CHARACTER
Name:
Caoimhe Murtagh
Age:
18, Born 19 Hitahita, 62AC
Species and Gender:
Female Human
Symbol:
Two crossed sniper rounds
Occupation:
First Year Beacon Student
Appearance:
Caoimhe is 6'1 and is quite lanky, weighing in at 165 lbs. She's a ginger, and her hair falls around her head and down to her shoulders, making it look like it's been framed by fire. She has sharp, piercing light blue eyes and a tan complexion, with a birthmark on her right cheek. Caoimhe's voice is quite soft when she's not in combat, when it's very sharp and authoritative, or bitchy some might say. Her normal outfit consists of a hooded black leather jacket with matching black jeans and boots, with a bright pink sleeved crop top that shows off her naval. When the weathers cold, she switches her crop top for a white button up and pink sweater and on bright days, she wears a pair of rimless sunglasses.
History:
Caoimhe was born and raised in a small village on the eastern edge of the continent of Sanus. The village was your usual affair, small and very close, with a close community. To keep the village safe from Grimm, a huntress, as well as a few members of the Atlas military had moved or retired there, as well as the people who went into the local woodland to hunt for food. Caoimhe's father, Anton, was one of those hunters. For the first few years of her life, Caoimhe's life was a routine of waking up, helping her mother Caitriona with the housework, playing with the other kids and waiting for her father to come home fro his hunts. Simple and happy.
However, that was to change, as, when Caoimhe was eleven, her mother caught ill, and despite the best efforts of the local physician, she passed away. After this, Caoimhe's father became a lot colder and less loving. He started to take Caoimhe on his hunts, paranoid that he'd lose her the way he lost her mother. He taught her how to shoot, and stalk prey, and lay traps, and everything else a person needed to catch dinner. Eventually, by the age of fourteen, Caoimhe's skill with a rifle surpassed everyone else's in the village. When the huntress realised this, she brought Caoimhe into her home, and gave her a present: the rifle of one of her previous teammates, who'd passed away and had her down as his next of kin. The huntress taught Caoimhe how to take the rifle apart and rebuild it until she could do it blind, and, when she was satisfied, set her a challenge. If she could hit her with a single shot, she would mentor Caoimhe and make her into a huntress in training.
Caoimhe though, had no intention of becoming a huntress, preferring to stay in the village and mind her father, who was still grieving for his wife. However, by sheer accident, in an attempt to whiff the challenge, Caoimhe's bullet ricocheted off of a tree and clipped the huntress' ankle mid dodge. And so Caoimhe got her new, unwanted mentor. The years continued to pass, with Caoimhe's new routine being hunting for food, hunting for Grimm with her mentor, and keeping her family home in order while her father went out on increasingly longer hunting trips.
When the huntress decided Caoimhe was ready to go to an Academy, she went to her father, and told him in no uncertain terms that if Caoimhe didn't leave the village and make use of her skills, she'd kick his ass. And he agreed with her, both for her reasons, and the fact that, even after all that time, seeing Caoimhe reminded him of his late wife, and he found it painful. So they banded together, convinced Caoimhe to go to Beacon, and practically pushed her onto the airship. Caoimhe managed to pass the entrance exam, though she did almost shoot one of the overseers when she used her semblance for the first time and didn't expect her to not move.
Personality:
Caoimhe is sweet and flirty, and has been described as very airheaded, liking to ask hypothetical questions or point out things that she notices. She has a flowery speech pattern, using a lot of metaphors and rhyme to enhance herself and make things sound better. She's confident and tries to maintain her appearance of a carefree flirt at all times, disliking the feeling of being stressed, scared or just annoyed. She's usually willing to help and take care of people too, though her methods lean more towards distracting them then actually trying to sort out their problems.
In a fight, however, this all changes. Caoimhe becomes cold and methodical, abandoning her flowery speech for blunt honesty and efficiency. She doesn't waste anything, movement or words. Caoimhe also develops quite the foul mouth in a fight, letting all the stress of her day to day life out through her words. That being said, she's still a flirt though.
Caoimhe still grieves for her mother, and is sad whenever she is mentioned. Likewise, she feels only pity for her father, and the grief that caused him to help send her to Beacon.
Aura and Semblance:
Caoimhe's aura is salmon in color.
Caoimhe's semblance is the ability to slow time. She creates two distinct fields of energy, one for herself, and the second for everything else. Effectively, she slows both herself (and everything on her person at the time)and the rest of the world at different rates. For example, she may slow herself down to 95% of her normal speed, while slowing the world to 90%. Caoimhe must do this at a set ratio when she activates her semblance, for example, every 1% reduction of her speed is 2% on everything else. However, she sheer mental strain means that Caoimhe cannot maintain the dilation for very long, at most 3 seconds for her, and it gives her a serious migraine doing so. For everyone else, it appears that Caoimhe moves faster instead of them moving slower, due to how they perceive the change in time.
Combat Behavior:
Caoimhe's a sniper, plain and simple. She likes to take things slow, set up a plan, and go through it without deviation. She's ruthless and methodical in the field, always going for the quickest, most efficient way of ending a fight. Her gun, Regret, has the stopping power to engage highly armoured targets, but is slow and cumbersome, making it difficult to wield at close range. Caoimhe also lacks skill in hand to hand co-ordination, and would easily be considered clumsy and awkward in any movement that wasn't shooting.
Weapon
Name:
Magnanimous Regret
Primary Form:
A bolt action anti-material rifle, chambered for five armor piercing .50 calibre rounds at a time. Regret comes with an adjustable bipod and an adjustable scope. It is designed to allow Caoimhe to go toe to toe with large Grimm such as Deathstalkers and King Taijitu, which most normal weapons would have difficulties damaging, as well as generally ruining people's days. Regret is painted matte black.
History:
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