RWBY Charater: Alani Kah-Tom

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Alani Kah-Tom

Basics

Name: Alani Kah-Tom


Series/Fandom: RWBY


Age: 17


Race/Species: Faunus (Wolf)


Gender: Female


Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual


Occupation: Huntress in training

• Appearance
• Personality
• History
• Equipment
• Skills

• Appearance
  
  Height: 5" 09
  
  
  Weight: 170 lbs
  
  
  Hair: Orange colored hair grown down to her lower back w/ bangs over her forehead
  
  
  Eyes: Blue
  
  
  Body: Lean w/ faint musculature
  
  
  Attire: Alani usually wears a simple tank top or t-shirt beneath her favorite red jacket which is either zipped or opened depending on her mood. Loose fitting jeans, a pair of combat boots, and her favorite 'lucky' black hat finish off her attire. One trinket she normally keeps tucked beneath her shirt is a metal ovular locket holding a picture of her and her parents on a sunny day which she holds dear to her heart.
  
  
  Notable Traits: Due to her being a faunus Alani sports a pair of orangish-blonde furred wolf ears from atop her head contrasting to her shock of orange hair. Also due to her accident as a child Alani only has her right eye as functional with her left eye covered by a black eye patch. When her semblance is utilized Alani's eye shifts from blue to a faintly glowing, shimmering orange, giving a visual queue both to her allies and her enemies.
  
  
  
• Personality
  
  Likes: Cooking, Meat, Reading, Thunderstorms, The sound of rain
  
  
  Dislikes: The Schnee corporation, The White fang, Upper class, People asking about/making fun of her eye patch, loud/noisy individuals
  
  
  Talents: Great cook, venerable close quarters fighter, enhanced sight/taste
  
  
  Ineptitude: Short temper, Prone to blind rage/anger in battle, Limited left field of vision, Prone to nasty migraines
  
  
  Dreams: Equality between Humans and Faunus, becoming a master cook, becoming a huntress
  
  
  Fears: Certain memories of her past, The sight of her own blood, Heights
  
  
  Secrets: Her ears are quite sensitive to touch, She collects cute stuffed animals
  
  
  General Personality: On the outside Alani can come off as a little rough, but in reality she can be rather kind and friendly to those she calls friends. Her passion for cooking can easily earn one a hefty meal if they manage to earn her respect and friendship along with a venerable ally in combat. Unfortunately she carries with her a nasty temper as well that more often than not ignites to burn any unfortunately soul to earn her ire. In battle Alani is more lenient with letting her temper get the better of her, often using either her sparring partner or any grim nearby to vent her pent up anger out on, sometimes to the point that she enters an enraged trance which can often pose a danger to herself and others as her sense of self preservation quickly deteriorates when in this state. Normally only good friends and close ones can pull her back to reality. Seeing friends and close ones get injured is also a quick way for her to lose her temper. Alani also tends to hold disdain towards those from the upper class often labeling them as snotty uppity oafs largely due to her own experiences with said individuals both in the past and present.
  
  
  Personal Views: While she is a faunus herself Alani tends to disapprove of the white fang largely due to their aggressive and hostile methods they have begun employing. While she may hate the schnee corporation and other oppressive bodies violence will only beget more violence instead of a mutual resolution. Rather ironic considering her ill temper, and yes she is quite aware of this fact.
  
  
  
• History
  
  Born in Atlas to a Faunus Father and Mother, Alani grew up to a challenging environment. Her father was a quarry worker working for the Schnee Dust Corporation and her mother a simple baker who owned a quaint little shop a few blocks from their home. She didn't have the perfect life, but Alani's parents tried to make her childhood as enjoyable as possible, trying to shield her from the segregation and hostility towards her kind. Even with her parents' efforts Alani was bullied and harassed by other human children who mocked her ears and called her names. Often times she would find solace in the company of her parents. While she wasn't fit to follow her dad to work Alani often enjoyed helping her mother bake and prepare the day's goods in their little shop, finding the craft of baking and cooking an early passion of hers.
  
  
  Unfortunately even with the support of her parents Alani occasionally lashed out at the human children who made fun of her. One afternoon when she was eight Alani finally lost her temper and attacked a young girl of similar age that had been particularly cruel in her names and slander. Needless to say the human girl's parents, a part of the upper class, didn't quite find the situation to their liking threatened to press charges against Alani unless her parents pay forth a sizable amount of money. Her parents knew worse would come if they resisted and so paid the money, having to sell her mothers' shop to do so. This was the first of many strikes that began to harden Alani's personality and grow her disdain towards the upper class. Without a proper shop and tools to bake and sell her goods Alani's mother was forced to work with her father in the dust quarry.
  
  
  As soon as she turned ten Alani too went to work in the dust quarry, the promise of payment and her desire to help her family drawing her in as she signed her name to a working contract just as her parents did. The work was grueling and the young girl quickly discovered why her father and mother came home with tired eyes and sagging shoulders. It seemed no matter how much dust she and the others managed to excavate it was never enough and a heavier workload would be placed upon she and the rest of the workforce the next day. The conditions would be considered inhuman with minimal safety, hazardous conditions, and the dangers of rock slides a regular threat. The pay was meager, just barely enough when combined with her mother's and father's earnings to feed them and clothe them between pay periods.
  
  
  Eventually the unsafe conditions would catch up with Alani and her father being the victims. When the girl was twelve she lost her left eye to a dust explosion, a load having not been properly locked down toppled over near where she and her father were working before detonating and sending debris in every direction. She suffered a shard of metal to the left eye, but Alani's father would never see the next morning as he'd taken the brunt of the blast protecting his daughter. Alani still remembers the pain, not from her eye, but kneeling over her father's bleeding and dying body as he held her hands in his and and tried to reassure her before passing away right in front of her. The Schnee corporation hardly offered an olive branch, sending her and her mother a pittance of a full week of paid leave and 'apologizing' for the unfortunate event; it didn't change the fact that she had lost her father, a loving and kind man, forever. By the end of the week she and her mother both agreed they were leaving this horrible place and thus, packing up what few belongings they had, the two departed for the Kingdom of Vale.
  
  
  Upon arriving at the capitol Alani and her mother felt a somber but faint gleam of hope at the promise of a new start. Using the money she and her parents had been saving up, Alani's mother managed to rent out a small apartment for the two of them while she found work as a baker's assistant, earning an actually decent wage that could support her and her daughter. Alani quickly found herself drawn to the Signal Academy, she remembered the stories her father would tell of the great hunters and huntresses who fought off the evil Grimm to protect the citizens of Remnant. Not trapped in the slave-like labor of working at a dust quarry any longer Alani reached out to her mother to ask if she could possibly attend Signal Academy, and to her joy her mother said yes.
  
  
  Alani graciously cherished the opportunity her mother gave her, eagerly and determinedly applying herself to every school of study she could. There were those who hassled and mocked her, but Alani's drive to succeed allowed her to brush the petty insults aside. She was far from the perfect student, but upon graduation Alani had managed to come out in the top ten of her school's graduates. Still empowered from her success Alani quickly went to apply to Beacon Academy, tackling the rather difficult and challenging entrance exam and passing, earning her admittance into the academy. Alani hopes to honor the memory of her father who worked so hard for his family and also honor her mother's efforts to provide a better life for them both by becoming a master huntress.
  
  
  
• Equipment
  
  Weapon: A pair of heavy armored, bladed gauntlets she's named Lupa and Fenris. The four dorsal mounted blades hold a razor sharp edge and extend roughly a foot in length. The four blades can collapse and retract into four dorsal mounted rectangular slots which then can either be closed off to create a pair of heavy hitting blunt fist weapons or can remain opened and utilized as devastating short to mid ranged chemical-throwers using dust ammunition through a side mounted feeding port, with fire and electricity Alani's preferred types. Dust can also be used while the blades are extended, coating them in blazing flames or searing electricity to amplify their already deadly force. Additional armored plates extend over Alani's forearms up to her elbows to form a vambrace for additional protection while in combat as well as providing better stability and support when attacking. The armoring provided around her hands also permits Alani moderate protection against intense heat, sharp objects, or cold.
  
  
  When not in battle the gauntlet can collapse further than the simple sheathing of its blades with the armor plating around her hands and fingers moving along and over the existing armor on her forearms to allow more dexterous movement when slashing or punching isn't needed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Skills
  
  Semblance: Alani's semblance manifests in the form of a sort of 'battle trance'. When using her semblance Alani siphons energy from her opponent with each attack or strike which enhances her endurance, and numbs her to pain effectively turning her into a 'berserker' of sorts. Her semblance can be quite effective allowing Alani to shrug off attacks and seemingly never tire while pummeling into her opponent with a merciless and focused onslaught. However Alani's semblance can be quite dangerous to herself as well as she often will simply not know of damage to her body, or will simply ignore it, till her opponent is incapacitated or she simply passes out from blood loss. Essentially her semblance is a double edged sword as she grows more reckless due to her numbness to pain and can pose a considerable health hazard to herself.
  
  
  

Theme Song

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