Russet was able to graduate at the same time as her peers, and her impressive growth and decent grades allowed her entry into Beacon.

Ablilities
Russet is a skilled dancer and has a good ear for music. She can play the piano and guitar, but nowadays, she views those skills as symbols of her past life so she opts not to. She is also surprisingly handy in survival situations, having spent multiple years of her life on a farm, and can keep a pristine appearance even after spending a day in a muddy swamp.

On the other hand, she has unparalleled skill in trashing a room when let loose. Her bedroom is a disaster zone.

Combat
Russet's battle philosophy is simply: pummel it until it vaporizes. Her methods tend to be brute, unrefined, and overwhelming, but she is decent at channeling her force into something constructive. She uses a "Density Propelling Pile Bunker" (DPPD) called Niflheim.