Username:VJammer
Name:Ariana Sterling (Ariana being a Welsh name meaning Silver)
Nickname:Ari or Ria
Race:Human
Ethnicity:Caucasian
Gender:Female
Orientation:Homosexual
Alignment:CG
Academy:Beacon
Age:16
Birthday:December 23
Height:5’3”
Combat Type: Close to Mid-range Melee
Weapon(s): Lunar Strike A Guan Dao that can separate into a one-handed sword and shotgun and shield hybrid.
Dust Skill:
❖ Wind: Moderate
❖ Burn: Moderate
❖ Water: Moderate
❖ Lightening: Moderate
❖ Gravity: Moderate
❖ Earth: Moderate
Semblance: Awareness
Ariana does not need to look at her opponents to see them. She has total awareness of her surroundings up to thirty feet in a three hundred and sixty degree field around her. It is a passive semblance. Dense clustering of obstacles and uneven slopes or transitioning terrain are still difficult for her to work with though.
Relationships:
❖ Jett Sterling - Father, Alive
❖ Ginger Sterling - Mother, Alive
❖ Ebon Sterling - Older Brother, Alive
❖ Rose Sterling - Older Sister, Alive
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Strengths:
✔ Advanced Training
✔ Heightened Senses - Her blindness resulted in her sense of hearing and smell being heightened, meaning she can pick out information others might miss by sound or smell.
✔ Vulnerability - Many sentient opponents often underestimate her because she’s blind.
✔ Situational Awareness - Her Semblance while it may not give her any details about those around her, effectively gives her a three hundred and sixty degree field of awareness, making it nearly impossible to sneak up on her when her opponent is in physical range.
✔ She can fight as effectively in pitch black as she can in bright light.
Weaknesses:
✘ She’s blind and her semblance does not show detail to her. This means transitioning from terrain to terrain is sudden to her and she can’t determine where it will go without other input, say, if she hears someone splashing around in water ahead of her. She also has issue with uneven terrain and densely clustered obstacles. She can sense someone behind a bush, but, maybe not through three.
✘ Heightened Senses - Her blindness resulted in her sense of hearing and smell being heightened and are ultimately more sensitive to stimulation from high-pitched or loud sounds or strong odors.
✘ Small Size
Likes:
✔ Music
✔ Good food
✔ Showing off she isn’t helpless
✔ People’s surprised reactions to how independant she can be
✔ Creating three-dimensional art (Carving, sculpting, etc)
Dislikes:
✘ Being Babied
✘ People acting awkward around her because she’s blind
✘ Being Small
✘ Stinky things
✘ High pitched and/or sudden sounds.
Personality:
❖ Ariana is a strong and determined girl, always ready to prove she isn’t some porcelain doll to be kept hidden away. Confident in her skills and collected in the spotlight, she eagerly proves herself the equal in ability, if not the better, to those around her. She can’t tolerate persecution without cause though and can be hard-headed when dealing with those who would demean others for the sake of doing so. Rational though, she doesn’t hop straight to being an attack dog and prefers learning the situation before taking action. When it comes to her romantic side though, she is fairly subdued and can be easy to fluster with just a cutesy comment here or there.
History:
❖ Youngest daughter of Jett Sterling, of Sterling Enterprises, an up and coming giant of weapon tech development and manufacturing, she was an easy target for the spotlight, even moreso when it was learned that she was born blind. Her family were from a long line of Huntsmen and Huntresses, a tradition her father felt all his children should follow in. Starting at age three, he ensured that Ariana had specialised training to compensate for her inability to see and pressed her hard, encouraging her that she was perfectly capable, even moreso when her semblance was revealed when she turned five. With this training and the controversy of her father pressing his disabled daughter into fighting, her personal fame began to grow.
By eight, her father started enrolling her in martial arts fighting tournaments. It was difficult at first as she always found her opponents hesitant to strike at her. Because of this, she started to develop a habit of acting cocky to incite her opponents to attack her. Gradually, she started winning matches here and there, and gaining acceptance as a skilled fighter. But, still, she faced opponents who would hesitate to strike at her. By twelve, she became Regional Champion and at thirteen, she surprised the world as she made it into the interkingdom bracketed Junior finals and made it up to the third round before finally losing. Her rise was fairly quick, a shock for any normal tournament fighter, but, for someone who was blind, the public ate it up and promoters did as well. Soon, she was getting sponsorship deals and her father was raking in investments from her success.
Satisfied with her progress and ability, her father decided she was more than ready to join a Huntsman Academy and contacted Beacon to arrange to enlist her a full year early while he had a weapon developed for her. Now, at sixteen, she is on her way to becoming a Huntress and possibly make some friends.
Outfits:
❖ Casual complete with black leggings and fuzzy boots!
❖ Formal with a pair of designer wedge sandals.
❖ Mission Gear (See image)
Items:
❖ Voice activated Scroll
❖ Earpiece for her scroll
❖ Usually a book in braille of some sort
❖ White Cane. When not carrying her weapon at the ready, she's usually using it extended, when she has her weapon at the ready, folded and strapped to her thigh or hanging from either a loop on her clothes or a belt by the hip.
Other:
❖ While she doesn’t like to be coddled, she isn’t afraid to play the helpless part if she can to manipulate others, if only for fun.
Themes:
❖ Main Theme: Song Name
❖ Battle Theme: Song Name
❖ Emotional Theme: Song Name
