Here's the new recruit. It's quite late for me, and when that happens I start speaking in circles, so if that's happened in this CS, or if anything's left out, let me know and I'll fix it after I've gotten a human amount of sleep. --- ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Ghurdrich/162_zps5e80c990.jpg) ##**Name:** Aurelie La-Victoire-de-la-Reine **Alias:** Aura, "Hero" **Age:** 16 **Race:** Human **Appearance:** A silver-haired girl, her fiery blue eyes overflowing with passion. Her very being radiates with energy. **Social Status:** While a simple student, Aura is known for her boisterous and dramatic nature. She is popular with other students for her outgoing and friendly nature, and popular with teachers for her fervor and perseverence in her studies. Outside of the academy, she has no particular fame. Just an ordinary girl like anybody else. **Relations:** None in particular. No family or friends to speak of. **General Activity:** Practice, practice, practice. Aura studies everything with absolute needle-point focus with every waking hour. Academics, The Arts (Visual, Performance, and Martial,) Meditation, Mysticism, it's all or nothing every day. However, she has no schedule or routine to speak of. Whatever she is thinking about at the moment is what she is doing. She doesn't let herself get chained down to any one activity, and fluctuates rapidly. There's no telling what she could be doing on a moment-to-moment basis. Good luck trying to find her when you need her. **Abilities:** Aura is one of the few current humans with direct access to their internal essence. While she has not studied this aspect of her power particularly hard, and cannot cast any 'spells' to speak of, she has manifested a power with her essence: The power of 'Adaptation.' It isn't anything flashy, but when she is exposed to certain situations (generally emergencies or otherwise tough times,) her essence will shift within her and give her greater abilities suited to the task at hand. These abilities may come and go, or, if the change is severe enough, they may be applied permanently. Mostly these will take the form of adrenal releases, improved strength or speed, or unusually quick thinking, but with training, there is the potential for more complex solutions to arise. While Aurelie is aware of these shifts when they happen, she cannot control them at will. But they have aided in her survival to this day, and, like her other skills, she seeks to one day master this aspect of herself. **Equipment:** In combat, Aura uses a particularly large sword (Odachi) which she named "La Chevalière." She assures everybody "I will grow into it!" and will not listen to any suggestion to use a sword more suited to her size. She is particularly attached to it and rarely lets anyone else touch it, let alone wield it in combat. Unless she intends to kill, the sword remains sheathed (for the practical reason that it is difficult to unsheathe.) **Instrument:** A clear crystal fragment in the shape of a cylindrical microphone. Since this is not her first choice of combat 'instrument' (she prefers to get up close and personal with her sword) it has a near-permanent place in a leather holster attached at her waist to a dark leather belt. Since she can exercise her voice without 'playing' her 'instrument,' she rarely uses it even for practice. **Fragment Abilities:** Despite her outgoing nature, her instrument plays a decidedly supportive role. When she sings into it, it creates a field of advantage to her allies as wide as the (amplified) sound of her voice will reach. Enemy communications, whether vocal or electronic, are completely disrupted within this area, making it impossible to issue orders or relay information. On the other hand, her allies are able to receive and relay information telepathically, as though through a network (with Aura herself being the "hub" of the network.) While this ability is most useful for large-scale military battles, information and communication is precious in any fight, and her power can be used any time top secret information needs to be exchanged (imagine having an instant messenger client directly in your brain for you and your peers.) Of course, while versatile, this ability requires Aura to be singing for it to work, so it isn't effective in all circumstances. **Fragment Personality:** While its personality is not strong or loud, Aura's microphone most possesses the attributes of "Attention-seeking" and "Selfishness." It desires attention above all else and gets jealous of other instruments quite easily. **Fragment Influence:** Aura does not use her instrument nearly as much as many other students, so its influence is quite minor, but will take hold when she sings under pressure (IE during a large battle.) Aurelie will become stubborn and barely capable of recognizing people other than herself. She will sing or fight to the point of absolute exhaustion, often until she passes out from the strain, simply because she feels the need to try her absolute hardest, regardless of the safety or danger of others. She will not listen to the advice of others, concentrating entirely on her own voice and any telepathic thoughts that are passing through her brain. **Personality:** *Will show IC, though you probably get it already.* **Biography:** Orphaned at birth, Aurelie was taken in by a rather shady orphanage and raised in that environment until age seven, when the oprhanage burned down due to 'mysterious causes.' At an age that she can hardly even remember now, she was exiled to the streets. It was at that point that she awakened to her essence ability, and became able to adapt to many situations, maturing faster than other children her age. For five years, she survived off of what she could steal, or buy by doing odd jobs (both dirty and clean) as well as the goodwill of others around her. At age thirteen, already tired of her current life, Aurelie took the opportunity to go back to the spot where the remains of her old orphanage stood, untouched still. Everything was just as she remembered, save for one addition: The corpse of a lone warrior, forgotten by time, and completely foreign to Aura. He was withered and clearly long-deceased, but to her, the man seemed somehow noble. His only possession lay beside him. A sword with an insignia that Aura did not recognize. She took this sword in remembrance of this solitary man, and imagined herself to be taking up the duty of a noble hero, like this man surely was. For the remainder of her time before getting scouted into Master Melody's Academy, Aura spent her days studying any material she could get her hands on, no matter the subject matter. On her 16th birthday, she received notice that she had been recruited into the Academy, and set off eagerly for her newfound destiny.