Nexus Carter

Name: Nexus Astrea Carter of House Kitsune

Age: 20 (subject to change when Semblance is activated)

Gender: Female

Race: Faunus (Wolf)

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 137lbs

Hair Color: Silver (subject to change when Semblance is activated)

Eye Color: Amber (subject to change when Semblance is activated)

 Appearance: 

Nexus, commonly referred to as Nex, is a rather tall Faunus woman. While she isn't muscular or anything, she's quite strong, and quick to boot.She's got fairly dark skin and silver hair, which she often ties a large bow into. Her eyes glow Amber, and there is a black line painted vertically beneath each.

On a normal day, you'd likely find Nexus in a black and yellow kimono with a shorter-than-usual skirt, in case someone attacks her out of the blue. While she's training, she typically changes into a hakama tied with a yellow bow, for simple ease of movement. For combat, she's got a special set of armor that was made in her village, and pants that go with it. Both the armor and pants are predominantly black with yellow accents.

(Below: Nex in her Kimono, in Armor, and in her Hakama, from left to right) Personality: 

Nexus, while overall being a nice person, is VERY mischievous. She enjoys many of the finer things in life, and likes looking good while she enjoys them. Despite this, she is not as vain as you'd expect, often giving up these finer things for the greater good, or giving them to those who have little. She's got a very strong moral compass, often showing compassion to children who have no one to care for them.

All that being said, Nexus is not a great enemy to make. For one, she has little concept of mercy, and it should be noted that, while her siblings prefer the chase to the kill, Nexus quite loves killing her foes. She's gotten such a record for killing, and signing the crime scenes, that she's known to the assassin community as "Lady Death". She'll often seduce her target or make herself seem cute and harmless to lower their guard, and then kill them. 'Course, she doesn't do it just for fun; she targets those who are known to be... bad people, for lack of a better term. Criminals and the like.

 Semblance: 

Nex's Semblance is called Discindo*. With it, Nexus can split her Aura into two separate entities, and her body along with it. Each entity is half the age of Nexus, and represents a different part of her personality. It should also be noted that each entity has a different weapon proficiency, as Nexus uses a combined weapon fighting style. The names of these entities are:

Anyx Merina Carter and Asami Ayane Carter, referred to as Nyx and Asa respectively.

Nyx and Asa's names come from Nexus. She had rewritten her name to read Nyxas, and then split them to read Nyx and Asa. Nexus typically changes to their forms when she is extremely outnumbered, or when it's prudent to be in two places at once.

 Weapons: 

Nexus uses a rather unique fighting style, one she actually learned from her mother, and taught both her brothers. It's a one-handed blade style, with the off hand used to punch. As such, Nexus uses a shortsword in her right hand that goes by the same name as her Semblance, due to it's power to split into several pieces and snake towards enemies, like a whip-blade. She bears no weapon in her left hand, as described above. That does not lessen her power however; her punches and kicks are fast enough to break the sound barrier, and break bones with ease.

 Backstory: 

Nexus grew up in a village deep within the forest. The area in which it was located was known as the Grimm Fortress, for it's high population of Grimm. The village, a little to the south west of the center of the forest, is filled with Faunus. There is no blood family system here; while blood siblings are generally kept together, the children of the village are raised by the community as a whole rather than individual parents. Each of them have immense talent, and use their Semblances perfectly in harmony with their combat styles. This is only natural, of course. Anyone with a weak will, a weak semblance, or little coordination is culled off. Not that the other villagers have killed any of their own. The Grimm often seek the destruction of the village, and, as such, everyone is a fighter. Whoever can't fight, or can't fight well, is killed.

While this lifestyle makes the Grimm hated amongst the villagers, the Grimm are also a source of their belief system (I hesitate to say religion because they don't really have one, this is just cultural stuffs). The people of this village believe that every Villager is linked to a certain Grimm, through the mutual dark force that runs through their veins. Some are linked to strong Grimm, other to weak and benign Grimm. They say that if you seek out this Grimm and end it, you'll gain it's strength. This would be due to the collective ancestry of the village, dating back to a particular Huntsman whose semblance granted him the ability to absorb the Aura of Grimm. The ability is hereditary, to a fault, and it's been diluted over centuries of outbreeding (who knew outbreeding could be a bad thing? :P). Eventually, a ritual popped up, where young villagers of fighting age would seek out their Grimm counterparts and destroy them. Fighting age in the village wasn't any set age, it was simply whichever age any particular villager grew the skill to fend for himself in the wilderness. Also, when one reaches fighting age, they must pick one of the ten village Elders to be their mentor.

Nexus reached fighting age when she turned 10; one of her younger brothers, Daniel, had run away from the village. Nexus went out searching for him, but came up empty. For five days, she waited for his return. On the sixth, he came back. Nexus hugged him fiercely, and, just as she was about to scold him for being gone so long, Grimm attacked the far side of the village. The two raced over and, upon seeing the sheer size of the Grimm horde, Nexus' powers activated. She, along with her brothers Daniel and Cadyn, repelled the attack on the village.

Four years later, Nexus had gotten pretty good control over her Semblance, and knew quite a bit more about it. However, the village required it's fighters to receive Huntsman schooling. Nexus preferred Beacon over the other Atlas academies, and so she traveled there, bringing Daniel and Cadyn along. However, along the way, Cadyn was kidnapped by members of a rather interesting organization, known as Serpent; they'd wanted to conduct tests on Cadyn. In response, Daniel and Nexus killed several of their high ranking members in a rescue attempt. They never managed to retrieve their brother, though, and were forced to go on to Beacon without him

Upon arrival at Beacon, Nexus spoke with Ozpin, explaining that she would not attend the academy unless her brother could attend with her. Ozpin accepted without any need for persuasion, having had another situation like this that year. Another student with a younger sibling, around Daniel's age, had requested their sibling come to Beacon with them, for lack of a better place to put them. And so, the Sister-brother pair joined the ranks of Beacon, Nexus going into Team NYTE (Night) and Daniel going into Team DAGR (Dagger).

During the third year, Nexus' brother, Cadyn came to Beacon. The team he became a part of, Team SCTR (Scatter) all hated Nexus for actions she took on the path to Beacon; Nex had killed their parents, who had tried to kidnap her and her siblings, and perform experiments. Cadyn loved his sister in the past, but he became quite distant when she saw him at Beacon; he was bound by the leader of this team's Semblance, which he can use to control people if he can maintain about a minute long touch on your head. One day, during a joint mission with Daniel's, Nexus', and Cadyn's teams, the Grimm attacked. Daniel and Nexus were separated from their teams, and SCTR cornered them, catching them by surprise. Daniel lost his left arm and his right eye. Nyx and Asa were both injured as well, Asa losing both legs below the knee and the Nyx getting stabbed through the chest. Team SCTR fled under the cover of the Grimm ambush and Daniel, using Orbis, gathered up the mass to graft Asa new cybernetic legs, and he stopped Nyx's bleeding. He eventually remade his own arm, but it took such a toll on him that he passed out. The teams they'd come with were pushed back by Grimm, and had to evacuate from the area. Nyx managed to remain conscious and mobile throughout the whole ordeal, though Asa fainted from the shock. She'd defeated the Grimm who remained, though, neither she nor Asa were in any condition to move. The group effectively was cut off from Beacon, and were labeled KIA by the staff and students. Once they healed and got used to their new appendages, they roamed the forests until they found civilization, and have spent their remaining time searching for Team SCTR. In the process, they added two new members, creating Team DRGN. As of yet, their wherabouts are unknown, but with so much happening in the world, they're sure to find their way back to the Academy they once called home.