Leila Souris

"My heart won't get caught by misery if I ran fast enough"

 Leila "Eternity" Souris is a member of team DGTL. She moves with stealth and is an expert at hand to hand combat. She is the only one on the team that uses her weapon mostly on utility, not combat.

Appearance
Leila wears a black attire and red underclothings. She has black and red gloves on both hands, and an elbow pad at her left. She is also strapped herself with black straps all over her body in a assymetrical way. She has short hair, but along the back, her hair is in a form of two long lashes that almost looks like a tail.

Personality
A little bit paranoid when it comes to people. Leila doesn't interact much with people around her, if someone were to greet her she would just nod her head and back away. If being forced to introduce her name just for pleasantries or for formality, she would use her alias "Eternity". She would only reveal her real name through people she cares about. Although she ask people who knew her true name to introduce her to other people by her alias.

She is fascinated by anything that would peek her curiosity. Which would make her secretively nosy at anything interesting or suspicious.

Backstory
Leila was born as a half faunus, her father is a mouse faunus and her mother is human. Her parents marriage as human and faunus relationship is widely being both praised and frowned upon. But mostly, being frowned upon is what they have to endure everyday. Of course there some people that defended Leila's family, though clearly it's not enough to make the abuse stop.

During Leila's childhood, she is already bullied by other children. Apparently, the children that bullied her also knew about her family. That Leila was a cross-specie, the children labeled her as a monster, unnatural, and shouldn't even born. Leila didn't do a thing to make the other kids stop the bullying, she just sat there and cry a lot. She didn't even try to tell the teacher, since the bullies also threatened her if she tells anything. So most of her childhood she is lonely and alone.

She DOES wants to stop the bullying, so she decided to become a huntress. Since a huntress is well respected, and has the ability to defend themselves. So she enrolled at Signal Academy.

During her stay at Signal, she is one of top achievers at her year, but that just gives the other student more reason to bully her. Now, she is being bullied by not only because of her cross specie, but also out of jealousy. Though Leila still does nothing to defend herself, so she tries to ignore them, even if it's breaking her heart as the bullying became worse everyday.

Leila already knows that she's not the only one who is being bullied, actually of few students already drop out because of it. One particular student caught her eye on one of those bullied students, the boy with the golden armour. The golden armoured boy was pretty popular in appearance, to her, he and she are probably the same. Just like her childhood, her parents cross specie marriage was both praise and frowned upon by the people. In comparison to the golden armoured boy, he is both praised but also bullied upon by jealousy. But to both the two of them, they are mostly being bullied the most than praised.

She always see the golden armoured boy getting bullied by other students, but all she can do is nothing or ignore it and move on. Until one day, she took the time to notice the bullies, they were the same bullies that bullied her as well. She decided to help the boy, since it's clear they are both in the same boat anyway. The bullies see this as if the two are now allying each other against them. And because of that, they decided to beat them up to threaten them.

Leila didn't want this to happen, she only wanted to support the boy, not fight with alongside him. So with no other choice she decided to fight, to her surprise, being one of the top achievers at signal, she was actually more skillful than them and won the fight, even without the boy's help. The golden armoured boy just cowered in fear, as Leila took them all out. Seeing now, that Leila can defend herself, she decided that she might as well protect this boy as well. And she did, day after day.

One day though, a note was sent to her locker. The note says to come in an alleyway,alone, to talk. Leila knew this was a trap, but she was confident, since she can beat them up by herself. As she walk through the alleyway, there they were. Before Leila could say anything, the bullies immediately threatened Leila that they knew her parents and they will find a way to put her parents out of the country. Apparently, the bullies were the children of powerful politicians, and the reason that they haven't already done this to the golden armoured boy is because the boy's parents are more powerful than their's.

But Leila's parents are only average people. As Leila heard this, her legs gave out and kneeled to the ground. She was so scared, she can't move and gave the bullies the chance to beat her up. After a while, the bullies left and Leila is unconcious.

Leila woke up and she realized that she is in a hospital bed, and right beside her staring is the golden armoured boy. Leila immediately begged the boy to not tell anyone about the bullies, but the boy was hesitant. The boy wanted to know why, with a slight pause Leila explained everything to the boy. The boy then ask, why then did Leila protected him in the first place. Leila answered that both of them are the same.

Leila cried at the boy, begging him to help her, but the boy kept silent.

The next day, as Leila went to school more scared than ever, she saw the boy at the entrance waiting for her. The boy greeted her, and told her that he has a plan. The boy told Leila to wait for him. Leila didn't know what that meant, but the just kept on saying to trust him. He also gave Leila a job, and that is to be his personal bodyguard. So that Leila will "practically" be a part of his family and the bullies will no longer be a threat to her family.

So Leila did her part and became the boy's bodyguard, and she recieved additional training outside of Signal on the hands of other bodyguards of the boy's family. As the two spend their time at Signal, they became close friends. She also notice that the bullies disappeared from signal, and when she asks the boy about it, the boy just nods it's head in agreement. In the end, the rest of their days there was peaceful and they graduated at signal.

Leila even made an alias to herself, and started introducing herself as "Eternity" to strangers. Just a precaution to never let her family in danger.

Abilities
Leila is an expert in hand to hand combat, she would rather use her fist more than weapons. She can also buff her fist with fire and ice depending on the situation. If it's people, then only normal fist, but if it's a grim then she would use her buffs in order to kill them. Glyphs will appear on Leila's hand if she buffs.

Her semblance is elemental protection, it goes well with her abilities on buffs to not get herself burnt or frostbite. She can also help her teammates with it.

She is also good at stealth, and uses parkour as a means of travel. Eventhough she uses her fist for fighting, she also has a weapon. She can dual wield daggers, but not to fight with, but used only for utilities such as climbing or hanging on a wall.

Trivia
- Leila means "Dark Beauty" and Souris means "Mouse".