Saphira the Fox

Saphira Steele is a former Resistance soldier and stealth operative from SaphiraThePhantom's stories. Currently, she's a mercenary and a mechanic, operating out of a workshop in her home of Sunset City
==Personality==
Before the War To Take Back The Planet started, Saphira was a shy, quiet girl, only really talking to her sister or her best friend and not leaving her house much, unless she was forced to. During the war, she learned how to be more confident, more in control. Most of this was due to the tough environment that she had to adapt to, and due to the loss of her family, a loss that she couldn’t just run away from. This loss also made her more angry, more vicious, and more depressed. She tries to mask these emotions with humour, both in and out of a fight. 
Usually, she tries to trick and outsmart her opponent in a fight, even when she has the physical advantage, preferring to clown her opponents rather than to physically defeat them at first. Although, when she has a particular emotional connection to a fight, especially if she has an extreme dislike of the person she’s fighting, she prefers to crush her enemy, not just defeat them, but break their mind and body, like a savage beast. In either situation, she fights with the intent to kill.
Outside of battle, she’s fidgety and restless, never sitting still, always tinkering with something or looking over her shoulder. 
Saphira is also quite arrogant, trusting too much in her own abilities. She’ll often take on a challenge even if the odds are against her.
Due to her time in the war, she developed an extreme hatred towards Doctor Eggman and his empire, and it’s hard for her to keep her composure when he’s even mentioned in passing. After her time in the Resistance, she came to the conclusion that Eggman needed to die - that he should have been dead a long time ago, to prevent anyone else from going through the losses that she had to.
Saphira is quite blunt when it comes to her feelings towards someone. She doesn’t like to sugarcoat things and prefers to just rip the bandaid off instead of softening the blow. Despite this, she’s very comfortable lying to people to get what she wants.
==Appearance==
Saphira is a muscular anthropomorphic fox with dark green fur that has white markings on her muzzle, hands, and feet. Her tail is also green, with a red tip at the end. She has messy black hair with a red streak that's sometimes tied up in a ponytail. She has heterochromia, meaning that her eyes are two different colours, her left eye is a deep red while her right is a vibrant yellow. 
Earlier in her life, Saphira's fur was a reddish-orange colour, but later in her life she dyed it green. The red markings are also dyed. Before she awakened to her abilities, Saphira's eyes were a deep blue colour.
Saphira usually wears punk/goth clothes with long sleeves. Occasionally she wears black-framed glasses outside of battle, but usually she wears contacts. Underneath her clothes, Saphira has deep scars on her arms, back, and chest.
==Background==
===Early Life===
Saphira was born on South Island, living in Sunset City for most of her life. There, she had a relatively normal childhood. She grew up with her mother, a kindhearted mechanic, who taught Sapphy most of what she knows about machines. The fox also grew up with her father, a large, quiet man, who was often cold and distant. Saphira never knew why her father was so detached, but she didn’t necessarily care as much, as she preferred spending time with her mother, watching her work and helping out whenever she could. 
All of this completely changed when Saphira was 8. She’d been with her friends when one of them had said something that made her angry, and suddenly… BOOM! Her hands burst into flames, freaking out everyone around her. The next day, she noticed everyone was avoiding her, whispering about her, nobody would even come near the poor girl, so she returned home, hiding out in her room for weeks, tinkering with anything she could get her hands on, and occasionally taking care of her little sister, Sophie. 
Her recent reclusivity resulted in her parents starting to argue. Saphira never really understood exactly what the argument was about, all she remembered was that it was about her, that and the shouting. It made her feel just… awful inside, and suddenly, her negative feelings, her sadness and rage from being abandoned, her fear of her new powers, all of that came bubbling up, and exploded, literally. Her entire body released a massive burst of flame that killed her mother, as her father miraculously escaped unharmed.
Ever since then, Saphira’s father shifted from emotionally distant to full-on abusive, often taking his anger out on his daughter, calling her a monster and a murderer while beating her. Eventually, Sapphy’s only refuge was with her sister, who was too young to really understand what was going on, but Sophie helped cheer her sister up in any way she could.
===Teenage Years===
In her early teenage years, Saphira started going out more and being more social, though she was still quite shy, and still didn’t have many friends. She did have a best friend though, a fellow fox around a year older than her named Mako. They started hanging out for a while, and Mako even knew about Sapphy’s powers.  
Eventually, when Saphira was nearing her 18th birthday, Mako invited her friend to live with her, mainly to escape her terrible situation, and Saphira accepted. On her 18th birthday, she was so full of hope for the future, and for once, she felt free. And of course, it all had to come crashing down. 
After a small birthday celebration (and a somewhat unusual birthday gift of a sword (for cosplay purposes, of course)), Saphira and Mako made their way home. But then, disaster struck. In the beginning, it was a blur. All Saphira remembered from the beginning was the screaming, screaming and explosions. Saphira looked around in horror as she saw armies of badniks marching into the city, slaughtering anyone in their way. 
Seeing this destruction, Saphira and her friend ran towards Saphira’s home, but it was too late. By the time they got there, the entire place was reduced to rubble, and in the wreckage, they found a small girl’s body; Saphira’s little sister, Sophie.
Saphira barely had any time to mourn before more badniks approached, intent on eliminating their targets. Sapphy rushed the nearest one in a rage, her entire body covered in flame. With her rage, she was able to easily take out the first Egg Pawn, then the next, and then the one after that, but unfortunately, the last one caught her by surprise and knocked her unconscious. Fortunately Mako dragged her to safety before collapsing from exhaustion herself. Later, they were found by members of the Resistance, and taken to their base to rest up.
===The War To Take Back The Planet===
Eventually, Saphira joined up with the Resistance as a stealth operative, alongside her best friend. She used the sword that Mako got her as a present, alongside two pistols from the Resistance’s armoury. 
Saphira and Mako had several successful missions together, and things were looking up, not just for the Resistance, but for their personal relationship as well. Eventually, they even started dating, and it seemed like the two were inseparable.
One day, however, they get called out to another mission, like normal, but when they got there, Saphira nearly fell into an enemy trap, but Mako pushed her out of the way, taking a hit for her. When that happened, the enemy, a mercenary hired by Eggman, revealed themselves, attacking Saphira personally. Mako jumped in front of that attack as well, taking a fatal blow for her. 
When Saphira saw this, her best friend, her girlfriend, slain in front of her eyes, something just broke inside of her. She charged at the enemy in a fit of rage, using her Chaos Boost ability for the first time in her life to get behind her opponent. She fought with her enemy for hours, but Saphira just couldn’t manage to beat her enemy. Eventually, she collapsed from exhaustion, but her enemy was also too battered to finish her off, so they let her live. 
Sapphy was enraged that she couldn’t beat Mako’s killer, so she built herself a better weapon; a hard-light vibro-blade that she called the Murasama. She also modified her pistols to shoot modified bullets as well as normal ones. 
With her new weapons in tow, Saphira swore to kill anyone she came across that willingly worked with Eggman, and she left the Resistance, who didn’t agree with her new methods.
Eventually, she encountered Mako’s killer again, and this time she let everything loose, not holding back for a second. She took pleasure in beating them within an inch of their life, and when she was done, she just left her enemy there to die. After killing her girlfriend's killer, she hunted anyone working for the Eggman Empire, and killed them as well, each in more and more brutal ways. Saphira didn't want to admit it, but she was enjoying this slaughter, enjoying all of the death around her. 
Near the tail-end of the War, Saphira encountered Infinite the Jackal, burning yet another city to the ground. Enraged at the sight of Eggman's most useful henchman destroying lives, killing innocent people, Saphira lunged towards the masked warrior, sword drawn. They had a long and arduous battle, where the fox nearly lost, but she tapped into the latent power within herself, unleashing her Overdrive form for the first time. With this power, she managed to beat Infinite, savagely killing him as she did the other mercenaries who she's battled.
===Post-War===
After the War, Saphira started a new business; a mechanic shop in her home city that she called “Lucy’s Lucky Workshop”, where she repairs and sells various electronic devices, but under the table, the shop is a front for her to sell her services as a mercenary.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Plasmokinesis===
Saphira was born with the power to manipulate heat, fire, and plasma. This power also gives her a natural resistance to heat. Currently, her firepower and heat resistance are quite weak compared to what they could be, due to her lack of training. She can muster around 1,500°C flames without passing out, and she can handle flames up to 950°C without getting burnt.
===Electrokinesis===
Along with her control over heat, Saphira also has slight electricity manipulation. She can resist most electrical currents, and can output lightning with around 1kV of power. This amount of lightning is incredibly draining, especially due to Saphira’s lack of training with this ability, so she prefers to use smaller blasts, or none at all.
===Energy Absorption===
Saphira has the ability to absorb and redirect Chaos, thermal, electrical, and similar energies. Again, due to her lack of experience, she’s prone to overloading herself.
===Chaos Energy Manipulation===
Saphira has a natural affinity for Chaos Energy, not nearly as much as someone like Shadow or Knuckles, but she can manipulate a small amount of the chaos energy inside of her body, though she’s inexperienced with these abilities, due to not using them much. 
=== Chaos Blink ===
Harnessing a small amount of the Chaos Energy in her body, Saphira can teleport short distances (30 meters at maximum), although due to the energy that it requires, it leaves her drained after a few consecutive jumps, or one jump at the maximum range.
=== Chaos Boost ===
Using Chaos Energy, Saphira can enhance her speed and senses, slowing down her perception of time. This ability can be used for a minute and a half at maximum, and leaves Saphira more drained the more she uses it.
=== Technical Knowledge ===
Due to being a shut-in for her formative years, surrounded by nothing but books and things to tinker with, Saphira developed a wide set of engineering skills. During the war, she would often enjoy salvaging old wrecked badniks and finding out how to fix and repurpose them and their various components. All of this culminated in a very solid self taught skill set with machinery and mechanical engineering.
=== Stealth Skills ===
Due to a lot of bullying and other unfortunate situations in her youth, Saphira became a master of making herself disappear, figuratively of course. Incidentally, she also became quite good at pickpocketing and lying.
=== Swordsmanshp ===
Saphira is quite gifted with a katana, owing most of her skill to natural talent. She’s only been using a sword for around a year, so she still has a lot to learn.
=== Gunplay ===
Saphira has a decent amount of skill with a pistol, with decent aim, but she has a lot to learn.
== Alternate Forms ==
=== Overdrive Form ===
==== ACT-1 ====
When filled with enough adrenaline, Saphira enters a state called "Overdrive", which boosts her abilities to a large degree, causing her hair to burst into flames. In this state, her body's natural healing factor is boosted to the point where she can recover from small scratches in a matter of seconds. She also gains the ability to fly by shooting jets of fire from her feet. Unfortunately, this form also causes great strain on Saphira's heart, meaning that it can't be used for long periods of time. 
== Weaknesses ==
=== Overconfidence ===
Sapphy will often underestimate her opponents, against stronger foes, she usually ends up losing because of her hubris 
=== Short Temper ===
Saphira is incredibly quick to anger, which can make her lose focus during a fight.
=== Overloading ===
Saphira is prone to absorbing too much energy with her powers, leading to her being incapacitated at the very worst. 
=== Overheating ===
Saphira has some resistance to heat, but she can still be damaged by her own abilities or by a hot enough fire. 
=== Overuse ===
If Saphira uses her powers too much, it ends up draining her energy, and leads to her falling unconscious, but it could lead to death if she used up too much of her energy.
== Equipment ==
=== HF-Katana ===
A hard-light blade in the shape of a katana, powered by thermal energy, so only those with heat-based abilities can use it, functioning as an ID lock. The hilt is fitted with hidden compartments that can hold a variety of things, such as smoke bombs, lockpicks, various tools, and most importantly, snacks. It’s also fitted with a motor that can vibrate the blade at a high frequency, making it able to cut through tougher materials, like steel.
=== Communicator ===
A homemade communicator that functions as a radio, phone, and a miniature computer. Only catches fire around 2% of the time.
=== Pistols ===
Two .40 caliber pistols taken from the Resistance armoury. Customized to fire modified bullets. One is wrapped in red and black camo, the other is wrapped in black and yellow camo.
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