Name: Ariana Ronan
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Species: Selkie
Room Number: (will be assigned to you before roleplay)
Alignment: Good/Magi?
Appearance: When not wearing her skin, she looks like an average human woman with long black hair, dark brown eyes, and pale skin with slight freckles. Her face is angular and her stature is short, about 5' 6". She commonly wears a dark blue cotton Irish-style dress with a silver Celtic Knot brooch clasping a dark green cape over her shoulders. She also wears a silver necklace with a Celtic tree of life pendent on it and black slip-on shoes. Has her seal coat within her school satchel which she keeps a firm grasp on at all times.
(Not my image. Comes from moonchild-ljilja on DeviantArt)
Something like her just with black hair, the silver necklace, and the school satchel.
When wearing her seal skin, she looks like an average Atlantic harbor seal with a dark grey/black spotted back and a whiter belly.
Personality: She's a cautious sort, seeking to analyze the room and know what's going on before making any decision. Knowledge is power after all, and she wants to know all she can so that she's trapped in a situation that she can't win. It causes her to be prone to being a wallflower, especially since she's prefers to not broadcast the fact that she's a selkie. But she does want to make a difference in the world and make it so that humans will no longer be able to hurt selkies or any other race ever again.
Bio: Ariana grew up with her parents and siblings in a traditional traveling selkie clan, following their seal herd and coming up onto the seashore every seven months in order to not lose the use of their legs. All her life, she grew up with the warnings to always guard her skin and of what men would do to her if they had it. But of course as a young kid, the warnings seemed mere tales. There came a day when she wandered too far and mislaid her skin, only for a man to come to claim it and her. But before he could, her elder sister, Patricia, tackled the man and told Ariana to grab her skin and run. And so she did, near out of breath as she told the rest of the clan. Several of the man went to try to rescue Patricia, but they were too late. All trace of them was gone, aside from the necklace she had been wearing which had been cast upon the ground.
Ariana blamed herself for what happened. And when she found that she had developed magical powers, she vowed that she would hone her powers and either find her sister and rescue her or find the man that took her and have get justice for her. And so now she finds herself at the academy, seeking how to move forward from here.
Main Magic: Soul Magic (Telepathy, Empathy, and the like)
Sub Magic: Healing
Likes: The Sea & Seashores, Swimming, Cloudy Days, Rain, Nighttime, Stars, Old-Fashioned/Medieval-Style Music, Singing, Fish, Reading, Tea, Sweets (one of the few pleasures she likes that come from the surface)
Dislikes: Bright & Scorching Sunshine, Heavy Metal Rock-Type Music, Being Within Crowds of People, Sudden Loud Noises, People Invading Her Personal Space, Anyone Trying to Take Her Skin Away from Her, Coffee, Socializing with Strangers, Cosmetics, Failing at Anything She Tries, Urban Cities, Salads
Family: Her Parents, Donal & Bridget Ronan; Her eldest twin siblings, Alastair & Alastrina; Her elder sister, Patricia, who was captured saving her and is missing; her younger siblings, Colum, Caitlin, Conan, and Bran; her closest uncle, Brian Ronan, head of the clan, and his wife Fiona, the current clan storyteller & herbalist.
Friends: None really. The Ronan clan is small and tight-knit with many other extended family members and family friends, but she grew distant from the other children her age after what happened to her sister and so ended up drifting apart from the other children her age.
Sentimental Attachment: The necklace she wears had once been her sister's favorite. Also she has an understandable attachment to her selkie skin which if someone else grabs it, they gain power over her.
Weapon: A bronze leaf-blade short sword imbedded with a green emerald in the hilt, one well cared for and handed down in the family for generations and gifted to her as she left for the academy
Other:
Pet Name: Alycon
Pet Age: 8
Pet Gender: Male
Pet Species: Kingfisher
Pet Appearance: Royal blue feathers with a yellow belly
Pet Personality: An outgoing risk-taker that likes to test his abilities to its limits, whether in the air or within the water, and to encourage Ariana out of her shell. He though can be calm and kindly when he can tell she needs it and genuinely cares for his owner.
Pet's Main Magic: Water Manipulation (allowing him to breathe and move underwater as well as do other things)
Pet's Sub Magic: Teleportation