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Ahisne Nikos (Based on Odysseus)

Name Inspiration: ‘Ahi’ means fire in Hawaiian, ‘sne’ means snow in Danish

Nickname(s): ‘Ahis’ by Pyrrha, ‘Princess’ and ‘Sweetheart’ by Weiss, ‘Snowflake’ by Kai-La

Iolite-isms: Upper Class, Ice Shard, Snow, Flame Hair, Hothead, Smug Bitch, Heartbreaker

Languages: Atlesian, Valean, Middle Mistrali, Mantlan

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Aura Colour: Light Red

Schools and Team: Eiskappe Academy (combat school), Atlas Academy (Academy)/Member of Team HALA (Halo)

Bestie Better Than The Restie: Hao Wahine

Homeplace: Atlas

Orientation: Homosexual Biromantic

Semblance: Magnetic Glyphs, a semblance that allows Ahisne to create glyphs similar to that of Weiss’ that act as positively or negatively charged magnets. She needs to wear specially constructed shoes with metal soles – courtesy of Mercury – to use her semblance to her aid. Creating the glyphs is easy, but it is a slightly painful process as whenever she uses the shoes to stick to a wall the glyph is placed on or to propel herself off of a glyph, the charge will shock her a bit, but this is only a minor drawback to a very powerful semblance. 

Weapon: Magnesurf, a Dao sword with a detachable hilt. While deatched from the hilt, the blade can be used solo as a small dagger or even a spear at times. The hilt is able to expand in order to act like a shield of sorts that is constructed of the same metal as her shoe soles, meaning that if she wishes to, she can move a glyph along a surface and use the hilt-shield as a snowboard. 

Voiced by: Monica Rial

Trivia: 

Ahisne works on-and-off shifts at a bakery/cafe Weiss and Pyrrha have owned ever since their daughter was born and they started only doing part-time Huntress work. It is cutely named ‘Niko Nikos Treats’.

She and her cousin Abend are extremely close, visiting each other as often as possible in either Mantle or Atlas. It helps that they’re the samge age, though that more often than not comes down to a lot more arguments over whether they can boss each other around.

Before going to Atlas Academy, her only non-family/non-military friend was Hao Wahine, a girl she met in her ballet classes as a kid.

Along with ballet, Ahisne has a proficency for singing just like her mother. Sometimes she will lend her voice to charity concerts or recitals, but in her teenage years she begins to associate more with Carolina Robin and Kade Chyrsolite. They convince her to sing on Carolina Robin’s parents’ stage in Atlas’ “party district”.

She considers the Schnee Dust Company to not be any of her business. Abend is the next successor after Whitley, and Ahisne is much more focused on being a Huntress anyway.

She adores white chocolate, but her favourite food is red velvet cake (preferably with pink, blue, and white marshmallows in particular).

Ahisne, thanks to Weiss, Winter, and Whitley, has not been influenced by her Grandfather’s harmful influence. She knows of his imprisonment when her mothers were teenagers and she has seen him on the news once or twice, but aside from that she knows little to nothing of Jacques.

She takes great pride in her hair’s natural gradient of white and red.

Kai-La Wukong (Based on The Journey to the West)

Name Inspiration: ‘Kai’ means sea in Hawaiian, ‘La’ means sun in Hawaiian

Nickname(s): ‘Lala’ by Amba, ‘Kai’ by anyone and everyone

Iolite-isms: Seamonkey, Tail-Head, Blueberry Twist, Beached

Languages: Vacuan, North Mistrali, Middle Mistrali, South Mistrali, very limited Valean, extremely limited Atlesian

Gender: Female

Species: Monkey Faunus

Aura Colour: Scarlet

Schools and Team: Oscuro Academy (combat school), Shade Academy (Academy)/Leader of Team WTHD (Watershed)

Bestie Better Than The Restie: Iolite Black, Cinnabarus Taurus-Torchwick

Homeplace: Vacuo

Orientation: Homosexual Homoromantic

Semblance: Bubble Bomb, a semblance that creates bubbles of varying sizes from Kai-La’s skin. These bubbles can both absorb sunlight and reflect it, the latter blinding her opponent. Once the bubbles absorb enough sunlight, they burst and explode, which not only causes some damage to the opponent but also warps Kai-La a foot away from the fight to buy herself some time. Kai-La sometimes wears goggles stolen from her Dad to stop herself from going blind. An excessive production of the bubbles severely drains her Aura, though, so she has to keep a count of how many she’s produced at a time.

Weapon: Di Qing, a staff that is capable of ejecting out at the sides to form the head a trident at the end. She has no need for a firing mechanism, so if need be for long-ranged, she launches the trident-spear away from her in order to pin her opponent to a tree and hold them there. 

Voiced by: Kate Higgins

Trivia:

Kai-La’s tail, like Sun’s, is prehensile, so she uses it more often than not like a third hand. Grabbing things, holding her weapon, displaying her emotions more than she’d like -- especially around pretty girls. The Ayana-David triplets are most vunerable to her tail wrapping itself around their arms or hands unconsciously.

She did not listen while her Oscuro classes taught Valean, so she can’t speak a word until her second year when she meets Candy and Qrow.

Kai-La, being the child of Sun and Neptune, is both a natural leader and a hopeless renegade of a teammate. She’s been able to easily formulate solutions to any problem, but she isn’t wise in the slighest if you ask her teammates, who more often than not get dragged into helping her enact these easy solutions.

Food isn’t something she’s picky over, but if she had to pick, her favourite would be Atlas-imported ice-cream, specifically bubblegum flavour.

Kai-La can and will handle her liquor well. 

She takes great pleasure in watching old Vytal Festival footage, especially of her parents, uncles, and the legendary Team STRQ. Someday, she hopes to be able to slice a Grimm in half with one fell swoop.