Tempera Arcenciel

Overview

• Quotes

  

  "Looks like you could use a little more color in your life!" -Tempera Arcenciel

• Overview

  • Name: Tempera Arcenciel
  • Gender: Female
  • Played by: NEET
  • Species: Human
  • Occupation: Huntress / Freelance Artist
  • Residence: Haven Academy
  • Team Affiliation: HVST (Harvest)
  • Height: 170cm (5'7")
  • Weight: Light
  • Body Type: Small
  • Orientation: Disaster Lesbian
  • Alignment: Chaotic Good
• Apparel: Tempera dresses in an overblown manner meant to grab people's attention, with an eye-hurting amount of pink, white, and smaller amounts of other bright colors. Oversized light pink gloves that give more control and dexterity than they let on; she wears them on most occasions. A pair of leggings of a shade of pink slightly lighter than her shirt, and light brown loafers. Her hair is interesting; her hair is not naturally a rainbow spectrum; ordinarily, it’s a three-stripe pattern of red, green, and blue. She has a lot of trouble getting her hair to look "just so," since she dyes each colored section of hair individually, waiting for each section to dry before starting another one in order to prevent blending. She's very fussy about it, and won't stand to have even a single drop of dye in the wrong place. Thanks to this, her morning routine can take hours. Her scarf is her favorite accessory, primarily because she sewed the rainbow bits on herself.
  
  Weapon: Achromatopsia (Greek for “color blind”), a light silver staff shaped like a huge paintbrush. It’s about five feet long. Much like a paintbrush, the tip is capped with long, thin filaments that serve the same function as the hairs on a regular paintbrush, albeit on an obviously larger scale. Achromatopsia can be used as a bludgeoning weapon or as a conduit for her Semblance, but more so the latter. When used as a conduit, the Dust-paint coalesces on the tip of the “brush” and lingers in the air briefly if she swings it. She can also paint surfaces with it, in which case the Dust-paint takes effect on contact.
  
  Personality: Whimsical, cheerful, constantly in her own little world. Always trying to keep herself entertained. Tempera has a very vivid imagination, which works well with her Semblance. Perhaps because of her imagination, she's incredibly superstitious: she is a fervent believer in ghosts and spirits. Possesses an incredibly creative and inquisitive mind; excellent at logic puzzles. She's prone to making jokes or quips whenever an opportunity arises, and she isn't afraid to deliver a witty riposte to anyone who tries to challenge her in that department. No verbal filter; she says whatever’s on her mind, regardless of social appropriateness or whether or not people want to hear it. She's easily distracted, and often zones out in class thinking about this or that.

• About Her Semblance

  Tempera's Semblance is called Color Change. It is an Active Semblance, meaning she must consciously choose to activate it.
  
  Initially, the ability to change the color of things may sound like an incredibly underpowered Semblance, but Tempera makes the best of it with its deceptively wide variety of utility. The paint she carries is specially-made paint - it’s around 50% dust by mass. The formula for the other 50% is her own custom paint blend, since no run of the mill store-bought paint works well enough. She carries more than enough paint on her person at all times; she carries both blank (uncolored) paint and colored paint; that way, she's always ready for anything. If she's in a pinch, she can synthesize more "blank paint" by drawing from her own Aura, but she only does this if she's absolutely out of options.
  
  The paint has various effects, depending on the color of the paint and the Dust that was used to make it. Red paint (red Dust) is the obligatory area control. It bursts into flames the second it contacts the ground. Like petroleum jelly, only it doesn't stick to people like Petroleum Jelly does. This is the "art" of war. Green paint (green Dust, or mixed blue and yellow Dust, either one works) creates currents of wind that'll rotate individuals in a circular tornado pattern. Orange paint (mixed red and yellow Dust) becomes solid earth that can act as a bridge or as a barrier to soak up attacks/projectiles. White paint turns into a glossy substance that reflects projectiles. Violet becomes a poisonous marsh; a tar pit that spews toxic fumes and slows down anyone unfortunate enough to step in it, in addition to the toxins which weaken their Aura — the toxins aren't strong enough to inflict death, however. Blue is a water-like fake wall which appears real, but is actually pass-through. Indigo becomes an icy surface on contact with the ground, making movement difficult. It can also be used to counteract Red paint if the latter is used wrongly, and vice versa. Black paint is a dark void that robs the gift of sight from anyone inside of it. It also can't be seen through from the outside, so it can be used to mask activity. However, if the enemy thinks to do so, they can also use this to their advantage, since she can't see what's going on on the other side of it any better than they can. It will override all other paints. The color black does not discriminate between friend and foe - it sees only color, color that it wishes to blot out. Yellow paint creates a magnetic field where it is spread. It weighs down certain metal equipment in its area of effect, pulling it to the ground -- naturally, this excludes Temp's Achromatopsia staff, but anyone wearing heavy metal armor had best be careful, lest they be weighed down and immobilized.