[b]Name[/b]: Blake Belladonna 

[b]Age[/b]: 18

[b]Gender[/b]: Female

[b]Appearance[/b]: [img]http://i.imgur.com/IparOdG.png[/img]

[b]Canon, AU, or OC?[/b]: Slight AU

[b]Universe of Origin[/b]: RWBY

[b]Personality[/b]: Usually aloof and withdrawn among strangers, Blake only opens up to people she really trusts - a childhood spent under oppression has left her with a cynical, secretive streak. To her friends, though, she is a serious, quietly passionate girl with a hatred of injustice and a love of reading.

[b]Abilities/Weapons[/b]:

[i]Gambol Shroud[/i]: Blake's [url=http://i.imgur.com/vBAgVAR.gif]signature weapon[/url]. It is primarily a short curved sword with pistol built into the handle and a collapsible blade. Its sheath has a second cleaver-like cutting edge, and can be used as a weapon in its own right. Finally, the sword's pommel has a long ribbon attached, allowing it to be used like a flail.

[i]Aura[/i]: The "manifestation of the soul", Aura is an energy field that most living beings produce. Once someone has unlocked their Aura, it can be used to shield themselves from harm (acting like a force field that reduces damage taken from attacks) and to power other offensive abilities.

[i]Semblance[/i]: A unique personal ability linked to and powered by Aura. Blake's Semblance is called "Shadow" and lets her create short-lived shadow clones. These clones are tangible and can perform basic attacks, but disappear if they move too far from Blake or take even moderate damage. Additionally, Blake can infuse these clones with various elemental properties (fire, ice, earth, etc) by loading Gambol Shroud with special ammunition. 

[b]Backstory[/b]:

Blake is a Faunus, a minority species on her home world characterised by animal-like traits (in Blake's case, a [url=http://i.imgur.com/YloQ143.png]pair of cat ears[/url] she usually keeps hidden under her bow). Faced with racial prejudice from the world's human population, Blake was a member of a faunus rights group called the White Fang from an early age. Over the years, however, the group slowly radicalised, changing from a peaceful protest movement into a violent anti-human terrorist organisation. Blake was swept up in this decline, using her fighting skills to further the cause, until a moment of realisation in her mid teens prompted her to leave the group.

Seeking to change the world in a more positive way and atone for her complicity with the White Fang's crimes, she enrolled at Beacon Academy, a fighting school dedicated to training her world's renowned monster-hunters. She spent several years at Beacon, making many fast friends and honing her skills, and was eventually forced to confront her past when the White Fang resurfaced as part of a plot against the school.

She was introduced to the multiverse shortly after she graduated and became a fully-fledged Huntress. She stumbled across evidence of a covert UMMA-SE skirmish while patrolling her home world and tracked the groups down, eventually helping the UMMA agents deal with the Shadow Eternity presence. She was offered a place as her world's UMMA agent and accepted. 

[b]Faction[/b]: UMMA