[list][*][b][u]Name:[/u][/b] Abe Ai [*][b][u]Age:[/u][/b] 22 [*][b][u]Appearance:[/u][/b] [url=http://i.imgur.com/DUGmxGQ.png]She doesn't look like you'd EXPECT a magus to look.[/url] [*][b][u]Personality:[/u][/b] Despite her long and illustrious family history and the pressures bought about by magecraft in any form, Ai has retained a sunny and flirtatious disposition. Yet it's not wise to write her off as a magus--like any other, she has pride in her abilities, and her ego regarding her family line can be quite overbearing when it's challenged. She also has no compunctions against resorting to the violent approach if that should simplify things--truly at odds with her attitude. [*][b][u]Abilities:[/u][/b] Naturally, as an innately talented mage, Ai has a grasp of the 'universal' basics including Reinforcement, but her focuses aside from that veer sharply away from Western forms of magic from that point. Naturally, given her famous ancestor, Ai focuses on onmyoudo, assuming an extremely orthodox approach to the discipline but also a wide depth of knowledge. She's capable of establishing bounded fields, using divination mechanisms to gather information, and exorcise spirits. The abilities she has a far deeper interest in are those related to curses and shikigami--to the extent that, were one to approach her at home, she has dozens of the latter around. Only two accompany her at this particular juncture, made from a pair of songbirds and treated like disposable tools. One is nothing more than a means to accomplish reconnaissance and relay its findings back to Ai. The other has the ability to manifest a "Curse of Nature". Simply, the curse forces that in contact with to be forced back towards a state governed only by the World and not magecraft. Therefore, the bird can weaken stronger spells in sacrificing itself, or outright nullify weak ones. The curse itself, as Ai is aware, is derived from an alternative attempt to allow omnyoudo to work against those things that normal exorcisms cannot, yet is generally considered a failure because of the difficulty of setting it up with sufficient power to counter older mysteries or more powerful spells--and woven through a bounded field, it would nullify the caster as well. [*][b][u]History:[/u][/b] Ai is descended from the famed Abe no Seimei, though the true line of descent has been lost to the public after the influence of Onmyodo on the Imperial Court waned, though her family still found itself involved in common politics up until the end of the Shogunate. A consequence is having a still-considerable amount of wealth and minimal desire to hide away in secret, with her father and younger brother both publicly working in shrines... though of course using no true magecraft in a way that would be detected. With Ai herself devoted to the study of magecraft, it was natural that she would be the one free to answer the Wizard-Marshall's summons. Fortunate, too, as she is [i]far[/i] better than her sibling.[/list]