Ophelia Elizabeth Lyricia

 WARNING: Some content may be triggering to some. Read at your own risk. You have been warned. "Music is what feelings sound like when one cannot muster normal speech to express their feelings."

- Ophelia, in a journal entry



Ophelia Elizabeth Lyricia (Oh-feh-lee-uh Leh-re-ki-ah) is an eighteen year old, introverted selective mute who was held back on her first year in Signal Academy due to a mental health problem. After that year, she went through her time at Signal with no other problems, passing her classes in the B range usually. Coming to Beacon, she became the leader of team ORCD and has been making an effort due to her leadership role to be less introverted and mute. She weilds Treble Clef, a weapon that can be a crossbow with unique ammunition, dual daggers, or dual hidden blades, and Fortissimo, hand armor on her left hand that is shaped into claws with small compartments to put Dust in, so she can use it in battle.

General Appearance
Ophelia is a small girl sizing at five feet three inches with a weight of 136 pounds. She has an average-sized bust and a skin tone in between a fair and pale tone. Her naturally black hair with a purple-dyed underside reaches her shoulders. Her bangs cover the right side of her face, only allowing for her normal colored eye to be seen usually. Her eyes at first glance seem sweet and caring, but a deeper look into them and you will find a sad, lonely soul behind them. Thus is one of the reasons Ophelia covers one eye with her hair: to hide away from looking at people, so they do not pity her. Another reason she hides her left eyes is because she was born with a double dose of Heterochromia Iridum, complete and partial Heterochromia. Her natural-colored eye is green, but her unnatural-colored eye, her right eye, is purple with a red ring around the pupil. The red in the eye indicates how close she is to her Rage Mode. Her posture is usually very small and closed off; she tends to make herself seem smaller than five foot three and crosses her arms a lot. Due to her leadership status now, she tries to have a more confident posture, but often times, she reverts to her small stature.

Casual Attire
On days where Ophelia is not going off to fight Grimm or criminals or train her skills, she enjoys not wearing her battle gear. On warmer days, the shirt usually is commonly a purple crop top that hang off one shoulder with a cropped black tank top hidden under it to cover her bra strap that'd showed if she didn't wear it. She also wears jean shorts with it, but not short shorts, just shorts; she's just not the kinda of girl who is comfortable in short shorts. In the colder times, Ophelia will don a purple hoodie with artistic graphics on the front and has holes in the ends of her sleeves to put her thumbs through; she'll also switch to jean pants at this time because she's not that crazy. She will always have on sneakers due to her love of sneakers and bracelets covering her left arm due to her coping habits. Ophelia also wears a heart-shaped necklace with a picture of her immediate family when her and her brother were kids; she wears this all the time in combat, at night, on special occassions, etc. Both her shorts and pants always have her emblem on the the left back pockets.

Battle Attire
In combat, Ophelia dons as armor only bracers and armor on her left hand that doubles as a second weapon. She also wears an elbow-length purple shirt that has a musical graphic coming from the bottom left side. The sleeves are bell-shaped and the shirt hangs off Ophelia's shoulders. Underneath is a black shirt that seems like a tank top cause it covers her bra straps and nothing else on her shoulder and then appears again going from her sleeve to her bracers. Her bottoms consist of black jeans with a belt with dust and other stuff she may need in combat and buckled belts strapped on the legs and her emblem on the bottom of the outside of the left leg. Finishing it off is her pair of sneakers, of course. Ophelia's hair usually braided to one side for combat as well.

Nighttime Attire
Usually to bed, Ophelia wears a purple tube top with her emblem on it and black gym shorts in the spring, summer, and fall. In the winter, she opts for a purple long sleeve that hangs off her shoulders parially and black sweatpants with her embem on the left hip. Ophelia wears a black wristband on her left on at night.

Fancy Attire
When Ophelia is needed to look a little nicer for occassions, she wear a black heart-topped dress with purple accents and leggings underneath. She wears a black jean vest over it and sneakers to complete the outfit. She will not be convinced to remove her vest or change her shoes; do not even try. Ophelia also wears bracelets on her left arm in this outfit, too.

Positive Personality Aspects
Once one gets to know Ophelia and become close to her, she can become very outgoing to people though she does not act like that to others besides friends. She cares about her friend very much and even strangers even if she doesn't wish to talk to them; she's just too nice. She is very bright and able to come up with good strategies in combat most times though usually her first plans help her get to successful plans. In combat with a team, she is able to communicate any plans she comes up with very well to her teammates. Ophelia is a very creative girl and tends to make poems, art pieces, stories, and music a lot. Whether they are good or not is to the beholder; "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.". Even though she rarely tries, Ophelia can be a bit funny to some. She also tends to have an infectious mood which also could be bad for herself and others especially when Ophelia gets in a laughing fit. She can also get really into things and focus hard of them which may also be bad, but usually she gets into for a good cause.

Negative Personality Aspects
Ophelia's biggest personality flaw is that she gets upsets very easily. However, she's been working for a few years on this and has improved, but she still gets upset over things, depending on the day. However, if the situation calls for her to stay level-headed, she'll get over herself and focus on the big issue. Another one of her flaws is she can be very negative about her work: art pieces, written pieces, music, etc., constantly critisizing it more than others do. She also has the major tendency to hide her negative feelings a lot under fake positive ones. Her repression of her feelings is one of the reasons she has gained a sort of "Rage Mode" in combat. If someone tries to make her show her real emotion at the time if she's trying to hide it, she will lash out at said person, but usually later, she'll apologize quite a few times. Ophelia also has the dendecy to be a selective mute, only speaking to authority figures because it's polite or her friends because she knows them well. It doesn't mean she will shut you out completely; she will speak up more if you bother her enough or if say, you get put on her team because then you need to communicate. Any other time, she is an introvert towards people; she even tries her best to avoid situations where she's with a crowd of strangers unless it's for schooling or her friends are there with her.

In-Combat Behavior
While fighting an opponent, Ophelia tries to remain calm and collected cause she's aware of the danger if she freaks out during battle. She tries to make a good plan of action to face her challenge and succeed. Sure, her plans aren't genius and work out all of the time, but she keeps trying even when she fails. That's all that matters to her. If she's not dead in a fight, she'll keep going and going and going until she can't fight anymore. Though sometimes when things get tight, she'll end up losing control...

Rage Mode
That's when her Rage Mode kicks in. It's her last resort nowadays, but back in her younger years, she'd go bullistic whenever she couldn't hold in her feelings anymore. Through therapy, however, she has at least learned to control it and use it during combat only and usually when she's on her last legs. Though occassionally it will start in a battle even when she's still got strength to keep fighting. Depends on the situation. During her Rage Mode, she is a bit faster and stronger through her blind fury. Though she is not very accurate and communiable during this.

Weapons
A Note From Lizzie: Treble Clef has a Crossbow, Dual Dagger, and Dual Hidden Blade form. Fortissimo is its own weapon.

Treble Clef
Treble Clef is a Sonokinetic Dual-Bladed Brossbow that is Ophelia's main weapon.

Origin
Ophelia designed and forged at her time in Signal Academy like all the students there did. She made the design during her hospitalization and then started to create it when she came back to Signal. It took her the whole school year to design it to her liking.

Crossbow
Its crossbow form looks like regular black and purple crossbow with a scope on top, but behind the limbs, one of the blades of Treble Clef is split open and is still sticking out, so she can use the crossbow form as a melee weapon should anyone surprise attack her while she has her weapon in crossbow form. Her emblem is etched into the handle. The bow in its entirity is a foot long and a foot and two inches wide with arrows and the flight groove about eight inches. The handle is about the same size as a regular pistol and the scope is about three inches long.

Ammunition
Treble Clef uses Ophelia's semblence, Sonokinesis, to create arrows. Ophelia whistles in the direction of the flight groove and takes the sound of her whistle to create an arrow inside it. Then, she shoots it at her enemy. Though as back up, she has five regular arrows strapped to her belt in case she can't make a sound arrow.

Dual Daggers
In the dual dagger form, the handles have her emblem on them again and are black and purple like the crossbow. The blade is seven inches long and the handle is 5 inches. They get dull after fights, so Ophelia does need to sharpen Treble Clef's blades after so many fights.

Dual Hidden Blades
With its dual hidden blade form, the cuffs of the hidden blades are, of course, black and purple with her emblem on the top of them. The hidden blade cuffs slip under her bracers easily, so she doesn't need to take them off to put Treble Clef on. The cuff is about 8 inches and the blade is the same size as in dagger form. This form doubles as how she carries Treble Clef.

Hidden Blades to Daggers
Treble Clef's dagger handle breaks apart to be wrapped around Ophelia's wrist and under her bracers while the handle slides into the cuff. Simple as that really.

Daggers to Crossbow
One of Treble Clef's daggers is hollow and has the string and limb inside. The string is already ready to shoot even inside the blade. The other blade slides into the bottom of the handle of the hollow dagger and pushes out the limb and string, splitting the hollow blade open. The split blade locks into place behind the limb and then Treble Clef is ready to shoot.

Fortissimo
Fortissimo is Short-Ranged Dust Armor that is made of iron and also doubles as her secondary weapon.

Design
Ophelia wears it on her left hand and covers from her wrist all the way to her fingertips. There are plates for each phalanges and the top of her palm with five extra plates on the end of the fingers that are shaped into claws with a compartment for Dust in each ending plate.

Origin
This weapon use to be owned by her brother who was given it to him by their father. Their father made Fortissimo when he was younger. He originally had intentions of passing his weapon to his first born child, but he decided he didn't want to give it to Ophelia because of the fact she was held back a year. Though when it was given to her brother, he couldn't effectively use his weapon and their father's weapon at the same time, so against his father's wish, he gave the armor to Ophelia.

Close Range
For close range, the armor fingertips are shaped into claws. They do get dull after fights, more quickly than Treble Clef because they're thinner than Treble Clef's blades, so Ophelia needs to sharpen them back up after a couple fights.

Short Range
For longer range, it has small compartments in the tips filled with dust. It holds 5 grams of cut (powdered) Dust in each compartment. Ophelia commonly uses Red Dust (fire) with this weapon.

Disclaimer
A Note from LizzieRose (creator of Ophelia): Until we learn more about different types of Dust, I'm setting Ophelia to using Red Dust most often. If in the future, I find a dust type more suited for her, this will change.

Sonokinesis
Ophelia's semblance is the ability to control sound waves. She can increase or decrease the frequency and volume, shape the sound into a physical object (like perhaps arrows for example), control the direction of a sound, and more. The thing is she needs a previously exsisting sound to control which also means there has to be a medium for sound to have been exsisting around her (air, water, etc.). Also, the more use she is to controlling a certain sound, the better she can control it. For example, Ophelia is most use to using the sound of her voice, so she can control her vocal sounds very, very well, but if she tries to use a stranger's voice, it will be more difficult for her to control properly. She can use her semblance to help her Aura protect herself (like double armor). Ophelia can also make her voice mimic other people's and different sounds; she's like the ultimate impressionist! She is currently trying to teach herself creative ways to use her semblance as well like flying. Even though she can control frequency, Ophelia does not have the ability to make a living being deaf or cause internal damage with her semblance. It is unsure if Ophelia has just not learned the skills or just cannot learn them at all.

Note
Another Note From Lizzie: I got the idea for her semblance's capabilities from this Wikia page. Also, I do not want to make it to where it's only her voice she can control for the purpose of comedy. I want to be able to use Oph's semblance to mute her brother should he get annoying or just generally be silly with people's voices. Thus is why I made it to where it's sounds she's USE to controlling that are controlled better, so there is SOME hinderance.

Childhood
Ophelia was the first born to Caerulea and Blaine Lyricia on February 8th. She was late by a couple days, but there were no problems other than that. About year later, her brother, Cyma, was born; Ophelia and Cyma grew up together with no real problems. They had a normal brother-sister relationship and their father went off on missions every now and then, being a Hunter and all. Then, Ophelia got into school and her little nice world was taken away by the school bully and company. They had decided to target her and they made fun of her every single day. It started with name calling in the younger grades, but turn into physical assualt from 3rd grade and on. Her mother would constantly complain to the school about the bullying, more so when they started physically harming Ophelia, but they did virtually nothing about it. All they did was talked to the kids about it or suspend them. That never stopped them. Her teachers tried to help her though, but the teachers didn't have the power to expel her bullies. They tried their best however. Ophelia herself tried to ignore the bullying and decided to limit her speech. She believed that maybe the kids didn't like her because of things she talked about since they'd mock whatever she said. Soon enough, she became a selective mute, only speaking to her family and teachers since the kids who didn't bully her were too scared to be her friend. She began to have trouble going to school starting around 3rd grade when the physical abuse from her peers started. She'd miss a lot of school, but because her teachers were very kind to her, they'd give Ophelia the opprotunity to stay after school and have one on one time with the teachers to keep up. She was a very bright child and could pick up on things she missed quickly enough fortunately. Even if she couldn't understand something, she'd get it eventually.

Love Of Music
Caerulea raise her kids on music. She taught Ophelia and Cyma how to sing and play the piano and would pay for them to take lessons to learn whatever instrument they wanted to play. Ophelia opted for guitar and her brother chose to play drums. Caerulea also taught her kids that all music genres are good; some just have ugly red-headed step-children. The siblings have grown to love all music, yet they do tend to favor their own genres more than other. Ophelia's favorite genres-er, well, she describes it as the music she commonly listens to, not favors-are alternative, punk, rock, and metal.

Ophelia's Father
Blaine Lyricia had always been a stern father who loved his work and kids. However, he showed his love of work more, always hanging out with his teammates and talking mainly about his fights and missions. He didn't really have a big love of music for him and Ophelia to connect on even though he spoiled her. One day, in 4th grade, while the whole family was spending time together, Ophelia told them she wanted to either become a Huntress or a Vocalist. Her father laughed at both options, telling her that she had much too small of a body to fight and the music industry was near impossible to get into. That hurt his daughter very greatly and she began to speak less and less to her father.

Choosing Her Path
Ophelia had considered for a while whether she wanted to become a Huntress or not. The day she decided to become one was a very scary day for her in 6th grade, but it was the turning point in her life. The bullies had grabbed her after school and dragged her into the forest near their neighborhood. Ophelia, being more scared of dying than speaking, cried that it was dangerous in the forest, that there were Grimm lurking about. They wouldn't listen to her, of course. They began to beat up the poor girl and mocked her warnings, laughing. Then, one of the kids screamed and the beating ceased as he had been smacked against a tree by an Ursa Major. The other kids screamed and ran away while Ophelia stayed behind, staring up at the Grimm. She couldn't just leave him for dead. Sure, he was a bully, but Ophelia was too nice for her own good. Without much thought, the small girl grabbed a stick and ran at the monster, yelling a battle cry. Predictably, she got smacked into the tree as well, but before the Ursa could do much more someone intrevened and killed it quickly. It was her father and he was mad. He yelled at the boy for bullying his daughter and Ophelia for stupidly trying to fight the creature. In the end, he took the two to the hospital, of course, and Ophelia went home all patched up and fine with only a few scratches and a broken wrist, thanks to her father's quick entrance. However, that was when her father started to drift even further from her.

Mental Health
Throughout Ophelia's childhood, the bullying and incidents with her father had affected her mental health greatly. Her mother decided to take her to a therapist early on when she was in 2nd grade to hopefully help her daughter cope with this. The therapist diagnosis Ophelia with Asperger's Syndrome due to her anti-social behavior and sensitivity and Social Anxiety Disorder due to the fact she missed a lot of school due to the bullying and she also had started to set very high expectations for herself in social situations; she'd get very upset if she could not live up to her unrealistic expectations. Because of her fear of being bullied and her extremely high expectations for herself, she'd hide in her room often, begging her mother and brother to leave her alone. The therapist had determined Ophelia also had Major Depression around 4th grade due to her long episodes of sadness, sleeping problems, eating problems, and because she wanted to just stay in her room most of the day. In 5th grade, she began to hurt herself via cutting, scratching, or biting and hid it from her family and therapist for years. Once she decided to become a Huntress, she began to go to school more often because she had found something to distract herself from the bullies, but the self-harm continued and her feelings of sadness and fear were still very prevelant. When she started at Signal Academy, she still have troubles with her high expectations which greatly hindered her. As she watched her new peers, none of which she knew or bullied her fortunately, perform better than her in classes, her expectations raised and raised until one day, she couldn't handle the pressure she had forced on herself and tried to kill herself. Because of that, her self-harming habits were discovered. She was taken to Vytal Psychiatric Hospital for the rest of the school year where she was started on medication and began to learn how to cope with her feelings and express them healthily. During the summer, she was assested by her therapist to determine if she was well enough to continued training as a Huntress and was allowed to attend Signal Academy again for the new school year.

Signal Academy
Because she was held back a year, she started that year with her brother and throughout their time at Signal, they supported each other and helped each other trained hard. Ophelia was happier now, being in an enviorment where no one bullied her and with her brother to back her up; the medication and continued sessions with her therapist helped as well. However, she did have relaspes back into her self-harming habits whenever she'd begin to compare herself to other students and she lies about them to her family and therapist, afraid that they will take away her becoming a Huntress. Ophelia, having had designed her weapon during her hospitalization, had started making hers before any of the other students since she had been to the school for a while the previous year. She was very proud of her creation, Treble Clef, and so was everyone else. Originally Treble Clef was going to use regular arrows, but then during her time at Signal Academy, she discovered her Sonokinesis semblance when she accidentally muted her brother one day while she was trying to listen to her music. With that, Ophelia trained herself with be able to create sound arrows and the idea of using regular arrows was set aside as a back up in case for some reason she could not use her sound arrows. Her father was still against her becoming a Huntress and to show his disapproval, when he retired from being a Hunter, he gave his weapon, Fortissimo, to her younger brother when he had planned long before his children's births to give it to his first-born. However, due to Cyma not being able to use his weapon and Fortissimo, he gave Ophelia the weapon against their father's wishes. At the end of their training, both Ophelia and her brother graduated together from Signal and were accepted into Beacon Academy.

Beacon Academy
Since being accepted into Beacon, Ophelia has to start over with new people again. She's very paranoid everything will go back to how it was in grade school, but she's glad she has her brother by her side in case anything bad happens. Though the thing she's dreading is the Initiation; since her father was in a team, she knows this has got to have something to do with it. She hopes that she gets put on a team with nice people.

Caerulea Lyricia
Ophelia and her mother have a wonderful relationship nowadays. Her mother is the one of her family she tells most her secrets to minus the self-harming secret. She loves to sing with her mother and help her mother cook food or other goodies. They even make some crafts together and show off their art to each other.

Blaine Lyricia
Her relationship with her father is very strained because of her desire to become a Huntress. They rarely speak much to each other, but on rare occassions, he does ask her how her training is doing and if she's been keeping her weapons in top shape; it's probably Caerulea's doing though.

Cyma Lyricia
Ophelia and Cyma are on great terms with each other. However, he does constantly bother her about her well-being ever since she was hospitalized, but that's a brotherly thing to do, right? Just like it's a brotherly thing to fight with his sister over food and music and such. In the end, they're there for each other no matter what.

Themes
"Alone" by Sleeping WIth Sirens (Official Theme)

"Happy Synthesizer" by Kagamine Len and 96neko (Silly Theme)

"Monster" by Skillet (Battle Theme)

Where The Orchids Bloom
The tale of team ORCD. To be written.

Other Notes
-Ophelia doesn't really have a set fighting style.

-Ophelia dabbles in other art forms as well as music. She draws, paints, acts, writes; if she finds it creative, she'll try it.

-Ophelia is obsessed with cats; she even owns one that she's sneaked into Beacon.

-Ophelia's emblem is called Mélomane.

Trivia
-Ophelia's first name is a reference to Ophelia from Hamlet and is a purple color.

-Ophelia's middle name is a reference to her creator whose middle name is also Elizabeth.

-Ophelia is heavily based on her creator as well as her creator's love of music.

-Ophelia is the only one of team ORCD with a Facebook like page.

-Ophelia's mental health problems are based on her creator's disorders: Major Depression, Anxiety, and Asperger's, so it is realistically possible to have all three, just saying.

-Mélomane is French for "music lover".