Greetings, one and all!  Been in discussions with Bazmund and Stitches and, being intrigued by the world, have come up with this!  Hope it's at least somewhat engaging!

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[h2]Adrian Towner[/h2]
[h3]Basics[/h3]
[b]Name:[/b] Adrian Towner
[b]Age:[/b] 17
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Height/Weight:[/b] 167 cm/70 kg
[b](Former) Occupation:[/b] Schoolchild
[b]Appearance:[/b] Short, gaunt and pale of face, Adrian is most often found dishevelled in both clothing and hair, not out of any recent event but due to a general lack of self-care beyond the mechanical.  His eyes frequently bear bags and he rarely meets those of others.
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[center][h3] Biography[/h3]
To say that Adrian has had a poor life would be something of an understatement.

This was not set in stone from the beginning, of course; nobody’s future is.  Adrian was born into a loving family in Sussex, consisting of a mother, father and elder brother, with whom he spent the first five years of his life – more than enough time to form numerous happy memories, faded but still warm.  That, sadly, is all he now has of his first family, for Adrian’s biological parents and sibling died after being struck by a car while on their way back from a friend’s birthday party.

Adrian was being taken care of by his grandmother, Marjorie Towner, at the time, now his only living relative, and it was with his grandmother whom he would now stay.  Ordinarily, this would have still set him up well for life; Marjorie doted on the young boy and had the wisdom to both support him through his confused grief and to allow him to forge his own path in school and life.  Adrian, for his part, was hardly unhappy with his new life; he loved his grandma and the next few five or so years were very enjoyable for him.

This made it even more painful when she was slowly, excruciatingly torn away from him.  Marjorie fell ill; it transpired that she had an incurable cancer and, as her condition deteriorated, Adrian took on the role of her caregiver.  This was a role that he was more than happy to fulfil, despite it being stressful and time-consuming for someone so young, given the care that she had lavished on him.  Indeed, his mental state remained strong and his performance in school stable.  Of course, it was at this point that social services involved themselves, deciding that Adrian could not be expected to take care of Marjorie and that both would be best served if she were placed in a home and he with a foster family.  Thus, he never properly got to stay with her in her last months or say goodbye to her before she died, a fact which haunts him to this day.

Instead, Adrian was moved from one family to another, grief renewed and warm memories turning searing hot.  Those which found themselves unprepared for a new addition to their family only reinforced a burgeoning paradoxical mixture of self-loathing, fear of loss and desperation for connection; those which ordinarily would have been found him alternating between sorrowfully coldness and clinging warmth that nonetheless did not extend to sharing the burdens of his past.  His grades slipped, badly, and he pushed away what few schoolfriends he had.

Then, of course, came the waves of power, and with them the dreams of what could have been, the families that he could have had, sundered by each dawn.  Adrian told no-one, for fear of what they might herald.  And then he Awoke.[/center]

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[h3]Skills and Weaknesses[/h3]
[b]Skills:[/b]
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[*] Hardened to Sorrow: Adrian has suffered sufficiently and is normally reserved enough that the outside world can’t do much more to hurt him should he choose to not let it.
[*] Wanderer: Adrian has spent the last years of his life drifting from home to home, unwilling and unable to form lasting connections.  Adaptability to new or difficult situations is hardly a problem for him.
[*] Magical Anticipant: Despite the deaths of his family, and though he hid it, the advent of bittersweet dreams of his former family in the immediate aftermath of each Wave began to make him suspect that he might be due for Awakening before it happened; he is thus less blindsided now than he might otherwise be.
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[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
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[*] Lost and Alone: At his core, Adrian is still a person in deep conflict with himself – desperate for the affection that he had as a child and simultaneously fearful that gaining it will only mean the pain of losing it again.  Should his defensive shell crack under stress, results will tend towards the self-destructive.
[*] Discordance: Adrian’s personal complexes render him difficult to communicate with at the best of times and actively sabotaging of personal relationships at the worst.  This is somewhat anti-synergistic with his magic.
[*] Untrained Form: Adrian’s physical abilities are less than stellar, first too focussed and then too erratic to focus on exercise or sport; he possesses below-average strength and stamina.
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[b]Spells:[/b]

 - [color=black]Circle[/color]: [i]Only by harmony may one find strength.[/i]  Adrian creates a telepathic space in which surface thoughts and emotion are shared.  He may then invite other beings of whom he is aware into this space; such an invitation makes itself known first as a feeling of mental resonance in the mind of the receiver, which can then be briefly focussed on by the receiver to bring themselves into the space and, in turn, briefly blocked out to leave the space.  Adrian may use and dismiss any of the Circle variants of his spells on any of those in the space; their effects end for any who leave the space.

 - [color=black]Bond[/color]: [i]Only by dedication may one find understanding.[/i]  Adrian forges an empathic bond with one other being of whom he is aware.  This ends Circle, if Circle is active; any of his spells which Adrian is using through Circle end, unless they are directed towards the person to whom Adrian is applying Bond, in which case those spells switch to the Bond variant.  Each of the Bond variants of his spells requires more energy than its Circle equivalent.  Once Bond is active, neither it nor any of his spells which he uses through it may be dismissed until he no longer possesses the energy required to maintain them.

 - [color=DodgerBlue]Conduit[/color] ([color=black]Circle[/color]): Adrian opens a magical channel to another being within his Circle, allowing them to use him as a focus for their spells.  When casting a spell, instead of directing it themselves, this being may transfer the spell through the channel, allowing Adrian to direct it instead.
	 - [color=DodgerBlue]Spellweave[/color] ([color=black]Bond[/color]): Adrian opens a magical channel to the being with whom he shares a Bond, allowing them to share their spellcasting potential with him.  The being may direct any of the colours of magical energy which they are capable of harnessing and, with it, the basic metaphysical patterning of their spells through the channel, allowing him to rework this energy (though not granting him any innate knowledge to do so) into the singular spells that the being with whom he shares a bond with possesses or to combine their properties to form new merged spells.

 - [color=DodgerBlue]Exchange[/color] ([color=black]Circle[/color]): Adrian switches places with another being within his Circle.
	 - [color=DodgerBlue]Synchronicity[/color] ([color=black]Bond[/color]): Adrian and the being with whom he shares a Bond enter a state of metaphysical mirroring, causing them both to simultaneously exist in the two places that they were originally in as individuals.  Both direct the motion of each of the resulting superimpositions (though neither gains any innate ability to cooperate in doing so beyond their Bond’s mental closeness).  Upon the spell’s end, the beings separate into the positions of the superimpositions whose space the other originally occupied.

 - [color=Red]Lifelink[/color] ([color=black]Circle[/color]): Adrian anchors his physical wellbeing and endurance to that of another being within his Circle.  Any wounds that either takes are rendered half as grievous as they otherwise would be but also appear on the other and their reserves of physical energy are shared.  These effects may be extended to other beings within Adrian’s Circle, mitigating and sharing wounds equally and pooling stamina among the larger group, by casting the spell upon them as well.
	 - [color=Red]Lifeblaze[/color] ([color=black]Bond[/color]): Adrian anchors his physical wellbeing and endurance to that of the being with whom he shares a Bond.  Any wounds that either takes are rendered half as grievous as they otherwise would be but also appear on the other and their reserves of physical energy are shared.  Moreover, upon tiring or being wounded, the red magical energies of both restore them until those energies are exhausted, allowing them to perform greater feats and shrug off greater harm than they would otherwise be able to.

 - [color=violet]Manalink[/color] ([color=black]Circle[/color]): Adrian links his reserves of magical energy to those of another being within his Circle, causing them to equalise and allowing either to cast spells with them.  These effects may be extended to other beings within Adrian’s Circle, pooling magical energy between the larger group, by casting the spell upon them as well.
	 - [color=violet]Manastorm[/color] ([color=black]Bond[/color]): Adrian links his reserves of magical energy to those of the being with whom he shares a Bond, causing them to equalise and allowing either to cast spells with them.  Each spell cast by either may draw upon the magical potential of both, effectively doubling its power (assuming equal levels of magical potential).[/hider]