<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/fOPEI4r.jpg?2)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Azuri Saphirum<br/><strong>Nickname(s):</strong>The Sky Princess, Witch Rider<br/><strong>Age:</strong>17<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female.<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Human<br/><strong>Nationality:</strong>Mistral<br/><strong>Written Appearance:</strong>Long, azure blue hair that comes all the way down to her thighs, along with golden eyes and a fair complexion. Azuri's body is one honed by very intensive physical training, leaning herself down while sculpting and toning her muscles to create a form that is slender yet cut, especially in her powerful legs. While her thighs maintain a bit of womanly suppleness, this trait is absent almost everywhere else on her body, her chest in particular being completely flat, with no cleavage to speak of.<br/><br/><strong>Family:</strong>Mother - Lapis Saphirum<br/>Father - Inigo Saphirum<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Azuri is a well meaning, but very reserved individual. Having been shackled with an "elite" and unapproachable air since her days in combat school, she's used to being the center of people's gazes and attention, but not so much actually making friends. This is further hindered by her unintentionally stoic and intimidating demeanor, which along with her social awkwardness can cause her to give off harsher signals than she intends, making it hard to forge relationships despite her desire to do so. For those who can see past her eccentricities she is a kindhearted person by nature, and surprisingly easy to tease and mess with. However while she does her best to be polite and kind, she also possesses a rather large ego, something that tends to manifest in ways she's not always conciously aware of. Years of being told she's the best have lead her to naturally<em>believe</em>she is, in fact, the best, not realizing she may have just been a big fish in a small pond, and thus sometimes tends to try and impose her views or opinions on others, believing them to carry more weight, or that she's just genuinely correct despite her relative inexperience. While she doesn't like how her reputation makes it harder to make genuine friends, she admittedly does enjoy being looked up to or desired as something unobtainable, partially due to her own insecurities about her body and status, leaving her generally conflicted on the matter. While most of her time is spent training, sometimes to an almost obsessive degree, she also enjoys playing sports and using her Broomstick to go sight seeing, enjoying the solitude and connection to nature. She also enjoys cooking and food in general, though often doubles her training after particularly decadent meals to maintain her figure.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Azuri is the first and so far only daughter of the Saphirum family. During the great war her grandfather had served and died fighting for Mistral, and while he wasn't anyone of great importance, he was decorated enough that his family was well taken care of after his passing. Today her parents run a decently successful workshop that forge and run maintenance on dust powered machines and weapons. While they don't even hold a candle to the works produced in Atlas, they are sturdy and dependable and turn a tidy profit for the family never the less. In fact Azuri's weapon was hand forged for her by her father, a gift for getting accepted into Sanctum Academy, though it has been rumored that he took notes from smuggled Atlesian schematics to create it.<br/><br/>Most of Azuri's childhood was pretty normal, at least until she entered her kingdom's local combat school. She had always been an athletically geared kid, but it was at Sanctum that her talent at fighting was discovered, Azuri quickly shooting up to the top of her class. Her eccentric fighting style made her incredibly difficult to contend with during duels and sparring matches, and soon people began to see her as the strongest fighter in the entire school, christening her the "Sky Princess" due to her dynamic acrobatic techniques. Of course a more experienced fighter would have been able to see the flaws and drawbacks in her particular "hit and run" method of fighting, but to young students who were just learning to wrap their heads around conventional combat styles? She looked like an absolute genius, the rarest of prodigies, and she ended up graduating from Sanctum with 42 mock battle victories and zero losses.<br/><br/>It was this impressive record that saw her receiving offers from all four major academies to enroll on full scholarships. However, instead of attending Haven Academy in her home kingdom of Mistral, Azuri ended up travelling abroad to apply for Beacon Academy. Over her time at Sanctum Azuri had becomes both revered and feared by her peers, and in addition to the incredible pressure it put on her, it also made it almost impossible to really connect with anyone there, most people seeing her more for her reputation than for who she really was. As such she chose Beacon out of a desire for a fresh start.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Emblem:</strong>(https://i.imgur.com/9wpuBie.png)<br/><br/><strong>Weapon:</strong>A rocket propelled lance that Azuri refers to as her "Broomstick" (https://i.imgur.com/9LRw3qz.png). A small engine lined throughout the haft of the spear converts Dust into fuel for the rocket booster mounted on the back. This provides enough push to propel both the lance and it's user forward at great speeds, adding significantly more force and penetration to it's blows. This same mechanism also allows the the lance to be used a makeshift transportation device, Azuri literally flying on it as if it were a witch's broom stick. While the lance technically doesn't have a proper "ranged mode" as other weapons do, it is possible to use it's rocket boost to physically launch it at enemies like a javelin. While this method is technically less precise than guiding the lance's path by hand, and doing so leaves the wielder unarmed, the decrease in weight and increase in aerodynamics by not having to bear the wielder's form causes the lance to fly significantly faster than when conventionally wielded, giving this technique a fair trade off in that regard.<br/><br/><strong>Aura:</strong>Blue x 3<br/><br/><strong>Semblance:</strong>Aeration- An acute form of air magic that allows Azuri to "infuse" air into any object she directly touches. While at first this semblance doesn't appear flashy or particularly devastating, with creative application it actually provides a wide range of utilities. For example by touching a person she is able to infuse air directly into their blood and lungs, removing the need to physically breath, which helps in any situations that would make breathing difficult, such as high altitudes or while underwater. She can also use this power to infuse pure oxygen directly into her weapon's rocket thruster, amplifying the combustion reaction and improving the rocket's output and efficiency, allowing her to use less Dust when using the weapon over extended periods. As her scientific knowledge and critical thinking skills improve over time Azuri is naturally able to deduce other applications for this technique, broadening her arsenal.<br/><br/><strong>Fighting Style:</strong>Azuri's takes full advantage of the high velocity and impact provided by her rocket lance to create a style focusing on mobility and overwhelming single strike attacks. Essentially her main strategy is to use her speed and flight capabilities to outmaneuver an opponent until she can open them up for a single powerful, piercing strike with her lance, preferring to end fights in as few hits as possible. To accomplish this Azuri dedicates most of her style not to different methods of attacking, but instead maneuvering, using her body to manipulate and redirect her lance around and gain superior positioning. This creates an almost dance-like style where Azuri twists and spins around her spear, using her body's momentum and the spear's centrifugal force to move around the air gracefully (movements that are sometimes teased as looking "stripper-like" by others), typically trying to position herself in the air above her opponent so she can then slam down at them at terminal velocity, making the best of her mass and weight to further increase the force of her strikes. It is a tricky style to fight against since she goes out of her way to avoid trading blows or close fighting that most conventional styles employ, enemies having to go out of their way to try and close the distance and pin her down. Because her style requires constant grip, unhindered mobility, and aerodynamic positioning she tries not to wear thick or baggy clothing when fighting, preferring skin tight, unrestricted outfits or just as little clothing as possible.<br/>Example of what her style would look like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGs1DcI3py0)<br/><br/><strong>Strengths:</strong>Combat wise her biggest strength is her maneuverability and speed, as well as her potential to end fights quickly with only a few big strikes, forcing enemies to be extra cautious when fighting her to avoid making fatal errors. Her intensive combat training also makes her a good dancer and athlete in general, tending to adapt well to any physical activity due to her extensive endurance, flexibility and coordination. She's also a rather gifted cook.<br/><br/><strong>Weakness:</strong>Her biggest weakness is extended direct combat. Her need to stay lightweight and nimble means her body is very slender, not having the physical durability that bulkier warriors have. Her focus on a "hit and run" strategy means she's not very experienced engaging in close quarters, and is significantly less proficient in this area, leading her to get easily stressed and anxious if an opponent sticks too closely to her in battle. For this same reason she isn't good in tight, confined spaces either, which can also be exploited when fighting her. Mentally one of her weaknesses is her pride/arrogance. While she doesn't outwardly brag or boast all that much, years of being proclaimed as a prodigy have left her with an unavoidably inflated ego, and she tends to overestimate herself in ways that can be subtly dangerous. Also while her slender, even androgynous figure is partly intentional to help with her fighting style, she does get self conscious about her body not being very shapely or "womanly", feeling that it makes her unattractive.<br/><br/><strong>Character Theme:</strong>Come Down (https://youtu.be/-OqrcUvrbRY?)<br/><strong>Color Code:</strong>Navy.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character Diary</div><div class="spoiler_body">Any relations you create with other characters go here. You can also keep a summary of storyline events that your character was involved in here.</div></div>