Colors of Remnant

Username:

Lin Motley

Groups:

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Age:

16

Birthday:

May 16

Gender Identity:

Female

Race:

Human

Nationality:

Vacou

Character Picture:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... 201138.png

Height:

5'/152cm

Weight:

110

Eye Color:

Sky Blue

Aura Color:

Light Blue

Physical Description:

Lin is small and petite, at only 5' she often gets confused for someone much younger.

Her sky blue eyes are always full of light and excitement.

Lin's light brown skin is free of any blemishes, she's still pretty fit as Lin is a very acrobatic young woman, though she lacks actual muscle mass.

Her semblances manifest on Lin'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 Lin's skin, touching them feels like cold metal.
The marks fade once Lin's aura is depleted.

Outfit Description:

Lin loves puffy clothes, her trademark being a blank white t-shirt that's a size larger than she needs, a long blue coat, with sleeves that reach her hands and a hood that when pulled up stays rigid in place, as instead of string there are wires inside.
Her cargo shorts, with two pockets at her thighs, these hold all kinds of trinkets that Lin loves carrying around.

Her scarf can be pulled up to cover her mouth.

And at least, her pilot googles, Lin always wear them, even in doors, as they are at this point her trademark symbol.
She will even wear them along with her school outfit, with her reasoning being that she may need them for an emergency.

As for her school outfit, Lin wears a standard female beacon uniform.

Personality Description:

It's incredible how much energy Lin has, she always seems to find new things that excite her, and she has more than enough excitement to go around for all of her interests.
To say the least, Lin is very determined and eager to go after what interests her in life.

Lin is very friendly and is happy to approach people that catch her interest, which is pretty much anyone that isn't openly mean to her.

Lin is also very empathetic, she has an easy time telling when people do not feel well, as she has had plenty of experience cheering up her big sister and helping her through her depressive episodes.
But she also uses this ability to get under peoples skin if necesary.

Lin is generally kind and friendly but also has a fondness for pranks and general mischief, while she never intends to hurt someone she's not opposed to breaking the rules and drawing peoples ire if it benefits her.

Despite her energetic nature and childlike appearance, Lin is very mature, she is a rational thinker and goes into any situation with a well-thought-out plan, she's very headstrong, also often sticking her head out for others that may have issues defending themselves.
She herself has no issue defending herself, as Lin is unshakable in her resolve.

A major aspect of Lin's behavior is that Lin is mute, while this has affected her social life, she has her own ways of dealing with it, so she really does not mind most of the time.
But there are times when she really wishes she could express her thoughts and feelings properly.

Adding to all this is also Lin's creativity, she's very quick at developing solutions thinking of things to say, and she's even a becoming artist, typically drawing in her free time and supplementing her conversations with little sketches just to make it easier for people to understand what she's talking about.

Backstory Highlights:

Lin 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.

Lin was born into the Motley family, which consists of her mother, Irene Motley, a herbalist and potion maker of the clan, Diano Motley her father, the greatest warrior of the clan and respect leader, a side Lin barely saw of him as he could never help but just melt around his adorable second daughter.
And her big sister, Ela Motley, Lin loves her big sister above all and the two would spend day and night together, with either the little or big sister seeking out the other.
Ela showed Lin many things, how to do her hair, the nicest spots to rest away from the sun and

During her time in the clan, Lin spend most of her days simply being a child, often playing with Ela and/or their shared friends.

That was until she and her family were banished due to Ela's mistake of training her semblance away from a tutor and ruining a large portion of the clan's food supply.
Lin at the time was only 13, she had spent most of her time in the clan, but her adventurous spirit kept her from being all that upset about it, she did not enjoy desert life, living in Vale sounded much nicer, at least from what her mother had told her.

And Lin would be proven right, with her mother's influence, her education as a pharmacist and old contacts they soon had a stable new life in the grand city.
Lin took little to no time to adjust to her new life, she quickly found new friends and hobbies.

Having grown up, Lin also started training with her dad once Ela had picked up training with him again, she continued doing so for a while and even unlocked her semblance with her father's training.
While it did help, he could not teach her much more than the basic's so following Ela's example, due to wanting to develop her powers further and also wanting to follow in her sister's footsteps, she enrolled in Signal.
During her stay there Lin also picked up her newest hobby, tinkering with guns, unlike Ela who choose a simplistic weapon Lin's weapons are highly sophisticated, and she keeps improving them to this day.

After completing her stay at Signal, Lin enrolled in Beacon afterwards.
Where she is now, currently in her first year of training and eager to show the world how much of a punch a 5' package can hold.

Occupation:

Huntress in Training

Education:

Basic semblance and combat training from her father.

Basic knowledge about medical drugs and how to apply them.

Fluent in all kinds of sign language.

Lin has completed her training for advanced combat and semblance usage at Signal Academy.
Lin also learned how to build and upgrade her own weapons and is very eager to expand on this knowledge during her stay at beacon.

Semblance Name:

Dust Eater Weightless Wind

Semblance Description:

As the name suggests, Lin's semblance allows her to eat dust, specifically and only Wind and Gravity dust, other dust types will simply not have an effect.

Lin does not actually have an inhumanly strong jaw, but her Semblance allows her to chew dust, neither does she actually digest it, but her Semblance absorbs the substances as soon as she swallows it.

Eaten dust is stored away in the markings on Lin'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 Lin 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.

Dust Eater Techniques:

Current:
Using wind dust, Lin can generate wind currents.
She can create these currents, anywhere she wants, as long as she is aware of the general layout of the area.
The currents are relatively weak, Lin can increase or decrease their strength, but the strongest currents Lin can create are about as strong as a weak gale.
Lin can only have one current going at the time, which will gradually drain dust as it persists, the drain depends on the currents' strength, with Lin being able to maintain her strongest current for a whole hour. Before she has to recharge on dust.

Aeroblast
Lin can create a current directly from her body.
This version is much stronger than the other, at full output Lin could knock, multiple people down or off their feet and make movement harder for even trained huntsmen.
Much like her currents, maintaining Aeroblast will continuously drain dust, but at a much faster rate, Lin can maintain it at full force for about 5 minutes before she runs out of dust.

Gravity Cancellation:
Using Gravity dust, Lin can cancel out gravity by touching objects or living beings, living beings that can use Aura are easily able to resist this effect.
Lin can have as many targets as she likes affected by this effect, the Dust drain for each usage depends on how big and heavy the target is, maintaining the effect does not drain any more dust or Aura but will disapate after about 5 minutes, which will require Lin to reapply the effect, Lin also has to manually touch the object to undo it.
Lin, if required, could easily influence around 20 people with her gravity cancellation.

Combing both Gravity Cancellation and either of her other skills, Lin can fling objects and people around in the air.
But her main usage for Aeroblast and Gravity Cancellation, it to allow Lin to fly.
She usually keeps this at a mild hover, going at walking speed or slightly above.
But if she cranks up the blast, Lin can go at incredible speed, able to outrace any grimm and most other huntsmen.
This is where her pilot googles, hood and scarf come in, as along with her Aura they are there to protect her face, as even though Lin cannot keep up speeds this high for long, they could seriously damage her eyes without protection.

While Lin's semblance uses dust to work, the effects it produces are under the prules of an aura construct, as such loosing access to her aura will cause either effect to vanish when the connection to Lin's aura is servered.

Weapon Name:

Brisk and Brawn

Weapon Image:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0X2m0y

Weapon Description:

Brisk:
is a sniper rifle, with a revolver magazine, adjustable scope and a foldable tripod.
(The latter is not included in the image)

The magazine holds eight shots, of high caliber armor piercing rounds.
The gun has no trouble piercing armor, like the bone plates of a Grimm.
It's capable of shooting the whole magazine in about 3 seconds, when using the tripod the gun also remains relatively steady while doing so.

Brawn:
are two sawn of double barrel shotguns with a revolver magazine.
Both guns hold eight shots of either shotgun shells or slugs, Lin has a preference to shells.
When triggered, both barrels fire, making it so that each gun can only fire 4 times.
These handguns are very powerful, getting hit by them at close range would be devastating for anyone as the high pellet count shreds through any defense, may it be bone plating or Aura.

Due to her already relying on dust to fuel her Semblance, Lin has some affinity when it comes to dust and as such loves using dust infused ammo.
Her favorite being fire dust for Brawn, as the elemental shells make the weapon's tearing power all that more fearsome.
Gravity dust is a close second though as it furthers the utility the shotguns have, not only do they threaten to hurt but will also push back an opponent they hit.
The fact that Brawn fires of two shells at a single pull of the trigger allows Lin to mix and match dust types.
Like mixing fire and ice dust to create a screen of fog when fired.
Fire and electricity to create a deadly elemental discharge.
The possibilities are great and Lin only started experimenting with it.

For Brisk, Lin prefers to stick with the armor piercing rounds she uses, but when faced with a Grimm that's a little too big for just bullets to take down, she will switch to combustion dust rounds to do damage on a larger scale.

Switch:
is a weapon that has the ability to transform into different firing modes and also change its caliber accordingly, by utilizing special bullets that with the mix of a special alloy and density manipulation through gravity dust can reduce or increase their size and weight.
Due to the nature of this gun it can only utilize a special type of ammo, produces by Lin, called Switch Ammo, due to being inherently infused with gravity and magnetic Dust to function, switch ammo cannot be infused with additional Dust as that would destroy its function.

Switch's first of four modes and it's default mode is usually how it's stored on Lin's person, in the form of two double barrel SMG's, the guns don't actually have grips, as they are attached to Lin's lower arms by special straps.
This way, Lin has an easy way to unleash a quick spray of lead with just a flick of her wrist while essentially leaving her hands free.


The second mode is a simple assault rifle, packing a little more of a punch, but allowing for more accurate fire while still keeping Lin somewhat mobile, this mode also has a semi auto and burst fire mode, as well as allowing Lin to attach a matching scope and grenade launcher under barrel attachment.

The third mode is by far the heaviest, a full on machine gun, multiple magazines of Switch Ammo are combined to form an ammo barrel, to allow for continuous heavy fire.

The last mode then turns the gun into a slug launcher, much like a railgun, utilizing the gravity and magnetic dust in switch's machinery to accelerate a single bolt with devastating and shredding force as the bolt, being made of multiple smaller objects does not survive any impact with a hard surface and then explodes into a burst of shrapnel.

Other Gear:

Her cargo shorts hold basically anything Lin could need.
Extra ammo ? Check.
Extra Dust ? Check.
Bubblegum ? Check.
A paper towel to wipe bubble gum off her pilot googles ? ...dang it.

During long fights Lin will often bring grenades, tripwires, mines, cal traps and other such things.

Lin is currently working on expanding her arsenal, none of these weapons or ammo types are currently functional but will be added later.

-a Swarm Launcher, capable of firing a swarm of homing micro missiles that embed themselves into a target to deliver a deadly discharge.

- Compression Rifle, a rifle capable of (de)compressing the bullets it fires into different calibers to allow for alternate firing modes.

- Delayed spread shell, a shell that is fired out of a shotgun like a slug at first but then explodes mid-flight to deliver the conventional spread damage of a shotgun at a greater range.

Fighting Style:

Lin prefers to lay back and let Brisk do the talking.
Lin will start her fights by finding a good vantage point and will start laying down support fire using brisk for her allies.
She's a real crack shot, as she can shoot most Grimm in the eye from half a mile away.

Lin can also fire Brisk from the hip without a tripod, thanks to canceling the weapon's weight, this does make firing it a lot more sluggish and inaccurate but better than relying on a tripod for mid-range shots.

If necessary, Lin will lay traps to fortify her vantage point.
The traps that Lin utilizes often rely on her hiding away objects she can launch using her semblance or combine with her gravity cancelation.
Getting hit by a box of nails at 80mph of wind speed is not pleasant, neither is dangling in the wind like a balloon with a tripwire keeping you there.


If Lin is rushed down or finds the need to get in close, Brisk is strapped to her back and she will instead use Brawn.
With them in hand, Lin will blitz around the battlefield, using her flight to dodge attacks and get in close to do maximum damage with her shotguns against an enemies weak spot.

Brawn has a ton of knock back against things affected by Gravity Cancelation, Lin knows how to utilize this and can give herself a temporary burst in speed or launch any enemy affected by her semblance far away, then stop Gravity Cancelation on them and let them suffer major fall damage.

Strengths:

Lin is friendly and very adaptable, she has a good time in most situations and if she isn't, she will try her best to turn the situation around.

Her mental strength is definitely Lin's greatest attribute, there's little that can scare Lin or shake her resolve.

She is very, very agile, neither lacking speed nor maneuverability.
With her semblance also comes great area denial and control.

So Lin is very well versed, no matter if it's a fight or your everyday conversation.

Weaknesses:

Lin can sometime's stick her neck out way too far trying to help someone and get herself in real trouble.
She also has issues backing down and just leaving things be.

Her inability to talk also makes things hard when people do not have the patience or skill to understand her, not paying attention to her attempt of making conversation is a real easy way to bum her out.

She is very, very small.
If Lin ever gets cornered in a fight or runs out of dust to stay mobile, she will at a major disadvantage, as her guns take a long time to reload, and she can't do much with her lacking physical strength to defend herself.

Likes:

Parties, people, party people.
Sharing her hobbies.
Drawing.
All kinds of snacks.
Tinkering with her guns and showing them off.
Flying, she's working on one day breaking the sound barrier.

Dislikes:

Boredom.
Not having snacks.
Goody two shoes, her sister, is an exception.
Someone messing with her gear.

Fun Facts:

Lin also calls Brawn her personal space extenders.

Alternate Characters:

Ela Motley
Al Ciendra

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