Grace Taker

Nella Vi ( Active )

Grace Taker ( Retired )

Regalia Fiye ( Active )

Duran Raglan ( Adopted Son / Alive )

Proud owner of the City of Vale's Grace Diner Café, Grace Taker is a retired huntress who is a proud cook. This cheerful Husky Faunus is Duran's foster mother and was Sarah Raglan's teammate and best friend before her death.

Grace is playful as she treats Duran as if he was her own son.

## Backstory

Grace graduated from Beacon Academy years before the events and adventures of Team RWBY. She was a dear friend and teammate of Sarah Raglan who led Team SNGR.

Grace remembers the dreadful night of the Vytal Festival, and much like the other huntsmen and huntresses as well as her fellow students, charged into battle to defend Beacon Academy in the Battle of Beacon. And despite the number of fallen comrades who gave their lives to defend both Beacon and the Kingdom of Vale, they succeeded.

Some time after graduating Beacon Academy and becoming a full fledged huntress, Grace attended Sarah's wedding when she married. She was even there with her own new born daughter as Sarah gave birth to Duran while Sarah's husband was still missing from that one mission he went on and never returned. When Sarah retired as a huntress and left the city to be in the young Duran's life, Grace was there to wave goodbye along with her daughter.

Five years later, Grace started her own Diner in the growing city of Vale, naming it the HoneyDew Diner. During this time....one night she received a phone call, she was later found by her daughter in the kitchen of the Diner as she received terrible news.

Her best friend and teammate Sarah Raglan...was murdered.

She rushed over to the hospital where she found the traumatized seven year old Duran Raglan. Alone and deeply scarred.

After Sarah's funeral, Grace adopted Duran and welcomed him to her family, allowing him to keep his name, Durandal Raglan.

Raising the young Duran was not easy. After the terrible events of that night, Duran was left with terrible panic attacks and nightmares. He'd lash out at others to vent his loneliness, even at Grace. But she didn't give up on the young Duran as she knew how he felt inside. Grace was there when Duran had his worst panic attack in his sleep. After that terrible panic attack, Grace slowly and surely began to earn Duran's trust. After he reached nine years old, Grace told Duran stories about his mother's time as a huntress. This caused Duran to decide to become a huntsmen to honor her sacrifice.

Grace aided in Duran's training to become a huntsman enough to get him the points needed to get into Beacon Academy. Grace still works at the Diner while Duran attends Beacon Academy.

## Personality

Grace is known for her friendly nature - Grace is intelligent and witty, holding an intimate knowledge of the Huntsman and Huntress trade and its workings, as she was a member of Sarah’s team during their team at Beacon Academy and their time as Huntresses. She happens to be highly intelligent and is very good at reading people through their behavioral patterns and figuring out things that..."makes them tick" in a sense.

Very Outgoing, Grace has a habit of always putting the fullest of heart into everything she does in life as well as into running her diner to raising Duran. She eventually becomes a mother figure she Team DARK.

To everyone who knows Grace, she is seen as someone who always approaches others with open arms and a smile on her face matching her wagging husky tail. Although relatively calm and mature when a situation calls for it, Grace is quite laid-back and playful, often teasing or flirting with those younger than her, such as her hot head adopted son Duran Raglan, oftentimes wrapping her tail around him to pull him in for hugs.

As the husky trait implies, Grace is highly protective of those she cherishes, always willing to pick up her weapon again if needed. And though she is not his actual mother, Grace loves Duran completely. She has vowed to not only raise Duran, but love him just as much as her dear friend Sarah did.

That is not to say that she doesn't hold grudges. Grace can be known to be unforgiving towards those who have wronged her or the people she loves and cares about. This is proven as no matter what the reason is, she will never forgive Duran's father for not being in his life...or being at Sarah's funeral.

## Appearance

Grace is a light skinned woman with light blue eyes with light brown hair. While she is working at her Diner, she is wearing a chef apron over her black shirt as she also was wearing black pants with lime green lining designs and black anti-slip heel boots. And to top it all off, she has a light brown fluffy husky tail..

Her Huntress uniform consists of a black turtle sleeveless shirt under green high collar leather jacket with a pair of steel protective plates on both her shoulders. She wears black fitted cargo pants and black high heel boots. She also wears black finger gloves.

## Main Weapon : Nivea ( Dust Enabled Dual Wielding Spears )

Grace's weapon Nivea is a Dust Enabled Dual Wielding Spears.

This weapon bears two modes in total. The first is its core form which is a pair of spears. Both of the two spears range at a total of 2 meters long and both of them are linked to a pair of fingerless gauntlets that Grace wears on both of her hands and wrists by a chain, which helps her call them back to her when she throws them. The spears themselves are each different colors.

One of the spears, both the spear head and the handle is red with black edgings. While the other is bronze from spear head and handle with silver edgings.

The gauntlets on her wrists only take one Dust Crystal and several Dust Powders. The two spears use the Powders to add a sense of elemental boost to her attacks, which various depending on the Dust Powder she is using. The Dust Crystals on each of her gauntlets can only be used through her gauntlets. One of the Dust Crystals she uses is the Earth Dust Crystal on her left gauntlet, which she only uses to conjure defensive measures if necessary. The Lightning Dust Crystal on her right gauntlet is used to allow her to use her semblance, Surge Runner.

The second form of her weapon is a 4 1/2 meter long harpoon, which is done by putting her two spears together.

## Semblance : Surge Runner

Much like Nora Valkyrie's semblance, Grace can absorb a massive surge of electricity into her body. And as a result, Grace's semblance, Surge Runner, as the name suggests, grants her a massive boost of lightning fast speed and agility. ( Like Larxene from KH Chain of Memories ). This semblance also allows Grace to kick through the air, like she is teleporting short distances in a bolt of lightning.

The visual effects of the semblance causes Grace to give off red sparks of electricity through her body.

## Trivia

* The day Duran called her "mom" by accident, Grace closed the entire Diner to give Duran a lecture into not calling woman out by their age and appearance.
* At her Diner, Grace has a breakfast combo named after Duran, "The Duran Special".
* Even after raising Duran, she doesn't allow Duran to call her "mom", out of respect for his actual mother and her best friend Sarah Raglan.
* To get a better understanding into how Grace trained Duran; click on the link over here. ( Training )