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Bellatrix Damasco
Name: Bellatrix
Surname: Damasco
Nickname: Bella, Triss (exclusively by her father)
Epithets and Titles: "The Greatsword", "Natural Disaster"
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Race: Buccaneer
Affiliation: Pirate
Bounty: 0 B
Crew: Vanguard
Role: Captain
Personnel File
Personality
Head in Volcanic Clouds
Bellatrix explodes with energy. She's very active, almost hyperactive, and it always seems like she can never get tired. It helps that she isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, so she can cruise through life without much care. People who know her describe her as a bit of a mess, and she herself sometimes refers to this side of her personality as the reason why she's a "disaster".
Berserker Rage
Bella is very quick to anger, and when she gets angry it becomes very difficult to calm her down. While she typically wants to restrain herself from using all of her strength all the time, when she's angry she might give in to a berserker-like frenzy, and take the foot off the brakes entirely. Normally, in fact, she would prefer to release it in tight and controlled bursts.
Honor and Camaraderie
Bellatrix holds honor and friendship in extremely high regard. For her, working together towards a goal forms a very tight bond of kinship with the group; she is always looking for more friends and more bonds, and consequently, she always ends up in some weird situation she needs the help of someone to get out of.
Whatever it Takes
Finally, Bella is very proud of herself and often overestimates her own abilities - sometimes exaggerating even the abilities of others. Fortunately, she doesn't really care that people actually see her as powerful or otherwise, so she is not fussed about being proven wrong about exactly how strong she is.
Appearance
Physical Appearance
Bellatrix is a tall girl for her age, being nearly two meters in height; her build is very muscular and toned, more so than even the average male. Her shoulders are broad and her arms are quite thick, making them look somewhat closer to a male body type than female; this doesn't stay true if one also considers her hips, which have grown accordingly to her size to restore female proportions.
In contrast, her facial features are much softer than one would expect; full red lips pop up against fair skin and complement her orange red eyes. Her hair is jet-black and straight, typically kept at neck length or shorter; her eyes are of a shade of red that blends into orange.
A characteristic of Bellatrix is her many scars: they are relics of hard fought battles, especially the one that runs across her face. This scar tracks horizontally below her eyes, meeting a second vertical scar that goes down from her left eye, across her lips and down to her chin; on the right instead, another cut runs from below the eye to her cheek. The rest of her body counts a myriad of scars of various shape and origin.
Clothing & Accessories
Bellatrix likes to dress in two ways. During downtime, when she's visiting a city or town for example, she likes to dress in sportswear: hoodies, tees, and whatever closely resembles the modern idea of sports clothing. Her favourite outfit is a black tank top, red baggy pants with a white hoodie tied around her waist, and white shoes.
On the other hand, if she knows a fight is going to break out or she is otherwise ready to fight, she feels most comfortable with some kind of armour: her personal armor is made with scales, plates and fur from the monsters of Gaea Step, and she makes sure to use it in most occasions.
Combat Data
Fighting Style
Bellatrix's fighting style is well known across Gaea Step. There, she's called "the Greatsword" and she lives by that name; with her giant, impossibly heavy sword Agito she performs various acts of acrobatics and displays of raw strength while fighting. She fights with wide, arcing swings that deliver powerful hits; the sword is so thick that if it doesn't cut something, it will most likely break it anyways.
She has grown accustomed to the sword's encumbrance, and she has learned to shift her own body's weight around to maximise the speed and the power of her strikes. As the sword is actually heavier than her, she can use it as a counterweight to perform some crazy maneuvers such as launching herself up into the air or spin wildly on her axis. Her signature move, the Scindo, is a simple vertical slash that Bellatrix puts all of her strength behind. On Gaea Step, she's known for downing monsters with that one strike alone.
Aspects
Set: General Combat Skills
These Aspects are always applied to all Techniques.
Disaster Strength (★)
Inhuman Strength
Partly thanks to natural predisposition, and partly due to her training, Bellatrix is extremely strong. She is well beyond the ability of the average human; she is so physically strong, in fact, that she's had issues controlling her raw strength her whole life. Her strength is also what allows her to swing her Agito sword around with relative ease.
Disaster Toughness (★)
Inhuman Toughness
For the same reason she is so strong, Bellatrix is very tough and her muscles can harden up to an incredible degree. This allows her to withstand blows and resist physical stress much better than the average person. Moreover, Bellatrix usually wears armor while in combat which helps protect her against piercing or cutting damage.
Disaster Stamina (★)
Inhuman Stamina
Bellatrix is full of energy, and her body supplies. It's very hard for her to feel the fatigue after long trips or long fights, and she is capable of enduring physical activity - even at high levels - with relative ease for extended periods of time.
Aspect Set: Agito
Spacca la Terra in Due (★)
Earthquake Generation
Agito is made with dense bone and heavy metal. The unusual size of the weapon multiplies this, resulting in an incredibly heavy piece of equipment. Bellatrix is one of the few people capable of using it properly; in order to simply lift it, it is necessary to possess a strength well beyond a normal human's.
"Agito" is a word written in a lost language. It means "to shake", or "to shock". Agito's sheer weight can pretty much shake the earth as if it was made of jelly, especially when someone as strong as Bellatrix is wielding it. When the weapon is struck against a solid object, veritable shockwaves are sent through it which may propagate for several meters and break everything they come into contact with.
Fendi L'Aria come Nuvole (★)
Flying Slashes
Agito is a very heavy weapon made of dense bone and heavy metal; while thick, its edge is incredibly sharp and the combination of these two traits makes the weapon very much capable of rending air as if it was nothing. The sheer air movement generated by the blade translates easily, with enough skill on Bella's part, into flying slashes that drastically increase the effective range of the weapon.
Equipment
Agito
This two-handed weapon is a 2.20m long sword. Its thickness is a few inches, and its width is nearly half a meter in certain points; it was designed to break through the tough scaled armor (or the bones, or the hide) of the large monsters that inhabit Gaea Step. To the untrained eye, it looks more like a slab of bone and metal than a proper sword.
The blade was fashioned from the dense bone of a monster and makes the core of the weapon. It has a subtle "S" shape to it, and it's double edged; on one side, it is also serrated.
This bone core is attached to a metallic handle via a series of metallic plaques put together with rivets; this metallic shell gives great stability and durability to the weapon, and makes sure it doesn't fall into pieces.
Overdrives & Forms
Calamità Naturale
Bellatrix always thought of herself as a cheerful individual, full of energy and good hope for the future. But there's always another side of that coin, as something of a burning fire rages inside of her constantly.
If Bellatrix has received substantial amounts of damage, or otherwise her mind goes numb from pain or other sources, Bellatrix might enter a state that she considers a true "calamity". In this state, her brain removes all limiters on her strength, her speed, and her general combat prowess. Her eyes go blank, and she may even lose the ability to speak coherent sentences - instead resorting to animalistic grunts and roars. When this Overdrive is active, her enemies face a true natural calamity.
Calamità Naturale: Vulcano (★)
Strength Buff
Like the erupting strength of a volcano, Bellatrix's body feels a surge of energy. Her strength is multiplied, and with it her damage output. She may be able to swing her sword harder than ever before, and multiply her destruction potential accordingly.
Calamità Naturale: Uragano (★)
Speed Buff
The powerful winds of Gaea Step are channeled in Bellatrix's body as she goes into her frenzied state. Her chest muscles become hyperactive, increasing her breathing rate, which in turn oxygenizes her muscles beyond normal levels. Because of this, her muscles not only become stronger, but also faster in their response and their contraction speed. This means that her speed as a whole is increased, both when swinging her weapon and generally moving in space.
Techniques
Scindo
Spacca la Terra in Due
Bellatrix brings her weapon down onto the ground or an unlucky target. If the object simply isn't durable enough, it will shatter; when the blade makes contact with the ground or an extended object, the cut propagates forward, continuing to cut along the interface between air and solid, until the entire thing is split into two or the energy behind the slash runs out.
Squarcio
Fendi l'Aria come Nuvole
Bellatrix swings with her weapon in some direction, cutting the air in front of herself. The movement is so strong that the air itself is sliced, and the cut propagates forward in the form of a flying slash. The slash travels for several meters, transferring all the strength to a target way outside Bellatrix's natural range.
Disaster Scindo
Spacca la Terra in Due + Fendi l'Aria come Nuvole
Bellatrix's signature move. She charges up a strike, gathering her whole strength for a few seconds. During this, she may stomp with her feet and cause the earth around herself to crack. Then, she launches a singular swing; typically, the sword is swung over her head and down to the ground. The sheer strength of the swing slices the air and launches a giant flying slash, which also cuts deep into the ground and splits the earth wherever it travels.
The longer this attack has been charged, the more destructive it will be, and the further it will go. At peak intensity, the flying slash acquires a slight red tinge.
Background
Bella was born from an ancient race of people whose blood mixed with the Giants. Who her parents are, however, Bella surely doesn't know; this never turned out to be a problem, since she was adopted at an early age by Acciaio Damasco, a Hunter on the Gaea Step archipelago. To this day, she believes herself a Human through and through, much like her adoptive parent.
Acciaio raised her up, training her to be a strong Hunter throughout her teenage years. This training turned out to be quite fruitful, since she quickly became a respected Hunter of the archipelago; despite his successes, Acciaio could never get tame the girl's wild and unpredictable behaviour - something that characterises her to this day.
It was precisely her personality that earned her the first of many scars, since she enjoyed plunging headfirst into a fight (sometimes literally) and got punished multiple times for it.
The first time in particular, she was hunting a large lizard in the desertic area whose main natural weapon was the large and tough crest atop its head. Frustrated with the enemy's tough shell resisting the blows of her weapons, she decided she'd start headbutting the monster instead.
That wasn't a smart move, as the monster almost bit her face off the moment she tried.
She never really learned from those exchanges, but all in all her career as a Hunter went on without a hiccup. She was passed down a sword by Acciaio, the Agito, which quickly became her favourite weapon; thanks to Agito, she became famous as the hunter capable of taking out lesser monsters in just one swing. On Gaea Step, her callsign became "Greatsword" for this very reason.
Eventually, she decided to expand her horizons.
Having heard of the Great Age of Piracy from a ship passing by Gaea Step, Bellatrix decided she'd set sail to explore the world. On her first trip outside Gaea Step, she was approached by a former Hunter named Cadmus, who informed her about her lineage and that her father was in Elbaf. Thus, she set off to find the fabled land, to reunite with her real father and understand more about herself as she discovered the wider world.
Full XPz Breakdown
Total X-Poinz: 400
+400 (Starting XPz)
Spent X-Poinz Total: 400
Spent X-Poinz Record:
Aspects:
-100 (Spacca la Terra in Due ★)
-100 (Fendi L'Aria come Nuvole ★)
Overdrives:
-100 (Calamità Naturale: Vulcano ★)
-100 (Calamità Naturale: Uragano ★)
Aspect Voucher Record:
+3 (Starting Aspect Vouchers)
-1 (Disaster Strength ★)
-1 (Disaster Toughness ★)
-1 (Disaster Stamina ★)
Remaining Aspect Vouchers: 0
Technique Voucher Record:
+4 (From Aspects)
-1 (Scindo)
-1 (Squarcio)
-1 (Disaster Scindo)
Remaining Technique Vouchers: 1