Hello there! Sorry for the bit of delay. I'm Lorelle. Pleasure to meet you all, and all that. :D I have another student to throw into the chaos.


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[b]Name:[/b] Tobias (Toby) Schippers

[b]Primary:[/b] Runes
[b]Secondaries of Interest:[/b] Healing, Familiar Summoning

[b] Description:[/b] Tall, but stick-skinny. 18 years old. Cute, but the way an injured puppy is cute. Wavy mouse-brown hair, big eyes, perpetually concerned eyebrows, and dimples. Wears rectangle-rim glasses and a lot of argyle sweatervests.

[b]Personality:[/b] Mild-mannered and polite. Loves literature. His notable block-stutter often makes him seem nervous and unsure--and at any given moment, let's be honest, he probably is nervous and unsure. Between his age, his demeanor, and his appearance, Toby isn't exactly an imposing human being.
    
[b]Skills:[/b] Proficient in his self-taught memorization and application of runes. If he lacks depth in certain combative uses, he more than makes up for with an already formidable breadth of knowledge. His utterly harmless favorite Familiar is less than frightening (and in fact looks suspiciously like the demented but sweet offspring of a sugarglider and a chickadee) but Toby has a gift for unsummoning and resummoning repeated Familiars. And not all of them are cute or harmless. He enjoys shooting, and is not a bad shot...in a calm, controlled shooting range with stationary targets.

[b]Weaknesses:[/b] Toby has no real combat experience, or much social experience in the magical world, for that matter. As mentioned, he's scrawny and his speech impediment is a hinder to his communication.


[b]Brief History:[/b] Toby's mother was grafted in from the powerful terramancy family, the Fox family..which used to be something to be proud of, before Matthew and Morgana Fox's had to go become well-known cultists. His father's line, the Schippers family, is known to be a bit of a mixed bag. A few outstandingly gifted rune-casting sorcerers dot an otherwise underwhelming and dilluted family tree. And for as many bright lights, there are black marks--it seems no generation of Schippers can avoid at a criminal lowlife or two.

Toby's father didn't do much to nullify that point of view, as he skipped out on them when Toby was five. His mother later developed an aggressive cancer that even magic could not fix. Four years ago, when Toby was fourteen, she passed away, and Spire, Toby's much older brother, became Toby's legal guardian.

[color=lightgray]Note: The most recent scandal involved Spire, who was a member of an expert team of operatives during the war. About 15 years ago, near the end of the war, Spire was arrested for murdering three innocents while attacking a den of cultists. (He claimed that the cultists had already cut the victims' throats when he shot up the room, but some members of Spire's unit claimed that Spire himself did the throat cutting, after the shooting occurred.) Since the gunshot wounds and the fatal exsanguinating cuts were all perimortem, the physical evidence was indeterminate, and the key witness, Ren Norrevinter, was conveniently killed in the war shortly before the trial. The charges didn't stick. Spire was exonerated, but the Schippers family name took another blow. The magical community knows the name "Spire Schippers."  Most people who haven't met Spire believe him to be a sociopathic murderer. Most people who have met Spire...still believe him to be a sociopathic murderer. Toby's earliest memories of his older brother are through bars and in tribunals. In spite of all that, Spire has shown himself to be protective and surprisingly close with his little brother. [/color]

Other:
For a few years, Toby had foster siblings, his cousins: Cyrus and Dinah Fox, but they were passed along when his mother became ill.

Toby is  familiar with Maeve Byrne, one of the few members of Spire's old team who didn't renounce his association, and whom he views in a capacity not unlike a crazy aunt.

Toby and Spire have more or less kept away from the magical community for the last few years, with Toby attending an ordinary high school.