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OK, here we go. The Rose General is set two years after Volume 1. I'll outline characters in sets of two, because they can get a little intricate. The first two are Noir Storia and Tira Raitan (note, things in italics are potential spoilers for upcoming chapters.) These OCs also play roles in Perchance to Dream, although they are drastically different.

Noir Storia

Species: Cat faunus

Age: 19

Sex: Male

Handedness: Ambidextrous, right preference

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 75kg

Eyes: Yellow, flecked with orange points. Often wears contacts to hide the fact that his irises are more-traditional cats-eyes with slit pupils.

Hair: Black

Personality: Quiet and guarded on his backstory, Noir is notably protective of all his friends, and more than willing to go the distance in combat to keep others safe. On some occasions he comes across as dour, and is reluctant to interact with Yang in most social senses, in part due to details in his past.

Noir has a drive for closure, and no instinct of "pain is bad." In fact, due to his semblance, he seems to have the belief that pain is a constant in life, be it emotional or physical.

Aura: Navy blue, bordering on black.

Semblance: Pain. Noir materializes black sparks around his hands and feet, with the intensity increasing the more pain he is in. This serves as a feedback path, dramatically increasing his strength as he goes in a fight. However, unlike Yang's Burn semblance, this power does not prevent him from taking damage, forcing him to choose between gaining strength and lasting the length of the fight. It also gives him a one-shot finishing technique, channeling the entire extent of his Semblance into a single impact. Using this form often results in unconsciousness from the pain feedback, making it a do-or-die technique.

Weapon: Raikiri (Lightning Cutter) and Amelia. These are two swords, resembling flayed-tip katana with blackened steel blades. Raikiri has an electrical pattern centered close to the hilt, while Amelia bears a red wave-pattern down the length of the blade. He also wears two bracers with small-capacity Dust reservoirs and low-aperture vents, giving him the equivalent of Dust pistols mounted to his arms.

The unnamed bracers and his two swords have a unique interaction. When Noir holds both blades in a backhanded grip and touches them to the backs of his bracers, they combine with each other and his arms, giving him elbow-blades mounted to forearm gauntlets with wider-aperture dust vents. The downside to combining his weapons in this extent is the balancing factor - due to the elbow blades unbalancing his arms, the two weapons "bite", cutting into his flesh to create a stabilizing effect, leaving him in pain with a light bleed. As such, Noir's arms are lined with metal bands to help the weapons grip after the bite, while he uses that initial influence to feed his semblance. However, any heavy impact against the gauntlets makes the bleeding more severe.

Tira Raitan

Species: Human

Age: 19

Sex: Female

Handedness: Right

Height: 5'6"

Weight: Never decided upon.

Eyes: Green

Hair: Dusty brown.

Personality: Tira is an optimist at heart dedicated to helping those who choose to defend the helpless. Her caring nature drove her to study Dust's medicinal influences, and even as a Huntress is still regarded as an expert in blending Dust for medical procedures.

Like Noir, she is secretive about her background, but to a greater extent - while he reveals bits and pieces by accident, Tira has kept her biological history totally secret, since her family disowned her. Of note: Raitan is not her true surname.

Aura: Red-brown.

Semblance: Shatterpoint. Tira has an innate sense as to the weakest point of a person or event, and the kind of damage that striking the weakest point will trigger. However, she has shown this power very rarely, preferring to polarize it and use it to protect that weak point.

Weapon: Tira's staff has remained unnamed for an extended period of time. It has a long, hardwood shaft with a faintly glowing silver Dust crystal inset into a sharpened metal "claw" at the top end. This crystal has been seen to emit bursts of energy from it when Tira wills it to with Aura, but she rarely demonstrates this power. She also carries a number of ribbons on her person at all times, with most inlaid with Dust-threads that she can use either in combat or for healing.

Tira has knowledge of many weapons styles, and it is thought that she might be connected with a rather well-known and militant family out of Haven, but she remains tight-lipped on that subject.

Notes: The name Tira is derived from Terra, the name of Earth, with the color connotation of brown.