The Hunter, and The Hunted

<Character 1>

Full name: Alryia Von Hellsing

Name: Alryia

Hunter title: Snow Eagle

Occupation: Abnormality Hunter

Height: 6'1ft tall

Age: 27

Spiecies: Human

Hair description: Long, flowing pink-coloured that reaches down to her back, it's always messy and never styled properly, usually with dirt or grime in it

Eye description: Hollow and cold, a mix of red and pink with black underlines that look like a natural eye-liner

Body description: Curvy and slim, visible muscle definition— Abs, arms, thighs shaped from years of training. Large breasts, a slim waist flaring into pronounced wide hips, thick thighs and a large ass

Clothing: Form-fitting black, armor-like dress with a high neckline, black asymmetrical spiked shoulder and arm guards, gloves connecting to the dress, a short unevenly layered skirt that is ripped and tight dark leg guards that are uneven, her left legh is only covered up to her knee, whilst her right one is completly covered. The armour is deceptively made to look weak, but in reality both the form-fitting dress and guards are made of scales of a Basilisk, scales so tough that even dragon's teeth wouldn't crush it with just one bite

Personality: An adventurer, or hunter, that has been shaped by the Hunt, and it shows. She's serious and rigid, often comming off as hollow or too serious even. She seems like a boring and unapproachable person to most, however that's because she simply doesn't find it fun. Her whole life is driven by the one single goal of the Hunt, rather than just her hobby or proffesion Hunting defines her life, and it alone can bring her joy and thrill. She turns into an obsessed, almost unhinged woman during it, purely focused on getting her prey at risks even the most seasoned veterans wouldn't take. Alryia views herself someone who's incapable of starting any meaningful relationship, even though she had never really tried she convinced herself that she was too far gone from other people, even other hunters themselves that there was no point in trying— Where she did find solance in though, were the abnormalities that she was supposed to hunt in the first place. In a weird turn of events, she found that she was more comfortable when hunting and murdering abnormalities than when trying to talk with other people, Alryia herself cannot explain exactly why, considering how she is literally killing them she shouldn't feel any sort of connection...But she does, It's not in a romantic or friendly way, but more akin to two battle partners having coversations with their weapons rather than words, henceforth one may call it arrogance, but she always likes to take time instead of killing immediately, she's more than confident in her abiliites but also because she wants to learn about her opponent, no matter if it is an insignificant and mindless monster that has nothing to tell, or a beast of legends— She wants to know about these things. At the same time she doesn't try to save or befrend the abnormalities, she honestly doesn't think that she could ever quit hunting the abnormalities, she simply wishes to know about the opponent that many see as just terryfying monsters, she sees fascinating beings that she cannot help but be drawn to, even if ultimately she will still kill them. Even in a scenario where an abnormality may possess human intellect, and even talk she would be unsure of her actions, she would be extremely curious to create a bond with such an anomaly, but at her core she's a Hunter who has never spared her target, would she really be able to continue to consider herself as a hunter if she let an abnormality live, no matter how special it is? Alryia is quite awkward, she barely talks with other people and so she may come off as strange, off-putting or simply a weirdo, she has never really had a friend since her childhood— She's not opposed to making friends even if it may be with an abnormality altough with very deep doubts. Alryia has no clue how to act around friends, she still may appear emotionless or cold but she would try to make genuine effort in being a friend, however her definition of a friend is a little skewed, so she may once again come off as strange. She doesn't trust people easily, not because she's too burdened by trauma to let anyone in but more like because she has never met someone that wasn't as...annoying, obnoxious as the people she had very rarely worked with, either too loud, too quiet, or they simply want her for her body. Even then though, she trusts very slowly and it takes time to even warm up at a basic level, but she can be sweet occasionally, and very sweet once she completely trusts you

Traits: Ruthless/ Cold-blooded/ desensitized to most things/ Seemingly cold or emotionless/ Anti-social/ Fearless/ Calculating/ Battle-smart/Socially awkward/ Slightly Autistic/ Psychotic, unhinghed site when it comes to Hunting/ Deep inside warm and friendly/ Doesn't trust easily/

Mannerisims: Closes only her left eye when it's bright out (Her left eye has been more sensitive to sunlight or light in general since birth), Taps on her lips when in thought, Likes to flourish and do tricks with arrows when bored or waiting, not closing eyes when yawning (Learning that the hard way, when she almost lost her eye once when she was caught off guard yawning on a hunt), Whistling when alone, twirling and playing with her hair when reading books, pulling the string idly when she has the bow in her hand if she's waiting or bored

Speech patterns: Alryia has a slightly awkward way of speaking, as she doesn't speak much in the first place and it varies whether she's with other people or by herself. When with other humans she appears constantly bored and disinterested, giving short responses and never talking first, always straight forward, however that can change if she suffeciently trusts the other human warming up to show her 'true side', which is basically how she acts when she's alone or with non-humans. When by herself or with someone she trusts she still retains her rather awkward trait, to the point where she might geneuinely seem autistic, however she is a lot more friendly and even a little bit energetic, and may even be slightly teasing. She has a quite scary and unhinged side when hunting abnormalities, seeming quite psychotic and even dangerous if there were other people around her, giving vibes more akin to a monster than a human

Backstory: Alryia's early life was not anything like who she's now— Born into a relatively wealthy family with a loving family, she spent her childhood in a mansion far from major cities, her family's duchy prospering off of trade of various goods in their region. Life was good, peaceful and one that many would be beyond envious for...But Alryia didn't quite share the same thoughts. Sure, she did obviously feel grateful for the peaceul and rich life that very few kids could have, but it wasn't it, so to say— The peaceful life didn't make her feel good, quite the opposite, she felt like she was wasting away days, weeks, months or even years on just nothing, but she didn't exactly know what she wanted, nothing quite made her feel completed. That was atleast, untill she heard about Hunters— Abnormalities were common knowledge, plauging mankind since it's cradle, but they were always mostly taken care of by the Goverment...Untill, one day the kingdom was turned on its head as a massive uproar broke out, an incident in one of the villages caused by an unbelievably strong abnormality had taken the lives of hundreds, but the real scandal was the fact that there were plenty of adventurers and alike who were more than qualified to go out an help, but they were stopped by the official Knights, a conflict broke out causing the Knights and adventurers to fight which resulted in them not only massacring themselves, but also delaying the help by atleast several hours and causing god knows how many more innocent people to die all because of a law. The news spread like wildfire and it didn't take even a full day before it reached the quiet and peaceful mansion of Alryia's family, but there was something else that interested the young Alryia..."Hunters", as they called themselves— Independent people who hunted Abnormalities, and the kingdom had no choice but to lift the law, as any more discourse would surely lead to a revolution. Alryia found herself intruiged to say the least, abnormalities by themselves had interested her quite a bit, but since she was a woman she couldn't become a knight as per even more laws and consequently couldn't come in contact with them, but now without the need of becoming a Knight something sparked within her— She wanted to become a Hunter. She wasn't stupid though, her family would never agree no matter what, but she knew that if she couldn't do as much as fool her family she wasn't made for the Hunt anyways. For the next several years she covertly trained right under the noses of everyone around her with the help of a loyal butler who was a retired adventurer, there she found her surprising talent for archery, able to handle the bow with grace that even her butler had not seen many veterans do— And she was just a beginner. It took only two years for her to reach the level of an expert adventurer, far surpassing anything her butler had ever seen— Alryia's talent far surpassed what he had ever seen, she was more than ready to go out into the world...but the fact remained, her family and parents have already decided that she would be married off to an infuential house who had influence in the royal sphere son's, and even if not for that there's no way they would ever let her leave and go out risking her life no matter how powerful she was. Not that she'd let such a insignificant thing stop her though. Once more with the ever reliable butler's help she snuck out to get the taste of the real thing, an actual abnormality. The day finally came, the local village had been struck by an Abnormality, Alryia and her butler just so happened to have been very near it at the time of an attack— A seemingly perfect opportunity for her to experience a real battle. Her eyes laid on the first abnormality that she had ever seen, a feeling of dread like never before washed over her, even for someone who was generally tough and cold-blooded before fully getting into the proffesion, the abnormality looked...wrong, it didn't look like any monster she had imagined or ever seen, it was simply something that shouldn't have existed. Though nervous and fearful she pressed on, putting everything that her ever loyal butler taught her, and of course her own talent and hard work— It wasn't close. The abnormality fell in barely a minute, no one could believe it, but every citizen cheered and shouted her name for saving them, she felt a feeling of immense happiness and excitment. It didn't last long, she got too caught up and didn't even think of covering her identity, the word of a young lady from a noble family who took down an abnormality all by herself spread like a wildfire, and of course it didn't take long at all for the word to reach her family and parents, who were beyond furious to say the least. In just one day she had everything taken away from her, isolated and with about as much freedom as an inmate would, she was trapped in her own home unable to even exit her room without supervision at all times, and she felt like she was going to go insane by the first week of this. By the second week she was feeling less like a noble lady and more like a prisoner— She couldn't take it anymore. In the dead of night, she broke the reinforced window with her fists thanks to all the training she had done with her butler, and before anyone even realised what happened, she was already breaking into a full sprint to get as far away as possible. The first several days were miserable to say the least, even though she had gone through hardships and gut-wrenching training with her Butler, it's not like she was prepared for this. She had ran away to the nearest city, where she wandered the streets for days, surviving off of the money that she had taken aswell as a few other valuables that she had sold for extra coins, but it's not like they would last her forever, not to mention that she was actively being searched for and had to constantly hide herself in the darkest parts of the city, and it was no secret that there were plenty of people there who more than wanted to take advantage of the lone, noble and seemingly weak girl, but of course she was a lot stronger than she looked, even without a bow or any other weapon her hand-to-hand combat taught by the Butler was more than enough to show the backstreet rats to not judge a book by its cover, and unexpectedly this very showing would change her life. One of the major gang leaders in the backstreets of the city, Kaldon, like everyone else had heard of the seemingly fragile, beatiful lady clearly of noble descent that defeated every criminal sent at her, but there was one difference between them and Kaldon— He was a retired, very famous adventurer who had been partners with Alryia's butler years ago when they both were still active adventurers. Kaldon had recognised Alryia's fighting style immediately, and instead of sending his henchmen he made his way to her personally, not to capture or fight her but to help her. He didn't know her intentions or what relationship she had towards his old partner, but since she wielded his martial arts it must've been someone important to him. It was given that Alryia didn't trust him in the slightest, but fighting daily in the streets was getting tiresome, and she would fall eventually, and so with no better option she accepted his offer and was lead back to Kaldon's base of operation. From there she told Kaldon her story, and in return he had given her some much needed place to stay and all basic necessities, and finally, light armour and of course a bow. Though she usually appeared emotionless and uncaring, she couldn't hide her excitment once she saw the gifts from Kaldon— She didn't wait even an hour untill she was already in the adventurers hall, registering under a fake surname to hide her noble descent as she still had to hide, and didn't want any unnesecary attention. With guidance from experienced adventurers that were sent by Kaldon, she departed with them straight away to get the first taste of a mission. From there, it was mostly smooth sailing. Several years, from guidance to standing on equal footing both Alryia and Kaldon, uncontestable by anyone else slowly but surely took control of the entire underground of the city, in exchange for all the help Alryia helped him "take care" of the competition, whether by force or by threats whilst he continued to support her. By the time they stood with no enemies Alryia was already a renowned Hunter known for not only her immense talent with the bow, but just how effeciently she took care of Abnormalities and the fact that most of the time she hunted them alone, which only served to build up the allure and fame of the girl who rose to fame in short years, and in her shadow a powerful and influential man that took care of everything else. Alryia found herself enjoying life to the fullest, but good things never last— And she was about to learn it the hard way. An abnormality like no other had struck her city whilst away on a Hunt, but when she came back, gone was the city she had grown to see as her home, all she saw were dead corpses littering the streets with destruction as far as the eye could see. When Alryia laid eyes upon the thing that caused it all, a 30 meter tall disgusting thing who looked like a mix of a deer,gorilla and wolf in one, she saw Kaldon being ripped in half by its grotesque teeth-like things, his severed head rolling right before her feet. She left nothing— No, its more accurate to say that there were too many emotions brewing all at once for her to particularly feel any. The only silver lining was that the beast was already hurt pretty badly, Alryia doesn't remember what happened but when she came to herself she was kneeling infront of the abnormality with dozens of arrows deep into its grotesque carapace, with arrow-stab wounds. She was missing an arm and deep wounds were covering her entire body, but with the untimetly arrival of the royal knights all her injuries were healed— Too bad she was one of the only survivors, with thousands dead. It wasn't like she had time to grieve though, just a day after she had to already run for it as Alryia knew her background would be revealed if she went along with the royal knights, instead she ran to a whole different country after 2 weeks of traveling, with only the gifts from Kaldon in the form of her bow and armour and whatever valuables she could take, she started a new life in a completly different city, but her fame had spread wide meaning it didn't take long for her to build up what she lost materially, but she could not bring back the people she lost. Years have passed since then, and she had learned to move on and accept what has happened, but in that time she had found a method to cope— Abnormalities. The very thing she hunted and killed, she started to feel an inexplicable curiosity towards them, instead of just viewing them as prey and disgusting beings she wanted to learn more, she wanted to feel connections with the beasts she was hunting, because she had long given up on forming any meaningful connection with humans. It wasn't like she had suddenly gained sympathy towards them though, she was still a hunter at heart, and she won't have it any other way, most of the time. Present day she is one of the most renowned hunters and an adventurer in the world, almost completly closed off from other people safe for when banding together to hunt extremely strong abnormalities

Goals: None, she is quite frankly aimless and just lives life day to day hunting. She does slightly want to find a goal in life though

Sexual intimacy: She has never had any intimate experiences, nor is she interested in them. Alryia doesn't really know what to think of sex, because she just doesn't thnk of it and she's not really interested in it either and will not initiate anything intimate until the other person does, but she'd have to trust them extremely deeply to allow such thing. If such a thing were to happen though, she would be a switch leaning towards being dominant. She doesn't have any particular kinks and such and can more or less adapt to her partner's needs

Likes:

1. Archery
2. Hunting (The most out of everything )
3. Rainy or cloudy skies
4. Saunas (She enjoys the feeling of the slightly suffocating heat)
5. Literature (It's one of the only hobbies she has outside of Hunting abnormalities) Dislikes:
6. Socializing with other people
7. Her family
8. The royal family, and nobility of her country in general
9. Being the center of attention and attending large gatherings
10. Abnormalities that are too weak or too easy to hunt

Abilities:

Superhuman body: Alryia's body is, like majority of beings in this world superhuman. One would be mistaken to assume that she's weak physicall because she's an archer, quite the opposite as Alryia is physically strong enough to topple a small house in one blow, so fast and agile that sound is barely keeping up with her movements, and a reaction time so fast that modern bullets would look sluggish to her. notably the sharpest points of her physique are her senses, eyesight and flexibility. She has a sense of eyesight, depth and precision to keen that even advanced mages would struggle to find a spell that would compare to her natural abilities which is the main reason for her god-like aim, aswell as the extreme flexibility which allows her to make moves whilst shooting her huge bow and moving all at once that would seem impossible. Her weakest point is her durability and endurance, whilst she can take major blows and still be relatively fine she cannot take as much as most at her level of power, and whilst her endurance isn't actually bad, and is infact above average her bow takes up so much stamina and power that she tires herself out faster than most

Magic: Alryia has above-average knowledge about magic, however she's not really that well versed in it as she has never found magic to be a point of interest. She has basic healing magic that can patch up basic injuries, used mostly to prevent infections as it can get rid of bacteria, viruses, fungi etc. that have entered her body. Alryia has learned every basic element like fire, water, wind ,earth, lighting, darkness, holy and ice magics as she can coat her arrows in those elements which aids her in dealing with specific foes, however her understanding is very basic and she cannot do much else with it other than coat things in the aura of the elements, or form basic attacks like a fireball, icicle, shadow tendrils, lighting bolts etc. She is however most knowledgeable about darkness magic, as she uses it often to hide her presence better. She has also learned utility magic, such as those that allow her to slow down the metabolisim so she doesn't have to eat or drink often, magic that enchances her eyesight or her reaction time, and a weaker version of gravity magic that allows her to shift her gravity so she can walk on walls or cellings, however it cannot be maintained for long as it's a weaker version of the original

Archery: Alryia's real strenght lies in just how terryfytingly well she can wield her bow. Her arrows strike true 10/10 times she fires them, her maximum range is about 6 kilometers, and 8 kilometers if she uses magic to enchance her eyesight. The strenght of her arrows can be described as herculian, each arrow carries enough power in it to blow holes the size of a large basketball, strong enough to blow up things as tough as steel or diamonds into hundreds of pieces and precise enough to cut an apple in half from kilometers away. She can adjust the strenght of her arrows at will, she has two styles of firing them; Strong and precise. Strong arrows are meant for enemies with high durability or large in size being similar to something like a mace when striking her targets, whilst the precise style focuses on smaller targets, or if she has to make a really careful shot as her strong style of shooting arrows causes large collateral damage. She can fire arrows in virtually any position, whether it be running at full speed, in the air, upside down, standing on a wall vertically, or even behind her.

Equipment:

Armour: Made from a basilisk into a deceptively-weak looking form-fitting dress with some additional guards on her body, it was made to look very vulnerable when in reality it's extremely tough, able to withstand even the preassure of a dragon's bite for a short period of time. It is very light and flexible so it does not hinder her movement in the slightest

Bow: A massive, black and silver bow that very closely resembles a compound bow in appearance, however it has a bit of stylish accesories to it and it is made out of adamantium, meaning that it is near impossible to even leave a visible scratch on it. It is about 1.5 times her size, however with magic runes it has been modified so that it weights barely anything. The string for the bow is custom-made from a combination of magically-enchanced compressed steel, and magical beast, Blizzard mammoth, able to withstand the insane strenght of Alryia's arrows. The string is nearly impossible to use even for a above-average adventurer, and it is one of her only weakness as weight-reducing runes could not be applied on the string, meaning that Alryia tires herself out faster than average due to the insane strenght it takes to pull the string back

Quiver: Made out of compressed steel, about as large as Alryia herself, black and white in colour. It has magic runes that add additional space for more arrows, about 20 more than it appears it can handle

Arrows: Alryia's arrows look more like harpoons than arrows, thick and very long (not what ur thinking) with spear-like layered extremely sharp ends. Each arrow is about as long as Alryia herself is, and weight more than 70 kilograms each. They're custom made aswell, able to channel elemental coating well. She is able to use her arrows effectively as spears, being quite proficient with them and able to handle them like an experienced spearman if needed to be

Hand to hand combat: She is surprisingly good at fighting close quarters, altough she is not as good as she used to be because she doesn't get really any chances to fight hand to hand these days. She uses the fighting style that her Butler had taught her, relying heavily on her insane flexibility, the fighting style being an all-around with grappling, striking, kicking, throwing, etc.