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[color=f4c430][b]Name[/b][/color]
[indent]Saffron Mergansett[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Age[/b][/color]
[indent]17[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Race[/b][/color]
[indent]Faunus (Weasel)[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Nationality[/b][/color]
[indent]Atlesian[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Physical Description[/b][/color]
[indent]Saffron—or Saffi, as her parents affectionately call her—is a short girl, standing at just under 5'2". Despite that, though, her build is slender and lithe, resulting in a somewhat waiflike appearance and a featherweight of no more than 100 pounds. Fittingly, she's not particularly strong, although she's quite a bit stronger than she looks. She has long bright orange hair that is perpetually unruly, though she does her best to keep it looking nice, and wide teal eyes that are constantly looking around at double time. 

Strangely enough, unlike many faunuses, she doesn't have any kind of animalistic ears and has normal human ones instead. No tail either. For all intents and purposes, she looks human on the outside. But what she [i]does[/i] have is a full compliment of very sharp, very angry-looking mustelid teeth and fangs. It can be very off-putting; an innocent-looking teenager opens her mouth and you think you've seen the devil. Because of this, she can't actually eat some common foods; she has a weasel's diet as well, and mostly eats meat, with some fruits and vegetables thrown in for flavor and nutrition that she can't get elsewhere.[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Characterization[/b][/color]
[indent]The best metaphor to describe Saffron is taking a car, filling it up, and duct taping the gas pedal down. She's incredibly energetic, extremely outgoing, and [i]relentlessly[/i] high-strung. She's has a hard time sitting still for any length of time and is usually just...bouncing off the walls. A good word to describe her might be 'frenetic.' Friendly, too. She's always ready with a laugh and a smile, and has a tendency to drag other people along behind her in a kind of social gravity that she spends a significant amount of time engaging in.

Despite all that, though, and despite how hard she finds it to study, she is [i]surprisingly[/i] smart, though it comes more in bursts of gunpowder knowledge and sudden insight than in any controlled release that someone a little bit more studious might have an easier time with (despite her smarts, she doesn't do [i]extremely[/i] well in school). But because of that burst-of-insight knowledge, she's a...pretty terrible strategist, all things considered. It's certainly her weakest aspect as a Huntress. She much prefers going in quick and fast, making it out through sheer skill and quick wit. Consequently, of course, she has a bit of a reputation for being super reckless, and needs to consciously keep her cool most of the time to stop herself from going in guns blazing.[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Backstory[/b][/color]
[indent]The Mergansett family were...not well off. Like so many Atlesian faunuses, they were employed by the Schnee Dust Company, and all the horrible working conditions and wages that came with it. They barely had enough to live on. And life had been like for for both of them since the beginning. So, when they had their daughter Saffron, they determined: [i]she[/i] was going to have the opportunities that [i]they[/i] never did. And so, as she aged, they worked tirelessly, taking an insane amount of hours. They took out as many loans as they could to help their little girl find a better place in the world. And that little girl decided very early on what that place would be: she wanted to be a Huntress.

They beamed with pride, sending her to the best schools they could possibly afford, hoping she would get the best education possible and wouldn't be bullied (which, unfortunately but predictably, she was). But...she shouldn't go to Atlas Academy, right? The militarized school in this place that had sucked their souls out? Somewhere else would be better. Anywhere else. Shade Academy was too far away; it was going to be difficult for them to pay for the school, let alone transportation, and the whole family knew it. When she applied to Beacon Academy, they rejected her. The only place that was both close enough and allowed Saffron in was Haven Academy. And so she went. She'd finally made it in!

But still...she nursed an awful fear in her gut. All those loans her parents took out to put her through the best schools and get her here? They'd need to be paid back sometime. And they wouldn't have the Lien to do it. So, she decided to put absolutely everything into becoming a Huntress to help pay the bills. It's not just to protect [i]people[/i] anymore. Now, it's to protect [i]family.[/i][/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Semblance[/b][/color]
[indent]Saffron's Semblance is Flickerswitch, a powerful—if risky—ability. Saffron doesn't have a huge amount of Aura to begin with; Flickerswitch essentially turns it into a fuel gauge, allowing her to consume it to [i]dramatically[/i] increase her speed, flipping and dashing around so quickly she's hard to keep track of and leaving a trail of blazing yellow light behind her. She's generally okay with it, but her energetic recklessness can get the better of her, and as of now, it's on a pretty high burn. She needs to be really careful with it, or else she can put herself in a great deal of danger.[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Weapon & Fighting Style[/b][/color]
[indent]Named (ironically) for her lack of skill in strategy, her main armament is Checkmate, a pair of quick, powerful machine pistols that can flip to a pair of chunky, tanto-point knives with frankly concerning speed, which is only exacerbated by how quickly she moves around.

And that's really what her fighting style is based around: speed. She's small and relatively weak, so she relies on blistering speed and overwhelming volume to drill through her enemies before they can tire her out and drain her down. While against one or two foes she goes all-in from the start, the strict limits on her Semblance means she is—or, at least tries to be—much more careful during extended combat.[/indent]
[color=f4c430][b]Intangibles[/b][/color]
[indent]Despite her recklessness, Saffron is a surprisingly good team player. It becomes much easier to hold herself back when someone else is actively creating a plan, so it makes her significantly easier to work with if there's a strategist worth their salt along for the ride.

Though of course she makes heavy use of it with her guns, she's pretty helpless at using Dust in any other way. She understands that there [i]is[/i] a principle to it, but it would take [i]so long to learn it![/i] Why do that when she could be working on her strengths instead?[/indent]
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