Cora Springfield

Cora is a vampiric huntress belonging to the Bloody Rose Hunter Guild. She was born as a slave to a group of vampires and stayed a slave for most of her childhood until her family was killed by their owners. While trying to escape they bit her and turned her into a vampire. She was later found by a huntsman who trained her for several years until she became a full-fledged huntress. She is known mostly because of her dedication and love of hunting and has had many successful hunting trips during her long career.

Appearance
Cora's demeanor and presence can be described with one word. Small. It is very easy to forget about her and finding her in a large crowd sometimes feels near-impossible. It is difficult for even her friends to find her and they often lose sight of her if they make a mistake of looking away for a second. Even when she didn't move at all. The only time this changes is when she is in a fight. Her love of and obsession with hunting makes her hard to not notice and it can be very intimidating to the point that her targets often feel like they are fighting or running away from death itself or a grim reaper.

Cora has a small yet very athletic build. Her very small frame makes for a weird sight when she wields her large scythe, Soul Evans. It seems very unnatural to most people who are watching her fight even though it is undeniable that she can wield the weapon with incredible skill, despite her small frame. As small as she may be, Cora also has a very athletic build. She may not be completely ripped, but her body is still impressively toned for someone her size, especially her arm and shoulder muscles whose outline can be clearly seen through her clothes. There are a few scars on her body here and there that hints at how long she has been a hunter. Since she is a vampire all of these scars were inflicted by a weapon made of the metallic element known as silver.

Cora's eyes and overall face is always filled with life and usually very expressive even though she has silver eyes that can seem cold at times especially when she is fighting. Cora may not hide her emotions, but she is still kind of hard to read. The emotions that appear on her face can change from extreme to another very quickly which always leaves the question of whether the last emotion she felt was real or not.

Cora's has black shoulder-length hair with a red tint to it. Most of the hair that hangs over her face is swept toward the right side of her face to keep the hair out of her face. The hair that is swept to the right hangs down cascades down face on the right side of her right eye. The bangs on the left side is usually just fall over her ear.

Her outfit's primary color is red with black following close behind. This is how she got the alias Rouge, Scarlet Huntress, and Little Red Riding Hood. She wears a weighted 500 pound red cloak that is held together with a pin that has Bloody Rose's emblem on it. Cora is almost always seen with this cloak even when she is fighting. She only takes it off, thus giving her access to the full extent of physical abilities, when she is facing a powerful opponent. Odysseus thinks it may have once belonged to her mother and when she became a huntress she had a mage increase its weight for training purposes. Underneath she wears a black blouse with dark red rims and a vertical rectangular red patch just above her waist, a dark red nearly black belt, and a skirt with a rim whose color matches the rim of blouse. The belt holds various large cartridges in individual loops and a single magazine pouch. Below her skirt she wears pitch black stockings and a pair of black boots with a red rim. Additionally, there is a sickle strapped to each thigh with a red handle.

Personality
Cora has a somewhat supportive, protective, and innocent personality. Her innocence is best seen with how much she loves hunting. Ever since she first met Odysseus, Cora has loved hunting. She looks up to the greatest hunters like her foster father and many others and hopes to become a great hero like them. She is always striving to become stronger and this combined with her inability of picking up many social cues leads her into getting into a lot of fights. Unlike a certain white mage, Cora loves to fight and hunt. This means she doesn't regret getting into these unnecessary fights and treats it as a chance to get stronger instead of a chance to for her personality to improve.

Shown by her intense love of hunting Cora is a very headstrong individual. This makes her come off as immature or short temper and someone whose's emotions can easily and swiftly move from one extreme to another. Odysseus once said that interacting with Cora is like trying to defuse a bomb. The smallest mistake can set her off. She could take a sarcastic remark seriously because of how she can't pick up on social cues well and start to cry, get angry at the smallest of things, etc. By this same token, this also means that Cora is very easy to please. This is thanks in part because of her life of slavery has taught her not to take anything for granted and how any possession or gift she has no matter how insignificant it is should be thought of as a blessing to have. While this is the case a lot of people are still afraid of her because of how unstable she can be. The Hunter Council is constantly sending people to observe her and make sure nothing sets her off. On one side this saddens Cora because of how she feels no one trusts her, but on the other side it makes her even more headstrong and motivates her to prove that she can be a hero that everyone can trust.

Cora's most defining trait is probably how socially awkward she can be. The more unfamiliar people that are around the more socially awkward she becomes. Her social awkwardness often draws attention to herself and that is a big fear of hers. She freezes up in crowded or public places and her words will usually stumble over themselves leading her to either stutter or say something stupid when she tries to force herself to say something. The many times she has drawn attention to herself because of her social awkwardness as lead her to dislike interacting with new people. She claims that she doesn't care about how lonely this practice makes her. One only needs to see how happy she becomes when running into her father to know that the loneliness is actually affecting her a lot. She becomes overcome with joy and acts even more immature. Climbing on his back like a young child or not letting herself stray from his side when like a child in an unfamiliar place.

Her social awkwardness doesn't inhibit her ability to interact and keep friends nearly as much as it does with her ability to make friends. In fact, one could say it doesn't affect it at all. This is mostly because just like a certain white mage, Cora is a very open and accepting person. Only her closest friends seem to know that it is very easy to talk to and interact with Cora. The only hard part is breaking through her shell. Her tenderness and positive outlook is very infectious and has a habit of helping her friends through their problems even when Cora doesn't mean to. Cora may not be a sage, but her words still at times manage to help her friends find the answers to their problems.

This side of Cora confirms what Haruhi once said about Cora. That there is more to Cora than a vampire who loves weapons and fighting more than peace. She said that Cora is an incredible person whose personality can shine brightly and motivate others to strive for their best. It will just take time to bring this part of Cora, but in the meantime it will remain dormant. Cora does have a more serious side. When she is hunting or fighting Cora is very serious. Nothing can distract her when she is fighting. She will begin to show a level of intelligence and wisdom that come only from centuries of experience.

Cora isn't without her inner demons. How could she not have more than a few with the type of past she has had. She often shows symptoms of PTSD, major depression, there are rumors of her having Dissociative identity disorder, and many more. She takes medicine to help these things so they don't show themselves often, but sometimes these things will still appear if the trigger is powerful enough. On top of these things she has a phobia of Nosferatu or people who look like him. Just looking at him is enough to make her cry uncontrollably, become paralyzed with fear and anxiety, and sometimes panic attacks when she isn't paralyzed with fear and anxiety.

History
Just like her parents and grandparents Cora was born into slavery. Her slave owner who just happened to be the owner of her parents as well, Nosferatu, was harsh and brutal to her since the moment she was born. When she was only three he was already working her nearly to death. He would only allow her an hour of sleep and if she didn't wake up he would summon horrible monsters who more than were close to mauling her to death. Nosferatu only let her talk to her parents once a week and during those times she was often asleep so her parents' were almost strangers. How Nosferatu treated Cora worsened the older she got. His treatment escalated so much that by the time Cora was five she was begging for the treatment she had when she was three.

Nosferatu treated her so badly that he erased any hope in Cora before she had the chance to know what hope meant. There was no hope in her life. Not even the concept or the dream of hope existed. There was only suffering. Suffering that never ended. Not even death would end the suffering because she knew he would just revive with Necromancer. When she turned seven he had managed to take even the concept of having a life away from her. She was still alive, but his treatment toward her had successfully made Cora objectify herself. In her mind she wasn't alive, she was an object. Something that didn't have a life to make miserable in the first place.

When she turned eight one of Nosferatu's lackeys made the mistake of killing her parents. The pain she felt from that ignite a small very short spark in her. The pain she felt reminded her that she had parents to grieve for in the first place. If she didn't have parents she wouldn't be suffering. Objects didn't have parents, they had creators. For a brief moment she remembered that she wasn't an object, but a living and thinking being. As short as these thoughts lasted it was enough to allow Cora to experience something she had never experienced before. She experienced the feeling of wanting. She wanted to run away. That is what she did, before she started to think of herself as an object Cora tried to run away. She was successful, but while running away one of Nosferatu's vampire lackey's bit her. The conversion into a vampire went by in a flash. One moment she was sick with plague-like symptoms and the next moment she was dead. Her progression from a ghoul into a tiyanak went by quickly as well and before she even knew happened she had drunk enough blood to turn into a full-fledged vampire.

The spark that was once there had long since died and Cora's mental state was back to how it was during her time as a slave. She just sat in the middle of a forest and remained motionless for days. After the five days, she began to feel an uncontrollable hunger. Luckily it was at that moment that first saw the werewolf Odysseus Silver in his wolf form with a human arm in his hand. Odysseus seemed to recognize the look on her face instantly. It was the same look he used to have albeit a lot worse. Odysseus took pity on her and used the human arm and scent of blood to lead her to his house and it wasn't until the door was close that he finally let her drink blood from the arm.

Just how Nosferatu used pain to make her like this, Odysseus used pain to treat her. He purposely got her in situations where she would hurt herself. When she did he didn't do anything. He didn't allow Cora to see him. He just let her sit there and experience pain for hours. After three years had passed Cora, finally began to cry and shortly after that, she finally acknowledged her own existence and life with the words "I am in pain." From there it was just building on that acknowledgement. He taught her how to hope, want, feel, and every other concept Nosferatu took from her. Eventually, he brought back into her life the concept of family when Cora began to call him "Dad" when she was 20.

Cora still had a long way to go. Although she thought of herself as alive, her mental state was like of infant. Meeting Odysseus had been like being reborn and she was unfamiliar with any of the thoughts or emotions she was feeling even though she was 20. Odysseus raised Cora as if she was his own. Odysseus used Cora's immortality to his advantage. As a vampire she was immortal and thus would remain in her prime forever. In this way he didn't have to feel like he was squandering her youth or wasting her time in general. She would have plenty of time to build a life for herself just like any twenty year old would. When she turned 30 her mental age had caught up with her biological age of 20. Her drive to prevent that from happening to someone else led her to ask Odysseus to teach her how to be a huntress. It took 80 years of training before Odysseus sent a letter to the Magic Council to say that she was a ready to become a full-fledged huntress. After the ceremony, Odysseus gave her the hunter weapon Soul Evans as a present. A day later when she joined the same the same guild he was in, he gave her another present. A pin with Bloody Rose's emblem on it.

Cora continued to live with her foster father for the next 15 years though she would occasionally go off on her own for a mission or to explore the world. These times away from home usually lasted for six months. When she was 124 years old she received a special mission directly from the Magic Council telling her to go to Avalon and help the resistance take down the Great Despairs that were roaming around there.

Hunter Skills
Hunter Skills are secretive techniques of supernatural athleticism. These techniques rely on the incredible physical and combative abilities that Cora obtained through her training with Odysseus. These techniques are so impressive that they seem almost magical and not something so simple as an athletic feat. For example, Hunter's Quake that allows Cora to create an earthquake with her strength alone or Raptor Boost that allows her to run quick enough to create a miniature whirlwind. Most of these techniques were passed down to Cora by Odysseus though there are a few that she has invented herself.
 * Vanish: Vanish is a high-speed movement Hunter Skill akin to Reduced Earth that allows Cora to move from point A to point B with as few steps as possible. IbxdgxJleVl8JU.gif When stepping the hunter focuses their weight to the bottom of their feet and releases the tension in a controlled manner. This allows her to move so quickly that she vanish from sight and appears elsewhere as if she had teleport. Unlike Reduced Earth, this technique focuses on being as unnoticeable as possible in more ways than simply just sight, which allows her to easily sneak up on a target. People who have "witness" this technique in use have described it as vanishing from existence.
 * Double Jump: A common feat performed by hunters, which allows Cora to jump in mid-air. Just like flying, Double Jumping increases how mobile Cora is in the air and makes it a lot easier to fight while airborne.
 * Monster Cleaver: Monster Cleaver is a Hunter Skill technique passed down to her by Odysseus. It is a powerful technique, which she often uses as the finishing blow. To use Monster Cleaver she moves the blade of scythe behind her head and tilted at a slight upward angle. She shifts her weight to the heels of her feet so he is leaning into her scythe. By leaning foward and swinging her scythe forward and at a slight downward angle, Cora releases all the tension at once in order to swing her scythe at blinding speed and with so much force that it sends a current of wind that is focused enough that it takes on a sharp edge. This sharp gust of wind is powerful enough to cleave through pillars and buildings alike with great ease. Cora has managed to take down countless beasts with this technique from low-level beasts to beasts with startling strength and durability like wyverns.
 * Grim Reaper's Fissure: This Hunter Skill allows Cora swings her scythe at a downward angle in order to send a large air current that is focused enough to take on a sharp edge. This wind current is a lot more powerful than Monster Cleaver as it is able to split the very earth into to create a giant chasm in its wake to swallow up any opponents endured the air current.
 * Tornado of Death:
 * Cross Slash:
 * Hunter Skill: Air Shield: This basic defensive Hunter Skill allows Cora to thrust the pummel of her scythe with tremendous force. The force of thrust is enough to send an air current at the opponent that is focused enough to protect Cora from attacks. She has used this technique to defend herself from non-magical and magical attacks alike even able to use the technique to block a Slayer's breath attack.
 * Hunter's Quake: Cora slams the pummel of her scythe against the ground with frightening force. The shockwaves produced from the downward thrust is enough to cause the very earth in the surrounding area quake once it enters the ground. The power of the earthquakes can range anywhere between strong enough to only be felt by one person to strong enough to destroy a very small city or town.
 * Witch Hunt: Witch Hunt is technique where Cora performs a simple slash at any angle at high velocities. The velocity of the slash is enough to create friction between the air and blade allowing the blade to heat up rapidly in order to inflict a severe burn upon contact.
 * Flame Slash:
 * Firestorm:
 * Explosive Wave:
 * Bisection of Savage Beast:
 * Raptor Boost: Raptor_Boost.gif Cora runs at her opponent at near-top speed and when she reaches the desired speed uses the built up momentum to launch herself off the ground with titanic force. Once in the air she rockets toward the opponent while spiraling in the air. This allows her to increase the speed of the air current in order to create a miniature tornado. As Cora rockets past the opponent the newly formed tornado launches the opponent across vast distances. In addition to sending the foe flying, the tornado is able to hit the opponent with enough force to obliterate the bones in their body and inflict other harsh blunt force-type injuries.

Vampire Physiology

 * Enhanced Physical Abilities:
 * Biological Immortality and Regeneration:
 * Blood Consumption: As a vampire, Cora's diet consists only of the blood of humans. Her very sensitive sense of taste makes each blood type taste different to Cora. Other factors that contribute to taste is the positioning of her prey's moral compass, their personality, age, type of human like transhuman or Corrupt Human, and gender. According to Odysseus, Cora is a very picky drinker who prefers AB or O type blood from female humans who are in their twenties. The closer the human is to meeting all of these criteria the better their blood tastes to Cora. When she is depressed she likes AB or O type blood from a female who is a Corrupt Human and are in their twenties. This suggests that Corrupt Human's blood could be a vampire's equivalent of alcohol. She isn't picky enough to only drink this specific type of human blood, but when she is drinking another type she won't hide her disgust. When Cora drinks someone's blood she can occasionally adopt some of their personality traits and obtain some of their memories in the form of an involuntary memory. This only seems to happen if her prey was feeling a strong emotion when she was feeding on them and these symptoms only last a day at most.
 * Essence Drain:
 * Enhanced Senses:
 * Mesmerizing Presence:
 * Augmented Vampire Stigma: Just with all vampires Cora's fangs are filled with the residue of her Vampire Stigma in the form of something similar to venom. When she was turned into a vampire her hatred of vampires augmented the residue's potency to unheard of levels. The first thing this changes is the pain of Cora's bites. The augmented potency of the venom makes the bite very painful. Before one of her victims died, she said that it was 50 times more painful than a bullet ant's sting. In order to extend how long Cora's prey feels the pain the venom goes so far as mess with the prey's sense of time by slowing it down greatly. The venom doesn't stop there, its potency is strong enough to kill the opponent if left unchecked. In fact, 80% of the people who Cora bites dies and only the remaining 20% turn into vampires and only 1% of the 20% are still standing because Cora usually kills whoever is converted.
 * Shapeshifting:
 * Advanced Hunting Proficiency:
 * Supernatural Combative Skill:
 * Legendary Scythe Proficiency: 3189682721_1_2_kZf7rGvt.gif Cora is a remarkable scythe user and her skill is perhaps in a league all of its own. She can wield her scythe with unheard of skill and control to the point that it seems there is nothing she can't do with a scythe. Swinging her scythe with enough force to create powerful shockwaves, swinging her scythe around her with enough force to create whirlwind that pulls opponents to her and knocks them away, and much more. She can wield this weapon with pinpoint accuracy and with so much power and speed that it often appears as a blur or become unseeable altogether just because of its speed. Both armies of average enemies and extremely powerful fighters have both fallen before he scythe within minutes, making Cora a very dangerous fighter. What's more, she can even utilize the powerful recoil of the sniper rifle part of her scythe to shoot herself across vast distances or augment the speed and power of her strikes.

Trivia

 * Cora Springfield was inspired by Ruby Rose from RWBY and Rin Okumura from Blue Exorcist.