Blake Belladonna
Age: 18
Physical Traits and Abilities:
Blake is a faunus rather than a human, and has enhanced hearing, smell and night vision than any given human. In addition like all humans and faunus on Remnant she has something called 'aura', and like most hunters has hers unlocked. This gives her highly enhanced reflexes and agility, capable of deflecting machine gun fire, land safely from long falls, and leaping up falling debris. Aura also increases durability and regeneration, and its common in duels between hunters to eat bullets straight to the face or slashes full across the torso with damage to nothing but their aura levels. Finally, it gives her a mild danger sense, and enables her to use her...
Semblance - Shadow clones:
Blake's aura powers a hunter's semblance, and Blake's is an ability called shadow clone. It's a short range dash that leaves a shimmering copy of Blake where she'd been at the start of the dash. it can be used midair, and seems to ignore most laws of momentum when she uses it. When her weapon has dust rounds loaded into the chamber, the clones gain elemental properties.
Combat training:
Blake was an accomplished fighter even before she attended beacon, and has to have some absolutely ridiculous mental and physical reflexes and spatial awareness to use her weapon (see below)
Possessions:
Gambol Shroud:
Also known as the most overly complicated melee weapons of all time, Gambol Shroud is a 'ballistic chain scythe' The sheathe can be used as a sword, either by using Gambol's own hilt or by a handhold along on the sheathe itself. The weapon itself starts in the form of a shortsword, but can shift forms into a chain scythe, with the 'chain' being a ribbon strong enough to wrangle a grimm, that also doubles as a high caliber machine pistol that can be used to change the scythe's direction by firing. No I don't know how she uses it without hurting herself
Extraneous zippers:
Are they pockets? An easier way to take off her pants? A secret weapon?
No one knows.
Bow:
Designed to hide her cat ears and thus her state as a faunus. Doubles as being adorable.
Scroll:
Basically a fancy smart phone
Biography:
Blake Belladonna was born a faunus in a world that saw faunus as nothing more than cheap labor, and she's been working her entire life to change that. Even at the young age of six she had joined the protest group called the White Fang, and had also worked the dust mines of the cold and profit concerned Schnee Corp. The protests made progress, but they were slow, and eventually the White Fang's leadership was dethroned by those who wanted more immediate results, the kind that only came from drastic action. Sabotage, assassinations, and other terrorists attacks turned their call for equality into primal roars for dominance.
Those years wore on Blake's psyche and optimism, and by the time she was seventeen, she finally admitted to herself that her side wasn't the good one any longer. She abandoned the White Fang and made for Vale, where her at this point potent combat skills secured her a scholarship to Beacon, a school that taught students how to become hunters of Grimm. Fierce and terrifying monsters that had beaten humanity back into tiny kingdoms of safety, the grimm threatened the lives of all humans and faunus alike, and Blake hoped that this would be her chance to, if not change the world like she wanted to before, at least make it a little bit better. She was placed onto Team RWBY, and quickly found out that Grimm weren't the only foes that huntresses had to face
like that little shit Neo who's got a beatdown with Yang's name on it coming courtesy of Blake, and has spent the last year training, hunting grimm, working against the white fang, and forging bonds with her new team and family, her former optimism and determination creeping back into her mindset