[CHAR] Arc Academy

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Kenric

Name: Kenric
Age: 18
Species: Human-Demon Halfling
Gender: Male
Element: Wood

Personality: Spacey and inattentive, Kenric does not appear to be a hard worker at first glance. And for the most part, he isn't. But when it comes to things Kenric excels in, his determination multiplies a hundred fold. Kenric is unnecessarily blunt and does not care what people think of it or how they react. He is not intentionally mean, he just says whatever he feels. Though Kenric comes off as lazy and serious at times, he is not generally "unhappy". He does smile and laugh, but often at inappropriate times or jokes others don't find funny. Kenric does not try to bond with others, but once he does he is fiercely loyal. Not that he is patient, but Kenric does not anger easily. It takes a lot to offend him, as words mean little to him. Actions define everything.

Appearance:

Hider

Level: Level 1

Abilities: Being half demon, Kenric possesses a naturally enhanced endurance and strength despite having no proper training. His body can survive attacks most humans could not, but it is agility that keeps him on his feet and in the fight. Using his reflexes and small stature, Kenric can dodge blows easily.

Upon joining The Academy, Kenric wishes to focus on more qi based techniques and striking from a distance, as he already has a natural endurance and agility. Learning to properly wield a sword would also help greatly.

Equipment:
Serenity- This sword was discovered by Kenric, stuck in the rock of a remote mountain. He had learned of its location from a martial arts master, and knowing its special ability he was willing to climb the dangerous mountain and retrieve it, despite the legend saying no one was strong enough to remove it should they even survive the jagged mountain and find it. Serenity has the ability to show its holder the direction of what they most desire, lighting up the blue stone engraved into its metal core. To work however, one must be clear in their mind and absolutely focused on what they desire most, calm and serene. Kenric has only used the blade to locate one thing.

Hider

Ultor, The Blade Of The Behemoth- A sword left behind from his mother. He has not used the blade and is unaware of any curses or effects the blade may have.

Hider

Academy Role: Associate; Seeking to be a Guard (for hire) or an Explorer
Background: Born from a human father and a demon mother, Kenric is a halfling. Aside from his crimson red eyes he appears to be a normal human. Anyone who can see auras however, will notice that his has its own distinct flow and color. A trained eye will notice he is not fully human. Having demon blood in his veins makes Kenric naturally disposed to qi manipulation, and so he must receive proper training in order to balance his flow. Otherwise he is simply a walking target with his fiery aura, unable to defend himself. Following advice left from his mother, he questioned an old martial arts master on teachings. The man immediately recognized what Kenric was, and knowing he could not rise to the task at hand instead directed Kenric towards an ancient blade. This blade had the ability to light its holder's way to whatever it is they desired most. The master also told Kenric of something called The Academy. With this knowledge, and eventually the blade called Serenity, Kenric set out to find The Arc Academy and reach his full potential; and make some-kind of-a lot of money.
Extra: Serenity and Ultor are usually safe and secured to Kenric's back. He rarely takes them off and never has them out of sight. In combat he will draw Serenity when advantageous to do so, but he wishes to learn how to rely on his bare hands and power.

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PN61A/The Spectacular and Oh-so-Glorious Gretchen Primrose

Name: PN61A - The Spectacular and Oh-so-Glorious Gretchen Primrose
Age: 14
Species: Cyborg
Gender: Metal
Primary Qi: Metal
Personality: The PN61A is a bundle of childish wonder wrapped around in a deadpan exterior. The Spectacular and Oh-so-Glorious Gretchen Primrose is an individual full of curiosity and vivaciousness. With a stubborn and showy pride that is oddly robotic, she seeks to prove how great she is.

Appearance

Level: 1

Abilities: Such a spectacular and oh so magical being of machinery must have a bag full of tricks! Her most commonly mighty practices involve hitting people with a hefty staff, and launching her robotic hand a short distance out to drag others for a beating with the staff, or just punching with the hand. The machinery has been built to code and as such is stronger than flesh, in both endurance and smacking things.

At Arc Academy PN61A plans on repairing some faulty parts in her Witch's Hat so that she can once again use its buzz-saw functions. She also plans on upgrading her Witch's Staff so she can charge it up with energy for explosive strikes.

Equipment: Witch's Hat with Robotic Parts (on the fritz)
Witch Staff
Mechanical Body

Academy Role: Associate; Future Conservationist

Background: The life of PN61A began in an underground laboratory on an operating table. From the near lifeless body of some little girl arose a new cyborg that lived ALL THANKS TO SCIENCE! Or QI. OR SCIENCE QI! Anyhow the first thing PN61A noticed upon awakening from the table was a woman in a lab coat cackling about life and then hugged PN61A. That figure was the mysterious and brilliant freelance-scientist Iris Primrose. The pair bonded over a variety of subjects, most notably the idea of witchcraft through all sorts of genres, as the scientist began to raise the newly named Gretchen Primrose.

One day Scientist Primrose took Gretchen out to a circus, where they spotted a figure leaping over a building. The Spectacular and Oh-so-Glorious Gretchen Primrose inquired into how this could be done and decided to sneak away from the scientist. She managed to find the man, and after holding onto his clothes for a good few minutes as he tried to shake her of, he confessed that there was an Academy that taught him how to do the things she witnessed.

Knowing that she would be the super-duper best at this academy, The Spectacular and Oh-so-Glorious Gretchen Primrose went off on a journey pestering countless amount of people. Sometimes she just asked them, sometimes she smacked them with a staff, other times she'd act cutely, other times she'd act like a brat, but no matter how she decided to go about getting the information she was determined to gather it. And after many, many, many failures of gaining information she eventually managed to find out where this place was and when it would be in session. Knowing these facts, PN61A went off to become even greater and show the people there how great she is.

Extra: Interestingly her body is forty-percent scrap metal! She keeps a small pink handheld device on her that has a digital pet she claims is her witch familiar.

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Roxy

Name: Roxy

Age: 14

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Personality: Roxy is very energetic, highly motivated, idealistic and has an optimism that is infectious. She's also stubborn, scrappy, impulsive, simple minded, naive and a bit of a brat

Her optimistic nature developed from her parents, who were very poor and always struggled to get by but always found a way to manage doing so. Through this she was taught that when you're handed a bad situation you don't have to lie down and take it, and has made it her goal in life to become successful at something in order to make money so she can help her parents and give them an easier life. All this makes her quite positive and optimistic, which is not something that you'd expect from a person like her

Her bratty, impulsive nature originates from the environment she grew up in. Living in a sketchy neighborhood full of thugs and bullies molded her into a rough and tough girl that is no stranger to a fight. When the bullies picked on her, she would take it as a challenge and stood up for herself physically. This lead to her becoming a little stubborn and easily frustrated when something got in her way that she couldn't deal with. She is also not one for rules and regulations, often seeing them as barriers to letting people achieve their goals, and will usually actively go against a rule that she sees as pointless and unnecessary

Roxy is the dictionary definition of book dumb but street smart. Partly due to her poor school experience, she is very slow to understand complex things like math and science, and is easily confused and dumbfounded when presented with those types of things. This, combined with her tendency to be somewhat spacey and empty headed at times, gives her the appearance of being an idiot. However, Roxy can also be a great practical thinker sometimes and can often come up with a simple but clever solution to a problem that no one else thought of but seem obvious in retrospect

Appearance: Roxy is slightly shorter than an average girl her age, reaching around 4'8, and has a thin, athletic build. She has short, light red hair which is unstyled, messy and constantly in her face, as well as a line of freckles scattered across her cheeks and nose. Obviously not one to care about fashions, Roxy wears very basic clothing. Her common attire is a red zip up hoodie over a white tank top, along with worn out jeans

Level: Level ∞ (obviously kidding, level 1)

Abilities: Due to the environment she grew up in, Roxy is a great hand to hand combat fighter, especially for her age. She is self taught and developed her fighting style based on first hand experience and watching others as opposed to formally in a class, which makes her style very wild, unrefined and something of a mish-mash of random existing fighting styles. She also commonly uses a baseball bat as her weapon of choice

Roxy has the ability to control and produce fire from her body. She discovered this rather shortly before learning of the academy, and hasn't learned much about it yet at all. In the future, she will learn to use explosions as her main method of attack along with fire

Equipment: An aluminum baseball bat. She intended to use this bat to play baseball with friends, but ended up using it a lot more to fight off thugs and bullies

Academy Role: Associate, but wants to climb as high as she can. She's gonna become the next grandmaster!

Background: Roxy grew up in a very dangerous and bad neighborhood. Every day of hers was filled with fighting off vicious bullies that just wanted to make her feel awful, dealing with teachers that didn't give a damn about her and saw her as a hooligan, and living in a house that could just barely hold 3 people and was practically held together with paperclips and duct tape. This life, as harsh and unpleasant as it was, hardened her and taught her perseverance and determination. She learned to defend herself after getting fed up with getting beat up by bullies, and became good enough at it that she gained a bit of a reputation around school as a person not to be messed with. This, combined with the fact that she didn't really pay that much attention to her schoolwork, naturally caused her to get in trouble with her teachers on the regular

Roxy's knowledge of the Arc Academy started on one of Roxy's really bad days. On that day, her usual bullies were being particularly awful by starting to pick on the physically disabled kid in the school. Seeing this pissed off Roxy more than she thought was even possible and tried to get the bullies to stop, but they refused. This added to her anger and she decided that the bullies needed a mouthful of her fist. When she delivered the punch however a pillar of flame spewed from her fist, immediately lighting the one bully's clothes on fire and scaring him, along with the two that were with him, away from Roxy and the other kid. Roxy was relieved but at the same time completely bewildered. What in the world just happened? After a long lecture from the school principal, Roxy was about to leave the office and go home when one of the faculty members grabbed her attention. They told her they saw everything with the bullies and knew what was really going on. They explained everything about Qi, the Arc Academy and the AAAT, and told her the first step to finding it. Roxy wasn't sure if she believed them, but decided to see if they were telling the truth. A couple days later, this lead her to the first steps towards finding the AAAT

Extra: She really likes to eat a lot

Also, character theme just for fun

[Hammerman]

Miki Melbourne

Name: Miki Melbourne
Age: 18
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Personality: Bright, cheerful, playful and honest, she isn't afraid to say what she thinks to others. She can also get pretty flirtatious towards someone she's fond of.
Appearance:
Level: Level 1
Abilities: She's pretty proficient in hand-to-hand combat, specializing in kicks over punches. She uses her qi to enhance her feet, allowing her extraordinarily powerful kicks along with fast movement speed and high jump capabilities. She is still working on her qi control to achieve the effect of sending the force of her kicks from a distance without her feet actually touching the enemy. Her element is Fire.
Equipment: Just a specialized pair of shoes she's wearing that can withstand the extra force her attacks give off.
Academy Role: Associate. She hasn't decided yet what role she wants to become in the future. Probably will take the one that is most fun or interesting to her.
Background: Born in a martial artist family, she has been taught combat ever since she was little. And with her grandfather knowing about qi, he trained her in the art before sending her to the Academy both to further her horizons and to train her even further, as he believed he had nothing more to teach her.

[Solaris]

Lazarus

Name: Lazarus

Age: 18

Species: Human-Luca fusion (fire would be element)

Gender: Male

Personality: Due to living in a temple for seven years of his life, and not really have many memories of how he lived before, he is quite naïve and doesn’t know much about the world that he has been thrown into. In terms of how he acts he is pretty hyper and seemingly has endless energy. Even when he’s acting apathetic and cold, he still is somehow hyper when he acts in such a way. This causes the few people that he met on his journey thus far to view him as an idiot. That however is not the case, due to him being taught many ancient knowledges by the Sentinel, except for what the humans call qi. (knowledge of qi was kept from him while his mark was setting to prevent him from corrupting into a malignant luca, though it should be cemented in his body to a degree that would allow him to learn qi by now)

Appearance: 5’8, lean but solid. dirty blonde hair and amber eyes. Wears skate shoes jeans and a hoody. The sleeves of the hoody are rolled up showing the bandages that he dons around his hands and forearms, leaving his fingers exposed. He wears earbuds when he listens to music and has his blade holstered on a brown leather sling that hangs to his right.

appearance

Level: One

Abilities: Knows various armed and unarmed combat techniques taught to him by the sentinel. On top of that due to his lifestyle and the nature of his condition, his physical abilities are beyond that of humans in terms of strength and agility.

Equipment: Lucan seal: A mark on the back of Lazarus’s left hand that suppresses his Luca derived qi. When his luca derived qi grows stronger the mark changes in order to prevent the luca derived qi that resides within him from going haywire, allowing him to control it and prevent it from corrupting him.

binding armor

Lucan mark: Sealed away in the deepest chambers of the Sentinel’s temple. Something that no mortal should lay eyes on. Whatever it was, just like his seal it latched onto him, this time on the back of his right hand. He doesn’t know what it is, what it does and he hasn’t felt any side effects from it at all. It truly is a mysterious specimen

binding blade

Academy Role: Associate

Background: Seven years ago, a disturbance in the qi of the world occurred. A malevolent and destructive qi was emanating from a small nation in the northwest corner of the world known as Kharlot. Afterwards, a great conflict occurred in that country which resulted in its destruction. The country became a wasteland, the military was crippled and most of the civilians were killed while those who survived fled. In the weeks following the conflict, numerous rumors and conspiracies started popping up about a powerful monster being responsible for the destruction of Kharlot. However the supposed body was never found and the country was completely abandoned. Therefore the whole incident was shrouded in mystery.

At the time, Lazarus lived a fairly normal life that was shattered by the luca. He was searching for his family in the ruble. By then most of the citizens who survived had left the country. There were bodies everywhere and the smell was horrendous, but Lazarus didn’t care. He simply wanted to find his family. Then he stumbled across its remains. It was a giant and hideous monster with its chest gouged open, a strange object emanating the remnants of its aura, still powerful enough to be seen with the human eye. After that he fell into darkness and awoke in the Sentinel’s temple. It was always dark and nobody was ever around except for the Sentinel. He befriended the Sentinel and for seven years he stayed there, studying under the Sentinel in various disciplines. One day the Sentinel told the boy about a place known as the ark academy where he could learn of his fate. Soon after that the Sentinel disappeared. The boy searched the temple for him but never managed to find him. Eventually he stumbled upon that room, and upon sensing a disturbing presence he tried to leave. It was too late for him however, and once again fell into darkness and once again he woke up in an unfamiliar place, an open wheat field in an unknown land.

Extra: He has absolutely no knowledge of qi, only that there exists a place known as the arc academy, and that there, he can learn about what he has become, sort of.