BASICS//
Age: 18
Species: Rabbit faunus
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Voice: x
EQUIPMENT//
- Jayas, her weapons. They resemble an odachi, a katana, and a kodachi. The odachi and katana's edges are loaded with wind dust on the edges, for air-slicing slashes, and the kodachi is loaded with lightning dust, for short electrified stabs.
- A composition book, filled with diagrams and neat paragraphs on various topics - architecture, geography, combat, medical science.
ABILITIES//
- Ice Will: Self-confidence, perseverance, taking charge
- Shadow Walk: Sneaking around, eavesdropping, moving silently
- Investigator: Noticing clues and digging up information
- Warnings: Her semblance - lotus-shaped glyphs that can be cast onto objects. Their effects activate after 3 seconds, or when Padma mentally triggers them, whichever comes last.
---- Grapple Warning: pulls her towards the target. Pale blue.
---- Bleed Warning: passively increases damage the target takes from subsequent attacks. Sapphire.
---- Bomb Warning: creates an air explosion. The longer she waits to activate it, the more powerful the explosion is. Dark blue.
---- Unknown warning: she once cast a blue-black warning, but her aura ran out before she could activate it.
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Petal System: Padma's fighting style - carefully placed strikes, planned patterns of warnings, pulling back to analyze
WEAKNESSES//
- My Way or the Highway: Demanding, dismissive, arrogant
- Timebound: Needs to plan, bad at surprises
- Atrophy: Constantly aching joints, occasional poorly-timed pain spikes that debilitate her
BIO//
Padma was born in Kuchinashi, to the faunus mistress of a human doctor. She spent her childhood not knowing him, believing he was a soldier who'd left her mother. Mom was actually blackmailing him into financially supporting them. The two never lacked materially, but because Kuchinashi was poorly defended, she still grew up learning to fight.
She started making the connection when she was a young teenager. After she got her father's name from some financial documents, she snuck into his office to find him. When she introduced herself as his daughter and asked what had happened, he said she reminded him of her whore of a mother and that he wanted her to leave.
Padma had planned for him to say that, but not for how she'd be feeling. After security dragged her out, she would carry the rejection with her all her life - not just as a memory, but in the form of a pain-attracted Grimm that infected her body. Padma learned over the next month that she'd contracted Black Frost. A disease-type Grimm had taken up residence in her body to attack her joints; they were starting to turn black at the skin, and ached incessantly. Her research told her the illness progressed over 1-3 years, culminating in the patient's joints permanently separating and the patient being consumed from inside out. Treatment beyond pain management was prohibitively expensive, and the only known cure was a fire dust injection that often left affected joints unusable.
The young woman wasn't going to end up unable to fight for herself. She made up her mind to search for a silver-eyed warrior, capable of vanquishing Grimm with a single look. It was a long shot; if she could find one willing to treat her, there was no guarantee they'd even be able. However, Padma was going to make it, or die trying to get well. This is why she's come to the Academy - because a place like that would attract silver-eyed warriors.