Azura Calendula

Overview
Azura Calendula is a survivor for the lack of a better word and is a shy person, never one to start a conversation with anyone she does not need to. However, if she warms up to someone, they will find she is a girl who likes to tease them in a playful manner.She survived the destruction of her hometown and, several years later, the Fall of Beacon. She carries herself with a sense of pride that she survived these events, though both have taken their toll on her psyche and formed her into the person she is today.

In regards of Grimm encounters, if the Grimm could feel fear they would definitely have it when it comes to killing them. Usually, she will kill all but the last Grimm in a group before slowly and methodically cutting them apart piece by piece, making sure it remains alive the entire time. If it does not have any limbs, like a snake, she cuts pieces of it off one by one, slowly working up to the head and only cutting non-fatal areas off to cause as much pain as possible to the Grimm.

Most do not know her well due her closed in attitude, especially when the topic of her past is brought up. If anyone asks her what she did prior to joining Beacon, she would only reply up to the point of arriving in Vale, and will refuse or outright lie to all but her closest friends about any time before that and if someone brings up her past beyond that somehow that is not one of her closest friends, she 'shuts down' and will become silent and her eyes will gloss over as she relives her memories of her family dying. This usually takes about five minutes to complete before she is brought back to the present, unless she is around Grimm, where she goes berserk and slices apart the Grimm without mercy but does not kill them immediately, seemingly becoming more sadistic towards them.

Everyone who does know about her knows she is likely drawing or reading if in a Grimm-less area, or off killing Grimm to work out any pent up anger she has.

Appearance
Azura stands at a height of five feet six inches with blue eyes and dark red hair, bordering on brown and black but not dark enough where one can't distinguish her actual hair color. She a slim body build, which allows her to use her weapon as a movement device, able to fire rounds off and move with it and also swing around using the blade. Under her shoulder length hair which covers her left eye or appears to hides a scar caused by a Grimm, going from the top of her forehead down to just below her eye, surprisingly not damaging her eye by a sheer case of luck.

During her time at Beacon, Azura Calendula wore a black rider jacket (like what motorcyclists wear) and a blue t-shirt underneath it. She wore a belt with several .308 rounds in slots with a bandoleer that had a holster made for her weapon, Ashes which was on her back while her front had more .308 rounds with various effects, including gravity, fire, and lightning. From the waist down, she woke a pair of black jeans and wore blue socks underneath that went up to her knees while wearing black combat boots with the knife her parents had given her tucked into it. On her head, she wore the red ribbon in her hair that her sister used to wear in her hair. She has pouches on her belt with ammo.

After the Fall of Beacon, she kept the ribbon and the jacket, but she changed to a blue skirt with red accents. She also wore black socks that went up as high as possible up her legs and she kept the same combat boots from before the fall. Under her jacket, she wears a sky-blue shirt. On her left shoulder, she has a small pin put onto her jacket of what she considers her personal emblem, a small fire-like marigold design in blue color with small red lines etched onto it with the word 'Remember' put on it in red. Her sister's last word. She got it two weeks prior to the Fall of Beacon. She also wears black gloves and has the knife her parents gave her tucked into her boot. She still wears the bandoleer with her signature weapon. Her belt still has pouches of ammo attached, but now includes a canteen.

Personality
Azura was known by most as a shy, quiet, and timid girl who did not really talk to anyone and was always drawing or reading in her spare time, but in combat she appears to be cold and calculating, especially when the opponent is a Grimm. Her attitude towards Grimm means she would not be allowed to show her usually tendency of torturing them, and she usually has control over herself while in class and while others are around, sparing them her sick method of torture of Grimm. This was during her time at Beacon, and after the Fall of Beacon she stayed the same, only becoming sadistic when her aura was low. However, to those she is closer to, her excitable attitude is revealed sometimes when art or books are involved, as well as some games. She does have a small competitive side, but it is usually not revealed unless playing a long lasting strategic game.

History
Azura Calendula was born outside of the kingdoms, born in January on the 12th. Her family was caring and she grew up with an older sister who was 4 years older than her. They lived in a small settlement between the kingdoms of Vale and Mistral, off the beaten path and away from roads and other towns and cities. This small town was known to its inhabitants as Erika. Azua and her older sister actually got along for several years in the small town. By the time Azura was 13 and her older sister was 17, Azura had started to practice, under her family's guidance, how to use her aura. Some wandering Grimm saw the town and started to make a mess of it and its inhabitants. Azura's parents told her and her older sister to run and gave them both a dagger made for survival purposes such as cutting bushes and cutting bark off trees, and stayed behind to try to kill the Grimm. Unfortunately they did not succeed and the entire town was wiped off the metaphorical map. Azura and her sister, being the only two survivors of their hometown, walked along to try to find help, surviving off the land as they walked. After about 5 months of walking and surviving barely, not knowing where they were, Azura's older sister fell ill. After a few weeks, she died, leaving her younger sister to fend for herself, but having taught Azura everything she needed to know to survive. As Azura continued to wander, she would survive off berries. After about 6 more months, having tattered clothing and almost 14, she unlocked her semblance due to running from a pack of beowolves and the stress caused her semblance to trigger, vastly increasing her speed. Now having her semblance unlocked, she continued to walk, before eventually coming across the kingdom of Vale (obviously before the Fall of Beacon) and became a vagrant living on the streets. She would steal just enough food to survive, becoming very bony from the lack of food till a nice family took her in and gave her a place to live. Azura was 17 by this point. After arriving in Vale and the nice family taking her in, she got to work starting to make a weapon, letting her soul pour out into her work. She came up with a name for her weapon before she finished it. Ashes. She named it such because she planned on killing as many Grimm as possible for turning her cozy life at Erika into ashes. After making her weapon, she applied to Beacon, and passed the test. She was shortly after assigned to Team AMBR (Amber) and it was where she was, passing year after year until the Fall of Beacon. She was surprised Yang 'broke' Mercury's leg and everything that happened up to that point. After the Fall, she once again scattered to the wind. She did not know what to do with her life, and is currently walking around, looking for a purpose. She is now 19 years old.

Weapon
Ashes is usually seen as a lever action rifle, used at range in this form with relatively powerful rounds that travel between 2,600 to 2,800 feet per second from leaving the barrel. When Azura turns Ashes into its scythe mode, it becomes a pure melee weapon, unable to be used at range unless you are directly behind her, and she also gets sent flying when fired. Her weapon is always kept full with rounds unless in combat, but her scythe mode, which has several sharp blades or points, is always kept sharp by Azura.

Semblance
Azura's semblance, dubbed by her as Eat My Dust, increases her speed drastically, and at the higher limits of her semblance's power, actually starts to produce after image 'ghosts' from her speed. This Semblance does not make her invincible, and actually puts her more at risk if she runs into an attack as it increases the force she feels from the attack, making attacks that may only damage her aura potentially knock it out immediately. Also after she stops using it, depending on how fast she was going, she is likely to experience a cramp. The effects people can see when Azura is using her semblance is when at approximately twenty five percent of her semblance's power are small blue orbs appearing immediately around her, and once she reaches approximately seventy five percent power after image 'ghosts' of herself are shown, only about two seconds behind where she actually is. Another effect is the fact wind would be blown around due to her immense speed. The faster she moves, the more aura is used to power it, so she has to be careful about her aura reserves. If her aura runs out, she could potentially come out with muscle damage in her legs, let alone injuries caused by falling and hitting other objects at a high speed.

Abilities/Skills
Drawing: Azura is a skilled drawer and can draw amazing images and pictures provided she is given time to do such.

Observant: Azura is very observant, being able to notice small details other people may miss, such as small movements in an area that would generally not be noticed, but of course she would need to be looking at it, and this also only applies to things not purposely meant to keep someone blended in, such as a ghillie suit that makes one look like grass. She would not notice small small thing like that, but if a pen was moved in angle by a few degrees she would notice it.

Curious: Azura is very curious about everything around her and studies everything to know how things work and how they came to be. She studies everything if given the chance, but does not go overboard to know perfectly how things work or came to be, just the basics so she can do basic maintenance if needed to keep it working condition.

Fighting Style
Azura uses Ashes, depending on the mode, in accordance to its strengths and weaknesses. The lever action rifle is used like any other rifle, and is usually the mode Azura will use first unless she is trying to remain undetected. She rarely uses Ashes in its lever action mode in close range engagements, but sometimes will if the situation calls for it. If she needs to turn Ashes into its scythe mode, she will put as much distance between herself and her opponent as possible before changing forms. She will then use the scythe as a sharp weapon and will use its design and weight differential to support her agile frame and movements. She uses hack and slash attacks with the blade, and overall has a similar yet different style to Ruby.

Trivia
The first past of her name, Azura, means "The blue sky" and is Middle English from the Old French word 'azur' and from Medieval Latin 'azura'.

Her last name, Calendula, is Marigold translated into Italian and refers to a Yellow-Orange color named after the flower known by the same name.

The image for Azura's weapon, Ashes, will be updated at a later time and I personally made it. This comes from Duvo#8269 on Discord, the creator of the character