Ebony Feldgrau

Ebony Feldgrau[]

" Welp, I'm about as ready as I ever will be."

"and yeah, dying would be bad for your health."

Appearance[]

The girl once found in the back of the room doodling on her notes throughout the day is now sitting at a desk, directing calls and tasking orders throughout the base. She is clothed in her usual on duty military uniform with her hair tied back in a loosely braided bun (which is probably falling out). She looks slightly out of place but she seems to be carrying herself well, despite. With hazel eyes gazing at the computer screens in front of her, searching for the answers to her questions.

But outside of work and in the comfort of her home her hair is either left down in neat streaks of blonde, or pinned up in a rooster tail, leaving only her bangs and two tendrils to frame her face. Her professional military garb is traded out for a more casual look consisting of a jacket, jeans, a tank top, paired with white knee high chuck taylors that are speckled with mud and blood from her adventures.

Personality and Character traits[]

- Is rather timid about standing up for the things that are done against her, but will flip a lid when it comes to other people's injustice.

- loves random acts of kindness and making others happy with small gifts

- Overall she's a kind and restless individual, who's a bit aloof and known to improvise often. However she is easily frenzied, kind of a control freak, and gets rather paranoid.

-She takes solace is in knowing that things will always turn out okay in the end and going day by day with an "if it happens it happens" kind of mentality.

-Her ultimate dream/goal is to someday have a family and home of her own. And even further to be able to protect and maintain it.

- She likes cooking, motorcycles, crime shows, and just in general feeling useful.

- Dislikes the feeling of being watched/analyzed, cars, and any form of blade that spins.

Occupational Record[]

it is in previous records that she worked in hospital care for a short term just before the fall of Beacon.

Her current occupation is essentially as military dispatch her responsibilities also extend a little more than just that. Anything and everything that goes on throughout the base while she's on shift she knows about and deals with under the delegated authority of the higher ranks.

Being the middleman between the military and the rest of the world is not exactly her ideal job, and she still feels horribly lost among it's bustle, but in the meantime at least she can still train on her own to fight the Grimm, and someday help serve justice against the criminals of the world.

And after the fall of Beacon and the impending rise of attack in Mistral, her job is more vital than ever.

Weapons!!! Yayyyy!![]

Known as Reach, Ebony's weapon is an old Variant ballistic compound bow which she bought/received as a gift from one of her teachers, whom was former military himself, and encouraged Ebony's enlisting.

In its compact form, Reach serves as a more heavy duty version of an air rifle, but also has an added edge along the top for slicing in case of coming into closer than desired contact with any grimm. Its rounds are typically explosives such as Yangs, but she has come into possession of a few ice dust rounds.

Until she gets better with its counter form, this is her main preference of usage.

Its second form extends into a compound bow. And is able to fire off a special set of broken tipped arrows which were crafted by none other than one of Ebony's great grandfathers himself. It's a shame he'd passed long before her, if he was as good a huntsman as he was a craftsman, perhaps he could teach her a thing or two.

> Back home her teacher would had offered her a range to practice on. Here she was left with a makeshift training ground in the woods that she's been using.

Her Story[]

Where she comes from:[]

After her father split from her birth mother, he took her and her little brother and moved them from the eastern end up towards the northern end of mistral. There, her father married his second wife, and Ebony was thrown into a now wide family. And she lived here for her next 12 years of life about as comfortably as one can with eight people crowded into a small home, and surrounded with constant bickering and tough love.

Looking back at it she would say that it felt like being smothered in vapo rub and honey under dense blankets when you're sick, and as much as you knew it was for your own good, you had to get out of there.

And if you ever wondered how she ended up here:[]

Her older step brother was the first to declare that he wanted to leave and join the military. This came as no surprise to anyone as that is what he had always wanted just as his father had done before him. But as for Ebony, she never really was sure what she wanted to do. But she knew she wanted to do something. And that it would be big.

Flash forward to the edge of 17. Her brother was now enlisted to be in the military reserves, and the rest of her family is in limbo on whether or not to move to Vacuo for better living. This was an urgent time for her to act. Though it was way too late to be a huntress, she knew she still wanted to protect people in any way she could. So she chose to join the military as well.

And after months of basic training and schooling she is now stationed in southern Mistral. Thrown in on her own into to the chaos of the world.

Partaking in her first real Grimm battle (condensed as best as I could):[]

She was walking back home one night from a bad few hours of her practice. she was emotionally tired, cold and overall just not in the mood. When suddenly a cry pierced the night air. Frozen, she turned around to look behind her in the general direction of its echo, and before she could really grasp what was going on, a kid burst from the trees followed by a massive Death Stalker. "Run, Lady!" The kid yelped, grabbing unto her jacket sleeve and tugging on it as he passed. But Ebony didn't budge. Her gazed was fixed upon the two Huntsman that had gracefully dropped in from the sky. On the left was a short female with unmistakable fluorescent purple hair who had managed to land herself on the creature's back and was now dodging its tail. To the right of her the male was dancing between its claws, slashing wildly. "Fine. Suit yourself!" the child yelped, letting go of her sleeve and running off to the safety of the village.

"Hey, You! Silly woman, you don't know a weapon is for! Don't you know you're as good as dead just standing there?!" The man called out to her, coming to a slide beside her after dodging the Grimm's massive pincer. He had barely gotten the phrase out before it struck out at him again, and with a side glanced wink to Ebony, He charged back it with a counter attack, slicing at arms as best he could.

Ebony retracted Reach from off her back, loaded it, and the Girl that was with him now leaped down next to her. "it's useless. it's armor won't budge." she squeaked. "It's all good, I've got a plan!" He replied. "I need you to get me up to its tail, and you..." he turned to Ebony. "you keep it busy."

"What!? She shrieked. But with that the two were already launching further into action. The Death Stalker gave a thunderous roar and swung now at Ebony, who leaped back with a skid and began to fire at it.

Within what seemed like no time at all, the man was now swinging from its tail, and had managed to cut off the beasts stinger, which came crashing through it own barrier. "Yes! That's the spirit!" he whooped, sliding down. The other two hunters were now bobbing and weaving through the monsters legs, the girl casting ice from her iron claws, and the male now striking at it with a collapsed bo staff. Both of them getting in the way of her aim.

Gripping Reach tightly against her forearm she now charged at the Beast, and slid under it, drawing the blade of her weapon against its underbelly. With a clatter she rolled out and off to the side as it began to disintegrate. Her side was scrapped up badly and she was now shaking. Did she really just do that?

(I hope this was an okay telling. I tried to keep it kind of short but still include the major details..)

Semblance[]

Ebony actually has yet to discover her semblance. However, she does have a rather uncanny ability in sensing the presence of others, which she will often claim as being her semblance in order to hide her inadequacy in such department.

Emblem[]

Her emblem appears as a tattoo on her inner left forearm, is a dead dragon wrapped around a celtic cross. Hidden in the negative space of the cross is a semi colon. It's a partial tribute to her father whose emblem is a tattoo on his forearms of the egyptian symbols of life and death.