[@Rai] My new Character: [hider= Pia and Aemilius] [center][h3][i][color=a2d39c]"He calls me a survivor, but I don't really know why."[/color][/i][/h3] [img]http://1.viki.io/d/4320c/bc9c76b95e.png[/img] [img]https://static.tumblr.com/c14d9bc988bc33b3da52bb77c8aad0e1/nsg95cv/a2Mna9fnf/tumblr_static_a4esibvr8y04ck0k0gs4wg8w0.jpg[/img] [img]http://1.viki.io/d/4320c/bc9c76b95e.png[/img][/center] [color=a2d39c][b]Name: [/b][/color] Pia Jay Sindile, child of the Dragon Aemilius Kimball. [color=a2d39c][b]Age: [/b][/color] 10 [color=a2d39c][b]Blood%: [/b][/color] 80% Tyro, 20% Nayu [color=a2d39c][b]Gender: [/b][/color] Female [color=a2d39c][b]Sex Preference: [/b][/color] Asexual [color=a2d39c][b]Height: [/b][/color] 4'6" [color=a2d39c][b]Weight: [/b][/color] About 65 lbs [color=a2d39c][b]Physical appearance: [/b][/color] Age younger than 5: See picture above. [hider= Age 5-12:][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/316708219299037185/317027553707687937/65283333a3966ea90ae30983db476762.jpg[/img][/hider][hider= Age 13-20:][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ff/de/d7/ffded7d6d1b81507763a6697f52ee823.jpg[/img][/hider][hider= Age 20-30:][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/95/62/cd/9562cdb950153eeeb206f15785519588.jpg[/img][/hider] [center][img]http://1.viki.io/d/4320c/bc9c76b95e.png[/img][/center] [color=a2d39c][b]Personality: [/b][/color] Pia is curious and adventurous but also still cautious of the world as a whole. She is energetic and playful, caring and empathetic towards others, and loves to spend time outdoors exploring or inside reading a new book. She will talk to anyone who's friendly enough to chat, though she may not trust so easily. Aemilius likes to compare her to a bird: always ready to take flight. [color=a2d39c][b]Faction: [/b][/color] None [color=a2d39c][b]Pet: [/b][/color] If you asked her she'd say Aemilius, but not really. :rollin She gets along well with the little draconic creatures she's met, but none of them stick around for very long. Neither she nor Aemilius have any real desire to keep a pet. [color=a2d39c][b]Exp: [/b][/color] In terms of school subjects: Aemilius taught her to read and write, and has started trying to teach her more complex things like maths and magic, but so far Pia seems to be a bookworm determined to read all she can, and avoids doing that which she finds difficult (magic) or that which she simply dislikes (math). From books she's read she has various knowledge of the world around her, such as geography and facts about the plants and animals of different areas she's read about, or the histories of any of these areas as well. Aemilius doesn't like talking about the past with her, but does encourage her curiosity and supplies her with whatever books he's can on subjects she asks about. Aemilius' lair may not be a great library, but his book collection is fair. In terms of magical ability and use of powers: Aside from the two spells Aemilius has managed to teach her, Pia has had trouble keeping her soul's power under control. She can use each of her abilities granted to her by her blood, but the skill and consistency of which she uses them is highly erratic. The only one she has entirely under control is her night vision, which is passive in the first place. In terms of fighting ability: Considering the fact that Pia is a little girl, she's not going to do very well in a fight. Not to mention that Aemilius doesn't want to train her in any weapons (more due to the fact that he's a pacifist than anything) but also because he wouldn't know how to train her either. He himself only ever learned unarmed defensive techniques, and that was in his Dragon form. Pia carries a small sword but doesn't know how to use it past "swish swish stab". [color=a2d39c][b]Spells: [/b][/color] [color=696969][i]Rex Chronos[/i] - This spell's name means "King of Time" -which fits what it does quite well. Pia can alter time around herself in a very specific way: She can make herself appear however old she wishes, by aging and de-aging herself along her current timeline. The effect only lasts for a day at most, and she needs a day of rest before she can do it again. Returning to her normal age is not a part of the spell and takes no energy to do- she will automatically revert to normal if she falls unconscious or dies while the spell was in effect. The "current timeline" part is what trips most people up when she tries to explain it. Choices she makes and events that happen will affect her current and older self in different ways; For example if she were to be cut right now, and then age herself up a few years, she would have a scar where the cut was [u]because that aged-up version's timeline is a direct continuation of her current self[/u]; but if she'd aged herself up a few minutes ago she wouldn't have a scar [u]because the cut didn't happen in [i]that[/i] aged-up version's timeline[/u]. If she were to age up before the cut happened and then age down to her true age, the cut wouldn't be there anymore and wouldn't show up later either [u]because she's not in the same timeline as the aged-up version of herself that got cut[/u]. The age-down part is less confusing, because timelines are more solid in that direction. If Pia was cut and aged down, the cut would vanish until she returned to her true age, when it would then re-appear [u]because it happened in her timeline before the point she's returning to[/u]. If Pia was aged down and got cut before returning to her true age, there would be a scar where the cut was because [u]Pia's past is always a part of her current timeline[/u]. If Pia is killed, she automatically reverts to her true age, and the death is irreversible no matter if she was aged up or down from her true age when the killing blow was dealt.[/color] [color=000000][i]Majestatis[/i] - This spell's name means "Majesty" -which has nothing to do with what it does. It is a spell that sets things on fire randomly (Because Pia can't control it all that well yet). Pia has even set herself ablaze with it before. Luckily, they are normal flames that can be put out with water or controlled by anyone with the ability to control flames.[/color] [color=a2d39c][b]Abilities/Powers: [/b][/color][list] [*] Thermal energy manipulation & Conjuration [*] Fire manipulation [*] Adrenaline boost [*] Heat detection [*] Fire breath [*] Heat resistance [*] Hot blood [*] Night vision [*] She's cold blooded and requires warmth - extreme cold is her bane. Cold damages her stamina and could potentially lock up her muscles. Eventually, after long exposure the cold will force her to sleep. [*] Her body can turn hot and overheat quickly - too much activity can cause her to go into a paralyses from exertion.[/list] [color=a2d39c][b]Weapons: [/b][/color] An old sword given to her by Aemilius, the [i]Mírage Blade[/i] which used to belong to him before the Dragon wars. It changes shape depending on the person who wields it, becoming a mirror of their personality. Otherwise it's just another, normal sword. [b]Swish swish stab![/b] [color=a2d39c][b]History: [/b][/color] [hider= Aemilius Kimball] [color=ffaaaa][sub]Aemilius is Pia's adoptive father. He's an NPC, but plays an important role in Pia's life and story. His history is a part of hers.[/sub][/color] Aemilius is ancient, older than pretty much every other dragon we've met so far. As a Dragon God he represented Family and Faithfulness, but once the Dragon war broke out he left the world to its own devices- preferring not to pick a side due to his pacifist nature. He went into the mountains of northern Gaia and has remained there ever since. He didn't avoid people or panic when anyone came to find him: he likes visitors. In fact, there was a town in his territory where the people from there come to visit him regularly. They talked to him about the past, debated with him over all sorts of things, asked his opinion for help making decisions, and generally just spent time with him. He's not sure why this town never just forgot about him, but he didn't exactly mind that they hadn't. One day though, about 7 years ago, the people stopped visiting him for a time. For a month, his life was quiet, and he soon realized that he was getting lonely. He normally didn't go to the town himself, but after so long without a peep from them he began to worry. The town was empty when he got there. No one remained- at least, no one living did. Even the livestock had all been killed. The town looked as if everyone had just dropped what they were doing and went out into the street. There were no bodies in the homes, only out in the fields and road, but there were meals on tables and fireplaces ready to be lit as Aemilius investigated. On the third day after his discovery of the slaughter, he realized another strange thing: Only the men and women of the village were there. There wasn't a single child's body anywhere to be seen. It didn't register for him at first because he never had any children come visit him, but in a village like this there should have been a few at least, right? He later found some tracks at the far edge of town that led into the forest: a small hoard of tiny people (children, he now realized) being led by two pairs of adult footprints. He followed the trail as far as he could, until it faded away on the rocky soil, and started trying to track them by scent from there. Not too much later, he met Pia. There were no other people nearby, not even the scent of anyone else was left anymore. Pia was alone, standing on a fallen tree until she saw him and fell off in shock. He had forgotten before he approached that he might be frightening to children like her. She was okay, and stood back up a moment later to peer at him from over the side of the tree. Intent on not scaring her again, Aemilius lay down on the ground where he was, far enough away from her that hopefully she wouldn't be uncomfortable as he watched her. Her curiosity seemed to win out over any fear she may have had though, because a few seconds later she was walking up to him. She was very young, and when he asked her what her name was, she didn't say anything. Later, she'd tell him that it was "sweetheart", but that was just what her parents had called her so often that she didn't know her own name. Aemilius transformed into his humanoid form and got her to follow him back to the village, until he realised that with no one else there except for bodies, that would be a very bad place for the child. So, instead he took her up the mountain to his lair, and from that point on he's been caring for her as if she was his own child. He named her Pia Jay Sindile, but calls her "Piaget" (pronounced pia-jay) as a nickname. Sindile means "Survivor", and Piaget means "Little One".[/hider] Pia has lived with Aemilius for almost as long as she can remember. Her only clear memory from before she met the Dragon: The night [u]they[/u] stole her and the other children away. A man wearing a black, hooded robe and a woman with piercing blue eyes that looked like they glowed in the moonlight. They came to her house and took her while she and her parents were asleep, and did the same with all the other kids in town. They'd never see their village again. Most of the others were older than her; she remembered being afraid to talk to them because of that. The man and the woman led them into the forest, and away away away from town. They made all the children stand in a circle, and then everything went white. When Pia woke up it was daytime again, and she was all alone in the forest, laying on top of a fallen tree. She's never told Aemilius about this. She's not sure how long before he found her it all happened. [color=a2d39c][b]Trivia: [/b][/color] Likes: The color purple, like the sky at twilight. Birds. Reading. Dislikes: Math, magic, fighting, and large bodies of water. Fears: Drowning, being trapped in a room full of strangers, or being lost in large crowds. Deepest Desire: To find out the truth about that night, what really happened. To find the man in the dark robe, and the woman with the bright blue eyes. [/hider] Pia is the character, Aemilius is an NPC