Nolana Lau

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Nolana Lau is an original character created by ***RWBY Ruby Rose***. She is Quaralia's cousin and she alludes to Tiana from the Princess and the Frog.

## Appearance

Nolana is a young girl with golden blonde hair that extends to her waist and pink eyes. She also has bangs with a longer side bang on the right side of her face. She is a little smaller and lighter in weight than other women of her age.

***Main Outfit***

Her main outfit that consists of cream, green and maroon colors and is her combat gear.  It is a cream sleeveless top that has light green lining on the bottom along with green detail shaped like grapevines. She also wears a grape corsage with a three pointed leaf on the top right part of her outfit. It also includes a matching medium length skirt with green lining and leaves with a single grape design lining the bottom. The outfit also includes matching cream boots with maroon colored soles and green lining on the top with leaf and vines which match her arm sleeves. She would have a matching belt that would contain a case for her weapon. Her emblem can be found on her hair accessory and the corsage on her sleeveless top.

## Personality

Nolana is a kind, creative, caring young woman who is very protective of her friends and family. She is pretty extroverted to the point that she will talk with anyone that she needs to speak with. Similar to her cousin, she loves the world of fashion and will help her cousin with designs. She is a little looser with the fashion rules since she usually stays with her own unique style. Nolana may seem frail but she can be stubborn when the situation calls for it. The girl doesn't usually speak her mind and is more subtle unless she needs to be blunt, which is only when she gets annoyed or angry.

It is rare to see her mad as she has a lot of patience for people, but when she does, she will yell at them and throw a temper tantrum for the given subject. She won't hurt the people she is mad at unless its slapping them in the face and she will only do that to get her point across. If she is furious, she may wind up crying in her rage before storming off to calm herself down. It is more common to see her upset rather than angry. When upset, she will yell and then run off to be alone until she feels better or spend time with the people she is close to if it is possible.

She is a person that will follow the rules without hesitation and help her friends out with anything they need. Nolana may not seem like it, but she loves to go out into nature to admire its beauty and to learn about dust and fashion from different resources to create her own formulas and designs.

## Biography/ History

Nolana was born in Mistral with her loving parents, who were both huntsman. As an only child, she would have all the attention of her parents when they were not out on missions. In those times where her parents would not be home, she would be sent to her cousin's house to stay with the Rosalinda Family for days at a time until her parents returned. In that time, she would spend it with her older cousin, Quaralia Rosalinda. With their time together, they talked about fashion and played with each other throughtout the time, while going to a grade school together to get a good education. With each visit, the duo's bond strengthened to the point that they were like sisters.

When she was around 9 years old, her parents had started to give her an education of their own since they wanted their daughter to learn to defend herself in times of trouble. She had always looked up to her parents and had wanted to be kind, heroic people like them. By the time she was ready to go to Signal Academy when she was 12 years old, she had known a lot of knowledge of history and dust. When she saw her cousin during one visit, Quaralia had given her Forest's Whisper to use during her time there and had given her a hand in some lessons that were difficult for her since she attended there as well.

While attending Signal Academy, she fell in love with a young man that was also in the same year as her named Clementine Phoinix and they had been dating each other for over a year. Now with her boyfriend and her newfound dust expertise, she looks forward to making her dream a reality as she attends Shade.

## In Combat

    ***Weapons: Forest's Whisper***

Forest's Whisper is a Dust Casting Spell Book (DCSB) that Quaralia has given her when she had started attending Pharos Academy. Similar to Light's Path that Quaralia owns, it is a novel sized book that is enhanced with the ability to cast multiple kinds of dust from the cover by uncut dust. She uses this book to increase her dust attacks and assist her allies with attacks.

***Abilities:***

From her time at Signal Academy, she has gotten very proficient at not only her weapon, but in dust casting. Because of her intense training with her parents, she is able to use dust crystals with enough discipline to control them by hand to an extent and learned how to create different mixtures for different effects. For example, she can create ice dust from water and wind dust and she can create steam dust from fire and water dust. Aside from her proficient dust casting, she has also learned self defense to fight close combat if needed.

Her speed and strength are average and her endurance and aura are above average. Her weakness lies in relying on dust casting to get her out of situations since she doesn't have too much experience in self defense practice and can easily be overpowered by a stronger opponent.

***Aura:*** Pink.

***Semblance: Crystalmania***

With dust crystals, Nolana is able to manipulate the dust crystals by transforming them into bigger versions for defensive or offensive attacks. This case, Nolana is able to create walls or projectiles of the dust used with said dust. Depending on how much dust is used is determined by its amount of power and the more dust is used to create, the more aura it takes from her. Using more than two kinds of dust at one time can exhaust her with fatigue.

## Trivia

* Nolana is a variant of Nola which means "White Shoulder" In Irish. Nolana is also another name for the Chilean Bell Flower (Nolana Paradoxa) which is an annual eye-catching desert plant found in Chile which is blue and yellow but can also come in other colors such as pink.
	+ When looking up White Shoulder, it not only showed white shoulder dresses but also shows White Shoulders perfume. The pink box color was what inspired her aura color.
* Lau means "one who came from the Lion" in German. This last name was also inspired from a friend the creator met in college.
* Nolana's design was originally designed to be used for Quaralia's alternate outfit. However the differences between them were great enough to make her a new and different character all together. Hence their relationship as cousins with their similar resemblance.
* Nolana and Quaralia knew each other since they were children and act as if they were like sisters.

## Image Gallery

Nolana Headshot (Thanks to Flora)Nolana Full Body (Thanks to Flora)