Arctura

An OC created by JayHart.
==Appearance==
===Physical===
Arctura is a Thrylean of fairly average build, though full of breast and hips. Her legs are well-muscled from spending so much time travelling by foot. Her horns are smooth, cream-coloured and curve gently back and slightly up from her temples, pointing inward just slightly near the tips at the back of her head.
===Attire===
*Casual: On her down-time, Arctura often wears simple blue jeans and a button-down shirt of varying color, accompanied with her white walking shoes or a pair of sandals. Sometimes, she will wear a fairly plain summer dress instead. 
*Combat: Wears a pair of dark pants and a sleeveless half-top beneath an elegant but thick white robe with green vine-like patterns wrapped around it and completely covering the sleeves. Despite its apparently restrictive nature, she is surprisingly agile while wearing it. The robe has a hood attached, but she usually leaves it off, favoring a white wide-brim hat with a green ribbon on it instead. She wears a pair of sturdy brown boots beneath the robe.
*Other: When stealth is desired, or in poor weather, Arctura will wear a dull brown canvas cloak. In snowy weather that is cold enough, she will wear a white fur cloak, often paired with a simple fox-fur scarf.
==Background History==
Arctura achieved her M.D. certification at a shockingly young age, even for a Thrylean. Her early career was as a scientist and a doctor for the Order Alliance, where she worked contentedly until meeting Arius, who showed her the truth behind the Order's experiments. After that, they fled to join the Nomadic Tribes, where they lived for some time hopping from group to group. Eventually, they met up with the The Guardian Remnants, whom they successfully joined.
==Personality==
While being quite altruistic, Arctura has shown a disturbing amount of ruthlessness toward any who would harm the innocent (especially any who would do harm to children). She is guarded and suspicious of new people, but quite polite to friends and foes alike, to the point of sometimes annoying people with how well-mannered she is. Around those she is most familiar with - for example, Arius, or her bound creatures - her demeanor sometimes slips and her speech becomes more casual, even to the point of cutting off words or slurring them together. 
She is a good planner, but only a mediocre strategist, possessing just enough skill in such things to effectively command her bound/summoned creatures. She has a soft spot in her heart for small animals, especially anything with scales, so Arius often has to remind her not to waste her healing magic on such creatures. Whenever she is embarrassed, she hides her face beneath the edge of her hat or her hair, and might be seen running her fingertips over one of her horns when asked questions about herself or her relationship with Arius.
Arctura has a strong dislike for cold weather, preferring warm but partly-cloudy days. She loves sweet foods, but has a surprisingly high tolerance for sour and spicy things. Despite knowing several good recipes, she is a terrible cook due to her lack of patience with anything not living.
==Equipment==
Arctura's main weapon is a simple folding-frame staff made of plain iron, which she uses primarily to focus her Aura-magic through. She also has several pouches containing Aura Crystals of varying sizes, which she uses to power her magic, along with a few hidden pockets of the same.
==Abilities==
===Soul Bonding===
Arctura's semblance allows her to communicate with non-humanoid creatures, and even to impart a fraction of her Aura into them to bind them to her. In doing so, she reduces the amount of Aura she has available to use, with the benefit of being able to communicate with her bound creature(s) and, to an extent determined by the creature's own will and the amount of her Aura applied, command them. The ability only works on creatures that already have Aura of their own. If Arctura attempts to use her semblance on Grimm, it fizzles, costing a sizeable portion of her Aura.
Bound beings can be released at will.
===Magic===
In addition to her semblance, Arctura is also naturally gifted with Nature magic, focusing on healing spells that use Aura (usually from Crystals) to safely speed up the healing process, with a side of growth spells for self defense. Given a correctly sized crystal, she can infuse plants with enough Aura to become self-aware and mobile. Arctura is also moderately skilled in shape-changing magic, though per the Laws of Magic pertaining to such, she cannot affect herself with it, and is only capable of powering the spell with her personal Aura, unlike her other magic, for which she draws from Crystals.
==Skills==
==Fighting Style==
Arctura normally fills the role of a supporter and healer in combat, staying back behind the frontlines to give support to her allies with nature magic and beasts, healing them when they are injured. She is capable of using her folding-frame staff as a melee weapon, but cannot deal much damage with it, using it mainly as a focus or a way to keep enemies out of melee range. 
==Weaknesses==
Due to her position as a healer and supporter, Arctura usually relies on her allies or nature-summons. She is weak to long-range physical attacks in particular, making her vulnerable to snipers, since most of her defense focuses on keeping melee and mid-range attackers at bay.
Being Thrylean, Arctura has a natural weakness to physical attacks. She is also fairly protective of her horns.
==Relationships/Associations==
*The Order Alliance - Arctura has worked under the Order as a scientist in the past, but left when she learned of certain darker departments of study that were also funded by her department.
*The Guardian Remnants - Arctura respects the Remnants' goal, but is distrustful of their long-term goals if they manage to retake what has been taken from them. Nevertheless, they now work together. 
*Nomadic Tribes - When she first left the Order (under less-than-cordial circumstances), Arctura sought shelter from a group of nomadic survivors, and found them more than willing to provide. She travelled with them and several other groups for quite a few months, so she has a good amount of respect and appreciation for the groups. 
*Arius - Her partner in travel and combat. Her shape-changing magic is what grants him his humanoid form, allowing him to travel with her much less conspicuously. The two are very close, but not romantically so - at least according to them.
*Emily Sarling - Close acquaintance, if not exactly friend, and occasional lover. "Our relationship is.... Complicated."
*Winter - When Arctura finally left the Nomads, Winter was one of the first members of the Guardian Remnants that she encountered, and it is largely thanks to her that Arctura was brought in. The two are now very closely involved.
*Kami - The second member of the Guardian Remnants Arctura encountered, the two are close friends (and maybe more). Arctura is one of the few people who know the truth behind Winter and Kami's relationship.
==Triva/Fun Facts==
Category:Thrylean
Category:Neutral
Category:Female Characters