[hider=Character Sheet] [b]Name:[/b] Michael Asterea [b]Age:[/b] 34 [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Appearance:[/b] Standing at a height of 6'4, Michael is what you would expect if you look at the genetics of his family, as he is relatively the same height as his siblings. Often disliking how far it is to reach his shoes, he has a tendency to double knot his laces and pushing aside his blonde hair once he gets back up but it is a minor thing. Sporting a rather muscular and broad frame from his hobby of traveling around the world, making his body size quite imposing to some people. Having piercing green eyes that don't help but reinforce his intimidating presence as he unintentionally stares you down. He prefers to have a business casual look to him most of the time, which he likes to wear sweaters or if going with a more casual look, jackets. [b]Personality:[/b] Michael is quite an interesting individual who has more that what seems to the eye, being quite a studious person but doesn't simply want to give out what he knows. Trying to have a disinterest in things is because of the effort that it would take for him to accomplish it if he would to intrude. He is a completely two-faced individual who tries to take care of the mask that he wears on for people around him. Holding the foundation of his persona that he has for such a long time that it has become natural for himself to simply just become what he was pretending to be. Having a serious personality and straight to the point, he isn't afraid to be direct if the situation calls for it. Being interestingly competitive when the right circumstances fall around, if you hit the right spots and triggered the correct events in order you might, just might crack that mask of his that he wears. Having an interest in finding things which can sate his hunger for not knowledge but adrenaline and fun, being quite the thrill seeker which can surprise people. [b]Brief Backstory:[/b] The Asterea family is a family of ordinary Magi who are neither underachievers nor overachievers, but of course there are exceptions. Sometimes there are those who stand out in the family, like someone who possesses two elements, a general good magus or the occasional flunkie. Michael was considered to be the latter of the options as someone in the family who underachieved and was lacking in everything to become a Magus. Showing little skills in magecraft, despite the amount of magic circuits, it was clearly a waste from his relative’s perspective. However, he showed them wrong when he was capable of beating his peers when sparring with them easily, overwhelming them with physical prowess. Despite his combative abilities, he was still looked down upon from his lack of skill what they considered was true ‘magecraft’. Still, he ignored them and continued working on himself, driving himself to best them and in general show that he was capable of overcoming his lacking skills. Working on himself as he improved under the pressure of his emotions and competitiveness as he aceled to new heights. Eventually joining the Mage’s Association as a student for while his general lacking skills in every area, he showed great promise should he manage to get through those barricades. Eventually, he disconnected from his family entirely as he would go off his separate ways from them as too many difference widen the divide. His time in the Mage’s Association would prove to balance his uneven abilities, yet still keep his problem of being generally lacking in every area but to a lesser degree. Going back to his family, like every year which everyone attended, it was a ritual to see who was doing well and many more underlying reasons that were disguised as ‘a ‘family reunion’. Displaying his abilities once more like he did when everyone was younger, his specialty stood on a completely different level than everyone else while the divide with everything else seemed to only broaden. Still it could be said that he improved from before, yet still severely lacking in what he should have. [b]Origin and Elemental Affinity:[/b] Michael's Origin and Affinity is both 'Configure' which has resulted in his general lack of repertoire for magecraft like most magus, with his sole specialty being the singular branch of magic Reinforcement and Alteration. With his skill being beyond what would deem necessary to a generally considered unimpressive form of magecraft, he stands beyond what most could achieve even if they tried to reach him. [b]Number of Magic Circuits and Quality of Magic Circuits: [/b] Michael was born with 30 Magic Circuits that are above average quality [b]Magic Circuit Switch:[/b] A deep breath that is taken in and held before being released, it's a fairly normal activator which the flow of magical energy comes after [b]Magecraft:[/b] Michael's only notable form of magecraft is reinforcement magecraft, being able to improve the qualities of his body usually or sometimes to other objects. His unique specialty of reinforcement magecraft makes him very capable beyond what most mages know or even take the time to train for and has ascended to a different level of the skill completely. At his level of reinforcement, he easily is capable of taking down other mages even with his limited repertoire of magecraft quite easily. He also can use Alteration magecraft to change the properties of objects that he has as well to various uses but it is usually used in conjecture with Reinforcement. After his specialization, his other forms of magecraft are severely lacking in consideration to his background that they are practically nonexistent for any use. [b]Mystic Codes and Equipment:[/b] Pertus is a Mystic Code which comes in a pair, both in the shape of a handle in a cylinder shape which he can hold easily. When his magical energy is channeled through the handles, they cause a beam of energy to appear as the blades to the handle. Being literally a saber of energy solidified, it acts like a potent plasma cutter and easily cuts through solids that cannot withstand it. As its name implies, it's configured to be 5 layers of magical energy, with it's nature is intended to either pierce through objects or cut through them. By solidifying and manipulating magical energy, it works to Michael's specialty as the mystic code requires reinforcement magic to solidify the magical energy it emits. However, due to both emitting magical energy and apply reinforcement to them he can hold them both up for 7 minutes or one for 15 minutes before running dry on magical energy. [b]Skills:[/b] Michael is an fairly ordinary looking person to those who don't know the life that hides underneath the curtains. Being a fairly charming person to be around with a tinge of quirkiness to add onto it, he in general he has mostly friends and some enemies. He is fairly an athletic person because he's an athlete, practicing several martial arts like judo, wrestling and finally boxing. While also dabbling in some ordinary sports like soccer and track during his free time with some friends. He is also fairly proficient with using a sword surprisingly, putting his apparent skill in it as 'luck' but clearly shows otherwise when playing around with brooms. [/hider] Hopefully he isn't too mundane, I don't want this to be Fate/School Days with ordinary and clueless masters (that would be very interesting to see however) but we have to have some of that crazy fate/strange stuff in a Holy Grail War.