Turquoise Namir

> By how people judge a person, they can be entirely wrong on what kind of person they really are. If Remnant could accept people like us, we would no longer be trapped by injustice.
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> Turquoise

Turquoise Namir was the stealth expert in Team QRTZ and is currently a member of Team ZRKN in “Moonlight Stars”. Her weapon of choice is a Ballistic Whip Dust Sword (BWDS) called Diamond Bolt. She alludes to Jasmine from Aladdin.

## Appearance

Turquoise is a young woman that has long, brown hair that is usually tied in a French braid and a couple of bangs that are at the side of her face. She has amber eyes with turquoise eye-shadow, a tan complexion and her height is taller than average and her weight are around average for her age. As a Faunus, she has a set of white retractable claws.

***Original Outfit (Volumes 1-3)***

Turquoise wears a unique outfit that includes a turquoise bralette top with brown cross straps that button to the back of her neck, a pair of brown shorts and a turquoise wrap that attaches to one end of her bralette and the other end on her shorts. There are a couple of rings that connect the areas together between the wraps, the top and the shorts. The wrap has a gold design across the bottom of the wrap above the many small gold silent bells attached to it. For shoes, she sometimes goes barefoot but usually wears a pair of turquoise flats.

As for accessories, she wears a matching scarf that bares her symbol and includes the gold design along with silent bells. She also wears a gold anklet on her left ankle and a matching armlet on her upper left arm with each having a green gem in the center. While she is out on missions, she wears a brown holster on her upper right leg for her weapon and her short pockets hold her Dust supply. Sometimes, the gold marks on her outfit can glow in the dark after it absorbs sunlight.

***Pajamas***

Turquoise's PJs include a teal tank-top and a pair of rolled up dark turquoise capris. The tank top has turquoise and dark turquoise fabric near the top, turquoise lining on the bottom and dark turquoise straps while the capris have her symbol on her left pant-leg. She also wears ankle length socks and has a tiger stuffed animal on her bed.

***Uniform***

Turquoise wears the dress code for Beacon Academy with the red tartan skirt, white blouse with maroon trim and brown vest with gold buttons with white ankle socks and brown shoes. She decides to omit the maroon blazer with gold trim and only wears it if she is absolutely cold. She also wears a yellow ribbon instead of red.

***Alternate Outfit (Bandit)***

During the events of "Fighting with Style" and "Fire and Ice", Turquoise wears this outfit codenamed "Bandit".

For her alternate outfit, she wears a light blue crop top with a pair of light blue skinny jeans under a pair of white skinny chaps with a diamond design sewn on them and a pair of brown boots with yellow soles.

For accessories, she wears a skinny light blue belt with a gold buckle that has a white pouch with her emblem and a metal piece attached to it in order to store her weapon along with her ammunition. Turquoise also wears a gold infinity scarf, a pair of white and light blue fingerless gloves under a pair of gold armor pieces wrapped in brown leather and a pair of arm cuffs on her upper arms that are lined with light blue fabric. She also dons a turquoise and light blue headband bandana with gold lining and embroidered with a gold and teal zigzag design. For this outfit, she wears this with her hair down so that she would be harder to recognize in a crowd.

***Ballroom Attire***

During the Beacon Dance, Turquoise wears a short, light blue and dark teal princess dress with opening in middle of chest area, gold lining and embellishment, a mock neck, and has semi transparent sleeves. Her dress is accompanied with a pair of dark teal flats with gold anklets and dark teal ribbon.

For accessories, she wears a gold headband decorated with gold and has a light blue to dark teal gradient ribbon hanging from it while wearing her hair is down.

***Post Timeskip Outfit (Volumes 4-Current)***

After the Battle of Beacon, she obtains a new outfit that includes a strapless turquoise bandeau with matching turquoise bottoms which are both adorned with dark teal jewel embellishment lining. The left leg of her bottoms is short length while the right leg is capris length and sports a white, mostly transparent cloth belt with light blue pouch in back along with gold or dark teal metal plates disguised as belt clips. She also wears a pair of turquoise flats with dark teal embellishment, like the rest of her outfit and also wears a mostly transparent white hijab that can double as a scarf. When she changes into this outfit, she decides to cut her hair into a bob cut

For accessories, she wears a light blue fabric neckline choker with gold detail, two gold leaf bands with one on lower left leg and the other on her upper right arm, and a pair of light blue arm warmers with gold detail with the left extending from her wrist to mid upper arm towards shoulder and the right from her wrist to just below her elbow. Turquoise also wears one light blue leg warmer with gold detail on her right leg that goes from capris to ankles while she dons a mostly transparent white cloth that is wrapped around her lower left leg. Her emblem can be seen on her light blue pouch in gold.

## Personality

Turquoise is the kind of girl that is rebellious, high strung, and can be harsh to other people, especially humans. She is the girl that will do anything to achieve her goals, even if she has to go around the law in order to do so. From her scarring past, she has come to have severe trust issue when it comes to humans in general. This is seen when it takes a while for her to trust her adoptive parents. To other Faunus, she is kinder and would show more sympathy towards them. To gain her trust is a hard feat because anything small could make her not like anyone. Though her harsh side is only a front she puts on to hide her sadness and her secret of being a Faunus. Though later on, she begins to have some faith in humans once again after placing her trust in Team QRTZ and Team MLIT.

Before attending Beacon Academy, there are only a few people that can truly become someone that she can trust such as her human stepparents. The person would have to be able to see the real her instead of judging her by what she is. When they do, she becomes very loyal, caring, and protective towards them. While she may be harsh, she is a person that is straightforward with her opinions and is not a person that would lie unless there was no other choice. She is also an inverted person that would prefer to be alone instead of being with others and also very organized.

When she is upset or angry, she has a terrible temper if someone provokes her and has a tendency to attack the person with her retractable claws and/or give cold glares. If a person finds out about her secret, she will run away to get away from the person to calm down. She has only done this once when she clawed at Quaralia before running off to Vale. She is a serious person but she doesn’t lack humor. Turquoise also loves animals and nature and is willing to do anything to help others, even if it isn’t conventional.

After the Battle of Beacon, she was depressed about leaving the rest of her team behind in Vale during that time to the point where she had nightmares about losing them. To get her mind off it and do her best not to worry, she focused on her search for Niagara while slowly becoming more reclusive and irrational, especially during battles. Turquoise has broken down at some points during this time when she is reminded of her teammates and Rajah, her tiger would usually lift her spirits. Once she finally locates him, Turquoise decides to head back home to Mistral to see her adoptive parents. After regaining her confidence and gaining determination to find her teammates, she eventually meet with Zabrina and Rosalina before she profusely apologizes. As the trio make up, she begins to once again work as a team player and is more determined now to assist the rest of her new friends across Remnant with some of her fears now behind her.

## Biography/ History

Turquoise Namir was born and raised in the Coquina settlement within the Vacuo kingdom and lived there with her loving parents. Her father was a Bengal Faunus Huntsman and her mother was an at home housewife who was a former teacher at Oscuro Academy. When Turquoise was young, her parents learned the truth that she was born as a Bengal Tiger Faunus like her father when they saw her retractable claws for the first time during one of her temper tantrums. She was raised with love and care despite that as her father would bring home presents for her sometimes after missions and tell riveting stories about his travels while her mother cooked her whatever she wanted and spent quality time with her. In this time, Turquoise learned how to read, write, cook, and dance, which she began to do in the streets to help raise money for her family. Both of her parents were proud of her for bringing home extra lien but warned her to be careful and to do her best to not show her claws to other people despite the lower discrimination rate in the kingdom.

Everything began to change for her when her father went missing in Anima during a group mission shortly after her 11th birthday. One of the other huntsmen delivered this news to her mother a couple months later and her mother decided to act rather than ask other huntsmen for aid by grabbing her weapon and bringing Turquoise along to investigate her husband’s disappearance. Shortly after arriving in one of Mistral’s port cities and staying in one of the inns, Turquoise saw that her mother was nowhere to be seen the next morning after waking. After waiting a week in the inn, the innkeeper saw Turquoise, who was about to leave and handed her a note from her mother. After reading its contacts, she realized that she was effectively being put up for adoption for her own protection in Mistral and began to cry that her mother had abandoned her in a foreign land. Little did she know, her mother was doing this to save her from the people that were behind her father’s disappearance.

From the mistrust that she had for humans from that day, she shut herself out from humans and been effectively hiding her retractable claws from anyone so she could be seen as a normal preteen. After about 6 months in the orphanage, she was adopted by a middle-class human family who were visiting the port city from Mistral. At first, she was wary around the humans by keeping herself locked up in her room but began to slowly let them in a few months later when they decided to ask her why she didn’t trust them. When she told them that her mother abandoned her in a foreign land, the parents embraced her and did what they could to help her. Her life began to feel normal once again after being showered by the love of her adoptive parents before she decided to attend Sanctum Academy in order to learn how to protect herself like her biological parents had before her. There, she forged her weapon, Diamond Bolt and learned how to wield its many forms to adapt to many different situations. When she came home one vacation during her third year, Turquoise’s secret was revealed that night after hearing her adoptive parents spoke of how underhanded and evil Faunus can be after hearing the news about the white fang causing more problems. Her anger and outburst caused her to reveal her retractable claws for the first time to other people in years. After Turquoise realized what she had done when she witnesses her stepparent’s shocked expressions, she immediately fled to her room in tears, fearing that she would be abandoned again by humans. Unlike some people in Mistral, her adoptive parents both understood that they were wrong with their assumptions about the Faunus and they both apologized to Turquoise, saying that they would never abandon her because they were the daughter that they always wanted, regardless of her race. Turquoise then decided to fully trust her new parents and explained her story from the beginning, so they were aware of everything that happened.

She decided to continue her training in Sanctum and learned more about her stepparents. Her stepfather was also a Huntsman that worked for Mistral and her stepmother was an animal trainer that performed animal shows in Mistral. During this time, she learned more about them and decided to train with her stepfather and learn about animals with her stepmother. On her 16th birthday, her stepmother allowed her to keep one of the young golden tigers that loved her whenever she accompanied her mother. She named him Rajah and shortly after, unlocked her Semblance while training with her stepfather. After graduating from Sanctum, she learned about Beacon Academy from her stepfather and recommended her to attend there since Vale was more friendly to Faunus than Mistral or Atlas. Even though Turquoise was still wary of other humans, Turquoise agreed and once the young Faunus turned 18, she signed up for the Beacon Academy entrance exam and passed with her skills she learned from her time with her stepparents.

***Battle of Beacon Timeskip***

When the Battle of Beacon occurred, her and her team were watching from Quaralia’s store/apartment until the news had blacked out. She fought alongside her team when the Grimm had arrived and stayed with them until she saw a couple of Ursa Majors going after some children. She went on ahead while Rosalina went to assist her, leaving Zabrina behind to help Quaralia. While they were fighting alongside each other for a while, Turquoise had run out of Aura once she was hit by a Griffon. Not wanting to give up on the children, she managed to weaken it as Rosalina came to her aid, losing the rest of her aura in the process. After that, an Ursa Major Grimm had come and Rosalina took the hit instead of her and slammed against a wall, blacking out from the injuries. Knowing that she couldn’t last much longer, she had headed back towards Quaralia’s store with Rosalina in her arms as fast as she could. Fatigued and defenseless, she thought that it was the end until Zabrina had arrived just in time to assist her with getting them to safety. Zabrina took Rosalina from and before she would follow, Mishiki had arrived on the scene asking about Niagara. Turquoise decided then to go with Mishiki to look for him while she took care of Rosa. After Zabrina left the duo, Mishiki heads back to help Zahavi while he leaves the task to her. Now she heads around the city to look for Niagara from Team AMZN. After reuniting with her stepfather along with Rajah, he tells her that he saw a boy in yellow heading out of the city towards Vacuo as she goes to follow his instructions. Now she runs out of Vale with her tiger to find her friend at Mishiki’s request.

After a few months, she still explores on her own from city to city to try and find Niagara to complete her task given by Mishiki. Her next area to check is none other than Vacuo as she heads over to see for any sign of him while improving her skills along the way, feeling that she should find him and then makes things right with the rest of her team. She reunites with Niagara and travels to see her stepparents in Mistral. After catching up with her adoptive parents, she reunites with both Zabrina and Rosalina and they create Team ZRKN. Once they do so, they travel as a group with a mission to reunite back with their other friends and allies and to learn more about the nefarious Eye of Aconitum.

## In Combat

***Weapon:*** Turquoise's weapon is a Ballistic Whip Dust Sword (BWDS) called Diamond Bolt.

It is a handle with three different buttons that can extend into a scimitar blade that can also extend into a 5-foot-long whip. Both forms can get coated with Dust to perform Dust-based attacks as well as regular attacks. It also has the capability to a launch a couple of surprise Dust rounds from the end of the hilt with a Dust loader inside the handle for cut Dust. She uses this to its full potential when training with her adoptive father and during her time in Sanctum Academy.

The first mode her weapon is its sheathed mode. She uses this mode to carry and conceal her weapon from sight and usually keeps it handy on her left hip. This form can make her weapon look like a revolver or a fancy dagger.

When one of the three buttons is pressed, the blade extends from the handle into that of a scimitar sword. In this form, she can produce Dust waves by pressing the Dust crystal in the center before swinging it or pushing it to the ground. In the picture, it shows an ice wave being used in this form but has used other Dust combinations such as lightning and fire.

After pressing another button on the hilt, the scimitar blade extends into a sword whip mode. This form allows her to hit her enemies at a distance (mid-range) and depending on the Dust, be able to inflict damage on her opponent. She uses lightning Dust in the picture though has used other Dust types such as ice and fire. To retract, she only needs to press the respective button again to retract the whip back to its scimitar form.

Lastly, in either her sheathed or her sword form, she can essentially use a gun function that is located at the bottom of the hilt to fire one to two Dust bullets toward her opponents. This form is usually used to help her get out of bad spots in close range and is known as the hand cannon (or gun mode). She can reverse her sword grip and press one of the buttons to fire a shot as an opponent. In the picture she uses fire Dust rounds but has also used ice and lightning.

After the Battle of Beacon, she uses more Dust combinations amid combat such as wind and gravity.

***Abilities:***

Turquoise is a close to mid-range fighter and the fastest member on Team QRTZ which is why she usually takes on the role as the scout of the team and is usually first to investigate unknown territory to perform reconnaissance with Zabrina. As the only Faunus on her team, she has night vision which helps her survey in the dark. From her time in Sanctum Academy and her adoptive father’s training, she learned to adapt to different situations which is shown when using her weapon.

She has above average speed and endurance thanks to training, especially from her dancing lessons from her late mother. Because of this, her moves can be seen as graceful when she fights, especially when she uses her weapons’ sword whip mode. She usually performs in melee combat alongside Rosalina and can go mid-range if needed with the aid of her weapon or her Semblance.

However, she is quick to aggression and relies on her speed to get herself out of situations rather than her strength which is only average and can easily be overpowered by stronger opponents.  She will use any moves necessary to get herself out of tight situations, even at the cost of showing her Faunus heritage. Even with her claws revealed, she is a novice at hand-to-hand combat and prefers to fight with her weapon. During her time at Beacon Academy, she was still reckless with some of her movements, but she did learn how to cooperate and work alongside her teammates instead of going alone to face her opponents.

After the Battle of Beacon, she used more of her Dust expertise that she learned from Quaralia to improve her strategies. She did also revert to working alone for a while before Team ZRKN was formed so that way she could rely on herself rather than others. Her recklessness did continue until she was lectured shortly after finding Niagara. Turquoise also found ways to integrate her tiger into her plans after they begin to travel together after the fall such as reconnaissance and combat. Sometimes, Rajah allows Turquoise to ride on him akin to a mount.

***Aura:*** Aquamarine

***Semblance: Protectors***

Turquoise can create two Dust constructs that would both take forms of tigers that could attack/jump on enemies. Depending on what Dust is used, it gives different effects (ex. fire Dust = explosive fiery tigers) and they only able to do 1 powerful attack each before disappearing. Later on, she can differentiate the tigers with different Dust (ex: one fire Dust tiger and one ice Dust tiger).

After the Battle of Beacon, she can also now create nevermore/eagle constructs to attack enemies from the air with different types of Dust which would explode on contact. She can also create up to 8 (Up from 2 in Volume 1, 4 in volume 3) Dust constructs in one fight though they do drain her aura with usage.

## Trivia

* Her full name is Turquoise Gemma Namir. This name translates to 'Turquoise Gem Leopard' since Turquoise is a blue-green color, Gemma is Gem in Latin, and Namir means 'Leopard' in Israeli. Turquoise is a color which fits Monty's rule.
* Originally she was going to have either blue or orange hair with cat ears, though this was scrapped to have an outfit fit more of her allusion and also create a Faunus that can pass as human.
* She alludes to Jasmine from Aladdin:
	+ Outfit was inspired by the allusion's origin.
	+ Her Semblance and Faunus trait are callbacks to Jasmine's pet Rajah.
	+ Her weapon is a callback to Arabian culture and Aladdin (Diamond in the Rough).
* She was originally going to be a member of the White Fang, however the idea was scrapped in early development since it would more interesting to see how a Faunus would be without joining their ranks.
* She is barefoot when she arrives at Beacon Academy though she puts them on the next day for initiation.
* For more pictures of Turquoise, go here.

## Official Art

Turquoise Turnaround (By Flora~)Turquoise Namir (Done by Flora)
## Commissions

Turquoise boxTurquoise (By Orisodehime)Turquoise Combat (By Carlotus)Turquoise by HaruuukaTurquoise Alt Outfit (Thanks to Emidaweird)Turquoise Headshot (Done by Rofeal)