Name: Iris Grey

Age: early 20s

Eye Color: Blue

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Height: 6’ (182 cm)

Weight: 154 lbs (70 kg)

Academy: Atlas Academy

Birthplace: Atlas

Relatives/Relationships: Charlie Ember (rival), Winter Schnee (rival)

Occupation: 2nd Year Student (start of the story)

Weapon: Ice Fang & Ice Claw – a pair of massive pistols that fires Dust bullets.

Semblance: Frozen Whispers – Iris can breathe ice, a hereditary semblance passed down in the Grey family for generations. The temperature ranges from mild breezes that can be useful in pushing the opponent away to full on freezing the opponent in their place (only possible if Iris invest a lot of her Aura).

Fighting Style: A general misconception about Iris is that she’s not capable of fighting up close. It’s actually kind of the opposite, she’s a monster when it comes to close quarter combat. The pair of pistols she carries are basically just a gimmick to annoy her opponents, forcing them to dodge and run in close. Iris is a master of her family’s traditional martial arts style which involves precise elbow strikes and agile kicks. Iris is extremely acrobatic and can fight from almost any position or angle. Now that is not to say her shooting is terrible, she’s no professional marksman, but her guns are still a force to be reckoned with.

The original patriarch of her family, ancestor to Iris, was a human nomad who traveled the world. There he stumbled across a strange tribe of Faunus warriors who possessed traits of toads. He learned to live among these toad Faunus, learned their ways of life, the secrets of their physiology, and used it to enhance his own fighting abilities and Frozen Whispers Semblance. By puffing up his chest and expanding his lungs, he could breathe out gusts of wind that were many times stronger than usual. It was a technique he used to pass down to his family, a technique perfected with each new generation.

HISTORY:

The story of the Grey family goes back generations, dating back even to the Great War where a family of noblemen split into two, the Grey family and the Ember family. Nobody knew for sure how the split happened but rumors had it that the two families were cursed. From that day on, any Grey child born into this world was destined to hate the children of Ember and vice versa. A blood feud bound together eternally, slaves to destiny. Iris was no different.

However, Iris did not care much for her family’s tradition and long history of hatred, rather she felt her hatred towards Charlie Ember (who ironically would later become one of Iris’s teammates) stemmed from a different source, a source that Iris herself admitted to not fully understand. In other words, Iris doesn’t really know why she hates Charlie, she just does. The feeling is mutual on Charlie’s side as well. Some people don't believe in curses, Iris is one of those people.

PERSONALITY/TRAITS:

Iris is, simply put, definitely not the nicest person in the world. In fact most people around find her barely tolerable at best. Iris is blunt, very rude, and would constantly go out of her way to tell people who bothers her too much to die or go to hell, frequently recommending them to off themselves. Iris hates socializing, and prefers to live as a lone wolf.

Iris hates Charlie with a burning passion (ironic because Iris’s Semblance is ice while Charlie’s Semblance is fire). She would always clash with Charlie whenever they meet, like some kind of glorified dick measuring contest, only with Iris constantly trying to kill Charlie. She’s never managed to actually kill off Charlie for good though, partly because Charlie herself is such a strong fighter, partly because Iris knows deep down she wouldn’t have a purpose left if Charlie were dead, also partly because for some odd reasons a lot of their fights to the death tend to be interrupted just before they could land the deciding blow. It’s as if Destiny is playing a cruel joke on both of them.

Despite the two’s mutual hatred towards each other, Iris and Charlie are a force to be reckoned with if they ever team up with one another to pursue a common goal. Even though they both hate each other immensely, the two will occasionally and begrudgingly let go of their differences and work together to resolve their current conflict… so they can quickly go back to beating the crap out of each other that is.

After all of this talk about Iris being a crappy person, one important thing to note about her is that she actually, and surprisingly, hates unnecessary violence, despite being very good at what she does (which is beating the crap out of any poor sod in her way). Truly a walking paradox, full of uncertainties and imperfections. Iris doesn’t like to get her hands dirty unless she absolutely has to (since after all, she hates people, so why would she even want to interact with them in the first place?).

Iris is very analytical in her tactics and combat approaches, which is completely opposite to Charlie’s instinctual style of fighting. Iris’s methodical way of thinking is one of the reasons why she’s assigned as leader of the team. She does have difficulty understanding the perspectives of her teammates and would rarely listen to their inputs, since she firmly believes that she knows everything there is to know about the team and their capabilities thus any of their inputs would be irrelevant. Sometimes this works out just as Iris has calculated, other times, not so much.