by InfectedHau » Sat Jan 30, 2016 3:57 am
Name: Deseret Roco
Age: 19
Color: Tan
Team: SHDW
Race: Roadrunner faunus
Influence: Auster, the Roman god of the Mediterranean sirocco wind
Occupation: Second-year student
Gender: Female
Appearance: Deseret is slim and lanky, almost painfully thin, with dark brown skin and equally brown eyes. In place of hair, a curtain of light and dark brown mottled feathers grow from her scalp, stopping midway down her back, and she has a long, stiff tail composed of the same colored feathers. She typically allows her tail to trail on the ground as she walks, but she is capable of lifting it up behind her should the need arise. She moves with a very birdlike gait, every motion sharp and jerky, never remaining completely still for more than a few seconds. When she runs, however, all the awkwardness fades from her movements, and she takes on a new kind of grace, her arms trailing behind her like the wings on a jet, her feet moving in perfect harmony. Her outfit consists of a loose, sand-colored shirt that flares out at the sleeves and has a dark brown trim, with matching pants and brown leather roman-style sandals.
Personality: Deseret is playful, flighty, and almost childish at times. She has little to no regard for other people's property, and often breaks or steals things without warning. She claims most of it's accidental, but it rarely is. She also has a moderate case of ADHD, and is easily distracted by small things. She marches to her own beat, and does what she wants when she wants, with no regard for who gets hurt in the process. Because of this, she can be rather difficult to work with, but she's a steadfast companion and a fierce fighter if she can focus for long enough.
Skills and Abilities: Deseret is an incredible runner, her speed and stamina second to none. She's also become rather accomplished at the arts of theft, demolitons, and sabotage.
Weapon(s) and fighting style: Deseret's weapons are a set of Kamas, Jugo and Calima, that combine into a compound bow called Sirocco. Jugo and Calima are naturally charged with small amounts of burn dust, emitting small bursts of embers with every strike, but they lose this property when combined. Sirocco requires no ammuniton, but instead uses Deseret's semblance to fire arrows of compressed air. These arrows can become dust charged if they pass though an attack containing the substance, and erupt into a blast of air on contact with a solid surface.
Deseret's fighting style is as chaotic and destructive as she is, switching seamlessly from melee to range at will, disorienting her opponent with her arrows or her semblance, then going in for the kill with her Kamas. She uses her speed to her advantage as much as possible, outmaneuvering her opponents at every turn, hardly ever remaining in the same place long enough to be hit. She also tries to use the collateral damage she causes to her advantage, making her a true terror in cluttered environments. She fights best in urban or desert settings, where there's lots of loose particulate she can use to her advantage, but her effectiveness is somewhat limited in tight spaces.
Aura/Semblance: Deseret's aura is tan, and seems to swirl around her like grains of sand in a storm. Her semblance, known as Tailwind, allows her to generate a blast of air, up to three meters wide, in a straight line parallel to the direction she's facing. The strength of this blast is inversely proportional to its width, only capable of moving small items at maximum width, and capable of flipping cars at minimum width. Suna typically uses this ability to accelerate herself or push others away, but it can also be used to turn every piece of nearby rubble into deadly shrapnel.
Backstory/History: Deseret was born in Vale, to two members of the White Fang. She was raised on anti-human sentiment, which resulted in countless fights and minor thefts when she was younger, but as she grew, she began to question her ideology. Eventually, this led to her enrolling in Signal academy, and moving out of the house when her parents objected. She's been living on her own for some time now, taking odd jobs here and there to earn some money, while at the same time fighting her own little war against the White Fang. Not for any particular moral reason, more because she wants to show her parents how strong she's become working with humans.