Solana Whytbaiz

Name: Solana Whytbaiz
Nicknames: Soleil, Sol, The Reaper
Age: 22
Species: Pied Raven
Gender: Transgender Female
Occupation: Sniper

Appearance: Solana would probably be considered a goth considering her preference toward black and purple in her style, though that fits fairly well for a mostly white raven. She's got a fairly slender frame weighing around 59 lbs.(26.8 Kg) and standing at 3'7"(109.2 cm), and she has short, wavy headfeathers with bangs and purple eyes. She wears a black hoodie with ripped sleeves, a purple skirt, and black and purple boots. She also has a Silver Medallion from Soleanna hanging on a necklace. Around her legs her feathers are black, and as she absorbs energy that black creeps up her body more and more…

References: Art by Electrisa



Personality traits

Likes:
-Coffee
-Sweets, especially lemon meringue pie
-Flowers
-Guns
-Gardening
-Fashion
-Video games
-Black and purple
-Hard rock, pop, and Vocaloid
-Autumn

Dislikes:
-Organized government
-Corrupt authority figures
-Country and classical
-Winter


Personality: Solana is most known for being an anarchist. Being an assassin is in her blood, as she takes great joy in snuffing out the lives of the corrupt and powerful. She wants to be free from the government and give other people a better life in doing so. She can come off as fairly relaxed, maybe even to the point of detachment and emotionless, but she has a sharp wit to her and is generally a fun-loving individual. She seems to have a fairly dark sense of humor and, as stated before, enjoys killing people she deems as evil - she might not be all there, but at least she does it efficiently and with the grace of a dancer. Despite her apparent instability and asocial, argumentative attitude, she's generally considered a good person if a little odd at first impression.



Combat traits

Powers: Solana's powers may seem simple compared to her team members, but they are required for her weapon to work and, to a lesser extent, make her a powerful support. She has the ability to absorb dark energies from living things into her to pacify enemies or boost morale in her allies, and she uses the energy she absorbs to imbue people and things with power. Her weapon is designed to be directly interfaced with in this manner, but she can also do this to living things, making her capable of unlocking aura-based energy manipulation powers in her target assuming they didn't already have them.
She wields a large, seemingly magical sniper rifle that uses dark energy she's stored in her body as ammo. If she turns the safety on and holds the gun by its barrel, she can release a stable, crescent jet of dark energy out of the back of the gun to turn it into a scythe. Her energy doesn't decrease from using the scythe and in fact, anyone hit by it gets a small bit of their dark energy drained as well as dealing slashing damage. The dark energy bullets and scythe are a type of cold plasma that is purple in color. In sniper rifle form the shots have enough recoil to launch her backwards if she isn't grounded, allowing her another flying option aside from her natural flight for quick aerial change of direction. In scythe mode she can stand on the blade and ride it like a skateboard to move twice as fast.
Finally, though she's generally known as the Reaper, she can enter a form that is much more reaper-like when she absorbs enough negativity to turn her feathers entirely black from head to toe. In this state, all her stats get a general boost and her powers become much stronger. The black slowly drains from her feathers over time(let's say 6 turns), and when she becomes completely white she returns to normal then passes out. As a side note, she can give people a state similar to this that makes them all white, heals them completely, and only lasts for four turns instead of six, but she can only do it if the target is nearly dead and she is at least halfway to Reaper form herself. This form is referred to as "Armed with Wings", and boosts the targets power and stats double the amount that Reaper form boosts her own, but given it doesn't last as long, it requires the target to be dying, and makes it so Solana can't enter Reaper form for longer, there is a bit of a trade off there.

Strengths:
-Stealthy
-Can fly
-She often doesn't need to fight to neutralize threats, given her powers often lets her pacify enemies and when that doesn't work, she's a sniper with a sniper rifle.
-She's skilled beyond her years in all sorts of different guns and bladed weapons.
Weaknesses:
-Without any energy she can't use her weapon or her powers at all…
-...but the more energy she has, the worse off her mental health is.
-She can't use her powers offensively without a weapon, and she's not strong or durable enough to make up for such a loss.


Social information

Positive relations
-Team Blackmist
-Altekam the Dragonbird

Negative relations
-Dead Haven Royalty

History
Solana was born to two wanted criminals in the city of Soleanna, so she was raised in a fairly poor household, afraid of the government itself as her parents stayed undercover. Her father was the suspected murderer of a Spagonian nobleman, and his wife was considered accomplice in the murder. Before Solana was even 10, she accidentally revealed to her sick mother that she had the power to effectively, temporarily remove negative emotions like depression from people by absorbing it into herself. Her mother was scared that she'd hurt herself if she used this power too much, and asked her husband to purposely try and raise her as selfish and rude as he could so she'd never use her powers. The last thing her mother did before she died was give her a medallion, which she now wears as a necklace. Jutenija tried hard to heed his late-wife's awful request by training her into the same profession as him, a ruthless assassin. Despite her eventual combat and stealth skill, he could never manage to break her compassion, and despite his vow and the concerns they had for her health, he was… kinda glad she turned out to be so nice. Solana began her assassin work helping out her father at around the age of 16 and he gave her his weapon, which she'd eventually modify to work well with her powers. When Jutenija was kidnapped and dragged to Dead Haven, Solana followed after, only to watch as King Draiman murdered her father in front of her…
A fight nearly broke out, but when she realized she was on the losing side, she ran. This intense experience deeply affected her, but she's since tried hard to move on. For a short while after, she moved to Empire City where she met Tokino, an older woman who was also burned by Dead Haven royalty and took her into her home, a young teen named Adeline who desperately needed help, and a fellow mercenary who she became close friends with and eventually fell in love with, Altekam. Since then, with Tokino and Adeline's help, she's sworn to crush all corrupt authority, starting with Dead Haven…