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Melanine Fontine

Character Application

Appearance

Mel is the smallest in size of her siblings, yet easily the most physically adept. She stands just a fraction of an inch over 5'0", but her body is strong-looking and built like a soldier's. She has shoulder-length brown hair that she typically keeps tied out of the way and the same shining green eyes that her family is notorious for. Small of bust and hips, her face is soft and innocent-looking, somewhat contrasted by the flat, deadpan look that usually settles in her eyes. She is most often seen in modest dress of pants and shirts, even typically wearing leggings or tights underneath the skirt of her school uniform. Even though she is the farthest thing from "girly," she does maintain her appearance as well as any respectable woman.

Personality

Positive Traits: Perceptive — Sincere — Kind — Forthright — Thoughtful — Generous
Negative Traits: Indifferent — Cold — Antisocial — Ruthless — Static — Stubborn

History

Perhaps the least affected by her mother's absence in her life, Melanine spent her childhood buried in books and sparring mats. She was diagnosed autistic very young, but the symptoms tempered themselves very quickly and autism was very quickly reclassified as autistic savantism. Her aptitude with body mechanics and weaponry exhibited very early: in response to a bullying incident at school, she repeated a sequence of martial moves that she had seen on a television program with startlingly perfect execution on a boy who was at least twice her size. Her life as another Huntress in the Fontine family was all but cemented from that day forward.

Childhood flew by in a rush of training, studying, and traveling to dojos and training studios around the world, quickly surpassing her older siblings in her combat talents and eventually climbing past even the most experienced military leaders in her locality. Any around her that did not have an Aura advantage found her untouchable, and it was quickly predicted that proper Aura training would produce a frighteningly effect operative in some years' time. Gaelyn arranged for her to take part in a training program that sent her around the world, where she learned the arts of all the cultures and military bodies around Remnant, from Atlas, to Vale, to Mistral, and beyond. If there was a combat technique for her to learn, she hunted it down and learned it.

In her travels, she was also exposed to the weapons of the world. Her practice naturally extended to marksman training, and she found that her aptitudes were applicable there as well; even the most complex of Huntsman weapons required only a brief explanation before she was proficient with them.

The last thing in life Melanine did not have is a cause. Altimeda had devoted himself to knowledge, its seeking, and its distribution; Aeenmae found a place as a spy and a soldier in Legion; Melanine was still young, but even acknowledgement of that did not make her feel any less listless as she began the final leg of her family's training. A proper academy, and a proper curriculum, she hoped, would give her the insight she needed to make the rest of her previously bleak life into something more vibrant. A close Faunus friend of hers would deliver her that purpose.

A lifetime of seeing the way Faunus were treated in the world met with perhaps Melanine's only close friendship and led her to a natural conclusion of injustice regarding racial biases. Pulling on her family's resources, she founded the Mellow Heart Foundation: a charity organization dedicated to advancement of Faunus-Human relations, establishment of Faunus shelters in hostile environments, and education on Faunus history to the uninformed in hopes of removing age-old racist habits. The organization is in its infancy, but it gives Melanine something to do beyond what has become the normal monotony of training, travel, and study.

Faceclaim

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  Misaka Mikoto from To Aru Majutsu no Index

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