Phaonestra Shadow

## Appearance

She has long, dark brown hair curling slightly down to her waist. She usually wears it in a low bun or a ponytail. She has high, sloping cheekbones and thin lips. Assana is beautiful in a suspicious and scary way. She has one dark purple eye and one bright blue eye with vertical, slit pupils. They contract when she feels intense emotion, especially anger, and swell when she is feeling depressed (which is most of the time, but she hides this under her cowl.) or having a flashback. She has a nick out of her right ear (from a fight) and a long, horrific, diagonal scar stretching from the top of her left collarbone to her right hipbone. She also has a burn mark from the fire stretching up from her right collarbone, up the side of her neck, and up to her cheekbone on the right side of her face. She has a pale skin tone, although it does have a slight blue tinge and the scar being almost translucent against her skin, while the burn is white and light purple. Her fingers are slim and used to wrapping around tall trees and gripping branches high above the ground. She is also tall, very thin, and very flexible from her snake form. She has pointed canines that secrete venom just like her snake form, and carry the same amount of venom. She has burn scars on her feet and lower legs too. She wears a long black cloak with a huge cowl to hide most of her face in shadows.

## Personality

Assana is quiet and reclusive, only coming out when someone really needs her and her skills. She is highly trained in the treetops with daggers and a bow and arrow, coated in her own venom. She is reclusive and wants to be left alone to her suffering, and won't accept any help from anyone else. Assana doesn't think anyone will ever care about her, and she feels like she can't trust anyone. She is easily angry, but that is really a shield for her sadness. She feels like no one notices what she's suffering through, and no one cares about her or her problems. The other Knights treat her badly because she's a shapeshift, and she has come to terms with that and doesn't defend herself anymore when they say things about her. She doesn't have any friends and prefers to wander off in search of Vesart and immerse herself in the forest to try to get her mind off things. It never works.

## Backstory

Assana was ten when her mother went crazy, transforming into a jaguar and trying to kill her, giving her her scar. She then burned the house down, dying in the process. Assana's father rescued her but died in the fire. She has PTSD and flashbacks because of this and blames herself for his death. Assana was left with nothing. She fought her way up to Knight, literally because everyone else disrespects her and they physically don't allow her to participate in anything. She has developed the habit of being very reclusive and hiding in the shadows, watching everyone else and not speaking a word. She is seen as creepy and weird, and everyone avoids her. Assana is used to this, although is depressed and get's very sad very easily, but she is an expert at hiding it either behind shadows or a face of stone. She barely shows up for Knights meetings (or whatever) anymore, as everyone there would bully her physically and mentally (words). She gets flashbacks whenever she transforms into her black panther form, or when she sees fire. She's been going on trips that usually last 3 to 4 weeks to try and find Vesart, but has had no success. No one notices her disappearances, and even if they do they don't care because no one cares about her in the first place. Her father used to call her Phaon (pronounced Phay-on) and that's why she doesn't want anyone knowing her first name, it's too painful because they immediately shorten it to Phaon (pronounced Phay-on). She often wonders if she's going insane just like her mother, and the thought worries her enough she stays away from making any friends.

## Character Relationships

### ~Vireo Umemo~

She thinks it's weird of him to try and help her, and felt very guilty when he got banished partly because of it.

## Random Facts

* Theme songs: Rescue Me - One Republic, The Fighter - Gym Class Heroes, Battle Scars - Paradise Fears, Demons - Imagine Dragons, A Light to Call Home - Julia Brennan
* She's ambidextrous