[hider=Stellar "Clive" Arkadian] [center] [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5a/db/e7/5adbe74c480e0ff1b9eb2da6ca57b09d.jpg[/img] [b][color=greenyellow]Name:[/color][/b] Stellar Arkadian, introduces himself as "Clive" and only "Clive" [b][color=greenyellow]Age:[/color][/b] 17 [b][color=greenyellow]Personality:[/color][/b] On the surface Clive always looks lackadaisical and uncaring; but underneath is a complex self-acknowledgedly detrimental (relationship-wise) psychological cycle of considering and reconsidering what he does and doesn't care about. He is always reaching a conclusion, and then reconsidering it, arriving at the same solution, and reconsidering it again. Basically, he doesn't know how much he [i]really[/i] cares about a lot of the things he's supposed to care about. Stuff like his parents he's sure about. His mom is too good for him and he doesn't like his dad too much. But for stuff like his magic, he's way more uncertain. He recognizes that magic users aren't 'well accepted' by society, but he's really not sure whether not he should hide it. One one hand, the people who actively insulted those with magic were generally assholes who he shouldn't give two shits about anyway; but on the other hand, those assholes were pretty influential and he already knew his friends didn't like magic users. There were a lot of people he liked amongst his friends and he definitely doesn't like being hated by someone he likes. He defaults to uncaring, because if he does then whatever it is he really feels wouldn't matter so much. If he cared, no one else really needed to know, and if really he didn't, then that just meant the illusion would be real. [b][color=greenyellow]History:[/color][/b] Clive could probably say that his uncertainty started at birth. Stellar was the name his parents gave him but they used it so often around him he had no idea it was his name until he was about 6 years old. His father said it was to carry their wishes that he be a special boy, and he had no idea what to feel about that. He could appreciate their intention considering how normal their family was compared to their last name, but he didn't like the name awfully much either. He settled with just introducing himself to strangers as "Clive" so they wouldn't ask too many questions, but they would at some point ask something. Well, that wasn't the only big thing about Clive though. The other thing was that at about age 8, he developed a magical ability, manifesting in his eyes. Their color slowly changed over the years, so his parents only realized he'd developed it at about 12, when it became a lot more obvious. They thought he'd just had a penchant for seeing through people, even Clive himself only put two and two together when he found out people didn't normally see other people's emotions as colors. They opted to hide it, but even though eye color obscuring glasses were something you could buy, that would just make it obvious you were hiding something, so instead they opted with the "our child just has a penchant for wearing sunglasses indoors-outdoors day or night" route to make people want to ask questions, but to dissuade them from really asking questions. They received an invitation from Four Winds soon after that, when Clive reached 13, but Clive didn't feel like he needed to go. They were keeping it a secret fairly well and he thought he could just keep going like that. Fast forward 4 years later, and Clive realizes he kind of can't. His attitude made it hard to make any friends unfortunately for him. There was always too much distance, and they could feel it. So on his 17th year of life he decided to send what few friends he had a letter saying he was going to Four Winds. Whether or not he was coming back though, he'll 'see'. [b][color=greenyellow]Skills:[/color][/b] Reading the atmosphere, aided by his ability, and thinking HARD. Also quite good at the maths and sciences, anything that requires his whole attention. [b][color=greenyellow]Abilities:[/color][/b] [hider=Beholder] [b][color=greenyellow]Name:[/color][/b] Beholder [b][color=greenyellow]Type:[/color][/b] Enhancement [b][color=greenyellow]Description:[/color][/b] Beholder is an ability which enhances Clive's eyesight in various ways. The primary hallmark of this ability is the ability to 'see' magic. When magic is being cast or has been cast recently, Clive will be able to see a trail leading from the magic to the caster. The trail takes the form of colors hanging in the air, and the trail's thickness and strength depend on how strong the spell is, and how long the spell is supposed to last for respectively. Clive's eyes are also able to see the 'signature' any individual's innate magical abilities, which his mind processes using recognizable imagery to form a representation of their ability somewhere on them or around them sort of hovering in the air. Other features include being able to 'see' people's emotions as colors and automatically adapting his eyesight depending on the situation. For example, even though he's been wearing sunglasses for 5 years or so, he has always been seeing normally as if they weren't there. This ability would be termed under 'enhancement' as it enhances Clive's vision to see things which normally can't be seen, but it's not simply enhancement as the awakening of this ability placed Clive's source of magic inside his eyes. This means that, A. He can't turn his ability off, and B. If he were to ever lose them, he'd probably lose his ability for magic entirely. BUT his magic is already eye-based anyway, so it would pretty pointless to have magic ability without his eyes. He wouldn't even be able to do anything. It's not certain what would happen if he lost only one eye.[/hider] [b][color=greenyellow]Inventory:[/color][/b] Sunglasses, and 9 different flavors of chewing gum. [/center] [/hider]