Hemli Bearmantle

Appearance
Hemli is a tall human girl, standing at 1,83 meters. She has a pale skin and green eyes along with long very light blonde hair.

Mostly she wears a white top exposing most of her belly while still covering the womanly parts there. Over this she wears a green coat reaching over her hips with long sleeves. In winter she substitutes this for a warmer varriant with a fur trim. Hemli is also almost esclusively seen wearing white skinny jeans with a short skirt over it. Furthermore she has green leather straps strapped over her upper left leg, skirt and belly.

Both of her shield and double bladed sword are stored on her back while not fightning, however unless she expects a fight she doesnt bring them, opting to launch her locker if the need should arise when unprepared.

Backstory
Hemli was born in quite a poor family on the outskirts of civilization, an area where grimm attacks occured more frequently than in the rest of Vale. Despite this her parents did not love her any less and she got all the affection she ever wanted. Her parent's love was more or less forfeit since to pay for school they both had to take incredibly demanding jobs. Nevertheless the time she had to spend with them was to her the best time ever because of the parental lovebetween the girl and her parents. The time she spent on her own however was heartbreaking to her. School didn't particularly help the young lass  since she wasn't the brightest light at the time and since she was dressed as a poorer child she quickly found herself excluded from the groups of friends in her class. due to the loneliness and constant bullying by her classmates she often got in fights when she wanted to unleash some agression. The frequency of these fights gave her more than enough practice to be noticed. which in turn gave her some attention and with that a way to "hide" from the loneliness.while this fightning sure did seem a problem to the staff at hner primary school, her parents saw through it and tried to spend more time with her instead of punishing her. This caused the parental love to more change into a friendship between equals

After primary school however another group of people who noticed her started showing themselves, namely the staff of signal accademy. more specificly, they noticed her ability to quickly learn new things and accomodate new things in her strategy. Therefore Hemli and her parents were personally visited by the headmaster who tried to get her to attend signal. Her parents however couldn't initially agree with the offer the headmaster proposed. Instead, after a certain convincing of the headmaster she was offered a full scolarship to signal accademy. This also meant both her parents were in less financial problems and they both switched to a job that was less demanding on them.

Once entered in beacon she met a sassy, rude girl who was born into a rich family named amber fall, due to this huge difference in character the pair quickly became rivals. However the parents of this rich kid were getting ennoyed by her attitude and proposed her to switch houses with Hemli. in this period Hemli learned that money does not mean happiness as she though before this experience, while Amber learned the value of a friendly family. Of course Amber didnt learn this after causing some severe damage to Hemli's house. The bearmantle family was of richly compensated for this and was now able to move to a more peacefull location in Vale. Furthermore due to both girls now having experienced eachother's pain they quickly became best friends.

Hemli however wasn't satisfied with moving out of the frontier as a solution to grimm attacks and became a vowed to become a huntress to safeguard the village she used to live and other villages like it.

Personality
The first thing people notice about Hemli is probably her self-confidence or even ego, often introducing herself as ''"Hemli Bearmantle, since the best swordsman in town just happens to be a woman". ''This however is a lie, Hemli is not in the least confident in her abilities and often states this after failing to do something.

Despite this lack of self-confidence she still tends to dream big, this was revealed when she declared that she will kill every last grimm that even attempts to harm a human or faunus. This quote also reveals her standing on faunus, namely that since they didn't choose to be faunus they aren't to be treated a bit different to humans.

Hemli has shown to be swift-thinking, manipulative and cunning, examples of this part of her nature can be found when she used her semblance in several key moments in her life such as her scolarship, house-exchange with Amber, Amber's rampage and the Fall's familly's compensation for it.

She has a severe lack of social skills in that she doesn't know how to befriend a person. The exception to this rule was Amber who befriended her more than the other way around. However Hemli has since figured out how to use her semblance in a more fine-tuned way to make people apreciate her lack of social skills as a type of humor, shyness and childishness.

Weapons and combat
In signal accademy Hemli was given the chance to forge her own weapon, despite at the time being experienced with hand to hand combat she chose to forge a sword and shield

The sword named rynnätä is a double edged blade with one blade on each end of the handle, despite the double bladed feature she mostly uses one end while the other partially colapses into the handle. the blade can transform into a rope javelin of sorts by shooting out the blade of the handle and seperating the blade into up to 5 parts while still connecting all parts via cables.

The shield named suoja is a triangular shield with a cust coating mechanic. On the handle there is a dial which she operates with thumb and index finger that allows her to select a specific type of dust to coat the shield with. the shield however has no use for dust, it is used to transfer the dust to her blade via electromagnetism by swiping her sword by the shield. The handle also serves as a console for her sword, managing it's transformations.

The dust applied to rynnätä is mostly used when the latter is in rope javelin mode to make the blade parts appear more similar to magic and distract opponents from the missing sword. this is a mostly succesfull attempt to make this dust/rynnätä combination look like her semblance. Fire dust applied to her blade causes wounds that are immediatly cauterized, healing the wound in a painfull way. water dust forms ice crystals on hit, these can pierce most clothing and skin in a painfull way, however they can also be used to immobilize enemies. wind dust speeds up the blades causing them to in turn damage the opponent more by simply increasing the force of collision. Lightning simply causes opponent's muscles to involuntarily contract causing spasm's. Earth dust causes no added effect when used for combat but instead causes damage to the environment and locks in place making it perfect for zip-lines.

Hemli prefers to fight close range with her sword since melee attacks are easier to block with her shield and since she has more experience with swordfightning than with a rope javelin. However on range she is still able to defend herself, using her semblance to read where bullets and such are aimed at while attacking with rynnätä in rope javelin mode. in this mode she prefers to use swinging attacks since circular motions are easier to preform and harder to dodge. if this is not possible she mostly zip-lines across the battlefield to re-enter melee range

Semblance
Hemli's semblance allows her to communicate with other's telepathically. she uses this outside of combat by suggesting certain ideas, e.g. full scolarship for signal. But it's also proven to be usefull inside combat by predicting weapon strikes. However this semblance does come at a cost, her eyesight does get blurry whenever she uses it. Furthermore she cannot use it on beings that are focussing on her, effectively rendering it useless in 1vs1 scenario's