Dyelli Beybi

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Harper Thane

Character Description

Name: Harper Thane
Nationality: British (English)
Sex: Female
Age: 20
Appearance: 5'4'', bit of a tan. Dark eyes and hair and black hair.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Speciality: Illusion
Any Unique Spell: Sonic Shift - Harper can create a sonic illusion that will make a person sound like someone else. If she's concentrating hard she can also make other similar-sounding objects sound like each other, e.g make a moped engine sound like an 5.3L V8, or a songbord sound like a hawk. If she screws it up, the illusion is likely to sound like white noise.
Non-Magical Skills: Good at mimicking other people's mannerisms. Also good at snooping around. Has a surprising knowledge of birds, bats and other things that fly around. Sporty, fit and coordinated - plays soccer and is a well above average midfielder.
Misc. Weaknesses: Phobia of things that live in the water (such as fish and whales).

Background:

Major: History
Backstory: Harper Thane is currently a sophomore at Arizona State. She comes from an old and respectable English magic family who have lived in and around the village of Steyning, in West Sussex, for generations. Harper's father Matthew, is relatively Senior in the Magic Inspectorate, which initially led to people treating her with a degree of suspicion, though that was quickly dispelled in her freshman year when it became clear she was more than willing to share information she received from 'Daddy' to help keep the other boys and girls from Phi Mu Lambda out of trouble... plus her skill at mimicking both appearances AND voices, makes her rather good at confusing administrative staff, 'keeping a lid on things' and purchasing alcohol.

By all accounts, Harper was originally in Delta Iota Kappa and promptly got kicked out for something within a week of joining. She doesn't talk about it, but it's a reasonable guess (given her personality) to say she got caught trying to impersonate someone else in the frat (at Phi Mu Lambda, nobody really cares).

Harper likes to drink and loves people, and being the centre of attention though she also thrives on her reputation of being the one who can fix things and will (usually) hold back a bit during debauched parties, just in case something goes horribly awry. They often do when there are inebriated wizards around.

Unlike some of the others in the fraternity, Harper isn't holding down a job. She is probably being supported by her family... or blackmailing someone. Either seems plausible.

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Character List:

• Abasi - Artificer - Makes magical edibles... and smokables
• Hammersmith, Steven - Defensive Arts - Makes electricity
• Marcher, Derek - Artificer - Does time stuff
• Montes, Seth - Telepath - Talks to animals
• Thane, Harper - Illusionist - Screws with sound
• Spielzeugmann, Helmut Peter - Artificer - Toy-master
• Sterling, Ava - Artificer - Boob jobs
• Zhou, Fang (Fiona) - Defensive Arts - Summons familiars

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@Dyelli Beybi

That's fair. Do you mind if i DM you some ideas for signature spells for my character?

@Eviledd1984

Go for it! Also, if you feel like it, feel free to hop on the discord and brainstorm with the folks there

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@Dyelli Beybi

I'd be intersted in joining this roleplay; I was just wondering If something like Necromancy would be forbidden or taboo to practice. Some other ideas I had for unique spells were blood magic or being able to speak to ghosts.

@Eviledd1984

I would imagine this wizarding world is pretty liberal about stuff like talking to ghosts. They mostly get stressed about things that overtly expose them to the outside world...

I'd suggest not going with blood magic as we have a simple magic system and that would probably involve coming up with a whole new one. That being said, I've deliberately left things pretty broad to allow for creativity. If it's a world ending spell I might ask tou to tone it down a bit, otherwise I'm pretty much open to anything.

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I know there are apparently three more apps in the works so I'll give a little time to get them down here before kickoff

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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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Funni cat man

Character Description

Name: Seth Montes
Nationality: Philippines
Sex: Dude
Age: 19
Appearance:

Strengths and Weaknesses

Speciality: Telepathy
Any Unique Spell: Dominion - Seth can influence the minds of animals, to do what he wants. This spell also allows him to, as he claims, “know their every desire and thought.” He can establish a connection to one critter at a time, though he seems to prefer talking to an orange cat that he named Behemoth the Destroyer, and a crow that he granted the moniker of Munnin. It's been claimed by some other mages that the animals he talks to are slowly getting smarter whenever he uses the spell on them, but he has always said that such claims have no basis in reality.
Non-Magical Skills: Cooking, Microsoft Office, taking notes, the piano, and karaoke.
Misc. Weaknesses:

Background:

Major: Hotel and Restaurant Management (HRM)
Backstory: Seth hails from a pretty well-to-do Filipino family that migrated to America just a few years ago. Everything he did for most of his life can be summed up in one word: okay. He did well in school and never got a C, but not too well to be considered truly exceptional in any way. He was always in his own head. He would still be pressured to succeed, though, so in tests, he would wish that he could read the minds of the smartest kids in class so that he could copy their answers. He wished and wished until that wish came through. Seth actually heard a classmate's thoughts for the first time… which were essentially in the vein of “this wasn't in the lessons.”

The Magic Inspectorate would come soon enough, appearing out of nowhere in Seth's room and making him scream till he fainted. Still, they ended up teaching him to harness his magic. They noticed that he was more predisposed to telepathy… and had a special ability to actually connect to animals’ minds. Quietly acknowledging the potential for espionage from this spell, Seth was tutored by the Inspectorate to enhance his telepathic abilities.

Soon came college, and his family decided to leave the Philippines to instead settle in America. He would be sent to Arizona State University, and joined Phi Mu Lambda, as seeing other magic folk had been a rare occurrence so far.

Still, he talks to a cat and crow, even argues with them. Most would find that weird.

@The Man Emperor

Accepted!

Let's get all these characters onto the character tab... I might even make a roster for post zero

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The big question is should I create my second character as a Mancunian to constantly battle the Scouser?

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<Snipped quote by Dyelli Beybi>

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

or...

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.