Natalya Slade

CHARACTER

Name: Natalya Slade

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Occupation: White Fang enforcer/urban courier

Appearance: Slade is a tall lady, especially for her age, standing a full 6"2 and quite statuesque about it too. She's dark-skinned, with equally dark eyes, and wears her hair short, and she prefers light clothes that don't restrict her movement too much. In spite of her physical activity, she's made a conscious effort to drop weight, preferring tone over muscle, so that her speed isn't too restricted. She keeps her cat-tail wrapped around her like a belt, but tends to let her ears free even in polite company.

History: Slade is born and raised a White Fang; her parents were in the organization before it turned militant, and were some of the strongest voices pushing for its militancy. Although during the day she works as an on-foot courier, wearing her obedient sheep mask, by night she's quite a useful heavy-hitter.

Personality: Slade is fairly quiet - not necessarily relaxed or emotionless, she's just not a very noisy person, even when she's mad or fighting. She tends to keep to herself, and where possible she'd rather be alone with a book or practicing, and she usually thinks a lot more than she speaks. That said, she values her friends closely - she even values recurring foes, as she feels that they understand each other better than even close friends would.

Strength: Slade is immensely strong, given her size and build, and she matches it with surprisingly quick movement. She's also an extremely skilled martial artist, having trained since she was a little girl, and a very experienced fighter. Being a cat, her sense of balance is exceptional, as is her hearing and night-vision.

Weakness: If anything, Slade suffers from being a big target - she is 6'2, after all - and having a fairly distinctive lack of a weapon. Also, her ears and tail are sensitive weak-points, which could be problematic in a grapple. Also, Slade has comparitively few ranged options, and what ranged options she does have aren't quite as good as "bolt-action rifle from a kilometer away", unlike a lot of people.

Semblance: Slade's Semblance is Plasma Drive, the ability to spread her Aura through her own body to enhance her physical abilities. This has an obvious visual cue - her blood glows brightly when she's using it, even through her skin (and turns her into a nightlight). The main way she uses this is by compressing Aura in her ribcage and expelling it through her limbs, giving them the appearance of rocket burners when she strikes, both accelerating her strikes and adding a great deal of penetrating power to them. If she really pushes it, she's quite capable of generating medium-range Aura blasts, but unless she's intending on exhausting herself, this ultimately comes out to "I try and punch you from across the room".
A secondary, learned ability stemming from the primary ability is that Slade can supercharge a small object she's holding; most things won't handle a charge like that and will explode a few seconds later, but this works particularly well with vials of Dust, turning them from small blasts into, effectively, frag grenades.

WEAPON

Primary Form: Slade's weapon is her tried and tested warrior's body! Her intense and long-term training, combined with her Semblance, make her quite capable of battling unarmed and unarmored with all the potency of your average armed and armored warrior.

Secondary Form: As a backup plan, if Slade thinks she's going to need to get heavy, she brings a bandolier of very well secured Dust vials to use as big boom. Just in case. And yes, the bandolier is designed so that the vials do not shake at all and fit into armored compartments so they don't go up on her. She's a terrorist, not an idiot.

History is pretty short, but everything else looks okay. Approval +1 of 2.

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