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Name: Xin Zhu Que

CNR: “Zhu” is red in Chinese, and “que” is bird. It’s the name of the divine Vermillion Bird from Chinese mythology, who is associated with the color red and fire. Xin is chinese for heart (or “xing,” but we’ll ignore that).

Age: 44

Height: 5'8"

Birthplace: Mistral (resides in Vacuo)

Weapon: Fenghuang, one rifle, about the same size as a medium length sword. On the bottom of the barrel is a retractable blade, about 2 feet long. The weapon is slightly shorter than a rifle, but much longer than a pistol. The grip is vertical instead of horizontal on a normal gun, like an old fashioned rifle. For sword use, it is meant to be gripped by the intersection of the stock and the base of the barrel. It has crimson, gold, and vermillion patterning, with a silver blade.

Semblance: Fire’s Aegis, Xin can set herself on fire, creating a burning aura that effectively functions as a shield. It’s can be unconsciously activated by her emotions if she doesn’t keep them in check. The body part in question will be wreathed in flames. The heat and strength of the fire depends on the amount of rage. If she were to set her hand on fire for 5 minutes, it would cost about 50% of her Aura. To compensate, she has trained herself to generate Aura faster. She also can burn herself out if she has physical or mental exhaustion. Though Xin’s Semblance is meant to be a full-body shield, she occasionally activates it on a finger to burn things, or on other specific body parts for various purposes (i.e. flaming kick to the face). It also effectively negates any physical combat without weapons, as anyone hitting her would receive a heavy burn even through cloth or leather. "Angry," means utterly pissed, which, in this case, isn't too difficult to achieve. Her Semblance, when at higher levels of heat, can somewhat burn through Aural defenses.

Aura Color: Vermillion red.

Species: Sparrow Faunus

Allusion: Zhuque, if it wasn’t obvious enough.

Description: Energetic and bubbly. She cannot stop talking and loves doing things really fast and exercising and moving and anything related to physical motion. She drags her team to do excess physical activity, look at something new or cool, or just annoy them by taking them random places. Despite this, she’s very social and thrives in populated situations. She’s the type of person to make friends with the 5 people in front of her in a line. As for her appearance, she has light aqua hair, sideswept bangs, ponytail, tied with a lavender piece of cloth that forms two tails, similar to Chitoge from Nisekoi. On her mid-back, she has a tattoo resembling water swirls. She's muscular and lean, with sea green eyes. She wears a unslinger outfit, open brown trench coat with no sleeves over a off-the-shoulder crop top and jean shorts. Belt with various pockets filled with regular bullets just in case. There are two holsters attached to the side of her belt, and she wears a single blue feather earring (NOT one of caladria's feathers though).

History:  Xin was raised in a strict Faunus household in rural Mistral, where tradition was valued over change, and family was promoted over friendship. As a child, she and her little brother often played among each other because “your family always comes first.” Upon reaching the age of 5, both her and her younger brother were given pendants with the family crest on it (a stylized flaming bird). Later in life, her father would force her to make her Huntsman emblem the family crest, but she had a small rebellion by adding a heart cutout in the center of the bird.

As a child, Xin idolized her and romanticized the Huntsman career due to whimsical stories about her grandmother’s adventures, and dreamed of being free. Sometimes, a family friend, Hadrian Slate, would visit. He was close to her grandmother, and he taught her a little about weapons and how they were made. Every time she visited, she was bursting with ideas about weaponry.

Xin would look through her family’s library, and practice combat in their backyard when she was done with her chores. One day, a Huntsman team came to her school to promote the Huntsman Academies, when they taught a beginning class in combat, Xin impressed everyone with her combat prowess. One of the Huntresses told her that she would make a good Huntress.

When she turned 13, Xin begged her father to let her attend primary combat school. At first, he refused, telling her it was “unladylike.” She finally played her trump card, saying that her grandmother was able to become a Huntress. Her father relented, and made her promise to focus on her studies.

At primary combat school, and later at Haven, Xin was a bit of a prodigy, always staying near the top of her class, and made a few close friends, including Zinnia Helix, whose father owned a weaponry empire. Xin dreaded coming home during the summer, and thrived at combat school.

One summer after her second year at primary combat school, Xin decided that she wanted to fight with her grandmother’s weapons, the Phoenix Fire Rifles. Her father refused to give them to her, again saying she was unworthy. She argued back, and her Semblance activated. She accidentally set her family’s home on fire. During the mayhem, she carried her sick mother out first, guiding her brother, and lastly her father. She went back into the flames, and somehow saved the Phoenix Flame Rifles as well, but hiding them from her family. The fire left the home mostly intact, but many heirlooms were broken or lost in the rubble. Her father never forgave her.

She trusted only her brother with the secret, and returned to school to try out the new weapons. For the rest of her training, she secretly used them in place of the guns she had used before.

During the school year, she and Zinnia also tracked down Hadrian, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time, and wanted to visit.

Upon returning from her 3rd year of Haven, she prepared to show off what she had learned to her father. She wanted to show that she was worthy of her grandmother’s legacy, and she deserved to use to weapons. However, her father instead immediately snapped at her, and demanded she return them, in public, at the airport. In a burst of rage and frustration, she inadvertently activated her Semblance, which burned through nearby barrels of powdered Dust and caused a violent explosion that killed multiple people. Fearing that she would be arrested, Xin ran away, and hid in Zinnia’s house for a few days. During the time, Zinnia helped her set up a one-way trip to Vacuo, where she could meet Hadrian. It seemed like the best solution at hand.

Before law enforcement could figure out the cause of the explosion, Xin had already escaped to Vacuo, where by some miracle she actually found Hadrian, who was more than willing to house Chen Huo Xing’s granddaughter, even if she was an outlaw. In Mistral, Xin was outlawed for ignoring the summons to a court after being charged with arson. Later, since her father refused to sell her out or speak about the incident, the authorities concluded that she had purposely set the explosion and subsequent fire.

Xin escaped to Vacuo on a passenger ship that left before any charges were made for the explosion. Upon arriving in Vacuo, she quickly found Hadrian’s weapons shop, and after showing him her family pendant, he immediately recognized her and agreed to take her in. Because of Vacuo’s disregard for laws and order, and her decent fighting prowess, she gradually adjusted to the unique culture and began doing missions, earning lien to support herself. She also asked Hadrian to upgrade her weapons, changing them to their current forms.

During her life in Vacuo, she sometimes contemplated whether she was currently truly free, as she was trapped in Vacuo to avoid prosecution in Mistral, especially when her brother barely managed to tell Xin her mother had passed. Eventually, she became a respected bounty hunter and set up a life of her own. She also is trying to learn weaponmaking from Hadrian, and is currently his apprentice.

Team: Team PHLX, Mistral.

Goals: Make money, stay away from law enforcement, and  fuck things up and kill people