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Mica Lecent
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Age:
18
Birthday:
July 8th
Gender Identity:
Female
Race:
Human
Nationality:
Atlas
Character Picture:
https://cdn.anisearch.com/images/charac ... 7_300.webp
Personal Emblem Image:
https://imgur.com/11tgCC2
Height:
5'5"
Weight:
120
Eye Color:
Olive Brown
Aura Color:
Olive brown
Physical Description:
A stern faced girl with an angular nose, almond eyes and a judgmental gaze accented with unflattering old lady style glasses that make her a little older. Framing her face are short cut bangs and long straight hair at the back that reaches to her waist frequently trimmed to keep split ends in check. She stands about average with slightly longer legs than her arms and stiff looking shoulders. There's some muscle from performing manual labor at home but not much more than the average person. The sort of girl that avoids going outdoors by preference since growing up in Atlas. Her hands and lips tend to have cracks and are often dry when neglecting to use lotions and moisturizers when too focused to notice.
Outfit Description:
Trim and proper. Shirts and clothes are ironed out, pressed, folded, and gently scented from cleaning agents or herbal scent packets from the drawers they were stored in. Whether it be everyday wear or student dress attire at Beacon, Mica does her utmost to adhere to dress code for her peace of mind. She rarely accessorizes beyond an extra pair of glasses as back up in a similar color and shade if something were to happen to her current pair.

Outside on holidays from the campus grounds, Mica prefers to wear buttoned up shirts in an array of light pastel colors and simple brown or denim blue slacks with her choice of a thrown on hoodie for warmth bearing her family's business emblem on the back. The emblem is the same as her personal emblem of choice. The hoodie itself is a powder blue with pearl pink draw string toggles and cuffs.

For battle gear, Mica adopts to wearing a white double breasted jacket with a tailcoat accent at the back with black shin high boots and pants. The jacket has extra padding underneath for both warmth and safety. A hood is attached but kept down and secured with buttons looking more like a loose mantle about the shoulders when kept folded down unused. Around the waist is a pink trimmed belt and a brass buckle to hold gear. Her glasses are replaced with prescription grey framed goggles with tinted pearl pink lenses for sunglare and general color appeal.
Personality Description:
Mica's attitude toward people is brisk and mirrors parental attitudes in both caring but firm. Actually, heavy handed on the firm side. Much of efforts are spent expecting her standards to be met or, at the very least, in a manageable way in her surroundings. Vocally she comes cross as harshly judgmental when confronting matters that don’t line up with her priorities. Her literal choice of words often mistaken as being against Faunus. This causes her dismay to argue her standing. She tries to keep these high standards as a way to keep herself in check almost militantly and guided dutiful purpose. There has been difficulties with attempting to be soft with others that she'll get flustered to use busy work as a distraction than readily admit fault.

Unfortunately, this does have her butting heads and coming across as mean spirited and overbearing. Not everyone likes someone breathing down on them as if they were their own mother which doesn't help when Mica brushes past to follow her priorities than keeping mindful towards the feelings of others. She seeks to maintain good health, wealth, and order in her life as it has been maintained before coming to Vale. She believes in aromatherapy to calm herself when stressed resulting in her clothes always being fragrant in something herbal. Typically awash in that 'fresh spring' sort of scent that reminds her of home.

In seeking out this order, Mica can step too far to a vice known as gambling. She'll gamble her odds in finding that goal even if meeting crushing defeat most found in stubborn ignorant fools. Her misguided views of absolution has lead her to press her luck. The chance of winning big being so close yet going home empty handed time and time again. Wounded but not disheartened to quit, Mica fully believes she'll make it big some day to achieve the security and stability she longs for.
Backstory Highlights:
Back in Atlas where her parents and the laundry mat they ran was her world. Called it the ‘Coats Clear’ but it was a simple laundry facility. Both parents were retired from Atlas military and took their drills with them as a guideline to how to manage their lives as civilians. Yet, life outside of the military was almost lawless and surprisingly lacking order when living as a common man just making ends meet. They opened up a laundry mat with their pooled funds to find a niche in the job market. Recalling how strict it was to keep their uniforms clean and presentable, their efforts drew in customers who would come to appreciate that kind of service. Sometimes even the wrong crowd of people who needed blood stains out of their suits would pay visits.

Seeing the clear signs that something was not right about growing number of more questionable clients came the awareness that these people were fundamentally powerful enough to shut down their operation at the end of the day. Risking homelessness while expecting a child was too pressing that, despite the few options and connections they still had, they turned a blind eye to it all. That is the sort of dilemma Mica was born into. She would view the faces of her parents in their duality of their customer side and their home side. One moment their would be appeasing and the next, venting and conducting their lives to get by. So long as they kept to their standards can they persevere to the next day.

Go to school, come home to a dressing down if she ever arrived a minute late, have dinner and bed by 7 P.M., Mica absorbed the atmosphere. There was even a time she caught a bad cold from playing outside in the cold that she was isolated for awhile as her parents worked tirelessly to get her medicine. Going as far as to ensure every surface of the house was cleaned to avoid shutting down business. A clean livelihood. A middling life enveloped in clean herbal scents and gasping above poverty to keep away the grime that threatens to get near them. A safe bubble her parents toiled to maintain that, once she recovered, Mica gradually decided to play outside less and stay indoors since then to assist with the family.

Around the age of 10, her father would take her out once a week to learn home defense. There was no telling trouble would come to threaten their home and business. A string of burglaries were taking place in their district in addition to recently sightings of homeless humans and Faunus lurking about. Simply making sure the door was locked and to never answer calls from strangers wasn't going to be enough. Having Mica wield his old rifle was considered be too heavy for the girl, he got her a training crossbow with a pull crank for easier loading and some bolts that were easier to retrieve than buying dust casings. They'd shoot barrel targets for awhile at a dead end alley then return home before nightfall. Thankfully, she never got to actually shoot anyone before as the events slowly made her paranoid of what would become of her family to keep living like this. She'd silently ponder this while fulfilling her parent's wishes to the fullest in their day-to-day lives. Eventually the answer seemed simple. In hindsight of their cleaning business, they simply needed money. With enough money then none of them would ever have to worry about being threatened to be closed. They can close the shop themselves and retire! Just a matter of when. When Mica could make that much money and more.

Once she finished the usual schooling with a handful of months away from her 18th birthday did it come time to decided where to next. Her parents heavily recommended to send their daughter to Atlas Academy. It was, after all, the school they had gone before back in their days prior to becoming military cadets. It was then that Mica made her first proposal. To try other schools than Atlas. A notion she held in bated breath. It shocked her parents to even come to this idea. They had every confidence in their daughter yet, to be away from home, they wondered if she could really manage the sense of possible failure without them immediately there. Not wanting to out right turn down the prospects of another school did Mica's parents allowed for the letters to be sent out.

Weeks later did a letter arrive marked from Beacon in Vale. An opportunity in the south where Mica could expand her opportunities. Her parents concerningly voiced what word they heard of the kingdom's beyond Atlas. The civil unrest and villages that faced Grimm. Places beyond Atlas protection and their own for Mica. Her knew some of the news but even still, Mica would bet on the chances there. If she can make it out there then Mica aimed to surprise them more with her winnings. With her bags soon packed with all the basic needs and taking that old crank bolt crossbow with her, their laundry shop closed on a holiday to bid Mica farewell at the airship port.
Occupation:
Laundry Assistant now Beacon Student
Education:
Basic education with tutoring from her Father to use her given household weapon for home defensive measures. Momentary break in attempts by criminals and scaring away garbage thriftier thieves. Other talents derive from being an assistant at the laundry store her parents ran has been cleanliness, usages of said cleaning agents, and some light maintenance work improving a keen eye for minor details like fixing buttons or ironing wrinkles.
Semblance Name:
Pressure Cycle
Semblance Description:
A hydrokenisis ability that grants movement to water and increases water pressure by rapidly directing the flow to have the liquid churn at increased speeds. It doesn't require visually seeing but sensing water fluids within an object and is often a mundane movement to use hardly any aura at all. However, causing water to spin in large volumes will put strain on the user when made to have continuous momentum for an extended period of time that it's impractical beyond thirty minutes for aura usage than high speed in shorter time increments.

It can't bypass aura protected vessels unless the aura has been broken first or weakened to an extent. This can be performed normally in close proximity to the user to create a cycle of water to make for a short blade or an outwards shot like a piecing rapier thrust. The length of a water blade varies by the amount of water on hand. If using from a water bottle then it is a short blade when having the water cycling from out and into the vessel to build up enough pressure within before firing. Controlling water becomes difficult to maintain or impossible if the source of water is further away beyond ten feet or if there is no source of water present.

This ability conjunctions best with water dust to create a pressurized water jet to piece enemies and cut through most hard objects with needle pression without worrying about a leaky water bottle. Fundamentally, water carried on hand is best used for short bursts of combat if a lot of water can't be generated in stances where Dust runs out or provided naturally in the environment. Switching between using water as a saw blade to a needle takes time to build up the energy. Doing so isn't ideal without preparation ahead of time as, otherwise, the cost will require expending Aura to hasten the transitioning process without the necessary short breaks in between. When both water and fire dust are used in tandem does the hydro jets properties take on a hot pressure cycle to really add more sting to this hydro blade or create a burst of steam to escape.
Weapon Name:
Security
Weapon Description:
A repeating crossbow that has utilizes a built in cranks and pullies within to pull back make loading the next bolt easier on the arms for minimalized reloading times. At the base of the stock is where dust can be stored to imbue dust properties to the bolts. A mount for a scope can be added on but currently it lacks one. The weapon overall is a similar powder blue color with a white steel bow form and a pink drawing string.

The bolt compartment can seal itself closed with a pull of a leaver to the side that has the bow adopt a melee form once pulled and locked into a pin hole within the mechanism. The string gets pulled back ss the internal gears reconfigure to the motor as the part of the bow part folds together to form a fully circular hand chainsaw for melee use or simply to cut away obstacles.
Other Gear:
On her person does she always carry around her small belongings. The important ones being her Scroll, wallet, a water bottle, a spare set of glasses with cleaning wipes and repair kit. Also on had are a set of gloves if she ever has to handle something that makes her skin crawl i.e. anything filthy.

In terms of combat gear she makes sure to try to carry at least one set of spare bolts and some water dust, if able to afford any, along with rations, bottled water, and disinfectants all packed in an olive brown backpack.
Fighting Style:
Mainly her approach is to handle enemies from afar using the environment before resorting to melee options. Sometimes using dust to include their effects into her ranged attacks. She isn't above to use toxins with her water semblance to inject numbing agents into enemies when given the opportunity with varying results if any of these even work on those Grimm creatures. Mica avoids having to deal with enemies up close as using her Semblance or buzzsaw form of her bow are her last lines of defense when cornered. If all else, use a smoke screen of steam to run away.
Strengths:
Socially: Mica has an outward habit of looking after others and noting her surrounds. Her mindset isn’t about purposely making others feel bad by expressing her concerns, even if not the most thoughtful of things come out her mouth. For that she makes up in being earnest. Especially when it comes to bets and gambling beyond material dice and cards. She likes to press on a challenge onto others to prove her wrong when engaging in conversation. More than anything, at the end of the day, Mica wants what's best for other people, even if her view of what's best is making sure others have maintained a good hygiene, diet, and rest. An oddly nurturing side if anyone can believe it.

Physically: Her highest trait physically is her keen eye for details. She'll notice right away the slightest of things being off in her environment and in others which has served her well in her marksmanship. Mica puts more focus in the smaller things and would bring them to attention for others to also observe when felt a possibility something important was overlooked. Her second highest trait would be a flexible use of her Aura. Having used her Aura for various tasks at her time working (continuing washing whenever a machine is down, water extraction, stubborn stain removals) has made simple tasks near effortless as she breaths which leaves more of her Aura pool ready for performing enduring methods a bit longer than most others.
Weaknesses:
Social: Due to her choice of words, it can very easily be a mistaken that sometimes Mica can be insensitive and come off as racist out of context. On top of this can Mica be rather prideful in her ways to make unreasonable demands. Apologizing in a sincere voice isn't a strong trait and would often times speak around those very flaws to shuffle the topic elsewhere.

Physically: Once she's out of combat options and water, Mica is very much low on options. Her hand to hand combat isn't the greatest which means anyone that's more adept to that style can easily disable her. Her vision is also nearsighted without her glasses that does gradually gets worse from stress and working long hours if distractions prevent any breaks than encourage.
Likes:
Orderly: Mica will always be about order and keeping her space tidy. Much of what sets off her impulses is to make sure her living space and area is clean. Any small mess will be cleaned up right away and if a shelf can be organized for optimal efficiency, she'd do it. Despite not being the brightest of students or any scholarly genius is it for certain that the study guide notes will be ready for use.

Aromatherapy: The calming scent of lavender, pine, fresh towels from the wash; the sort of things that are calming and comforting. Mica enjoys these dearly as they remind her much of home that it's a habit to carry with her without realizing it. It carries into her day-to-day rituals that it's almost second nature to want to surround herself with welcoming scents and leave dried potpourri in her room.

Gambling: As unfortunate as it is, Mica loves testing her odds and placing bets. Losing is never a thought in her mind when she trying to make it big. At first it started off so innocently small but once her goals came to view that to make her family's lives easier is securing money, Mica went all in for the thrill and pay out rewards. Win big or go home and try again tomorrow!

Noodles: A stable food. Can never go wrong. Comforting and easy to make. What else is there not to love after spending a time out doubling her earnings.

Hot Baths: A second reward after a day's hard work. Noodles to fill her belly and a hot bath to wash the day's grime away. Mica would love to spend hours away in her own private bubble bath if constant hot water allows it.
Dislikes:
Filth: Pressed to learning home defense where other children would stay in their rooms to hide and stay safe, she isn't very fond of homeless people, thieves, and crooks. Most of all is their unclean nature. The mere thought of them bearing dieses and being over all caked in dirty clothes and terrible hygiene makes her skin crawl and her stomach turn. It down right causes the girl to be irritable to reprimand them for neglecting to take proper care of themselves to be a threat to herself and others. Almost to extremes to get her point across.

Losing: Much of her pride tries to brush it off but having to bear it as a personal mark makes her want to strive to do better. She’s stubborn and very much a sore loser when things go south making her faults show when trying to sweep the whole mess under the proverbial rug.

Impatience: Haste makes waste, as they say. Unfortunately it often leads to Mica feeling a need to clean up said messes and loathing the person behind it.

Bugs: Bugs in the home are a definable sign something is terribly wrong to attract them! It’ll send her in a search to find how they got in and what lured them there in the first place. The bigger they more, the more she’d want to scream at the horrible sight of them.

Slimy textures: If it feels gross, it must be gross. It repulses her to back away and probably the markings of lacking a fun childhood.
Fun Facts:
The emblem was something fun her father designed when starting the laundry business. With some creative thinking, he claims it spells out Clean within the design but it’s honestly a stretch.

Her favorite hobby is to window shop and try on different clothes and glasses. She can’t always buy every item of course but attempts to indulge in attempting fashion after seeing the various garments go through her own store back home.

Her name comes from the mineral mica where it is included as an ingredient for metallic paints or giving that sparkle look.

Her last name was taken from the word pearlescent like the shine soap bubbles have.
Lecent is French for 100, something I thought might describe her views and desires to go 100.
It also sounds like another word about Scent, where the interests in aroma and that good feeling from the smell of clean laundry.
Recent Events:
Currently getting familiar with her new surroundings both in Vale and the Beacon campus.

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