-Patricia Aries-

She was two when her parents died in a thievery that ended in murder. The White Fang infiltrators noticed her when they were getting ready to leave after killing her parents and taking what they wanted. The female ram faunus in the pair decided to have mercy on the Patricia and and convinced her partner to take the kid along with them. On the journey back, the faunus started seeing shadows of mystical creatures that they had never seen before. They thought they were hallucinating until they noticed that these shadows would only appear near the fire while the kid was asleep. They thought nothing of it until a scene that they knew well played out before them, one that the kid would never let them forget. The faunus thought it strange that shadows that shouldn't even be there, show something that actually happened and from a perspective they where they couldn't quite understand what was happening because it was so abstract.

When they got back, they reported a successful run, keeping the child a secret that they would only reveal to the scientists there. The captors got to the lab and inquired the scientist as to, “what the heck is this child?” The scientist was shocked into silence when he heard about the strange shadows that would replay a scene of murder and horror. He said that he had ideas but, he wouldn't be able to do anything until he had more information. He requested that they leave the child in his care for the time being. The two faunus captors walked away uneasily, for there were rumors that this scientist loved to use people for experiments and that either the patient didn't make it or they'd gone insane; never to return to society. Though they shrugged it off, saying that the kid would be better off finding the unknown limits of her semblance and expanding and exploiting them to become more skilled and stronger.

The kid did, in fact, become more skilled and stronger with her aura and semblance. Extremely skilled, to the point that her shadows looked like a black and white movie played before your eyes. But still, every night, soon after she'd fallen asleep, the same eerie, horrific scene of a murder played upon the walls with fear-inducing accuracy. The scientist continued to puzzle and puzzle about this phenomenon. The scientist did, however, notice that every day after a particularly more stressful “test” (experiment), the scene was more confusing and abstract, if one were to try to follow every single detail, they would surely go insane. It took the scientist years to figure out that the repetitive scene was Patricia's mind reliving the most horrific scene every toddler should never see, the murder of her parents, right in front of her face. The scarring thought that she was alone in the world, the distrust of all these who associated themselves with her parents' killers and many more.

Patricia slowly became a timid girl who was always on guard, like a puppy who'd injured them self and lashes out at all who come near, whether with medicine or more poison to kill her. Comforted only by her own conjurations from her semblance and the freedom to fly around her cage with wings created through her semblance. There was no warmth for her at the laboratory.

At 13, she started overhearing conversations between the scientists about a boss wanting to use her for some...assignments. At that point, her testings became more daring and realistic, only fueling the madness that had started to build up all those years ago.

After a year since the more vigorous training had started, she was sent on her first mission. The boss, for she had seen and heard the lady be called the boss within the past year or so, surprised her by,

1.   meeting her in the prep room face to face, this was definitely some sort of special treatment...

2.   holding up a pair of green-ish-baby blue  coyote-like ears and a similarly coloured fluffy tail, out of the many other colour-coded faunus disguises to be found on the rack-lined walls of the room.

The boss smiled sickeningly and held out the pair of ears and tail for Patricia to put on. Patricia took the disguise and the boss then glided out the door.

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Did she have to wear such colourful, eye-catching clothing? Why did the boss keep putting her through such "creative" surprises that constantly put her life on the line? But since Patricia knew that she had to do the job or she'd be tortured, she put on the crazy get up as directed and and requested what her mission would be. Her orders were to attend Signal Academy as a normal student (if you can call a faunus normal in a group of humans) and record each night how the other students treat her. Whether it was friendliness or hatred, respect or contempt. Her captors wanted to know what the relationship between the humans and the faunus. After she'd been given her orders, she left to refill on dust and fix up her armor and weapons so that they'd be in good shape for whatever laid before her.

If she had thought that this would be an easy mission, she definitely didn't think that now...The boss had ordered that they just drop her off in the Emerald forest so that she could go find her way to the city herself. Why did they always do this to her? Without her daily therapeutic session to keep her even remotely sane, she struggled to keep her mind clear and alert. Always watching for aggressive Grimm that would try to kill her and end her mission. She had no contact with anyone, no one to call if she made a mistake.

This was suddenly a life or death situation. A do or die drill, that if she didn't act on instinct and use her dust and semblance the way she'd been taught by the scientist at the White Fang headquarters, that was it. She'd be dead. Patricia, though ravaged by insanity, managed to control it for long enough so that she could fight off the Grimm that were constantly tracking her and find her way through the forest, eventually finding the grand city of Vale, where she would find a couple members of the White Fang who would get her into Signal.

Luckily, Patricia managed to get into Signal within a year since the beginning of her mission. During that year, she became used to the disdain she received from her peers, they barely even tried to hide their opinions of her. But there was one girl who stood apart from all of the other students, accepting her for who she was, a faunus. Treating her like a normal person and ignoring the fact that she looked like a humanoid coyote. She referred to herself as Ruby Rose. Patricia learned that Ruby had an older sister who, from Ruby's description, sounded pretty awesome to have as an older sister. Patricia started to wish that he had had a sister too, or some kind of sibling to talk to and have fun with. Though she quickly pushed that from her mind, saying that she had no more family in the world, no hope of having a sibling.

Even though Patricia trusted Ruby more than anyone else she'd known, and Ruby had shown her more kindness than anyone else had, Patricia still couldn't rely on her. She still didn't trust her and just acted like she did for everyone else, feigning sanity, trust, happiness...

Half a year later, she looked over her reports and noticed that, overall, she had become a more civilized person who could sort of understand people and trust. That was when she decided her last report would happen that night. After handing in the report as usual, she snuck out of the place they were staying and found a rundown little place that she decided would hold her for the time being.

The next day during school, she asked Ruby if she could stay over at her place for a little while and said that her folks were okay with it.

The time she spent with Ruby's family made Patricia begin to notice just how much the White Fang had broken her, how much she had lost the chance to learn to love, to trust and to rely on family and friends. It was then that she decided to never make any contact with the White Fang again. But she kept the ears and tail, they'd started to grow on her.

That was four years ago, the day I decided to look at the world differently, the day I saw how much fun I was missing out on. I still do wear the ears and tail, in fact. They're pretty comfy...the tail's especially warm... Today, I leave for Beacon to join my friends in the lifetime job of being a huntress! To protect the world from the Grimm and other threats *cough* White Fang *cough*.