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Username:

Ela Motley

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Age:

22

Birthday:

May 16

Gender Identity:

Female

Race:

Human

Nationality:

Vacou

Character Picture:

https://imgur.com/a/1V6D106

Height:

7'2"/ 220cm

Weight:

330lbs

Eye Color:

Emerald Green

Aura Color:

Light Blue

Physical Description:

At 7'2" tall and with muscle covering every possible inch of her body, Ela is a sight to behold.

Ela's shoulder long black hair is very well-kept, she ties it back during fights but during everyday life she keeps it open as she enjoys the added freedom.

Her emerald green eyes are usually lacking in excitement, as Ela is a very calm person.

Her semblances manifest on Ela's skin as bright blue, rune like markings that spread from her feet to her cheeks.
The markings don't have any special meaning, but do have a physical form.
They're flexible and bend with Ela's skin, touching them feels like cold metal.
The marks fade once Ela's aura is depleted.

Outfit Description:

Ela has no issues with showing skin, and her outfits reflect this.
Her main outfit, consist of a gray poncho that leaves her stomach exposed and gives her a lot of maneuverability and the material can also endure long exposure to the element, including her own semblance, as the cloth was infused with dust to make it more resilient.
The poncho she is wearing is her father's from his time as a Dust Eater warrior, luckily they just so happen to wear the same size.

Her cargo shorts, while not even half as special as her poncho, serve their purpose, they are pretty loose, allowing for more maneuverability while Ela is not using her armor and still allow storing most items essential to her in a fight with their many pockets.


Her casual outfits happen to match this, often being a match of loose tops/shirts and/or waist free tops, shorts and either a vest or jacket over them and any combination of sandals or sneakers.


As Ela is a tad too big for the standard female uniform, Ela has had a custom tailored suit made for her, besides the size it's the same as the standard issue female uniform.

Personality Description:

Ela fitting to her appearance has a calm aura to herself, she usually wears a smile and is always happy to have a conversation.

Ela is also a model student, she's eager to learn and improve herself and so will not only spend a lot of time training but also learning for tests and other such things, it's rare for her to no get top marks.

During fights Ela is also a very good sport, she fights other people solely unarmed, she always strives to have a fair and clean fight.

This fairness is also manifested in Ela's general desire to guide and protect others, mainly the first year Beacon students.
While she is only one school year ahead, she is a fair bit older and mature than most, that combined with her generally being the largest person in the room and Ela often can't help herself but feel some motherly desire to help her fellow students.

While she is social, Ela primarily likes to spend her free time doing calmer things by herself, like reading books, cooking or
knitting, a hobby she has picked up recently as finding clothes was getting increasingly difficult.
Which also means that Ela will need some major persuading to actually participate in things like parties or other loud and big celebrations.

All of Ela's eagerness stems from a lot of self-doubt and anxiety, Ela does not think highly of herself and as such pushes herself to redeem herself.
Because of this, Ela also experiences depressive episodes that make it impossible for her to do much at all.
She's unable to help herself out of this and will need a lot of emotional support.
These episodes are often caused by simple things, like repeated failure on her part, rejection and social conflicts.

Backstory Highlights:

Ela was born and raised in the boiling hot desert of Vacou, into the ranks of the Dust Eaters, a group of outcasts living a traditional lifestyle far away from any sort of civilization.
They are a small clan, consisting of around 100 members, their home is a village built around one of the desert's great oasis.
The unique trait of the Dust Eater's is that they possess a Semblance passed down their line of descent, the semblance is what gives these people their name, the ability to eat dust and use it to harness different elemental abilities.
Each member has their own types of Dust they can use, and as such are given a name befitting their abilities by the clan elders.
Of course, not all members have this semblance, as some people have married into the clan, or were simply born without the aptitude to wield it. Those that do are marked by blue glowing, rune like lines going down their body.
There is no social disparity between either group, as surviving in the dessert needs everyone to work together efficiently.

Or at least that's what her parents taught her, those being Diano Motley, one of the clan's greatest warriors, who Ela saw as her own hero and her mother Irene Motley, a herbalist and medicine expert, in Ela's eyes the smartest woman in all the world.

Ela spends a lot of time having a very normal childhood, or as normal as living in the desert goes, she had a lot of friends to play with and many things to occupy herself with.
Yet, all her attention was drawn to one thing on a certain day.
When Ela was 5 her little sister Lin was born.
They were inseparable and Ela did her best to teach Lin all that she knew, carrying her infant sister everywhere, cuddling and sleeping alongside her, taking much pressure of her parents when it came to keeping Lin happy Ela was almost as knowledgeable as her own mother.

Life was good for Ela and after long training under her father and the clan's tutor, she finally unlocked her semblance, she and her friends instantly tried out all kinds of dust, and soon it was known that Ela could utilize both earth and ice dust, but how ?
That was something she would have to figure out.
As Ela was the daughter of one of the clans, priced warriors she received a lot of support, to further her established interest in becoming a warrior and making her Diano's successor.
While Ela's Semblance took time to develop, her physical development was crowned with much more success, as the pubescent girl was soon towering over many male and female members of the clan

A few years later and Ela had unlocked her Semblances armor, with this success Ela put even more of her time into her training she was hard to stop and as such advised by both her tutor and father to tone it down a little.
Yet, Ela did not listen.

Tragedy struck.
As one peaceful day, the food storage was suddenly frozen solid and destroyed, a member of the clan who was inside had almost succumbed to frost burn while trying to prepare lunch.
Behind the clumps of ice and now ruined food sat a barely conscious Ela, who had finally figured out what her other ability was.

The backlash was terrible, not only had Ela disobeyed a direct order, she had ruined planned to sustain the clan for a long time and injured a member of the clan, so bad that she had almost killed them.
People would starve, and they longed for family Motley to be punished.


Ela was still a child and while part of the responsibility laid on Diano neither Ela held ill intent and in Diano's case had served the clan diligently for years, as such their punishment was reduced, yet still family Motley was exiled.
Not only would this reduce this the amount of mouths that had to be fed, avoid any in fighting and also deal with the troublemakers.
The elders cast their judgement and the next day family Motley was no longer part of the clan.

Now, Irene took the wheel and would take her family back home, home to Vale.

About 2 months of traveling through the desert, staying in hotels and other such things, encountering both Grimm and Bandits, family Motley would finish their hazardous journey through Remnant.
Using her contacts and calling in a few favors, Irene had managed to secure a shop for herself and at the same time a home for her family, pharmacy Motley was now in business.

While Lin was off playing, Ela would throw herself in full gear and help around the shop.
This was the start of Ela wanting to work through her guilt, guilt for harming her friends and family, guilt for exiling them, especially her father who had trouble fitting into his new surroundings and had to start life a new.
Her parents were not blind to this of course, they were not mad, but they were worried about her, so they did their best to support her.
Yet nothing ever seemed to work as Ela kept festering her guilt, being reminded of how much they didn't fit in with the looks on peoples faces every time her and her father acted out of order for this different society, did not help either.

It had been a few years since they arrived in Vale, Ela had mostly settled in, her father had made friends and as such Ela felt a bit better, yet Ela still had not found her life's goal, being indecisive and apathetic about most things she did long term.
Ela and Diano were sprinting after a thief that had stolen the Pharmacies cash register.
Through crowds, alleys and further, the two however had no chance to catch up to the thief, as he was armed, Diano was out of practice having been busy helping Irene with the business and Ela had never even come close to completing her training.

Suddenly, a food tray found itself in front of the thief, causing him to lose his balance, as then a man slammed into him and knocked him over.
A tired, gruff looking man, with his jacket covered in the corpse of a hamburger, was standing over the thief, already on the phone calling authorities.
This was Professor Copperfield.
The display had ignited something in Ela, a fire burning in her eyes that her father had been longing to see for so long.

The three sat down together over hamburgers Diano had bought for them, he had a cash register on hand after all.

With a good word from Copperfield, Ela soon enrolled in Signal Academy, launching herself into the training of huntsman with full force, she finished her stay there with ease and took on Beacon right after, having completed her first year Ela is now in the process of completing her second year, with Lin giving her some much-needed support and Ela giving her little sisters her support in return, there seems to be nothing stopping the Dust Eater Duo.

Occupation:

Huntress in Training

Education:

Basic semblance and combat training from her father.

Basic knowledge about medical herbs/medical drugs and how to apply them.

Ela understands sign language, but can only speak it on a very basic level.

Ela has completed her training for advanced combat and semblance usage at Signal Academy.

She also completed her first year at Beacon Academy and is now in progress of her second year.

Semblance Name:

Dust Eater Frozen Mountain

Semblance Description:

As the name suggests, Ela's semblance allows her to eat dust, specifically and only Earth and Ice dust, for now, other dust types will simply not have an effect.

Ela does not actually have an inhumanly strong jaw, neither does she actually digest it, but her Semblance absorbs the substances as soon as she eats it.

Eaten dust is stored away in the markings on Ela's body, the intensity of their glow indicating how well-fed she is, using her semblances powers consumes portions of the dust and a minor portions of her aura, so miniscule that Ela will always run out of dust first before she runs out of Aura, if she runs out of dust the glow will entirely dissipate, and they will go black, looking much like regular tattoos.
Running out of Aura makes them entirely disappear.

Ela has a few techniques she can perform with the dust she eats, for instance, Stone Skin:
Ela can generate rock like armor, that she can apply to anything she touches but usually only herseld, this armor is placed over her aura shield and as such affects the clothes she's wearing too.
The stone Ela generates is similiar to basalt but is much sturdier than any naturally occuring substance, the material also withstood extremely high temperatures, but as separating it from Ela's body results it to crumble no serious attempts at melting it have been made, as to not fry the poor girl inside her own armor.
The durability and resistance of Ela's armor is steadily growing as she trains and get better control of her aura and semblance.

A full set of armor weighs around 1670lbs, which only barely slows down Ela.

Creating armor is a little costly when it comes to the dust her semblance uses but it barely drains any aura.
It also takes time to generate armor pieces, the duration depends on the body part being covered.
So for instance, covering Ela's hand would only take a split second, while fully covering her torso would take a full 10 seconds.
Ela can't strengthen her armor by expending more or during its creation or coating her armor with it as the armor already counts as an aura construct, but she can regenerate it, by having it consume more dust to replace any broken of bits.
After a full dust meal, Ela can create 3 full sets of armor.

Ela has also learned to adapt her standard armor in the following ways.
If stood on solid terrain, Ela can expand her armor out and meld together, effectively tethering Ela in place.
Ela can also generate spikes from her armor, their max length being about 3 inches, enough to dig her feet into loose terrain or dissuade a grapple.
With enough focus, Ela can also sharpen pieces of her armor, usually her lower arms and hands, turning the entire limb into a blade or use it to form shields.

While Ela primarily uses stoneskin on herself she can coat objects or people she's holdig with it, but she has to keep prolonged contact with them, only an individual that can wield aura themself may maintain stoneskin after being seperated from Ela.


Frost Blast
After a 3-second charging period, Ela can release a devastating blast of ice and frost from either her hands or mouth in a 90ft cone.

Liquids or other objects and even smaller Grimm hit by this blast are at risk of being frozen solid, Ela needing to feed some Aura into the ice to keep the freeze effect going. While Hunters could avoid the freezing effect thanks to their Aura, it's not advisable to try and tank this attack as it would still deal massive damage.

Ela rarely makes use of this power and due to the bad memories it brings and has reserved it entirely as a last resort.
She's out of practice when it comes to using it, even with a full meal of Dust, Ela can only use it thrice, though it no longer leaves her vulnerable as it did when she was young, a bad case of brain freeze is the worst she will suffer.

While Ela's semblance uses dust to work, the effects it produces are under the rules of an aura construct and do not count as conventional dust.
Ela's armor will stay active as long as it's in contact with her, but crumble into nothingness the second it's broken off, unless she were to expend additional aura to keep the individual shards around.
Her Frost Blast has a bit more staying power but maintaining the ice it generated will cost additional aura when maintained over a longer period than 10 seconds.

Weapon Name:

Lovetap

Weapon Image:

https://imgur.com/a/3QESU31

Weapon Description:

A massive two-handed mallet.
Love tap is 7ft in length and weighs a hefty 200lbs.

Blows from this weapon are devastating to say the least, being able to crush concrete or a Grimm's bone armor with ease.

While Lovetap can't transform, the blades at the top can fold apart to reveal a long barrel hidden between them, going into the shaft and the handle of the weapon.
Utilizing a complicated mechanism of dust and technology, Lovetap is capable of shooting heavy metal bolts, like a miniature rail gun, the trigger revealing itself at the bottom of the weapon's shaft with a simple flip mechanism.
While it's not very precise nor fast, due to being fired from the hip and having to be reloaded after every shot. Its shots pack a serious punch, have incredible range, and are more than capable of dispatching targets normally out of Ela's reach. This weapon does its job of supplementing Ela's kit with some ranged and piercing capability more than well.

Lovetap may be Ela's weapon, but it's Lin's creation, the little sister also maintains Lovetap and provides her big sister new ammo.

Other Gear:

Sometimes, when her cargo shorts don't offer enough space.
Ela will carry some extra pockets with her to bring extra dust for a quick pick me up or extra ammo for Lovetap.

Fighting Style:

Ela is a simple rush down fighter, may it be human or Grimm, Ela is most effective when she's right in her opponent's face.

Once she reaches this point, Ela will start her attack.
Against non Grimm opponents, Ela will rely on her semblance and her bare hands to fight, it's against her nature and early warrior training to cause lethal injuries to another person.
She much prefers to use her overwhelming strength and high defense to punch, kick, throw and fling her opponent around the arena.
If need be, she will make use of Frost Blast to end a fight quickly when fighting a strong foe, but she will never aim to seriously injury anyone.

Against Grimm, Ela will wield Lovetap, using the giant mace to crush their armor, open up their guard and pulverize them with ruthless efficiency.
She will use Frost Blast much more frequently here.
While she prefers Lovetap here, Ela is in no way dependent on the weapon to kill Grimm.
She can simply punch them into a pulp, using her armor as knuckle dusters and extra weight to fuel her momentum.

Strengths:

Ela is a warm and friendly person, despite her not being very outgoing she still has no trouble making friends or maintain friendships.

She is organized, helpful and reliable.

Her strength is by far her biggest boon, even without using Aura to strengthen herself, she can swing around Lovetap with relative ease.
Ela is also very resilient, being used to carrying both a heavy weapon and heavy armor, her training is also intense giving her amazing endurance, making her a true defensive stalwart.

Weaknesses:

Ela is very easy to stress, given enough negative responses.
This will discourage her from trying and even make her give up all together on what ever it is that she was trying to accomplish.

Her lack of mental fortitude also makes her very susceptible to attacks aimed at her psyche rather than her body.

Without her armor, Ela may be flexible and fast, but even with her amazing strength it reduces both those traits drastically, a skilled Hunter should be able to dodge most of her attacks or fight in her blind spot, given that any helmet she might create will reduce her field of vision.

Likes:

- Quiet places
- Warm Drinks (coffee/hot coco)
- comfort
- learning, reading, practicing
- cooking, sewing
- one on one time with friends

Dislikes:

- parties
- big groups
- fighting among friends
- herself

Fun Facts:

Ela still occasionally trains with her Father, on his request, as his daughter could teach him a thing or two nowadays, it's also a great way to stay in shape while spending time with her.

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