Carmen Calandra

Gender || Female
Species/Race || Skylark
Age || 25
Height || 5'10"/1.78m
Weight || 120 lb./54.43 kg
Hair Color/Type || copper/strawberry blonde (like this or this); extremely long and voluptuous
Eye Color || blue
Skin Color || fair/unblemished tan
Figure || slim and well-proportioned
Occupation || Carmen owns and operates her own small fashion shop in Pavella.


Sound Production - Carmen is a sound producer. Unlike a sound manipulator, Carmen is incapable of taking an existing sound and changing it, and is all about producing new sounds. Sound duplication is certainly possible, but not manipulation. Carmen can utilize all of her abilities from herself when in bird form, but when in human form she requires her trumpet. Some of Carmen's specific abilities, many of which have already been used in Athalia history, are available on the wiki.

Carmen's Trumpet - Carmen possesses a supernatural brass instrument that resembles a grandiose herald trumpet. 3 feet long and with a 7.5" bell flare (the bell flare in the pictures is about 5"), it stands half as tall as its user. It is through this instrument that her music and sound production abilities are released to the world, and it can be used as both a solo instrument and a lethal sonic weapon. It can project any sound or combination of sounds Carmen can possibly think of - any timbre or combination of timbres, any amount of polyphony and counterpoint, and any dynamic from inaudible to shake-the-building's-foundation loud. It is the ultimate sonic expression tool.



Dependence Day - The most obvious weakness in Carmen's arsenal is the fact that in human form Carmen's Trumpet functions exactly as Thor's Hammer does - although she can summon the instrument to her being at any point through the limited telekinetic abilities she possesses, she is completely and totally powerless when the instrument is not in her hands and in fact on her lips.

Nonfunctional Harmony - Although Carmen can shift to a gaseous bird form (hence skylark) that negates all need for the trumpet or really anything and is impervious from physical attacks, she cannot use sounds offensively while in this form and can only produce music, thus relegating this form to a defensive and primarily non-combat role.

Lopsided - While Carmen can use her abilities in a defensive fashion, she is essentially all offense, and thus doesn't have anything in the way of protection against enemy attacks. Her combat style relies entirely on her never getting hit.

Oblivion - Carmen's mind can be too confident and oblivious of danger and potential problems. While typically this has not caused trouble for her as she can deal with most problems, it provides an opportunity for disaster.


With an imposing face that can be downright menacing, Carmen is no angel. She's no demon either, but is hardly perfect. To fully understand her personality you must begin with a typical, egotistical soprano singer. This is a girl who is, by all accounts, a diva, thinks herself above all others and is very outgoing to everyone - if only to flaunt herself to them. Now take away about 1/5th of the ego and half of the outgoing-ness and you pretty much have Carmen hit on the head. She wants to talk to others, but she does not shout about it and rarely even initiates it. She thinks highly of herself but does not impose it upon others in the slightest, instead preferring to let her striking looks and (mainly) the music she creates do the talking. She is inwardly judgmental (as opposed to outwardly (to friends) like a soprano), constantly observing and judging others but never saying a word of what she thinks. Her actual thoughts on a subject are often a mystery. She is nigh impossible to attract, having ludicrously high standards and not being experienced with romance in the first place.


The mythological Siren is a beautiful yet dangerous woman creature who entices sea-going vessels to crash on the shore with enchanting song. The real (in the context of Athalia) Siren is an altogether more complicated matter. Born from the universe when a supernova generates a particular set of frequencies that possess such ferocious energy and consonance with one another that they cause the spontaneous creation of a sentient life form - a Siren. Very few Sirens have ever existed, and they all have absolute control of all sound in the universe at all times. Carmen is a subtype of Siren called a Skylark, which manifests itself in two forms: a human form, where she needs a form of sound production (the trumpet) to use her abilities, and an almost gaseous form where she can produce and manipulate sound without need for the trumpet (which dissolves when she changes to this form). This form strongly resembles a huge bird, which is why she has been dubbed a Skylark. While Sirens - and thus Skylarks - do not "age", since their inception involved frequencies which eventually dissipate, they too eventually dissipate, but only after several millenia. They cannot be classified as supernatural because they come from the natural universe, but they possess entirely "supernatural" abilities and can often learn other abilities besides sound manipulation. Conceived from a supernova on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy, Carmen spent her twenty years leading up to Athalia learning the ways of the world - languages, cultures, and most principally musics (yes, musics is a word), and as such has a vast knowledge database of human music and can reproduce much of it through her trumpet.


A little known fact is that Carmen has an extremely beautiful singing voice - a true soprano sound matching her true soprano ego. It is not linked to her abilities and for all of her self interest she refuses to sing for anyone or even allow them to know that she can, although she practices regularly. It is her best kept secret and to unlock it is to unlock the key to the rest of her mind.

Carmen owns quite possibly the largest fashion collection in the entire Athalia universe.

Carmen does not need to eat, drink or sleep, but can for entertainment.

Carmen was originally conceived as essentially a continuation of Driving Park's Kalmaysia character, Sasha Iranti. Her name was originally supposed to be Shira (meaning "singing" in Hebrew), until HylianRose pointed out that in one of the earlier roleplays there had literally been a siren character named Shira. As a result, the name Carmen Calandra was a last minute edit on an otherwise completed character sheet. She was intended to have her trumpet and ability set from the beginning (although additional abilities and tweaks were added during Season Two), but it was only when Driving Park completely embraced her diva personality that she came into her own as a character.

Carmen has appeared on more non-canon entertainment program episodes than any other Athalia character, appearing in some capacity in three Ganonshaw episodes and the first Noxonshaw episode. She is also the only character thus far to have appeared in all three shows (including her own), and the only Athalia canon character to have hosted her own show.

The surf shop cashier that Carmen bought her beach outfit (including gigantic sun hat) from in the beginning of Season Two was originally intended to be Driving Park's second character - a very laid back surfer dude with water manipulation. However, that idea never came to fruition and later in the season Mizuki "Kelly Miyabi" was introduced as his second character.

Carmen is specifically listed as a weakness in Derek Keelan's Guild character sheet.


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Mizuki

"Kelly Miyabi"

Gender || female
Species/Race || Kitsune
Age || 77 (spirit age) / 24 (human age)
Height || 5'8"/1.73 m
Weight || 125 lb./56.70 kg
Hair Color/Type || silver; extremely long and voluptuous
Eye Color || yellow
Skin Color || fair pale tan
Figure || slim; curvaceous
Occupation ||



Fox-Fire Manipulation - As a kitsune, Mizuki utilizes fox-fire as her main offensive weapon in unconventional ways such as hypnosis and life-force draining.
Hair Manipulation - Mizuki can move her head hair and each of her tails as if it were another appendage, and use them for various purposes, including attacks, defense, and comakinetic flight.
Lunar Empowerment - "Mizuki" means "beautiful moon", and Mizuki is thus the lunar fox-spirit. When it is night, especially a full moon, her power is augmented.
Trickster - Enhanced Thievery, Regenerative Healing Factor (slow).
Kitsune Physiology - Enhanced Hearing and Smell, Night Vision.


Go Big or Go Home - Mizuki is an on and off switch. When in a fight, it's all or nothing, which causes her to be far more aggressive than what is necessary for maximum effectiveness and survivability. She will rain down her own attacks without so much as checking for a counterattack. If she sees it, she will counter it, but the likelihood of her not seeing it at all is high. This also applies to collateral damage, which she both doesn't watch out for and views as an acceptable price to pay in battle, so it's generally a good idea to stay far away from her in a fight.
Type Chart - Mizuki and her fox-fire are very weak to water users, especially as fox-fire can contain electrical properties.
Mental Jenga - Mizuki's heart is located in a shell hardened from years of suffering (see Background), but the right triggers can crack it, causing complete emotional collapse.
Anti-K9 - As a kitsune, Mizuki is weak to and afraid of dogs.
Malnourishment - In addition to normal nourishment, Mizuki must also feed on life-force energy to remain at 100% capacity. This includes emotions, which is why she is dependent on people, despite her disdain for them. If she goes for too long without feeding, her good side will be completely suppressed and she will be very mentally volatile, likely to go on killing/feeding sprees until her benevolent side returns.


Kelly/Mizuki is a product of a very unique upbringing, with her recipe consisting of 60% nogitsune malevolent fox-spirit, 30% zenko benevolent fox-spirit, and 10% kind and gentle girl. She does not value life (including her own), with the exception of her two parents. She is not afraid to kill anyone (except children and the defenseless) in her quest for answers and revenge (see below). She is mischievous and malevolent, thanks to her nogitsune genealogy. She will mess with people she chooses, engaging in thievery, mind games and other such tricks for her own purposes. She is always plotting, scheming and conniving (yes, all three). She is cunning and stealthy with her games, and extremely hard to pin the blame on. Yet, because of her zenko side, she has the capacity to be an extremely sweet, caring individual to those she chooses. However, most of the time it is all an act as part of her game. On the very rare occasions when someone earns her genuine affection, kindness and trust, she will pour out her entire heart to them, smothering them in said affection and kindness. This is an extremely rare yet extremely beautiful occurrence.

She occupies a moral space located in the gray area of the moral compass, and can hate (and kill) both good and evil, usually aligning with good for their kindness and lack of unrealistic world domination plans. For her, there is only her journey.


Years ago, in the small town of Shiroku, Japan, a little girl was dying. Incapacitated by a disease that was slowly claiming her life, no amount of medicine she was given was improving her condition, and fell into a coma. Her family couldn't afford proper medical treatment, and was relying on the little medicine they and their neighbors had.

One night, while the family was sleeping, the fox-spirit Mizuki descended on the household. A spirit of the night, Mizuki had gone unseen, being spoken of in the local area in hushed tones. Whenever something was stolen or someone went missing, the small group of villages always accredited the misdeed to Mizuki, and regularly prayed to their deity to deliver them from it.

This night would be different.

When the fox-spirit reached the house of the ill child, it intended to do what it normally did. Upon seeing the little girl, however, it changed its mind. For although it was a malevolent nogitsune, it still had a reserve of compassion and honor tucked away in the recesses of its mind. Mizuki possessed the child, saving her life in the process. When morning came, the family observed what had occurred, and that the girl had already gained a bushy fox tail. Despite Mizuki's reputation, they vowed to continue raising the kitsune child as if nothing had happened.

Unfortunately, the rest of the town and indeed the Japanese government did not share the same sentiment, driving her and her family away. The family sought refuge in America, hoping to eke out a new life for themselves and Mizuki. They did so until Mizuki was in her early teens, having grown into a sweet little kitsune with three tails. In the process, she picked an American name (Kelly) to normalize herself in American society.

One night, however, armed men came and forcefully took her parents, never to be seen again. When the police arrived, all they found was a frightened Mizuki.

Mizuki never understood why her parents were taken, but it affected her drastically. She spent the rest of her life alone, scrounging out an existence in any way she could, all the while in intense emotional pain, trying to uncover who the armed men were and why they took her parents. She grew as a kitsune, gaining tails and strength during the process. She was almost ready to admit defeat and move on.

But then, they came for her.

She fought.

And then she fled.

She flew as fast as she could, and soon she was no longer followed. However, she wouldn't stop running, dangerously ignoring her fading stamina and her very undeveloped flight, which would cease to function at any moment.

And soon, she fell.


Mizuki was first introduced in the second episode of the non-canon Noxonshaw, long before she was introduced in-character. It was written by NarayanK and Driving Park as part of a many-hour collaborative episode marathon, which included the first two episodes of the Noxonshaw (Carmen then Mizuki) followed by the first episode of Carmen's show, Athalian Idol. The pair stayed up extraordinarily late completing the trio of episodes, concluding at approximately 7 a.m. EST.

The name Mizuki means "beautiful moon" in Japanese.

When posting for Mizuki, Mizuki's creator, Driving Park, often accidentally began typing the name Miyoshi, which is the name of a character he plays in a non-Athalia roleplay.

The original inspiration for the character came from a multitude of sources. The idea to link the character to the moon came from HylianRose when Driving Park first considered making a second character. A long time passed between that conversation and when development of a second character (that became Mizuki) actually begun, but Driving Park remembered the lunar suggestion and incorporated it into Mizuki's design. The inspiration to make Mizuki a kitsune came from Driving Park's "Ninetales" Etherpad username and retroactively applied Roleplayer Guild avatar. Ninetales is a Pokémon that is noticeably a nine-tailed kitsune, and is DP's favorite Pokémon. The idea to make her morally ambiguous came from three reasons: the fact that it was the creator's apparent knack, the fact that the creator couldn't decide between making a nogitsune or zenko kitsune, and the fact that the two pictures the creator found (and really wanted to use) each portrayed a different morality.

The name "Kelly" was chosen long before Miyabi or even Mizuki, and was entirely chosen so that a certain Eurobeat song by the same name could be used as the character's theme. However, during character development it was realized that the character didn't at all match the extremely uplifting mood of the song, and the theme idea was scrapped but the name kept.

Vikki Miller

Gender || female
Species/Race || human
Age || 27
Height || 6'0"/1.83 m
Weight || 147 lb./66.68 kg
Hair Color/Type || black; extremely long (~100cm) and voluptuous
Eye Color || green
Skin Color || fair/unblemished tan
Figure || killin'/incredible/would you like more adjectives?
Occupation || bounty hunter


In the midst of dozens of incredibly powerful ability-bestowed Athalians and villains, Vikki has none. She is a normal human, with no ubergenes or anything like that. However, she is extremely well trained in a multitude of specialities and silky smooth refined in each, to the degree that she can go toe to toe with any supers using nothing but her two Persian Long Luger pistols, two katanas and mastery of martial arts. Athalia's Batman, if you will, and almost as mysterious.

Things she is exceptionally trained in to the point of comprehensive mastery:

Marksmanship. Need a crack sniper? She's your shooter.

Martial Arts. She has black belts in multiple martial arts disciplines, including bladed (she uses twin katanas), fan (she uses twin steel bladed combat fans), and hand-to-hand.

Driving. She is extraordinarily adept at driving automobiles with high speed and precision.


She may be a top shot, a deadly hand-to-hand fighter, a master swordswoman and a driver worthy of stunts, getaways and top-tier racing, but as mentioned above, she has zero special abilities or defenses. A well-placed bullet will still kill her, and her body isn't immune or resistant to any supernatural abilities. With the exception of martial arts blocking/countering techniques, her combat set is entirely offensive.

In addition, unless she's specifically paid otherwise, she always works alone. This can be a problem when your adversaries throw a lot more than one foe at you. She also isn't aware of the possibility of losing or failing, which may be a good thing in some situations but definitely bad in others.


Vikki is a professional. She is extremely good at what she does, and she knows it - and everyone else knows that she knows it. Contrasting with her frequent business mindset, she always - and I mean always - dresses very extravagantly, as seen in the picture. In addition, through the cold-hearted hitman exterior, she has the capacity to care, and go out of her way to make sure justice is upheld. But...usually not.


If Star Wars has taught us anything, it's that every good vs. evil struggle needs a good bounty hunter - one who really couldn't care less for "moral alignment" in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. As such, they are usually labeled "evil" and seem to follow that line of thinking, but aren't actually aligned at all. Vikki Miller fits this trope perfectly. A bounty hunter, mercenary, hitman, gun for hire, or whatever term you prefer, she could work for Maria Cross one day and then get offered a better deal by the ranks of Hell the next.

Apart from the fact that personal advancement and combative prowess is something that motivates Vikki, she actually had to become as good as she is to escape the slums she was born in - a cutthroat culture in a bad part of a major metropolis that effectively was walled off from the rest of the world from within. If you attempted to leave, you would be found, brought back and killed. Vikki detested the culture there and desperately wanted to get out, so she trained and trained until she was so skilled that she singlehandedly toppled the entire gang hierarchy, mostly by literally toppling everyone who tried to stop her. Once she escaped, she hit the books and over time become cultured, all the while still training. Soon her reputation preceded her and she began to be drafted into the bounty hunter career path.


Vikki appears prominently in the Carlily fanfiction set eighteen years after the events of Athalia Academy, which is where her character originated. Initially intended to be one of a number of "disposable" villains, Driving Park became so enthralled with her that she was changed into a persistent character.


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True Form:

Kali Rana

(Mira Kaur)

Gender || female
Species/Race || unknown
Age || ~5,000
Height || 5'9"/1.75 m
Weight || 134 lbs./60.78 kg
Hair Color || black
Eye Color || hazel
Skin Color || fair/unblemished tan; wrinkled brown in true form
Figure || beautiful, but doesn't garner attention
Occuption || being a near-deity and attempting to maintain order in the world (and particularly Lavanya).



Dualikinesis (Yin & Yang Manipulation) - Mira possesses the ability to control all types of duality in herself and others. With this ability she can temporarily alter one's morality, effectively heal others, and counter against attacks.

Chrono-Hyalokinesis (Hourglass Manipulation) - a combination of glass manipulation and time manipulation, Mira is able to weave a path through time via glassblowing.

Psammokinesis (Sand Manipulation) - Mira can manipulate sand.



You Only Live Twice - When Mira is "killed" and her true form appears, she is susceptible to mortality and being killed for good.

Mage Ya Look - Mira has a balanced (offensive vs. defensive) ability set, but possesses no magical defense. Although she can cause a magic assailant to flip morality, there is no polar opposite to magic and thus she cannot manipulate duality to counter it. Her body has gained resilience against physical/elemental attacks, but nothing against magic (as she rarely encounters it).

Dependence Day: Desert Edition - Unlike many abilities which seem to be able to generate out of thin air, Mira's sand abilities require sand in the vicinity to be used. For this reason, she always carries around a handful of sand somewhere on her person, but were she separated from it in a non-desert or beach climate, she would be unable to use her psammokinetic abilities. Naturally, the opposite is also true - her sand potency in desert and beach climates is significantly boosted.

Strength in Numbers - Mira technically possesses four different ability sets, but although she is a very advanced user of all of them, none of them are capable of dealing OP damage on their own. She is thus much less effective in a 1x1 brawl than other forms of combat.


Mira is a philosopher, a teacher and a cleric (of sorts). Deeply rooted in a large collection of traditions, she is calm and reserved, sometimes to the point of intimidation. Her eyes offer a window into her long life and every emotion she has felt along the way - which is to say, every emotion it is possible to feel.


Mira began her long life many years ago as a Hindu girl (her given name meaning "prosperous princess" in Hindi). Raised on the priniciples of the Hindu religion, she devoted herself to achieving moksha and becoming a Jivanmukta - one who has discovered their true self (Ātman) and been liberated from the cycle of birth and rebirth. She achieved it in one lifetime - by far the quickest anyone has achieved it according to the Hindu lore. Free from the bonds of the cycle, she also became free from the shackles of aging, having her life extended for an indefinitely long amount. Although she was 96 when she attained moksha, she was bestowed with a beautiful, youthful form that would never age. She can reveal her true form at will, but usually only does when performing the Move of Ages, Amita Nirvana.

Once she had become a Jivanmukta, Mira began her relentless, lifelong pursuit of learning everything there was to learn, experiencing everything there was to experience, and helping to make the world a better place. Around her 400th birthday (around 2600 B.C.E.), she moved to Egypt to assimilate their culture. While there, she witnessed the pyramids being built at Giza. Millenia later, she found herself in China witnessing the birth of the Taoist religion under the Han Dynasty. As the religion sprouted, she became one of its principal contributors, setting her down the path towards Yin & Yang mastery.

Despite witnessing a great number of historically significant events and taking part in some of history's greatest cultures, Mira has spent most of her life thus far in her home country of India, near the village where she was born. She is written about all over Hindu writings, but also appears in writings from many different cultures, principally Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese hanzi. So profound was her effect on the cultures she spent time in that she quickly ascended into international legend, and it was then that she began being talked about not as Mira Kaur but as the Kali Rana, which literally means "ruler who devours time". Today, very few people know her true name or whereabouts, knowing her only by her surviving legends. Her legend name carries as much weight as any other, and many people believe her (and her legends) to be a myth.

Although Mira has attained knowledge far surpassing any mortal, she has not obtained the one piece of knowledge that she has been searching for since she attained moksha nearly five millenia ago:

What is she?

She assumed at first that her Jivanmukta status would grant her things not attainable by normal humans...but a never aging form, apparent immortality without ascension, and the ability to manipulate time and morality? She always thought it was something more than just the Hindu dieties smiling on her. Her current conclusion is that either the dieties kept her on Earth and bestowed her with abilities to rival their own for a noble purpose...or that it's entirely a construct of some other doing.

Perhaps coming across Athalia Academy and its schizophrenic war with Hell will finally answer her five-thousand year question.


Mira is able to time travel via a combination of all four of her abilities, the catalyst being sand. This ability, referred to as the Sands of Time, is one of the most potent in the universe, being able to cause irreparable damage if used without caution (as is true of any form of time travel). It is primarily for this ability that Dark Mira would be a massive threat to everyone else.

Mira possesses an ability called Amita Nirvana that has not been performed in 2,000 years. Claimed eyewitness accounts of its last use have been retold through generations, and the ability has become one of the most widespread legends of Hindu culture. Many have concluded that Mira is a prophet or even a Hindu diety specifically because of this ability's legend, and that the ability can only be activated when Mira is killed.

Mira carries but one tool, a glassblower's blowpipe. She handcrafted the long, skinny tube herself millenia ago, and it is the most exquisite tool imaginable.

As her pictures indicate, Mira is known for always wearing elaborate lehenga choli - the traditional marriage ensemble of Indian women.

While Mira is universally known as the Kali Rana from legends, she has also been referred to as "The Seamstress of Time" and (more simply) "Mirage".

Kali Rana is both a name and a title. Made up of a Hindi first name followed by a Hindi last name, it could conceivably function as a birth name. However, in Mira Kaur's case, it functions as both, and is usually said/written as "the Kali Rana".

Mira's entire existence is a mystery to many. Due to her existence in legends dating as far back as 3000 B.C.E. to the present day, people who know the legends have varied opinions on what she is. Some believe she is a Hindu prophet, sent down to this world and kept there to preserve the Hindu religion and its dieties. Others, particularly those who know the legends of the Move of Ages and other such ability-related legends, think she is actually a Hindu diety or semi-diety herself. Others think that she was normal woman and died after a normal human lifespan, with subsequent legends being fairy tales. Still others believe that her entire existence is a myth, decrying accounts of the Move of Ages and her simply vanishing into the desert sands.

Gender || female

Species/Race || ???

Age || 40

Height || 5'11"/1.80 m

Weight || 134 lb./60.78 kg

Hair Color/Type || light pink; thick and wavy (waist length)

Eye Color || light blue

Skin Color || pale-ish unblemished tan

Figure || slim and well-proportioned

Occupation || Irene makes her living as the curator of an Oasarian temple in the mountains high above Silver City. The temple is largely unused in this day and age, and is mostly a historical relic at this point, but the nation keeps these historical landmarks in shape as if they were in frequent use. For her typical day of sitting and watching the clouds lazily drift across the sky, she is able to make a comfortable living.

In the same mountain range lies Oasari's gigantic communication tower that is used to create dimensional rifts that allow contact with the outside world (there are two other functional towers in Lavanya). Irene is called in to activate the rift all by herself whenever it is necessary. (In years past it was necessary to have many dimensional manipulators working together to open a rift, but the modernized power towers require only one powerful dimensional manipulator for the job.) It is for this reason that Irene is, while unknown to nearly everyone, one of the most important behind-the-scenes figures in the entire continent.



Dimensiokinesis (Dimension Manipulation): Irene can fabricate portals in and between dimensions, create pocket dimensions, travel between dimensions, and even create black holes and white holes. This power makes her all but impossible to chase, let alone track, and she can get out of many dangerous situations very quickly. While her abilities do include some offensive attacks (such as black hole creation), she prefers to use them as little as possible.



Irene's ability set is, for all except the black holes, entirely defensive. She can run away better than anyone else in Lavanya, but when locked into a dimension she's in a precarious position. As the chill philosopher-flugelhorn player that she is, she also possesses no super resilience or armor. In addition, her most dangerous ability, the one to create black holes, is not as unlimited as it seems. She can create a black hole and suck things in as usual, but this takes an incredible amount of energy. She can only hold it for so long, before everything is forcefully released in a white hole and she collapses from exhaustion.



in a world filled with warmongers, Irene is a beacon of light for the average Lavanyan citizen. She does not desire to fight; in fact, she avoids it as much as possible. This is due mostly to her very serene personality. She is quiet, level-headed, and very relaxed, and spends most of her time thinking rather than battling. Blessed with considerable time to do so, she is quite philosophical and introspective - yet, she is not anti-social. She values her ample time alone, but she enjoys chatting with people, hearing life stories, and improving peoples' days just from being there. She is humble and quirkily confident (and for good reason) that nobody can touch her.



To be revealed IC!



Irene's #1 hobby is playing her flugelhorn, which is a very old instrument that she once found in a flea market. Nobody there knew what it was, but she was curious enough to buy it for the obscenely low asking price, and it turned out to be a lovely instrument. It has no special abilities or anything...it's just a flugelhorn. But she plays quiet melodies to the birds and trees around her and has for many years. The few who get to hear it never forget it.



"Why the pink hair? Everyone has to live a little sometime."

"Who, Marcus? Nah...he won't mess with an old girl like me."

(to Carmen) "I can't do what you do, but that's ok with me. I'll just keep playing my flugel."

(to Lily) "Nice hair."



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"S-Sorry... I didn't mean to..."

Eric Penwright

24

Male

Human/Penholder

~Penholder~

Penholders are a group of extraordinary humans. Once, long ago, they were all together, living together. They were shunned from society and forced into hiding underground. They began a secret project titled, "Difendere", Italian for Defend or Protect. They held that their group would protect the rights of others like themselves and that they would use their powers for the good of people. Some of them became entertainers, and some of them artists and writers. The penholders all held one commonality. The power to bring words and images to life.

~Powers~

-The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword-

Eric can draw any weapon and bring it into existence. Sometimes the weapons don't function very well if they aren't well planned or drawn well. They can backfire and leave him defenseless. In this power, he is limited by his knowledge of weapons and his drawing abilities. The drawings only stay for about an hour before they disappear. This includes; weapons, barriers, objects, etc.

-Pictures Speak A Thousand Words-

Eric can bring little drawn characters to life. He can't draw very big characters yet as they appear as big as he drew them, unlike the weapons/objects. So most of the time he draws little chibi people to help him do things. The drawings can only stay alive for about an hour before they disappear and Eric must draw them again.

-Picture Prison-

If Eric really wants to, he can draw someone and imprison them in a drawing. This holding cell is only a temporary solution and the person will escape within an hour. If the drawing is destroyed before that time, the person will escape. Strong willed people can break the prison and escape if they really try. It takes a lot to do this however.

~Weaknesses~

-Materials-
Though Eric can draw in sand and dirt, he usually needs pen and paper to manifest his powers. He carries around a notepad and a pen at all times to combat this.

-Informal Combatant-
Eric has no combat experience so he's not very proficient with any type of weapon.

-Spineless-
Eric doesn't have a backbone. He usually does what other people tell him to do and doesn't voice his own opinions very often. He is soft spoken, but kind.

~Personality~
Eric is a meek individual, often not speaking up for himself. He is quiet in tough situations, often thinking to himself of a way to get out of it. He enjoys talking to others but will avoid conflict at any cost. He loves his drawings and has a wall filled with them that he always keeps.

~Background~
One fine day, a young boy was born and the world seemed to rejoice. But, all was not well. Eric's father became abusive towards his mother and it all started when Eric was 5 years old. He was in Pre-K. That day, the children were drawing pictures of their favorite animals. Eric wasn't, as most children aren't, the best artist in the world at this time and drew a rather strange looking lion, a lion that came to life. It roared into existence, a small tiny malformed lion. The teachers called Eric's parents and told them. Eric's father was angry, and that was the day everything changed.

Eric's mother told him that his grandfather was a Penholder, like Eric, and that he could do these things too. She gave Eric the manual her father gave her to give to him that explained everything. Years later, the abuse got worse and one day Eric found himself at a grave yard, looking at a gravestone with his mother's name. He ran away, running as far as he could. He found himself in the house of an older gentleman, one that had found him on the streets and had taken him in. The old man sent Eric to Athalia Academy, a place where a Penholder could find peace.

Age: 22
Gender: Female
Species/Race: Fallen Angel

Ether: Aurelia enhances a target's powers. She has a limit on what she can enhance, and to certain extents. She can use up all of her energy if she needs to enhance a dangerously powerful spell, though chances are she would instantly faint. She can only enhance magic/special powers with Ether. For example, she can enhance Ryuu's plasma manipulation and Lily's healing power, but cannot enhance machinery and physical prowess by a noticeable amount. She can technically enhance auras and passive powers, though they do not have a big effect as much as when she enhances active powers.

Lightweight Offensive Magic: Her offensive magic is lacking... but it's something. She can cast meager lightning bolts, an intensely cold snowball, and a torrent of water. She cannot use fire magic.

Faded Aura: Aurelia has a very small aura of an angel; those who memorize the feeling of the aura can recognize her presence. It can serve as both a weakness and power, but it does not benefit Aurelia herself that much.


Dark Magic: Aurelia is very vulnerable to dark magic; even moreso to demonic spells.

Lacking Self-Defense: Aurelia can defend others pretty well, but she makes it a bit mandatory to have them protect her as well due to her inability to enhance her own powers.

Fire: Aurelia is very vulnerable to fire magic.

Enhance Limit: There is a limit as to what kinds of magic and how much of it she could enhance. Pushing her limit will probably render her unconscious.

Weak Physical Resistance: Aurelia cannot handle physical attacks that well (ie. if someone kicks her stomach, the wind would be knocked out of her and leave her unable to do anything; if someone punches her with moderately high strength several times, she will be knocked out almost instantly). Light attacks can disrupt her powers.

Lack of Weapon Knowledge: Aurelia only uses a staff, and is unable to engage in any form of formidable close-combat offense.
Magic Battles: Aurelia has a high chance of getting hurt when magic users capable of pulling out powerful spells cast magic at her due to her lack of powerful spells in general aside from Ether.

Torn Wings: Aurelia's wings were torn off. Though they are regrowing, she does not have the ability to fly like most (fallen) angels do.

Weak-Minded: Aurelia is susceptible to mind-altering spells. She can be struck with fear very easily.

Survivor: Her encounter with Apophis severely weakened her body, and the sight of blood quickly makes her nauseous.


After escaping the Deity of Chaos' iron grasp, the girl became very quiet compared to her old self. Though she still has an easily piqued curiosity, she chooses to remain curious in fear of coming across something that could hurt her. The girl enjoys the fragrance of flowers and finds solace from reading. At the moment, in Athalia, she tends to shy away from physically demanding classes due to her body's weakened condition.


Aurelia was once an angel who believed that humans needed direct assistance from her kind to combat demons and monsters alike. After holding onto her belief for many years, she was eventually banished from Heaven for using her powers to help her friends slay a band of humans that raided a village. Confused and lost on what to do, she affirmed to herself that she would continue helping her comrades, who believed that travelling in Lavanya in search of ways to bring down corruption was possible at the slightest. It was a childish dream, but it was a dream, nonetheless.

For several years, uneventful time passed on. She fell in love with the boy she spent her childhood with, and she believed things would stay as they were.

Then Apophis came along and tore apart everything she believed in.

The Deity of Chaos showed no mercy, tearing apart her friends mercilessly as he intentionally extended the pain they endured to no avail. Realizing that her power could be useful for his own, Apophis decided to use her for "good will:" whenever he performed an experiment, she would be told to enhance the test subject's powers to see if he could claim stronger versions of his victims' strengths. He left her in a cage; there, she spent four years of blindly doing what he told her to do. She feared death.

Then one day, when Apophis left Hell for an extended period of time, a man bearing a cold blade entered the room. He freed her wordlessly. Paranoid of her surroundings, Aurelia scurried out of her cage, and the cold man in a suit of armor covered her in a blanket made of ice. It soothed her; the feeling was the polar opposite of the unforgiving heat that constantly filled Apophis' room. She fell unconscious as he guided her out of the room, unable to handle the scent of the first hallway that did not smell of stench and blood.

She woke up at an inn, confused as to how she was outside of the Deity of Chaos' chamber. As another year passed on, she slowly recovered from the great shock she felt when she realized she needed to live a life without her friends. The girl timidly lived in silence before she came across Athalia Academy.

She wanted a place she could feel safe in. The academy seemed soothing enough for that.

Fun Fact: Her favorite flower is the lilac.

6'2" and 167 lbs

Brako Rackshaw

95

Male

Dragon Kin [Dragon Form]

~Power~
Fire Breathe [Self explanatory. Can use in both forms, human and dragon.]

Transformation [From human to dragon forms.]

~Weakness~
High Magic
Water
Abnormally Kind, Walked All Over

Not much is known about Mr. Rackshaw. But everyone loves him, he is kind and gentle and genuinely wants the best for the students. He will defend them to teeth and give his life to protect them. He's also a teacher.

Maria's powers are nearly endless and would be a pain to list out as she works from spell books and memorize spells. She has enough power to cast a great deal of spells without ever needing to prepare it or even say the incantation in some instances. Her energy, which is what her spells are powered on, is endless as she has spent many, many years growing her energy 'tank.' It's similar to a stomach in that it expands when more it put into it and so the capacity increases. However, if she were to try and store up anymore, it would become painful and possibly deadly. She often has to do spells for the sake of draining her energy, either that or she exercises... (Not as effective...) She is a White Haired, Yellow Eyed, Dark Skinned Cross and therefore it is believed that she is 'pure.' However, even she knows that her magic was forced upon her and pales in comparison to those whose magic came to them. She has never met the Originator, the creator of Lavanya, but she idolizes him as a strength she wishes to obtain.

Her specialty, however, lies in Energy Manipulation. One of her more notable attack patterns is what she calls, "The Seed." With this move, she raises the electricity levels in a foe's body just to the point of breaking, the 'Seed.' They don't feel the pain (That is, unless they're stupid enough to touch something conductive...) until Maria 'flips the switch' and turns up the dial, putting them out cold, even killing them if she does it up enough.



Flirt - Maria is flirtation and while this may not seem like a weakness, it has lead to many a fights over her hand in the past.

Mask - Maria has a dark past that she doesn't often tell to anyone, even Brako and Criston are in the dark for some of it. She often puts on a smiling face at the expense of her well-being, hiding her scars and pains from the world.

Independant - Maria is independent and will refuse any help offered to her unless she cannot go with it. She prefers to work things out on her own.

Special Attacker - Maria is a special attacker, meaning that she is not as bulky as some of the foes she may fight against. She does not have a very high constitution and cannot take many hits. This is why she will often resort to spells of speed.

Emotional - Because of her "Mask", Maria can easily be manipulated if someone knows her past, I.E. Marcus. Though, it can be tricky because there are basically two reactions, unrelenting rage which leads Maria to go berserk, or crippling depression which will lead to Maria's collapse, she will not fight, she will simply 'shut off.'



Maria Ann Cross is at the surface a flirtatious, well learned, leader. However, as you go deeper, more and more of her personality is revealed. Maria is all at once a fighter and a lover. She is a mother and a fierce warrior. Hurt her children and you may not leave with the same number of appendages as when you came. She is very strong willed, able to control her emotions very well. However, this comes with a price as when her emotions do get the best of her, the floodgates open and a torrent of powerful emotions rage through.



Maria grew up a rich lifestyle, her being a member of the 'Cross' family. The family controls much of the money in Elaniel and control many of the businesses there. When Maria was 16, she was given a fiance and told that she would be taking control of a part of one of their many businesses.

All her life, everything was set up for her. She was trained in her magic and trained in how she should live. Deciding to take life into her own hands, Maria ran away. What she did for the few years she was away from home, she's never told anyone but when she was forced back home, she returned with a small child and a blank expression.

The spell on her soul was only lifted when she realized what they were doing to her son. They were doing to him what they'd done to her and it was enough to snap her out of the trance she was in. She ran away once again and took Criston with her to a school that would protect them both. Only 19 at this time, she went to school at Athalia Academy, run by a man whom Maria barely speaks of now. Several years later, he died in an accident and Maria decided to take over by herself and since then she has been using the academy has a place to hide from her family. So far, they have left her alone. Only 25, she had a lot of trials to over come but she managed along with the help of a friend of the previous owner's, Brako Rackshaw.

All that is known about the Achiyalabopa is that it is a celestial bird considered to be the Native American Pueblo tribes god of the sky it is also related to the creation of everything. It's feathers look deceptively soft but they are in fact as sharp as knives.

Form Powers: Aerial efficiency, knife like feathers which he can fire at enemies once or twice per shift. Healing Wind Magical resistance.

Form Weaknesses: Shadows, physical damage, confined spaces, squishy, weak against opponents who can nullify air-based abilities, draining.

Extra: Crash came across this creature when he was on a spirit journey in the Pueblo reservation. Whilst he was travelling with a fellow Athalian. He was talked into going to see the medicine man by his travelling companion, before she travelled on to another tribe ahead of him. He undertook the spiritual journey because the medicine man believed he was in need of spiritual healing and direction, he was led to the Achiyalabopa.

The chimera is a terrifying creature known for having three different heads and a live snake for the tail. The image Crash was shown was slightly different therefore he adopted that form instead.

Form Powers: Enhanced bite, agility and prehensile tail. The snake head at the tip of his tail is not venomous but could dish out a nasty bite. Breathes fire either in streams or balls, can increase his body temperature to act as a heater for others. Resistant to physical attacks.

Form Weaknesses: Electricity, ice, if his tail is incapacitated it paralyses him unless he shifts backs. Weak against magic and average attacks can whittle him down after time. Draining.

Extra: Crash's journey's took him to places where myths originated and magic marked the earth. One such place was Mount Chimaera, the supposed birthplace of the chimera in Greek mythology. Crash encountered 'something' whilst there and managed to injure himself, when filing a report with the local authorities he met the police's sketch artist who happened to be a mythological nut and was the person who unknowingly sketched out Crash's Chimera form.

Pan, the Greek god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, mountain wilds and rustic music. Sometimes even referred to as a god of mischief. There are many myths and legends surrounding the half-goat, half-human god. He's a peaceful god with a dark side, often described as having a duel-nature. Through the good and bad, Pan is a lover of chaos, he's a trickster at heart and enjoys nothing more than laughing and celebrating.

Form Powers:

Form Weaknesses:
Georgie Porgie - Pan is incapable of turning a blind eye to any female within his vicinity, be they allies or enemies. Suddenly aware of any and all advances, he all but abandons his wits if a female so much as takes note of him.

Dire Division - When Pan creates his clone, his strength, stamina and resistance are divided between the two of them. Alongside this if Agreus is destroyed before he can rejoin with Pan, then Pan will remain in his weakened state ultimately forcing Crash to shapeshift back into himself and draining him of a substantial amount of energy.

(Note: If Pan is badly injured when separate from Agreus, he will call the pane back to him immediately to prevent himself from dying. After doing this however Crash will be forced to shapeshift back into himself with the same consequences)

God complex - Although Crash's Pan form is not a god. He still believes he is one and is incredibly vain about this fact. He can become very bad tempered if someone challenges his godliness with words or actions. Pan likes to be free of restraints, he especially dislikes rules and because he is a god he strongly believes he should be above them, he can become quite indignant if told otherwise.

Extra: Crash came across this form during his time with Deucalion, when he was encouraged into partaking a ceremony.