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What should be the plot?

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Void_Nugget

Void_Nugget

Previously Shadow_Pup
Alterra is a world of simple technology and magic. Clothes and homes are similar to that of our worlds Victorian times.

The planet’s surface is made up almost completely of water with only a single landmass that is home to the inhabitants of this planet. The landmass is referred to as Alterra, while the planet wide ocean is simply called The Blue. Long ago Alterra was populated by many humans, they were ruled over by an elder council that made all the important decisions. One day a rebellion formed, and this group launched an attack on the council. This attack was thwarted by a small group of magic wielding humans who called themselves The Magicians, the rebels who survived the attack were cursed by The Magicians turning each of the 8 men and 8 women into creatures they called Daemons. While the council made it law for all humans to learn magic after witnessing its usefulness, humanity became known as Magicians, which was eventually shortened to Magi. As time passed the Daemon population grew and they became increasingly oppressed being worked as laborers and servants, one subspecies of Daemon, the Sakanamata decided they were done with this life of oppression, and they fled to The Blue. It became their domain with them killing any Magi who strays out of the designated sea border and into Sakana territory and the Sakana rarely go on land.
The Government is located in the capital, Imperium, and is headed by Chancellor Denzorius who often uses his powerful position to better himself.
Full Name: Chancellor Lorenzo Denzorius
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Species: Magi
Occupation: Ruler/Head of Government
Appearance:
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World Information:
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Rusticus (Rural Country)
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Imperium (Capital)
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Saxum (Mining Country)
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Libri (Knowledge Capital)
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Piscium (Fisherman Country)
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Libertas (Country for free Daemons)
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The Government is a collection of people who make decisions for almost all of Alterra. This government is a mix of elected officials and the heads of noble families. The Chancellor position is also an elected position but is susceptible to corruption with Denzorius having rigged many elections to keep his position.
The noble families of Alterra are usual found living in Imperium or Libri and are nothing more than simply being the richest and most influential of people. Many of these families are corrupt or power hungry with some exceptions.
The Blue and Libertas have monarchies ruling them with The Blue being completely seperate but the Ruler of Libertas meets with the Chancellor to discuss trade deals, territories and what not.
Full Name: King Brutus Daggertooth
Age: 75
Gender: Male
Species: Samemata
Occupation: Ruler
Appearance:
Full Name: Queen Thea Lightfoot
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Species:
Occupation: Ruler
Appearance:
Daemons are a species of human-animal hybrids that all share essentially the same power set, but each species of Daemon has unique traits as well. The shared traits of Daemons are Enhanced Speed, Strength and Durability. Magi are the evolved human race, who are now capable of doing magic as if it was a genetic trait. Each Magi can harness two forms of magic while also being able to harness basic magics.
Daemon Name = Daemon Type - Traits (Rare Variant - Special Trait)
- Nekomata = Cat Daemon – Silent footsteps, enhanced senses, night vision (Raionmata = Lion Daemon - Pride Roar (A loud roar that boots the strength of anyone who the user deems as a friend))
- Inumata = Dog Daemon – Enhanced senses, pack sense, loyalty (Ōkamimata = Wolf Daemon - Howling Storm (An immense howl that conjures up a swirling vortex of air))
- Chōruimata = Avian Daemon - wings, enhanced sight (Battomata = Bat Daemon - Sonic Screech (A loud screech that cause dizziness and brief deafness)
- Sakanamata = Fish Daemon – gills, enhanced swimming, water manipulation (Samemata = Shark Daemon – Blood Rage (When the user smells the blood of a fellow Sakana or Same they are thrown into a savage rage that renders them briefly indestructible and incredibly strong)
- Burumata = Bull Daemon - super strength, indestructible skin, unstoppable momentum
- Tokagemata = Lizard Daemon - wall climbing, regeneration, burrowing
- Usagimata = Rabbit Daemon - Super jump, super speed, enhanced hearing and smell
- Basic Magics: Basic item summoning (using a small bag like pocket dimension), basic teleportation spell, basic telekinetic spell, basic tracking spell, basic appraisal magic
- Illusion Magic
- Fire Magic
- Water Magic
- Light Magic
- Healing Magic
- Defense Magic
- Earth Magic
- Plant Magic
- Blood Magic
- Summoning Magic
Rules:
- Normal Pokecharms rules
- Magi are students and scholars and military officers and soldiers
- Daemons are manual labor, bodyguards, soldiers, servants, etc.
- Sakanamata are different of course and can be any role within their society
- All of our characters will be aged 14 – 18/19
- Sakanamata are going to be NPC characters only unless you pm me with a good enough reason for one to be out of the Blue
- Don’t be too OP

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My Characters:
Full Name: Unknown
Nickname: Number 23
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
Species: Nekomata
Home Country: Unknown (Found in Imperium)
Occupation: Bodyguard
Appearance:
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Personality: He is surprisingly cheery when considering his past. He loves a good talk and likes to hang out and make friends. He loves to sing and doodle. He likes coffee and adores sweets and cakes. He has severe claustrophobia and has occasional PTSD attacks that are seemingly random.
Powers: Silent footsteps, enhanced senses, night vision
Backstory: Even he does not know much about his past, what he does know is not good. His earliest memories were lying bruised and beaten on a cold stone floor in a dark room. He was imprisoned by a religious nutjob who despised Daemon, after his rescue at the age of 14 he discovered that he had been the 23rd in a long line of Daemon captured, tortured, and killed by this family of lunatics. He of course was lucky enough to have been saved from the fate that befell the others. After his rescue he was diagnosed with amnesia and his left eye had to be removed due to the damage being too severe. He was taken in by a bodyguard agency and was trained for a full year till the present day.
Full Name: Applina Jones
Nickname: Apple
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Species: Magi
Home Country: Rusticus
Occupation: Student
Appearance:
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Personality: Apple is a sweet and caring person. She loves to help people and thoroughly enjoys healing people's ailments. She is not very fond of violence and tries to avoid conflict where possible, this does not mean she is weak in a fight, if forced into a situation where she must fight or if she becomes incredibly angry, she is quite terrifying. She likes to dance and read books. She hates bullies and thinks pranks and practical jokes are a waste of time and are a nuisance.
Powers: Healing Magic, Fire Magic, and Basic Magic
Backstory: Apple grew up in a rural part of Alterra in a large family. She had 8 older brothers and they were all extremely kind to her growing up. She loved being with her family and enjoyed farm life. She discovered her proficiency for healing magic which was a trait that ran in her family but unlike her brothers and parents she did not inherit any of their other proficiencies in light and water magic and instead when she was 6, she suddenly awakened her fire magic proficiency when she nearly burned down the family barn after she became angry at a joke her brothers had pulled on her. Her family supported her through this discovery, but she knew deep down that they feared her destructive power. She eventually enrolled in a school in the capital and has lived on the school premises since she was 15.

A small request - I need a client for #23, the client would probably be a student and will definitely be a wealthy Magi. I am not saying some has to make this character to facilitate mine but I would like someone else's character to be his boss. Your character doesn't even have to be nice to 23. If you want this role just PM me.

Options for Poll:
  • Option 1 - An elite team made from students from a Magi school and a few chosen Daemon are tasked with bringing a peace treaty to the dwellers of The Blue

  • Option 2 - A team-based tournament where a rag tag group of teens with a mix of Magi and Daemon enter.
 
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Previously 'Candle'
Full Name: Altair Caldoo
Nickname: Phoenix (Closer Bodyguards), Bird Boy (Only any of his clients who full much more comfortable with this than Altair)
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Bisexual with a preference of male
Species: Chōruimata
Home Country: Imperium
Occupation: Bodyguard
Appearance:
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Personality: Altair is known quite for his fidgety self and flight. He is definitely a joyful boy who would do anything to be a traveling merchant out in The Blue. His out there personality is what he is truly valued for but he takes nothing serious meaning that his personality while being a bodyguard is quite different then his usual. His bodyguard personality is much more serious acting and non-talking.
Powers: Wings, Enhanced Sight
Backstory: Altair grew up in Imperium with his mother and father who soon died from an unknown cause while Altair was at the age of four. This caused him to travel around before being found by two soldiers who took him until he turned 16 which they then fled. This then made him travel to a bodyguard agency to train as he was considered a ‘perfect fit’. But Altair wanted to be different so he always wears red face paint under his eyes and a necklace with his adoptive father’s ring.

Full Name: Geo North
Nickname: N/A
Age: 16
Gender: Male (FAB: Female at birth)
Sexuality: Transgender and pan sexual
Species: Magi
Home Country: Rusticus
Occupation: Student
Appearance:
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Personality: Geo is basically the quiet one that is really into music. He is known mostly for his quiet self but also the one that his close friends would do anything to make him not look weak. It was only caused by the flaming nightmares that seem to possess him many years ago. Geo has his good traits too, though. He is quite kind and pretty caring especially around someone he admires or looks up to.
Powers: Light Magic, Summoning Magic
Backstory: Geo had a simple life. His sister and brother-in-law were nice to him caring for ‘em like their child. Geo was signed up for school. And since he can use Light Magic, he carries a pair of goggles around his neck at all times.
 
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Astrial

Astrial

Full Name: Lucina Amal

Nickname: Lucia (Close Allies) Golden-Eyed Fox (The name given to her as a thief)

Age: She often changes her age to be whatever she needs at the moment, but she's actually 17

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Panromantic Asexual

Species: Inumata, with more fox-like leanings

Home Country: Saxum

Occupation: Uses a serving job as a cover up, takes on thieving and mercenary jobs by night

Appearance:
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Below her waist is a tail that's the same color as the rest of her hair and tipped in black, and fox-like legs and paws that she usually mostly covers in baggy black pants, though she does defeat the point of that by almost never wearing shoes.

Personality: Best described as an overconfident trickster, she's not the kind over person to get on your bad side. She's not likely to get mad outright or try to kill you, but it's best to not piss her off unless you want to wander into a ridiculous amount of traps, or have something important or embarrassing stolen in the middle of the night. She has pretty much no moral compass in the slightest, and often fluctuates between 'good' and 'bad' so much that nobody can tell which side she's on. While her Inumata nature does lead her to develop bonds with certain people, it never amounts to more than a little favoritism with thieving jobs here and there, and she rarely actually trusts anybody. She usually spends her spare time working out and preparing for her next job. She is also stupidly flirty with everyone around her, and really enjoys punching people who decide to get too 'serious' in the face like the chaotic asexual she is.

Powers: Enhanced senses, pack sense, and jury's still out on the loyalty thing.

Backstory: Growing up, her parents worked as laborers in the Saxum mines, so she spent most of her time either playing with the other Daemon kids or helping her parents in any way she could. When they eventually died in a mining accident, she was forced to join the workforce to fill in for her parents. Deciding she'd had enough, she snuck into a nearby rich families household and stole a few pieces jewelry and went running. She sold off the jewelry and used the money to run to the next town over, where she got a serving job and laid low for awhile. She eventually caught wind of somebody needing a thief to get a job done, so she decided to test out her skill and took on the job, donning a wooden fox mask she inherited from her parents. Word of mouth spread after she successfully completed the job, and she took more and more on in further and further towns, eventually earning the title 'Golden-Eyed Fox'. She was recently kicked out of her serving job for poking her snout where it didn't belong, and is currently looking for a new cover-up job.

Full Name: Colin Rei

Nickname: 'Just Colin' (What he asks everybody to call him) Co-Co (Probably Lucia at some point)

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Sexuality: *Confused screaming* (He's Gay but won't admit it)

Species: Magi

Home Country: Libri

Occupation: Student, occasional works at any nearby bakery that needs an extra hand

Appearance:
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Personality: He's a quiet, nervous kid, and often prefers to burry himself in books rather than talk. He has a love for ancient history and the times before the rest of the world flooded. He is also looking into how the first Magians came across their magic, since people weren't born with the ability to do magic with ease yet. He tries to plan for everything, and still always ends up worrying about every little thing anyway. He's easily flustered and often turns into a complete mess when a boy he finds even remotely attractive comes near him. He also really enjoys baking, and often makes desserts for his dormmates in his spare time.

Powers: Basic Magic, Water Magic, and, ironically, Blood Magic

Backstory: He grew up in a relatively well off family in Libra, constantly making trips to the local library and playing games with his older brothers and younger sister. He discovered his talent for Blood magic by complete accident, in a way that he'd rather not relive. Nobody knows exactly how it happened, only that people found him and a near dead Usagimata Daemon in the ruins of a collapsed building afterwards, bloodstains forming strange patterns in the palms of his hands. The Daemon was rescued by their owner, and Colin later applied and was accepted into a school inside the capital, where he discovered his inherited proficiency in water magic.
 
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=Nightshade=

Previously Night's Shadow
Full Name: Kozetsu Hideyoshi
Nickname: Z
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bicurious
Species: Magi

Home Country: Saxum
Occupation: Student; takes any odd-jobs she can, though
Appearance:
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Short messy hair styled in a shaggy jaw-length cut, faded white from stress but beginning to grow black again. Scars are scattered across her face, deep and jagged, especially towards the lower half of her face. Her mouth is closed 90% of the time, and sometimes is covered with large turtlenecks, scarves, bandages, or anything else she can find. Wears black clothes under denim overalls when not in school uniform.
Personality: Quiet (by necessity, not choice) and obedient (mostly), though she knows every obscene hand gesture there is to know and can be quite vulgar in sign language. For those who understand the signs, she can offend very easily, but most don’t, needing her to write things down most of the time, which is where her summoning comes in handy. Though eager to please, Z is easily frustrated if and when she is misunderstood.
Powers: Summoning Magic: Soul Weapon — can summon a weapon and change its shape at will in an essentially unlimited variety. Think of Spirit Spears from 7DS or Kite’s nen ability (HxH).

Backstory: As a child, Kozetsu had unusually strong magic, especially for one in the mining district. In her area, the miners were mostly humble working folk who used their rather average magical skills to help them in procuring various needed minerals. The subsection Kozetsu lived in was near an average mine, full of average people, and she lived an average life with both parents and an older brother… until the murders began.

No one knew who the killer was. No one knew what magic had been used. The only evidence left at the scene was a poem scrawled in the victims blood. Every time, a quartet. Every time, the victim died from serious knife wounds meant to be painful rather than quick.

It wasn’t until seven mystery murders had occurred that Kozetsu began to suspect. Her suspicions were finalized that night, as she slipped through the house to find her parents both stabbed to death, brother standing over them with an inhuman glare in his eyes. When he noticed her standing there, openmouthed, he launched himself at his sister and shoved the still-bloody knife in his hand down her throat in an attempt to silence the scream that had already left her. The crazed swings of the knife cut across her cheeks in deep slashes, more painful than causing serious injury.

Kozetsu’s name was a combination of the symbols for “mouth” and “tongue,” as in “one not afraid to speak out.” It truly was an ironic choice.

The scream she had managed to release before the knife carved her tongue to shreds drew half the village, and they overpowered her brother. When Kozetsu awoke, he had already been executed, her entire family gone. The medics had done all they could for her, but it was clear she would never speak again. Traumatized by the experience and desperate for an escape, Kozetsu ran.

Village to village, district to district, her name was shortened, again and again, until only one letter remained in her memory. Deep in the bowels of her mind, her birth name and the memories locked away with it still lie dormant, but it is a box she would never wish to open.

The face of her brother and the knife that carved her parents’ poetic epitaphs still haunt her dreams.

Summoning weapon details: TBA once my creative juices refill lmao
 
Angxl

Angxl

Previously Mx.Shift
Full Name: Aspen Hansen
Nickname: Pish Posh (Family ONLY)
Age: 16 1/2 (September 2nd, Virgo)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual with a preference of female.
Species: Magi
Home Country: Saxum
Occupation: Student, carefully taking up any offe
Appearance:
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Aspen is a semi-tall young lady with long mid-back length hair usually tied up into a messy ponytail. There are faded red (which looks orange) towards the bottom. If it is not tied up it looks poorly brushed and always has strands of hair sticking from her hair- even despite the fact that she uses hair spray. Her eyes a pale blue ice color very much taken a back by her father and her hair, her mother. Aspen's skin is very light with few darker patches mostly of the face, arms and legs which are indeed tans. There are indeed freckles scattered across her face. There is always mostly a band-aid across her nose.

As for bodybuild it is rather skinny with a little bit on the chubby side too. She stands at about 5'4. As for facial details, her head is oval-shaped with very puffy, chubby cheeks. Her ears are rounded and prone to anything cold, which make them pure red. Her earlobes stick out a little sometimes.

Clothing comes down to a simple white button up with a black sweater usually over that and a color bracelet made of rubber bands around her wrist. Another matching bracelet with black strands and a metal plate which has gold swirls, it ironically matches her mother's. Another necklace with her birth stone, Sapphire, at its edge. Her pants are slightly baggy and are dark dark blue-black In color. She sometimes wears a skirt that is also black. Shoes are either green and white sneakers or dress shoes (not heels). A frog pin with a heart at its side is pinned to her hair.

Personality: Aspen would be described as a fun loving extremely joyful and Childish person. Expect even mostly in that case she is very determined of everything. Her willingness to do and be there is overwhelming. The Childish aspect of her is the willing to act mostly as her little brothers while her joyful side is also silly and fun.

She has her doubts and bad traits too. She can be a brat and takes mostly after her mother, always full of attitude and sass. She has anxiety and will have nervous breakdowns or panic attacks in rough cases. Her fears are very light but still over thought.

Her fears include:
Seismophobia (Fear of Earthquakes.)
Claustrophobia (Fear of small spaces)
Atychiphobia (Fear of failing or never succeeding)

Powers: Earth Magic, Illusion Magic
Backstory: Aspen's life was carefully tucked away within many memories. The first memories she had of her family was of her, her mother and father having her first little brother. It started to spiral into a mess after that. She was diagnosed with Amnesia at about the age of 10 which sent ,osg of her life out the window. She has yet to recover and is still unknown of her life after the 'incident. Her parents are still supportive of her despite their daughter being almost smacked half to death.
 
The Dark Fairy

The Dark Fairy

Previously Eliiiscool
Full Name: Winter Summer Autumnfall Denzorius (Mothers and fathers last name)
Nickname: Spring
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Striate
Species: Magi
Home Country: Imperium
Occupation: Princess (Daughter of Denzorius)
Appearance: Winter has fare white, but not pale, skin(She tends to sit on a balcony most of the time). She has long white hair reaching to her stomach. Her eyes are green, with a small nose. She is around 5' 2", likes to wear dresses.
Personality: Winter is deviously clever, very genuinely kind to her inner circle, and manipulative to those outside it(Still very kind, though the kindness is more a means to get what she wants.). She tries very hard not to be mean to keep herself in peoples good graces.
Powers: Illusion magic/Defence magic.
Backstory:
Winter, being the daughter of Denzorius, was born into the lap of wealth and luxury, more often than not getting just what she asked for. Her Dad and Mom made sure to spend a lot of time with her growing up, though they both had busy jobs. When she was ten, she was kidnapped by a group of Daemons, they treated her harshly, making her do a lot of work under threat of pain. It didn't take a truly lengthily amount of time to get her back, though she remembers it well. She grew up in the same lifestyle, though now taking on some responsibilities and trying to be helpful, often her parents or teachers. Her father put a personal bodyguard in place, at first a Magi after she had come back from being kidnapped, but after he died from health related issues, he hired 23 to protect and serve her.
Full Name: Souft Carge
Nickname: Four
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Species: Nekomata
Home Country: Libertas
Occupation: Theif
Appearance: Foreign looks like a normal man with tanned skin, with the exception of a black cat tail, his ears replaced with black cat ears, green cat eyes, and furred and clawed hands. He stands around 5’ 7” and looks to be on the skinnier and fitter side. He wears a necklace under his clothes, made of patterned gold and silver, a ruby encircled in emeralds sitting in the center.
Personality: Souft is quiet and calculating but not cold. He’s up for a lively time if it’s presented, but always has an escape plan.
Powers: Souft is a master thief, taught by his father from a young age. (With the normal powers for his type)
Backstory: Souft was born well of in Libertas, from the ripe age of four was taught how to steal and exploit people by his father. His mother was kidnapped as a servant by the black market to a royal house, and has not seen her since his early childhood. He eventually left the home, though making sure to visit his dad often. He has stolen many things from many people.
The necklace he wears is from his mother, it’s precisely like another his father wears.
 
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RexOli

RexOli

I invested a lot in the backstory, as his character probably needs a lot of justification to work and it will be a long, long while before he as much calls someone by their proper name. This fella has some baggage, can you tell.

Full Name: Willow Of House Jägersmann (Willowdusk)
Nickname: "Jägersmann's Golden Hare", "Golden Lapdog"

Age: 18
Gender: Non-Binary (He/Him)
Sexuality: Bi-Asexual

Species: Deamon (Usagimara - Hare)
Home Country: Borders of Rusticus. Currently living in Imperium.
Occupation: Butler Of The Jägersmann Household, Countesses Right-Hand Man

Appearance:
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(Description pending.)


Personality: If you tasked Willow with describing himself, he would start with "Humble servant and merely that.", add "Occasionally struck with talent in chess." when pressed, and then politely excuse himself with an apologetic smile once you somehow divulged more about yourself under 5 minutes than he did in the entirety of his life.
Charming does not begin to describe him, although nobility has stuck to safe words like "Exotic" and "Alluring like a coiled snake- I hate snakes, of course. No, I'm not blushing, how dare you!". He is, apparently unbothered by all worldly matters that do not concern his patrons, and so him giving you a time of day is a special sort of treat that can easily become addictive.

His spying schtick isn't something hard-crafted, but inherent to him. He is highly curious about people, and uncovering every new inch of their meaning is a grand game for him, and he has plenty of tactics to implement to further the play, switching between needed demeanors as hares zig-zag. Not all of them are pleasant for him, but he has a goal to achieve, and the lecherous way some people tend to stare at him and how fellow daemons spit at his feet is not going to stop him from following through.

The feral kit in him observes still, longing for his birthright of Liberta and indulging in his animal side as much as one with so many eyes on them can.

Powers: Super jump, super speed, enhanced hearing, and smell. Does beauty count?

Backstory: Willow remembers everything about his mother and elder siblings, even though their time together was short- There were 4 of them, living in a burrow carved by their mother's own hands after she escaped the hells of Saxum.
She was half-feral Hare Usagimata, surviving purely due and for her animalistic instincts, parental love, and spite. There are two things he recalls fondly the most- her tales of Libertas and how she never masked her presence, relying on and feeding her reputation as an unholy forest deity, given to her by the most unfortunate of local hunters and spread wide. Their home was all of the forest surrounding the Wölfinwald Shire, and she taught Willow all she knew in tandem with it- from foraging to respecting the rules of nature, as ruthless as they are.
The hunters and their dogs avoided them, locals sometimes left them offerings, and they grew like wild things tend to do. Together, they got 5 whole years.
One night, the old Earl of Wölfinwald has finally passed, and the new one wasn't as keen on superstitions. Come the following morning, their home was raided by guardsmen.

The eldest brother - Duskblade - fled into the thickets at the sound of them, but the rest of his family never got to follow him. The middle sister - Noonwraith - took the youngest kit - Willow himself- and hid him under her folded body in the tall grass, watching as their mother was beaten half-dead and dragged away. Mercifully, Willow only got to listen.
She following game of cat and mouse took the rest of the day, but at the very edge of the woods, they were caught.

Willow doesn't remember the upcoming years very well, as his heart was too busy holding onto the few memories of his old life and trying not to break. The Wölfinwald Shire and its Earl owned numerous acres of forests and hunting grounds, along with the kennel of the most prized hunting dogs Alterra has seen to date. And since there is no use wasting resources, the Earl settled the two siblings into his Shire. To him, Noonwraith found her use quicky- She was desperate to provide for her sibling, and thus willingly accompanied huntsmen to the forests, selling out mothers knowledge and all the significant nooks even magi huntsmen couldn't find.

But young Willowdawn was left drifting alone until the Earl found a new wife, one that suddenly found herself with a burden of a child she couldn't find a path to. Countess - is an educated, prim-and-proper lady, and the children tend to resemble their dogs in both appearance and disposition.
The young Lord needed some serious pruning, and Countess figured out that a fellow peer watching over him would do. Upon her first visit to Wölfinwald, she spotted Willow peering into the windows of a local school- A child who apparently took care of himself. One who was attentive in silence, and to seal the fate completely, his face freckled and even hair so similar to her own.

After 2 years of decidedly failing to raise Wilowdawn and disrespecting her mother's teaching, there wasn't much left of Noonwraith. She packed what little they shared and closed the doors behind him, and Willow has not seen her since.

He was moved to the Earls family residence in Imperium, promptly taken under the wings of all-Usagimara staff and the Countess herself. Willowdusk and the Young Lord, although widely different in personalities, bonded over Willow practically begging to do his homework and accompany him to all his lectures, listening attentively and later re-writing it all into short notes as Young Lord played soldiers with the dogs.

Some years later, when Willowdusk officially took on the title of Young Lords personal butler, his name was shortened to Willow for appearance sake and the social norms that thus far held off Countness parental doting broke at the very seams.
He already got more education by sitting in young lords classes that most Daemons get in their life, but it was Countess herself that taught him the etiquette and workings of upper-crust and given him all the necessary tools- How to glide instead of walking, how to sing pure while not believing a word of it, how to talk to people who would rather not listen, that all and plenty more.

The Earl had his like-minded brash, brave son and Countess finally found a pet-project of a child of her own. The Earl was not pleased by Willow but as the Countess was smart enough to take all his belongings from under his nose upon the slightest show of bad will, he figured out turning her attention somewhere else would only benefit in the long run.

And so Willow grew into a beautiful and intelligent young man, one even the nobility would readily tolerate just to take a barely-disguised peek at the famed Golden Hare. "Well-trained", they say. Willow, now the lead butler of the household itself and listening to the gossip on the opposite side of the room, nods his thanks.

He's luckier than most Daemons, removed so far away that the said most can't stand him. To the few who saw the tall silhouette running across rooftops at night and heard the cracks of loud steps in the most dangerous parts of the city, the idea of it being a lost deity is more believable than it being Of House Jägersmann, the most domesticated of them all.
 
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RexOli

RexOli

@Void_Nugget Oh, yes, should have specified! I imagine blood magic to be the signature magic type for their House. With their connection to dogs and animal hunting, they might have had a hand in discovering the tracking usage of this power.

Most of them probably aren't high-level mages nowadays, as most of their power comes down to their stored wealth and ownership of the most profitable hunting grounds. But they might have been a little bit of a powerhouse in early history, claiming land through "Finders keepers" and siccing wolf dogs on those opposing.

My personal headcanon is that their land used to extend even beyond the already huge forest and thriving city, but meat/pelt business comes first and it's a huge walk for people of Wölfinwald, so their farmland basically sat untouched- till the council finally took it away from them for the good of Alterra. They might still feel a bit peeved about that.
 
D34N.U5R

D34N.U5R

Full Name: Akihiko Motoki
Nicknames: Hiko, Toki, Overly Intelligent, Majorly Fearful
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Unknown, possibly heterosexual
Species: Magi
Home Country: Imperium
Occupation: Student
Appearance: Black hair, one red eye, one green eye, normal skin colour, wears casual clothes all the time (I think you get it already).
Personality: He is an optimistic young boy, smart enough to read someone's movements, but notably afraid of a lot of things. These are: Tight spaces (claustrophobic); Leaving safe places (agoraphobia); Holes (trypophobia); Being stalked (scopophobia); Flying (aerophobia); Germs (mysophobia); Thunder or lightning (astraphobia); Dogs and dog Daemons (cynophobia); Heights (acrophobia); Snakes (ophidiophobia); Spiders (arachnophobia); Anything yellow (xanthophobia); Hearing certain words (specifically the C-word and N-word) (onomatophobia); Sexual abuse (agraphobia or contreltophobia); 666 (hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia); Ants (myrmecophobia); Ghosts (phasmophobia); and 13 (triskaidekaphobia). 18 phobias in total. Akihiko washes his hands whenever he can, due to his severe mysophobia.
Powers: Basic Magic, Fire magic, Defense magic
Backstory: When he was 6, his father died from a virus, not knowing he'd die that way. This caused Akihiko to become extremely mysophobic. He believed the numbers 13 and 666 brought bad luck the moment he saw them hence his triskaidekaphobia and hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. At age 93, his grandfather died after someone called him a fat c***. This led to Akihiko's onomatophobia. Akihiko retains his personality to this day.

Hope it makes sense lol.
 
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