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

[LHudson]

@jakeb1993 The history has been updated.

[Old Amsterdam]

@jakeb1993
Awesome. I'll begin working on finishing it in expectation (more like hope) that @Codex is alright with it.

As always, any suggestions or requests for changes or expansions are welcome.

May expand details on her ink abilities, to explain all she can do with it properly.

[spicykvnt]

My post is probably not great. I am quite sleep deprived and not yet in the zone for this character, but I didn't want to hold this up :)

[codex]

@Old Amsterdam I like her! Sorry, I seem to have caught the plague and attempting to either die or recover, I don't think my body has decided as of yet.

[Old Amsterdam]

@codex
Quite alright. Hope you get better quickly.
EDIT:
My CS will take a little longer than expected. Working on some major history and backstory stuff with FranjenDaughter.

[codex]

@jakeb1993 Just wanted to give you and everyone else a heads up that I will be delayed with posts. I'm in the waiting room at the ER waiting to be seen for my plague. Having difficulty breathing with a fever. Yay for the American health care system.

[Hedgehawk]

@codex don't worry about it, once @Old Amsterdam and @LHudson have completed their CS and Relationship sheets they will be posting their prologue posts. So it will be a while.

[LHudson]

@jakeb1993 I updated my sheet you know :3

[Hedgehawk]

@LHudson I saw. The only thing you need to do is add your Relationship sheet but asides from that you are approved.

[LHudson]

@jakeb1993 Check again

[Hedgehawk]

@LHudson Approved, move him over to the character tab.

[Old Amsterdam]

@jakeb1993@Codex

Also, if anyone wants me to change anything in the Relationship section, let me know.

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.

[FrankenDaughter]

Updated relationship sheet today.

[Hedgehawk]

@Codex I am ok with Amsterdam's CS if you are?

[FrankenDaughter]

@codex

Well wishes to you. Hope recovery is going well.

[Hedgehawk]

@Old Amsterdam Given that Codex is currently ill, and the fact I don't want to bugbher while she is recovering, I am going to approve your profile.

I will start the second round of posting after @LHudson and @Old Amsterdam have completed their prolouge posts.

[Old Amsterdam]

@jakeb1993
Roger Roger.

I'll move the CS over in a bit and get my prologue post up hopefully tonight.
Edit:
As always, let me know if anything needs changed with my post.

[FrankenDaughter]

"Of course, one of the theories that rings most true in our community is that what we do can be taught. Merlin, Franz Mezmer, John Snow, Joan of Arc... and do not mistake my focus on examples from Western cultures for some queer distribution of magical genes. Magic is a human birthright. For every score of peoples... in every history... from every culture... you will find mages among those remarkable. The subtleties of our traditions informed their decisions. They go quietly into our past, some failed, some successful... but each of them stands as an example of what it truly means to work for The Guild.

We accentuate and inform sciences. We beget benevolence within fields of study and practice that need it. We provide hints of stability where momentum can carry it to fruition. And, as the world shakes, you can find each and every enemy to our cause.They act in uncoordinated concert, playing to the worst impulses man might indulge. Find an engine for power, with rules made to fail, and you will as likely find a foolish man as a seed of the Corpus.

We mages are as few in number as any time in recorded history. Our influences on civilization have spiraled well and fully out of our control. And every year, I swear, it is fucking Animal Farm. Look from man to pig and pig to man. Even we are losing track of which is which." - Magus Nwabudike Laal, Guild Master Archivist

Would things like this be acceptable? Not as IC posts, but just as little submissions to flesh out present day ideas about how things wound up the way they are.

[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

EDIT: Hello. Please embrace me or tell me to go nurf my character. Whichever is more appropriate.

[FrankenDaughter]

HYPE INTENSIFIES.