[RWBY] Yacka Kiri Linwood Bio

Origin & Influences
Aside from the references in her name, Yacka also has multiple references to the aboriginal ‘dreamtime’ culture.

Nicknames
Linny, Buggie, Hippie, Treehugger.

Colour
Lush green.

Age
19.

Gender
Female.

Species
Yacka is a Spiny Leaf Insect faunus. This outs itself visually in a tail that resembles a set of leaves, which she keeps curled up more often than not.

Year and Team or Professions
Yacka has no profession, as she just recently left her community to discover more of the world.

Affiliations
Her community.

Appearance

Personality

Core Information
Yacka is person with a very poor sense of direction. This can be taken both literally as figuratively. She’s easily lost, not knowing what to do, which is why she’s very attached to things she knows and is familiar with. She’s far from eager to try new things, whether it be a new path to the supermarket or directly meeting new people. Walking into things blindly are things she would never do. Another way she outs that is her attachment to details, and almost has a photographic memory to aid her in that. Her main outlet for her attachments, however, are rituals and habits.

She goes so far with them that she can’t do things without having them done first. She would refuse to shower, or even eat, if someone doesn’t give her the chance to do her rituals. The main purpose of all her rituals are to bring her closer to herself, others and the earth. It’s like a guide to her that makes her understand much more of the world she lives in, even if the stories behind them may not make sense to others.

Social Interaction
Despite all that, Yacka would never force her habits and ideas on them. She knows that her way of life can be viewed as unnecessary to those around her, so she doesn’t lose any respect for those who don’t. However, she does greatly appreciate when others do decide to follow her in her traditions, even if just once. The opposite is also true, try to stop her, or be very judgemental about them, and she will become angry, aggressive, even.

Thanks to her upbringing, she strongly believes in the trust and acceptance towards others. She would never disrespect anything or anyone without given a proper reason to, even grimm, though on a different level.

Combat Behaviour
As a fighter her respectful nature shines as well, she’d never play dirty, and wouldn’t tolerate others to do so either. She generally enjoys a good spar, seeing it as manner to have fun, especially with her weapon. Grimm are a slight exception to that, as, while she accepts their existence, however doesn’t tolerate them hurting that of others. She kills mercyfull, trying to kill without inflicting pain or to relieve pain as fast as possible.

Exceptions, Hobbies, Perks
Examples of her Rituals:
- When meeting a new person, she touches foreheads with them. This symbolizes not only meeting a new body, but a new mind as well.
- Before eating, she clenches her fists and places them against each other, palms touching. She then points her thumbs up next to each other and bites them. It’s like a sacrifice to her, a way for her to show her remorse for feeding of other living creatures.
- When she takes a bath, she uses ice cold water, believing that as the heat leaves her body, so do her wrongdoings and feels more clean than she would with warm water.

Backstory

Hunting

Aura and Semblance
Yacka's semblance is referred to as Nature Spirit. it allows her to change her outer body structure into one similar to a plant.  Her skin becomes bark-like, making it much harder and more durable, while her hair and tail resemble leaf-like structures. Because it only changes the outer body structure, Yacka keeps her vital organs and skeleton, however her muscles do change. It isn’t a very expensive semblance, surprisingly enough, only needing a moderate aura cost to activate it, and a small drain to maintain it.

While it doesn't have a lot of offensive potential, it’s optimal for camouflage, and boosts her otherwise weak defenses immensely. Although obvious, it should be said that the camouflage only works in nature-filled environments and the bark isn’t unbreakable. The only notable drawback is that, because of her muscles are also being affected by her semblance, her speed and mobility is slightly limited.

Weapon
Yacka’s weapon is a dust-infused didgeridoo called Hollow Voice. 
It mainly contains wind dust, lots of it, which assists her in using the weapon, as well as enabling her to use it as an instrument. It strengthens her blows to the point of using it as an attack. Aside from wind dust, it also enjoys earth dust, and accents of water and fire dust. The dust is placed on top of the flute, giving it a sharp edge when used physically, almost like an obsidian sword.

Hollow Voice serves another purpose, that of a blowpipe. Again supported by the wind dust, Yacka is able to fire darts at opponents. The tips are either covered in dust or filled with paralyzing poison, storing enough to paralyse someone’s limb entirely after two shots. Despite the fact that her weapon has a ranged function, she hates using it. In a fight, the combattants should come face to face to decide who's stronger, rather than rely on a decent aim. Yacka feels that the ability to aim is no measure for one's combat skill, and dislikes people who depend on range.

The weapon doesn’t have any transformations aside from a pocket form, and is often carried in a camo-patterned duffel bag on Yacka’s back. The bag also holds her darts and space for her traditional orange community's clothing.

Fighting Style
Yacka's fighting style relies mostly on dust, whether it be for elemental attacks or to use the sharp edge of the crystals for bashing attacks. She fights most often in close quarters, and is rather predictable once you've seen her perform a couple of time. She's attached to certain tactics and moves, which she uses to counter her opponents. A first fight against her is difficult thanks to her ability to counter very well, however a second will be much easier thanks to said predictability. She's hard to convince to try another tactic, actually needing to be forced on the brink of defeat untill she would.