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Aeenmae Fontine

Combat Application

Name: Mae Fontine
Race: Human
Affiliation: Fontine Family, Atlas, Atlas Academy

Base Stats

Aura: B
Good genes and extensive training with the Fontine processes have taken Aeenmae's already-strong base Aura pool and pushed it to the limits of her age and experience.

Stamina: D
Training excessively in stamina with the power of Aura has not always proven necessary, but even so Aeenmae finds herself hitting the gym, watching her diet, and keeping her body in peak physical shape.

Power: A
When her Semblance was found, Mae found that the best way to familiarize herself with it was to jam herself into training it as hard as she could possibly manage. And that seemed to do the trick.

Agility: C
Natural progression of her abilities and the usefulness to her Semblance of positioning saw Mae take a keen interest in her ability to maneuver a battlefield and gain tactical advantage.

Technical Skills

Started From the Bottom
Having dropped out of school once and lived on her own for some time, Aeenmae spent a lot of time in city slums and seedy, "affordable" parts of town, tending bar and serving and generally making ends meet. As such, she has a keen knowledge of the wit and ways of the undercity, and plenty of Friends In Low Places.

'Cause I'm the Wanderer
Spending so much time away from home gave Mae a powerful sense of individuality that resonates all the way into her Aura. Her sense of self is so keenly honed that things that try to affect her mind frequently fail, getting lost in her Aura and filtering out like a germ. In the case of mind-affecting Semblances, they take more time to affect her, drastically decrease in efficiency, and the instilled sensory interruption is adamantly clear to Mae as well as unable to block out the true world's sensory information.

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Through the nature of Mae's bond with her Semblance, when threats push her mind to panic, Anima will step in to bridge the gap. When imminent danger she was previously unaware of springs forth, Anima will flare her Aura, increasing its efficiency in the most tenuous moments of adaptation. Whether this means he hardens her Aura against a surprise attack; boosts her body's reaction time to intercept that attack; or lends her speed against a suddenly sprung trap, their bond is such that Anima will always do his best to come through for his bearer.

My Brother Can Beat Up Your Brother
Growing up with Altimeda had its ups and downs, but in the end it worked out for the better. Getting access to her family's database and accounts means that Altimeda is never more than just a call away for any help that she may need, be it informational, manpower, or otherwise.

Equipment

Tsubame
The weapon attached to Mae is of her own design, the fruition of her finally fully bonding with her Semblance. A pair of empty sheathes attaches to a small back-pack-looking device at the small of her back. That core is attached to her Semblance through Aural integration, allowing her to activate it without the need for physical movements. The sheathes extend outwards on mechanical arms which have enough range of motion to flex to anywhere her arms may need them to draw one of the dust-molded blades that the sheathes can create within.

Each sword is crafted from a mixture of hard-light dust and up to two other dust element types, forging a strong blade that can adapt to any number of dust types based on her needs. Strikes with the blades unleash a portion of their energy as a small elemental explosion, giving strikes with these blades a variety of possible effects. Hard-light dust is the primary constituent of the blades, requiring only a very small quantity of elemental dust added to the mixture to produce an elemental effect; this allows the module to store a single vial of each elemental dust type currently on the market and ensure that there will always be enough to add to an infusion until the main hard-light dust runs out. The central module that forms the weapon's core is where the dust is stored, containing enough hard-light dust for up to one-hundred (100) blades before a refill, as well as enough of each infusion dust to support that base count.

Semblance

Nodal Anima: The Soul Within the Drifter
The simplest application of Aeenmae's Semblance allows her to create a node of Aura. It can be attached to an object, or it can be suspended at an anchored point in air; the anchors that lock them in place can be activated at any point, making it possible to "throw" a node at a point and anchor it in place from a distance. Once a node is anchored, it reaches the second stage of its purpose: When activated again, the nodes detonate. Placing a node is simple: Aeenmae generates a node on her hand and either places it, or points in a direction, sending it on a straight-line path until she triggers it to anchor in place.

On its own, a single node has the force of a military-grade concussion grenade, non-lethal but entirely capable of knocking an unfortunate victim immediately unconscious should one be detonated on their face.

As more nodes are placed, they are connected in a network, and their power scales upwards. For every node active at once, the contained power increases by an exponential value, lethal force beginning at two nodes for beings without Aura and minor Grimm and scaling up from there. When detonated, each node will first connect to any other nodes that are placed; anything that is either contained within the space created by the nodes, or passing through a nodal line or a node itself, is subjected to the force of the detonation.

Placing a node has a negligible Aura cost, while triggering a detonation costs roughly the mathematical square of the nodes detonated, in percentage, of her maximum Aura. She does not need to detonate every placed node at once, though if she chooses to detonate multiple nodes at once they will always connect as a polygon; when detonating, she chooses the nodes that she wishes to connect and activates them, leaving intact any that she does not wish to be part of the detonation. The force is perfectly contained within the field of the nodes; calling it an "explosion" is something of a misnomer.

If the nodes are attached to an object that contains a dust charge, the detonation will take on the effects of the dust applied.

The secret behind Aeenmae's Semblance was a secret even to her until only recently. The nodes that are created do not come from a simple expenditure of Aura. Rather, they are generated by Anima, the name given to the spirit of her Semblance, and handed off to her through the bond of Mae's Aura. Anima resides within the confines of her Aura, and by opening the gate on his seal, Mae can allow him to breach into the world and fully manifest. He appears as a figure in sleek, white armor, nearly ten feet tall and carrying a wickedly-pointed white and red sword that seems far too large for the efficacy he wields it with one hand. Most frequently, he will stay right on Mae's heels, mimicking her actions like a shadow that orbits about her, but he is capable of taking individual action—at the cost of beginning a rapid depletion of Mae's Aura. Manifesting him costs ten percent (10%) of her Aura; maintaining him is a drain of one percent (1%) per minute, when he is shadowing her, with that cost scaling up the further he gets from her.

Anima's abilities mirror that of Mae's Semblance, with some notable features. First, as a being made purely of Aura, he does not sustain normal injuries—in fact, any damage he takes, he entirely ignores, and it is instead inflicted upon Mae's Aura reserve. His movements, while they mirror Mae's, can be much faster, shifting to intercept blows that she was not quick enough to intercept and placing strikes in ways not bound by normal body mechanics. While he is manifested, each blow struck by Anima's sword triggers the same explosion as a single-node detonation, but these node-strikes do not trigger detonations of any placed nodes, nor do they ever interact with node-network detonations. The core of Anima's armor, however, is referenced as part of a node-network detonation. Its orientation at the front of his body will always place him outside of the network (as long as his back is not to the detonation site), allowing him to be a mobile node to more cleverly trap opponents within the networked detonations.