Name: Smith, Sella
Nickname/Alias:
Magic Name: Veritas584 - "the one who renders fantasy unto reality"
Position: Student
Faction: Part-Time Research Assistant
Seat Number: 13
Nationality: Indeterminate Eurasian Blood, Finnish National
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Blood Type: A

Sella is one of those increasingly rare occurrences in which an occupation-based last name actually indicates the family members' occupations. Naturally, it comes as no surprise that her family consists of skilled smiths. She was born and raised in a port town in Finland, among the families of the other members of her family's magic 'cabal' of sorts. Different from traditional cabals, rather than devote their efforts into devising spells based off of a specific mythos, they specialize in the construction of magical tools for other cabals around the world. So instead of magicians, really it would be more accurate to say that they're a bunch of magical arms dealers. Naturally, Sella's upbringing included the necessary training in order to initiate her into the magic side and mold her into a capable member of their group. In that regard, their expectations had been completely exceeded.

From a young age, Sella displayed great talent in the cabal's craft and, as the years passed and her talents were refined. However, she had also become a bit more than a simple prodigy: she had become a zealot obsessed with constructing tools. Her alien mindset born from idee fixe alienated her from her family and peers, but that didn't bother someone who didn't think much of others in the first place. What bothered her was her own dissatisfaction with her capabilities in spite of her prodigious skill. The efficiency of a traditional forge was insufficient, the accuracy of hammered metal was insufficient, the quality materials was insufficient... There had to be a better way to bring forth the ideal result envisioned by her mind. So she kept refining her skills. Mastery born through endless repetition. But even that wasn't enough. It seemed that no amount of crafting skill could reach perfection.

But that was fine. A mortal may despair, but a magician could adapt. So, drawing from the power of mythic blacksmiths and the properties of magical forges throughout legend, Sella devised a personal magic format by which she could achieve the ideal products, albiet not in the way she would have preferred. A few years passed and, despite showing no interest in joining Hybrid Academy or really any schooling at all, Sella was enrolled into Hybrid Academy. However, that's just a side-effect of her real purpose here: her family owes somebody in Academy City and didn't want to send anyone normal.

Absentminded, Stoic, Workaholic
A girl who possesses a complete, singleminded devotion towards (or perhaps obsession with) the concept of creation. A metalsmith from birth who forever forges not for the sake of battle or profit, but simple, selfish reason of "because I can and want to". A mentality that's hard to read and almost wholly indifferent to most outside stimuli. Yes, Sella is definitely somebody who possesses a personality that's difficult to deal with.

She's oblivious to social cues and what's going on around her and, being largely unable to read the atmosphere or understand the feelings of others, she isn't all too good with most-if-not-all social situations. Unsurprisingly, she's pretty terrible at expressing herself and mostly just says whatever comes to mind when spoken to, which often doesn't help her properly convey herself. It's probably for this reason that she both loves and cannot understand the concept of using abstract images while still having others understand the underlying meaning. A passionate artist who doesn't get art at all, basically. Either way, she isn't really opposed to socialization and doesn't go out of her way to avoid conversation, even if she doesn't go out of her way to start it ether. She's introverted, not reclusive. So yeah, it's definitely hard to talk to her, but not impossible. But let it be said that inviting her to an art gallery is a terrible idea.

If Sella does have anything going for her its her meticulous, hard-working nature. Even outside her area of expertise, she displays fastidous efficiency along with an absolutely insane work ethic in her dealings...Although, that's probably just so she can get back to what she really wants to do: working metal. Naturally, she takes pride in what she makes and, despite not asking for it, absolutely adores when others validate their worth. If something like that does happen, though, she'll just work even harder in an attempt to one herself up and earn even more praise. Basically, an endless loop of satisfaction and dissatisfaction that only stops once Sella forgets why she was forging in the first place and just resumes hammering out metal for its own sake.

• Arts and crafts
• Cars
• Crisp, cool weather
• Food, especially fast, delivery or spicy
• Hard work
• Scandanavian death metal
• Trite stories about the virtues of brotherhood and the powers of friendship
• Well-made fanworks
• Blacksmithing
• Blacksmithing
• Did I mention blacksmithing yet because blacksmithing

• 3D printers
• Absurd international shipping fees
• Debt
• Low quality plebiean weaponry
• Modern art
• Overly complex social situations
• Piracy
• Rude interruptions
• Sleeping
• Those filthy dvergr

Theme Song(s)

• Maybe some other time

Extras

• Carries around a suitcase full of metal bars
• Speaks antiquated Japanese
• That line about forgetting other peoples' names wasn't a joke by the way