Brief history: Halley hails from the Noble House of the Arcadia that was prominent in Akras prior to their descent to ambiguity due to Halley’s misgivings. Having idolized Libera and the rest of the captains of the single digit Demon Slayer teams, she enlisted to become a brilliant and strong summoner just like her senpais, to her parents’ dismay. Eventually, her parents supported her after her exemplary performance in training that brought honor to the House of Arcadia.
Halley and another promising lad, Leland, distinguished themselves as fine young summoners that Grahdens took them under his wings to train them personally. What started out as a friendly competition at first eventually led to a budding young love. Everything was fine for young couple prodigies until the first expedition to Ishgria happened. Tragedy fell to the demon slayers that she deeply admired that it shook Halley’s very being for the first time. But through Grahden’s and especially Leland’s care she was able to recover.
When a search and retrieval party was formed to try to rescue or at least confirm what happened to the first Ishgrian expedition teams, the couple volunteered. Leland became one of the captains while Halley became his second in command. The search and retrieval mission was proceeding in earnest until, just like the first expedition team, disaster befall upon them. They were cornered and overwhelmed by hordes of demons and was surrounded by death. In order for some of them to survive and return to the Hall, Leland led a handful of summoners to make a last stand at a long trap-filled bridge in Lem. Leland ordered the then injured Halley to fall back and return to Hall alongside select few summoners still capable to do battle. After a tearful goodbye, Halley retreated. But along the way, many lives were still lost as they were ambushed. Halley was one of the very few survivors on that party. She waited for Leland to return. And after recovering from her injury, she pleaded for another search party which Grahdens has finally turned down.
Having lost her senpais and her significant other, Halley succumbed to despair. It took months for her to function again after much prodding and support from Grahdens and her family. A year later, she returned to active duty as an instructor for young budding summoners. But Halley has already changed, becoming an arrogant, nihilistic trainer that has very high standards, resulting to a lot of drop outs under her tutelage. Halley became notorious as the demon trainer and eventually, nobody wanted to be under her wing. Losing face, Halley was assigned to the reserve corps indefinitely with her very last mission as a demon slayer was when she escorted Grahdens and found a young baby boy in Mistral.
The solitude and her static life filled with dullness simply made her think about the past and fall back to depression. To cope up, she spend her days drinking and gambling, wasting her family’s wealth to the point that she was disowned by her parents. But shortly after, the House of Arcadia met its downfall in which Halley did not mind at all despite being the catalyst to it.
For the last several years, Halley simply went to do odd jobs just to pay her tabs in the tavern and the casino. She was forced to become a bodyguard of many high rolling patrons, never allowed to leave her benefactors’ turf. That was the case until all her debts were paid off a year ago so that she can look out for a particular runaway royalty from a faraway kingdom in the south.
Weapon(s) + innate element: Twin swords Tyrfing and Tyrhung, a regular spear and her limbs.
Fighting style: Having trained by Grahdens and tried mimicking the moves of her senpais (Griff’s batch), Halley has a very loose fighting style that focuses on delivering quick devastating blows to disable her enemies as fast as possible. Nimble and powerful, being trained during the times when Akras had very strict standards for summoners, many had high hopes for her and Leland. Grahdens even speculated that had Halley not lost her way and continued to refine her craft, she could have easily rivaled the First Summoner in terms of strength and wisdom by now and could have been a part of Akras’ inner circle of Elders. Still, in her current unrefined state, she is still a force of nature not to be taken lightly.
Summons: Finkell, Weiss, Mifune, Lario, Luna, Zephu
