[@TheHangedMan]

Heyo, here's Viola again. Made a few tiny adjustments to her magic, but its mostly the same. Do tell if there are problems of course~

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[color=a187be]"Do I know you? No, I don't think so, But do you want to play anyways? No? Waaah? You'll make a little girl cry...That's too bad...I am Viola Rifei, pleasure to make your acquaintance. Care for some tea? Ah, don't mind the floating teacups. My friends are just oh so delighted to have a new playmate~"[/color] [/center]

[b]Name:[/b]
Viola Rifei

[b]Age:[/b]
17

[b]Gender:[/b]
female

[color=a187be]"Despite my appearance, I am not a child and would appreciate it if you did treat me as one...unless you plan on spoiling me. Then go ahead, hehe~"[/color]

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Standing at four foot seven and usually sporting a slightly mischievous, somewhat knowing seeming smirk, Viola is definitely not what one would call physically impressive. Slender, and lacking any sort of definite muscle. Sometimes, she is mistaken for a child because of her appearance. Her skin is free of any blemishes and markings of any kind. Her eyes are a dark grey color and sports black colored hair that falls well past her shoulders.

Clothing wise, she is a fan of rather complicated and somewhat eccentric and expensive dresses, preferring darker colors such as black, purple, and dark blue. Her current dress is a black dress, with white accents and red bows that falls to her waist where it meets a pair of black stockings and dress shoes. Why she chose to wear those instead of something more suiting is anyone guess. Some assume she's simply the child of a wealthy family and takes very good care of herself and is quite the pampered little brat, and doesn't know any better. She comments she simply likes the style.

[b]Year:[/b]
2nd

[b]Rank:[/b]
Novice

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[b]Personality:[/b]
Viola...definitely does not behave the way her appearance might suggest. At first impression, she'd come off as incredibly formal and polite. Talk with her just a short bit though, and you'll find a self-centered, cynical, mischievous, somewhat playfully aggressive and slightly vain person who has a rather large seeming ego. However, this is just her attempting to be 'cute' or 'cheeky'. Truthfully, she doesn't take her own words to heart, and would never consider herself better than anyone.

After that, she is fairly friendly and likes meeting people and being around people, and also simply likes watching them for...entertainment purposes. She is a bit of an instigator, and likes causing a bit of mischief around campus for her own giggles, often aided by a friend or two. Another thing to note, would be an insatiable curiosity about anything and everything. Magic, history, technology...everything. While her physical skills are lacking, her academic studies and focus on such things likely make her one of the smarter persons in the school.

Unfortunately, her overly friendly, 'cute' and otherwise cheeky demeanor is a well worn mask. Make no mistake, it is her true personality, but its a rather misleading one. In general, she is a pragmatist and a rather cynical realist. She doens't like those with lofty ideals, preferring more practical applications. When it comes down to it though, she doesn't like picking sides in anything and generally will go with whatever those around her do if she's not the one leading the play - it will be amusing to see the result anyways. All she wants, after all, is a good show.

[b]Magic Discipline:[/b]
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Spirit Contractor

Simply put, Viola is quite in tune with the spiritual forces of the world. Creatures that initially have no corporeal form, or possibly those creatures such as Naiads, Dryads, or Nymphs, she can usually communicate with on some level. This can offer her quite a bit of versatility when it comes to combat and skills, as each spirit offers her a differing set of abilities, usually. Most usually, she may 'Contract' a spirit, as in give it a physical form and have it become a permanent partner until she decides to terminate that contract gaining them as a permanent 'familiar' of sorts. She can in fact, summon certain spirits and form a contract as such but she finds it a little annoying since it's a rather impersonal process though she will use it if its something she definitely wants.

Some things to keep in mind though, is that summoning spirits usually takes quite a while, depending on the skill of the summoner and the rank of the spirit. It is also a one time deal, the duration of their help only usually lasting for a brief moment in time, lasting typically anywhere from fifteen to thirty minutes. This can have quite the downside in a direct conflict, since she would require protection of some sort to be able to summon one. The power of the spirit varies, but typically they can be quite devastating against most foes. They may manifest themselves as a separate entity, or merely lend a fraction of their power to Viola for her to command themselves. Another spirit summoner could possibly force the spirit back to wherever it came as well, should they be skilled enough. She could summon more than one in such a fashion, but it would require each spirit to be much less powerful in strength.

Contracting a spirit is entirely different, however. It requires the contractor to make a deal with the spirit directly for whatever reason. Upon completion of the contract, the spirit begins living 'with' the mage, typically they start sharing a body, and their power is easily summoned by the mage. Typically, a mark of some sort will appear on the users flesh in the form of a symbol representing them - though it is usually only active when the spirits power is invoked. The contents of the contract can be anything the spirit or mage desire. This offers quite an advantage over simply summoning one for a duration of time as a quick help at the offer of the users mana.

However, there are a few downsides to this. Most notable, is that the more contracts she has, the more strain it would be to perform a temporary summoning ritual. As well, as a novice she could potentially only have a single contract at the same time, and use the spirits help to summon similarly aligned elementals of weaker rank. Of course, the more skilled she becomes with managing the spirits as well as her own powers she could learn to handle more spirits. As well - using more than one contract at a time is somewhat difficult to do for a Novice. While she can switch between two spirits with some ease as long as they are relatively in sync and nothing is distracting, controlling more than a single spirit at once is currently beyond her.

To contract one, it varies from spirit to spirit. It could be as simple as a binding, verbal agreement, or as bad as a seal signed in blood. She of course, must uphold her end of the bargain to whatever the spirit or summoned entity requires no matter how odd or arduous. As such, she practices negotiating and speaking with a number of spirits.

Currently, as a simple Novice she is capable enough. Summoning a spirit typically requires quite a bit of time, though and she would need to be quite careful when contracting a stronger one, and she currently doesn't have one. It is more difficult to forcibly send back a contracted spirit, as by law of the contract they are forbidden from leaving until they terminate the contract.

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[b]Equipment:[/b]
Carries a journal on her, where she keeps up with various spells, rituals, and names of potentially interesting spirits she learned from her master.

[b]Biography:[/b]
Viola's life has been rather...mundane, if one counts being raised by a Mage who made it quite clear she wasn't her parent as mundane. That's not to say Livia wasn't a loving guardian figure, but she was incredibly strict and made sure Viola knew the meaning of the word 'Study' and 'Academics'. In fact, the two got along surprisingly well, with Viola's natural curiosity and propensity for things of the academic nature, save for the both of theirs rather...mischievous natures.

When she was ten, she started learning the practical applications of magic, starting with simply 'seeing' the spirits. When she was twelve, she started learning how to communicate with them, which was made difficult by the fact that each spirit sometimes had a different way to communicate. A different dialect, language, or sometimes they didn't communicate at all, depending on their origins. When fourteen, she summoned her first spirit under Livia's supervision.

That was about the extent of their relationship. Livia told her should should pursue her own studies after that. Viola of course, decided to take her up on that offer and has been studying at B.U.M. for the past year or so.

[b]Master:[/b]
Livia Fiore. A User of spirit herself, who insisted upon being called 'Mistress' when she was apprenticing under her. She taught her the basics and saw her through her first summoning, but after that Viola was on her own. Livia, and likewise Viola, are large believers in independent study and after making sure she knew everything in theory, she let Viola go and study on her own. Livia herself, is a bit of a recluse who rarely leaves her manor and prefers the company of her spirits and books.

It's unlikely she will take another, unless the benefit would be too great for her to say no too.

[b]If[/b] [Viola] [b]was forced to sacrifice something important in order to move forward, it would be:[/b] Anything is fair game, it would just depend on if the sacrifice was worth it. Nothing is too valuable to lose, if what would be gained was of perceived equal value. Otherwise, she wouldn't take the deal. 

If no one else would step up to the plate and this was an important matter, she'd step up to the plate without hesitation though.

[b]If[/b] [Viola] [b]was offered to have a single wish fulfilled, it would be:[/b] Simply put, Immortality and beauty. She would give up [i]everything[/i] for the chance for it. A simple, age-old want that quite a few men have had in the past. What? She's a vain little thing.

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[hider=List of Spirits Contracted/Known]
Various Poltergeists:
Harmless things, really nothing more than a nuisance, but they seem to follow Viola around quite a bit after she made friends with a few of them after frequent trips to the graveyard. They mostly do her house chores and spook visitors to her dorm. Don't expect anything in her room to be where you left it. Do note she hasn't really contracted them. They just follow her around like lost puppies.

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