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So, for the past few days I was on my school's choir tour to Salt Lake City, so I didn't have a huge amount of time to perfect this. That said, though, I'm really happy with how this character turned out. *Name: Blaize Cerburrel 2)Appearance 3)Characteristics 4) Trivia: Hunter Extension
 * CNR explanation: Blaize is a corruption of Blaze, meaning fire, Cerburrel is a corruption of the greek beast Cerberus, portrayed as a three-headed dog guarding the Underworld.
 * Species: Human
 * Age: 18
 * Gender: Female
 * Symbol: an orange-gold Doberman's head, facing right with Whitish-blue flames leaking from its closed jaws.
 * Handedness: Ambidexterous, but favors her right hand.
 * Physical traits:
 * Misc traits: Blaize always wears a fingerless black leather glove on her left hand with her symbol on the back of the hand, and a dog's tooth on a leather strand around her neck.
 * Nicknames: B (used by her team, especially Phoebe)
 * Occupation:
 * Aura Colour: Sunset Gold
 * Aura Effects: Sparks swirling around her
 * Height: 5'7"
 * Weight: 114 lbs (51.7 KG)
 * Eyes: Emerald Green
 * Skin color: Pale
 * Face: Oval face
 * Hair: Black, reaching a few inches below her shoulders
 * Physique: Lean and Muscular
 * Combat Outfit: When she's expecting a fight, during a tournament or a mission, Blaize wears a black shirt covered in flame designs that reach to about her midriff and small orange flecks spattered around the rest of the shirt.  With it, she wears an orange skirt that reaches three-quarters of the way down her thighs and light-gray tennis shoes with black soles and blue detailing on the sides of the shoe and the laces.  she wears a brown leather sash around her waist with two pouches, both on the right side, where she stores spare ammunition (one pouch for Buckshot, one for Slugs).  On the left side of the sash is the sheath for Flashpoint's blade form.
 * Prom Outfit: During dances and formal events, Blaize chooses to wear a sleeveless knee-length yellow dress with orange patterns around the upper hem and a gray bridal gauntlet on her right hand that reaches the middle of her upper arm.  She wears her hair in a ponytail with a red hair tie.
 * Gadget: N/A
 * Background:
 * Born in Mistral, Blaize grew up in police household; her dad was a Huntsman and her mom was a policewoman.  Blaize lived in a strict but very caring household.  Her father's parents had left him in an orphanage at the age of three, so Blaize's dad made sure he was always there for her.  At the age of 5, Blaize met Phoebe Eclatte and the two were best friends in one afternoon.  Blaize turned to Phoebe when she wanted an opinion, when she wanted to share a victory, when she needed help around her house.  And when her parents died.  She was 10 years old when her parents succumbed to the disease.  They were patient zero and patient one, there was no cure.  All of Blaize's immediate relatives were deemed unfit caretakers, so Blaize was put up for adoption.
 * Blaize was raised in a sheltered household by her adopted mother and father in Atlas.  But Blaize didn't want a sheltered life.  Blaize wanted to follow after her father, to continue to protect people even though he couldn't any more. Eager to protect Blaize, however, her adopted parents refused to let her even consider a life as a Huntress.  When she turned 13, she gathered what belongings she had left and returned to Mistral.  She lived with Phoebe and her parents until she could apply to Sanctum Academy.  Her adopted parents quickly found out where she was and what she was doing and tried to  withdraw her from Sanctum.  Blaize fought tooth and nail to stay in the Academy, and after a long fight, her guardians caved and she was allowed to stay in the academy.  When it came time for her to enter Haven Academy, she passed her entrance exam handily.  From there, she was put into Team EBNY.
 * Personality:
 * Blaize had a sense of justice and loyalty from as early as age 6, from the time she was playing Huntress with Phoebe, put there by her birth parents.  Blaize is almost always in a good mood, alert and bubbly.  A good judge of character, Blaize is quick to make friends with kindhearted people. She knows that she would be lost without her friends, and believes that everyone needs a shoulder to lean on.  But her biggest strength and her biggest flaw is her need to prove herself to her team and herself.  She pushes herself to her limits and refuses to back down unless she's SEVERELY outclassed, and she refuses to back down at all if she's trying to protect a teammate.  She has trouble seeing the difference between a defeat and retreating, often getting in over her head if she doesn't have her team to talk her down from fights.
 * Likes: Dogs, friendship, recognition, exercise
 * Dislikes: Falling behind, her adopted parents, cliques, strong cheeses, stealth missions
 * Notable relationships: Phoebe Eclatte (Best Friend)
 * Notes:
 * Character Basis: Basis for Blaize was The Tinderbox, Basis for Phoebe was the Roman Goddess of the Moon, Phoebe (Eclatte is a corruption of éclat, meaning brilliant display)

I) Weapons II) Semblance III) Combat Info Civilian Extension (Optional)
 * Name: Flashpoint
 * Wielder: Blaize Cerburrel
 * Maker/Smith: Blaize Cerburrel
 * Type: Break-Action Shotgun Blade (BASB)
 * Weapon Derivation: Double-Barreled Shotgun, Short Sword
 * Design:  The handle and guards are bright metallic black, with a brilliant blue pommel (which can slide backwards to allow Dust to be inserted into the Handle).  The blade is etched with flame patterns emanating from the fuller and extending towards the edges.  In it's shotgun form, the entire gun is the same metallic black as the handle and guard, but with billowing gray designs on the barrel.
 * Holstered/Inactive Form: Form 1, holstered on the hip
 * Form 1: A straight double-edged shortsword, 22" long from pommel to tip.  The blade is 15", and the tang is 7".  The guards are tubes 1" in diameter and 4.5 inches long.
 * Form 2:  A Break-Action Double-Barrel 10-gauge shotgun with a pistol grip.  The barrels are 15 inches long and cover the blade.  The gun breaks where the hilt would meet the handle on the sword to allow more ammunition to be loaded.
 * Transformation Process:  The guards telescope outwards and expand into what will soon be the barrel. The bladed edges of the sword telescope in, towards the fuller, then slides down.  The guards fold up to form the barrel of the shotgun, resting on the blade, and this engages the reloading mechanism for the shotgun, allowing it to break to load more ammo.
 * Features: N/A
 * Dust Capacity: Typically Fire Dust, though elemental rounds can be loaded
 * Ammunition: Slugs and Buckshot
 * Usage: Blaize is incredibly adept at transitioning between forms of her weapon, and is amazing at close-quarters combat, using a variant of Krav Maga in conjunction with deft swordplay and powerful Shotgun blasts (though those are sparing, to conserve time and ammo) to deal with her opponents.
 * Planned/Possible Upgrades: an easier method of reloading (A place for a magazine or something)
 * Notes: The term Flashpoint is used when there's enough vapor of a flammable substance to ignite in the air)
 * Name: Oath of Service
 * User(s): Blaize Cerburrel
 * Type: Conjuration
 * Purpose: Utility
 * Short description: The user can summon up to three canine constructs made of Aura
 * Activation cue: The background is overlaid with sparks coming down from a single source and scattering downward, accompanied by the screech of flint striking steel (not the weapons Flint and Steel, but a typical flint and steel).  Sparks swirl around Blaize before forming into the dogs.
 * Range: Long Range
 * General limitations: The user can't maintain more than 3 hounds at the same time.
 * Passive Ability: Blaize gets along incredibly well with dogs, even trained attack dogs.
 * Active ability: Tier One: The user summons up to three Dog constructs that obey her commands.  the user can control the breed, type, and size of the dog (From 6 inches tall to 30 inches tall at the shoulder), though larger constructs require more Aura to summon.  If she's summoned more than one dog, though, she needs to concentrate really hard, basically immobilizing her as she tries to stop the constructs from fading, but the dogs can be dispelled at any time and, upon being dispelled, Blaize can choose if their Dust Effect activates (with the exception of Earth).
 * Active ability Tier Two: The user summons up to three Dog constructs (From 6 inches tall to 45 inches tall at the shoulder), though larger constructs require more Aura.  Even if she's summoned three dogs, she's still a powerful fighter and she needs almost no concentration to retain the constructs.  The dogs can be dispelled at any time and Blaize can choose if their dust effect activates when they're dispelled (with the exception of earth)
 * Dust interaction: Dogs imbued with Dust are less durable than those summoned without, with the exception of Earth Dust
 * Fire- Dogs become helhounds, faster and stronger than their counterparts without Dust and envelop the opponent in fire for five seconds when the constructs are defeated.
 * Earth- Dogs become more agressive and twice as durable, requiring twice the number of attacks to finish as normal
 * Ice- Dogs become more evasive and agile (not physically faster, but more agile) and, upon defeat, the dogs freeze their attacker in a thin layer of ice
 * Wind- The dogs imbued with Wind Dust are slightly faster, able to leap double their usual height and land effortlessly from any height with no strain on their body. Upon defeat, the dogs erupt in a windstorm that pushes opponents backward
 * Notes: The Tinderbox revolves around a soldier who can strike a tinderbox to summon Dogs. this was the basis for the Oath of Service Semblance, and Blaize usually uses fire Dust in conjunction with her constructs, as a referance to the summoning method in the story
 * Class/Position; Bruiser
 * Landing strategy: Summoning a Doberman imbued with Wind dust and riding on it's back.  The wind Dust allows the dog to absorb the shock of falling with no damage to its body, which Blaize uses to make a safe landing.
 * Fighting Style:  Blaize is a relentless fighter who likes to disarm or disable foes with Krav Maga to gain the upper hand if she can.  Blaize uses Flashpoint's Sword form much more often than the Shotgun form (mostly because it's a bit of a hassle to reload) and as such prefers to fight close quarters herself, using her Semblance's Dog Constructs as her main method of ranged combat as well as defense of her allies, sending smaller constructs to take hits for her teammates (though this puts a huge strain on Aura).

A) Day to Day Life
 * Skills:  counseling, personal training
 * Certifications: Blue Belt in Krav Maga (Level 4 out of 5)
 * Expanded Relationships/Family Life:
 * Adopted parents- grudgingly accept her choice of career path; they aren't on speaking terms yet
 * Phoebe's family- In the months leading up to Blaize's acceptance into Sanctum Academy, Phoebe's household grew to love Blaize as their own, becoming her second family.

I don't even care if I win or lose; I had a LOT of fun with this character and I'm proud of how it turned out.

Good luck, everyone!