Name: Arpeggio Marinos
Gender: Female
Race: Half siren, half elf.
Age: 311 years old as of last Thursday, but has the mentality of a 15-year-old (Sue me, I'm making this easier for myself)
Appearance: Brown, unevenly cropped hair, electric blue eyes, pale skin. Outfit is as shows in picture w/ loose slitted knee-length skirt and bandage-wrapped feet. Eyes turn deep red and skin around her hands turns light greenish-blue when using abilities and fade back when not using them.
Personality: Quiet, methodical, prefers to avoid social interactions, nervous around anything even vaguely ceremonial or anyone who speaks too formally. Dislikes anything chalky.
Equipment: Bells encased in cotton which she uses to summon familiars, red wax sticks and paper strips to create magic circles and talismans, a heavily magically-reinforced sea glass staff with an extendable wax tip at the bottom end for spellcasting, and three thin tasseled knives which can be used for spells or defense. Also carries razor-wire and vials of sea water. Has a small grimoire which is attached to her belt when not in use. Carries mana-replenishing stones on her at all times.
Abilities: Can see into the past and future to a certain degree, as most sirens can, but is limited to either seeing a few seconds into the future for up to ten minutes or seeing flashes from up to ten years into the future for a few seconds before passing out or being rendered unable to continue a confrontation in some other way. She is able to see into the past of a location, object, or person for up to fifteen years prior, which renders her immobile until the vision is finished, but has no significant effect on her health or mobility afterwards unless she looks back further than fifteen years. She has a great deal less control over what she sees when she looks back in time, and can only control how far back she looks.
She can summon up to five familiars with the shape of any animal she's touched before, and see through their eyes at will. Can create magic circles to summon large familiars, but can only have one large familiar at a time and no others. Can also use magic circles as barriers to contain or protect. Can create talismans to do simple tasks such as 'Immolate,''Decay,''Hide,' or 'Revive' (Which animates a corpse enough to speak for three minutes). Talismans are invisible to all but beings with high magical affinity once placed.
Can cast a variety of spells which can be hashed out later at risk of being God RP. When Arpeggio sings, it creates a near-impossible compulsion for any being that hears it to stop whatever they're doing to listen and come closer, where she can slaughter her enemies at her feet. Can zap pure jolts of energy into people through skin contact.
Strengths: Has extremely good magical affinity, quick on her feet and highly agile. Has a borderline-unnatural amount of mana. Has extremely good reflexes. Can tell where things are, how big they are, and what they are through a constant trickle of magic flowing into the ground using her feet as conduits. Has extremely sensitive hearing. Can breathe underwater.
Weaknesses: Arpeggio is blind. She can only tell where aerial things are through sound. Hates being off the ground. She does not have much armor at risk of sacrificing speed. Extremely vulnerable when using psychometry or after using foresight.
The practice trial: As Arpeggio stepped softly into the arena, she noticed two things through her initial energy sweep. One, the huge dragon in the center of the arena. Two, a rather large egg towards the back of the scaly obstacle. She tapped one foot twice against the ground, sending out another wave of magic to scan the area and simultaneously attracting the dragon's attention. No obstacles. That might be troublesome, but on to more pressing matters.
She skipped nimbly out of the way of a swishing tail she heard coming from her right. Flipping open the pouch at her hip, she held one end of a long cotton strip studded with bells and quickly shook it unrolled, ripping a thread connecting the top bell to the strip to let it fall into her palm. She gripped the bell in a fist and with her other hand flipped the cotton over her elbow twice. The bells tinkled softly as she ducked under the returning tail swipe and tossed the bell in her hand into the air. When she caught it, she caught it on the backsides of her fingers. A teal magic circle appeared the second the bell contacted her hand, and as she almost inaudibly whispered "Wake" the bell shook slightly, crystals of magic forming like condensation on the surface.
It burst from the inside, light spilling out until it would have been blinding were she not already. "Rise!" Arpeggio murmured, and the light sucked back until it formed the shape of a snakelike creature with wings and a rather vicious-looking set of teeth. She threw it into the air and it took flight, divebombing straight for the dragon's eyes. As her familiar distracted the monster and bought her time, Arpeggio plucked a talisman and red wax from her belt.
A telltale whistling-grinding noise sounded, and Arpeggio tucked her staff close and sprinted for a spot to her left just as a burst of searing heat barely missed singeing her skirt. The familiar was batted to the side and hit the wall, then darted back in to continue annoying the dragon. She dropped to one knee and cradled her staff in the crook of her left elbow, spreading the sheet of talisman paper on the smooth ground and sloppily dashing the symbol for invisibility on it. Affixing it to her shoulder, Arpeggio felt the magic slide over her skin, bringing with it a faint scent of citrus and iron.
Another familiar was whipped out and divebombing the flailing dragon before she again clamped her staff close to her and again was sprinting, this time between the dragon's legs straight to the egg. It took her a matter of seconds to snatch up the egg and tap the ground with her foot again to check the status of the dragon. It was still scraping the familiars off its eyes, so she pursed her lips, decided after a moment's deliberation to try her luck, and made a break for the pod she had sensed at the end of the arena.
The dragon was confused now, not seeing the small, colorful target it had seen mere minutes before, and turned towards its egg's place. On noticing it was missing, it gave a long, echoing roar and torched the ground around it. Arpeggio, however, was already at the pod. She placed the egg inside and in the split second before she was teleported away from the rampaging dragon knew the two bell centers of her familiars lay crushed on the ground by one of the dragon's talons.
Still, she had made it unscathed, and smiled into the dark.
