Azura Storm : A RWBY Character

*"Care? I don't care about who I kill, nor what I do that's between right and wrong---**I** only care for myself! THAT'S what I was raised to do! MY care was lost...lost...a loooong time ago."* *- Azura Storm, about her life*

**Azura Storm** is a supporting antagonist within the franchise of RWBY. She is a member of Salem's Inner Circle and a teammate within Cinder's Team. Her weapon of choice is **Striker**, a AK-47 she stole to own as a young child. She made her first appearance within Volume 3, hunted and tracked down by Cinder, Mercury, and Emerald to be offered as a member of the Inner Circle, and in return, be able to make her family and those who'd defy Salem suffer.

## Appearance

Azura is a young adult female with light fair skin, pale blue eyes, and turquoise hair, awfully described to be very war-ready.

She often wears a pair of dark military green belted shorts with a black, sleeveless turtle-neck. Her hands wore flack fingerless gloves whilst her arms held cuffs on her upper arms with bullets contained in them. She wears a long pair of black stockings with brown boots to them as well. Additional accessories include an armored belt, a green back-pack usually swung over her shoulder, and a single gold earring by her left ear.

## History

Azura was once born and raised upon two wealthy Huntsman that fought hordes of Grimm away from her hometown. However, the parents had never been prepared to have a child nor did they want one. They would later decided to abandon her when she got to the age of five, believing that their daughter could ‘survive without them’ within the world.

It is implied the abandonment was how she unlocked her semblance, Frozen Tears, out of grief and betrayal from the parents she thought to have loved her only to toss her aside to keep their honor.

Throughout her time, Azura had been forced to take care of herself within harsh weathers while traveling endlessly within the world. Scattered to collect any abandoned resources she could find, and even stealing certain weapons that she would teach herself to use; mainly her AK-47, Striker. She had grown up on her own without the guidance of any adult to assist her, despite her past pleas for it, being ignored or shut down in the end.

Later on, as weeks turned to months, further into years, Azura would have grown to be a proficient-experienced Hunts-woman, depending on her own code to survive, and take on any specs of Grimm in her way. In that time, she would later meet Cinder Fall, who recruits her to her team after witnessing her take on Emerald and Mercury upon ‘stealing’ her resources.

## Personality

Azura is cold and calculated, heavily demonstrated when she mercilessly assaulted a group of huntsman after they crossed her territory upon seeing her resources. She is relentlessly driven to survive in dangerous events, and relies on herself to do so, determined to take on anything she deems to be a threat to her survival. Azura demonstrates a reserved demeanor that shows her success to plan out her next move upon troubling events. Azura can also be described as arrogant and brash, as she doesn’t hesitate to call out Emerald for her ‘clingy child's-play’ to Cinder, and the latter for barely even making out alive from Ruby’s Silver Eyes. She believes that living on her own is what gets her to survive, so that she doesn’t have to rely on anyone to slow her down.

She can be rather emotionally-restrained at best, as she barely releases any ounce of emotion while with her team or toward Salem in general. This is mainly due to the reveal that Azura had greatly trusted her parents whom she thought loved her only to toss her aside for their Huntsman duties, and the fact that she tried getting help when she needed most from strangers that only ignored her in the end. Therefore, her trust and faith in humanity nearly broke. For this, she had claimed herself to be ‘desperately naive’ to believe she would be safe again in the hands of others, only to grow older with an oath to trust no one but herself.

## Powers and Abilities

Azura is a very skilled combatant and weapons-woman, being able to mark out the likes of Mercury on their first encounter, taking on Ruby to the marks of her weapon, and killing off several Grim throughout her years in survival.

She is an extreme experienced markswoman, managing to fire numerous shots of bullets at a few Atlas soldiers without minimal difficulty and great accuracy, such as firing her bullet at a Grimm creature's leg to knock it down just as it would harm her or any of Cinder's team. Azura has also been shown to be quite stealthy as she sneaks up on a few stray Huntsmen wandering within her 'shelter' and took them down with ease.

Azura has adapted a few traits to her semblence, Frozen Tears to freeze stray bullets upon mid-shot and using them to fire back at the direct target.

#### Weapon

Azura's main weapon of choice throughout her years has always been **Striker**. She has displayed numerous times to use it accurately with self-training and precaution and has shown to use her agility whilst marking her target to strike. Striker can fire seven bullets at a time before preparing for next ammo for back-up. She has mostly prefer long ranged attacks for her weapon as a surprise attack when no one would realize the impact was heard until the target feels the hit.

#### Semblence

Due to the realization that her parents' had abandoned her at a young age, Azura developed her semblance, Frozen Tears, upon the heartbroken betrayal that tolled upon her throughout her life. She can use it to freeze all she would touch as well as freeze incoming attacks in mid-air before firing them back at the intended target.

A very unique trait to this semblance was how she could break the defense shields to that of Cinder's attacks, giving her the advantage to form an onslaught of attacks.