Emerald Sustrai

==Summary==
Emerald Sustrai is a former associate of Cinder Fall and former partner of Mercury Black. While she worked with Cinder, she initially appeared to be affable and disarmingly friendly, however, this belies a darker side of her character. On the whole, she seemed to be genuinely outgoing and quick-witted, if a little short-fused. She had a tendency to maintain a pretense of friendliness amongst people in order to gain their trust, and showed a strong sense of loyalty, specifically to Cinder, whom she appeared incredibly eager to please. However, Emerald eventually had a change of heart and joined Ruby and her friends after learning from Ozpin about Salem's true goals.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | 
Key: Beacon Arc | Post-Haven/Atlas Arc
Name: Emerald Sustrai
Origin: RWBY
Gender: Female
Age: Late teens to early 20s
Classification: Human, Thief, Former Associate of Cinder's Faction
Powers and Abilities:
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Aura (Able to use her Aura for numerous purposes), Forcefield Creation (Aura can be used as a full-body forcefield), Statistics Amplification (Can use Aura to enhance her striking power), Enhanced Senses (Can use her Aura to sharpen her senses), Regeneration (Low), Extrasensory Perception (Her Aura allows her to sense things around her), Martial Arts (Expert Martial Artist), Weapon Mastery (Skilled kama wielder and marksman), Acrobatics, Accelerated Development (Training [Physical Statistics and Abilities; Even Huntsmen in Training are able to rapidly develop in short periods of time, becoming significantly stronger and faster and evolving their abilities through short periods of training]), Perception Manipulation (Via Semblance, which grants Illusion Creation, Invisibility and Duplication), Resistance to Extreme Heat and Cold (Aura protects the user from sub-zero temperatures, allowing them to be encased in ice without being cold, walk through a blizzard in casual clothingRWBY Volume 6 Episode 5, and traverse the kingdom of Atlas, which resides in Remnant's North Pole,RWBY: World of Remnant, Episode 11: Atlas without wearing any protective gear, as well as extreme heat up to and including the heat of flames,RWBY Volume 2 Episode 11, being blasted with steamRWBY Volume 3 Episode 4 being struck by lighting for an extended period of time,RWBY Volume 3 Episode 2RWBY Volume 5 Episode 13RWBY Volume 8 Episode 3 and being submerged in lava without being burnedRWBY Volume 3 Episode 5)
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All previous abilities, Enhanced Extrasensory Perception (With her upgraded Semblance, she can now detect the minds of others in her range)
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Attack Potency: Large Building level+ (Comparable to Mercury Black. Could injure Base Amber with her attacks) | Multi-City Block level+ (Fought evenly with Post-Haven Ruby)
Speed: Massively Hypersonic Reactions and Combat Speed (Able to dodge natural lightning. Comparable to Mercury) | FTL Reactions and Combat Speed
Lifting Strength: At least Class M, likely higher (Comparable to Lie Ren and Post-Beacon Sun) | Class G (Assisted in restraining Maiden Penny alongside the rest of Team RWBY and JNPR)
Striking Strength: Large Building level+ | Multi-City Block level+
Durability: Large Building level+ (Took hits from Base Amber), higher with Aura (Aura functions as a forcefield with accumulative durability, depicted as a 'health bar', that allows her to take dozens of hits from opponents as strong as herself without any significant injuries) | Multi-City Block level+, higher with Aura
Stamina: Superhuman
Range: Extended Melee Range to Hundreds of Meters with Thief's Respite; Tens of Meters with Hallucinations
Standard Equipment:
*Thief's Respite: Emerald's weapon of choice, a pair of dual-wielded pistols that can also be converted into a pair of kama, the blades of which can detach and be swung from chains as kusarigama.
Intelligence: Gifted (Emerald is stated by Mercury to be a master thief, and she is very proficient in stealth, managing to pickpocket Roman's lighter without him noticing and even being able to move silently and determine an enemy's blind spot, even against a proficient fighter such as Coco Adel. She is also a highly skilled swordsman and marksman, using both of her weapon forms to fend off entire hordes of Grimm single-handedly and being able to combine both her Semblance and her weapon's kusarigama form to ensnare opponents in her chains and reel them in from a great distance)
Weaknesses: Continual damage to her Aura will cause it to decay to the point where she can be left open to more significant damage. Aura's durability is cumulative; it will deplete with each attack she takes and can be brought down by characters of similar strength. Semblances drain Aura by a small amount and without it they cannot be used until it is recharged. Using her Semblance on more than one person causes her mental strain, which increases in severity the more people beyond one person [As of the Atlas Arc this limit is increased to three]. Constant exposure to extreme temperature can drain the user's Aura.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Hallucinations: Emerald's Semblance, individual mental hallucinations - the ability to modify the sensory information in a person's head while their brain is processing it. Emerald can make one person (or more) see and hear things that are not necessarily there. In other words, instead of generating an illusion that everyone nearby can see like Neopolitan, she instead causes her target to hallucinate. Her Semblance is not only limited to biological opponents, but also mechanical ones. In "Amity", she is able to cause both Penny Polendina and Maria Calavera to experience visual illusions, despite the first being an android and the latter having cybernetic prosthetic eyes. Emerald's Semblance even extends towards Grimm, as she managed to make herself invisible from being detected by one of the Seers. As per "PvP", while Emerald's Semblance was originally limited to two people at her limit, she has expanded that number to at least three without tiring as showcased in "Witch". In "Haven's Fate" she managed to affect nine people with her Semblance simultaneously, though this put her under such strain that she lost consciousness. Her Semblance is also now powerful enough to affect Salem, who remarked on its effects. With the evolution of her Semblance, she can sense the minds of others within a certain radius of herself and know if they are weak or strong.
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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