[hider=Jennifer "Raven" Mays - Journey of the Elementals (June 21, 2011-March 19, 2015]Name: Jennifer "Raven" Mays

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Mastery: Nightshade

Rank: Mage

Appearance: She has dark black medium length hair, a very obvious dye job, the front fringes of which almost cover brown eyes. Freckles dot her face, though she tries to cover them up with makeup and she has both ears as well as her nose pierced, the nose piercing somewhat botched, scarring present.

Her build is nothing special, standing 5'5", she is slightly overweight, and she hides it as best she can under her robe, which is colored to match her adopted hair color, with a dull gray sash tying it off. She's had no desire to alter it in anyway, preferring the solid black.

Demeanor: Raven is a depressing person, mostly due to the events of her life so far. She always speaks in a hushed tone, about 10dbs above a whisper, and the majority of the stuff she has to say is about how bleak her life has been up to this point, and how the world sucks. No one at the Academy has yet been able to coax a smile off of her, and the only thing she shows any semblance of enjoying is practicing the dark arts.

History: Jennifer was born to hard-working peasant farmers from outside of the port city, who mostly focused on providing vegetables to the restaurants of the city. Her freckles, pale skin and bright red hair immediately set her apart from the other children in the area, and when she was brought out to play with the other children, they teased her relentlessly for it. Ten minutes couldn't go by with a shot at her looks, and she was the butt of every joke. Her parents refused to believe her complaints or do anything outside of supposed talks to their parents, but it never stopped. It got so bad that one day when she was six, the other kids trapped Jennifer inside a drainage pipe, sealing her in for two hours before they got bored and left. That time in the darkness wasn't so bad for the young girl however. She felt at home stuck in the shadows, it was like an enveloping cloak around her, and for the first time she felt content. Comforted. Normal.

When she was eight and the torment had degraded to mostly verbal attacks, she started exhibiting different talents. Magical talents. Her parents urged her not to use her newly developing powers unwisely, however, the thought of revenge was too strong for the young girl. The next day she was back out amongst the other kids, and she tried to use her magic to turn them all ugly, to punish them for what they did, but her magic was newly found. It was weak, unable to do anything but muss one of the other girl's hair. She was further ostracized from the group and remained an outcast until she was called away to the academy at age ten.

Upon arrival she was quickly disappointed to learn that she would not be able to turn all the mean kids back home into toads or anything like that, and sensing the dark motivation in the girl, the focusing placed her in the Nightshade specialization. Her disappointment didn't lift, continuing to override her personality, but she did embrace her chosen class, dressing in all black and even dyeing her hair to match. She's been slowly progressing through the ranks at the academy, hoping to one day gain enough dark powers to return to her home community and properly pay her bullies back for the early years of her life.

Link: [url=https://forums.escapistmagazine.com/threads/journey-of-the-elementals-rp-pm-if-interested-started.226172/]Here[/url]

Concept of RP from this thread: [url=https://forums.escapistmagazine.com/threads/the-academy-of-intrigue.222466/#post-10583768]Here[/url][/hider]