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[b]Name:[/b] Alya Elcove

[b]Sex:[/b] Female

[b]Age:[/b] 22

[b]Appearance:[/b] Alya stands at 5'7" with a lithe and flexible build, preferring to use agility over strength. While she inherited her father's auburn hair and brown eyes, she has (according her father) inherited her mother's beauty, with a slightly pale porcelain-like complexion.

[b]Personality:[/b] Alya is quite a mirror image of her father when it comes to personality, she is quick to befriend the people that are willing to listen to her most of the time and while that may put her at a risk when people are trying to take advantage of her friendliness she refuses to change her view on the world.

And that is her second problem, Alya is very stubborn and as all stubborn people do, if she's convinced of something, the odds of changing her mind are really low. The last quirk of hers would be her rather competitive nature, striving to become better than the people she sees as her rivals, not really mattering if that person considers her a rival.

[b]Background:[/b] Alya never knew her as she died shortly after she was born, meaning that for a significant part of her life, she only had her father to look up to and so she did. She began to mimick her fathers actions and behavior and sure enough, she became as friendly as him and as stubborn as him. However, according to her father, she inherited her mothers creativity and her competitive nature. As her father was fairly wealthy man, he could afford a few tutors for her to nurture her creativity and when he saw her interest in fighting, a few martial arts tutors to help her with that.

However, when her father's affinity manifested, he was forced to leave in the military, leaving her to be raised by some of the more permanent servants around the house. As the years passed, her life was fairly mundane according to her as she continued to be tutored in both the regular arts and the martial arts.

However, at the age of 18, her affinity manifested itself as she caused quite a bit of an accident. However, what should have been a fairly happy moment for her as she would serve alongside her father, it was ruined when a letter was brought that her father had died during his service and while it didn't specify the cause of his death, she could think of the fates that a soldier would suffer. However, while she was quite saddened by the loss, she understood that was the risk of being in the military and thanks to her own affinity manifesting, she too was to be drafted into the military as well.

[b]Affinity Link:[/b] Pyrokinesis: Her powers are quite simple when it comes to it, she can generate and manipulate any nearby sources of fire or heat in general. While the power in itself seems simple enough, due to her boredom, she often experimented with her powers finding a lot of creative uses for her powers, from compressing flames very tightly around her hands and feet to create plasma cutters to using her flames to create fireworks, to even increasing the heat around her to nigh unbearable levels.

[b]Other:[/b]

- Alya is a person that gets bored easily, and in her free time she has found a lot of creative ways for her to use her powers other than being a living flamethrower, however, her creativity is not limited to her powers as she has shown quite a bit of interest(and talent) in writing and drawing in general.

- As an odd consequence of her powers, she has become quite the accomplished cook.

- Due to her father having been in the army as well, she learned to fight in both close quarters and long distance, learning a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Shaolin_(martial_art)]martial art[/url] that complements her powers quite well both in ranged and melee combat.

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[hider=]Questionnaire: 
Do you want to start in training, or post-training?

Post-training, if you don't mind.

Do you want several, smaller squads, or 1-2 larger squads?

Smaller squads would be nicer.
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