Masked Resistance vs Aradian Tyranny (Closed/Started)

Aradia is a land where sorcery is rampant; with even the common peasant using it to do his or her chores, it is a part of everyday life. As much as personality differs from person to person, however, so does their magic; two people may have the same type of magic, but they use it in different ways.
However, recently, a certain fact has come to life; children unable to use magic are increasing, and in dire numbers. No one knows where they come from, or why. What people do know about these "Abnormals" is that they drain a person of his magic entirely with a single touch, oftening rendering them completely senseless and in some cases, drained to comatose or death. Attempts to understand these children are fruitless; they themselves are usually without awareness, unable to answer anyone's questions.
With this happening all over, the people have taken up arms against the Crown, believing that it is the work of the person who stepped up as Ruler of Aradia a few years ago - and certainly, they have reason to be suspicious. It is since his reign started six years ago that these occurences have started to pop up everywhere. Others are prophezing the end of all magic, and are advocating technology as a counter-measure - and as an answer to all the issues that have risen up. Interestingly, the Ruler himself is behind this movement, despite he being one of the most powerful sorcerors of the country.
Who are you: a normal, or an Abnormal? One of the members of the resistance or a regular ol' sorcerer? Are you someone who is close to an Abnormal? Or are you just a bystander, watching the world go by, and not wanting to do anything about it?
Note: When thinking about technology, think steampunk. E.g., clockwork, gears, chains, wires.
Principles of Magic:
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As stated, people in this world have different magical systems, each to their own. Some may share types of magic, but the way they execute it is often different, and the way they use it is often different as well. For example, take two people of the Earth Magic type; one may be able to grow plants with the flick of a finger, but another person will be able to create cracks and even earthquakes in the ground. They won't, however, be able to replicate each other

- Magical power often depends on years and years of learning; and sometimes, it might be related to genetics. Someone from a family of powerful sorcerers is expected to have a good amount of talent. Magical power is judged by how many people you can affect with one fell swoop. (For example, someone who can grow plants might not be considered powerful; someone who can animate them, however, is quite a different thing.)

- The more magic you have, the higher your standing in society. This means that people with less talent in magic are stuck doing the lower jobs of society.

- Choose your spells wisely - oftentimes, a range of small castings can be more effective than a single strong spell.

- Magic is typified into six elements: Earth, Water, Wind, Air, Metal, and Lightning. However, don't confuse people of the same type as having the same advantage against another element. It differs from ability to ability.

- Almost everyone in this world has learned their magic since...well, kindergarten, you could say. It is a part of the basic curriculum. (Think, subject named Magic that takes place on Thursdays, for example.) After graduation, most sorcerers learn their craft by practice; and self-study.

- There are also those who can talk to animals; this is a very rare type of magic, and these sorcerers are naturally thought to be of the Earth type. However, most people tend to stay away from these sorcerers, since their magic is rather...odd, compared to the other abilities.

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Aradian Elements:

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Limit is two users per element.

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There are seven main elements and three corrupted elements in Aradia that make up the land's magic.
Fire: very offensive and can be dangerous if not properly controlled. Fire can be genetic or earned but never stolen. Sorcerors/sorceresses with this element believe that fire comes from one's fury, therefore only the calmest could control fire without self-consequence. Fire sorcery consists of burning almost everything in one's path and other fire-related magic. This element, being genetic, can be made known by the user's anger. The element feeds of Anger and Ambition
Water: more of a healing element than an offensive type of sorcery. Water can be genetic or earned but never stolen. Sorcerors/sorceresses with water are said to be healers, but some who learn from experience can also control ice if the occasion calls for it. Water sorcery consists of healing properties, cleansing, and any kind of magic water-related. This genetic element can be known either by the user's coldness or sorrow.
Earth: one of the offensive types of sorcery and also a healing element. Earth is entirely genetic, which can also be stolen but never earned. Anyone with earth has different powers entirely- one could control plants and make them grow; the other could create landslides and other earth-related disasters. Earth sorcery consists of healing properties, earth-related magic, earth-related disasters, and plantlife-control. This element, when genetically gotten, is made known by the user's sheltering nature and calmness. When stolen, Earth makes the thief become nurturing for his/her fellow thieves. The element feeds off of Kindness and selfishness.
Wind: offensive, but not offensive enough to hurt anyone. Wind is mostly genetic, but can be stolen as well. Anybody with this element are known to have certain differences- some cause windstorms or hurricanes, others (when band together, depending on the group's size) can cause either a whirlwind or a tornado. Wind sorcery consists mostly of wind-related magic. This element is made known by either fury or calmness to those who have it genetically.
Metal: offensive and defensive, depending on the class. Metal is the only element that is entirely genetic. Sorcerors/sorceresses of the lower class use this element for trade and are often masters of the trade. Metal sorcery is mainly consisting of smithing, but there's sometimes the occasional alchemy at some point. This element is made known by the user's body build- strong-muscled with rough hands.
Lightning: The second most dangerous element, lightning can very rarely be inherited it can not be taught, but can be stolen. User's of this are very few and are normally ranked very powerful within the society, even more so if the user is trained. If used wrong, the lightning generated can pass though the user's heart and cause the heart to go into a fast paced beating causing cardac arrest, if used properly lightning alone is supposed to rival the kings powers. Advanced user's can charge metal weapon's, and power eletric machinery this is in high demand as the steampunk era is rolling in. The element feeds off Ambition and Desire.
Dark: the most dangerous of sorcery and greatly discouraged by the other sorcerors of Aradia. Dark Sorcery is not genetic or be stolen, but can be earned by apprenticeship. Unlike most sorcery in Aradia, the element Dark can consume the user into darkness. Some future apprentices believe that Dark sorcery can cause immortality, some can't handle the strength of Dark sorcery and die before apprenticeship is complete. Dark sorcery consists of necromancy and curses. An apprentice of Dark sorcery is very rare since most who tried have died fighting to control such terrible magic. This element feeds off dark desires and thoughts, also feeding off the desire to create and the desire to destroy.
Corrupted Aradian Elements: These corrupted versions of the elements that can be stolen by a thief, the thief can maintain ONE corrupted element at a time. The corrupted versions are optained though stealing the magic from another user, when finally used the thief will see its not exactly as they had hoped. These corrupted versions have there own name. However, only Abnormals can use these elements.
Rotting Earth: The corrupted version of earth magic, this magic does not get the unqiceness of its orginal user. There for no special powers come out of theving this power other than the exact reverse of what Earth magic is supposed to be. Rotting Earth instead of healing, can actually worsen a wound. Sometimes even cause infections, diseses, and cause more bleeding from an open wound. This is capable of destroying an entire victims body if the chance were to be given, truely a dangerous element.
Windburn: The corrupted version of Wind magic, this magic is not much different than its pure form. The thief who uses this needs little knowledge of the element to cause speeding winds that cause windburn or if really used to its full extent can create a giant tornado that can destroy anything. The thief who steals this element is caught is almost certain to be put to death quickly because of how dangerous this element can become when stolen. Threatening the entire nation with its very power.
Black Lightning: The only element that can not be stolen back, Black Lightning is superior to its purified form. This would indefinitly exceed the Kings magic if it were used against him, but somewhat like Dark magic this eats away at sanity, slowly ebbing the user from the inside out until they ruthlessly use this element without mercy or care for who they use it on. The user is able to use this in rapid fire from there palm, or summon a storm to strike down an enemy in a powerful thunderclap. Fear for ones life as this is a truely someone to fear for it takes only a single user to be able to challenge the king for the throne, but how long would someone last on the throne when this god-like element eats at insanity?

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- All basic YWS rules apply.
- Minimum two paragraphs for every post or you will find them energy-sucking vampires on your doorstep. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
- Keep cursing to a minimum, unless you want to find yourself as a tadpole when you wake up next.
- No sex scenes absolutely, but romance and kissing are allowed. Caution: If disobeyed, you will be obliterated by this storybook's guard bot. You have been cautioned.
- No godmodding. Refer to the former rule to see what will happen if this is disobeyed.
- Up to two characters per person.
- This SB is modded by Redfang18 (yours truly) and LoyalHeart. Whatever we say, goes.
- Have fun fun fun!

Character Slots:

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Masked Resistance
-Mercury Quinn (Lightning sorceror, VampireSenshi512) [Resistance Leader]
-Gwendolyn "Gwen" Ekaterina (Earth sorceress, Dawnpath1)
-Anaki Shadowflame (Fire sorceress, ShadowVyper)
-Morgan Darkrai (Metal-Water sorceror, Redfang18)
-Lilith Senka (Lightning-Dark sorceress, Demora)
-Erina Storm (Fire sorceress, TheAceofAll)

Abnormals

-Deliah Redkei (emoticon220)
-Tara Knox (Dragonette)
-Theodore "Theo" Pearce (KatKage)
-Alem Emit (tenshou)
Members of the Crown
-Jormungandr "Jake" Ashtaroth (Metal-Dark sorceror, ItalianIluminist) [Aradian king]
-Garnet "Princess" Ashtaroth (Metal-Dark sorceress, LoyalHeart) [Aradian princess]
-Ellis Sacopolous (Earth-Wind sorceror, Dragonette)
-Kirin "Kirby" Ashtaroth (Metal-Wind sorceror, SidereaAquila) [Aradian prince]
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Name: Jormungandr "Jake" Ashtaroth

Gender: Male

Age: 36

Appearance:

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He wears 'un-kingly' clothes, however, he does adhere rigorously to a single style, in this case a elegant, if somewhat old-fashioned jacket, with golden buttons, over a crisp white shirt, black pants, held by a leather belt, and polished shoes. He forgoes a crown, and instead wears a bowler hat. He figures, if people don't know he's king even without a crown, they really should be paying more attention to what goes on in their kingdom. He also wears leather straps over his hands, which host a few nasty surprises.

Skills: Hazama started off as a Metal sorcerer. He was extremely good at it, crafting his own weapons, which have still served him after twenty-six years of use. However, even in his magic he had greater ambitions. He learned how to experiment with artificial re-animation and alchemy, and was marginally successful. However, after he learned Dark sorcery, he quickly specialized in bringing his creations to life and aiding his experiments, to the point he's a master necro-alchemist. He has one other deviation of the power of darkness, the Glutton Fang: a gigantic snake of darkness can materialize from him at any given moment and strike. It's his ace and last resort, as nobody, not even his daughter, have seen him use this attack. As it happens, not one of his common subjects have ever seen him use anything, and only his most elite and trusted circle know of his dark and horrible experiments.

Him using his power

Personality: Jormungandr started out as a simple, uncomplicated apprentice weapon-smith. From there he inherited his extreme sense of discipline and order, which moves most of his actions in the kingdom. However, his one great flaw and drive is his ambition: he yearned for more, wanted more, and plotted, conniving until he obtained his ultimate goal, kingship. He was ruthless in obtaining the throne. Many forgotten graves and spots of ash were once his opposition. Once he reached the kingdom however, he -- apparently -- grew lax, retreating into his experiments and studies of magic. He never leaves his eyes off the kingdom though. He ensures taxes are bearable for the people, and takes care of infrastructure and education. If you asked a, say, common peasant, he wouldn't be defined 'an evil king'. 'The land has suffered much worse,' they'd say. 'Certainly though, he comes down a sight too hard on those that even smell of rebellion'. Jormungandr's ruthless streak hasn't abandoned him. Nor has his cunning. Most assassinations are done in silence, and many a plot and counter-plot exist to fool opposing political parties. All this behind a friendly mask of politeness and courtesy.

History: He was born in a family of weaponsmiths. He continued his father's craft, and excelled at it, but he wanted more. He took several part-time jobs and saved up money so he could get a higher education. He studied, behind the backs of all, the secret philosophies of the previous Dark sorcerers, and believed unyielding ruthlessness was the best key to securing and maintaining power. However, once he joined the world of politics, he traveled to the poorer areas of the kingdom, and understood that keeping the people happy was the solution for a long life as king. That still remains implanted in his brain. He joined forces with another nobleman politician of similar ideas, and they worked their way into the former king's grace. But the late king wasn't stupid. He saw something in Jormungandr that made him unworthy of ruling, and kept a wary eye out. This was when Jormungandr made a deal with a powerful snake archdemon, Ezra. The demon taught Jormungandr all he needed to know about Dark sorcery and the means to depose the king, and in exchange Jormungandr would set the demon free. And once Jormungandr became king, he set the demon loose on his remaining enemies, and allowed it to ravage on the other kingdoms that threatened war, ensuring a temporary peace in his land. He can still call upon Ezra's power at will. Theirs is an uneasy but mutually necessary alliance, as the demon knows Jormungandr can banish it with a thought.

Up for love: Probably not, as his wife died, leaving him scarred and shut down emotionally.

Other: He prefers to be addressed as "Jake", as he thinks that is easier to pronounce and much more friendly. He also keeps many weapons hidden about his person. The straps at his knuckles can shoot poisoned spikes, and he keeps triple blades up his sleeves.

Name: Morgan Darkrai (Some call him the Metal Master.)
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Appearance: Parchment pale with pitch-black hair and hard but kind colbalt blue eyes. He's as tall as six-foot three-inches with slight muscled-up arms and rough hands. He's as skinny as a rail, but has well-muscled legs. During smithing and other metal-related work, he wears a smith's apron and black sleeve-less shirt and matching jeans as work clothes. When called to some other work, he wears a black long-sleeved shirt with matching tight pants and ninja-like mask that fails to hide his eyes. As one of the Masked Resistance, he wears a mask to prove his alliance against the Crown.

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Skills: A master of the metal trade- by family rights- and expert healer in the terms of water. Due to his physical health, he's skilled with the sword and dagger when the occasion calls for it. He's hard to break at some degree, but there's always a crack in the dam that is his reserve and only few can find and hit that crack. He's also the master of a dragon spirit who he named Nemesis, to honor her cunning and vengeful ability.

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Nemesis takes orders from Morgan like a faithful servant, but has a tremendous ability to cause retribution- hence her name- to those who wrong others. She's more of a water dragon than a fire dragon, but can breathe ice whenever told to. To Morgan, who she calls Master, she's his chance at getting back at the king for the wrongs Morgan suffered. To Nemesis, retribution is her specialty and will do anything for her Master. She also appears alive to Morgan, but that can apply to others if she wants that person to see her. Her true size is rather large, so she has the ability to shrink herself to where she can perch on Morgan's shoulder at any time.
Personality: Morgan is no person to be fooled with. With Nemesis on his shoulder, he's able to tell who's lying to him and hates being lied to. He's also somewhat of a child at heart, since he tends to use his Water sorcery just to fool around with his adoptive daughter Deliah when he has nothing better to do. Deep down, he's mentally scarred from spending thirteen years without the guidance of his parents and highly protective of Deliah. He may not look like it, but he harbors a grudge against the king and keeps this to himself. Why does he harbor a grudge? His history explains that.
History: Morgan was the son of a Metal sorceror and a Water sorceress. From the age of three to eighteen, he was trained in healing and metal-related work. He discovered Nemesis- who was nameless at the time- when he was seventeen and kept the bond between them as quiet as he could. After he came of age, he was sent on his way to continue the family trade in another part of the country by order of his father. Upon the first few months on his own, he looked after himself until he stumbled upon Deliah -- who was five at the time -- and took the little child in as his own. When he turned twenty-one, he was bombshelled by the news that his parents were murdered and he broke down for as long as two weeks. After he finally settled down from his mourning, Nemesis took matters into her own hands and avenged her Master's parents by freezing the murderers to death. Upon this news, Morgan gave the dragon her name and started carrying on the family trade- which is weapon-making- close to home, but far from the castle. He once had a wife at twenty-nine years old, but she refused to have Deliah in the same house as Morgan. At this, Morgan had to divorce her and resume life as a lone bachelor. When the Masked Resistance recruited him, he puts himself and Nemesis to a greater use- the ultimate retribution against the king in the name of freedom. To this day, he's been doing his job as the Metal Master during the day and snooping around the castle by night. Also, he's taken in other Abnormals and adopting them as his own.
Up for love: No. He once found love, but his bride wouldn't allow Deliah to live under the same roof. That marriage was rather short and ended in a heated divorce. Since then, Morgan has never searched for another woman to help him raise the children he took in.
Other: This is his most prized possession. A dagger that he made himself before he was sent out on his own.

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Name: Garnet "Princess" Ashtaroth

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Appearance: Garnet is the sexy daughter of the emperor Jormungandr originally had a dark shade of green hair like her father Jormungandr, but she had died it a golden red. She has an hourglass figure, she has blood red lips and black redish eyes. Unlike her father she tends to wear regal robes but never dresses, those are saved for very rare occasions. But she does sometimes go with old fashioned clothing sometimes just getting into a plain t-shirt and plain jeans, Other times she tends to be intimidating as to wear an entire black outfit.

Skills: She has a very weird style in weapons, for her main weapon of choice she has a Great Scythe.

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Her main weapon.

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For her side weapons she has mental control over chains with sickles at the end, she often uses them to defend herself or keep multiple enemies busy. They can wrap around her and her father just before there hit with an attack, she can also use them in execution style to kill helpless opponents who bit off more than they can chew. She is skilled in Metal and Dark Sorcery, often using her Metal Sorcery to transform and do other things with her Great Scythe. She is also under apprenticeship from her father Jormungandr, shes more than half way though with her apprenticeship.

Personality: Garnet is the snobbish daughter of Emperor Jormungandr, normally shes respectful of people around her. But there are times when her father's temper gets the best of her when things don't go the way she wants them to, shes constantly studying under her father to learn Dark Sorcery. Being the princess to the emperor her father expects her to complete her training before having to chose a husband, she does have her own ideal's but there mainly her father's ideal's. Being in her teenage years tho, she often tries to get out and party with friends and what not even tho her father greatly disapproves.

History: Growing up she is the daughter to Jormungandr Ashtaroth, having been spoiled rotten early in her years she does care for the lower classed much like her father did as he became king. She had never known her mother because she had died sometime after she had given birth to Garnet, this had scarred and shut down her father emotionally. Leaving him to raise Garnet with the help of the servants in the castle, her father once telling her that she so closely looks like her mother. Now she has mastered Metal Sorcery and has gone on to apprenticeship under her father for Dark Sorcery,

Up for love: Yes she is! Bisexual, tho she wants a Male Partner. (Those who want a relationship with her MUST contact me first before flirting with her.)

Other: Theme song

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Name: Anaki Shadowflame
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Appearance: Anaki is tall and lean; 5’9” of nothing but muscle. Her hair is light blond with many natural highlights and lowlights streaking through it; it comes down to her mid-back, but she usually keeps it tied back in a pony tail. Her face is angular; her light hazel eyes sharp and penetrating. She has an uncanny ability to squeeze secrets out of people, even though her magic has nothing to do with it.

She usually wears simple garb, usually whatever hand-me-downs she can get her hands on, trying not to draw attention to herself; though the task is often more than she can manage. She’s often noticed, by adults because she’s usually up to something, and if they don’t see her misbehaving they get suspicious; and by boys because her face is rather attractive.

When acting as a member of the Masked Resistance, she wears a mask that's much like this:

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Skills: Anaki is skilled with fire. Her skill was discovered when she was a small child; she lost her temper when her older brother stole her doll, and set a bit of the meadow ablaze. Her father has diligently worked to help her learn to control her gift; a task she struggled with quite a bit. Being a blacksmith’s daughter she’s talented in forging, though it’s not connected to magic in any way.

Personality: Anaki is naturally irritable, but doggedly focuses her attention on keeping her temper under control; making her appear quiet and reserved most of the time. Her tongue is sharp when she does speak; and her tantrums are worse, often causing loads of damage. Her magic isn’t completely refined, making her set whole hillsides ablaze in her fits. She’s often quite ill after a firestorm, as her family calls them, as it drains her physically. She typically avoids people, for fear of losing her temper.

History: Anaki is the daughter of a common black smith. She was five when she discovered her magic, and has had daily lessons in not only controlling her magic, but also herself in general. She couldn’t remember exactly when she found Sting, a winged scorpion, but he’s been present for years. Sting doesn’t show himself to many other people, but can help to Anaki stay calm, even in testing times.

By the time she was nineteen, the age of adulthood in her district, she already had a reputation of ferocity and courage; and was invited to be a member of the rebels who called themselves the Masked Resistance.

Up for love: Sure, if you can handle her; and she’s straight.

Other: She always carries a dagger in her boot and is skilled with a sword.

Name: Gwendolyn "Gwen" Ekaterina
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Appearance: When working, she wears a broad, straw hat that spreads shade over her face. She keeps her mud-brown hair in a ponytail to keep it out of her way If she wants to mix things up, she'll braid it into a ponytail. She likes to wear comfortable clothes; a short-sleeved shirt, some overalls, and boots. She's slightly tan, about 6 feet tall, maybe a tad taller, and well built from years of labor. Her eyes are green, with yellow speckles, and speak for her intelligence. When on missions for the Masked Resistance, she wears a brown cloak, with a hood covering her face. She wears pants that are loose-fitting, but not baggy, and a light-weight shirt. Her mask is a very plain, mud-brown mask that obscures half of her face.
Skills: (This is where your sorcerer's magic type and ability description goes. Minimum 50 words.) She's an earth-magic sorceress, with most of her abilities plant-related, and minor healing spells. She can help plants grow, sometimes rapidly, she can grow an apple tree just about anywhere, provided she has apple seeds, can grow just about anything in fertile soil, can plant familiar plants in less fertile soil, and can heal minor cuts, scrapes, and bruises.
Personality: Gwen is a kind-hearted person, who enjoys a good laugh with friends. She's a very independent, or 'strong', woman, who knows what she wants and tends to be stubborn because of it. She's honest almost to a fault, and a bad liar. This doesn't extend to bending the truth; she'll withhold information, she just refuses to flat-out lie. When she's nervous, she tends to fiddle with some apple seeds she keeps on her person. She also has a slight fear of heights.
History: Gwyndelon was born and raised on a rural apple orchard, working each year to support the ountry. Her dad, the owner, made enough to get by, and they always had plenty of apples. When she got old enough, she took her father's blessing and moved closer to the city, tending to a few of her own trees and peddling them out on the street. She was met with mixed results; Not many people like apples in winter, and they don't grow very well, so she figured out how to make a drink out of them. If you ask, she might make a special drink that involves fermenting the cider. She also superstitiously charges it with healing magic, but never proved it to work. She met up with the resistance this way and gradually worked her way in.
Up for love: Ya, Bi, with a male preference.
Other: When she fights, she prefers polearms and staffs.

Name: Erina Storm
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Appearance: Tall and thin with blue eyes and natural red hair. She is strong but not overly so. She normally wears a white shirt and a tight pants along with leather boots and arm length gloves. When she goes int assassin mode, she wears all black (think ninja) and wears a mask.

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Skills: She was trained in magic but spent most of her life trying to perfect her physical abilities. After so much training, she has become a master assassin with deadly accuracy. Then, after she joined the resistance, she saw that magic may be a good ability to have so she began to train. Surprisingly, her ability has grown leaps and bounds in such a short time to the point where all who were involved were left in awe. She currently studies fire magic but still harbors the underlying truth that she has secretly been studding dark magic under the apprenticeship of the same person that trained her as an assassin.

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Her in her assassin gear

Personality: Erina is stubborn and strong minded and is the kind of person who will stick to her beliefs no matter what. She loves to laugh and can be very sweet if you catch her in the right mood. She is known for her ability to think outside the box and is rather intelligent but only when her hardheadedness isn't clouding her judgment. Due to the lack of parenting she received and the presence of her three younger brothers, she is very independent and generally prefers to work alone.The closest relationship she has ever had with anyone outside her family is the old man that trained her and looks to him as the father figure in her life. Her greatest fear in life is to become a sniveling lackey to another person like her father.

History: Her father is an amazingly powerful lightning sorcerer and is the Ruler's right hand man; a proud member of the Crown. Her mother is a water sorceress with incredible healing abilities. Ever since Erina was a child, she felt unbelievably resentful to her father and how he ignored his family to be the Rulers lackey. As an attempt to spite her father, she refused to study magic in any way for most of her life. When she was six, she ran away and met an old man who lived in the roughest district of all. He protected her from a grope of thieves and demonstrated an unfathomable amount of dark magic. The man talked to her all night that night and agreed that if she would not train magic, then he would teach her to fight. So the deal was made and for 13 years, he did his best to make her a perfect assassin. Now, as a new form of rebellion, she has joined the resistance and, under the leaders request, began to seriously train in magic. When she went to the old man and told him of her new ambition, he insisted to train her in dark magic. A secret that she has kept from all in the resistance.

Love: Yes, she wants to find love but is very prospective of her feelings. She is straight but is going through that experimental phase and has been looking for a girl partner lately.

Other: She uses all kinds of weapons when in an assassin mode and always has some kind of blade on her. Her favorite being pictured here.

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Name:Lilith Senka

Gender:female

Age:29 yrs

Appearance:Lilith is about 6ft 6 inchs and has very long limbs and torso and has silky cropped black hair that almost always covers one of her always color changing eyes if you ever see her face and she always dresses in dark jeans, a dark colored tank top, her fav steel toed boots, and a long trench coat that she's never seen without, also she carries a long knife underneath and a smaller one in her left boot the handle is a pure ebony coloring and the knife is a stunning silver with a twirling design on it. Her mask covers both her eyes and is like a crescent moon on one side and it's black on one side then fades into a dark purple to the right it also has small shining gems sprinkled onto it and feathers on the crescent moon side, and if you ever catch her without her mask she has a sharp ragged scar over her left eye and a tattoo of a rigged lightning bolt shrouded in a dark storm over her right eye that extends down to the bottom of her jaw.

Skills:When Lilith was very young she was playing out in the rain when her mother told her to come it but she didn't want to and kept saying no then she got angry and a bolt of lightning struck down right in front of her that's when her parents found out she specialized in lightning, and later on when she was 16 she decided to try and master Dark and being a little reckless she ignored the consciences of what it brought and so with patience and determination she was able to live and contain her's and after that that's when her eyes started to change and her master watched her leave in the middle of a training as he tried to help her through her dark powers but it wasn't working so she gave up with him and left with someone who seemed to know her some how and as she turned and walked away from her mentor forever he shouted out to her that by leaving she forever brought a curse upon herself then he dropped to the ground after she had whipped around to him and drained him of the rest of his life leaving him dead as her new mentor smiled deceivingly under his hood

Personality:Well in the beginning she was a kind and sweet little girl but as she grew older she became a little meaner and more ignorant and stubborn when she joined her Mentor she was determined for the abnormals were upon them then and she had thirst in her eyes for power and a kind of purpose after choosing dark she became cut off and focused on one thing only, but after she left with a different mentor who would teacher her ways of a great blood thirsty killer then she became more lost and outta control but there is still a bit of sense in what she's doing for now.

History:Lilith Senka is the only daughter of Lyla and Than Senka, a water sorceress and a fire sorcerer both serve the crown and haven't seen their daughter since she left at age 13 to train as a great sorceress and help their people from the crown that they loyally served, they fear her for they have heard tales of a dark sorceress who was skilled in brutal ways of torture and attack and they could only thing of her being that dark sorceress and how she wasn't always like that and wondered what went wrong. She was somewhat spoiled by her parents but every time they tried to give her everything she'd give it back to them for they never seemed to understand their daughter and they still don't and it will surely cost them for it.

Up for love:go ahead and try to break through the dark insanity

Other: she hasn't yet joined the Masked resistance but will stumble across one of them in one of her insane states of mind and nearly kill them but snap out of it and demand them to take her to their leader thinking that they work for the king,also the scar was when she tried to take on the king himself during her insane state of mind

Name: Mercury Quinn
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Appearance:

- He's tall, slender, but he has muscles - He has dark brown hair with sharp blue eyes, a skar over his right eye. He wears a regular white shirt with a black suit jacket that have the sleeves rolled up, he wears metal bracelets on his wrists. And of course he wears pants, slimmer fitting (which he believes is setting a trend). He also wears a black hat similar to the hat in the picture, but of course it's black. He wears it even with his mask (it's his very favorite hat)

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Skills:

Mercury is a Lighting Sorcerer, his skills range from the control of lightning to the charging of metal objects. He keeps many many knives and daggers and concealed weapons on his person, electrically charging them so they do more damage. By controling of lightning he can blast things with tiny bolts of lightning, or he can shock you with a touch. Also charging tiny mechanical creatures he tinkers with, that carry messages to people.

Personality:
Mercury is quite mad, actually. He comes from a troubled past, which scarred him mentally. He has mood swings, twisted emotions, but he's very very smart and well versed in things like tactical forms and He's a little introverted, talks to himself. But when after he meets you, and I mean RIGHT after he meets you he get's to laughing and talking with you. He has his moments, if you can imagnine the doctor, jack sparrow, and sherlock. But he's a tremendous leader, very trustworthy.


History:

As explained above, Mercury comes from a troubled past. He was born the son of a commoner, his father a inventor and his mother a waitress. They were kind parents, they weren't harsh or mean. They got him a good edjucation, he never went hungry. But when he reached the age of twelve, both his mother and father got into a tiff with the kin of the Family of the Crown. They were killed by the royal gaurd. It was mentally scarring on Mercury, he vowed he would end the tyranny of the royal house. Quickly learning the in's and outs of Lightning Magic. And that's why he formed the Masked Resistance, which quickly took a following.



Up for love: Yeah - he's a terrible flirt, but not a whole lot of people can get around the insanity. He's straight.

Other: Well, he's the Leader of the Masked Resistance. He doesn't sleep, because he has crippling nightmares about hit parents being murdered. He wears this mask -

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I claim an Abnormal girl!

EDIT: I'll also take a guy from the royal family if that's ok

SORRY FOR SPAMMING :/

Name: Tara Knox. Her commercialised theif name is Nitefox (which is where she came up with her last name)
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Appearance: Tara has black hair that is down to her lower back; it's thick and normally tangled, but Tara doesn't care or mess with it, she just lets it be. Her skin color is hard to determine as it is always dirty, effects of growing up in abandoned allies. Eyes are said to be windows to the soul, but Tara has mastered her green eyes to the point were she can choose which emotion shows, which proves to be helpful, as she is a thief and a liar. Her best feature is her teeth, which are as white as pearls, as healthy as a dentists and as strong as iron, which is surprising considering Tara's living conditions; truth is, it's family heritage.

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She always dresses so that her entire body is covered (except for her face).

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Her gloves are flexible and tight-fitted so that she can steal just as well with them on.

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She wears a long, loose coat and a hood of the same fashion.

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For a mask, she just tucks a cloth over her mouth like this

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This is the first item she's ever stolen, it's probably her most prized posesion.
Tera's skirt. It looks like this except it's fuller and has more ruffles. And this thing has more pockets on it than a herd of kangaroos.

Skills: Abnormal. BUT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT IT. She hides it very well and pretends to have weak animal sorcery (she is actually really good with animals). But no one even suspects it. I don't want the topic to come up at all in this SB unless Tara herself brings it up. Comprendo?
Now that we've made that clear, let me add detail to Tara's Abnormal-ness. Tara's "case" is extremely severe, to the point where her whole body repels magic. It's not physically possible for her to steal magic (which is kinda ironic, since she's a thief) and if anyone so much as touches her skin, they instantly loose their magic. Touching her may also result in serious injuries, and someone has even died. She has no control of her magic-sucking effects and she actually detests it; that's why she's wears so much clothes, because she doesn't want to accidentally hurt someone.
As for fighting skills, she's not a violent person, so she's never trained for that stuff. She does carry a small knife but she only uses it to cut her bonds (when things go bad) and to open things.
Personality: Tara is a born theif, litterally. That's all she has ever known, and she's extremely talented at it. She was taught by a man known as the greatest theif in the kingdom, but he died and she now holds the title, except she's known as the Nitefox (forgive the incorrect spelling, but Tara's never been to school). Her hands are so quick that you wouldn't see her robbing you if you were staring at her, her lies are so good that she'll have you feeling sorry for her and crying with her, and her foot steps are so quiet that the whisper of the wind is louder.
Honestly, she's a kind girl and doesn't steal to scorn people, it's just her trade of living and she's never known any other way. And she's loyal enough to her friends that she wouldn't betray them or steal anything that they need or are extremely attatched to (everything else is as good as gone).
Like I said, she's a kind girl and someone who is easy to make friends with. She's quick, sarcastic, no-touchy, tough, cunning, responsible-when-need-be, talented, and totally independant.
She doesn't tell anyone that she's an Abnormal because horrible things have happened to her in the past. She's been shunned, abused, tied up like a dog, some people were afraid to look at her, people have used her "power" to their own advantages, others have tried to kill her. She's also ashamed of it. So yeah, there will be no revealing of this secret any time soon.
History: She's grown up a homeless orphan; bastard father and mother who didn't want her. So she lived in the street allies, with nothing but money-hungry bums to raise her and stolen food to eat. When she was old enough (about ten), she left the hole she was raised in and the people who abused and under-fed her. And from then on she's gone from place to place stealing as a living.
Once, when she was 12, she found a man named Daric, who was known as the most talented thief in the land. She stayed with him for a year and he taught her all of his tricks; he was the closest father she's ever had. But sadly he did finally get caught stealing and was hanged before her eyes.
When she was 14, the true colors of her magic-sucking curse came out. A gang of ruthless theives saw this "talent" and kidnapped Tara and forced her to work for them. By using her to dissable their victums of their magic, the gang could steal with less consiquences. But they too abused her. Finally Tara got fed up with it and, in a fight with the gang's leader, touched him and he crumpled to the floor, dead. After that the gang basically begged her to leave, but Tara was horrified and swore to never use this power again.
Since then she's traveled the country, going from town to town and never staying in the same place for more than a month.
She found out about the Masked Resistance from a good friend of hers (Morgan). Even though she's not a talented fighter or sorcerer, she's in the group because her quick thinking and spying skills are invaluble.
Up for love: Well she doesn't want anyone, seeing as it would be difficult because he wouldn't be able to touch her without possible getting hurt; which would mean no kissing or holding hands, like I said, difficult. And she's not a person who's about to give her heart to someone. But I like a good romance so I'm gonna say yes Oh and she's straight.
Other: Since she's been all over the kingdom, I think it would be cool if she knew most if not all of the characters. Whether she knows them personally or she's stolen from them in the past, whatever you wish, but I think it would be fun

May I reserve a spot for an abnormal? ^u^

Name: Ellis Sacopolous
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Appearance: Ellis has straight black hair and very light blue, piercing eyes. He's pale and about 6 feet. He's normally always wearing a tux but he doesn't worry about how he looks and it's normally dirty and in need of repair.

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Skills: He inherited wind and earth sorcery, although his wind magic far exceeds his earth sorcery.
He considers the wind his friend and loves playing with it. He has learned to master it and can control it with the flick of his fingers. He's working on a new trick that allows him to pick up objects and control movement their movement by using the force of the wind, he calls it the puppet technique. He's hasn't been able to make it strong enough to use on humans yet (unless they willingly relax their muscles), but he's learning.
For earth sorcery he can only heal, and only himself.
As for other skills, he's talented at sword fighting, running, swimming, and he's a pretty good shot.
Personality: Ellis is cocky, self-righteous and a flirt. He's hansom, smart and talented in nearly all activities, and he knows it. He's not cruel or mean, but he has no respect for others and only does what's prosperous for himself, but all in all not a bad guy.
He's normally bored and always seeking adventure and something to do (preferably mischievous). So he's a fun guy to hang out with, but you can't trust him.
His uncle, King Jake, secretly loathes him, everyone in the palace (except the girls) do. They see him as annoying and an embarrassment to the crown. The king also doesn't like him because he flirts with his daughter, princess Garnet [if that's ok with you, Loyal and Italian. If not, pm and I'll change it] (and yes, I realise that they're cousins, but like I said he's a flirt).
He likes parties, girls and winning. He dislikes his uncle (the king), boring activities and losing.
History: Ellis is King Jormungandr's nephew. His mother is the King's wife's sister. He was born during his uncle's reign, so he's lived a life of royalty. Ellis's mother died when he was three and his father never wanted him around, complaining that he was always getting in the way. So when he was six years old, Ellis was sent to the castle to learn the arts. He learned how to read and write in several languages, how to fence, ride, shoot, run, swim, and master his earth and wind sorcery; he excels in all of these categories.
He's not part of the Masked Resistance, but he's not against it, he just doesn't care. But he might join up for a few assignments on either side, just for adventure.
Up for love: Yep. Straight
Other: His theme song --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpROjfN7yEg
He also has an Australian accent (I realize there is probably no Australia in this world, but that's what he sounds like).
He collects steampunk pistols.

Here's my profile for 'Masked Resistance vs Aradian Tyranny' ^^

Name: Theodore (Theo) Pearce

Gender: Male

Age: ~17 (he's not 100% sure cause he doesn't care ^^'')

Appearance: Has medium brown hair with natural streaks of blond. Warm golden brown eyes. Medium hieght, slightly muscular but not very much (his skills lay more among inventing than physical combat ^u^'')
He wears a white shirt with sleaves that go just bellow his elbow. Under that he wears a vest that has all sorts of mechanical tricks and devices on it ^^ wears gloves with holes for the fingers. Regular brown shorts rolled up to right above his knees.

His outfit kinda looks like this;

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You know, incase you need a picture ^u^

Skills: Able to take away magical powers cause he's abnormal (but you already knew that ^^). He can't really control it and that fustrates him. Since he doesn't spend much time around people (and when he has to he uses his abnormal dampener prototype (it's supossed to dampen his ability to take magic, but it's tempermental and doesn't always work. ^^'' It's not like he can shut off his power when he wants, it just makes it less likely ^^'')), no one has noticed and if they do he just leaves town.
Like his dampener prototype, his abnormal powers are tempermental. Usually, if you're around him your powers will be toned down alot. If he touches you, chances are you'll powers will be gone. If he's mad or fustrated all powers around him shut down and if he's mad enough when he touches you you'll die ^^ Advice; try to avoid pissing him off ^u^
Although he can hold his own in a fight, it's done more with his little bag of tricks than by his strength. He's an A+-class inventor ^^ He loves to tinker with things and putting pieces together to make them do what he desires. He can take something apart and put it together better than it was before ^^

Personality: While his interest and love with mechanics has increased through out the years, his interest and love in people has been deminishing.
He's not cruel or heartless or anything like that, it's just that his ability to belive and make atachments with people has been comprimised. He doesn't care what you think of him. He especially doesn't care what your opinion is if it wasn't asked.
Secretly, somewhere deep inside him, he cares about people that atach with him or with people he ataches himself to, but he has emotionally sperated himself from people on the outside because of his past.
Wether or not he's secretly atached to you, he'll mow you down to get to any new piece of tech he's never seen before. Like art to an artist or music to a musician, technology is to Theo. He lives and breaths it. You touch his toys, prepare to taste his wrath. If he lets you touch one of his inventions, it's a major sign of trust. Not many people pick up on this and are insulted when he won't let them touch anything.
He's immune to the charms of others because of his disintrest in people. He won't fall for any crap you try and give him.

History: His parents were powerful magic users. But with his birth, his father died instantly and his mother was left and inch from death. His older sister, Amaya, wasn't in the room so she was spared the first show of his unwanted power. A few days after giving birth to him she died.
After the death of their parents, they lived temporarily with a distant cousin of their mother. While things were fine for a while, until one day when Theo was 5 one of the other children went through Theo's things.
The spoiled little brat had scattered his trinkets and toys, and when Theo came on the scene the kid was bent on ripping the pages in Theo's project book. Theo got mad and started yelling at the kid. The kid started to cry and tried to rush past him. On contact with him the kid collapsed.
When the others found out they realized what he was and were planning to kill him that night. His sister, thinking quickly, packed up their stuf and left; leaving a potential husband and many friends. After leaving the mansion Theo cried for days, hateing himself for ruining his sisters life and potentionaly killing a kid.
Although it was his birth that took away their parents and his fault they needed to leave thier new home, his sister never blamed him. She loved him dearly and of all the people he's met, she's the one he's loved the most (not in that way, it's brotherly/sisterly love ^u^)
For most of his life it was only him and his beloved sister. He never was able to take her minor healing magic, probably because his powers never really bothered with low-class magic. Although he considered it a blessing his powers were never able to hurt her, he's always been a little upset that his powers didn't consider his sister worthy enough to take her magic.
They lived on her healing and, when he was old enough, on his inventions and ability to fix things. When ever he had to fix things, his sister would claim no one could go in the room cause he was nervous.
When ever they went to a new town, she'd have him wait on the outskirts while she found a place that only had low level magic users so he wouldn't hurt any one. She'd come get him and always with some sort of treat.
Things were good until he turned 11. Theo had fixed a piece of machinery for a farmer in a town but apparently when he wasn't looking, the man's highly magicaly talented daughter came in to see. When he walked by her to leave, she fainted in the corner.
When Amaya and Theo were camping on the outskirts of town, they realized their food was stolen by some sort of animal. Amaya went back into town to get some. Theo waited and waited until it was night.
Quietly he snuck back into the village, but he didn't see any of the people. When he made his way to the village square, he saw his sister tied up on a pole surounded by firewood. The farmer found his daughter. She was alive, but her powers were gone and her mental state comprimised.
The people had confronted Amaya with this, and to protect her dear little brother she lied and said she was the Abnormal. For revenge the people band together to kill her.
Theo watched as they set fire to the wood, cursing out her existance. Before the flames took her, she looked and saw her brothers face, hidden behind the crowd. The last thing she did was mouth 'Love you'.
He sat in shock, watching as her mortal body burned to ash. the people congradulated each other on destorying the demon that had befallen them. They stayed after the flames had gone down, jeering at the ashes that remained.
Theo stagered out of his hiding spot, then picked up speed as he ran to the ashes. The farmer recognized him and went up to him, planning on breaking it to the boy that his sister was a monster. Then man was about to touch his shoulder when Theo turned his face to him, tears streaming down his face, and said 'Don't touch me.' The man did so anyway but instantly died before their eyes. The people backed away in fear. He stood up and turned fully on them. He blacked out.
When he woke up the towns people were dead or spouting gibberish, their mental state deteriorated. In his hand he held the gift he had made for his sister, that he had planned to give to his sister that night.
He left the town before others could come. The rest of his life he spent wandering from town to town, fixing peoples machinery for money. On occasion people have found out what he was and tried to either kill him or use him. If they tried to kill him, they'd die. If they tried to use him they'd die. Not that he ever wanted to kill anyone, it's just that he'd get mad, remembering his sister.
One time, he befriended a now 10 year old boy named Kinfe, a low class magic user that belonged to another gang. over the period of 5 days, when his gang had tried to use Theo, Kinfe adopted theo as an older brother, admiring his ability to create things. Although Kinfe decided to stay with his gang a while longer after helping Theo escape, he plans to go with Theo the next time he comes to town.
Theo hasn't aligned himself with any side. He's never stayed in a town for more than 2 weeks, and besides Kinfe and his sister he's never atached himself to anyone else.

Up for love: Sure ^^ He's Straight, but good luck trying to get his attention ^u^ he lives for his inventions, but if finds the right girl (that doesn't mind her magic being torn away ^^'') he'd gladly go out with her ^u^

Other: He always carries the gift he was going to give his sister, a little necklace that was supposed to play Amaya's favorite music.

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Name: Alem Emit

Gender: male

Age: 25

Appearance:

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Alem is tall and has an average built. He has a tousle of wavy black hair barely reaching up to his chin and a dark complexion. His expensive black eyes are always hidden the contours of his black cloak’s hood which runs down the length of his body. He usually keeps the sleeves rolled up to his elbows when he is alone but lets them down around company. He wears a pair of gloves to cover his hands.

Skills: Alem was born without magic but had the ability to drain it fron others. He was an abnormal. He had no control over it in the beginning but after years of practice he is able to extend his control to the rest of his body. He also learned to lessen the effect but he can’t stop it entirely. He doesn’t like using his powers too much so he trained himself in hand to hand combat and sword fighting.

Personality: Alem seems to portray the cool and calm collectiveness of a wise old man. However, he is far more aggressive then he seems. He is stubborn, short-tempered, strong-willed and impulsive. He attempts to maintain a detached and formidable outward appearance, claiming not to care about what other people think about him. He is quite the hard worker and is constantly trying to outdo himself. Even though he tries to keep his calm all the time, he often looks down on people and makes no secret of it. He easily gives into hollow threats, inwardly declaring that ‘the man wounded his honor’, and ends up in a lot of fights, gaining an infamous reputation.

History: both Alem’s parents where great sorcerers. His mother was the used of wind and his father was the user of lightning. They had expected their child to be a great warrior, but the couldn’t live long enough to see their dream come true. Alem’s mother die at soon after giving birth to him as a result of his draining all her powers away. Alem’s farther was devastated but excepted his son nonetheless. With what little knowledge he had about the abnormal, he concluded that the best he could do was cover his hand and keep his son in the dark.
It wasn’t until Alem was 5 that he asked his father why his wasn’t allowed to touch any one or take his gloves off around people. He waited but the answer never came and being the impatient son that he was, he decided to find out for himself.
He didn’t think much of it when he reached out to touch his father’s hand. It was he first time he had touched anyone and that’s all it took. With one touch he had drained his father of all hi magic and subsequently his life.
Upon realizing what he had done, he ran off into the night and never looked back. He survived on the harsh streets by stealing and everyone in a while he would even had to use his unusual ability…
He soon realized that this was something he wold have to live with forever and no matter what he did it would not go away. So, he began to train. Though his initial goal was to control his…power, he had learned to extend his powers from his palms to the rest of his body. The he still had trouble stopping it.


Up for love: Err…probably not. Not unless he is challenged..And he’s Straight.
Other: He carries a sword around his waist, which stays hidden by his cloak.