[hider=Noël is best girl][center][color=#ff7e9d]“That’s correct, I’d like to give you the money so that you may buy your town's independence.” -[/color] [img] http://i.imgur.com/msMvPCD.png [/img] [color=#ff7e9d]Name:[/color] Nöel du Acier [color=#ff7e9d]Age:[/color] 24 [color=#ff7e9d]Gender:[/color] Female [color=#ff7e9d]Race:[/color] Human [color=#ff7e9d]Nationality:[/color] Atlesian [color=#ff7e9d]Appearance:[/color] [img]http://i.imgur.com/3A0cT8V.png[/img] [color=#ff7e9d]Personality:[/color] Noël was one of the kinder members of Bank. She is best described through her hard-working demeanor, her greed for money and her absolute devotion to her team. Her hard-working attitude comes from when she was just seven years old. Twelve years ago her parents lost nearly everything they had. She was put to work, trained by the best blacksmiths Atlas and two lives worth of favors could afford her. She is a woman who was raised by a forge. She knows the ins and outs of smithing like a second language. She has worked tooth and nail to help her parents regain both the finances and the status they once held so dearly, while they aren’t truly there – they’re one their way. Noël’s greed for money while incessant isn’t born purely out of sin and fear of poverty. Instead it has a slightly more noble birth. When her father first lost all of his money Noël has fond memories of their long days in the forge. One of those days he picked her up with his mighty log-like arms and heaved her onto his shoulder. He didn’t meet her wondering gaze, instead the fire was reflected deep in his iris. “Only the fools die rich Noël.” He said to her. “Get as much capital as you can in your life, spend what you must, what you’d like to, and then give it all away.” She has held that mantra very close to her heart ever since. Noël’s team meant quite a bit to her, though for her sake and their own she didn’t make it known all too often. Within a few short months of joining Atlas, they became a surprisingly cohesive unit. She, Brennan, Albert, and Kek all spent the first few months dictating ways in which they’d rather be spending for time. But as push came to shove and the team couldn’t find words that sounded better than Bank – Brennan became the team leader. As soon as that decision passed over an air of ease settled over the team. It only took them three months as well. After Vytal the team had become inseparable and harmonious in their attitude and work ethic. However, as Kek and Albert decided to focus on the business while Brennan and herself decided to commit to hunting. [color=#ff7e9d]Aspiration:[/color] Nöel wants. If there were a clearer path to becoming queen of Remnant that would be the path she was taking. However honoured as the hero of the lands will have to do for her. She also wishes to amass money like no one ever has. [color=#ff7e9d]Fears:[/color] Dying rich. It’s for this reason that she is awful with money. [color=#ff7e9d]Ethics:[/color] The poor are just lazy. She doesn’t have many boundaries she isn’t willing to push past. Whether they be moral or otherwise. [color=#ff7e9d]History:[/color] Nöel will never forget the Vytal festival. She sat there in the stands, after working hard to thrust Brennan past the 2v2 stage. They fought valiantly and now, it was his turn. She knew that she felt more nervous than he did, she always did. And yet as she sat as one of a thousand people with her ‘We will indoctrinate your youth’ T-shirt. She felt a certain calmness wash over her as Brennan entered the arena. She knew he would win. Not many people know about Nöel’s life before she became a huntress, but anyone who has asked knows not to ask. Brennan would most likely have told them that. His charming grin would lower, his teeth snarled and he would glance at Nöel before and after speaking. “You don’t need to fookin know tat kinda ting.” He would say. He would assume he was silent, like a small song carried on a breeze. But Nöel always did. So after he ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY WON THE VYTAL FESTIVAL NOT THAT YOU COULD FIND ANY RECORDS ANYWAY BECAUSE MY NEW TEAMMATE BURNED THEM UGH OH MY GOD. After he became a legend really, he and Nöel went back to Vale and decided to graduate. Graduate the program, and become hunters. [color=#ff7e9d]Semblance:[/color] [color=#ff7e9d]Ma Voix:[/color] Nöel has limited control and manipulation over the air around her. She can manipulate air easiest when she has knowledge of it, like for example the direction it is already going and anything that may be inside it. She typically uses this to heighten her fighting, like helping her dodge or strike faster and harder or redirecting her arrows completely mid-flight. She can also defend from projectile attacks fairly easily at this point by just knocking them away from their desired landing point. If Nöel is focused she can make winds up to 55 knots but this typically requires her to be standing still and focused. Typically on the move she can only reach around 40 knots. [color=#ff7e9d]Combat Style:[/color] Nöel is the fighter in the team that strikes from afar and makes it too difficult for the enemy to focus on the battle at hand. When you have arrows coming from all directions at disjointed flight patterns and times, it’s hard to focus on the Griese stain that’s about to separate you from kidney to cranium. That’s the general thesis of it. But when the going gets tough she can pull out her knives and semblance in order to incapacitate a foe. On one particularly grueling mission, Brennan and Nöel had to fend a family, or rather clan of Ursa from their injured teammates. That show had to be kept up for hours, with very little sleep and almost no time to refuel or rethink a strategy. Let alone reposition. Through the use of Nöel’s made you look dodging style she was able to fend off the clan with some help from her teammate. [color=#ff7e9d]Weapon:[/color] Evangile de la Richesse (as pictured below) is both a violin and a bow and arrow. She holds it as if it were a violin commonly and the weapon has multiple utilities and uses. Firstly and perhaps most importantly, it is a fully functional violin. For close range options, Nöel would take the violin and place it on her back wielding the bow of the instrument. The bow can separate rather easily into two butterfly knives with a ice-dust based blade at the center. However, by placing the bow back there and turning the violin sideways she is able to separate it into a compact bow with more than a couple functionalities. Firstly, she has her four arrows. Water, wind, gravity and time. They don’t work quite like one may assume however. The two simplest arrows are the water and wind. They both are made up almost entirely of the centric dust in their design and can expel massive amounts of either water or ice when they make a connection with a target. Easily immobilizing or even drowning a target. The gravity arrow is more of a gimmick. While Nöel does call it the gravity arrow it’s trick is that she can control it with a small lever where her hand rests on the bow itself. She can either amplify the amount of dust activated or deactivate the dust, thusly ducking and dodging with said arrow. Finally there is the time arrow. This is her newest and most unique addition, it’s main trick is that it uses light to fool the senses. While it may not look like she has let the arrow fly yet, it is merely a trick of the light. This trick only works for about a half of a second to about a full second. However, that is typically more than enough time for her to have already nocked a new arrow and fired it as well. The bow and the bow for the violin themselves are both quite durable and typically can guard against another hunters weapon with no worry on Nöel’s part. After all, she made it. [img]http://2static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/71/57/71576a_5841449.jpg[/img] [color=#ff7e9d]Non-Combat skills:[/color] Nöel is a world class chef and blacksmith, she has also picked up the violin around ten years ago. [color=#ff7e9d]Deficiencies:[/color] Jokes, respecting people’s boundaries/limits, being a leader who doesn’t push people too hard. [color=#ff7e9d]Miscellaneous:[/color] (Anything that doesn’t quite fit in the other categories goes here.) [/center][/hider]