@Afro Samurai Looks great! Could you please put down a second Secondary for Herman, though? :)
@Aiyanna What kind of bloodline would you like for your character to have come from? You can have them be rich and well-known, somewhat obscure, etc, etc. Maybe working on details surrounding your character could help somewhat?
Secondaries of Interest: Tracking, toxin production.
Description: Dinah is a little on the tall side (albeit nowhere near as much as a Norrevinter) and built like someone not unused to exercize. She has long, unkempt-looking light brown hair. 'Rat's Nest' might be a term used by some. She doesn't brush it quite as often as she should, and it quite often contains the odd leaf or twig. She has brown eyes and a rather laissez-faire attitude towards fashion, if the faded appearance of many of her outfits is to be taken into account. Most of her appearance reflects her rather laid-back (perhaps too laid-back) attitude to life.
Skills: Bonded with Nature Dinah's upbringing has lacked much supervision, but her rather wild background has given her a very keen sense of the flora and fauna aspects of her primary. Spending time out in the woods with just plants and animals has done wonders for her abilities.
Survival Related to this, Dinah is pretty self-sufficient,she can survive well on her own, and is perhaps rather more worldly than many of the students.
Weaknesses: - Slacker A tearaway with little sense of discipline, Dinah is a slacker with little drive or direction, and doesn't tend to apply herself in academic studies, meaning her chances of developing secondaries are rather unlikely.
Personality: Dinah Fox is a person who has nearly always lived by her own rules.
Di is not a person to keep how she feels about anything to herself. She is outwardly affectionate to people she likes..to the point that a personal bubble doesn't seem to exist where she'd concerned. If she likes a person she'll flying tackle them and hug them to death as a greeting if she wants to. At the same time if she dislikes a person, she will not in the slightest bit hesitate about showing them the extent of that.
Possibly in a similar vein, Di could be seen as being rather...feral. She always has been that way. She doesn't wear makeup. She was once persuaded to try wearing nail polish and ended up scraping it off with her teeth because she thought it made her nails feel odd. She had no concept of manners or formality. She eats pretty much everything with her hands...unless it's soup, then she'll just lift it up and drink it right out of the bowl. She is perfectly happy to break school rules for her own interests.
Despite this behaviour, something that can often cause a bit of friction, Di has an innate sense of compassion. Seeing others suffer disturbs her enormously and she cannot stand unnecessary cruelty or sadistic behaviour. Brief History: Dinah's own history is relatively uneventful. She and her older brother, Cyrus, spent most of their childhood being passed around peripheral relatives in their extended family, staying some time with their aunt, before a large falling-out in Dinah's early teens resulted in her and Cyrus living with one of the aunt's work colleagues up until the time the invitation came to attend Marchand.
What is far more notable about her is the history of her family.
The Fox family, once the council seat of Terrmancy, are fairly infamous among others for having supported the new world cult during the civil war. Both terramancers, her mother and father, Matthew and Morgana Fox, were key players in some of the frontline assaults during the war, until their detainment. This fracture lost the wider family their say in political council, the removal of the Fox crest from many official archives. The extended branches of the family have, in the fourteen years since the war, remained on the periphery of the magical world, having little contact with others from that community.
As such, Dinah grew up rather aware that she had few expectations of success. Divorced from the terrible war years, but well aware of the reputation they'd gained as a family, she developed a general feeling of apathy towards the jostling and machinations of the magical bloodlines. This was to the point that she was in two minds about whether she wished to attend at all. However, after falling out with her current set of guardians after a certain incident involving crashing her brother's car, she came to the decision that it was in her best interests to attend for a while.
Nicknames/Aliases: By Family: Noah the Weak or Noah the Frail
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Primary: Aquamancy
Student
Secondaries Magical Weapon Infusement and Familiar Conjuration
Description: Noah is a slim built boy that stands at a saddening 5'8". His physique is not what you would expect of someone of the Zima family to have. It is common for most Zima related folk to have pale skin, light colored hair and eyes, a really nice tone, and muscular build, and usually tall in height. His eyes are a light pink-ish red which compliments the unnatural scar that rests on his neck and cheek. How he obtained the scars will be explained in the bio! Noah is almost all the time seen wearing a suite or causal attire.
Personality: Noah speaks in an educated tone with such manners that would bring shame upon his barbaric family. Not only is he well trained to speak but is not afraid to speak his mind. Even though he knows he could probably talk his way out of a confrontation he constantly tries to stay away from physical altercations. He's a bit of a coward when it comes to fights. His weak presence does not hinder him from taking the role of a leader. Unlike the usual Zima, who are skilled in combat, Noah is more skilled in battle tactics. He does not re-frame from using his quick battle tactics in everyday life.(i.g. Love Relationships, Not running into bullies..etc) Noah is a thinker and can often over think situations. Besides that he's the type of guy you can get to blush easily.
Skills: Combat Adept: Members of the Zima family are built for combat. Especially when out numbered.
Marksmen: From a child a Zima is trained to be a pro with a weapon and Noah has always been skilled with a bow/long ranged weaponry. With his Aquamancy the bow or weaponry of choice is usually conjured up from the moisture that is in the air. Noah is so skilled that if he were to shoot an ice arrow for example he could control where it would go in a 10-15 foot radius.(If this sounds op or is deemed op :P i have no problems of trashing it.)
Weaknesses: -Unlike basically all of his family, Noah, is terrible at hand to hand combat.
Brief History: The Zima family dates back to the 1700's but could probably be dated further if the family wasn't complete brutes. The only reason the Zima's can be traced back to the 1700's is because a member of the family at the time was lucky enough to be documented. The name of the person...well the name given to him by his employer was Varvarskiy, which basically meant barbarian in Russian. He was soon given the last name Zima due to his attire which was not built for the cold winters of Russia. Varvarskiy was sort of a 'butler' to his employer and basically served him for all his life. In exchange the Zima family became know and somewhat prosperous from their unique fighting skills accompanied by their water magic. The family soon became born butlers that Russian royalty turned to for servants. Though up and coming rich the Zima were poorly educated and could barely take part in marketing. At some point wars broke out and a lot of Zima's were killed due to them being everyone's go to for man power. To avoid extinction the remaining Zima immigrated to North America and settled in Michigan. With the help of the nicer settlers the Zima expanded and even spread to Canada. Noah ancestor's went between the the country and state until is generation came along. Now the American/Canadian/Russian decedent faces another problem. Members of his family have started to disappear and this has caused a panic among his family. In order to keep him safe his family shipped him off to Marchand.
Other: :P No I did not forget! Noah got his scar from an old ritual that the young must do in his family. Scars are seen as accomplishments so his father thinking of a cool scar angered an octopus and hurdled Noah at the Octopus rewarding him with the scars he have now.
Secondaries of Interest: Blood magic & Familiar Conjuration.
Description: Kaitlyn is a girl with Her dual colored soft green(right) and honey gold(left) eyes that hold an almost never-changing gentle gaze. Softened facial features, pink-dyed, waist-length hair and the pale complexion coupled with her fragile looking semi-curvy build ooze femininity. Kaitlyn stands at a height of 5'4" without any sort of footwear and is often found in plain looking clothing that are comfortable and relatively easy to move around in.
Personality: A shy one who isn't good with meeting new people and would rather avoid large groups. Though once she becomes familiarized, Kaitlyn can be described as a motherly-like individual... In the rare moments when her face isn't buried in book that most likely has something to do with runic magic.
Skills: Familiarity with runic symbols & Knowledge of runic inscription methods.
Weaknesses: Low stamina & mana pool due to her Illness. Kaitlyn has an illness which leaves her in a condition where overexerting herself, in the worst case scenario, death.
Description: Allen, a mature looking boy with a sharp glint in his eyes. The harsh glint in his eyes always make it seem as if he is thinking of those around him as prey, like a wild beast. The color his eyes are silver, just like his hair and he wears his hair mostly short. Excluding the braid that reaches just short of the back of his knees. His taste in clothes is rather odd for a kid his age a he dresses in a fashion similar to butter running errands for a noble family. His height sits at 6'0".
Personality: A quiet boy with a lack of interest in most things. Doing just the bare minimum needed for the human body and otherwise doing nothing or sleeping. As far as Allen is concerned, his only responsibly is his sister and himself's well being. And tends to everyone at a certain distance emotionally. The exception being his sister.
Skills: Quick-witted & able to sleep anywhere.
Weaknesses: His sister and his general unwillingness to let people be close with him, making him suffer from anxiety attacks from his paranoia.
A pair of kids from the slums without parents. Thats how the siblings were for the majority of their lives. Living in abandoned buildings, securing food in any way possible. Then Kaitlyn's illness surfaced which left her bedridden for three years from the age of five. During that time, Allen took in upon himself to take care of himself and Kaitlyn.
Before he knew it, Allen's eyes had adopted a permanent sharp glint and he'd committed several crimes which would result in his imprisonment. Then that day, when Kaitlyn was ten and Allen was nine, That woman found them. Mason Sphiel and his wife, Emiliy, had found the siblings inside the home they had planned to buy and fix up.
Naturally, The siblings panicked. But running away wasn't an option with Kaitlyn's illness. She wasn't able to run lest she relapse and being bedridden. In such a situation, Allen brandished a knife he'd previously stolen. However, Mason and his wife, Emily, ended up taking the two in as their own. Emiliy was unable to give birth to children so for her, Kaitlyn and Allen were a godsend and she raised the two as her own blood.
(WIP also second one coming and will most likely be a WIP...maybe I donno... Cheese burger...)
Full Nam: Dante Alexander Ryan (formally Atwood) Nicknames/Aliases: Alex
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Primary:pyromancy
Student
Secondaries of Interest: Tracking and shadow step
Description: Dante tends to wear baggy jeans with a graphic T-shirts along with his signature black jacket.
Personality:Dante is often considered a tough guy with a bad mouth in public. Quick to talk back and quicker to throw a punch. He is fiercely protective of his younger sister. Dante thinks little of his own life in general, as he feels he owes it to his adopted family. Having said that his whole doesn't revolve around his sister or his new family, often times he can be found enjoying his hobbies and other passions.
Skills: -Dante is skilled free running -Trained in basic self-defense -slightly above average when to comes to pyromancy
Weaknesses: -quick to anger -He is awkward around people. -not good with magic fights
Brief History: Dante was born to Dominic and Samantha Atwood, two pyromancy born. At a young age Dantes parents died, leaving him all alone. It wasn't long however until the Ryan family adopted him.
Secondaries of Interest:Healing, Familiar Conjuration Description: Sam doesn't have a "look" in the classical sense. She wears whatever she wants. The only real constant would be her favorite bat man hoodie and how she does her hair.
Personality:Sam is very friendly and nice. Always willing to help out some one in trouble, she goes out of her way to meet new people. At heart Sam is a nerd, she loves comics, cartoons and anime. Sam believes her brother is uptight and that he should live a happy and full life.
Skills: Academic -some understanding of anatomy -Basic theoretical understanding of Healing magic.
Weaknesses: -Trusts people to much -not magically trained for fighting - physically weak
Brief History: Sam was born to Thomas and Angela Ryan. Around the age of 11 Dante was brought home. Their relationship at first was rocky, though over a few months she and Dante became close.