Rough sketches of my fourth year team, team PYRE
Info under the cut
Their motif is heroic archetypes and they’re more or less disbanded at the moment with one of the members being deceased and one of them being MIA. They attended Shade academy and Pyre and Leilah still attend the school.
Pyre Abel
Naming: Pyre = a structure usually made of wood, used for burning a body as part of a funeral rite or execution. Abell = variant spelling of “Abel,” a Hebrew name meaning breath
Age: 20
Species: Human
Battle Class: Knight
Weapon: Bertilak - Flame Emitting Dust Broadsword (FEDB)
Semblance: Inferno - He can generate fire and freely manipulate it as well. His body will start to burn if he creates too much fire or makes it burn hot enough with the limit being dependent on how sunny it is. The limit increases when it’s a sunny day and decreases during cloudy weather and night. The burn scars on his body are from when he was first learning how to use his Semblance and the incident which led to the death of Yu.
Description: Pyre is a natural born leader, acting confident and fearless. He’s friendly and outgoing and while he can be hot blooded, he’s a lot smarter than he acts. A lot of this is a facade though and since the death of Yu and Elaine’s disappearance, he’s begun to hide his insecurities even more and has started to become reckless in regards to anything related to that incident.
Allusion: Sir Gawain. Archetype - Ideal Hero/Classical Anti Hero
Partner: Elaine Erion
Fei Yu (Eastern Order)
Naming: Yu (玉) = Chinese word for Jade. Fei (费) = Chinese word for Fee
Age: 19 at death
Species: Human
Battle Class: Rogue
Weapon: Four Stars - Quadruple Dust Short Swords (QDSS) He also kept a pair of pistols on him, but preferred not to use them.
Semblance: Sleight - He could teleport objects between his hands and when he made contact with something, he could place a small glyph on it which allowed him to teleport it into his hands as long as he was able to see it. He could also swap things with glyphs on them with anything he was holding
Description: Yu was relaxed and carefree and was the kind of person that could be friends with anyone. He was clever, but lacked foresight and often didn’t think far enough ahead in battle. Even if he was never serious in school, he took fights seriously and was a lot more reliable than he seemed. He was killed in a joint mission along with most of the members of the other team.
Allusion: Song Jiang. Archetype - Anti Hero
Partner: Leilah Rayhana
Leilah Rayhana
Naming: Leilah = Derived from Leila, which is Arabic for Night. Rayhana = Arabic name meaning “basil”
Age: 20
Species: Human
Battle Class: Dancer
Weapon: Thousand Nights (Shahra, Dunya, Ali, and Cassim) - Bracelet and Anklet mounted Pistol and Chains (BAPC). She also takes up Yu’s swords following his death.
Semblance: Enchantment - She can use dust to give various buffs to her team and her teammate’s weapons. This can either work as just giving them elemental effects or entirely different effects. Gravity can be used to either allow them to stand on the sides of walls or allow Leilah to control the trajectory of projectiles or her chains. Lightning can grant a haste effect. Wind makes the target lighter and Ice can either or make the target slower. She can technically use them on her opponents, but it’s considerably harder for her to do.
Description: Leilah is quiet, cynical, and blunt. She has no problems being brutally honest towards others and is very sharp minded, being the most skilled strategist out of PYRE. While she’s very harsh and cynical, she does care about others and won’t hesitate to go out of her way to help others. She really only shows affection to those she’s close too (Read: PYRE), but following Yu’s death and Elaine’s disappearance, she’s become more closed off, even to Pyre.
Allusion: Morgiana. Archetype - Guile Hero
Partner: Lei Yu
Elaine Erion
Naming: Elaine, old french version of Helen which means “shining light.” Erion = Albanian name, meaning wind from the Ionian sea.
Age: 20 (MIA)
Species: Human
Battle Class: Valkyrie
Weapon: Róta and Mist - Dust Shot Spear and Shield (DSSS) Her boots also can shoot dust, but she mainly uses them for mobility rather than combat.
Semblance: Weightless - She is able to manipulate her weight and can reduce it to almost nothing, which she combines with her boots, which can shoot dust, for mobility. Her strength and the defensive abilities of her Aura decrease as her weight decreases and vice versa and she’ll feel more pain as she makes herself lighter.
Description: Elaine is polite and lady like. She’s generally the most mature out of team PYRE and acts like a mother to everyone except Pyre. That said, she was also fully capable of scaring Yu and Leilah into submission with Pyre the only one not being phased by her. Despite how she normally acts, she loves fighting. She disappeared after the join mission in which Yu was killed.
Allusion: Sigrun. Archetype - Tragic Hero
Partner: Pyre Abel
Other Notes:
Pyre and Leilah’s designs are from after Yu died and Elaine went missing while there’s are from before that incident.
Pyre took the cloth that Yu wore on his arm and wrapped it around his forearm, while Leilah uses Yu’s swords after his death.