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[center][color=#e9dd25][b][u]Name:[/u][/b][/color] 
Calypso Louise Barnes
[sub][color=#e9dd25]She uses a multitude of nicknames: Cal, Callie, etc. Anything other than Calypso.[/color]

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[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Gender / Preferred Pronouns:[/u][/b][/color] 
Female; she/her

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Age:[/u][/b][/color] 
18

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Birthday:[/u][/b][/color]
August 13th

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Sexuality:[/u][/b][/color] 
Pansexual

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Appearance:[/u][/b][/color]
Cal appears, at first glance, to be an open and inviting soul. She greets those around her with an open-lipped, wide smile, showing off her straight, pearly white teeth. She has large, pillowy lips and a gap-toothed smile. Her parents tried to put braces on her, but she refused to wear her retainer once she got them off. Her skin is a light brown color- she's mixed. Her face is miraculously clear, but whether or not that's a result of magic is unclear. She has a Nubian nose that's slightly up-turned at the tip, and her deep brown-colored eyes are an almond shape. Her thick, kinky, nearly black hair grows [i]out[/i] instead of up and is ridiculously difficult to tame- something that irritates her to no end. Most of the time, she lets it sit in its natural state. She's tried to straighten it before (both with and without magic) but found that it looked cute the way it was. The most she might do is accessorize with a flowery headband once in a while.

Calypso most often will wear flowing blouses over a well-fitted pair of boot-cut jeans. Her choice of shoes usually depends on what she's doing that day. If she's just relaxing, she'll go barefoot or wear flip-flops. If doing anything remotely athletic, she'll wear sneakers. But, if she could, she'd prefer to wear high-heeled boots. However, those are usually saved for special occasions. She often wears various charms and bags of herbs around her neck and wrists, but what these actually do is up to anyone's guess. 

[sub][color=#e9dd25]5'6" || 163 lbs[/color][/sub]

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Personality:[/u][/b][/color]
Effusive and warm, Calypso radiates good vibes. There's always a genuine smile on her face, and she makes it her personal goal to share that warmth with everyone else. Her kindness can be almost motherly at times. And more than a little smothering. If she feels that a friend of hers is sad and needs her comfort, she makes herself available to them, and will even force herself upon them. This is often construed as one of her more annoying habits. She's a natural meddler, and finds it difficult not to do something if she feels that it's needed. Despite this kind, smothering streak, Calypso is genuinely spunky. She has a great sense of humor around her friends. Rather than bringing the group down, she tends to bring them up- she's peppy and overly optimistic most of time. She refuses to let much get her down.

Despite her spunkiness, Calypso is actually a conforming girl. She has her rebellious streaks, sure- the occasional dying of hair, or maybe wearing a crop top once in a blue moon. But at heart her true desire is to follow the rules. She earnestly believes whatever those in authority tell her, no matter how truly messed up it might be. She carries out orders without much of a second though. Going hand in hand with this, she's loyal. Cal tends not to devote herself to something and turn her back to it. However, with her, this often turns into blind loyalty.

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Biography:[/u][/b][/color]
If someone saw fit to go up Calypso's maternal family tree, they'd find almost nothing but witches. The Barnes family, while not an old, prestigious witch family, is filled almost entirely with them. Calypso's great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and mother are almost all witches- something that she shares with them. She is a knot in a knot-filled rope stretching back generations. As such, she takes pride in her witchery. It's something she shares with her family, an ancient tradition to keep and spread to her own children. However, if one were to go up her paternal line, they'd find nothing. Emptiness. Calypso has a father, yes, but she does not know who she is. All she knows is that he's not a member of the coven, not a witch, and not in her life. She desperately wants to know his identity, but knows that that is practically impossible.

Calypso was raised in Washington D.C by her mother- about an hour out from the coven. Growing up, she enjoyed the hustle and bustle of city life. She loved the city and everything that it entailed- going to school with all her friends, getting street food, the noises- everything. She was a normal kid among the hustle and bustle, not just a witch. Her mother was a witch closely involved with the coven. They attended meetings at least once a month. As a child, Cal recalls hating the hour-long drive up there with a passion. The mountains were [i]boring[/i] to look at, and there was nothing going on outside of the car. But the coven was a different story. Even as a young child, she adored learning magic. The coven elders were kind to her and her mother, and so were all the other witches. Getting to know the other young witchlings was great, too- even if they had little in common besides for the practice of magic.

Now an 18-year-old girl, Cal is preparing for her own initiation into the coven. She awaits it with excitement. She loves the coven and everything it stands for, so what could be better than being a part of it? 

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Notable Rumors:[/u][/b][/color]

She once snitched on a fellow witchling, who promptly disappeared without a trace.

Her father is a rogue witch.

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Greatest Fear:[/u][/b][/color]
Hemophobia
[color=#e9dd25][sub]Calypso is physically repulsed by the sight of blood. Just seeing it makes her dizzy and nauseous.[/sub][/color]

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Magic:[/u][/b][/color]
Calypso is often described by coven elders as a promising young witch- one who is sure to excel in the coven, and maybe even rise to a position of authority. Despite this, she still has her strengths and weaknesses.

[color=#e9dd25][i]Strong Suit: Divination[/i][/color]
Although a skill set often derided as useless by a lot of witches, Calypso has found a lot of success in divination magic. It's one of her favorites purely for the smile it puts on others' faces. And, admittedly, the earning potential it has. During her high school days, she used to sell readings for a little extra cash. She got banned from the library after she cut herself for a little extra magic energy and from then on they took place under the bleachers. Her readings are scarily accurate most of the time. She uses a lot of methods for her divination- tarot being her favorite, but she can also read tea leaves, do palm readings, and read star charts. She also finds that divination is a relatively non-draining magic, which she enjoys. The most it ever requires from her is a bit of blood or the hunger equivalent of a granola bar. She has quite a few tarot decks that she likes to use.

[color=#e9dd25][i]Strong Suit: Combat Magic[/i][/color]
While this may come as a surprise to many due to her peppy, kind nature, Calypso is skilled in combat magic. This includes things such as freezing a target in their tracks, drawing blood with a swish of her finger, and even breaking bones. She doesn't get the chance to practice this much, though, so she remains only moderately skilled in it. The most she's ever practiced with it was at a couple coven meetings, in which she and a few other kids attempted to do a practice battle. It always ended [i]very[/i] badly. This is where most of her 'emergency room' type stories come from.

[color=#e9dd25][i]Neutral Suit: Potions[/i][/color]
This is a skill that Calypso's mother pushed on her. She doesn't love it, but she's spent many a day stuck in a smelly kitchen over a pot of herbs. She knows quite a few basic recipes, but doesn't do much experimenting. Just ones for healing and such.

[color=#e9dd25][i]Weak Suit: Healing Magic[/i][/color]
This involves blood. She tried it once and threw up all over the person. Never again.

[color=#e9dd25][i]Weak Suit: Earth Magic[/i][/color]
She finds this incredibly boring.

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Other:[/u][/b][/color]
Calypso owns an obnoxiously yellow [url=https://static.carsdn.co/cldstatic/wp-content/uploads/jeep-wrangler-unlimited-eco-diesel-2020-02-angle--exterior--front--mountains--yellow.jpg]Jeep[/url] that is covered in flower decals. 

[color=#e9dd25][b][u]Color Code:[/u][/b][/color]
#e9dd25

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[hr][hr][h1][b][i][color=e9dd25]Calypso Barnes[/color][/i][/b][/h1][img]Character Image[/img]
[hr][hr]⟢ 🎆Respects ⟡ 🌓Neutral ⟡ 👋Acquaintance ⟡ 🙇It's Complicated ⟣
⟢ 💛Friend ⟡ 💙Good Friends ⟡ 💜Best Friends ⟡ ❣️Ex-Friends ⟡ 😈Frienemy ⟣
⟢ 💘Infatuation ⟡ 💓Loves ⟡ 💗Couple ⟡ 💕Basically Family ⟡ 💞Family ⟡ 💔Ex-Lovers ⟣
⟢ ♨️Tense ⟡ 💀Dislikes ⟡ 😡Hates ⟡ 👿Enemy ⟡ 👹Absolutely Loathes ⟣[hr][hr]
💙 [b][color=e9dd25]Dakota Lawson[/color][/b] 💙
[color=e9dd25][i]"Dakota's the best! Y'know, we don't actually see each other too often, which is a shame, but we have a [i]very[/i] active group chat going. And by group chat, I just mean like 8 other girls from the coven, Dakota, and me, but Dakota and I do all the talking. I think that might be why everyone else left, actually? Anyways, she's kinda wild sometimes, but I love her to bits."[/i][/color]
Calypso is pretty much everyone's friend but, these days, Dakota and her are practically inseparable at coven functions. They're good friends, and balance each other out pretty well while also managing not to be at each other's throats all the time. Dakota's nice and only manageably reckless, which is really all that Calypso wants out of a friend. 
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[b]💛 [color=e9dd25]Maggie Wilson[/color][/b] 💛
[color=e9dd25][i]"I miss her. We had so much fun when we were kids, but she's so shy now so I guess we just... stopped talking as much. I don't know. She- she's still nice of course! And my friend. I'm gonna try to be a better friend this summer, though! Better brush up on my knowledge of fantasy novels..."[/i][/color]
Calypso remembers being great friends with Maggie as kids, but, over time, it eroded. They're still friends now, of course, just not as close. Calypso wishes they could be closer, though. She remembers Maggie being really fun when they were children, if having some rather unfortunate anger issues. She still hangs out with Maggie when she's around, though- she's a nice person to hang out with and be quiet.
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👋 [b][color=e9dd25]Charlie Hamlyn[/color][/b] 👋
[color=e9dd25][i]"He's... British, right? How did he end up in rural Virginia? Also, what the hell is a Watford FC?"[/i][/color]
Since he only moved to America a little while ago, Calypso doesn't know Charlie too well yet. She knows that Dakota doesn't like him for whatever reason, but he seems alright, she thinks. Even if he can come across as condescending some of the time. Well, a lot of the time. 
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👋 [b][color=e9dd25]Iris Aderast[/color][/b] 👋
[color=e9dd25][i]"Iris is... weird. That's really all I can say. Nice, but weird."[/i][/color]
Calypso has spent a lot of time around Iris throughout her life, but has never really connected with her. The other girl has always been... off in her own world, so to speak, and Calypso's tried and certainly gotten [i]somewhere[/i], but not a place to truly call her a friend. Plus, over the years, Iris has started to become a little more reckless, which certainly does not help matters.
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👋 [b][color=e9dd25]Alayna Castellano[/color][/b] 👋
[i][color=e9dd25]"She strikes me as sort of a loner type. But... intimidating? We've never talked much. I heard her magic's sort of cool, though.[/color][/i]
Calypso doesn't have too much to say about Alayna. The two have never actively hung out or really had a meaningful conversation, so she doesn't really have anything to say beyond some gossip and conjecture from older witches. She'd definitely still give Alayna a giant hug if allowed though. Nobody escapes the hug.
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♨️ [b][color=e9dd25]Jean-Luc Baptiste Laguerre[/color][/b] ♨️
[color=e9dd25][i]"I don't know how else to explain it, but he gives me seriously bad vibes. What with all that cursing and stuff. Not like, cussing, but, like, curses and hexes and stuff. Gives me the heebie-jeebies."[/i][/color]
Calypso considers herself a pretty open-minded person, but, in her mind, cursing is a step too far. Since cursing is Jean-Luc's favorite type of magic, though, their relationship is not the best it could be. Calypso judges his magic and also thinks he's quite the dickhead, even though she could probably stand to learn a thing or two about cursing. Divination isn't exactly offensive.
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💀 [b][color=e9dd25]Summer Abernathy[/color][/b] 💀
[color=e9dd25][i]"Sometimes I feel like I don't do enough to try to be Summer's friend. Or, like, at least not hate each other's guts level. But she's just so frustrating, and stuck-up, and so catty, and she does [i]not[/i] like me. I'll admit that she has some pretty cool magic though."[/i][/color]
Summer is really one of the only people in the coven that Calypso can say she dislikes. Calypso has certainly tried to be nice to her in the past, but all those attempts never turned up fruit, so she stopped trying. It certainly doesn't help that Dakota and Summer are often at each other's throats, and Calypso almost always ends up on Dakota's side. Summer is mean, anyways. What's good about being friends with a mean person? Maybe Calypso should try a bit harder to break through her shell.  
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