What's with that red bow thing, anyway?

NAME: Erika Walker
AGE: 15
OCCUPATION:
She works various chores around her school. Assisting various teachers with whatever they need. In exchange, she is provided a stipend from the school.

APPEARANCE:
Gold eyes and blonde hair, her strange eye color is due to her high magical ability. She keeps her hair tied back into a really long ponytail. She normally uses a red bow to keep her hair up, but due to a certain teacher it was deemed "too bright", and "distracting". So she uses a plain black one during school business. She actually very much likes having long hair, but she has to keep it up so it doesn't get in the way while she's working. If she's out with friends she tends to wear it down.

She sports a thin and somewhat small frame, standing at 5' 3". As far as clothing and fashion go, she likes wearing shorts, t-shirts, hoodies, and basically anything that's not a skirt or dress. As a result, she procured herself several sets of the male Al-Revis uniform and modified them to suit her tastes. (And promptly got scolded for it.)

GIFT:
While technically she could be a wizard due to her high magically ability. The thought of pouring over books and scrolls of arcane lore bored her to no end. So, she picked a somewhat more exciting type of magic, Alchemy. Rather than cast magic like a spellcaster, the alchemist captures her own magic potential within liquids and extracts she creates, infusing chemicals with virulent power to grant her impressive skill with poisons, explosives, and all manner of magic through extracts.

SPELLS:
Alchemists are not only masters of creating mundane alchemical substances, but also of fashioning magical potion-like extracts in which they can store spell effects. In effect, an alchemist prepares her spells by mixing ingredients into a number of extracts, and then “casts” her spells by drinking, throwing, or otherwise using the extract. When an alchemist creates an extract, she infuses the concoction with a tiny fraction of her own magical power. This enables the creation of powerful effects, but also binds the effects to the creator. If an extract leaves the possession of the original creator for too long a time, it becomes inert and loses it's power. Though, there is a method to prevent this effect, however Erika is simply unaware of it.

Erika herself keeps her list of Alchemic formulas in a leather bound notebook she makes sure to have with her at all times. The notes inside contain the formulas she has learned. Although the notes are written so chaotically, and using her own shorthand code that makes it almost undecipherable to anyone else.


SCHOOL: Al-Revis, School of Alchemy

PERSONALITY:
When you ask just about anyone what Erika is like. You'll usually get the same answer, insane. While this is somewhat true, most people say it as a bit of an exaggeration. It is true that she is very reckless, and in most situations comes up with a very psychotic solution. She's also an incredibly bad judge of personal boundaries, and is stubborn as an ox. As such she will usually speak her mind, and when she makes up her mind. It's made up, and there's no changing it.

While those cover some of Erika's more controversial traits (You know, the ones that get her in trouble). She's always very enthusiastic and hardworking, If only a little bit clumsy. Though she does have the tendency to blow things waaaaaay out of proportion. Often over exaggerating things. Which goes hand-in-hand with her somewhat short fuse. This doesn't mean she's prone to anger or rage, it's just incredibly easy to get her riled up. Leading to the nickname her fellow students (and some teachers) have given her, spitfire.

When Erika is with her friends, she can actually be very sweet and thoughtful. And she's much more prone to actually listening to someone if she likes, and or respects them. Her somewhat wild nature always leads her to being the life of the party in any given group.

BIOGRAPHY:
Born in New Jersey to a very mundane couple, Erika was for a time, a very normal child. It wasn't until around age 3 when her eye color suddenly shifted after one of her tantrums. Her parents started to get concerned, and even sent her to the hospital. While the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with her, he concluded that something was definitely not right. After that, due to a series of strange occurrences surrounding her it was soon discovered that she was a very well attuned to magic, and potentially a very powerful mage.

After that Erika's parents eventually relinquished her to the one who had discerned her magically ability. A wizard by the name of Akira Sasaki, a teacher at one of the many schools in Academy City. Sasaki then took her with him, and began to raise her himself. He spent his free time helping her learn to control her abilities, and teaching her the basics of magic. Due to him being natively Japanese, and Erika already starting to learn English. He decided on letting her finish learning English, and then set her to work on Japanese. Due to this she usually uses Japanese honorifics when addressing people, because that's what he insisted on.

Because of the fact that Erika was often left to her own devices, she learned how to entertain herself. She developed a somewhat mischievous personality, even sneaking into Sasaki's study many times. When she finally become old enough to enroll in a magic school, Sasaki sat her down and had a serious talk about what she wanted to do. Erika herself had been investigating the various forms of magic for years. And when he asked, she already had her answer.

Needless to say, Erika felt a bit guilty about not enrolling to the school Sasaki taught at. But he taught the exact kind of magic she couldn't stand. The kind that you wear a big robe and read books all day. She wanted more excitement to it. Though, to she still keeps in touch with him, and he's the first she goes to if she needs some serious advice about something.

Currently Erika is enrolled in Al-Revis School of Alchemy. While she is very gifted in talent, and does not lack for enthusiasm. Her troublesome nature makes it so that the staff have to pay special attention to her, especially when left to her own devices with dangerous ingredients lying around. Her overwhelming curiosity makes her a great Alchemist, and she works very hard at her studies. (Most of the time.)