[hider=Rhythmia Lapseus][center][h3][color=d8cfbe]ℂardinal ℝift[/color][/h3][hr][img]https://i.imgur.com/7SlWcFw.png[/img]
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[color=000000][i]"You're wrong. Magic doesn't kill people. [b]I do.[/b][/i]"[/color][hr][/center][indent][i][h3][color=#EAEAF0]ℙ[/color][color=#E3E3E8]e[/color][color=#DCDCE1]r[/color][color=#D5D5DA]s[/color][color=#CECED2]o[/color][color=#C7C7CB]n[/color][color=#C0C0C4]a[/color][color=#B9B9BC]l[/color] [color=#ABABAE]𝕀[/color][color=#A4A4A6]n[/color][color=#9D9D9F]f[/color][color=#969698]o[/color][color=#8F8F91]r[/color][color=#888889]m[/color][color=#818182]a[/color][color=#7A7A7B]t[/color][color=#737373]i[/color][color=#6C6C6C]o[/color][color=#656565]n[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][color=ABABAE]Name: [/color] Rhythmia Lapseus
[color=ABABAE]House: [/color]Lord of House Lapseus
[color=ABABAE]Age: [/color]52
[color=ABABAE]Race: [/color]Hum̶a̸n̷ 
[color=ABABAE]Gender: [/color]Female
[color=ABABAE]Appearance: [/color] Despite her true age, Rhythmia appears to be a young woman, no older than a teenager. Her height is average for a girl her apparent age, and she has a small bust - normal things that contrast with her head of short white hair. Rhythmia tends to wear multiple layers, making her build a little hard to judge, but under her clothes she has a toned athletic body. Her skin is very pale, making the small scars that litter her body hard to see. Rhythmia is much heavier than she looks because one of her arms and one of her legs has been replaced with the most advanced prosthesis available in Croania. One of her eyes has also been replaced with an artificial one, and this is more noticeable as the advanced artificial eye glows a much brighter red than the other. [sub]Inspiration art: [url=https://safebooru.org//samples/1834/sample_43a116fb0b22aefe216e501d0210e33708ff7a9d.jpg?1916090][x][/url][url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/624270632946761758/645435293557850124/image0.jpg][x][/url][url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/624270632946761758/645439923607961611/image0.jpg][x][/url][url=https://safebooru.org//samples/2811/sample_8940b6185748d38f9df7e226a79fb67de3d95c15.jpg?2927986][x][/url][/sub]

[hr][indent][i][h3][color=#EAEAF0]𝕊[/color][color=#E1E1E6]o[/color] [color=#CFCFD4]𝕆[/color][color=#C7C7CB]n[/color] [color=#B5B5B9]&[/color] [color=#A4A4A7]𝕊[/color][color=#9B9B9D]o[/color] [color=#89898B]𝔽[/color][color=#818182]o[/color][color=#787879]r[/color][color=#6F6F70]t[/color][color=#666667]h[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][color=ABABAE]Reputation: [/color]It isn't a secret that Rhythmia works as a government sanctioned hitman. Because she specializes in taking down mages, many Mageborn feel uncomfortable around her - though her dark, stoic nature makes pretty much everyone uncomfortable. To some, she is a powerful force to be used against rouge mages, but to those that know her better, Rhythmia is seen more like a quiet, complicated protector. 
[color=ABABAE]Alignment: [/color] Neutral
[color=ABABAE]Skills: [/color][list]
[*]Skilled hand-to-hand combatant
[*]Proficient with many kinds of weapons, including blades and guns
[*]A fairly good dancer, though she doesn't often do it anymore
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[color=ABABAE]Backstory: [/color][hider=S̸̗͍͆̃h̵̛͎͆ẽ̶̦ ̶͈͒̎ͅc̶̱̭̚h̷̩̆ǎ̵̰n̷̡̼̈́g̷͖̬͂e̴̖͒d̸̡̢͗]Born with a gate, Rhythmia had high hopes placed upon her to become the next Lord of House Lapseus. Scholars and tutors of all kinds were ushered into the estate in order to instruct both Rhythmia and her twin sister Melodia in all kinds of knowledge. However, it soon became clear that although Rhythmia was blessed with a gate, she was not exactly the brightest student. She struggled to retain more complex information, and she would much rather have been outside playing or even helping servants with chores than studying. After a few years, all of House Lapseus knew this: Rhythmia was blessed with a strong body, while Melodia was blessed with strong mind.

The decision of the family to officially endorse Melodia as the future Lord was set in stone when, on a family outing into a town that despised the current Lord, an aggravated citizen threw a bottle at the family's patriarch only for it to miss and shatter on Rhythmia's face, destroying her right eye.

After that incident the tutors of House Lapseus didn't drill Rhythmia quite as hard anymore. She received a pretty prosthetic eye, and she was told not to bother Melodia during the other girl's studies. During their childhood, the Lapseus twins hadn't been close. They grew further apart as Melodia prepared to take control of the house with the court date of their father for his crimes looming ever closer. 

Rhythmia was a happy and hopeful child most of the time. She wanted to find some way to contribute to the family, especially after Melodia officially ascended as the Lord of house Lapseus. To that end, she left the estate with only a single servant, looking for some cause she could help. The servant, Huston, was a talented martial artist and one of the estate's guardsmen at the time. They traveled for months around the continent, far away from the lands of Lapseus because they trusted Melodia to take care of everything. Despite their distant relationship, Rhythmia had complete faith in her sister's abilities. However, when Rhythmia returned to the estate, she found an awful scene.

The guilt she felt at leaving her sister alone to bear the burdens of becoming a house Lord so young, dealing with the fallout of their corrupted family's actions, weighted heavy on Rhythmia. Again she left the estate, this time searching for the man or monster that had visited her home. It took a long time, but [i]she found him...[/i]

T̸͖͈̿͠h̷͈̓ê̶͖͍n̵̹͛ ̴̼̓͋i̶̧̎͠ͅt̷̯̰̊ ̴̲͚̔ḩ̴̹̓̒ǎ̷̰́ͅp̸̪̣͛p̶̠̆ẻ̴͔̹͠ǹ̸̡̓e̸̢̨͋d̵̞͒̽ ̶̥̳̌

...after that, Rhythmia gradually changed. She who was once a warm person became a cold one. She had a singular focus for most of the following years: restore House Lapseus, protect and aid Melodia. She enlisted in the Croanian military, and after a decade ended up with a storied career. She was an especially adept mage killer, and though she held no real animosity for mageborn, she leaned into this niche hard. Many leaders made use of her skill, and she became renowned as a hunter of rogue mages.

Now, in the present, she has officially retired from service but remains a contract killer. She is publicly hired by Lords or all houses, military officials, and company CEOs to track down rogue mages and "enemies of the state," although she does accept private jobs with no name attached if the price is right. 

She will be attending the peace talks alongside her sister Melodia. Though she is technically the second Lord of the House, she thinks of herself more as Melodia's second bodyguard for the event.
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[color=ABABAE]Miscellaneous: [/color]Rhythmia also accepts under the table hits from any source under the alias "[b]Exultant[/b]," though her fees are quite high.

[hr][indent][i][h3][color=#EAEAF0]𝕄[/color][color=#CECED2]a[/color][color=#B2B2B5]g[/color][color=#969698]i[/color][color=#7A7A7B]c[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][color=ABABAE]Gate: [/color]Electricity
[color=ABABAE]Flow: [/color]Low
[color=ABABAE]Favour: [/color]Low
[color=ABABAE]Field: [/color]Can only generate electricity at most one foot (31cm) away from her body.

[color=ABABAE]Other Magic: [/color]?̸̪̆̀̈́?̴̡̫̭̲͕̀́?̷̟͓̲͔̃̍̓͜

[hr][indent][i][h3][color=#EAEAF0]𝕋[/color][color=#DCDCE1]e[/color][color=#CECED3]c[/color][color=#C0C0C4]h[/color][color=#B2B2B5]n[/color][color=#A4A4A7]o[/color][color=#969698]l[/color][color=#888889]o[/color][color=#7A7A7B]g[/color][color=#6C6C6C]y[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][color=ABABAE]Equipment: [/color][list][*][b]Bionic Eye[/b] ver. Alkestis II[list][*]A right eye. Some of the most advanced technology available. The eye feeds Rythmia real-time field information directly into her brain. The information the eye can read includes but is not limited to: wind speed and direction, temperature and humidity, detecting magic use, the level of it and the direction it came from, sight in different frequencies, etc.[/list]
[*][b]Bionic Arm[/b] ver. Ariadne[list][*]A left arm. It is made of an Aterium skeleton with a hard rubber protective coating. The outermost layer is a hard metal alloy used during jobs, or a stitching of preserved flesh during down-time. Either way, the arm allows for greater strength and enhanced reaction speed. Has a blade attachment.[/list]
[*][b]Bionic Leg[/b] ver. Atalante[list][*]A right leg. It is made of an Aterium skeleton with a hard rubber protective coating. The outermost layer is always hard metal alloy. The leg allows for greater strength and speed, and features a heel-like shape capable of clamping down. Also has a blade attachment - in the knee.[/list]
[*][b]EM-15 Coil Guns[/b] "KERES"[list][*]A handgun that fires rounds via electromagnet. Used the most often of Rhythmia's guns, as the rest are less than subtle and ill-suited to indoor work. KERES is not a single gun, but instead shorthand for all of her coil guns. A single gun is called KER.[/list]
[*][b]AM46 Railgun[/b] "TENEBRAE"[list][*]A man portable rail gun. Using an electromagnetic force it is capable of launching precision rounds at incredibly deadly speeds. Despite it's 'portable' nature, it is still very large - larger than Rythmia herself, though she is able to carry it around with no problem. Takes a little while to charge up, but once ready it is a powerful, long range weapon.[/list]
[*][b]CG Pressurized Rifle[/b] "THANATUS"[list][*]A long barreled rifle that utilizes pressurized gas to launch rounds with unbelievable force. Has a strong kick back, and Rythmia has to take special preparations to use it effectively, which makes it near useless in the hands of anyone else. The gas super chills the rounds as it fires them.[/list][/list][hr][indent][i][h3][color=#EAEAF0]ℍ[/color][color=#DCDCE2]o[/color][color=#CFCFD4]u[/color][color=#C2C2C6]s[/color][color=#B4B4B8]e[/color] [color=#9A9A9C]𝕀[/color][color=#8C8C8E]n[/color][color=#7F7F80]f[/color][color=#727272]o[/color][/h3][/i][/indent][i]In-depth House info on [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5028529]Melodia's sheet[/url][/i]
[table][row][/row][row][cell][color=2E2C2D]hellohellohellohellohell[/color][/cell][cell]House NPC[/cell][/row]
[row][cell][url=https://i.imgur.com/9JPa5tj.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/cJWx8Cp.png[/img][/url][/cell][cell][sup][color=ABABAE][h3][b]Huston Greer[/b][/h3][/color][/sup]
[b]age:[/b] 54 [color=ABABAE]❀[/color] [b]gender:[/b] M [color=ABABAE]❀[/color] [b]house:[/b] Lapseus [color=ABABAE]❀[/color] [s]gate:[/s] none
[b]height:[/b] tall [color=ABABAE]❀[/color] [b]build:[/b] hunk [color=ABABAE]❀[/color] [b]notable features:[/b] outspoken mage-hater 
[indent][i][color=ABABAE]"You look like you're in need of a good laugh or good whooping. Which is it?"[/color][/i][/indent]
The head of security for the Lapseus estate. Huston has been with the family since he was [url=https://safebooru.org//images/1282/a702ab5d44d6dd2a7c9c72785736dffda062510c.jpg?1335290]sixteen years old.[/url] He personally vets all servants working in the estate, and he handles all guests in person as well. He is very thorough and takes his job seriously, having remained loyal to House Lapseus for over four decades. He accompanied Rhythmia during her first time traveling, but did not go with her while she was seeking the "mysterious stranger." He regrets this. 

Huston is a jovial person overall and enjoys telling silly stories or corny jokes to lighten the mood when it's needed. He has a good relationship with both Lords of House Lapseus and Melodia's personal bodyguard, Vati, as well as the rest of the staff and servants. Many see him as a "fun grandpa" - but don't be fooled, he is a master of combat and can kick almost anyone's ass. Once upon a time he was in love with Rhythmia, but nothing came of it.[/cell][/row][/table]
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