[hider=Nera Hawthorn][hr][hr][h1][b][i][center][color=7bcdc8]Nera Hawthorn[/color][/center][/i][/b][/h1] [center][img]https://s9.postimg.cc/54ykfspdb/Dormer.jpg[/img][/center] [hr][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Character Summary[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=7bcdc8]Name:[/color][/b] Nera Hawthorn [b][color=7bcdc8]Darke Name:[/color][/b] Nerse [b][color=7bcdc8]Age:[/color][/b] 24 [b][color=7bcdc8]Birthday:[/color][/b] December 28th [b][color=7bcdc8]Birthplace:[/color][/b] Servants Quarters - the Palace [b][color=7bcdc8]Residence:[/color][/b] Port Witch Coven House [b][color=7bcdc8]Gender:[/color][/b] Female [b][color=7bcdc8]Culture:[/color][/b] Nomad [b][color=7bcdc8]Education:[/color][/b] [b]Magykal[/b] instruction in the Badlands [b][color=7bcdc8]Position:[/color][/b] Port Witch [b][color=7bcdc8]Alignment:[/color][/b] Chaotic Neutral [hr][center][img]https://data.whicdn.com/images/169025154/original.gif[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Appearance[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=7bcdc8]Height:[/color][/b] 5'6" [b][color=7bcdc8]Weight:[/color][/b] 124 pounds [b][color=7bcdc8]Build:[/color][/b] Toned; Well Defined [b][color=7bcdc8]Eyes:[/color][/b] Bright blue with flecks of black [b][color=7bcdc8]Hair:[/color][/b] Auburn [b][color=7bcdc8]Skin Tone:[/color][/b] Sun-Kissed [b][color=7bcdc8]Tattoos/Scars/Piercings:[/color][/b] Faint scars in the hairline, small scar on left ankle [b][color=7bcdc8]Personal Style:[/color][/b] Nera's ideal style is well suited for hotter climates. She loves to wear two piece dresses and light boots. It's a practical and fashionable choice, as far as she's concern. The lightness of it was ideal during her travels, keeping her from melting under the beating sun, and blue always was her color. It matched her eyes. Yet at Port, it's too cold to simply go without a cloak. She's come up with a mild compromise, wearing her thick witch's cloak on top of her lighter clothing. There's no reason why she can't be comfortable and stylish at the same time. [hr][center][img]https://data.whicdn.com/images/196447435/original.gif[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Psychology[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [i][color=6ecff6][center][color=00a651]Determined[/color] * [color=ed1c24]Spiteful[/color] * [color=00a651]Ambitious[/color] * [color=ed1c24]Opinionated[/color] * [color=00a651]Crafty[/color] * [color=ed1c24]Judgmental[/color][/center][/color][/i] [b][color=7bcdc8]Sexuality:[/color][/b] Sapiosexual [b][color=7bcdc8]Relationship Status:[/color][/b] Single [b][color=7bcdc8]Personality:[/color][/b] Nera is a bit of a two-faced individual. If she wants to, she can appear to be kind and sweet - the perfect friend, ally, companion, lover, and so forth. This deception comes easily to her, as she definitely had a conniving and scheming side to her. She would rather settle a conflict before it begins than allow it to come to blows. Be careful around her, as while she may seem to be giving you honey, it could very well be laced with poison. Yet she is not a fundamentally bad person - just simply a little wicked. Yet she's a member of the Port Witch Coven - she's a bit tame in comparison to some of the other witches. While she doesn't always speak her mind without prompting, she makes judgments about others and various situations quickly. She won't hold back if asked about her opinions as well. And curiously, despite everything she has experienced in life, she still has a bit of an idealistic attitude. She still believes in her principles and her ideas, despite the complications that society may introduce to them. [b][color=7bcdc8]Habits:[/color][/b] Flaring her nostrils, biting her lip [b][color=7bcdc8]Hobbies:[/color][/b] Experimenting with new Potions [b][color=7bcdc8]Fears:[/color][/b] [list][*]Drowning [*]Amnesia [*]Losing an appendage [/list] [b][color=7bcdc8]Likes:[/color][/b] [list][*]Animals [*]Traveling [*]Pure [b]Magyk[/b] [*]The Port Witch Coven [*]Crows [*]Stargazing [/list] [b][color=7bcdc8]Dislikes:[/color][/b] [list][*]Wendron Witches [*]Royals [*]Wizards [*]Laziness [*]Arrogance [*]Titles and Etiquette [/list] [hr][center][img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/18d3a420186f10eea4529076fc027613/tumblr_mgwj863KO21ru0lbro1_500.gif[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Cards On The Table[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=7bcdc8]General Skills:[/color][/b] [list] [*]Country Knowledge - (Small Wet Country Across the Sea) - the knowledge of how to navigate the various regions and towns of the Small Wet Country Across the Sea without great trouble. [*]City Knowledge - (the Castle) - the knowledge of where to find various shops and other locations in the Castle without great trouble. [*]Court Etiquette - The knowledge of how to act with regards to the Castle's Royal Family and other visiting nobles. This includes awareness of proper manners of address and customs. [*]Foreign Customs - the ability to adapt to the mannerisms of cultures and customs of other lands without causing offense. [*]Swimming - the ability to swim great distances without drowning or excessively tiring. This includes being able to tread water for up to five hours. [*]Basic Cartography - The study and practice of making maps. Users are proficient in reading depictions of spatial information, although they are not able to create maps or restore maps themselves. [/list] [b][color=7bcdc8]Cultural Skills:[/color][/b] [list][*]Regional Knowledge - (the Badlands) - The knowledge of how to navigate the hazardous terrain of the Badlands without great trouble. This includes basic survival skills for desert type settings. [*]Creature Knowledge - (Land Wurms) - The knowledge of how to survive an encounter with a Land Wurm and (ideally) never become consumed by one. [*]Climbing - The ability to scale a steep object without falling to an early death (most likely, anyways...)[/list] [b][color=7bcdc8]Occupational Skills:[/color][/b] [list] [*][b]Darke[/b] Witch [b]Magyk[/b] - The ability to manipulate [b]Magyk [/b]in order to cause harm to others. This includes psychological, physical, and spiritual harm. Its use may result in death. [*]Witch's Road - The ability to leave one's body and review events that have already happened to them. With consent of another, they can also relive another person's memories. Note that while the memories are real, they are distorted by the mind and may not accurately reflect true events. [*]Herbology - The ability to use plants and fungi in order to produce a desired [b]Magykal[/b] effect. This is typically used in tandem with [b]Physik[/b] and the creation of potions. [*]Sense - The ability to sense the emotions of another. These readings are not always accurate, as the person may willfully hide their emotions. [*]Potions - The ability to turn [b]Magyk[/b] into a liquid form by mixing together various ingredients. [*]Concilium - The ability to impose one's will upon another, in order to have them perform your bidding. Depending on the strength, the victim can perform any action, even if it would potentially be fatal to themselves. [*][b]FootFollowing[/b] - The ability to perfectly retrace a target's steps, as long as they can find three footprints. The downside is that they cannot stop until they reach their target, no matter what. [/list] [b][color=7bcdc8]What Is On Your Person:[/color][/b] [list] [*][url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/77/dd/1877dd125afd55f50c35d06bf1ffc653.jpg]Clothing[/url] - A two piece blue dress obtained from the Lagoon, partnered with a thick black hooded witch’s cloak with various runes embroidered on it, and light blue ankle boots [*]Packet of Witch’s Berry [*]Packet of Hellebore [*]Packet of Dittany [*]Emerald Hairpin - previously belonged to her mother [/list] [b][color=7bcdc8]Residence:[/color][/b] [list][*]Assorted clothing from various countries around the world [*]Unlabeled potions flasks [*]Summer Witch’s Cloak [*]Journal [*]Tattered Ordinary Wizard’s Cloak [*]Crow - Named Marvolo [/list] [hr][center][img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/0fad16512fb1d74d6088d30c0613437f/tumblr_nmqans6bP11ss8qfeo2_500.gif[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]History[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=7bcdc8]Your Path:[/color][/b] Ever since she was a little girl, Nera had dreamt of [b]Magyk.[/b] Her mother had been an Ordinary Wizard, the distant descendant of an ExtraOrdinary Apprentice who never returned from her [b]Queste.[/b] Nera never knew her mother - yet she felt that she knew her through their shared love of [b]Magyk.[/b] The small [b]Charms[/b] she attempted as a child were how she would feel close to her, even though her mother had died the way she was born. She had always been destined for [b]Magyk.[/b] Even though she left the Castle and never studied in the Wizards' Tower, she still studied the subject she adored. It was her lifestyle and with her opinions on it, she easily became a witch. Only witches appreciated [b]Magyk[/b] for what it truly was, rather than attempt to constrain it to preconceived and stuffy notions. [b][color=7bcdc8]General History:[/color][/b] Nera was the child of a Castle servant who worked in the Palace for Queen Meliscente. When she was ten years old, she was adored by the Queen, as Nera didn't have a mother and Meliscente had lost her child, her first born daughter to the Wendron Witch Coven. The Queen promised Nera that she could have anything she ever wanted, even arranging for Nera to have private tutors in the Palace. And when Nera showed a keen interest in [b]Magyk[/b], the Queen arranged a meeting for Nera with Rowland, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard. His previous apprentice had left for the Eastern SnowPlains and he was seeking a new one. At eleven years old, she was the proper age. Yet Rowland picked Arya Rincewind to be his apprentice, the daughter of quite possibly the worst Sub-Wizard the Castle had ever known. This was when the trouble began for Nera. Her father had been promoted to be a member of the Palace Guard and he had been dispatched into the Forest, in order to try to find Princess Valda. He was killed - whether by Wendron Witches or a wolverine, no one knows. And to make matters worse, Queen Meliscente grew distant, unable to find the time for Nera as she was busy caring for her other children. Needless to say, Nera left the Castle. She spent years in the Badlands learning [b]Magyk[/b], mourning the loss of her father and attempting to find her place in the world. Her emotions fueled her [b]Magyk[/b], allowing her to accomplish great things. And once she had learned all she could from her master there, she left the Badlands and began to travel. There was so much [b]Magyk[/b] in the world and she became obsessed with the idea of pure [b]Magyk[/b], realizing how odd it was to think of things in terms of [b]Darke[/b] and [b]Lyte[/b], good and evil. [b]Magyk[/b] is all about balance between the two. She wanted [b]Magyk[/b] without limits, [b]Magyk[/b] without restraints. She appreciated its beauty and the beauty of [b]Magyk[/b] helped to heal her conflicted heart. Eventually, she felt drawn to return to her home country, joining the Port Witch Coven. There was no question of her joining the Wendron Witches. They restricted themselves to only [b]Lyte Magyk[/b] and it was possible that their Witch Mother had killed her father. And while the Port Witch Coven has a bad rap, Nera isn't as polarized as some of its members. In fact, they're now the closest thing she's had to family in a long time, able to understand her unique viewpoints on the world. But even they too can be closed minded, preferring [b]Darke Magyk[/b] rather than using [b]Magyk[/b] in harmony. [b][color=7bcdc8]Thoughts on Queen Meliscente:[/color][/b] Nera felt conflicted to say the least when she heard the Queen was murdered. She had been angry with the Queen after her father died, but she had learned to get of that anger. Queen Meliscente had her actual children to care for at the time, whereas Nera was just the daughter of a servant. She mourned the death of the Queen quietly, knowing that she had lost someone akin to a mother for her, a relationship that no one else knew about. She never mentioned it to anyone and Princess Luna and her brother Myrus were too young to remember Nera. She can't say exactly why she's certain the Queen is murdered, as she hasn’t seen the Queen’s body. All she knows are the rumors that are flying around the Port about what had happened. Queen Meliscente certainly wouldn’t have been the first person the Wendron Witches murdered, either. With the Queen dead, the Wendron Witch Coven is ready to take the throne. [hr][center][img]https://78.media.tumblr.com/204c76c7d5de0db6b4d4facfe405d828/tumblr_mmwgovw6bj1rfo1vco1_500.gif[/img][/center][hr][h3][b][i][color=7bcdc8][center]Extras[/center][/color][/i][/b][/h3] [b][color=7bcdc8]Character Quote:[/color][/b] "The world is far too complex to be restricted to [b]Lyte[/b] and [b]Darke[/b]." [b][color=7bcdc8]Theme Song:[/color][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A8JZ-RDDo]Strange Magic by ELO[/url] [b][color=7bcdc8]Anything Else:[/color][/b] Scorpius Malfoy; [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4608357]Darker Than Black[/url] [sub][color=ed1c24]*By submitting this CS in its completion I am stating I have read all the rules for this Rp and am agreeing to follow them to the fullest with respect and courtesy. I acknowledge that I can and will be removed from the RP without warning if I break a rule or cause problems with my fellow Rpers or the GM.[/color][/sub][/hider] [hider=Relations][center][hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=10A133]The Scroll[/color][/i][/b][/h1][hr][h2][b][i][color=7bcdc8]Nera Hawthorn[/color][/i][/b][/h2][img]https://s9.postimg.cc/gmdjr62mn/tumblr_inline_ngqz4xs_LI41swj1mx.gif[/img] [i][color=7bcdc8]"I shape my own destiny."[/color][/i][hr][hr]⟢ 🎆Respects ⟡ 🌓Neutral ⟡ 👋Acquaintance ⟡ 🙇It's Complicated ⟣ ⟢ 💛Friend ⟡ 💙Good Friends ⟡ 💜Best Friends ⟡ ❣️Ex-Friends ⟡ 😈Frienemy ⟣ ⟢ 💘Infatuation ⟡ 💓Loves ⟡ 💗Couple ⟡ 💕Basically Family ⟡ 💞Family ⟡ 💔Ex-Lovers ⟣ ⟢ ♨️Tense ⟡ 💀Dislikes ⟡ 😡Hates ⟡ 👿Enemy ⟡ 👹Absolutely Loathes ⟣[hr][hr] 🙇 [b][color=#9B30FF]Arya Rincewind[/color][/b] 🙇 [i]"I hated her as a child, because she had everything I thought I wanted. And now, I see we are two sides of the same coin."[/i] Although Arya had lost track of Nera over the years, Nera found it difficult to forget Arya Rincewind at first. She believed that Arya had stolen the ExtraOrdinary apprenticeship from her - that she didn't deserve it, being the daughter of the worst Sub-Wizard the Castle had ever seen. It was only as she grew older that she realized she didn't hate Arya - she was angry at the world that took her father and mother from her. In fact, on reflection, she realized how similar she and Arya were - both searching for their place in the world. Arya's happened to be among wizards and Nera's among witches. [hr] 💜/👿 [b][color=7bcdc8]Nera Hawthorn[/color][/b] 👿/💜 [i]"I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy."[/i] Nera's life has been filled with hardship and pain, followed by acceptance and understanding. The path she placed herself on is by no means easy and not one that she would wish on another living being. Yet that is the price of healing after great loss. Every two steps forward result in another step backwards. Nera still does not regret her choices and if given another chance, she would make them all again. The end will justify the means. [hr] Symbol [b][color=8882be]Princess Valda[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=pink]Cuyler Eysteinsson[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] 👋 [b][color=gold]Rhys Asher[/color][/b] 👋 [i]"I heard he died a few years ago. What a shame."[/i] Nera and Rhys were briefly acquainted when they were both vying for a spot as Rowland's apprentice - a spot that ultimately went to Arya Rincewind. With her own emotional issues, Nera didn't maintain any form of contact with Rhys when she left the Castle for the Badlands. When she returned, she heard that he had been killed, along with his former master. It was a waste of potential, in her opinion. [hr] 💕/🎆 [b][color=9F6D88]Fleur La Mallificum[/color][/b] 🎆/💕 [i]"A good Witch Mother is common. A great one is extraordinary."[/i] Nera holds Fleur in high regard. Rather than showing an interest in overthrowing her and becoming the next Witch Mother, Nera instead does her best to quench any signs of rebellion in Fleur's flock. She acts as Fleur's right hand, advising her with the information she has gained from her travels whenever possible. Fleur has become family to Nera - something she hasn't had in a long time. She'll do whatever is in her power to ensure that they achieve their ends. [hr] Symbol [b][color=cyan]Princess Luna[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] ♨️/💀 [b][color=#808080]Malekith Darkling[/color][/b] 💀/♨️ [i]"He's nothing more than a brute in the guise of a gentleman."[/i] Nera knows very well the type of person that Malekith truly is - nothing more than a shadow of a man, thirsting for blood and with no remorse once it has been spilled. He doesn't care about the pureness of [b]Magyk[/b] or any sort of fundamental harmony and balance. Truthfully, if he was not a member of her Coven, she may have slain him herself in order to do a favor for the world. Instead, she [i]plays nice[/i] with Malekith, knowing the strength of the Port Witch Coven depends on it. Yet she watches him warily, looking perhaps for the first sign of disloyalty or pure psychosis that he may exhibit... [hr] Symbol [b][color=#F2541F]Atkin Bowman[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=#9ba9c5]Bell Dreamfree[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=ff0000]Myrus Silvers[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] Symbol [b][color=#4169E1]Lyra Laurek[/color][/b] Symbol [i]"Overall Thoughts On The Character"[/i] Relation Details [hr] [/center][/hider]