Aruna Flint (Complete)

Aruna Flint

Gender: Female

Age: 12

Meister: None right now.

Species: Earth Shaman

Weapon form:

Aruna takes the form of a large war hammer. This particular war hammer has a slightly larger than normal head and rather than the rear and top spikes, it features a series of small blades. The bottom of the pole also has a small knife, for making quick cuts or jabs. The handle is wrapped in black leather straps and the hammer itself is adorned with swirling patterns all along it. The rear blade is slightly curved down, much like a small scythe, and could be used to hook to a ledge in a pinch. Due to her heritage, the weapon form also features a "shadow" or "darkness" attribute. More on that in the "Abilities" section.

Love Interest: None.

Orientation: Unexplored. Assumed heterosexual, but subject to change.

Appearance:

Aruna is a young girl with a rather fragile looking build. Due to her father's side of the family, her skin tone is noticeably lighter than her mother's. Her hair, on the other hand, is the same purple-black her mother passed to her, and is cut short, ending at about her chin. It's kept messy, allowed to do as it pleases. Not to say she doesn't brush it, she does, Aruna just doesn't style it at all. As for her eyes, they also come from her mother, maintaining a violet-red coloration.

For all societal purposes, Aruna wears her school clothes most days, consisting of a white undershirt with a blue and pink sailor-fuku type collar, a black scarf, a purple sweatshirt, a small blue skirt, black thigh-high socks, and white slip-on flats. The sweatshirt has a single pocket across the front, with an opening on each side. Typically this is where snickers likes to sleep.


Aruna's second most common outfit would be her "Earth Shaman robes". Made by Aruna herself, with instruction from her grandmother, this outfit is tailored specifically to match Aruna's shadow abilities. While it technically doesn't serve a real purpose, Aruna is more comfortable in it and it's a tradition in her family to have one. This outfit is a loose-fit shredded black dress with an opened-back design. It ends at her mid-thigh, and may seem a bit too reviling for a child to some. Typically she has sleeves that start just above her elbows and hang down. As for footwear, she tends to go barefoot, if not wear sandals.


Lastly is Aruna's Earth Shaman form. Activating this form requires her to be in some  of resonance with a witch, and have that witch direct magic into her. The result ends with Aruna temporarily aging six years, to a point where she's become in total control of her Earth Shaman abilities. This grants Aruna a host of new abilities. In this form, Aruna is quite a bit taller, looking more like someone aged 17-18, rather than 12. Her hair is longer, hanging down to her hips. Her eyes have faded to more of a purple than a red and her skin has grown pale. Her clothes will be replaced with a simple black rag-dress. She's always barefoot in this form. This form will last until her link to the witch is ended, willingly or otherwise, after which she'll revert to base form in whatever clothes she was previously wearing.

Personality: Aruna, or Aru as she prefers, tends to be pretty soft-spoken. She speaks in a quiet tone, almost a mumble. She also has an extremely hard time talking to anyone she doesn't know, or isn't comfortable around. Often times she'll whisper something to a nearby friend and have them relay it. If no friend is around, she'll often remain silent instead. This causes her to have a hard time making friends or relating to people. She tends to get lonely easily, and likes to place herself in crowded areas so she doesn't feel so alone. Aru is also very mature for her age, and finds it hard to get along with people her age, preferring the company of teenagers or adults. Despite this, she is still just a kid and often finds enjoyment in childish things like tag or candy.

Because Aru is an Earth Shaman, she has a deep connection with nature and the Earth. This connection is so deep as to allow Aru to hear the voices of the Earth whisper to her and guide her. If nature is in pain around her, she often gets a headache and will become very anxious. For example, if someone were to cut down a tree near her, she may go so far as to hold her head and weep. Because of this, Aru has a strong belief in taking care of the environment. She'll go out of her way to water plants or care for an abandoned garden. This connection runs deeper than just plants however, and even allows her to read the emotions of animals and make bonds with creatures that would, under normal circumstances, be violent or fearful with a human around. This isn't to say she can talk to animals, she just has a better understanding of what they're feeling and what she should do to calm them.

Due to her parents judgment of her, Aru tends to hide her abilities as an Earth Shaman from most people unless she has to make it obvious for one reason or another. Aru could be seen as somewhat of a prodigy as a weapon, having discovered her weapon form and begun collecting souls at such a young age.

History: It's no surprise that Aruna shows such potential if you know anything about her family. Each side brings Aruna something odd. On her father's side of the family, the Flints, weapons are well known for their abilities to fight without a meister. Her father managed to collect twenty five souls on his own during his time at the academy, but gave them up when he moved on to run a small public transportation business. Her mother's family, the Bolanle, are decedents of an ancient tribe of Earth Shaman, and still hold the traditions of the tribe today, barring her mother herself, who fell into the greed of modern society and lost touch with the voices of the Earth.

During their time in the academy, Aru's parents were on the same team. When the team graduated from the academy, they married and opted out of the DWMA. Her father went on to build a locally run public transportation company in a small crime-ridden city in new mexico, where aru lives with him in a spacious apartment and attends a private elementary school. Her mother, on the other hand, is a big-name lawyer, and is often away on business. As of lately, the two don't talk often, and honestly don't seem in love. When Aru was born, both parties were in the middle of major turning points in their careers, and so, as soon as Aru could live without her mother, they sent her to live with her grandmother on her mother's side in Boulder, Colorado.

It was here that Aru spent the earliest years of her life learning the various rituals and practices that her mother neglected. Aru fell in love with nature and the ways of her family, deciding that she would never allow anything to get between herself and nature like her mother did. At about age eight, however, her grandmother passed away. After this, Aru was ripped from the mountains she loved so much and sent back to the city to live with her parents. It was a big change, and often Aru found herself displeased with her parents' way of doing things, but Aruna bit her tongue and tried not to cause trouble for them. Left to herself most days, Aruna didn't make a lot of friends at school. They didn't get her. The only exception to this was when a bunch of the kids would play baseball in the park. When that time came, Aruna was everybody's first pick due to her odd ability to hit the ball out of bounds more often than not. Eventually, their wooden bat broke when some kid threw it and it hit a tree. When this happened, Aruna used her allowance money to purchase a metal one that she childishly named wacky.

At age ten Aruna achieved her first accidental transformation when she tripped on the stairs of her apartment complex on the way to school. As she fell forward, a strange feeling took over her. She was going to die if she didn't act fast. Panic set in. Closing her eyes tight, the small girl burst into a shroud of blackness, re-forming herself into a large war-hammer and tumbling down the stairs and hitting the bottom in shock. It took her about an hour to figure out how to turn back and, when she did, she decided that she was going to sit in the park rather than head to school that day. Her parents had neglected to mention they were both weapons, and the transformation had caught her off guard.

At some point in time she found a small Egyptian Fruit Bat on the ground in the city. It was obviously ill, and needed help, but everyone just passed it by. Aru couldn't leave it be, and rushed it to a vet. The vet explained that they didn't live around there, and that it was probably somebody's pet turned loose. Aruna's parents were called, and though reluctant, after much begging allowed her to keep the bat, which she named Snickers for it's brown coloration. She's kept it since.

By age eleven, Aruna had spent enough time practicing in the park to not only transform into her weapon form, but manage partial transformations of select body parts. While transformed or partially transformed, she could use her basic shadow abilities. It was a whole new feeling to her. It just felt right. It was that year that her class was explained what a death scythe was, and made it her new secret goal to become one. Going home, she used her father's computer, something she didn't do often, to go online and figure out how a weapon became a death scythe. The thought of a Kishin Egg made her pretty upset. What gave them the right to kill somebody that did nothing to them? It was bad to kill, but this was doing the world a favor... It was a good thing, right?

The Earth seemed to agree as, the next morning, Aruna could feel pulls towards multiple very uncomfortable directions... She couldn't help but think this was nature's way of helping her to locate those Kishin Eggs she held so much distaste for... In secret, Aruna spent a lot of her free time training in the park or old abandoned apartments. In doing this, the small girl became more of an athlete than most children her age. At age twelve, Aruna deemed herself competent enough to take on a killer.

Grabbing wacky, Aruna would sneak out in the middle of the night and follow one of the awful pulls. Sure enough, she witnessed a mess of a man approaching a young woman. He was holding a knife and looked like he was having fun. Aruna turned her hand into the knife at the bottom of her weapon form, her bat wrapping itself in an unnatural black shadow. She was afraid, but a voice in the back of her head was encouraging her, much like a mother to it's child. That alone was enough for Aruna to step between the man and the woman, blocking the knife with her bat. From there the fight went on, and Aru eventually managed to land a fatal blow.

Consuming the red soul felt... Right. Like Aruna had done a good deed. Thanking the Earth for it's help, Aru went to check on the young lady. The grateful woman patched the small girl up, and the two spent the rest of the night having a conversation in a small coffee house, where Aru was treated to a few doughnuts and some cocoa as a thank you. Aru never met the woman again after that, but still holds the night as a reminder that even though she's devoted her life to killing Kishin Eggs, she's saving lives by doing so. For now, Aru is plotting her next hunt, and attending school regularly. She has no plans of moving to Death City, but has been thinking about running away, seeing as her parents wouldn't care anyways.

Soul Count: 1

Abilities:
Basic (Non-Weapon/Non-Shamanistic)

Ability	Description	Special Requirement?
Unique Fighting Style	Aruna has trained herself in a unique combat style. This style utilizes three properties: A club-style weapon (such as her baseball bat), a knife (typically her partial-transformation), and her abilities as an Earth Shaman. By using this style, Aruna is able to act autonomously from her meister, despite not being autonomous.	Ability to partially transform and a club-style weapon such as her bat.
Enhanced Physical Ability	Aruna is notably more athletic than a normal elementary school student. Due to her training, her actual athletic ability and strength are more on par with that of the average DWMA meister.	Originates from spending the majority of her spare time training. Natural ability.

Weapon Form

Ability	Description	Special Requirement?
Partial Transformation (War Hammer)	Aruna can replace a single part of her body with a piece of her weapon form. Most commonly used to make her hand into a knife, but could turn her lower arm into the pole with the knife as well if needed.	Natural Ability
Full Transformation (War Hammer)	Aruna transforms into her full weapon form so that a meister may use her in combat.	Natural Ability.

Earth Shaman (Normal)

Ability	Description	Special Requirement?
Shadow Manipulation	Aruna can manipulate the shadows to her will. This can be used to make a small black stepping stone of sorts. Typically she uses this to hold herself in place by wrapping her legs in shadows, or to stretch the shadows under her feet upwards to increase jump height. Being shadows, however, only Aru or someone wielding her can use them as a solid object. This means she CANNOT use them as a shield or block hits with them, as the attack will go right through the shadow.	Must be in AT LEAST a partial weapon transformation to use, if not full.
Shadow Enhancement	Aruna wraps a soulless object in shadows, increasing it's durability. That's it. It just turns the object black and makes it harder to break.	Must be in AT LEAST a partial weapon transformation to use, if not full. Must also be touching the object at all times, or the shadows on it will vanish.
Voices of The Earth	Aruna can freely communicate with the Earth. This can be used to locate objects, people, animals, places, ect. It causes Aru to seem like she has a good sense of direction.	Natural Ability
Natural Empathy	Aruna is naturally in-tune with the world around her. This allows her to feel the emotions of the plants and animals in the area. If an animal or plant is in pain nearby, Aru will feel a certain emotional pain that usually drives her to help it. Because of this, Aru is great with animals and children, and also has kind of a "green thumb".	Natural Ability
Soul Reading	Due to the ability "Voices of The Earth", Aruna is usually able to tell what kind of soul somebody has, and can track down certain types of souls in the area. Obviously there are exception like Soul Protect users or soul types that she's never felt before. As of now she's felt Human Souls, Demon Weapon Souls, and Kishin Egg Souls. Any other type of soul will be a new feeling.	Natural ability, but must obtain information about new soul types on her own.

Earth Shaman (Magic Enhanced)
Aruna has never taken this form. As such, details on this form are not known. If and when the time comes that this form is activated, I will add a table for it's abilities and ask that an admin look over them for me before proceeding with the thread.

Miscellaneous:

Wacky - Aruna's baseball bat. It's just a basic metal baseball bat that Aruna uses for combat and sports. She seems quite fond of it, and has even given it a name.


Snickers - An Egyptian Fruit Bat. Snickers is quite fond of Aru, and pretty much lives within her pocket. Aside from being a pet, he has no notable uses. Aruna usually carries a few oranges or dates for him on her person at all times.

A lot of this character was pre-approved by Mistress Lani.

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