Sorry if I took a few liberties in this, hope you like the character though (and I hope the boys don't like him in quite another way if you know what I mean hehehe) [hider=Albus Winterhold] [center][img]https://safebooru.org/images/1210/739544faf5aeb280a79ad0c5c83917a2726589ff.jpg?1260773[/img][/center] [b]Name | [/b] Albus Winterhold [b]Age | [/b] 16 [b]Gender | [/b] Male [b]Level/Tier | [/b] A2 [b]House | [/b] Dracona [b]Appearance/Attire | [/b] Albus, while male, looks like a younger girl. He tends to wear girly clothes even including skirts, but it’s mostly because that’s what his parents and siblings dressed him up in. Most, if not all his clothes are hand-me-downs from his older siblings. He's a bit on the shorter side of five feet possibly teetering on the high end of 4 feet. He's skinny and has a bit of a feminine form despite not trying and eating a lot of snacks every day. [b]Alignment | [/b] Free Spirit [b]Personality/Habits | [/b] Albus thinks he hates the fact that he has a girly look and always dresses in female cloths. That said, he uses it to his advantage and finds it exceedingly funny when he tricks people. If he had to choose, he’d rather not look girly. While he “hates” this “curse” he uses it to his advantage. If he can pretend to be a girl to get some things, he’ll do it. With that complex of his out of the way, he typically acts fairly happy. The thing he hates most is weakness, specifically his own though he isn’t one to hide his dislike for people showing their own weakness if they’re looking like they’re wanting a “woe is me” pity party. Sometimes though, he locks himself away to wallow in his own self pity. He’d hate if anyone found out though. Despite his happiness, he hates the state he’s in but accepts and lives it if not using it. The most important thing to note of Albus (who does go by Alba when tryin to trick people) is that he does recognize that he is a man. It’s one thing to mistake him as a girl, but it’s another to know and insist he isn’t a man. He’s been known to take extra measures to get people to correct themselves when their irritating him. Another important note is that he’s fairly fickle in how he’s feeling but will always admit he’s male when someone calls him out on it. [b]Background | [/b] Albus was raised in a family of only girls. They weren’t exactly poor, but they weren’t rich either. Amongst the family they passed on the old clothes that didn’t fit and weren’t destroyed to the younger children. Albus was sadly the sole male child amongst a bunch of girls. He sat as the fourth of seven. His oldest sister and second oldest sister were already married off while his sister a year older was off training as a “knight” in some odd Knight Academy. Albus meanwhile found out soon enough that he had the ability to be a summoner much like his eldest sister who has by now went to L’Mordryn Academy and graduated around the time he started school. She was a sort of prodigy celebrated by her parents. On the other hand, despite her being six or so years elder than him, Albus wasn’t treated as well. When he first started practicing his parents paid him no mind as he “wasn’t as good” as his sister. This of course stunted any growth as a summoner for a time. During this time his two older sisters and one just younger than him began to use him as a “toy” and dressed him up in cute clothes and not just the ragged hand-me-downs. They were hoping he would at least stand up to them but he just seemed down anyhow and didn’t respond. One day, however, as they were messing around with him one mentioned that he was “kinda cute” like this. His ears perked up at this. And told them they were lying. Despite his protests, he was hoping secretly that they were right. To tease him some more, they played on this and told him he was the cutest. He thought on it for a minute and came up with a bright idea. If his parents were just going to ignore him all day anyhow, he’d make them pay attention one way or another. He made them make him as cute as possible. So they did. Considering how young he was, it wasn’t hard to make him look like a cute girl. After they were done, he walked around his parents but didn’t talk directly to them. They must have thought he was one of his sisters at first as they greeted him lightly, but not disdainfully. Then came dinner time. As they were sitting around the table, the parents came to some realization. There was an extra daughter there and a lack of son. The father scoffed that his son would miss dinner and the mother asked them if they brought a friend. Albus smirked as the second oldest blinked at them and blankly told them that their “friend” WAS Albus. Their father as outraged, stood and slammed his palms on the table before ordered Albus angrily to got out. Not only was his son a disappointment but just because he had to dress like a girl, it didn’t mean he had to act like one… Albus faked an emotional saddening and grabbed his plate and quickly left before they could tell him to leave his food. His sisters tried to defend him but were quickly silenced by the mother. Somehow, that was just the reaction Albus was looking for. From that point on, he acted the trickster, messing with his parents whenever he could. As time went on, he decided he needed to save money for himself. His parents weren’t going to help for much long and after he was done with school they’d likely abandon him. Whatever his parents say now, he couldn’t let it hurt him despite how it really made him feel. He kept a happy front to throw them off. When he was twelve, he went to a local restaurant and wanted a job. Mistaking him as a girl at first for previously stated reasons, they agreed to hire him on as a waitress. He worked this for a year without his parents knowing and found he could, at least more likely, make more from tips as a cute girl than he would as a boy. His parents found out about his job though, and barred him from it. Despite their lack of care given to him, they told him it was an adult’s job to care for children. If only they really did. This angered Albus of course. At this point, all he was suppose to do was sit around the house all day. Hell, him dolling up as a girl didn’t even visibly bother them now. Now it just bothered him. Why the hell was he even doing this now? Over time he’s come to appreciate cute things, but started questioning his choices at this point. Much like he did some years prior, he fell into a flunk. His sister came back from school for a break and noticed him having issues. She talked to him about his issues, or tried. He was having a hard time wanting to talk to her considering she was the reason her parents really disliked him. It took a week of her and the rest of their siblings trying to get him to converse with her to actually get him to do so. She managed to convince him to consider practicing and going to L’Mordryn Academy. She also told him that it was fine for him to be cute. They then talked about everything that had happened since she started school, especially since Albus had started ignoring her whenever she came home previously. She thanked him for telling her and later that day, she had to leave to go back to school since she had to make some stops first. Her parents escorted her outside town but… When the came back, they treated Albus better, albeit begrudgingly. From this, he started to hate the weakness he could sense inside himself and worked to better himself, readopting his happiness and the facade of such when he was trying to hide the things he hated. They allowed him to work again if he wanted and gave him some newer clothes, though they were girl’s cloths still. He hated it, or tried to convince himself he did but wore them anyhow. It worked out anyway since he seemed to be able to convince people to help him with things. Two years later mixing together studying and working, he started at L’Mordryn Academy starting at the Tyro level of course and quickly making his way to Adept Tier 2 showing to himself more than anyone that he was just as good as his sister. He’s also quite likely on the track to becoming Virtuoso Tier One. He chose Dracona because he thought Dragons were the best things to show off with. That said, his internal thoughts of appreciating cuteness impacted his first summon that he can’t help but resummon for... Reasons. [b]Favorite Summons | [/b] [hider=Vesper] [center][img]https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/342/121/3d2.jpg[/img][/center] “Stories tell of a bat-like creature from a nearby, yet extinct culture called a Pataavi in more recent years, though in the past it was called some other things. As the stories were written, they were somewhat humanoid creatures that had a relation to dragons. Their tales could be used as a bludgeoning weapons and much like dragons, they had a psuedo breath ability. In their throats, there is an organ that can emit damaging sounds that can either disorient or at a higher strength shatter weaker parts of the body. Stories even tell of one stopping a heart, though this is most likely implausible. These wyverns are covered in fur which is useful in their natural environments around mountain ranges where they range from their nests higher up to their hunting grounds on the low ground. Due to their size which is about 1.5 times the size of a larger human, they tend to eat a whole deer sized animal a day and store the rest in their stomach which can last for at least a couple of days depending on how active they are. Surprisingly, it doesn’t show when they store food. A thing of note is that each of the Pataavi can fill either the role of a male or female in a relationship having the equipment to work either way and while this creatures seem mammalian in nature, they truely have draconic ancestory and this means they lay eggs. They also have the ability to make a telepathic link with those they deem worthy and are fairly intelligent. A summoner is one such of these people as well as their mates (pluralized for implications sake.) These creatures are said to have disappeared into deep mountains in unexplored areas.” -[I]Tales of Specialized Regional Draconians[/I], “Chapter 5: Draconians of Forgotten Civilizations, Part 4” by Earnest Draco Vesper is a Pataavi, a type of wyvern noted mostly by an age old civilization that has since been replaced. Vesper was first summoned by Albus when he was attempting to summon a generic fire drake when this previous passage passed through his mind. The end product was that he summoned a Pataavi instead of a fire drake and it became quickly attached to him. While he was somewhat embarassed at first, it turned out to work fairly well. Due to it’s size, it is able to carry around it’s summoner via flight and doubles as a soft pillow anywhere. Good for naps or just laying around. Vesper also likes to be petted as long as it’s gently but when the petting gets rough it tends to launch a disorienting sonic attack at whoever and escape. [/hider][/hider]