Name: Charlie Ember

Age: early 20s

Eye Color: Amber

Gender: Female

Race: Faunus (Fox)

Height: 5’11” (181 cm)

Weight: 152 lbs (69 kg)

Academy: Atlas Academy

Birthplace: Mistral

Relatives/Relationships: Iris Grey (rival), Lisa Rhed (sparring partner)

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

Weapon: Burning Mantis – a pair of bladed gauntlets that are really good for slicing and stabbing. Not much to it other than that. It does hold a single bullet chamber for single surprise shot every now and again.

Semblance: Flaming Touch – this semblance is pyrokinesis, plain and simple. Similar to Iris Grey, it is also a hereditary semblance, and it’s been passed down from the Ember family for generations. She can create and control flames to a certain degree. It’s nowhere near as strong as a Maiden, but it’s still shouldn’t be taken lightly. She can fire off small sparks of flame to act as projectiles and enhance her striking power with fire to deal more damage. At her most powerful, she can engulf her entire body in flames, increasing her striking capabilities by tenfold. This costs most if not all of her Aura of course.

Fighting Style: The Ember family’s traditional style of martial arts is a unique style of boxing that relies on solid foot work and upper body strength. Although a lot of the techniques heavily involve punches and hand strikes, kicks and similar attacks are not discouraged, only not heavily utilized since Ember fighters usually prefer using their feet as the anchor to pivot their striking power. A strong fighter of this style must focus on training both lower and upper body strength.

HISTORY:

The long and bloody history between the Ember family and the Grey family dated back to the Great War itself, where a single act of betrayal split the two families, condemning the two in an eternal cycle of conflict, hate and war (though details of the betrayal was unclear). However, just like Iris, Charlie’s hatred towards her rival stemmed more from a personal reason rather than from an obligation to her family. And like Iris, Charlie doesn’t exactly know why she hates her. She finds Iris obnoxious, annoying, morally bankrupt, and the list goes on, it's hard to truly say.

Both Charlie and Iris caused a heap of trouble when they were first assigned as teammates. Iris even requested to switch teams but since Iris was such a terrible person and a dangerous fighter nobody had the guts to take her on. Charlie seemed to be the only one capable of dealing with Iris’s crap. And the only one on her level of strength for that matter which was definitely on a higher level when compared to the rest of their classmates, both were considered extremely talented fighters.

The two of them fought so much that the Academy even considered expelling both of them, but fortunately (or unfortunately depending on who you ask) Fleet Admiral Maru stepped in and saved both of their “asses” from suspension, as Charlie described it, for some unknown ulterior motive. The Admiral wanted to keep an eye on the two of them, perhaps to use them in his troops in some distant future? Nobody knew for sure.

PERSONALITY/TRAITS:

Charlie is certainly a lot more bearable to be around than Iris (then again that is an extremely low bar of standards). Charlie is confident, and can even be cocky in her strengths and abilities since she’s regularly been shown to be on par with Iris’s skills. She has a good heart and overall means well most of the time, but can sometimes be fairly rude if pushed to the extreme, which is kind of understandable since she has to put up with Iris all day, everyday.

Although she’s not the smartest person in the class, her sharp intuition and excellent combat prowess have carried her far, even helping her keep up with Iris, one of the smartest students in the Academy. Charlie fights more by her instinct than logic, and thankfully it’s been working out for her… most of the time at least. And if you ask Iris, she would say it's why she herself has such a hard time reading Charlie despite being so analytical, or maybe it's really just because Iris is often blinded by her hatred. Or most likely a combination of both.

Similar to Iris, Charlie does not want to have anything to do with her family’s long tradition, and prefer to live life one day at a time. Charlie can also be a bit lazy when it comes to most things, even her training. Since she has to butt heads with Iris for so long, Charlie figures she has already had all the training she needs and that any extra hours of training would just be a waste of time. This can lead her into underestimating her opponents and letting her guard down.