Name: Mairead Draigen
Nickname: The Rose's Thorn
Age: 18
School year: Third
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Nationality: Ireland
Personality: Mairead is a tough girl. She doesn't like to lose and only barely tolerates competition. But she does know how to have fun and is often engaging herself in practical jokes and sarcasm. She is approachable but very closed off about what she is really thinking and feeling, which has the tendency to make some people think she's cold. She is very intelligent and spends conversations figuring out how to both attack and defend herself from whoever she is talking to, physically or verbally. She is rather witty and can come up with a solid one liner at a moments notice. Most of her words are laced with sarcasm which just makes it that much harder for people to really know what she's thinking. She can make friends easily but only a select few of her friends get close enough to begin to understand her. Most of the time she is quiet but has a small smirk on her face practically constantly.
She only shows really genuine emotion when she is around animals, which she loves dearly, especially dogs. She spends her free time writing in a journal that she never lets anybody read and listening to music. She is barely musical, she can sing on pitch and play the piano a little but that's pretty much it. She's never had a relationship, as far as anybody knows anyway, and likes rainy days in the summer because it reminds her of Ireland. Whenever she's asked about Ireland she goes into a nostalgic trance and starts talking about how wonderful Ireland is and how much she loves it. Her accent isn't that thick but it adds a lilting quality to her contralto voice that most people find quite pleasing to listen to.
Bio: Mairead comes from an ancient Irish family, dating back to the time of the Romans, that has always been connected to the blackthorn plant, as the name Draigen means blackthorn in Gaelic, with local legends surrounding the Elizabethan Draigen Witches. Mairead grew up on a small farm in the Irish countryside with her parents and her three brothers, one younger than her and two older. She never was able to sit still and often wandered across the fields and hills around her home for hours, searching for flowers and plants, particularly hunting blackthorn vines. For the most part her life was just fine until soon after her eleventh birthday when her little brother Seon was hit by a car. Seon spent the next four months in a coma before he finally died. Seon's death hit Mairead hard, she and her brother were nearly inseparable, and for a long time she didn't do anything besides sit in Seon's old room and miss him. Finally her grief gave way to anger and that was when she discovered her abilities. It took her a few years to learn to control them but once she did, she was nearly unstoppable in a fight with her older brothers. Her parents were very concerned for Mairead and afraid for their other son's lives sometimes so when she was invited to Riddle Academy they thought that letting her go would help her get over her little brother's death.
Weapon: Mairead uses two small daggers with Celtic engravings on the blade and small emeralds in the hilts.
Equipment: A small set of lockpicks, a thin cable with a hook on the end, and a flashlight screwdriver
Skills: Very flexible, agile, reads books quickly, is good at reading people, and is surprisingly strong
Ability: She can make thorny vines grow anywhere she wants to and then make them recede at will. It takes a lot of effort so if the plants have to break through rock it will take more time and leave her more drained afterwards. Sometimes the vines will have flowers or berries among the thorns depending on the season. Because Mairead is the one who summons the vines, she can control where the thorns are so she can grab the vines without getting hurt.
Nickname: The Rose's Thorn
Age: 18
School year: Third
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Nationality: Ireland
Personality: Mairead is a tough girl. She doesn't like to lose and only barely tolerates competition. But she does know how to have fun and is often engaging herself in practical jokes and sarcasm. She is approachable but very closed off about what she is really thinking and feeling, which has the tendency to make some people think she's cold. She is very intelligent and spends conversations figuring out how to both attack and defend herself from whoever she is talking to, physically or verbally. She is rather witty and can come up with a solid one liner at a moments notice. Most of her words are laced with sarcasm which just makes it that much harder for people to really know what she's thinking. She can make friends easily but only a select few of her friends get close enough to begin to understand her. Most of the time she is quiet but has a small smirk on her face practically constantly.
She only shows really genuine emotion when she is around animals, which she loves dearly, especially dogs. She spends her free time writing in a journal that she never lets anybody read and listening to music. She is barely musical, she can sing on pitch and play the piano a little but that's pretty much it. She's never had a relationship, as far as anybody knows anyway, and likes rainy days in the summer because it reminds her of Ireland. Whenever she's asked about Ireland she goes into a nostalgic trance and starts talking about how wonderful Ireland is and how much she loves it. Her accent isn't that thick but it adds a lilting quality to her contralto voice that most people find quite pleasing to listen to.
Bio: Mairead comes from an ancient Irish family, dating back to the time of the Romans, that has always been connected to the blackthorn plant, as the name Draigen means blackthorn in Gaelic, with local legends surrounding the Elizabethan Draigen Witches. Mairead grew up on a small farm in the Irish countryside with her parents and her three brothers, one younger than her and two older. She never was able to sit still and often wandered across the fields and hills around her home for hours, searching for flowers and plants, particularly hunting blackthorn vines. For the most part her life was just fine until soon after her eleventh birthday when her little brother Seon was hit by a car. Seon spent the next four months in a coma before he finally died. Seon's death hit Mairead hard, she and her brother were nearly inseparable, and for a long time she didn't do anything besides sit in Seon's old room and miss him. Finally her grief gave way to anger and that was when she discovered her abilities. It took her a few years to learn to control them but once she did, she was nearly unstoppable in a fight with her older brothers. Her parents were very concerned for Mairead and afraid for their other son's lives sometimes so when she was invited to Riddle Academy they thought that letting her go would help her get over her little brother's death.
Weapon: Mairead uses two small daggers with Celtic engravings on the blade and small emeralds in the hilts.
Equipment: A small set of lockpicks, a thin cable with a hook on the end, and a flashlight screwdriver
Skills: Very flexible, agile, reads books quickly, is good at reading people, and is surprisingly strong
Ability: She can make thorny vines grow anywhere she wants to and then make them recede at will. It takes a lot of effort so if the plants have to break through rock it will take more time and leave her more drained afterwards. Sometimes the vines will have flowers or berries among the thorns depending on the season. Because Mairead is the one who summons the vines, she can control where the thorns are so she can grab the vines without getting hurt.