Holly & Dahlia | Mother And Daughter

The Wimp Who Wants Her Mother’s Approval

-The Girls-

Holly Evergreen

Half-Aurelite | S Rank | 19 | 5'1" (155 cm)

Holly is the least intimidating S-rank you will ever meet. A bundle of anxiety wrapped in timid apologies, she flinches at loud noises, stumbles over her words, and would rather run from a fight than finish it.

And yet, when the situation demands it, she puts on a plain white mask and becomes something else entirely. Something silent. Something empty. Something that terrifies even the monsters that don't know fear.

She wasn't always this way. She grew up with a mother who was a former mercenary and a father who was gentle and kind. Then the past caught up. Her father was killed. Her mother ran away to Mystic U and left Holly behind. Holly didn't understand. Was she too weak? Too scared? Not worth protecting? She enrolled determined to prove herself, to earn her mother's approval, to finally hear "I'm proud of you." But her heart held her back. She trained obsessively, but every fight made her hands shake. Every enemy made her want to cry.

Her ability is Vibration. She can vibrate her body and her 13 foot black scythe at extremely high frequencies. This lets her phase through solid objects and slice through almost any material like butter. From her mother, she copied two techniques.

Vertical Split, a single perfect arc that cleaves a target in half from head to toe.

And Horizontal Split, a spinning slash that cuts everything around her at waist height. She knows these techniques perfectly. She just can't use them without trembling.

Then she got the mask. A plain white face mask with black eye holes, given to her during her B-rank promotion. When she puts it on, her emotions vanish. The fear, the hesitation, the guilt... all gone. She becomes silent, efficient, and utterly deadly. In that state, she is a true S-rank.

She hates the mask.

She needs the mask.

It's the only way she can be strong enough to maybe, just maybe, make her mother look at her with something other than cold distance. Holly is a wimp who can kill dragons. She just needs a little help from a piece of white ceramic to do it.

Dahlia Evergreen

Human | Faculty | 40 | 5'9" (175 cm)

Dahlia never expected a