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Cassie

arimala@gmail.com — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:07:13 GMT

Name: Cassandra Greene
Age: 76
Gender/Preference: Female/Straight
Title: Singer
Student/Scholar/Graduate: Middle School Graduate
Residence: New Meridian
Familiar: Cassandra's familiar is a Leaf Muntjac called Samson. He's exactly as shy as she is. He can read certain words. No writing though! (It's the hooves!)
Magical abilities: Enchantment, fortuna, wind.
Appearance: Nothing particularly contrary to the PB.

Personality: Cassandra is very reserved. She finds social situations difficult and is usually nervous around other people. She is able to suspend her reservations when singing/performing though. It helps that her audience is hardly intimidating (or present.) Cassandra is a kind hearted person - you have to get past the shyness to find that out sometimes though.
Strengths: Her voice. She can also play an assortment of musical instruments. Cassandra's benevolence could be seen as a strength, though to some it would be construed as a weakness.
Weaknesses: Her timid nature makes all sorts of things difficult - friends, relationships.. people in general. It has stopped her from doing a lot of things.
Quirks: She likes strawberry milk.
Secrets: Cassandra has a collection of songs she's written tucked away.

Biography:
Cassandra is an only child. She was timid in her youth and took a little longer to 'grow up' than most of her peers (until she was abruptly forced to). School (Salem) sometimes helped and sometimes hindered her socially. When she made progress with her magic and was pleased with herself, she tended to open up a little to those around her. She was generally more confident when she had friends ..which she didn't always. It was obviously hard for her to make and keep friends with her shyness. And with people moving into their specialties, and generally falling in and out of each others lives, she found it hard to hold on to anyone. Her family situation didn't always help either - she had tendency to withdraw from people when things weren't going well. She couldn't expect them to wait for her. That said, in friendships and relationships, Cassandra has always been kind and loyal. She could be fun, too, when she finally learned to relax.

Cassandra's mother always had an interest in music - something she seemed to have passed on. She encouraged her daughter (who she called Cassie) to take lessons. Cassandra ended up really enjoying music and found that she was, parhaps, better at it than her magic. Or maybe she just liked it better. At any rate, Cassandra learned her music GUD. She developed as a singer and took to studying a number of instruments - something she continued for many years after graduating from Salem Academy. Music was something she found confidence in. (Well, confidence for her.) She currently works as a singer at the Golden Chalice. It isn't the nicest of venues, but it's been good to her. The faces are familiar and it's comfortable.. though somewhere she's aware of the fact that she could be doing more.

Cassandra's home life wasn't always the best. Her father was sometimes aggressive, sometimes drunk, sometimes absent.. and she was never really sure what he did. It seemed to change a lot. His instability took its toll on all of them. Despite her nature, Cassandra found herself liking her father less and less over time - to the point where she wondered why they remained with him. It wasn't until she was advancing in her study and practice of enchantment magic (probably her strongest ability magically) that she realised why this unhappy marriage hadn't ended. And why it wouldn't. She became convinced that her father - skilled in enchantment - had been using his magic to encourage her mother to stay with him for years. And from what she had gleaned from her fortuna ability, she also believed that this would lead to her mother suffering a nervous breakdown. Cassandra tried to counter her father by using her own magic to rightfully encourage her mother to leave. This sparked a war which culminated in her mother having a breakdown she would never completely recover from. Cassandra's father did leave after that - leaving her to look after her mother and deal with the guilt. Cassandra will never forgive herself for what happened to her mother and has vowed never to use enchantment magic again. She still lives with her mother in New Meridian.

Eugene

arimala@gmail.com — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:58:35 GMT

Name: Eugene Buttlescutt
Age: 75
Gender/Preference: Male/Straight (..not that he’d have a chance.)
Title: Mage
Student/Scholar/Graduate: Graduate of Salem Academy
Residence: New Meridian
Familiar: An Asiatic Golden Cat called Ettore. Ettore is competent in illusion and earth magics. He speaks, but almost exclusively to Eugene.
Magical Abilities: Abjuration, illusion, earth element
Appearance: Much the same as the PB. (So that’s Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh as Eugene. None of that good Bardem.) Bad hair, boring fashion. Maybe he has a cool scar.. or maybe he’ll get one. >D

Personality: Eugene is a loser. :( He is dependent and submissive.. and may as well walk around with ‘push-over’ stencilled on his forehead. He’s the kind of person to return to a bad situation over and over again because it’s familiar. There are a few things simmering under the surface, but he’s afraid to tap into them.. and isn’t entirely sure how.
Strengths: While Eugene can be annoyingly dependent, he is always dependable.
Weaknesses: Eugene lacks social skills. He misses social cues, and really is just very poor at interacting with other people. When he does find himself in social situations though, he is very clingy and completely submissive. He does realise this, and there are times where he really does get very angry. It’s mostly at himself though. He doesn’t know how to operate any other way, even if the foundations are there for something else.
Quirks: Hmm.. nothing as yet.
Secrets: His biological father is Ajax, omg!

Biography:

One day owed someone important a biiiiig favour. tried to get out of it, but to no avail. (It really was a biiiiig favour.) had to sleep with in order to secure information for someone important. knew the value of life, and valued his own above this one, admittedly disgusting-beyond-words, act. So did what had to be done, secured the information for someone important, and managed to not go on a murderous rampage afterward. never saw again, hooray!

Unbeknownst to , became pregnant and later gave birth to . grew up to look like . When was grown up he wanted to find his father. ( had only ever told that his father was a gifted illusionist who would not have been interested in family life.) So embarked on a journey to find out more and eventually, he hoped, his father. eventually found who swore at him a lot. When wouldn't leave because he had finally found and had him realise their relation, threatened to gtfo and never bring this up again. left, but came back later to appeal to , who said nasty things about and , and threatened to hurt (because was clearly a mummy's boy) if he didn't pay attention this time and /gtfo and never bring this up again/. When knocked again, simply opened the door and puched in the face before closing it again. finally got the picture and left, feeling rejected. THE END.

Ajax

arimala@gmail.com — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:51:38 GMT

Name: Ajax Grimshaw
Age: 157
Gender/Preference: Male/Straight
Title: Mage
Student/Scholar/Graduate: Middle School Graduate
Residence: New Meridian
Familiar: A Yellow Mongoose called Miki. She is competent with illusion magic. She usually only speaks to Ajax, but will extend her communications to others if the need arises. When dealing with Ajax she is fairly forward, though the two of them have been known to play games with each other. When dealing with others, Miki's manner varies. She can be quite forward, as she is with Ajax, or she can be vague and cryptic. She has her guard up no matter what, though. Ajax has taught Miki how to read a little, but she has no interest in writing.
Magical abilities: Illusion. It's about the only magic Ajax is good at. But he /is/ good at it.
Appearance: When performing, Ajax will often wear something to catch the eye of his audience.. something colourful or quirky. (Though he will go formal depending on the audience.) He finds attire an important part of the overall performance, as it helps to keep the focus on him. Ajax remains rather fit, but has lost a little of his acrobatic ability and overall tone.

Personality: Ajax is a performer. It's not just a profession to him, it's the way he's come to interact with almost everyone. For this reason, it's hard to get a gauge on Ajax, which also makes it extremely difficult to form any sort of meaningful relationship with the man. It's easy to get caught up with Ajax, but Ajax doesn't have friends, lovers.. he has people. And people, for the most part, are expendable.
Strengths: Ajax is a pretty adept liar. It comes with the territory, really. His ability to lie is greatly aided by another of his strengths, though. His charisma. People are drawn to Ajax - he can be a little larger-than-life. They like being associated with that. Makes them feel important, like they're part of the 'show' that is Ajax. It makes it a lot easier to lie to people when they want to believe you. In addition to these, Ajax's ability as an illusionist is also a strength. Because he's really very good. This is countered by the fact that he's shit at everything else magically. But that's okay. Ajax is not only talented in his manipulation of the magic, but also in his manipulation of the audience. He'll distract his audience at the right time with some words or actions so that an illusion can sneak up them, or otherwise come into full effect. Again, his charisma and natural performing ability work to his favour in manipulating his audience and compliment his ability as an illusionist. It all really is quite a show.
Weaknesses: Ajax is arrogant. This arrogance has - and will continue to - get him into trouble. He doesn't care much though. Unfortunately for him, he should care. There are times when he really shouldn't draw so much attention to himself. There are times when he really shouldn't take on a challenge. And there are times when he really shouldn't be so sure of himself. Along with this arrogance, Ajax can be quite cruel. He doesn't really care about other people. Other people tend to care about him, though. Associating with Ajax can be slippery slope. Most people don't realise that though, because he's pretty wonderful. Some do end up finding out however. Because Ajax is almost always performing in one way or another, he finds that he has to be on the toes all the time. This can take it's toll, seeing him stretched pretty thin at times. Ajax can't really afford to be vulnerable.
Quirks: There's nothing stand out about Ajax. I mean, he himself may be a bit quirky, but that's a complete package.
Secrets: If he told you he might have to kill you. ;)

Biography:
(Stuff since Graves)