Della Azure

## Appearance

Della is a girl with wavy, waist-length dark blond hair, with 2 little braids that are tied together in the back of her head. She has blue-gray eyes and slightly tanned skin with a pink undertone. She's of average height and has a pear-shaped body, with her muscles not being actually visible due to her diet and lifestyle.

Della's outfit consists of a short light blue and light beige dress with long, puffy sleeves and white ruffles on her skirt. Her buttoned sleeves and collar are white as well and have azure trimming. Her dress has a big black bow on its back and a little one on its collar. She also has a little white apron with her emblem printed, and an ivory-colored hip pouch. Over her dress she wears a periwinkle shoulder pad/corset combo with gold details. Della also wears black/ivory boots with white ruffles and white socks with azure trimming, and a black bow that holds her little hair braids. Also, she wears 2 little black rings and 1 black pearl on her left earlobe, and a long earring with a white dice on her right one.

## Personality

Della is carefree, relaxed, and her behavior somewhat resembles a flaneur, as she likes to explore places and getting lost in cities. She's the kind of person who's an extrovert and that likes to enjoy life and meet new people. She's loud and a head-in-the-clouds person, pretty much like her friend and partner Bruno, and tries to be nice with everybody, but is sassy and condescending with those she disagrees with, and isn't afraid of giving her opinion. However, she's empathetic and understanding with people in general.

While she has a natural talent for hunting and is creative to come up with ideas and mechanisms for weapons, she's rather lazy so her potential isn't completely shown and/or worked. Besides being lazy, she has a big appetite and loves sweet foods (with cakes and pastries being her favorite ones), and is kind of immature for her age.

Even if she leans to risky behaviors (especially when fighting), she doesn't like to take responsabilities or being a leader, and prefers to play a supporter role instead.

Della's attention span isn't the longest (unless she's listening to somebody who's talking about stuff she considers interesting), frequently getting distracted on classes, and tends to daydream. She's also fond of weird, surreal stuff, and some people see her as an eccentric.

Some people might think Della is dumb or absentminded but she's actually astute and knows how to take advantage in situations, so those who know her well trust her and her capabilities. She's a stubborn person, enjoys teasing people for fun and driving mad those ones that she doesn't like, and while she's mostly femme-looking (mostly due to her mother's pressure) her behavior is actually leaning to the tomboyish side.

## History

Della comes from a very old family of Hunters that's well-known for creating efficient, good quality weapons: the Azure family.

Those who belong to this family happily accept to keep with the family tradition and become good Hunters and gunsmiths; however, unlike her relatives, Della doesn't really care much about becoming a Huntress; she just follows this path due to family pressure, and because she doesn't really know what to do with her life (also because she's actually talented at these things even if she's lazy). Della's parents taught her about weapons and fighting as much as they could; Della, being stubborn and lazy, didn't learn all the things they told her and was more of a self-taught person...when she felt like doing it. Due to her personality and behavior she has had several discussions with her mother, Vesta, a woman with a strong personality that wants to keep on with the familiar tradition at any cost.

Della was still not so sure about becoming a Huntress, but her father, trying to play a more understanding role, told her that she could explore as many places as she wanted if she became a Huntress, and that he trusted in her capabilities. He managed to convince her that she could do both things as a Huntress: exploring the world and becoming a gunsmith. Fueled by her father's encouragement and kindness, Della decided to apply to Beacon Academy, getting enrolled thanks to her natural skill at weapon-making and her family's history.

Later in Beacon, Della met her future teammate Bruno, becoming good friends and supporting each other. After this, Della learnt that there was people supporting her, and that her mother's opinion about her didn't actually reflect everyone's else opinion.

### Time skip

After the Fall of Beacon, Della used her weapon forging skills to help fellow Hunters to fight Grimm and keep people safe. She also let Bruno stay at her place, and fixed his weapon and gave him new clothes. After the situation calmed down a bit, Della asked her parents if she could go and reunite with Grizel and Ryan for helping them as well, besides checking how the current situation was in other regions, and finding out what truly happened in Beacon. Her mother strongly refused at first, telling her she and Bruno should stay with them and keep helping in the shop, but her father agreed that they should help their friends as they're fellow Hunters-in-training, and stick together as a team. Della thanked her dad for his unconditional support and promised him she'd proudly work as a gunsmith for her team.

## Weapon

Della has a Portable Explosive Crossbow Hook (PECH) called **Strolling Jokalope**.
It's an automatic crossbow that uses explosive ammunition. She can use her weapon as a hook too, and can shoot proyectiles when hooked to something or in mid-air. Della can load up to 12 proyectiles in Strolling Jokalope, and can mix them up according to her needs. Most of her ammunition use steam, electricity, fire, or ice Dust.

Its name comes from *Joker* and *Jackalope*, and *Strolling* is a reference to Della's behavior.

Strolling Jokalope also has a halberd mode in which the shooting option is unavailable. This form is used by Della only in special cases when she needs to use a melee weapon, since she's more fond of ranged combat.

In the time skip Strolling Jokalope gets a considerable upgrade; now it's bigger and more powerful, being able to throw bigger ammunition (Dust grenades), and reaches a longer range in halberd mode.

## Abilities

Even if she's a lazy person when she's not fighting, Della likes to run risks in battle and is highly proficent and precise in ranged combat, which can be very powerful and devastating if she uses her strongest ammunition and/or if hooks her weapon in the enemy, but she can only defend herself with her weak Aura and her weapon's melee mode, and has risk of getting considerably defenseless if she runs out of ammunition.

Her Aura's color is cerulean and is the weakest of the team, and she tries to use it mainly for defense.

Della's Semblance is called *Wonderland's Reflex*, and is basically good dodging and jumping skills, like those of a rabbit. Della is able to jump really high, with being 5 m the maximum height. This Semblance compensates her poor defense, and is also used to become a distractor so the rest of her team can attack their target. When she uses her Semblance, her body leaves a light blue-colored sparkling trail.

Della is also the gunsmith of the team, being knowledgeable about Dust chemistry and weapon mechanics.

### Stats

Della Azure's Stats :

*~Inspired from Jollyjo*
## Relationships

* **Her family:** Della loves them, but doesn't always take what they say seriously, and if she doesn't do that, she just does what they tell her to do even if she doesn't really want to (such as becoming a Huntress, since she isn't good at deciding by herself and taking responsabilities).
* **Bruno Erraunt**: Bruno is Della's partner, and one of her best friends. Della met him at their first day in Beacon, and started a good friendship since that day. She's his sidekick and partner in crime. In battle they coordinate pretty well, taking advantage of their strengths such as speed and attack. Bruno also tries to teach Della CQC fight so she can become better at melee.
* **Ryan Chartreuse**: Della has a good relationship with Ryan. Della thinks he's a clever and kind guy and Ryan tries his best to give her advice or push her to stop being lazy, but it doesn't always work.
* **Grizel Svane**: Della has a fair relationship with Grizel. They don't talk too much to each other but Della's relaxed behavior goes well with the anxious Grizel. They are acquaintances since long time ago, since they attended the same school before enrolling in Beacon. Della is friendly towards Grizel and respects her most of time, even if Grizel fights with Bruno.

## Trivia

* Della is inspired by Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
	+ Her love for food alludes to Alice's "eat me" and "drink me" situation.
	+ Della borrows some elements from the White Rabbit as well, such as part of her weapon's name, her emblem and her Semblance.
* "Della" is a derivative form of "Alice", and "Azure" is a shade of blue.
	+ Her name meaning and color scheme form together the color name "Alice blue", which is a pale shade of azure.
* Della is an ESFP.
* Della's favorite animals are rabbits, and has a pet rabbit called Albus.
* Della has claustrophobia.

## Image gallery

Concept artDella's emblemDella's rabbit, AlbusDella and Hermes Mercurio