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[b]Name: [/b]Calico

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[b]Apparent Age: [/b]Frequently assumed to be in her teens, and is therefore often treated as such. In reality, she’s in her early twenties.

[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Nation: [/b]Grado

[b]Class: [/b]Shaman

[b]Weapon Mastery: [/b]D

[b]Level: [/b]2

[b]Background: [/b]Everyone in Calico’s family has been in the service industry. Her mother, Camilia, is a maid. Her father, Klaus, is a butler. Heck, even her younger brother Kiel works as a stable boy at the palace. Calico knows what an honor it is to have a position as a serving girl in the palace, but she’s been working at the palace for as long as she can remember, and honestly? She’s never been particularly assertive, but she dreams of a life where she doesn’t have to curtsey to everyone she passes in the hallway.

As a young girl, Calico was considerably more headstrong, often sneaking out of the palace at night to meet with her best friend: Aiden, the gardener’s son. However, one night, they ran into a thief attempting to steal a rather expensive bust of Emperor Rioga. They rather foolishly attempted to intervene, but since both of them lacked any combat experience whatsoever, they were pretty much useless. By the end of the encounter, Aiden was badly wounded, and a guard (named Vincent) who had come running when he heard the commotion was killed in the scuffle. Traumatised by the experience, Calico quickly withdrew from Aiden’s company and became extremely wary of danger. Despite this, she still secretly longs for adventure.

After experiencing complete helplessness at the hands of the thief, Calico quickly developed an interest in dark magic and shamanism. With the help of the expansive castle library, she began to practice magic in secret. Though she never really spoke to Aiden again, with the confidence that her newfound magical abilities gave her, she quickly began to excel at her job… until Jehanna invaded Grado, of course.

[b]Plot-Susceptive:[/b] Yes!

[b]Equipment and Items:[/b]
Flux (x1)
Vulnerary (x1)

[b]Personality:[/b] Despite her tendency to be slightly reserved, Calico is generally a friendly and cheerful person. Growing up as a servant girl, Calico has been raised to strongly respect any kind of nobility or royalty. She is extremely cautious in almost every aspect of her life, and tends to play it safe more often than not. She would much rather kill off an enemy from far away than engage in actual, direct combat, for example, and tends to shy away from making any kind of confrontation in her personal life.

[b]Ability Assessment:[/b] In terms of stats, Calico is heavily magic and defense based. As a very cautious person, Calico hates to take risks and therefore strives to minimize the damage that she takes. She has very mediocre speed: as a fairly unathletic person, while she’s not afraid to move quickly, the fact of the matter is that she simply does not run very fast. Her physical strength is appalling, and her clumsiness means that her skill stat is also kind of pathetic. For these reasons, she tends to rely on tomes, and won’t even consider using anything else. She very much prefers attacking from a distance (or at least while standing behind someone else), because she’s a little afraid of direct combat, but she’ll do it if she has to. Maybe.

[b]Quirks/Talents/Aspirations/Other:[/b]
-	Despite being a serving girl, she’s actually incredibly clumsy. How does she avoid spilling things on people? Some very cleverly used dark magic, of course.
-	She's terrified of chickens. Once, in her younger days, she and Aiden snuck into a farm with the intention of seeing a newborn cow. However, they were attacked by a particularly fierce hen, and were forced to flee.
-	Calico is strangely stoic in the face of all manner of evil spirits, black magic and insects. However, this is perhaps slightly less surprising when one considers the fact that she’s a secretly practicing shaman. It’s impossible to freak her out with a ghost story, unless it involves chickens.
-	She can't sing to save her life. In fact, her singing is rumoured to sound like the dying wails of a thousand tortured souls.

[b]R-button Summarization: [/b]A friendly young serving girl from Grado with a secret fondness for dark magic.
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