Dyelli Beybi

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That was what I was going for just being more specific. Editing.

@Tesserach

In the immortal words of Bill and Ted, 'excellent!'

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Steven Hammersmith

Character Description

Name: Steven (Steve) Hammersmith
Nationality: American
Sex: Male
Age: 19
Appearance: 6'1'', fairly pale with dark hair and a small goatee. Dark eyes and quite muscular

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Speciality: Defence
Any Unique Spell: Electric charge - Steve can send a bolt of electricity shooting from his wand. This can, potentially, be used to hurt people, but it also can be used to make electrical items work, like his amp.
Screwing this one up can lead to electrical equipment exploding, accidental fires and electrocution.
Non-Magical Skills: Can play the bass guitar better than most and has decent stage presence. Is also quite strong and goes to a boxing gymn where he has learned (no surprises for guessing this one) how to box. Also knows how to do stage magic reasonably well.
Misc. Weaknesses: Smokes. A lot. Also lazy (Cs get degrees).

Background:

Major: English Literature
Backstory: Steven Hammersmith, or Steve as everyone calls him, is originally from a well-to-do wizarding family in New York who (probably) used some kind of magic to manipulate the stock market, though nobody can prove it for sure. As such, Steve had the best education money could buy and the very finest of magical tutors to teach him how to master the arcane arts. Which he did, though without any particular passion. Steve was very much going through the motions.

Until he discovered 'Lordi' and the fact that both his parents, and most of his class mates hated 'Lordi'. Partly out of spite, partly out of a desire to claim his own image and partly out of a genuine love of the genre, Steve immersed himself in heavy metal. Picking up the guitar briefly before switching to the bass.

His grades slipped but Steve still managed to get through High School with good enough grades to get into Arizona State (after first taking a year to 'discover himself' in the Netherlands) and while his parents were deeply frustrated he insisted on doing English literature rather than Finance, continued to pay for Steve's education though they cut off his allowance, assuming this would bring him back into line.

Much to their irritation, Steve got a couple of recurring gigs with a metal band called 'Murderboss' and as a stage magician, using actual magic to impress small children who assume it is all an illusion.

Usually, Steve keeps his wand inside the neck of his base, which is great when you are trying to make lightning shoot out of it and pretend it's pyrotechnics.

Steve is in Phi Mu Lambda because joining required minimum effort.

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Character Description

Name: Abasi
Nationality: American
Sex: Male
Age: 21
Appearance:

Strengths and Weaknesses

Speciality: Potions
Any Unique Spell:
Imbue Divination
Abasi, just Abasi, has developed the ability to imbue magical divination magics into a variety of drinks, drugs, foods etc. Weed being the most common. Abasi has no control over the divination. It might reveal something about the past, the present, the future, an item of obscure trivia, or something beyond reality, you never really know what its going to be! It's also not always clear what is the drugs, and what is divination, but his stuff is very popular.

Non-Magical Skills: Chemistry, Cooking, Street Knowledge, Astrology, Feng Shui, Philosophy, Obscure Trivia
Misc. Weaknesses: General Organization, Probation order, Discipline of any kind

Background:

Major: Chemistry
Backstory: Abasi never knew his father and was raised by a single mom who'd emmigrated from Nigeria and worked three jobs to make ends meet along with two siblings.

The discovery of his unsual talents initially did little to improve the family's fortunes as they could not afford the tuition for the private school.

Despite early success in school Abasi fell in with local gangs, a right of passage in his community. Eventually transitioning to selling drugs and a number of contacts with police and youth services. The death of his brother convinced Abasi to reconsider things early on, refocussing on his studies and eventually using his drug dealing to pay his way into wizarding school, and sending money to his family.

He continued funding his education dealing weed, and booze to young wizarding students, coming in a few grades behind but otherwise was an intelligent, but underachieving, student that notheless always just squeaked by. A tradition he's kept up in ASU, studying potions and chemistry and adding the illicit manufacture of controlled substances in his reportoire.

Abasi has a juvenile record, is currently on probation for possession, and is known to campus police as a suspected dealer, though he's never been caught by them.

@Tesserach

Looks fine but can I recommend you change that 'specialty' to artifice? I set up the 'specialities' so you get some extra spells depending upon what you pick.

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Managed to finish this today! I'm happy to change the unique spell if this is too far into conjuration rather than defence. I was struggling a bit to think of one.

Fiona

Fiona Zhou

Oneohtrix Point Never - I Don’t Love Me Anymore

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Name: Fang Zhou - Chosen English name is Fiona

Nationality: English (Scouse)

Sex: Female

Age: 19

Appearance:
Fiona walks the line between goth and punk on a daily basis and expresses herself largely through her appearance. She usually has hair styled into two large buns, with one side dyed a vivid magenta and the other black with tints of a striking electric blue, making her stand out in any crowd. She wears dark, gothic makeup, including black lipstick and heavy eyeliner, accentuating her sharp, confident features.

Her attire is a mix of punk and formal styles, featuring a black and white suit jacket with a sleek, modern cut. Underneath, she wears a white dress shirt paired with a black tie that adds a touch of sophistication to her rebellious look. Around her neck is a spiked choker, and she sports black fingerless gloves. Her nails are painted black, completing her dark and edgy ensemble. She also has plenty of piercings on her ears, along with one through her eyebrow and another on her right nostril.

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Speciality: Defence

Any Unique Spell: Fiona has the ability to summon familiars to fight for her or do her bidding. She can choose any appearance she likes for these familiars, but often chooses the form of two small winged demons hen she summons them. They are small, and more annoying than capable of properly taking down a full wizard. If Fiona's concentration wavers significantly, her familiars will dissipate, as she loses focus on maintaining their presence. She is still learning to properly hone this unique spell and has in the past been able to summon one larger familiar rather than two small ones, but wasn't properly able to hold this spell for long enough for it to be of use.

Non-Magical Skills: Fionas main skill is her musical aptitude. She is able to play the piano, guitar, drums to a high level and a variety of other instruments to a differing degree of skill. Her main interest is in electronic music though and as a result she spends most of her time using software and hardware hooked up to her laptop to make music. Other than this she isn't a bad cook when she can be bothered and she has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of film. She also grew up doing judo and some of the skill is still there, but hasn't properly done it for years and wouldn't dream of competing.

Misc. Weaknesses: Controlling her emotions, obeying authority, procrastinating

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Major: Music

Backstory:
Fiona was born in Liverpool, England, to a family of Chinese immigrants. None of them had any magical aptitude, and for most of her life, Fiona was unaware of the magical world. Her family was not rich by any means, with her father working as a laborer and her mother working part-time as a waitress. Caring for Fiona and her older brother was a struggle at the best of times, both financially and culturally. Liverpool was incredibly different from where they originally came from, and while they did their best to integrate, none of them did as well as Fiona.

Growing up, she always struggled to fit in with the other kids at school. Her older brother was often her solace, always there to defend her from bullies. His protective nature made him her hero, and he even sacrificed his own free time to work extra shifts, ensuring she could attend Judo lessons with him. He taught her how to protect herself as best he could and used his own earnings from his part-time job to pay for Judo lessons with her. Eventually, she settled in, but still always felt incredibly different from everyone else around her. It was only a matter of time before she fell into the punk and goth subcultures. They accepted her with open arms, being outsiders themselves, and she found her first friend group she could identify with not long into high school.

Her favorite class was always music. Her family never had the money for instruments; all they had was Fiona's father's old guitar, which he did his best to teach her to play when he wasn't at work. Her school's music teacher was a massive influence on her and noticed her musical aptitude. He worked to develop it, encouraging her to try as many instruments as she could and putting her forward for the school orchestra. Additionally, a lot of her time outside of school was spent playing in various high school garage bands. She often played in local gigs, gaining a reputation for her raw talent and unique style. She got a job while still in school and saved up all her money to eventually buy her first good laptop with recording equipment.

This ignited her love for electronic music, and she spent countless nights in her bedroom experimenting with pirated software and shoddy equipment she had found or put together herself. Her room became a sanctuary filled with wires, synthesizers, and the constant hum of her creative endeavors. Her life was almost entirely dedicated to music until she was contacted by the Magic Inspectorate.

The first meeting was a strange one. It felt like she had a disembodied voice in her head all day, telling her—almost begging her—to go to the park after school. She couldn't get the thought out of her head and, in her desperation, followed its instruction, later realizing this was, of course, telepathy being used on her. There, she met the woman who would soon become her tutor, an American expat named Samantha. Samantha explained Fiona's magical aptitude to her and revealed the secrets of the wizarding world. Under the guise of being a math tutor, Samantha began honing Fiona's magic skills in secret. The lessons were rigorous, but Fiona’s determination and curiosity drove her to master complex spells quickly.

During her time with Fiona, Samantha often talked fondly about her time at Arizona State University. When it came time for Fiona to graduate from high school and choose a university, she made the big decision to move across the water and attend school there. She was eager to start a new chapter in her life, one where she could fully embrace both her musical passions and magical potential.

@Half Pint

The scouser is accepted. I'm going to assume a lack of concentration when summoning familiars leads to them either appearing as deformed monstrosities begging for someone to end their suffering, or going totally off the rails and eating the furniture.

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Character Description

Name: Derek Marcher
Nationality: American (Coloradan)
Sex: M
Age: 18?
Appearance:

Strengths and Weaknesses

Speciality: Artifice
Any Unique Spell:
Time Jump: Derek has mastered the most dangerous and powerful of magics, the ability to travel through time itself. It’s a path fraught with danger and paradox which could destroy him utterly. Despite this, Derek does not remember how he learned this magic, or much of how it works, and he claimed to have learned it on a peyote trip outside of Aspen.

What he does know is as follows:
1) He can remember when he (or someone he sends to a time they should not be using this magic) is and can hop directly to their time and place.
2) If he (or anyone else) ever sees himself (or themselves) when travelling, he will have incredibly poor memory of the jaunt.
3) He can kind of control the place he hops to, usually with better accuracy if he has a person he’s trying to see.
4) He doesn’t seem to age much when time hopping

Non-Magical Skills: Drumming, Procrastination, Fist Fighting, Miscellaneous Skills (Irrelevant past stuff like carriage driving, slave pit fighting, ecumenical law, and the like)
Misc. Weaknesses: Memory, Magic, Academics

Background:

Major: History
Backstory: Derek’s been through a lot, to be honest, more than any 18-year-old has any right to have been through. Developing magical aptitude rather late in life compared to other wizards, he enrolled late into magic high school where he was an underachieving student. The Senior Year of high school was a blur for him, one he doesn’t really remember much of beyond fleeting names and factoids, but he graduated and had a good enough magical aptitude, so it must have gone alright, right?

In truth, he has had numerous adventures into the past, most of which he doesn’t remember properly. His stoner lifestyle coupled with the unfortunate side effects of his power have left him more than a little scatterbrained. Who knows what freshman year will bring?

@Pragia12

Looks good to me!

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I believe that Harold and Kumar and Harry Potter share the same planet.

@Badarby

That they do. Harry would have had a much better time at school if the Weasley twins had been to Harold and Kumar's main man instead of that joke shop.

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We are in the Harold and Kumar rather than Harry Potter extended universe. Though I can see the confusion.

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@TheCrudlet

come, join us, do not be afraid!

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@Half Pint
lol whoops! As Bing said, the blurb under the appearance section was from the pirates RP :D I was editing the app from that and was clearly a bit sleepy. I've fixed it.

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