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[color=c4df9b]Age:[/color] 17

[color=c4df9b]Normal Appearance:[/color]She's a little skinny, and short to boot, but generally there's not too much about Leah that seems out of the ordinary; or inconsistent, for that matter. In general, she's all for putting in a little extra effort to keep up appearances, whether that means dragging herself out of bed early to fix her hair, pulling a few all-nighters between work and school, or taking the time to meticulously select clothes that [i]look[/i] expensive, but really aren't. It's best for her to keep that image, maintain a tiny smile even where the emotions don't match, and always be casual, but not in a way that says she doesn't care. Sure, maybe it's a little difficult to do at times, and she's been caught nodding off in class more than once, but that's normal - and above all else, Leah isn't about to let herself fall below that particular standard.

After all, who would ever be satisfied with that?

[color=c4df9b]Medium Appearance[/color]: Her channelled form doesn't gain any particular size or extra physical properties. There are a couple of changes to her features, eyes flipping to those of a green-eyed cat, and teeth gaining a somewhat unnerving sharpness. Further, her clothing becomes snaked with plants - yellow roses that rapidly flower, though they don't seem to have any particular effect on her. Overall, though, she doesn't appear particularly far from human; but there's enough little things 'off' about it to make her appearance unnerving, if nothing else.

Her catalyst, similarly understated, is a small, broken, mirror.

[color=c4df9b]Channeling Abilities, Spells, Stats, etc:[/color]

[center][color=c4df9b][h3]What's Yours is Mine[/h3][/color][/center]

When channelling, Leah can choose to leech certain properties from another - life force, physical strength, physical energy, and when confronting a spirit, spiritual energy. Depending on what's absorbed, the properties are stored differently. However, it's a zero-sum game; everything she gains, another must lose.

Strength absorption: by leeching the physical strength of another, Leah's channelling form gains that strength for itself. The strength seems to persist indefinitely, unless used up through her spirit charge, but seeing as there's only so much that can be absorbed from one person (at least without raising some serious suspicions), the buildup is something that generally has to be done over time. 

[list][*]Atrophy: She can focus on absorbing from a specific place in order to specifically weaken it - however, she needs to actively maintain focus in order for this to work, and therefore actually doing it in combat is a pretty big ask.

[*]Focused hit: Leah can focus her stored strength into a single area of her body for a brief moment, resulting in a far more powerful blow but leaving her off-balance and vulnerable for a brief moment afterwards.[/list]

Physical energy: this type of absorption is temporary, but also ultimately harmless; she could use it to gain extra energy after running herself down. By draining someone, she can either exhaust them, or if completed, put them straight to sleep.

[list][*]Adrenaline Rush: she can use some stored energy to essentially "kick-start" her system and trigger an adrenaline rush, though it doesn't have any particularly notable qualities beyond what one would hold for anyone.

[*]Wakeup Call: In a similar vein, she can force some energy into another person to wake them up or give them a slight boost where they're exhausted or otherwise need it.[/list]

Spiritual energy: where she's used up a great deal of spiritual energy, she can drain it from others to replenish that and improve her own staying power. However, it must be used with caution; there isn't a safety valve on this ability, and it would be easy to pass her own limit if she absorbed too much at once.

[list][*]Spiritual Overload: she can force spiritual energy into a spirit or medium in an attempt to push them over their limit, and cause whatever damage may result.

[*]Lure: though more of an unintentional side-effect than an ability, when she takes in extra spiritual energy, she naturally shows up far more on the radars of spirits and shades, drawing their attention, and often their ire.[/list]

Life force: the most damaging ability in her arsenal, and perhaps one she uses more frequently than she should - on contact, she can drain the life force of another, and store up to 5 "years" worth at once. More can be drained, but cannot be stored.
[list][*]Persistence: Healing, but not really - she can't repair a person's wounds, or cure their illnesses, or reverse the effects of time on their body. What she can do is force that stored 'life' into them, and painfully [i]make[/i] them stay alive until the store runs out. The conversion is highly flawed, and dependent on the immediacy of the damage to the person. One 'year' would be five minutes for someone bleeding out and on death's door, or a day for a person with a terminal illness.

[*]Acceleration: When using it offensively, she can focus some of this energy into internally "blocking" some processes, preventing them from healing or recovering.[/list]

[color=c4df9b]Grade:[/color] Junior

[color=c4df9b]Personality:[/color] Leah comes off as quite the studious, dedicated type, and sticks rigorously to a schedule, but makes an effort to seem laid-back about it; even though she's not exactly got much time to do anything for herself. Really, she's not difficult to get along with, but tends to go with the flow a lot - in all honesty, she's sort of a pushover, and it's easy to get her to back down or let herself be pushed into something she wouldn't want to do.

As far as her attitude towards others, the lack of a backbone definitely carries over in most things, but she's at least friendly on a surface level, if a little slow to genuinely trust. However, there's sort of an undercurrent of resentment in her attitude, kept private - a yearning for the things she can't have, and frustration at the responsibilities she can't escape. Leah's a person used to being priority number two, and even though she can logically understand where people are coming from... it's a very different thing from avoiding the emotional effect.

In any case, it's safer to be anonymous than to let your personality shine through - but that doesn't exactly keep her from wanting things to change.

[color=c4df9b]Background:[/color] Leah was always a pretty well-behaved kid, but never anything even a little beyond average, unless you counted her spiritual energy levels - which, really, she didn't. Her family weren't, and still aren't, rich, but could at least afford to provide essentials and the occasional treat, even if they weren't exactly home a lot. Her first school, in contrast, was mostly a pretty well-off demographic (with some occasional outliers like herself), leaving her to feel a little out of place. Luckily, they were still kids, and she managed to get along with people, but as she grew up she became keenly aware of the things she lacked and they had, and the jokes fired her way began to sting just that bit more.

But she could learn, and did, spending almost all her saved-up money on things to keep up appearances, terrified of being left behind and pushed aside by everyone. Her parents didn't approve of it, with all the effort they'd put in to teaching her to save, and couldn't help being frustrated at her explanations and complaints about the school they'd been thrilled to have her eligible for. So she kept going, but kept quiet, letting herself fade into the background of every conversation, happy enough to at least have people that'd hang out with her, even if they didn't wanna hear her talk.

This year, however, that all changed; her sister fell ill, missed by everyone for too long since they couldn't afford to see a doctor - too long for it to be fixed, and too long for her chances to be high, though they were still existent. They had to move, urgently, selling their home to fund things and moving into her grandparents' old home in Lakewood. Nonetheless, with the medical bills coming into play, Leah had to find a job as soon as possible, maintaining her school career - not that it was anywhere near what they'd need to cover it.

And so Leah's initial jealousy of others turned bitter, and desperate - and finally, that spiritual potential she had came into play. A shade found her, found where she was, what was happening, and made her an offer she just couldn't refuse. She didn't even hesitate to accept, and Envy has been more than willing to guide her forward.

[color=c4df9b]Other:[/color] At this point, it's been a few months since she and her family moved to Lakewood.
She's secretly a pretty fantastic cook, and gets super excited if she actually gets proper ingredients to do so.
Really focused on money, for good reason, and can have kind of a one-track-mind in that regard.
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[color=fff200]Spirit Name:[/color] Envy, The Parasitic

[color=fff200]Spirit Classification:[/color] Meta

[color=fff200]Spirit Personality:[/color] A subtle type of predator, Envy is more of the manipulative type than a fan of the direct approach. It's certain in what it does, and doesn't particularly feel for anyone or anything else, spending its time ever-subtly pushing its host into gaining more and more. It's rather possessive, not quite protective of its host as a friend, but rather as a prized possession, something and someone that it can own. As such, it does try to understand what makes people tick, if only to try and get what it wants from them - and its tricks are more than effective when it comes to directing Leah herself.

[color=fff200]Spirit Appearance: [/color]
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It's unclear what exactly Envy is, but it tries to take as nonthreatening a form as possible, and thus appears at least somewhat humanoid to Leah, if still very far from human. The head and hands are replaced with a twisting, living smoke, and its 'voice' through their bond somehow sounds like ten people speaking at once.

[color=fff200]Sealed Appearance:[/color] Envy takes on the form of a small, black, ribbon around Leah's throat while sealed.

[color=fff200]Spirit Charge:[/color] Unleashed Hoard: If absolutely necessary, the medium and spirit can unleash all the energy they've stored over time in one single blast of power - however, it can't be moderated. All of it will be used up, and they will be reduced back down to their base, unimproved, strength.

[color=fff200]Other Information:[/color] Envy hasn't actually informed Leah of the limit on how much life they can store, and doesn't plan to do so anytime soon. After all, it does want to build up its power.

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[color=c4df9b]Weakness and Limitations:[/color] The biggest limit in place for the two, despite the high versatility of their abilities, is that by Envy's nature, it has nothing of its own to offer. Thus, they're not particularly strong yet, their channelled form having the strength of three people or so.

Other things that they store have limitations; the cap on life storage leaves a small capacity, and the volatile nature of it means it can't be stored for more than a day at a time without needing replenishment. Spiritual energy risks an overload if excess is stored for too long, and physical energy tends to run out on its own anyway, as well as not eliminating the mental need for sleep.

Further, without any of them in storage, they naturally can't be used for any of their possible applications; thus, they begin most fights fairly weak, and need to drain some before they can be effective at all.

They do also need to make contact in order to drain something - though their strength can help with this and improve their mobility, it can still be a problem in combat.

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The room was beautiful. Empty, quiet, but the carpet was soft under her feet, and the walls were intricately decorated with patterns she couldn't make sense of. They were moving, she registered dimly, eyes tracing the glowing golden lines that crossed stark white, contrast only serving to keep her focused on it. There was some kind of smell in the air, pleasant and warm, as though someone had been baking recently.

It felt safe, didn't it?

[color=fff200]"It's surprising,"[/color] a voice reverberated, [color=fff200]"to find a mortal so desperate for contract. You might count yourself lucky that you had a chance at all."[/color]

And she caught herself then, startled almost out of her skin and retreating back with a yelp, looking around for the sound of the voice and landing on a... suit. It wasn't as frightening as she'd expected it to be - it was just strange. Maybe she should have been worried by that most of all, but this thing seemed to at least want her comfortable. Not that it would be for her benefit, but none of this was about her anyway. Things never were, right?

[color=c4df9b]"You-- what are you? Who are you?"[/color]

[color=fff200]"You may call me Envy."[/color] It didn't particularly care what her name was, but it needed her at ease, needed the process to be simple, [color=fff200]"what might you be called, desperate one?"[/color]

[color=c4df9b]"Leah. I'm Leah. I need..."[/color] her voice was shaky, despite herself, [color=c4df9b]"I need power. To help her. I need you to--"[/color]

If she didn't know better, she'd have sworn the smoky mass that the thing had instead of a head [i]smiled[/i] at that, extending an arm. Was she... supposed to walk? It was the best guess she had, so she went with it, and allowed the spirit to talk. Maybe it was just trying to get her guard down, she couldn't be sure, but her feet moved regardless, doors opening to a hall that she'd have sworn wasn't there a moment ago. [color=fff200]"Tell me, mortal, what is it you see here?"[/color]

[color=c4df9b]"Paintings, I guess-- no, they're photos, too. Families. It's warm and everyone's smiling, and it's sunny, there's nothing to, um... I don't know. I don't know what you want me to say."[/color]

That phrase, in particular, pleased the spirit. The deferment, the power, the ease with which this one could be moulded. Yes, it was something he could work with. Something he could use. [color=fff200]"This place, my dear, is safety - it is desire, the things you wish you could gain. The things that you will have, if you simply listen." [/color]

And it made sense, somehow, the truth of the words becoming clear to her. The photos, the paintings, the safe feeling, the simple expense of everything they walked through. It felt too good to be true - that she could gain all of that. But she wasn't very sure what she had to lose, and so she just had to finish with the last, most important question. [color=c4df9b]"How? If you have all this to give, then - then you wouldn't need me anyway, right?"[/color]

It seemed to anger the spirit, smoke flickering and twisting violently for a split second before it calmed just as quickly. [color=fff200]"You are right, regrettably. I do not have it, yet; and neither do you. I cannot give you these things, your wealth, your safety, whatever brought you to this place--"[/color]

[color=c4df9b]"My sister. She- she's sick. It's for--"[/color]

[color=fff200]"Yes, yes, your sister. I cannot give you her health. But I can show you how to [i]take[/i] it. And then, my dear, we shall have all this and more."[/color]

[color=c4df9b]"I'll be able to fix her?"[/color]

[color=fff200]"Listen to me, trust me,"[/color] its voice was smooth, calm, certain that it had her, [color=fff200]"and we can ensure she doesn't die. All you have to do is take what you know you deserve."[/color]

She didn't have to think for long. This spirit seemed trustworthy, this place comfortable, and the opportunity it provided... she had to accept, in the end, didn't she? She'd save her. Even if that meant someone else had to lose.

[color=c4df9b]"Then teach me how to take it, Envy."[/color]

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