[hider=Rowan Moore][center] [img]http://i.imgur.com/iEI0x2V.png[/img] [h1][color=007236]Rowan Moore[/color][/h1] Gender: Female Age: 18 Birthday: October 18th Sexuality: Straight, questioning [color=007236][u]Location[/u][/color] Rowans family live in the town closest to the wellspring, where the coven resides. [color=007236][u]Appearance[/u][/color] Rowan is 5'7" and while decidedly not athletic, she is in shape with a slim body type. Fashion: It can generally be summed up in a simple word, 'Autumn'. Rowan tends to stick to the color scheme of dark greens, brown and a bit of dull yellow. She mostly has her coat on, except on the off hot day wear it is almost always a button up shirt. Her shoes are never anything fancy. Demeanor: Rowan is aloof with a wandering mind. She often will be surprised a bit when spoken to directly as if she was thinking about something else entirely. This is usually nothing of great importance. [color=007236][u]Personality[/u][/color] Rowan is not a typical bookworm. While she has read her fair share of botany and alchemy books from her family, this is not typically the type of book she keeps around. Instead she keeps a A4 journal stuffed with notes in her coat, and keeps it at all times. Rowan is much more of an experimenter when it comes to magic and alchemy, and this journal records all of her findings. She is often greatly stressed when it is lost and carries it around almost everywhere. Rowan spends a lot of time in the forest or attending her garden at home. While the garden may look nice and peaceful the true nature of it is a kin to Frankenstein's lab. Rowan is a introvert by nature and often has a hard time introducing herself to new people. She detests direct conflict with her peers and will do most in her power to avoid it. And if she can't avoid it? Well that situation hasn't come up and she would like to keep it that way. One time in the forest there was an injured black bear that Rowan nursed back to health. On the occasion, Rowan will go back into the woods or the bear will come to her backyard. They will just hang, she will feed him some honey she made up beforehand. Often noting how the bear reacted to different variations of the honey. His name is Baloo, she named him after the Jungle Book character. [color=007236][u]Biography[/u][/color] The Moore family are originally from the United Kingdom, but migrated over to America in the early 1900's. Rowan's great grandmother introduced the family into the Sisters of the Dying Branch. The family has stayed in the same house since then, it has a backyard that leads into the forest. It wasn't until Rowan's grandmother, Elizabeth Moore, came of age as an adult witch that the Moore family became influential with in the coven. Elizabeth wrote many new books on the subjects of botany and alchemy, as well as enchanting some of the trees around the wellspring to help protect it. Rowan desires more than anything to follow in her shoes. Rowan's mother, Diana Moore, is a witch who uses animal magic. She married a man from another witch family who was born without magic ability. She decided to keep her last name and there was a mutual decision to carry that name onto their children to honor Elizabeth. Gregory Miller, Rowan's father, being unable to cast magic but having knowledge of the world of magic works as a mountain ranger. He will patrol the area near the wellspring warning off normal humans with things like bear sightings and things like that. As a kid, her father often took her into the woods to let her explore. But the influence of the family name would not last. Rowan's grandmother past away when she was only four. While her mother is a capable witch in her own right, her magic strengths were to do with animals and her feats are not seen as great as Elizabeth's. The Moore family lives in the shadow of their past accomplishments with their previous influence having dwindled back down to any other family in the coven. Rowan has the same magic strengths as her grandmother. She has felt the pressure, put on by others, for her to study every word of her grandmothers notes because of it. But Rowan doesn't see that as the legacy her grandmother left behind. In her mind, the true legacy of her grandmother was the spirit of discovery and Rowan intends to honor that. [color=007236][u]Greatest Fear[/u][/color] Crowds [color=007236][u]Magic[/u][/color] [color=007236]Strong suit: Plant magic[/color] Can manipulate and adapt plants, this gains great results but takes to long to be considered any form of defense. This is best used to help gain alchemic properties and behaviors in plants that would otherwise not have them. Additionally, she can make plants act in ways they normally wouldn't, like glowing in the dark. She has yet to learn the greater applications of this power. [color=007236]Strong suit: Alchemy and Potions[/color] Naturally complementing her plant magic, Rowan excels at brewing various potions. [color=007236]Strong suit: Rituals[/color] Ritual magic is another strong suit of hers [color=007236]Neutral suit: Illusion magic[/color] Rowan has also dabbled in illusion magic. This still takes a while for her to perform but it is something she can use comparatively quickly. [color=007236]Weak Suit: Combat magic of any kind.[/color] Rowan hasn't experienced a lot of the world, and has little ability to defend herself. She knows this isn't a great quality to have when coming into the world of witches, which is why she is glad to have her friends around her. While she is a powerful magic user in her own right it is always slow spells. This is why she is learning to bring the right potions for the situation. [color=007236][u]Other[/u][/color] [color=007236]Color:[/color] Rowan's color is dark green 007236 [hider=Theme Song] By Sarah Palu [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz6RHjDI3t8&list=OLAK5uy_mf2pAaQn9tzJWLHszF2ykQwZTpy4FZo5M&index=8[/youtube] [/hider] [/center][/hider] [hider=Relationships] Kate Shuang: Friendly rival 💙Good Friends 😈Frienemy [color=007236]"The first time I meet Kate we were making potions. No, they didn't beat me... I... let them win. Still, I wasn't expecting to take some humble pie from a non-coven witch. I shouldn't be so quick to judge they are joining for a reason. Kate also has some potion recipes I haven't seen before. The next time we meet it will be them who gets upstaged."[/color] Maggie Wilson: 💛Friend [color=007236]"I can't believe I hadn't seen her around earlier. She is a potion witch so its strange we hadn't met before. Shes really nice, I look forward to working with her more in the lab."[/color] Hana Song: Slight jealousy 👋Acquaintance 🎆Respects [color=007236]"I don't know much about what she was like before. But she grew up in the coven house, thats quite an accomplishment in my eyes."[/color] Arken Stone: Cassandra Black: 💛Friend [color=007236]"Teaching each other parts of our magic was really great. I won't lie I was a bit freaked out by her on surface appearance alone, but shes quite cool when you get to know her."[/color] Rebecca Delacroix: An anxious like 👋Acquaintance [color=007236]"I don't know what to make of her. She is certainly nice, but keeps talking about communicating with the dead. I was thinking of asking her about my grandma, but maybe its best to leave her rest."[/color] Charlie Hamlyn: Summer Abernathy: 💀Dislikes [color=007236]"I don't like her, I'm sorry to say. I would have liked to be friends with everyone in the house, but I don't think thats going to happen with her around."[/color] Alayna Castellano: Dakota Lawson: Good friend 💛Friend [color=007236]"Kota is a good friend. I feel like we were closer back when we were little witchlings. I still consider her a good friend but we are kind of really different now. She has probably made a lot of cooler other friends since I last saw her."[/color] Calypso Barnes: 👋Acquaintance [color=007236]"Its a friend through a friend sort of situation. I haven't gotten to talk to her much."[/color] Jeremy Lindall: Iris Aderast: 💛Friend [color=007236]"Iris is, well, Iris. Shes a positive influence in the lab, but she definitely needs a kick or two in the right direction."[/color] Isolde: Reluctant friendship 💛Friend ♨️Tense [color=007236]"I still don't know if I can trust her fully. Her families coven sounds perfectly fine, so why did she leave. Never the less the mountain sounds like a place I need to go before I die. I hope I can be shown there one day."[/color] David Thompson: 💀Dislikes [color=007236]"I don't like him one bit. The way he is treating all this, he may as well just go home."[/color] Caleb Bishop: 🌓Neutral [color=007236]"He's cute, I haven't got to talk to him yet though."[/color] Jean-Luc Laguerre: [/hider] [hider=David Thompson] [center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/e82mm8b.png[/img] [h1][color=7ea7d8]David Thompson[/color][/h1] Gender: Male Age: 19 Birthday: May 7th Sexuality: Straight [color=7ea7d8][u]Location[/u][/color] David lived for most of his life in Melbourne, he has recently moved into the coven house (2 years ago) [color=7ea7d8][u]Appearance[/u][/color] David is 6'1" has an athletic and somewhat buff. A typical body type for a boxer in training. Heavy Aussie accent. Fashion: David keeps it practical, shoes: sneakers, pants: boxing shorts or jeans (depending on the weather), shirt: polos mainly with button ups for special occasions, jacket: [color=7ea7d8]"When I turned 15 my dad gave me an oversized Harrington jacket. Fits me just right now. If its cold I'll put it on, don't need another one."[/color] Demeanor: David is confrontational and is a tough nut to crack both physically and emotionally. While his physical strength comes from fighting and training, his emotional 'strength' comes from never letting people in. This turns out to be a weakness more often than not. [color=7ea7d8][u]Personality[/u][/color] Since his father's alcoholism, David hasn't been one to open up to others. He felt into the wrong crowds without a present parental figure and hasn't felt a sense of family since then. He keeps himself together with confidence and a confrontational demeanor. He was and, to a degree, still is prone to fights but would never lay a finger on those he considers family. Even though he is too young to drink legally in America, he still always finds a way to produce a fake id. When it comes to magic, David is a slacker. Barely putting in the minimum effort to learn and zero chance of outside practice. He generally gives of the vibe he doesn't care much for it. When talking to others he has a great amount of confidence. However, this is a facade and doesn't reflect how he talks to people he knows well. [color=7ea7d8][u]Biography[/u][/color] Claire Howell, David's mother, was an American tourist. When she met David's dad Henry Thompson, she decided to stay for a while. She moved in to his home in Sydney and one day Chester Thompson was born. It was a nice house and a happy home. But it was only one year into the child's life that Claire had realized she had been away from the coven too long. She wanted Henry and little Chester to come with her back to America. This didn't go well. Henry had never been told about the coven before because Claire had hid it from him under the fear he would misunderstand. Her fears were true and there was a grave misunderstanding. [color=7ea7d8]"I was too young to know my mother before dad showed her out the door to go back to America. When I came of age he finally told me, that my mother was part of a satanic cult. Apparently she wanted to sacrifice me or something. He told me how lucky we were to still be here."[/color] Chester Thompson had his first name changed to David and they moved to Melbourne, Henry Thompson truly believed he was protecting his son and needed to hide him. So, from there Henry raised David as a single father and David was content with life. Until Henry begun drinking. [color=7ea7d8]"Some time when I was around 12 he started hitting the bottle hard. I didn't know it at the time, but it was a mix of doubt, regret and guilt that did him there. What was a young kid hitting his teens supposed to do with that? Except get into some mischief."[/color] David made a small name for himself on the Melbourne streets, a back alley boxer was one of the main ones among other school dropouts. That was the main part of his teen years, fending and fighting for money to keep the house afloat. [color=7ea7d8]"I was making some money, just enough to get by. That was until this one fight when I was 17 almost hitting 18. It was a proper punch up until someone decided to pull a knife. What could I do but defend myself, it was just my luck I stabbed him in a place you don't get up from." "It was to my shock later on during interrogation, I find out that hes perfectly fine as if healed by magic. And that's when my mum came in with some other women. It was an ultimatum either go over to the States with mum or wait until trail and get charged with assault as an adult. Easy choice to make, at least I might have a fighting chance to escape some cultists and it would make for a great big f***ing story. But when my mom saw me and she started tearing up, I have to say, that cleared things up for me a lot."[/color] [color=7ea7d8]"You see I love my dad. I still love him, even if he's run himself down for these later years. I know that, in his heart, all he did was to keep me safe. But finding out that for all these years he was wrong? Yeah that took some time to forgive. I think even some part in his heart knew that he was wrong. That why he started hitting the piss I reckon."[/color] [color=7ea7d8]"This all wasn't to say the coven is all sweets and roses but it isn't what he thought it was. Some of the Sisters don't look too kindly on me, I don't blame 'em. My mother left the coven for years because of my dad, then that same man takes her son away. In their eyes I think they see me as the next one from my family to screw them over, or just someone to run away again. To be honest, they might be right. But I can't forgive some of them whispering that all my dad was is a useless alcoholic and my mum was a fool for ever staying in the first place. There was something there, I'm going to prove them wrong."[/color] [color=7ea7d8]"There are some that support my mom, truth be told thats the only reason why I'm here as well. I just want to catch up with my mom, I haven't seen her since before I can remember and maybe, just maybe, I might convince her to forgive dad somewhere down the line. I know he still loves her, I just hope she might feel the same."[/color] [color=7ea7d8]"I haven't been making myself at home, my mum knows it and somehow she could pull a few favors. There are some witches my age and I'll be staying with them over the summer. I was even at that bonding ritual thing, of course I wasn't allowed to participate. I wasn't allowed to even talk to them until the next day, but I think that part might of been the lies of a witch who has it out for me. Either way, they have also said if I can prove myself here they will consider bonding me to the wellspring. I don't know what they mean by wellspring and proving myself. But they speak highly of it as if its something I care about, or at least something I should care about.[/color] [color=7ea7d8][u]Greatest Fear[/u][/color] Losing the ones he loves [color=7ea7d8][u]Magic[/u][/color] [color=7ea7d8]Strong suit: Support magic[/color] David has the uncanny magical talent for both healing and supporting others. Many spells from this school of magic, much to David's reluctance, comes naturally to him and with ease. This does not extend to uses on himself however. When it comes to using this power selfishly, he is incapable. [color=7ea7d8]Weak Suit: Just about everything else[/color] David is new to learning magic and while he doesn't have any clearly defined weaknesses he performs magic to the competence level of a 7 year old witchling. The only excepting to this is the above strong suit. [color=7ea7d8][u]Other skills[/u][/color] Boxing Not like it will matter in the world of magic, but David can hold his own in a fist fight. Intimidation David is not a weak looking bloke. He has the uncanny ability to look dangerous, even if he is easily the weakest witch in the coven for his age. [color=7ea7d8][u]Rumors[/u][/color] There is a rumor that David has a familiar, there is a bluebird that always seems to follow him. He doesn't even mention the bird if someone brings it up. But some have seen him comforting the bird when he thinks no one is looking. [color=7ea7d8]"There certainly are a few running around aye, some of the Sisters don't seem to like me. They spread quite a few things, not that I could tell you what they're saying."[/color] David knows where to get fake ids and plans to sneak of to a pub the first chance he gets. This is true. [color=7ea7d8]Color:[/color] David's color is dark red 9e0b0f [hider=Theme Song] Public persona [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_r7aLKWi4[/youtube] While alone [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_PXTGdlGw[/youtube] [/hider] [/center] [/hider] [hider=Relationships] Kate Shuang: 💛Friend [color=7ea7d8]"They have the right idea about this whole thing. It's a good thing."[/color] Maggie Wilson: 🌓Neutral [color=7ea7d8]"Who's that?"[/color] Hana Song: Arken Stone: 👋Acquaintance [color=7ea7d8]"He needs to chill out about that Hana chick aye."[/color] Cassandra Black: Rebecca Delacroix: 👋Acquaintance [color=7ea7d8]"She keeps talking about ghosts and stuff. Frankly I just want to see them so I know she isn't just telling porkies."[/color] Charlie Hamlyn: Summer Abernathy: 👋Acquaintance [color=7ea7d8]"Passed her in the hallway once or twice. Even when shes smiling, it gives off some bad vibes. I've seen girls like her before though, and ones who were worse. It ain't the eyes of the devil or anything, just someone who has a good amount of anger bottled up."[/color] Alayna Castellano: Dakota Lawson: Calypso Barnes: Jeremy Lindall: Iris Aderast: 👋Acquaintance [color=7ea7d8]"She needs to stop bugging me about my accent. Can't help that I'm Australian. Honestly though, I don't mind it. It kind of funny. Better than being called Chester thats for sure."[/color] Isolde: Rowan Moore: 🌓Neutral [color=7ea7d8]"Who's that?"[/color] Caleb Bishop: 💛Friend [color=7ea7d8]"Good mate, good vibes."[/color] Jean-Luc Laguerre: [/hider]