[CHAR] The 1st Magic Insurrection [NEW/ACCEPTING]

[Hedgehawk]

Aloysius Leighton

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"You have no idea of the power and influence I wield"

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Name: Aloysius Leighton
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Alignment: Dark Shadow
Rank within Organisation: Glorious Leader

Birthmark Shape

Location of BirthmarkLocated on his upper back, left shoulder. It is roughly 10 centimetres across and 15 centimetres tall
Magical Abilities:Aloysius has the power of the wind. He can create gusts of wind from seemingly nothing, from small gusts to hurricane strength winds. He has also started to learn the basics of creating wards, able to protect himself from incoming damage.

Place of Birth: Cambridge, Great Britain
Currently Residing: New York, United States of America
Personality: Devilish, Overconfident and conniving would be the three best words to describe Aloysius as he got older. Proud of his heritage and snobbish to anyone who isn't, his evil streak has gotten worse over the past few years. He has developed a sadistic streak, enjoying mental torture and torment. Almost always bearing a grin or a smirk, Aloysius has convinced himself of his superiority over others and while this can be true in most cases, it has caused him to get into some perilous situations in the past.

History/Bio: Born to a British Mother and Japanese Father, Aloysius learnt of his powers from a young age courtesy of his mother who possessed magic abilities herself. Growing up Aloysius was taught to be proud of his magical powers and to look down on non magic users with disdain, including his father who indeed was a non magic user. These feelings that his mother induced in him carried on stirring and brooding inside him as he approached his late teens. He saw the plight of his kind. The seclusion they had endured.

His father had worked hard on building his family small arms business to global fame, spending most of his time away from his dear wife and son. When Aloysius turned 18 his father mysteriously died and his mother was looking forward to gaining the family business for herself. However when the will was read out his father had split his fortune and his business equally between mother and son. His mother, furious that she hadn't got it all kicked her son out of the family manor and commandeered the business for herself.

The duo became estranged for two years and during this time, Aloysius travelled the world and started to meet fellow magic users. During these trips abroad he began to convince other magic users with regarding to his views on the magic realm. These trips however managed to gain the attention of the Guild who eventually tried to strong arm Aloysius and get him to stop. After refusing to back down a battle occurred and Aloysius killed several Guild members. His first ever crime and the start of many more, Aloysius decided enough was enough. It was time to deal with The Guild and bring the glorious magic users back to the position of power that they deserved.

Retreating back to home, he revealed his intentions to his mother. While she agreed in what he was trying to achieve, she didn't want to take part in any of it. She did however have no issue with using the family business as a cover, or to finance the operation. Taking advantage of the business contacts of the company, Aloysius travelled the world once more meeting with politicians and wealthy business men. After several trips he had formed the Dark Shadow; the organisation that would destroy The Guild. With the influence of his family business he was able to gather information all over the globe, and now he was finally ready for open war.

Relationships

Name: Rose Miller
Relationship:Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them:While they have never met, everyone knows the famous Rose Miller, leader of the Guild. Rose is everything that Aloysius despises about the magic realm. Though Aloysius is not stupid and has avoided direct engagement against Rose because of her power.

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Gender: Female
Age: 27
Alignment: Guild
Rank within Organization: Leader

Birthmark Shape:

Location of Birthmark: Left bicep, normally covered with clothing.
Magical Abilities: Rose is able to control the elements but has a particular affinity for water. She has become quite adept at making herself invisible, giving many members of the Guild (and others) the impression that she may always be watching or listening. While it is not confirmed to be an ability the illustrious has it is widely believed that she has the ability to read minds, a rumor she has not confirmed or denied.

Place of Birth: Byron Bay, Australia
Currently Residing: New York City, NY
Personality: Rose is very forgiving by nature but does have a bit of a temper if pushed too far. As the leader of the Guild she is very gregarious and charming. It takes people a while to notice that she doesn’t talk about herself, when asked personal questions the conversation is artfully turned back to something else, usually without the other person noticing.
History/Bio:

While born in Australia Rose moved to the United States when she was 12, after her parents died. She moved in with her Aunt who was only 21 at the time, the two have been inseparably close. When Rose turned 18 her Aunt told her the truth about herself and her parents. Her parents had not died in a car accident as she’d been led to believe. No, they were murdered by other magic users who followed the ideology of the Corpus. Rose’s strange attraction to the water and the strange occurrences that happened around her, her Aunt explained was because of her magic. The two had a falling out over the lie, after having been so close for all those years.

Rose moved from the southern part of the United States to New York, hoping to find someone who could teach her about her magic. She joined the Guild and was given her rightful place as Leader, learning that her Aunt had taken over this position when Rose was younger. She is a well-respected leader - often thought of as kind and genuine. She strongly believes in the laws that have been passed to help keep her kind hidden. She believes it is the Guild’s duty to protect the weak, non-magic and magic users alike. She doesn’t want magic users to control the world but she has no problem with the Guild ruling over magic users.

By day, Rose is a high-powered executive of a technology company but she spends a great deal of her time focused on the Guild. It is not unusual for her to take special interest in new recruits, especially those she feels may be teetering on the edge between loyalty to the Guild or the Dark Shadow.

Relationships
Name: Olivia Turner
Relationship: Co-Worker (Rose is her boss)
Characters opinion of them: Rose has seemed to have taken a special interest in Olivia’s career and from time to time her personal life. Rose likes Olivia but is trying to gently dissuade the girl from exposing her kind, without revealing that she herself is a magic user, let alone the most powerful one known to be.

Name: Aloysius Leighton
Relationship: Unknown
Characters opinion of them: Rose understands the feelings that bred the Dark Shadow to be formed but does not agree with it. It is not their methods necessarily that she disagrees with as she has been known to use a strong hand in the Guild but rather their end goal. She has never publicly denounced Aloysius personally, but she has denounced the Dark Shadow, likening them to rebelling teenagers. She is waiting and watching, to see if she can change Aloysius’ mind. If not, she will end his rebellion when it goes too far.

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Olivia Turner

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

Name: Olivia Turner
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Alignment: Guild/Non-Magic
Rank within Organisation: Currently non-member

Birthmark Shape: No Birthmark - however Olivia has a scar on the right side of her neck from a failed mugging attempt when she was in her early 20's.
Non-Magical Abilities: Olivia is a brown belt student of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and has studied for 6 years. She was a track athlete during high-school and because of this is a skilled sprinter.

Place of Birth: New York
Currently Residing: New York

Personality: Olivia would be described by her peers as enthusiastic, curious, spiritually inclined, warm, and at times can be naive. She is an incredibly friendly person, despite having had some shocking events in her past - she was able to move through them with guidance and therapy. With others, she is open, empathetic, and patient - and often will cross paths with people needing help in some way. She has an in-built desire to help people and to positively change the world on a large scale.

History/Bio: Olivia was born and raised in New York, and lived an ordinary middle-class life. She was a good student, and was part of her high school track team. She had many friends and a comfortable upbringing. Her parents were kind and generous to her and her friends. Olivia finally left home at 18 to attend college on a track scholarship, studying human biology.

It was during her third year of college that her life was changed; whilst walking home she was accosted by a group of thugs who held her at knifepoint to mug her. The largest mugger was about to slit her throat, and in fact the knife was already cut into her neck when they were stopped by a stranger wielding magic. Olivia remembers very little about the stranger, or what happened to the muggers. She only remembers waking up in the hospital.

For many months after this incident, Olivia suffered with severe post-traumatic stress. She was unable to leave the house, suffered from panic attacks and crippling fear. She dropped out of college, and never finished her degree and studies. It was during this time a friend encouraged her to enrol in a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu academy. Learning this discipline guided her through her trauma and allowed her to come out of the other side stronger, and more spiritual. People tended not to believe her when she explained she was saved by someone with magic - especially her parents.

For the last 6 years, Olivia has worked at a prestigious technology company in New York as part of a medical research team, having worked her way up through sheer grit and determination. By night, she is a host of an online community dedicated and obsessed with championing magic users, and uncovering the conspiracy that hides them from non-magic users. Her real reason for this site is to finally find the stranger who saved her to thank them, and to prove to herself that this person was real.

Relationships
Name: Rose Miller
Relationship:Acquaintance/boss
Characters opinion of them: Olivia has no real opinion of Rose, she is only someone that she passes each day at work.

[FrankenDaughter]

Alexandra Pauline Cooper
a.k.a.
"Poet"

Dark Shadow Member

"Everywhere I've tried to live always winds up being under somebody's thumb. I just want to feel like I can wake up someday soon and know that isn't true. Is that really what we were trying to work towards tonight? Because if not, screw you Simon, and screw your stupid One Saturday Morning bad guy team too." - Poet, to Simon, after carrying out her last mission for Dark Shadow the previous summer

Name: Paulie "Poet" Cooper
Gender F
Age: 27
Alignment - Dark Shadow - Doubting
To Paulie, The Guild is just another good idea with a hierarchy that doesn't have the best interests of its people in mind. Dark Shadow might exceed her means and sound like a terrorist cell plucked from a Hollywood blockbuster, but the most realistic outcome of its success is clear; instability wide enough for nicer people to make a real difference and be heard in the community--a true reform.
Rank within Organisation - Member
Poet... has established a reputation for getting things done. Her abilities are nothing so fancy as what people read about in storybooks, but guns can even the odds in magical combat just fine. Poet's skills lie more in never having to fight in the first place. If not for what have been obvious loyalty issues she'd probably be captaining her own cell. She's a valuable infiltrator. No one's certain she can be anything more yet.

Birthmark Shape: the silhouette of what looks from most angles like a pair of glasses, about four inches long and two inches high.
Location of Birthmark: Just above her left knee along the inside of her thigh.
Magical Abilities
-Tongues: Manifesting at a very young age was Paulie's ability to understand and speak/write any language she encounters. It is a gift many have mistaken for mere heightened lingual aptitude but it extends much farther. Poet can intuit ciphers at a glance, draw concrete conclusions about local graffiti, and even parse and replicate contrived dialects like twin if she hears a single syllable or sees only fragments of writing/iconography.
-Suggest Absence: Her true power manifested during her first years of puberty. Paulie can seem to be invisible to people. This ability can manifest in multiple ways, but only one way at any given time.

---Latent Blank: Anyone who can see Paulie doesn't see her in their direct vision. She can still be seen in reflections (but Blank doesn't fade unless they directly notice Paulie), and anyone looking through multi-lense (telescopics, flash cameras) or digital instruments (phone cameras etc). Once a person sees her this way, they are immune to the effects of Latent Blank for a long time. Paulie has no knowledge of when someone has overcome this ability, but she knows every way to circumvent it and can often guess when the jig is up or she's unlikely to really evade people this way.
---Controlled Blank: As long as Paulie concentrates, any surveillance equipment (digital cameras, motion sensors, laser detection, physical photography etc.) she can see or knows the field of view for. This requires enough concentration that Paulie can't use any other magic (Tongues won't function alongside Controlled Blank). Paulie always knows when this ability fails, including when it doesn't work at all. When there are too many devices to obstruct, say, ten cameras observing a vacant lot, the ability can't function when called on. Device limit is up to the GM and may vary depending on the size of the space Paulie is trying to Blank through, i.e. in a ten foot corridor, Paulie might be able to Blank two dozen separate pieces of equipment; in Tiananmen square, she might be able to Blank three cameras at best.
---Selective Blank: As long as Paulie concentrates, she can choose exactly one person to be unable to perceive her with any senses other than touch, mor by any external means. Selective Blank includes reflexively manipulating devices and even magics so that they can't find her. She can only use this on a person she can see, and once it is active she can concentrate on it indefinitely. Once she stops concentrating, she has to see the person again to Blank them again. The only trump for this ability is for whoever she's targeting to have a mommet of her hair, a small sample of her blood, or some other similar totem of her flesh to focus on. Paulie has no knowledge of when someone has overcome this ability. Most importantly, Paulie has no idea that this ability can be overcome.

Note: Concentration can be broken by pain intense enough to cause shock, falling unconscious, or chemical inmbalances from drugs, alcohol, sugar rushes, etc.

Non-Magical Abilities: Paulie has a fair amount of practice on firing ranges with pistols and a small amount with conventional shotguns. She also has a hobbyist's understanding of Tai-Chi (she has played recreational Push-Hands for fifteen years). She supplements any combat she engages in with Blanking, to deadly effect when she intends to kill.

Place of Birth: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Present Residence: A home van: currently just a few hours out of New York City, and heading in at the beginning of this story.

Personality: Paulie is a happy soul with an acerbic exterior.

Apathetic toward society - "Life is sacred, nothing else. Screw your church, screw your money, screw your car, and screw your stupid freaking phone. Buy me a drink, I'll roll you a joint, and we'll have a good day."
Hopeful - "What are you apologizing for? You're not a jerk and you're not an infant. Don't sweat the small stuff. Be better. You usually are."
Generous - "I attend Earthskills festivals because it's the only work I've done that feels like it truly makes a difference in people's lives and my own. You should attend one sometime, maybe get some work-trade in. Want I should shoot you an e-mail?"
Anarchic - "That crap doesn't work. Once enough people get an idea how to manipulate other people they'll always have more attention at their disposal. You miss things, other people see opportunity and just take advantage, and the schemers walk away with whatever means the most power at the time. Tax evasion, stock markets, ponsy schemes... they're all symptoms of a flawed system. Education is about giving other people the means to exercise enough attention to not be victims. Fuck that shit. The system is fixed. We need to break it. Education should be about giving people the means to reject it."
Vengeful - "Marcie's one of my best friends from that town, and she was so excited about giving her virginity to Atticus. I was really happy for her too--it's sweet if you care about that sort of thing. Everybody needs a couple of beliefs. When word got out how things went down and that he'd told her to 'Bite the pillow and take it like a champ?' Yeah. Atticus doesn't get to come to Green Gravel Gathering, and if he shows up there he won't leave with both of his testicles I swear to god."

Relationships/Story Resources

History/Bio: Paulie was born into a large, non-magical family during late November of 1989. Her parents were liberal arts advocates in the community, her father a faculty member at what would eventually become the Chattanooga Center for Creative Arts magnet school and her mother a singer/guitarist who would go on three month tours around every other year, and Paulie grew up the youngest of six siblings, nine years apart. Her early childhood was privilaged and comfortable, but around six years of age her talent for language began to manifest. At first her parents accepted this as a fortunate aptitude, encouraging her studies and delighting in each stride she made. By age eleven she could speak French, Spanish, Mandarin, and had developed a particular love of Latin American Portuguese.

but Paulie's eldest sister was the first to notice how extraordinary her abilities were. Paulie had stayed up with Sasha one evening while Sasha was watching a Run, Lola, Run, a german film, subtitles off, for her deutsch studies. At first Paulie just seemed fascinated by the visual spectacle, but when Paulie started asking Sasha pointed questions about the dialogue, Sasha became suspicious and deduced that Paulie was a polyglot. It was the only explanation--Paulie had never expressed an interest in learning deutsch.

After Sasha exposed Paulie to the rest of her family, they were both delighted and concerned. Her parents used their influence to contact local linguists, but wound up drawing the exact wrong sort of attention. A local Guild agent responsible for maintaining their anonymity in the southeastern United States. He was a powerful mentalist, and his investigation into her abilities meant the end of her normal life. Alongside other Guild agents, Paulie was abducted, her history and the memories everyone had of her erased, and relocated in a remote area of West Virginia, where she was forced to remain while she was educated about Magic and The Guild.

Her caretaker was a radical anarchist but, paradoxically, a fervent believer in The Guild's methods and goals. In short, a mageocrat. She grew into adolescence with a benevolent but strict and often times physically and mentally abusive teacher. Ultimately, their relationship grew too toxic, as he began succumbing to a blooming opioid addiction and was unable to care for her as a growing teenager and himself as a person. This coincided with her mastery of Blanking. At the age of seventeen, she executed a careful plan of escape that took advantage of the guild's reluctance to share records with non-magical beurocracies and her caretaker's newfound incapability. She hasn't seen or heard from her caretaker since, and has never returned to West Virginia.

Paulie's adult life is a carefully controlled cycle of espionage and hermitage. 'Pauline Cooper' is a well known member of most circles in the Earthskills Gatherings community, and enjoys friendships with a cast of characters throughout the eastern United States from all walks of life. To the normal world she is a political activist, an environmentalist, a dirty, dumpster-diving hippie, and a self-made scholar of music and political history. To the magical society, 'Poet' is a rather mundane urban legend known throughout eastern North America. To the Guild, 'Alexandra Cooper' is a wanted defector whose activities seem dangerously visible to the more radical isolationists among them. What The Guild intends to do with or to her if she is found is largely up to the cell that finds her. Intentions vary widely.

Paulie's three years of dealings with Dark Shadow largely extend from her direct interactions with with one of her best friends and current sexual partners. Simon MacCaffrey is a prodigious telekinetic based in Queens whom Paulie met during a debauched bender at Lightning In A Bottle. Paulie is in love with Simon and has considered the possibility of settling down for the first time in her life. It would be a huge compromise for her to make given how much pride and comfort she takes in her freedom to travel and the ties she has all over the continent. Simon does genuinely care about her, but since the beginning of their relationship has been instructed to play her for her powers of Suggestion. He is secretly fanatically invested in Dark Shadow and will do his best to keep Paulie from getting in their way if she becomes troublesome. He would not hesitate to kill her, but he would have to be ordered to directly by a superior.

Paulie doesn't know that Dark Shadow is engaged in violent activities nor that they are intent on doing more than merely subverting and destabilizing The Guild. She carried out what she feels are several harmless infiltration missions in New York City. These were done during the summer months when she is most reluctant to travel. Last year Paulie struck a particularly harsh blow by inciting a drug raid that resulted in the arrests of two Guild members and their cell of non-magical sympathizers. The repercussions of the event lead to the first time she'd ever questioned Dark Shadow's goals. If she found out that all of the people she'd framed had been quietly executed behind closed doors, it would break her heart.

Currently, Paulie has three hours left on her return to New Yourk City. She is excited to see Simon again and needs to take her van to a mechanic for what she suspects will be an expensive job replacing her transmission. Simon has hinted that this visit could mean a lot for her advancement within Dark Shadow.

Relationships

Guilders

Name: Rose Miller
Relationship - Cold - Unacquainted
Characters opinion of them: Everybody. Knows. Rose. If they don't know her, they know about her, and her reputation is spotless. Paulie's opinion of any member The Guild is heavily influenced by her memories of her abduction and the spiral of addiction and abuse her caretaker exposed her to, something she sees as a product of Guild paranoia and not her caretaker's personal flaws. To Paulie, Rose is a diamond in the rough, but corrupted by her fixture in The Guild as its figurehead. How could she not be? None the less, Paulie's heard enough that she would be willing to give Rose the benefit of the doubt of she met her in person--a courtesy she can't say she'd extend to any other member of The Guild right now.

Name: Róisín Mihaela O'Shea
Relationship - Unaquainted
Character's opinion of them: Paulie wouldn't recognize Róisín O'Shae, but she actually has read one of her books, recommended to her by a friend. The novel made a lasting impression and was ultimately the inspiration for her deciding to work with Dark Shadow in the first place.

Name: Elena Crow
Relationship - Best Friend - Cold
Character's opinion of them: Paulie and Elena's relationship is complex. While Paulie and Elena haven't seen each other since they shared space in WV over ten years ago, They've both made enough of an impact in their respective circles that "The Artist," and "Poet," have a good idea of where the other one's been recently if they ask around. Due to Paulie's subtlety she's successfully avoided being spotted as associating with Dark Shadow, but there's no way Elena can hide her association with The Guild, given how much more quickly she gravitated to working with magical society than Paulie did.

There's no telling quite how Paulie and Elena's reunion might go from Paulie's perspective. If not for her association with the Guild, Elena might've been contacted years ago. As it stands, Paulie deeply resents what she sees as Elena exposing herself to the same influences that lead to Charles' troubled life. None the less, Elena complimented Paulie's general demeanor well... and she's the only person who knows exactly what Paulie went through.

Name: Olivia Turner
Relationship - Warm - Acquainted
Characters opinion of them: Paulie was the magic user responsible for saving Olivia's life. She incapacitated the first two muggers while Blanked, but had to use Selective Blank to incapacitate the third mugger, who had seen her reflection in a window. This allowed Olivia to see Paulie as if she appeared out of thin air. Olivia could only see Paulie for a few brief moments before Paulie used Selective Blink on her and Olivia felt herself being carried by some unseen force to the bus stop. It seemed to Paulie that Olivia was in a bad enough way that she truly needed medical attention, and she stayed long enough to be sure Olivia was picked up by an ambulance before leaving, unseen by anyone.

This... isn't the first time Paulie has anonymously saved someone from one misfortune or another, although it's definitely the only time she's saved someone else's life. She's developed a queer fascination with the people she saves, and on her visits to New York City she sometimes uses her powers to stalk Olivia for a day or two, going so far as to crash in her living room without ever being seen. Olivia never saw Paulie after the incident.

Dark Shadow

Name: Aloysius Leighton
Relationship - Warm - Unacquainted.
Characters opinion of them: Simon MacCaffrey is the most senior member of Dark Shadow that Paulie knows at present. He and the three or four others seem almost apologetic about the name of the organization. Simon claims to have met the leader of Dark Shadow and seems to think highly of him, a fact that colors Paulie's own opinion. Simon even thinks that Dark Shadow's leader and Paulie would seriously hit it off, and Simon's been right about such things before.

NAme: Val Coriptus
Relationship - Unacquainted
Character's opinion of them: As is the case with most Dark Shadow members, Paulie has never met Val Coriptus.

[ihinka]

Róisín Mihaela O'Shea

Róisín Mihaela O'Shea

At a picnic with her moms

In the bar where she worked while she was still in college

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Aikido is like origami, only with people.

Name: Róisín Mihaela O'Shea /People usually call her Ro, friends also call her Mik/

Gender: Female

Age: 33

Alignment: Guild

Rank within Organisation: Captain

Birthmark Shape: A star tetrahedron /merkaba/



Location of Birthmark: Right above her fourth chakra - the heart

Magical Abilities: Aura manipulation. This ability allows her to heal or cause harm by manipulating the aura of a person. Her powers are affected by proximity, direct contact or no contact, amount of concentration used. With direct contact the effect of her powers is the strongest and most immediate. She can heal/harm very rapidly by touch, slower and with greater concentration needed at a distance. Also to be able to manipulate someone's aura at a distance she needs to have personally met her target and come into physical contact even if a brief one. At long distances her powers can still have effect, however she needs to be in a deep meditative state for them to work.

People who practice eastern philosophies like yogis and the like will be able to rebuff the effects of her powers if they willed it enough and sensed her attempts to heal or harm. In essence a person would need a good understanding of the concept behind auras as well as an ability of their own, even if rudimentary, to manipulate their own auras, to be able to stop the effects of her powers, or weaken them, depending on their ability.

She cannot bring people back from the dead and can only heal terminal diseases with multiple healing sessions. This applies to the harmful side of her powers as well. She can severely weaken and even render someone unconscious, but she cannot insta-kill with her powers. With enough time and malicious intent however she can cause a fatal illness.

She has incorporated perfectly the tactile use of her aura manipulation while practicing her aikido.

Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland

Currently Residing: En route to New York

Personality and Appearance: Ro was always an adorable child. Be it in looks or in personality. She was sweet, well mannered, polite, gentle, caring and attentive. Of course, she had her wild, naughty moments as any child did. Because she was more conscientious that her peers though those moments were few and far in between and were limited to a couple of piercings and tattoos her mothers had learned to live with. In Emily and Mihaela's eyes, their daughter's true beauty began to shine once she hit puberty and even more so when that period ended.

At thirty-three Ro is a petite young woman at 5'4 with the body of a long time martial arts practitioner. She is fit and athletic, with good muscle definition. Because of her petite frame however she can never look masculine with her fit build, but is deceptively strong and capable. She has long, wavy brown hair and mystical hazel eyes that shift their color depending on her mood or the light, or even the color of her clothes. Her face is almost pixie-like, pointed at the chin, delicate and honest.

When people look they see a young kid at no more than twenty-five, sweet and innocent. Naive even. They would be, of course, sourly mistaken. Ro is anything but naive. And although sweet and retaining her childish innocence, she is very much so an adult. A deep thinker. A person with a very inquisitive mind and a very caring heart. She is warm and loving, and is quick to offer help. A predisposition which lends itself perfectly to her powers of aura manipulation. Which she uses almost exclusively to heal.

If Ro has a bad side, no one has ever discovered it, and thankfully so. Because however calm and collected she is, she is a very passionate individual. And that passion could push her either way. Of course there is a reason no one had ever been on her bad side. Being as calm and collected as she is, Ro has learned to temper her more darker moods and keep them in check. She is not perfect, of course. Her anger is a sight to behold should someone manage to get her their. Which generally happens when people she loves are being threatened. She also has a passionate distaste for innocent people being harmed in any way and is liable on rare occasions to jump before she looks.

She also has a wicked, somewhat sharp sense of humor, as well as a naughty, raunchy-ish side to her that few people ever get to see.

History/Bio: Róisín was born to a single mother Emily O'Sea née Corrigan. Ro's father had died shortly after her conception in a car accident, which he'd caused while driving drunk. Her mum, Emily often wondered in the early years if she regretted not being able to tell him he was to become a father, or if it his death was a blessing in disguise. As horrible as that thought was she had to wonder what kind of a father he would have been with his propensity to overindulge with the juice of the barley. Or maybe he would have turned his life around once he'd learned he was going to be a dad. But apparently it was not to be. And Ro grew up with only her mother to take care of her up until her eleventh year.

It was right about that time when some major events in her and her mum's life occurred. But most pressing of them all was Ro's emerging powers, which began awakening with Róisín's passing from girlhood to womanhood. When her puberty hit Ro's emotional state and her moods began to act as conduits for her powers.

Also the largely Catholic Ireland was not the best place for a young mother struggling with her sexual identity. Nor was it the ideal place for her young daughter who, completely separately from her mother, had similar problems of her own. Magnified by her puberty and the fact that in her fragile state Ro tended to internalize a lot, her powers wreaked havoc with her health. At first it was mostly problems related to the female anatomy and explainable with her puberty. But when the problems became too frequent Emily started to worry about her little girl. She forgot her own problems as any good parent would and focused solely and entirely on her daughter.

This led to the second big occurrence in the lives of mother and daughter. The day they met Mihaela Nikolova. A pediatrician who had immigrated to Ireland from her home country Bulgaria in nineteen ninety-three and had spent two years taking equivalency tests to be allowed to practice medicine in Ireland.

One day, when Ro's health had taken a turn for the worst, Emily had rushed her daughter in the Emergency Department of the nearest hospital. Mihaela was the doctor who'd attended to them. She was also the one to realize that the young girl was harming herself, although not intentionally. Mihaela was able to determine that because she was a magic user with the gift of medical/healing insight. She could tell a person's maladies by touch. And with her medical education she was able to intuit the best possible treatment.

In the course of a couple of weeks she managed to break the news to Emily about what her daughter was and what they needed to do, so that Ro would not get sick again. It wasn't an easy road. At first Emily was resistant to the notion of magic and magic users. Who wouldn't be in this day and age. But little by little, with patience and genuine concern Mihaela managed to break through Emily's defenses and convince her of the reality of the situation.

This was how it began. Ro's new life with not one mother, but two. Because in the process of taking care of her, the two women had grown close. They'd started off as friends, but their connection grew stronger and stronger, until neither of them could deny it any more. By then Ro had grown to love Mihaela and was all but ecstatic when Emily had fearfully broken the news to her daughter. That she was a lesbian and had fallen in love with Mihaela, and that Mihaela returned her feelings.

From there on their family was complete, even if recognized only by themselves and like-minded individuals. And Mihaela had begun training Róisín to control her awakening powers. She'd also confided in Emily and Ro about the existence of the Guild of which she was a member. And of the other side of the coin. Or of the magic users who were hell bent on mage world domination. At the age of eighteen Róisín became an official recruit of the Guild.

During her entire childhood Ro was a quiet, calm and collected child with a sense of purpose and possessing a self-awareness uncommon for her age. Nowadays people would come to recognize children like her as indigo children. Incredibly intuitive. Empathetic, curios and strong-willed and possessive of a very strong innate spirituality. This was all true for Róisín as well. Pretty soon she showed interest in the written word and the art of writing and crafting stories. She was gifted too. So Emily and Mihaela sought to encourage that talent. And when it came time for Ro to choose a life-path, she decided to study English and Creative Writing. As a highly spiritual child with a healthy physical disposition her parents also tried to find for her a suitable sports activity. The answer came with Aikido. It was non-aggressive, it held in itself strong philosophical teachings, and was physically demanding as well.

Today she holds an undergraduate degree in English Studies and a Masters in Creative Writing from Trinity College. She's an uprising young author, with three published novels that have garnered some success, she has third dan black belt in Aikido and is the apple of both her mothers' eyes.

Relationships
Aloysius Leighton:

Relationship: Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis

Characters opinion of them: As a Captain in the Guild Ro of course knows who Aloysius Leighton is. Or at least she knows about him through the eyes of the Guild. She has no personal knowledge about the man and given the chance would like to find out who he is and why he is the way he is. Because after a certain point in our life we tend to become the sum of our experiences and she wants to know what would bring a man or a woman to welcome and live by such extreme ideals of hate and oppression.

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Rose Miller:

Relationship: Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis

Characters opinion of them: Every member of the Guild knows who Rose Miller is! She is their leader and in the eyes of many members, a sort of god figure. Not Ro. All her knowledge about Rose is second hand or even further down the line. And Ro preferres to get to know someone personally. Without risking someone else's views skewing the picture of the person she is trying to figure out. She does have a healthy dose of respect for what the woman has accomplished.

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Olivia Turner:

Relationship: Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis

Characters opinion of them: Ro doesn't know her.

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Alexandra Pauline Cooper:

Relationship: Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis

Characters opinion of them: Ro doesn't know her.

[LHudson]

Val Coriptus

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The Ascension is upon us, and when it comes, you self-righteous vermin be the ones left behind

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Name: Val Coriptus
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Alignment: Dark Shadow
Rank within Organisation: Second In Command

Birthmark Shape: The shape can be best described as a detailed outline of his bicep.
Location of Birthmark: Left bicep and shoulder.
Magical Abilities: Telekinesis - Starting out as a tool for general living, as his ideology grew and moulded, so do did his ability's purpose and effectiveness. While it is more often than not used for convenience, the most notable demonstrations of his ability has been when subduing another individual. He commonly forces the human in the air while he is free to extract whatever information he likes from them. While effective, the caveat to using it on a human is that it requires his full concentration, meaning he cannot subdue multiple people, and that his guard is vulnerable.

Memory Extraction: Placing his hand upon a subject's face allows the two of them to enter the same mind, giving Coriptus the opportunity to explore their memories and extract whatever information he desires. However, the extraction happens in real time, and there is a small possibility that the experience leaves his victims mentally broken.

Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
Currently Residing: New York City, New York, USA
Personality: Coriptus has been described in the past as a conscientious individual, having a careful attention to detail and having a solid work ethic, regardless of the situation he is placed in. He is often described as a team leader in past careers, being able to observe a situation and act on it accordingly.

But despite these qualities, underneath the charismatic individual lies a cruel, sadistic interior. He sees his tortuous actions as righteous and just, and his hatred for the Guild's nepotistic history is well documented.

History/Bio:
Val was born into the well respected Coriptus family as the only child and heir to the family. Both parents were magical users and had taken great pride in their contribution to the Guild, through resources from their front company, to information regarding possible rule breakers in the society.

Val's upbringing was one built on the respect and care for everyone around him, with his lessons built on understanding the society's rules and the fear that non-magic kind may have if elements beyond their understanding is revealed. Even as his powers were developing, his parents continued with their lessons, teaching him that the negative consequences of his power meant that it shouldn't be used under any circumstances.

Unfortunately, his parents were killed in a terrorism incident during a tradeshow, leaving Val as the sole owner of the company and the last member of the Coriptus dynasty. Knowing his lack of business skill and saddened by the loss of his only family, he sold his stake for a sizeable fortune. He kept to himself, living off the interest and rarely made an appearance.

But despite his parents's upbringing, Val held a secret resentment. He held a hatred for the Guild for their weak response to the incident that killed his parents, in addition to their line of succession neglecting leadership ability. With the death of his parents, his resentment for the non-magic kind for their inherently violent nature grew to the point that he started honing his craft on them. His telekinetic abilities became more refined, and his journey into their memories left many insane.

While he was kept on the Guild's radar, he mostly stayed out of their way until recently, when he became involved with Dark Shadow. His influence and his skills with the group lead him to become second-in-command, but has had a hands-off approach to the group, though he is not against getting involved if need be.

Relationships
Name: Aloysius Leighton
Relationship: Warm
Characters opinion of them: Corpitus is in open co-operation with Leighton, both agreeing that magical users are inherently superior, but their personalities often clash on non-magic users, especially when it comes to their relationship with the parents. The two work well, but it is known that their opinions clash.

Name: Rose Miller
Relationship: Hates
Characters opinion of them: Coriptus loathes Rose, due to gaining influence through inheritance and not through demonstration of leadership. He believes she got to the position through nepotism, and isn't afraid to voice that.

[Old Amsterdam]

Elena Crow

Elena "The Artist" Crow

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True beauty is creation.

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Name: Elena Crow
Gender Female
Age: 26
Alignment: Guild
Rank within Organisation: Lieutenant

Birthmark Shape: A hazy looking crescent Moon
Location of Birthmark: Right collarbone
Magical Abilities:
The Pen:
Elena can draw something on any surface and imbue it with magic essence, bringing it to life. Works best off of paper or parchment, but could work off of most surfaces. Using different surfaces grant different bonus attributes, but takes more magic. Such bonuses may be a more resistant creature, a creature with stronger attacks, or a structure that's completely stable.

Creation: Ink Life:
By drawing creatures, both mimicking real life creatures and imaginary ones, Elena can control them with basic commands. The less real a creature is made to seem, the harder it is to bring to life. These constructs are made of ink, making use in water or rain newly impossible unless Elena dumps large quantities of her magical energy into them, often limiting her to a single entity.

Creation: Ink Building:
With careful precision, Elena can even create objects that act as a fairly solid, if mushy, substance. This takes more time, but less energy. Uses include a small board to cross a gap, a ladder, a wall for cover, etc etc. Not very useful offensively, as far as she's aware.

Cloak of Ink:
Through careful control, Elena can Cloak herself in an inky wisp, only useful in darkness and shadows, to help improve her odds are remaining undetected.

Place of Birth: Charleston, West Virginia
Currently Residing: Middle of nowhere, West Virginia (home, but almost always out for the Guild elsewhere)
Personality: Elena is a fairly relaxed woman, hard to irritate but fiercely loyal. She's rather calm in most situations, preferring to be tactical in all interactions both in the field and during discussions and talks. She is, however, an Isolationists. Preferring solo, or loose knit missions and interactions except when it involves friends and loved ones.

She can be cold to interact with at first, having a great distrust of new people.

Beyond that, she enjoys time by herself to read and draw.
History/Bio: Born in a relatively large City, Elena was taught from a young age to blend into the world. Not to draw eyes, to keep undue attention away. To be polite and enjoy life. These were the lessons her parents taught her. Mostly because they were involved in large quantities of illegal activity.

At the age of six Elena had taken on an infinity for drawing, showing a mastery skill level of creating things she'd seen once, or even things she'd heard about. While her parents were actually fairly decent people outside of the smuggling and robberies, it took them a few weeks to catch on to this new set of skills.

One evening, after get eleventh birthday, she'd been brought along with them, for some unknown reason, on one of their many dealings in illegal activity. When things started going sour, the client being unhappy about some small detail and being incredibly paranoid, she willed a drawing of a wall to life.

Unfortunately, it only protected herself. Not that she ever learned or her parents' deaths, given Guild members had been nearby.

She was taken into a sort of orphanage, as she called it, and was under the care of one Charles Serento. There she met Paulie, brought in barely a day after her. They bonded quickly, both suffering from being removed from everything they'd ever known. Elena, at least, was still in her home state and faired better than Paulie.

As time went on and they began mastering the beginning aspects of their powers, their friendship bloomed. But all was not well, given Charles's addictions and abusive nature.

Elena pleaded with Paulie to stay, but awoke one fateful morning to find her best friend gone.

Elena was devastated, and things only got worse with Charles. With one of his charges missing, he cracked down ever harder on the charges he had left.

For every little mishap, Elena was beaten or forced to spend hours, or days, in a dark room with only a toilet for company.

One fateful day, a few months before her eighteenth birthday, Elana had had enough. When the first fist swung, she reacted.

Moments later, Charles laid dead on the floor, an inky smaller

Upon coming of age she joined the ranks of the Guild proper, to protect this beautiful world from forces who would wish it harm.

From there Elena progressed relatively rapidly, dealing with missions effectively and resourcefully, and providing support wherever and however she could.

Relationships
Name: Aloysius Leighton
Relationship:Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them: Given that he's a well known figure of the Dark Shadows, Elena can't like him. She'd never interacted with him directly, but firmly believe that the end does not justify the means. And while she understands where his beliefs come from, she could never accept his reasons.

Name: Rose Wilson
Relationship:Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them: Having worked personally with Rose when she was first starting out in the Guild, Elena has a first hand impression of the leader. She feels she's competent, but disagrees with many aspects of the Guild. One thing is for sure, Rose may very well be the most powerful person Elena has ever met.

Name: Olivia Turner
Relationship:Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them: Given her Isolationists nature, Elena has not interacted with Olivia, but has heard mention of the non-magic user in their ranks.

Name:
Relationship:Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them: (Why do they feel the way that they do)

Name: Paulie "Poet" Cooper
Relationship:Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them: Given their shared history, Elena may know Paulie the best. As such, there's a mixture of confusion and hurt in the high esteem Elena holds her old friend in. If it came down to it, Elena would leave the Guild for her best friend, even if she would prefer to bring her friend back into the Guild.

Not that she'll ever admit to such.
Why can't you just come back?

Name: Ro
Relationship:Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them: With Elena being one step above Ro, they've known each other from shared experiences and missions. Possibly the only other person Elena has grown close to, besides Paulie. Elena personally believes Ro to be a bit of a rival, despite their vastly different abilities.

[Fat Boy Kyle]

Oak

Harrison Oak

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”You cannot hide the truth from me. I am always watching.”

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Name:
Harrison Oak (known to most as Oak)

Gender:
Male

Age:
26

Alignment:
Neither (unaware of either)

Rank within Organisation:
N/A

Birthmark Shape:

Hider

This birthmark is on the left of his chest. However, given his various tattoos, it doesn’t look out of place.

Magical Abilities:
~THE DARK EYE~
Oak is able to mark surfaces with a magical eye symbol, which he can then see through with some focus. He can mark up to three surfaces at once, and unless one is gifted in magic they are almost impossible to see (and even then, they often go unnoticed). If the distance between him and an eye gets too great, he will begin to lose connection and the eye will fade. The less eyes he plants, the more he can focus on one (and thus the further away he can be). He is unable to hear with this eye. He can mark a single living being, but it requires all three uses of the dark eye. It’s not something you can wash off in the shower, but someone with even a basic ability to dispel shouldn’t have trouble getting rid of this.

~EARLY PYROMANCY STAGES~
Oak has also began playing around with some very very basic pyromancy. So far the most impressive thing he can do is light a dry cigarette at such a slow speed he would be better off using a lighter. Practice makes perfect though.

Place of Birth:
Nottingham, England.

Currently Residing:
New York

Personality:
Oak is a great believer in a principle he learned in the police: Assume nothing, believe nothing and challenge everything. He has taken this principle to heart and perhaps as a result has become a little bit too distant and untrusting. His suspicions of others has led him to become somewhat unsociable and bitter. He is slow to make friends, particularly because he is so god-damn pessimistic.

History/Bio:
Oak grew up in Nottingham, England and was the third child of four. His childhood was good and free of any tragedy. He did ok at school, getting mostly Bs and Cs. Having grown up on too many buddy-cop films, Oak always dreamt of joining the police and joined at the relatively early age of 18. For the first couple of years on the beat, life continued to be somewhat uneventful for Oak. Sure his job was very interesting, and he dealt with different situations every day, but when he took off his uniform at the end of the day he simply went home and lived a normal life.

However things changed when his magical abilities started to manifest in his early twenties. The first time he cast the dark eye he found himself completely freaking out and even had to take a couple of months sick leave to get his head round things. For a long time he thought that he might have genuinely been going insane. But as he learned to use the power, he realised that he had been granted a tremendous gift.

And that was when things really started to go down hill. For you see, in the UK the justice system greatly values evidence and fair trials. And whilst Oaks ability let him discover the secrets behind many crimes, from the man hitting his wife behind closed doors, to the teacher abusing their students, to the drug pusher selling to youths on the park, it did not present him with any material of useable evidence. It was infuriating for him – too know that someone was committing a crime and having no legitimate way to prove it. And one day he simply snapped, beating up a local paedophile after months of failing to get any concrete evidence. He was arrested by his colleagues and ended up being sentenced to a year in prison.

Since being released Oak has worked as a freelance unlicensed detective and has particularly become interested in taking up any work involving the occult. It is his latest job that has brought him over to New York. He has been tasked with tracking down a young woman who is believed to have fled state-side in order to join some sort of coven. As things stand he is no knowledge of any legitimate magic groups and therefore is rather new and impartial to everything.

Relationships
None at present