Full Name:Livia Silvana Fiore
Nicknames/Aliases:'Young Miss' - Mostly by her Servants.
'Silvy' - by her sister and those who are feeling particularly suicidal
Age:17
Gender:Female
Primary:Necromancy, Primarily focused on Incorporeal spirits.
Secondaries of Interest/Secondaries:Shadow Step and Familiar Conjuration
Description:Livia stands at just 5'6" with a rather petite frame with not very many assets in most areas. With soft features and a fairly quiet personality for the most part, she comes off as fairly unassuming. She has a head of extremely well groomed, long black colored hair and flawless pale skin spent from days inside reading far too much inside of her families estate. A pair of violet eyes are her most distinctive feature, along with a fairly serious and no-nonsense demeanor she carries herself with and speaks with a definite french accent, and can speak most European languages with some ease including Italian, French, English, and some Russian.
Her prestigious lineage shows fairly easily in her clothing. With a penchant for luxurious dresses, fashionable, if somewhat eccentric clothing, Livia espouses the need to look good whilst doing anything. She typically can be seen wearing fairly expensive clothing of purples, blues, blacks, and golds though purple is by far her favorite.
Personality:In one word very a very
direct person. She has something to say, she'll say it. She doesn't like you, she'll inform you of that and list a long list of reasons why. If she does like you, you can be sure she'll be the first person to say so. If she wants something done, she'll do it herself without the help of anyone else. If she decides to do something, she'll carry through with it consequences be damned.
Livia is rather serious and calm most of the time without many extremes to her emotions. When she does show any, it's usually annoyance or scathing remarks towards someone for interrupting her studies and reading. She enjoys drinking tea alone with her spirits, and often times prefers their company over that of other people. In general, first impressions reveal her to be a rather humorless, serious, loner without much care for other people. It's not too far off the mark either. Livia has a general disdain for people. Needless to say, along with some radical opinions on the state of today's world, she's not going to be anyone's best friend on the first day. She has a tendency to have no filters for what she thinks of people, even if said words aren't exactly the nicest.
That said, if you were to sum her up by those traits alone, you'd be far off the mark as well. Livia, at her core, does in fact, like people. The only reason she acts so taciturnly towards others in most situations is because she believes small talk doesn't get one anywhere, especially when ones time could be better spent in study or bettering themselves - she was the type of kid to pass up on a Christmas party in order to study silently in her room. However, if one were to find her in one of the rare moments she's not in fact, studying or otherwise practicing she's a fairly amicable soul and most would go so far as to say a little flirtatious, even.
A lot of her hard working attitude and disdain for others, is simply because while she is a noble born, she's never had an easy life. Jealousy, one could say. Of her sister and others. Her sister was doted on by her parents and groomed to be the next head of house while she was left to herself, and raised by the head maid of their household and received no help from anyone but her. She believes the only way someone can get anything in this world, is to work for it themselves. She dislikes tradition, challenges most other nobles, and loathes entitled brats who think being nobles or 'special' automatically make them the greatest thing on two legs. She will prove that no, they are not.
For the most part, she's calm and erudite and very self aware of herself but sees nothing wrong with her attitudes or beliefs.
Crush:N/A
Skills:Historia Magia:Livia likes to think she at least, on some level, knows a bit about both history as well as history regarding magic. She put far too many hours studying such things growing up. Not really a skill persay, more of a general idea that she knows her stuff when it comes to magical and mundane history.
Lingua dello SpiritoFrom a young age, Livia has made strives to further her abilities, almost on an obsessive scale. Though she's mostly self-taught, she likes to think she's at least, competent with her craft of summoning incorporeal spirits. Though, her abilities with the physical aspects of undead and reanimating an actual body are rather lacking.
Percezione dell'anima'Soul Perception' While most necromancers are inherently skilled at seeing and sensing the souls of the dead, Livia has decided to on some level become better than most. Or at least, has made efforts too. Theoretically, the skills show the souls of all living things regardless of their status of invisibility or otherwise.
Theoretically.
The Soul Perception skill requires far too much concentration to be used reliably in most scenarios in its current state. Not to mention, at the moment she can only make good 'guesstimates' as to where something is - mostly the direction the soul in question is generally in. As well, invisible targets or those who know how to mask their presence could thwart the skill easily, at least until she has a better idea how to use it - and Living things are far beyond her capabilities for now.
Weaknesses:- To put bluntly, Livia's not a fighter by nature. She's a schemer, planner, and prefers to manipulate things or let her ghosts do the fighting for her. Fighting is something best left to those suited to do it, not the mastermind. When it comes to physical fighting, she's not going to be winning any contests, if her petite frame wasn't any indication.
- Livia has no interest in the study of physical human bodies or the study of physical necromancy. While she does study theory and histories, when it comes to actual practice her skill in that area leaves much to be desired so don't ask her to make a zombie, and any necromancer skilled in the art of such a thing could perhaps be clever enough to fool or thwart her.
- While the Soul Perception skill has given her a bit of an edge over other necromancers and aid her with dealing with spirits that like to hide, it does have its limits on what it can perceive and what it can't perceive. Obviously, should something not have a soul (Whatever such a thing could possibly be) then it'd be worthless. Likewise, extended use will lead to headaches and migraines proportionate to how long the skill was used. One has to concentrate and 'sense' their surroundings with it as well, leaving her quite open for ambush. While some of these things could be lessened with proper training and skill, they can never be fully dealt with.
- Livia, admittedly, is somewhat selfish. While she'll be friendly with others if it suits her, and while she'll help a friend out or two (Loyalty begets loyalty after all), she is rather adverse to dying herself. As well, she has an almost unhealthy obsession with magic and experimentation regarding it. While she has no illusions that certain things could be dangerous...why get rid of them? Understanding and knowledge is humanities greatest weapon. Study and understand it. To put simply, all someone would have to do is dangle rare magic in her face and she'd leap at the chance to study it.
Brief History:Livia was born and raised in the mountains of France and Italy as the second daughter of the Fiore Family. The Fiores are a proud, ancient linage that supposedly trace their ancestry back to ancient Egypt, though such claims are unverified and many assume its a stretch to say so. Not that it particularly matters, the old family has a long history of being wealthy, powerful necromancers who today run a successful business in both funeral and occult services.
Livia was not shown much familiar love during the first few years of her life. Rather, her parents were focused on keeping the family out of the war and grooming her older sister Marise, to be the next head of house. There are various rumors as to why this was - that her family was secretly supporting the insurgents, to them having their own agenda behind the scenes while they maintained a neutral front. The truth is much harsher, though. Her family kept itself out of the war because of an internal power struggle between Livia's parents and the old head of house who mysteriously died towards the end of the war. All at the order of her mother, of course who to say was power hungry, was an understatement. Her mother secured her place as the current head of the family along with her husband.
Of course, this still left Livia alone for most of her childhood, leaving her in the care of the head maid, Nynette - who Livia considers more of a mother than her actual mother. She grew up left mostly to her own devices, and was allowed to study her magic as she pleased. When she received an offer to go to school, well, why not? To pass a chance to learn more and further ones own studies would be simply stupid.
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